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Another great day! Love your PP pictures of you and Mike! Terrific! I've trained Luke now to take the camera and loads of pictures at PP meets as I just get too excited to remember.
I love these 2 pics!!! Love Dylan's face in the poser one...and I think this is just such a nice picture of you and Mike!! Sounds like a great day all around. Shopping...Nine Dragons...B&C YUMM and a PP meet!!
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What a really great day! Seriously....wine in italy...a good lunch in WS...then over to Beaches and Cream and ending with some adult time and a PP meet That is truly a perfect day at disney!
I love the Black and white pic of you two at EPCOT...you two are so cute together and its such a great shot!
We've never tried Nine Dragons. There are so many resturants I've yet to try its seems so impossible in the 10 years I've been going to disney...its crazy!
Great update
Sounds like a great day at Epcot! Love the pics, especially the Morocco pics!
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What a great night! Love all the pictures! More please!
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What a wonderful day. I love the pictures of Dylan pretending to be on the flying carpet...too cute!
Thanks so much!
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Great time at Epcot & wonderful pictures!!! Dylan was def being a ham! CUTE!! We want to try B&C next trip....sounds yummy!
I'm glad we finally got to try B&C - I'm sure we'll go back sometime.
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Great updates! Your shopping excursion sounds fabulous! Sounds like you had a good day at Epcot, too.
It was a whirlwind shopping excursion! But it was fun!!
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Another great day! Love your PP pictures of you and Mike! Terrific! I've trained Luke now to take the camera and loads of pictures at PP meets as I just get too excited to remember.
I'll have to work on Mike to do that from now on.
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I love these 2 pics!!! Love Dylan's face in the poser one...and I think this is just such a nice picture of you and Mike!! Sounds like a great day all around. Shopping...Nine Dragons...B&C YUMM and a PP meet!!
Thanks Dawn!! I didn't see Dylan doing this so I love that the moment was captured in pictures. Thanks on our pic too - I like the black & white version best - Mike had terrible 'devil' eyes in the color one.
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What a really great day! Seriously....wine in italy...a good lunch in WS...then over to Beaches and Cream and ending with some adult time and a PP meet That is truly a perfect day at disney!
I love the Black and white pic of you two at EPCOT...you two are so cute together and its such a great shot!
We've never tried Nine Dragons. There are so many resturants I've yet to try its seems so impossible in the 10 years I've been going to disney...its crazy!
Great update
It was a great day! Thanks about me & Mike! Next TR will be just us together.
We LOVE Nine Dragons. I think I've been there on almost every trip I've been on.
Great update and pictures!! I think we always end up at Nine Dragons on our trips too, have never had bad service there and the food is yummy! Dylan is a ham! I love how in your TR's since Dylan's first trip, you can see how much he is changing!
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Great update and pictures!! I think we always end up at Nine Dragons on our trips too, have never had bad service there and the food is yummy! Dylan is a ham! I love how in your TR's since Dylan's first trip, you can see how much he is changing!
And now he refuses to have his picture taken!! He won't be going until September 2011 now and Mike's hoping he'll still like Mickey by then. He'll only be 4, so I'm thinking he still will.
Just stumbled onto your TR and read the whole thing. Love the PP pics, especially the one in B&W in Epcot of you and you DH. Very nice! And Congrats on the new baby! He'll have plenty of time to adjust to being a big brother! Can't wait to read more! Your TR has me excited about my trip in three weeks!!
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Love your PP pictures of you and Mike! Terrific! I've trained Luke now to take the camera and loads of pictures at PP meets as I just get too excited to remember.
and a PP meet!!
That is truly a perfect day at disney! 
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