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All caught up - sounds like a really fun day at TL. When I went, I wanted to swim wayyyy out to where the waves come from, but I underestimated the distance and ran out of steam halfway there, where the waves are still coming pretty high. My own stupidity, I guess. I like TL more than BB, personally.
Akershus sounds really good! I want to try eating there one day. I like venison as steak, but I'm not sure how I'd like the sausage. I love jerky (beef, buffalo, venison, etc.) but once I tried rabbit jerky and it was the grossest thing ever.
Hope everything goes/went well with the stress test!
Darlene. I hope Lenny's Stress Test goes well. Tons of pixies. Wheneveryou're able to update, I'll be patiently waiting.
You're absolutely right about taking things like TL & BB for Granted when they're in your own backyard. Sadly for us, we've only had a few week longtrips to Disney and only once did we visit a Water Park(Wet 'n Wild per my sister's request). Since we were only a 2 1/2 hour drive awaymost ofthem were really just day trips, maybea few long weekend trips when we were young enough to take a day or two off school and it not matter since it was Kindergarten (or Preschool for my sister). I still fortunate though that I gotto visit Disney multiple times as a young one, Water Parks or not and still love it now. Skyler's only 37" tall, so Even with a life jacket, I would worry about him flying off of a slide, or get trampled on by the big kids. Thanks I hope he becomes a little fish in the water. We did try swim lessons this summer for him and he wanted to use me as his kickboard. The Disney Water Parks will however be must on a future trip though. I'm glad to hear it was a great day for you. It surely is sounding like this trip had to be quite a magical one for you, Lenny, & Abby.
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Just finished what's posted. Your trip is going really well.
Hope Lenny gets through the testing with no problems. Come back and add when you can. I'm looking forward to it.
Thank you everyone for the Pixies. Lenny came home and said everything went fine but until we hear from the doctor (supposedly this afternoon) we don't know anything. Of course we get nervous anyway with it. This time it was worse for me because he has been having some chest "discomfort" as the doctor calls it and just the thought of purposely trying to bring that on scares me so I 100% agree with this comment
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Hope all goes well with Lenny's test today. That has to be stressful!
So now in an effort to get my mind off waiting for the phone call. I'll get on with my TR
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Great update! We can't do that long at the parks with our kids, since they're still fairly young, but I am looking forward to when we can
Thanks. Abby is one to go, go, go so for her and I it's very easy to go all day. Lenny has a little bit more trouble but he's either getting used to it or he's catching some zzz's that I haven't caught. That's fine though - I've done it myself.
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All caught up - sounds like a really fun day at TL. When I went, I wanted to swim wayyyy out to where the waves come from, but I underestimated the distance and ran out of steam halfway there, where the waves are still coming pretty high. My own stupidity, I guess. I like TL more than BB, personally.
Akershus sounds really good! I want to try eating there one day. I like venison as steak, but I'm not sure how I'd like the sausage. I love jerky (beef, buffalo, venison, etc.) but once I tried rabbit jerky and it was the grossest thing ever.
It really was fun and it was surprising how easy it was to lose track of the time. I give you a lot of credit for wanting to swim way out there but I'm not a strong swimmer at all so going even waist deep for me is tough.
Akershus is good - if it wasn't, we wouldn't have eaten there last year OR this year. Eating rabbit - no thanks. But I also have a pet bunny too so just the thought makes me . Lenny liked the venison. For me, I know venison is a dark meat to begin with but it just didn't look right because of that and then it just had such an odd taste to it. The texture was pure sausage though so I guess that's something
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Darlene. I hope Lenny's Stress Test goes well. Tons of pixies. Wheneveryou're able to update, I'll be patiently waiting.
You're absolutely right about taking things like TL & BB for Granted when they're in your own backyard. Sadly for us, we've only had a few week longtrips to Disney and only once did we visit a Water Park(Wet 'n Wild per my sister's request). Since we were only a 2 1/2 hour drive awaymost ofthem were really just day trips, maybea few long weekend trips when we were young enough to take a day or two off school and it not matter since it was Kindergarten (or Preschool for my sister). I still fortunate though that I gotto visit Disney multiple times as a young one, Water Parks or not and still love it now. Skyler's only 37" tall, so Even with a life jacket, I would worry about him flying off of a slide, or get trampled on by the big kids. Thanks I hope he becomes a little fish in the water. We did try swim lessons this summer for him and he wanted to use me as his kickboard. The Disney Water Parks will however be must on a future trip though. I'm glad to hear it was a great day for you. It surely is sounding like this trip had to be quite a magical one for you, Lenny, & Abby.
Thanks Becki. Safety above all else. When the time is right you'll take him. From our two days at the water parks, the one bit of advice I can give though is just keep a really watchful eye out in the wave pools - no matter the age. Lenny said at TL when the first wave hit once he and Abby were in the water, 2 young kids both butted heads with him. While he was fine, it did make him more watchful of Abby to make sure it didn't happen to her. As for the rest of the parks, I didn't notice anyone fooling around or doing things that might put someone else at risk for injury so I don't think you have to worry about Skylar being trampled. Flying off a slide, that's a different story as I have visions of Abby doing the same thing. We went to the carnival a few years ago and she did one of those super slides and instead of staying on the slide the whole time, she hit one of the bumps just right that she went straight forward, then straight down and the force from the impact flattened her on the slide and she whacked her head - badly. I am so thankful that nothing happened from it (I now have visions that it could have turned out like Natasha Richardson from the whack on the head) but it still scares me enough that I don't want her on any slides like that. I let her do the "kiddie" slides at BB on the tube as it wasn't that long and she didn't gain that much speed and the one at TL was pretty much a straight shot down and she was able to remain seated the whole time.
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Great update! It really sounds like you guys had a great day! I'm glad you enjoyed lunch in Norway and that the rain didn't slow you down!
Thanks, we did. I don't let rain slow me down. As long as things are open, I'll keep going. Lenny will too - it's just Abby that it bothered.
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Just finished what's posted. Your trip is going really well.
Hope Lenny gets through the testing with no problems. Come back and add when you can. I'm looking forward to it.
Thanks. We really did have a fantastic trip this year.
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. Lenny liked the venison. For me, I know venison is a dark meat to begin with but it just didn't look right because of that and then it just had such an odd taste to it. The texture was pure sausage though so I guess that's something
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