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There are other changes as well.
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We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
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To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
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Glad you were able to retrieve your files!
Sorry about your back.
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Glad you can get your files!
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Great news about the files!
for your back.
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How wonderful that you were able to retrieve your files!
Thank you everyone, my back is getting better, the Doctor gave me another week off from work and more PT. However, I celebrated a little to early about my computer, goods news its back up and running, the bad news they were only able to retrieve 30% of my files. Oh well, I was upset for a few days but realized that stuff is gone and there is nothing further I can do about it. I just have to remember to back up my stuff on a regular basis.
Now back to my TR, which I am happy to say was in that 30% of saved data.
Original Plans: Our fourth day was to be spent at DHS.
What we actually did: Since we switched some plans around in order to catch Fantasmic again, we decided to head on over to AK today.
After a much needed good night sleep after the bus fiasco the night before, most of us woke up refreshed and ready to start a whole new day.
I woke up around 7am and decided to let everyone sleep and headed to CC to bring back some breakfast for everyone. I am not sure who ate what but I brought back cereal, milk, a waffle, breakfast potatoes and a Pop Tart, love using snack credits for breakfast!
Remember I said that some of us woke up refreshed, well my Mom was still pretty upset about the night before and decided to stay behind while we went to AK. I did try to convince her to come but she was pretty adamit and told us to go without her.
Since I know how stubborn my DM is because I am the same way, we said and left.
It was about 10am when we approched the bus stop to see an AK bus pulling away, missed it by that much. We assumed it would be a while for the next one but to our surprise another pulled up 5 minutes later but was way too crowded to get on. Right away I thought not a repeat of last night but was on our side and another one pulled up right behind it. We were on our way.
We arrived at AK around 11am only to see it was very crowded. Since Ak is my least favorite of the WDW parks, being crowded didn’t help either but I was determined to make the best of it.
We decided to head straight to KS stopping for some photos along the way.
The AK tree!
The boys being cool!
If the picture was a little bigger (don't know why they come out so small) you could really see how crowded it was that day.
The posted wait time for KS was 25 minutes, so we headed on in and just about 25 minutes later we were seated in our truck. The safari was great there were a lot of animals out, some were fairly close to the truck.
The gators
This guy was right next to us.
Frankie enjoying the ride.
I am pretty sure that was the new baby elephant.
The Lion King looking straight at us.
A side note, two years ago we took the kids to the Bronx Zoo and as we were watching the lions, the male roared so loud. It was soo cool to not only see a lion but to hear him roar was awesome. The boys still talk about it every time we see a lion.
The Lioness was also curious about us, it was great to see them both out.
We worked up an appiette while riding the savanna and decided it was time for lunch. We had originally wanted to head over to Restaurantosaurus but after dodging through crowds of people, we settled on Pizzafari, since it was a lot closer.
Justin, Christopher and I had pizza, Frankie enjoyed some mac and cheese and DH tried the Italian Sandwich and we all shared some breadsticks. Of course salad and dessert came with our meals but it was way too much food and sadly most of it went to waste.
The guys enjoying lunch.
Frankie and Justin eating away.
Me and my boy. (A horrible angle to take a picture, I look so bad)
DH, a self portrait.
Up next FOLK and maybe finally seeing some characters.
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Oh well, I was upset for a few days but realized that stuff is gone and there is nothing further I can do about it. I just have to remember to back up my stuff on a regular basis. 
after the bus fiasco the night before, most of us woke up refreshed and ready to start a whole new day. 
I am not sure who ate what but I brought back cereal, milk, a waffle, breakfast potatoes and a Pop Tart, love using snack credits for breakfast! 
about the night before and decided to stay behind while we went to AK. I did try to convince her to come but she was pretty adamit 
and told us to go without her. 
and left. 
We assumed it would be a while for the next one but to our surprise another pulled up 5 minutes later but was way too crowded to get on. Right away I thought not 
was on our side and another one pulled up right behind it. We were on our way. 
Since Ak is my least favorite of the WDW parks, being crowded didn’t help either but I was determined to make the best of it. 
If the picture was a little bigger (don't know why they come out so small) you could really see how crowded it was that day.
This guy was right next to us.
while riding the savanna and decided it was time for lunch. We had originally wanted to head over to Restaurantosaurus but after dodging through crowds of people, we settled on Pizzafari, since it was a lot closer.
Of course salad and dessert came with our meals but it was way too much food and sadly most of it went to waste. 
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