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Love all of your plans so far. Will the kids be bored in the villa the night you have your adult time with friends? I only ask because one night we let our kids and our friends two daughters have a night out themselves. The oldest was 17 and the youngest was 14. They are all seasoned WDW travelers and when we went to DTD, they were at evening EMH at Studios riding TOT and RNR multiple times. They still talk about that fun night 7 years later. You know your kids but I was fine with them out together. (They checked in by cell phone and are responsible kids) just a thought!!
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I just checked out Facebook and that is a wonderful smile!
Thank you!
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I saw and she looks beautiful. Glad she is happy and that it happened before her performance!
Thank you! She is super excited about that!
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yay for Em's braces! I bet that's an awesome feeling...
So, Wednesday July 10th...hmmmm....let me know what time your dinner is at and I just may be down to have a drink (or 2) with you
Thanks! She is very excited! Our ADR is for 6:05 ~ so before or after for a drink or 2 will work for me! You have my cell number right?
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I saw the pic on Facebook too, Emily looks beautiful
Thank you!
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Love all of your plans so far. Will the kids be bored in the villa the night you have your adult time with friends? I only ask because one night we let our kids and our friends two daughters have a night out themselves. The oldest was 17 and the youngest was 14. They are all seasoned WDW travelers and when we went to DTD, they were at evening EMH at Studios riding TOT and RNR multiple times. They still talk about that fun night 7 years later. You know your kids but I was fine with them out together. (They checked in by cell phone and are responsible kids) just a thought!!
Thank you! Unfortunately my friends kids will not have passes for that day Otherwise I would absolutely trust them to have fun in the park while we did our thing. I think they will be fine in the villa, we plan to have lots of games/movies for them. And we are hoping they will be exhausted as this is the end of their trip and middle of our trip!
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It is a gorgeous smile!
Thank you!
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Here is that beautiful smile! This was the last in studio rehearsal for the company girls for dance......only 8 more days till show time, so the rest of the rehearsals will be on stage!
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This morning we have to be up early as we have an early (8:05) breakfast ADR for Akershus in Epcot. Another one that we always say, we can skip next time......but always go back to! I can taste those breakfast potatoes now!
After breakfast we plan to hang out in Future World for a bit, we have Fastpasses booked for:
Test Track
Mission Space
Journey into Imagination with Figment
Then we plan to wander over to World Showcase and hopefully find any characters that we may not have seen at this point, and maybe catch some of those films in the countries that we haven't yet seen.
We do plan to take a mid afternoon pool break again.
For the evening we have no definite plans right now. No dinner ADR's. Just going to go with the flow and see what we feel like doing. If there is something we have missed we might try to go accomplish that.
Up Next: Day 12 Plans
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All great plans! Are most of your FP+ in the morning every day? That's the route I think I'll go when the time comes. Love the Sunrise Safari day! You're going to LOVE it!
And Em looks great! But she did before as well!
Funny, we say that about Akershus too, but always end up back there. Love those potatoes too Plans sound great for this day!
The food is great, and Emily still loves to see Ariel & Cinderella
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I love the go-with-the-flow plan! Just do whatever you feel like in the moment.
Yes, works well for us
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Playing catch up here. The plans for your trip are looking great! Congrats on paying off DVC and to Emily for getting her braces off
Thanks!
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All great plans! Are most of your FP+ in the morning every day? That's the route I think I'll go when the time comes. Love the Sunrise Safari day! You're going to LOVE it!
And Em looks great! But she did before as well!
Yes, most of the fast passes are before noon, hoping that we will be able to add more thru the day
So excited for sunrise safari!
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Your Day 7 plans are some of my favorite things to do! Plans for Days 8 and 9 are also great. Luke has wanted to eat at Bongo's for a long time and we finally did last week. We both loved it for dinner and were pleasantly surprised at what a value it was. Congrats to Emily on getting her braces off! My niece Morgan gets hers off on June 4, and is so excited.
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Otherwise I would absolutely trust them to have fun in the park while we did our thing. I think they will be fine in the villa, we plan to have lots of games/movies for them. And we are hoping they will be exhausted as this is the end of their trip and middle of our trip! 
Plans sound great for this day!
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