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Your ADRs look excellent. Your 5:55 'Ohana one should lend nicely to catching the Electrical Water Pageant (EWP) after. The times for the EWP do vary with the season but it is a classic & I believe the girls would love it. EWP can be seen from the POLY beach or any of the monorail resorts.
We were thinking, since we have so many people that may want to "meet up", doing a general "we'll be at X at such and such time on this day and whoever wants to meet - be there" We were thinking - maybe an hour or so before Illuminations somewhere in Epcot (like Mexico area) on Sunday 9/25. I'll do a separate post later about it. I know Smilechaser (Liz) and Brent wanted to meet and Chezp (Cheryl) and Mark were both going to be there as well as you and David. I think I saw a couple other PP's who were going around the same time and may want to meet. Just a thought.
I have been sitting on some news since St. Patrick’s Day. I wasn’t sure if I was going to tell anyone until later, but I am terrible at keeping secrets. For those of you who are friends with me on Facebook, PLEASE keep it off of Facebook, as it is NOT general knowledge.
We will be, once again, traveling to Disney World with a stowaway on board…
Surprise!
It was never the plan to have two babies spaced so closely together, but everything happens for a reason, so…here we go again.
This means I will once again be super pregnant when we go to Disney World in September. As of right now, we aren’t changing our plans. We briefly discussed canceling the trip, but especially now that I am having another baby, our next chance to go will likely not be for several years. After baby number three arrives, there’s no way we will be able to afford the airfare to get to Florida for a while, so we will probably be going to Disneyland instead of Disney World if we go anywhere in the next few years. Flights to California are much cheaper for us.
But anyway, I’m getting ahead of myself. The trip is paid for, so we decided to go ahead and go. We would lose money on the non-refundable flights if we canceled, so that also factored into our decision not to cancel the trip.
I am still feeling a little bit blindsided by the fact that by the end of the year I will be a mom to three. But I know I will figure something out. I always do. Life is so strange. I’m convinced someone, somewhere, is going “Hmmm…The Dunning Family is regaining their balance…better throw them a curve ball to make life interesting again!”
Remember not to mention it on Facebook until I make it “Facebook Official” as they’re calling it these days.
Glad you were able to get what you wanted! 180 days .... I hope the time goes fast for you.
Me, too, thank you!
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Great dining choices! Glad you were able to snag that BOG ressie!
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Looks good
Thank you!
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Great dining choices and so happy for you that you got everything you wanted.
I'm pretty excited!
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Glad you got the ADRs you wanted! It usually takes some looking around and a bit of tweaking to get what you want. Over the course of my planning in the months before my trip I may change one here and there depending on my park plans/hours!
Yeah, my plans tend to change with park hours as well.
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Congrats on ADR's See miracles do happen
. I just know Your little princesses will love Dinner with Princesses Plaza is a nice change we are looking at doing it again.
I'm excited to try the Plaza, I have seen some good looking meals in pictures here on PassPorter.
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Glad you were able to get everything you wanted!
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Glad you were able to get all your ADR's!
Thank you!
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Great dining plans!
I was just looking over them again, and I'm really happy with how they turned out.
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Your ADRs look excellent. Your 5:55 'Ohana one should lend nicely to catching the Electrical Water Pageant (EWP) after. The times for the EWP do vary with the season but it is a classic & I believe the girls would love it. EWP can be seen from the POLY beach or any of the monorail resorts.
I hadn't even thought of that! Thank you for the idea/tip!
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Looks good!
We were thinking, since we have so many people that may want to "meet up", doing a general "we'll be at X at such and such time on this day and whoever wants to meet - be there" We were thinking - maybe an hour or so before Illuminations somewhere in Epcot (like Mexico area) on Sunday 9/25. I'll do a separate post later about it. I know Smilechaser (Liz) and Brent wanted to meet and Chezp (Cheryl) and Mark were both going to be there as well as you and David. I think I saw a couple other PP's who were going around the same time and may want to meet. Just a thought.
It's a good thought! Keep us posted and we will try to meet up with everyone.
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It usually takes some looking around and a bit of tweaking to get what you want. 
Luke and I visited DLR for the first time this past October and loved it, too. Somethings are even better than at WDW. 
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