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Hey Donna! Haven't had a lot of time to spend on the boards lately but I'm so glad I came across your trip report! Boy did I have a flash back to '05 when I saw Dan in his Fred Flintstone shirt! Good times! We were in Epcot very briefly that Friday night (26th). It was our last night and we were all tired and it was SO CROWDED when we got there! We didn't even get a chance to try any food booths cause the lines were so long. Did manage a rainbow margarita in Mexico though! By 7:30 we were done and ready to crash for the evening so we left the park. Sorry I missed you guys! Looking forward to more!
So that you got two of the special pins. Can you include a picture of them so we can see???
Sure, Barb. I already have them locked on my 2nd special Tinkerbell pin lanyard (yep I have one lanyard exclusively for Tinkerbell and I'm working on a 2nd one ). I don't have the little card that came with them anymore because I thought "what am I ever going to do with this little card?" Who knew I'd be wishing now that I kept it....
Anyway, they come sealed in a little bit of plastic and they're on a card that says something along the lines of the Cast Member wants you to have some pixie dust and that you are not supposed to trade it. Of course, we saw lots and lots of them on CM lanyards throughout our trip, so some people just don't realize how special it is to receive one and trade them away because they got them for free.
Those are great pins! Leaving WDW is never easy, but at least this made it a little better. Congrats on the upgrade to the annual pass, that is awesome!!! Looking forward to the next leg of your trip...
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Ok, back on the road! We headed off Disney property and took I-4 until we got to I-95. That’s when I truly felt we were on our way, finished with our Florida adventure and moving onto the next leg of our road trip. We got to Ormond Beach around 12:15 and we decided to stop for a quick lunch. We saw a sign for a Cracker Barrel and pulled in there. It really was quick and we were back in the van before 1:00!
I got a lot of pictures like this one, where I have no idea where they were taken other than we were still in Florida. I'm thinking it's Jacksonville. I guess I need to take better notes!!
We crossed into Georgia at 2:30
We’d been hearing of the gas shortage and were pretty concerned that we might not be able to find gas when we needed it, but when we stopped at the Georgia Welcome Centre, there was a sign on the counter that said gas was available all up I-95. That was a relief!
We ran into some heavy rain just before Savannah and it dropped 17 degrees in about 15 miles! Then when we crossed into SC a few miles later, it jumped 10 degrees as soon as it stopped raining. Wild!
We thought the gates into SC were pretty cool.
But they had the standard sign too:
So, you all remember Bob, right?
Bob in the rain
We played what I call Leapfrog with this SUV – we would pass them, then they would pass us, and then we would pass them, and so on… Anyway, we noticed that we weren’t the only ones with a dashboard buddy!
It rained off and on and the clouds looked really cool. So I took a picture.
Of course we started seeing South of the Border signs. I tried to get pictures of them, but they were really hard because they would come up on you so fast, hidden in small clearings in the trees. Oh well, it gave me something to do while we were driving.
I-95 is pretty boring actually. There was a whole lot of this:
The occasional this:
And it was like hitting paydirt when I managed to get a non-blurry shot of the SotB signs:
Of course, I always got the pictures of the dumb ones. I liked the one that said “Pedro’s Fireworks. Does yours?” but I didn’t get a photo of it.
We stopped for gas at 5:40 in Santee, SC. We decided that we were about done with driving. We’d only been on the road for about 7 hours, but we were tired.
We’re NASCAR fans – so we had to take a picture showing how close we were to Darlington (we hadn't switched the GPS to Eastern time so that's why it shows 5:42 instead of 6:42, in case anybody noticed that )
We got to Florence, SC around 6:30 and found a Comfort Inn just off the interstate. We checked in there, and asked the desk clerk for a recommendation for dinner. He told us to just go across the street and eat at Fatz. I’m so glad we listened to him, because that was one of the best restaurants we’d eaten in on the whole trip. And we ate in some really good restaurants on this trip. After dinner, we went back to our room and fired up our laptops because we hadn’t been online while we were in WDW. We let people know where we were and that we were ok, and then it was time to go to sleep because we knew we were in for a long day tomorrow!
The weather today was... rainy off and on The best thing today was.. the pin trading in AK The worst thing today was... having to sit in the van all day - we had to stop every couple of hours so I could get out and move around a bit to get comfy again The funniest thing today was... at AK I sat down and got a wet bum because it had been raining there too Today we tried... eating at Fatz Cafe on the hotel clerk's recommendation And the result was... I wish we had one of these in Winnipeg! Yummy! The most magical moment today was... getting the Pixie Dust pin as we left AK - not just because of the pin, but because of the way it was presented to me too.
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Good times! We were in Epcot very briefly that Friday night (26th). It was our last night and we were all tired and it was SO CROWDED when we got there! We didn't even get a chance to try any food booths cause the lines were so long. Did manage a rainbow margarita in Mexico though! 
By 7:30 we were done and ready to crash for the evening so we left the park. Sorry I missed you guys! 
Looking forward to more! 
). I don't have the little card that came with them anymore because I thought "what am I ever going to do with this little card?" 
I liked the one that said “Pedro’s Fireworks. Does yours?” 
but I didn’t get a photo of it. 
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