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Great end to the day - I absolutely love your final photo, how cool is that?
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Great end to a day! Your picture turned out great at the end!!
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What a fantastic day you had at Epcot. It's a shame some of those booths had such long lines though. Oh well, you still managed to find some food to eat. I hope Cammy's leg is ok for the run. I know how much more difficult it is to run on tired legs. Been there done that!
I agree, that last photo with Illuminations is awesome!
I honestly don't know what the girl was thinking that morning...I think Pixie dust overtook her brain cells. First she ditched the scooter then the boot. Her doctor told her that she could tape it well for the run...not for the entire trip. I think she was just trying to be normal. But I will tell you she did not take the boot off again until the race and then put it on right after running! She also took some pretty good painkillers that night when we got back to the room!
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Love that last shot of the fireworks! Sounds like a great night
I love the last photo too...LOL it took both of us to take this picture. I am not sure why...maybe too much wine! I think I ended up holding the glass and centering it with the fireworks and holding the camera while Cammy pushed the button. I am sure we were looking pretty comical!
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Great pages. How difficult is it to find the vast variety of backgrounds you are using? Are they inside the program you are using or are you researching other locations online and modifying them to fit your design ideas?
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#10 Akershus (Formally Hidden Mickey Search):
Brunch with Royalty
This TR update was supposed to be about Hidden Mickey Search...well we did find a lot of hidden Mickey's, but quickly we found that the app was draining my battery so fast that we decided just to find them on our own...so I am changing this favorite thing to Akershus....
When putting back together the pieces of my derailed trip, I wanted to make Cammy's trip as magical as I could and part of that magic had to be meeting some Disney Princesses. So with that in mind I sat our to find an ADR for Akershus that would fit into our schedule and it just happened that there was a breakfast opening on our 1st full day at WDW. After riding Soarin and Test Track we headed over to the World Showcase, where I told Cammy a surprise was waiting for her. After I checked us in, we waited along with all the other little princesses and Cammy kept commenting how cute they were and wanted to know what was inside...I simply told her breakfast and that it was special. Soon it was our time, to be ushered inside and greeted by Belle. Cammy was full of delight when she realized we were eating breakfast with the princesses...magical moment created! We were seated just inside the door in the main ballroom area...not a great location nor a great table (little shakey) but we could see everything that was happening around us and watch all the magical moments as the princesses moved from table to table, we even watched Aurora tying a little princesses shoe...what a precious moment.
Breakfast was good (not worth the price, but again you are paying for the magic which makes it totally worth it to me). We both tried to be a little adventurous in our selections...trying the Norwegian offerings. Our favorite was a type of muffin that tasted just like a sugar cookie. I would not suggest having such a late breakfast reservation, we found that we could only make 1 trip to the buffet before it was being switched over for lunch and the selections were not very plentiful.
After finishing our special breakfast with royalty, we stopped to pick up another set of fast passes for TT before going to the Food & Wine Festival Center to make the most important purchase of the day...our F & W Gift Cards to use to make all of the yummy food and drinks for the rest of the day. While at the Festival we took some time walking through the Chocolate Experience...
and through the various booths before making our way back out into Future World to spend what was left of the morning with the attractions we had missed before breakfast. First up was Mission Space and like all adventurous girls we did the Orange side with our secret mission being that our full stomachs would land on Mars without incident.
The mission was a success and we then decided to see what our future held for us after being astronauts on Mars.
After we decided that our future did indeed look bright, it was time to do a little diving under the sea with Nemo and walk underwater looking at all the aquariums.
We really wanted to take a picture from inside Bruce, but there were way too many people so it was on to our next adventure high above California and then take it a little slower with a boat ride around one of my favorite places in Epcot. However, I was disappointed because it seemed all the Mickey pumpkins must have been picked for the season. I love Living with the Land and on my next trip, thinking that behind the seeds tour is going to be on my list.
See proof we did find a few hidden Mickey's. Afterwards, I decided that we needed a little something to quench our thirst and I took Cammy into Club Cool to sample...and yes, I pulled a Beverly on her with my camera ready to catch the moment.
We had a good laugh and then decided that we would share a little magic and handed our fast passes for TT to a couple getting into the now 70 minute stand by line. I am really going to miss this chance to spread magic when they do away with the fast pass system. With Future World completed, it was now time for an adventure that I had most been looking forward to...
Those last set of pages look amazing!! I really need to get into doing the digit scrap-booking!!
Thanks...and I am really loving the ease of it...although sometimes it still takes me a long to complete a page...lots of arguing and swapping out things until I get it just right!
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Great pages!
Thanks!
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Great pages. How difficult is it to find the vast variety of backgrounds you are using? Are they inside the program you are using or are you researching other locations online and modifying them to fit your design ideas?
I use a lot of templates...basically you just click and fill. There are a lot of templates out there for photoshop...but I have found a few designers who make templates for CM SBC. I always end up modifying the templates to fit what I need. LOL. As for all the papers and embellishments, they are pretty easy to find there a lots of great digital stores and a couple that specialize in only Disney type kits...plus there is a great website
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I hope Cammy's leg is ok for the run. I know how much more difficult it is to run on tired legs. Been there done that!
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