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That is fantastic Pinky! Great job!
Funny how well you are known Brent.
Liz - for the safety of the princesses that is one shirt that needs to be made.
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Be patient guys! It's coming but it's gonna be a busy weekend. Went out to a play with the family last night to a play put on by Middle school kids. Can anyone guess what it was?
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Umm lucky guess! I hope it was awesome!
It was awsome! SO incredibly so that I am trying to convince him that he and I should go back and watch the last presentation of it tomorrow afternoon! Can I hear a "whooo hoooo"?!?!?!?
After the princess encounter we figured that was just about the finest way to leave the Magic kingdom, so we got some Dole Whips, strolled around a bit and said our goodbyes to the Magic Kingdom. Later on in the day we went to Downtown Disney, Disneyquest specifically. The younger kids had been looking forward to this for the whole trip. First stop: Cyberspace mountain and design your own roller coaster. We did it twice: First time Liz and I designed one and rode it. I thought it was pretty intense. Then Brendan designed one and I rode it with him and it made the one Liz and I designed look like a kiddie coaster. That kid had me upside down, inside out and thrown all around. After that, myself, Brendan, Jordan and Cheyenne rode the pirate battle as Tori and Liz disappeared. Now where did they go? Anyway, It was very uncrowded in there so they let us ride it three times in a row. The kids were in thier glory. After we sent ol' blackbeard to the depths we came out and played some games in the arcade, then I had all I could stand of Disneyquest. I can really only take that place for a couple hours. So leaving Jordan in charge, I went outside for some air. I decided to go for a walk along the river. It was a very nice, calm day. Totally opposite from the atmosphere of Disneyquest. I saw the ferry go bye and found a bench to sit down and watch it from.
Now where were Tori and Liz??? I happened to look up and I saw the characters in flight balloon up, so I decided to take a few pictures.
My phone went off, I had a txt. It was from Liz. It said 'look up'. Could it be? Liz and Tori were up in that balloon! A few more pictures:
They really enjoyed it. I'll leave it up to Liz to tell you about the flight, but it's safe to say the really enjoyed it. After that it was on to the world of Disney, to pick up some goodies for the way home. I got a couple magnets for the fridge and a keychain with the princesses on it. Then we found a seat outside and waited for the rest of our group to find us. I happened to notice this on the outside of the World of Disney store.
Wow! Cinderella truly is everywhere! This is probably as good a time as any to include a picture of her and I that I meant to put in before but didn't:
I realize this picture was totally self serving. Sorry!!! But just look how happy she is to see me!! I just had to put this one in.
After that we headed back to the resort to have a meal at the food court, relax and begin the sad process of packing up for the trip home. It actually went very well and we were done packing up what we could. Brendan wanted to go to the Hippy Dippy pool and find someone to play Ping pong with, so I went with him, found a lounge chair, and started typing notes in my blackberry about our trip. (Thank goodness for modern technology. Without my blackberry with me to type notes into I would never be able to keep all the things that happened straight.) Here's where a really neat moment happened. I was sitting there in my lounger collecting my thoughts and busily pecking away on my blackberry when out of the corner of my eye I spotted a little girl walking with her mother. The little girl looked at me then tugged on her mother and said. 'Mommy! Cinderella's on that man's shirt!' The mother then shot me a grin and the little girl walked away smiling. Ahhhh only in Disney! Reality is coming much to soon though. I knew this time tomorrow, the Cinderella shirts would have to be put away for another trip.
Departure day: Friday Sept 3rd. Departure day. Got up early this morning for my last walk around the property nursing my coffee. Got some breakfast at the food court to use up what was left of our meal credits then got a cart from luggage and got all the luggage loaded in the van to be out of our rooms before checkout time. One little mishap involving a runaway cart and an uneven sidewalk and some soft ground later we were loaded and on our way to Epcot. Couple last rides. Mission Space, Test Track and Ellen's Energy ride later we were getting ready to go. We decided Spaceship earth was a good way to say Goodbye to Epcot. Rode that then headed back to Pop. Goodbye Epcot!
Used up our final meal credits That just about does it for our trip. On the way back we stopped in the middle of the night at a rest area and caught a couple hour nap but other than that we drove straight through back to Michigan. Another neat thing happened though. We stopped Saturday morning for a McDonalds breakfast in southern Indiana and by sheer luck it was the exit where there was a little family owned hotel where Liz and her family stayed on vacations every year when she was a kid. She knew it because it had a pool with a smiley face in the bottom of it and it was called Mariannes. Pretty cool. Tell em about it, Liz!
Anyway, there you have it! It was a great vacation. Our first one driving to Florida and I would honestly do it again. The drive was NOT that bad at all. Now to get started on our PTR for our late January trip for just me and Liz. Thank you all for reading, and stay tuned for our further adventures!
Brent
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Oohh and thanks once again, Pinky for that wonderful wanted poster. I'll see what I can do about the shirt. I do think that would get me a ton of extra attention!!
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Nicely done dearest hubby!! I will be on later to update my part.
So sad its over........BUT I am super, duper, amazingly over the edge, incredibly, without a doubt, THRILLED about January.
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Later on in the day we went to Downtown Disney, Disneyquest specifically. The younger kids had been looking forward to this for the whole trip. First stop: Cyberspace mountain and design your own roller coaster. We did it twice: First time Liz and I designed one and rode it. I thought it was pretty intense. Then Brendan designed one and I rode it with him and it made the one Liz and I designed look like a kiddie coaster. That kid had me upside down, inside out and thrown all around. After that, myself, Brendan, Jordan and Cheyenne rode the pirate battle as Tori and Liz disappeared. Now where did they go? Anyway, It was very uncrowded in there so they let us ride it three times in a row. The kids were in thier glory. After we sent ol' blackbeard to the depths we came out and played some games in the arcade, then I had all I could stand of Disneyquest. I can really only take that place for a couple hours. So leaving Jordan in charge, I went outside for some air. I decided to go for a walk along the river. It was a very nice, calm day. Totally opposite from the atmosphere of Disneyquest. I saw the ferry go bye and found a bench to sit down and watch it from. 
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