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Old 03-24-2011, 04:37 PM   #346
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Enjoying all of your updates! We did three parks in one day last year. Yep 13 hours in park time and with a 3 year old. When we got back to the resort I couldn't believe we had been gone for 13 hours!

We used that bathroom many times on our last trip and while we never found it that empty, it was never full of people and never had a line.

You should have gotten the nachos! We shared them on our last trip and really enjoyed them. It was kind of an accident that we even stopped for something to eat but boy were we glad that we did. Oh well, try them next time!
13 hours of park time with a 3 year old? is there an emoticon that bows down? searching...no. there isn't. so i'll have to do a cross between 'Wow' and 'yay!'

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Excellant TR! You may have inspired me to do a PTR & TR of our upcoming August trip
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[QUOTE=emvenable77;3609739]Enjoying all of your updates! We did three parks in one day last year. Yep 13 hours in park time and with a 3 year old. When we got back to the resort I couldn't believe we had been gone for 13 hours!

My DD is 3. We do open to close ( 9:00 or 11:00, no later than 11, except for MNSSHP) on most of our days. She is such a trooper. She has so much fun. She just hangs right in there.

Thanks for sharing your trip. It was great.
We go in Sept. I'm trying to put off starting my PTR as long as I can. But the more TRs I read, the more I want to start it.

Again, thanks for sharing. It sounds like you had a great time.
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thanks! it appears from your pic that you've stayed at CSR as well. i'll be checking out your TR!
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i don't think i stayed at the CSR? which resort is that? the only ones i stayed are All star music and pop century. i am going back to WDW in October solo, i have always been to WDW with my daughter. this is my first time solo, although i have been to Disneyland Paris solo, but i didn't like Disneyland Paris. it is not like WDW at all, no magic. it is true that although i will be solo, i will meet other passporters.
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i don't think i stayed at the CSR? which resort is that? the only ones i stayed are All star music and pop century. i am going back to WDW in October solo, i have always been to WDW with my daughter. this is my first time solo, although i have been to Disneyland Paris solo, but i didn't like Disneyland Paris. it is not like WDW at all, no magic. it is true that although i will be solo, i will meet other passporters.
ah yes--i saw from your TR that that pic wasn't CSR (coronado springs)--i thought the building you were standing in front of in your first signature pic was part of CSR...but clearly it is not!

you will LOVE disney solo. it is THE BEST. promise! i talked to so many people while standing in lines for things--it was great, and i never felt lonely.

i'm amused you didn't like disneyland paris, as i didn't like PARIS...and wish i'd taken a day out of our two weeks there last summer to VISIT disneyland! ha! i guess it's good we didn't, or i may never have gone to actual WDW!
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[QUOTE=elbodans;3622691]ah yes--i saw from your TR that that pic wasn't CSR (coronado springs)--i thought the building you were standing in front of in your first signature pic was part of CSR...but clearly it is not!
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I thought it was too! It sure looks like the main building at CSR.
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the picture is Coronado Springs, but we just went there for supper to try it out as someone at the hotel told us that it was very good (the counter service). i don't mind solo, except that i would feel too uncomfortable to eat at a table service restaurant, as when i was at Disneyland Paris, people were staring at me, making me feel really uncomfortable and i couldn't wait for the meal to be over, not enjoyable.
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the picture is Coronado Springs, but we just went there for supper to try it out as someone at the hotel told us that it was very good (the counter service). i don't mind solo, except that i would feel too uncomfortable to eat at a table service restaurant, as when i was at Disneyland Paris, people were staring at me, making me feel really uncomfortable and i couldn't wait for the meal to be over, not enjoyable.
That was a Paris thing, not a dining thing or a Disney thing. I promise. It's a cultural thing--I eat solo at fancy restaurants all the time in the US, but I did feel very uncomfortable doing it in Paris. Try it--I promise you'll like it!
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really you too you felt that way in Paris? and it's like people don't even try to be subtle about it, about staring at you with this look, like making you feel so bad
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