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Your plans sound great so far! I'm sorry your DH won't be able to join you this time, but a Mother/Child trip sounds like so much fun. I'd love to go just me and DDs one day!
Stupid life...getting in the way of a perfectly good TR.
So...when we left off our intrepid travelers were sleeping. Okay, not the greatest cliffhanger, bur realistic.
So the next day we can sleep in because we are going to be up late at MK...doing what you ask let's assume there's audience participation yelling "doing what?" We are going to MVMCP!!! But since that doesn't start until later I'm dragging the boys to DTD for breakfast or lunch and some shopping. Now, given they are both huge Lego fans it's more likely they'll be waking me up and hurrying me out the door, but oh well.
Must do's at DTD:
1. Lego store for the boys
2. Mr. Potato Head parts for each of us.
3. Food - not sure if it's breakfast or lunch, but we'll have to do one there
4. All my shopping requests from work - I want them done
Then it's back to the resort and some relax time. Either the boys will swim or we'll just explore the resort. We don't have to leave for the park until 4 so I'm in no rush.
At MK we have dinner ADRs for LTT. During J's Make-A-Wish trip our first meal was at LTT and it was really great. This was back when it had characters, but we're still looking forward to it.
Then it's time for MVMCP. My only must do's are anything party exclusive. I'd like to get a pin and tshirt. But other than that I'm just about enjoying the atmosphere and parades. Any ideas for must dos? Is this where I'll get to see all 7 dwarves?
Great plans for party day. We are on our way home from our trip right now, MVMCP was so much fun! You will be able to see the dwarfs, they were over near Splash Mountain. I would get there early, they always have a long line.
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Today we wake up when we wake up. I'll probably have a wake up call around 8 just to make sure we don't sleep the ENTIRE morning but no rush. We'll have some breakfast stuff in the room so we'll eat there then head out to EPCOT. Now JJ has never been to WS and J only went once with my mom. DH is not a huge walker and he always seems to cry uncle before we get there. The boys and I have a few must hits but other than that we're just going to take our time. We have a lunch ADR at Chefs de France...JJ's request because he wants to see Remy. And we have a late dinner at Rose & Crown to try the fish and chips.
Must do's:
1) Nemo...this is actually mine. I've never done it and want to try once.
2) Captain EO. The boys have never seen it and I know JJ is going to have us doing Figment at least once so why not
3) Soarin' - JJ's request. We'll probably fast pass it and do it later in the evening
4) Something for JJ for school. His teacher is coming up with something he has to do at every country as part of his homework. She's pretty cool so this should be good.
5) Relax and take it all in
If we got to hit SE on the way out I'd be pretty pleased, but we'll have done some stuff the other night so no worries.
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MVMCP! We had dinner at LTT before it last November when we went. Great combinations! 
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