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We ate at Alfredo's before it was Tutto Italia, but we've not tried that yet. After looking at your meals, it does look very delicious. How cool to see the owl!
A wonderful and magical last day in WDW for all of you! You had a great day and got to do a lot, which is such a good way to end your trip and a later flight helps accomplish this! I've been doing this on my last few WDW trips and plan to keep it up with a park visit of my choice, a nice lunch with a late afternoon ME departure to MCO! It makes that last day that much better!
I mentioned in Oh Toodles' (Kelly) TR about her family arriving for their next WDW trip, the day I depart for my first ever cruise on The Magic on April 12. My mistake as I confused the names as it's yours as your posts were next to each other! I depart on Disney transportation from MCO in the late morning to PC after a one night stay at the Hyatt. Should be a great trip and looking so forward to my first ever cruise as I know your family is for another WDW adventure! Awesome for us CT residents! Who knows...we may run into one another at MCO! Enjoy and take it all in!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
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Boo hoo for having to leave, but YAY for having such a great last day and for going home to puppy #1! What a great trip this was! Your exit wave is a great shot-- I've never seen it done that way before!
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Great trip!!! And I love that Mickey sink!!! I NEED one of those!
Glad you had the puppies' arrivals to dampen the sorrow of leaving the bubble, at least a little.
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You had a great last day!
Thanks! We did!
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You're trip is over I really enjoyed reading about it and didn't want to see it end.
Me too. How big was it? I've read different info on it - a couple of places showed a sign with it being 22.99 with every topping, others show the sign you posted at 14.99. One site I read said it's only two scoops of ice cream then the toppings which isn't very much to share IMO (my mother - who is thin as a rail - can eat three scoops of ice cream herself even though she says she doesn't like sweets).
Thank you! I think ours had 3 scoops of ice cream (honestly I could have eaten the whole thing myself ), but the actual sink (bowl) part of it is probably the size of a good cereal bowl.
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We ate at Alfredo's before it was Tutto Italia, but we've not tried that yet. After looking at your meals, it does look very delicious. How cool to see the owl!
Thanks! It was so yummy!!
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A wonderful and magical last day in WDW for all of you! You had a great day and got to do a lot, which is such a good way to end your trip and a later flight helps accomplish this! I've been doing this on my last few WDW trips and plan to keep it up with a park visit of my choice, a nice lunch with a late afternoon ME departure to MCO! It makes that last day that much better!
I mentioned in Oh Toodles' (Kelly) TR about her family arriving for their next WDW trip, the day I depart for my first ever cruise on The Magic on April 12. My mistake as I confused the names as it's yours as your posts were next to each other! I depart on Disney transportation from MCO in the late morning to PC after a one night stay at the Hyatt. Should be a great trip and looking so forward to my first ever cruise as I know your family is for another WDW adventure! Awesome for us CT residents! Who knows...we may run into one another at MCO! Enjoy and take it all in!
Thanks! Yes, we fly into MCO around 9:15am on the 12th so definitely wave if you see us!!!
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Boo hoo for having to leave, but YAY for having such a great last day and for going home to puppy #1! What a great trip this was! Your exit wave is a great shot-- I've never seen it done that way before!
Thanks! The photographer actually suggested that pose
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Thank you for sharing your trip. What a wonderful time you had. I love your Thank You cards what a great idea and one I might use too. Do they just say thank you on them to do you put anything else? Our home resort is Kidani and seeing your photos is helping to stave off the homesickness I have at the moment. Roll on November.
Last day at Disney is always sad, but it looks like you guys made the best of it! Ice cream makes everything better, right?
Thanks! Of course ice cream always help everything!!!
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Thank you for sharing your trip. What a wonderful time you had. I love your Thank You cards what a great idea and one I might use too. Do they just say thank you on them to do you put anything else? Our home resort is Kidani and seeing your photos is helping to stave off the homesickness I have at the moment. Roll on November.
Thanks! I got the idea of the thank you cards on line several years back and have been making them since. I usually have Thank you on there in some way - along with our family name, city and state we are from, as well as the dates we are visiting.
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Really enjoyed following along. Glad Em was okay and y'all were able to go back to a park on your last day. We haven't tried that on either trip and don't plan on doing that on our June trip. The main reason is because it's a 3-hour trip from our arrival airport (DFW) to our house. So, we don't like to get back too late unless we can stay the night in the DFW area. Might be something we consider.
But to be honest, if we're trying to decide between flying back a day earlier than we have to go to work, staying in the metroplex and then driving home the next day or spending another night at WDW and flying home around lunch the next day, then that's an easy decision for me. Give me another night at WDW anytime.
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You had a great day and got to do a lot, which is such a good way to end your trip and a later flight helps accomplish this! 
I depart on Disney transportation from MCO in the late morning to PC after a one night stay at the Hyatt. Should be a great trip and looking so forward to my first ever cruise as I know your family is for another WDW adventure! 
Enjoy and take it all in! 
I really enjoyed reading about it and didn't want to see it end.
), but the actual sink (bowl) part of it is probably the size of a good cereal bowl. 
so definitely wave if you see us!!! 
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