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I believe you can also get the grapefruit cake at Starring Rolls in DHS.
That did it! It's def Starring Rolls for us!!!!
Love the t-shirt design, and your most wonderful b-day gift idea for Mike!!!
The mani-pedi @ YC sounds like the perfect plan!! Your trip is sounding awesome! Don't be surprised if I end up stealing some of your plans for our trip!!!!
Love the birthday shirts - both of your birth "days" sound great. Like the idea of the blank vinylmation so that he can get signatures in the WS that day.
Love how Mike wants to spend his Birthday. Love the Vinylmation idea. I've heard of someoneusing that in place ofaGuest Book for their Wedding, butI love your idea for having a CM in each Country write Happy Birthday in their native language on it. That will make a special B-day giftfor him. You can't go wrong with a mani & pedi when you're that far along. How did I guess somewhere in your 1980's Trivia would Miracle on Ice would pop up? More please Kelly.
Love the t-shirt for Mike, very cool. And I have heard the grapefruit cake is amazing! Would love to try a slice right now. And EMH at Epcot for Mike's birthday, you are right, it's like Disney is celebrating for you both.
What a cool shirt. I need to show it to my DH. He is another fan of The Biegarten and also has plans to drink his way around the world. He was so depressed that we weren't going to the Biergarten this upcoming trip he had me add a day at the end of our trip just so he could go. You know I didn't give him a chance to change his mind I booked the flight that night and sent the TA a note to add a day as well.
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They caught us all smiling and looking at the camera!!!
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Kelly - your plans are sounding wonderful and relaxing! Love the shirts that a fellow PP is making for y'all.
I hope to drink around the world too on my bday trip. The key - stay hydrated and fed! I will have to keep my eye out for your TR so I can see how that goes for Mike!
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Day 5 – 8/11/10
Today is departure day. L
I don’t remember where we were originally going to go – probably Epcot or MK. Soon I realized that we didn’t have any character meals and that just wasn’t right – I have yet to be on a Disney trip where I didn’t dine with characters at least once. I rectified that by making a ADR for breakfast at the Crystal Palace. Then when I discovered I wouldn’t be able to really see the Main Street Electrical Parade from the Dessert Party, we decided our first night we’d catch it at MK, when we were originally going to go to Epcot that night. So now the plan is to go to Epcot, and we’re having breakfast with the princesses in Norway at Askershus at 8:30am. Mike will get to go to Epcot and I’ll get to see the princesses because let’s face it with another boy on the way I’m not going to be getting many opportunities to eat with the princesses.
After breakfast we’ll hit up anything in Future World we missed yesterday or want to do again and then I’m sure we’ll walk around WS too. We’ll probably grab lunch somewhere in WS too.
Then around 1:30pm we’ll head back to the resort as I’m assuming DME will be picking us up about 2:30pm for our 5:35pm flight back home. L It will be good to see our little boy again though! Then it will be back to work for Mike the next day, but I’ve taken the day off to recuperate from the trip. J We’ll keep Dylan home from daycare too and find someone to watch him the next day so we can save some $$ that week. J
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That did it! It's def Starring Rolls for us!!!! 
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And EMH at Epcot for Mike's birthday, you are right, it's like Disney is celebrating for you both. 
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