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Glad you had a good visit with Minnie and Donald (I just love Minnie in her safari outfit!), but sorry that Goofy was so blah. Too bad there were no tumble monkeys .
I tried to take the left path outside of ITTBAB, but I ended up in a dead end. Guess I may have turned left too early? I'll have to try again. Great pics of the tree. Glad Luke got to see the bat.
Can't wait to see your gorilla pictures (and hopefully Lily), and of course THE PARADE!
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Love the pics of your character interaction and the tree.
As usual, I was reading this update with the kids and we were looking at the pictures. Anna, who is usually excited about each of your pictures and asks if we can do the things you had done, was absolutely quiet until...
...She saw the picture of Stefanie and her soda. Then Anna looked at me with wide eyes and said, "Yay! We can get a drink!"
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Wonderful pictures with the characters!!
And the pictures of you and Stefanie in ITTBAB are precious! Good job Luke!
I have truly never experienced a Goofy that was so unlike the true Goofy! It was almost as if he was sleeping standing up! We all walked away saying the same thing. "What in the world happened to Goofy?"
I was very excited we found the walkway around the tree!! I really liked the area and we were able to see animals and parts of the Tree of Life that I had never seen before!
Speaking of that - where was I when you took the picture of the rabbit in the tree?? I don't remember seeing that!
I love the character lovefest, especially celebrating with Donald for his birthday. Sorry Goofy was...well a bit uncharacteristic, guess he was being a bit shy or under the weather
I love the tumbling monkeys also...one of my favoreite parts, and one of our favorite shows. Can't wait to hear all about the parade and if there was a Lilly sighting...I was so upset last August when not only did we not see Lilly but it seemed all the gorillas were in hiding except for the Silverback and his back was all he was giving us that day.
I had wondered if this particular Goofy was on his first day at work. So strange!
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You got a lot accomplished so far! I must admit that I have yet to do the character trail in Camp Minnie-Mickey, but plan to remedy that in September.
You definitely have to remedy that and who knows you all might get asked to join the parade!
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What a great time with the birthday boy Donald - I love those photos!
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It looks like a great time with Donald and Minnie! Keeping us in suspense with the parade hmm . . .
This really was a big day for us and the parade isn't until 3:45, so we still packed a lot in before then.
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Great character pictures
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What a great time at animal kingdom.
Loads of fun and more to come!
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HOW EXCITING!!!!!! I can't WAIT to hear more about the parade. That is what makes Disney wonderful
It really is the Disney magic!
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Glad you had a good visit with Minnie and Donald (I just love Minnie in her safari outfit!), but sorry that Goofy was so blah. Too bad there were no tumble monkeys .
I tried to take the left path outside of ITTBAB, but I ended up in a dead end. Guess I may have turned left too early? I'll have to try again. Great pics of the tree. Glad Luke got to see the bat.
Can't wait to see your gorilla pictures (and hopefully Lily), and of course THE PARADE!
Hope you can take the right left! Now that sounds like an oxymoron.
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Love the pics of your character interaction and the tree.
As usual, I was reading this update with the kids and we were looking at the pictures. Anna, who is usually excited about each of your pictures and asks if we can do the things you had done, was absolutely quiet until...
...She saw the picture of Stefanie and her soda. Then Anna looked at me with wide eyes and said, "Yay! We can get a drink!"
Oh well...
That is too cute! Anna is a doll!
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The Tumble Monkeys did no tumbling??? Unheard of! I have never not seen them tumble. I would have been disappointed too.
I almost stood up when they were walking off to shout, "Why aren't you guys tumbling?" :rolf2:
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All caught up! Amazing safari photos! Love those giraffes! I think we were told on our safari that the onyl reason a lion is awake is to hunt and since they don't have to do that for themselves they're only awake a short (VERY short) amount of time.
How awesome to be in the parade! I love Stefanie's reaction of just knowing it would happen one day.
What fun character encounters (except for my Goofy - what was up with him ). I've seen FOTLK when the tumble monkeys don't tumble and it's hard to not be disappointed. That's my favorite part of the show!
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Mickey's so happy to see me back, he can barely contain himself!
Great pictures of the Tree of Life. I love going around looking for all animals.
We haven't done this often enough, but we all enjoyed it, so we'll be exploring again on other trips!
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Wonderful pictures with the characters!!
And the pictures of you and Stefanie in ITTBAB are precious! Good job Luke!
I have truly never experienced a Goofy that was so unlike the true Goofy! It was almost as if he was sleeping standing up! We all walked away saying the same thing. "What in the world happened to Goofy?"
I was very excited we found the walkway around the tree!! I really liked the area and we were able to see animals and parts of the Tree of Life that I had never seen before!
Speaking of that - where was I when you took the picture of the rabbit in the tree?? I don't remember seeing that!
I think Luke got the rabbit near where we entered for ITtBaB.
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Goofy not being Goofy?? Tumbling Monkeys not tumbing??
The pic of you gals singing Happy Birthday to Donald with his hands on his heart is adorable.
We stumbled along the path behind the Tree last trip. Beautiful isn't it?? so quiet.
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I would have been disappointed too.
We all walked away saying the same thing. "What in the world happened to Goofy?" 
I don't remember seeing that!
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). I've seen FOTLK when the tumble monkeys don't tumble and it's hard to not be disappointed. That's my favorite part of the show!
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