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We go on
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To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
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I was so going to stop and comment on the shower curtain, or lack of one, in your hotel. But then you mentioned it later. Why is that?? We stayed in 2 hotels in Paris for a week, and none of them had curtains either......bizarre
I don't know - I can't say I've ever come across it in any of the hotels we've stayed at in France.
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After our visit to DLP, we felt the rides were overall darker, scarier, faster and generally more intense. My poor husband still has not recovered from Crush's Coaster...it looked so benign from the outside!
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I love the pics of Frontierland. To see the details extend past Main Street is great! Interesting about Haunted Mansion. It certainly looks scary! But cool too.
I think it would have take a Memory card and an hour to get me down Main Street. Halloween is my favorite holiday and that just looks so cool!!
Well, as my biggest memory card holds something like 1,600 photos, I was Ok on that front but it did probably take us at least 20 minutes, if not half an hour....
Saturday 6 October – part four: this looks longer than a 10 minute wait...
We wandered back through Frontierland, stopping to browse a few shops on the way...
I had to get my photos taken with these as well:
Soon we were heading into Adventureland, and I just love the theming of this place, especially Adventure Isle. I always look at it and think “what a shame this isn’t present in some of the other parks”, as it really adds to the atmosphere and makes for some great photos. Speaking of which, that is the sun you can see starting to peep through at points! Considering the weather forecast for today, which was pretty much for showers all day long, starting from 8:00am onwards, it was now approaching 11:00am, and so far, so good. Now how long would it last...
We headed towards Pirates of the Caribbean, which was showing a 10 minute wait. We walked through the queue, which we just love – again, it’s so atmospheric, and it’s a shame that they don’t do this in the other parks. It just adds to a great ride.
Once we got inside, we looked at the number of people waiting to board boats, and both said that it looked like more than a 10 minute wait. That would turn out to be so true...
We progressed at a reasonable speed down towards the boats, and eventually we were positioned, ready to board, with us assigned the last row, which appeared to only have two people in. That worked for us, having been crammed together with more people in the last row before now, which wasn’t a whole lot of fun.
The boats were ready to go off, and they seemed to sit there for ages, but then again, the previous set of boats had sat there for ages, so I didn’t think too much of it...
A few minutes later, they were still sitting there, and we heard a message that there was a problem. Now there seemed to be more Cast Members running around as well. Some of them had to be managers or engineers as well, as they weren’t in the standard pirate costumes for this ride, and let’s face it, you don’t get Cast Members out of costume unless there’s a problem....
I realised we might have a long wait, so I settled down to write some trip report:
Next: wow, I never dreamed we’d end up doing this!
My poor husband still has not recovered from Crush's Coaster...it looked so benign from the outside!
I know that feeling only too well!
Yeah, that's 100% my fault... I'm a thrill ride fan and for me, Crush's Coaster isn't that bad. So I convinced poor Chez to go on it with me... Soooo sorry, Chez!!!
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I know that feeling only too well! 
Dreams, Wishes, Hopes... these are the parts of childhood we should never lose.
but it did probably take us at least 20 minutes, if not half an hour....
Considering the weather forecast for today, which was pretty much for showers all day long, starting from 8:00am onwards, it was now approaching 11:00am, and so far, so good. Now how long would it last... 
Soooo sorry, Chez!!!
Great pics!
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