Eight Days a Week - The Bakelin Invasion **Updated 7/8 - COMPLETE** - Page 12 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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There are other changes as well.
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We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
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Welcome back...got to tell you I have missed your TR's but glad to know it was only good things that kept you away from the boards. Can't believe that your birthday trip is coming up so soon...
I love the two updates!
How was the ASMo? Ben and I are looking at Value resorts for the meet formally known as Mousefest...we usually do the PoP but its all booked.
what great updates melissa
glad thay you are back
super cute with the easter egg hunt - you go andy
glad you are having such a great time
hurry back with more please
I love the two updates!
How was the ASMo? Ben and I are looking at Value resorts for the meet formally known as Mousefest...we usually do the PoP but its all booked.
We liked it, but I think we liked AS Sports better. The rooms seemed more fresh from rehab than ASMo. But really, we'd stay at either one again.
Rats! I guessed you'd finish this TR 5 weeks before your next WDW trip. Sounds like a fun day at AK and a successful tour of epcot. Love the Seinfeld reference. Can't wait for more.
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So glad you're back! Great catching up on your crazy adventures. The Easter Egg hunt is so sweet... though the preggo remark definitely set Andy back a few. (There is nothing worse than any type of pregant reference to an unpregnant female... those preggo hormones are tame in comparison to the mood swing that kind of remark will bring on!) In any event, looks like you had great fun with the Bakelins. Please come back soon with more!
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Wow, this trip of your sounds like so much fun! I ove reading about it now, though, because it gets me ready fro NEXT WEEK! WooHoo! So, yes, that evening in the UK was completely out of control! Let's see what pictures I have from that night....
A cute one (finally) after several takes of Pom and Melissa
The fools in the maze....
Melissa in Wonderland....
And my favorite....
I have others, but this is a family board!
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Bakelins chillin' at the pool after a fun week at Disney!
And as long as we're making references to Seinfeld, in case that CM was making a preggo reference, he must have never seen the episode where Jerry (or one of the guys) says that you never say anything about a woman being prenant unless you actually see her giving birth! Words to live by!!
Congrats on your masters. I'm glad you're back. I was thinking about you the other day. It sounds like you guys have been really busy this summer. Can't wait to read more.
Liz
I always enjoy reading your reports. Glad you are back! My husband told me in lamaze class that he thought that I was the biggest person in there. After I stopped crying, he explained that he meant that I had the largest stomach and he thought I was the farthest along in the group. Again, not the smartest thing to say to a woman. Much less one that is getting read to give birth to your child! There really should be classes to help men learn to avoid making these types of mistakes! At least it gave me something to use against him in arguments for the past 10 years. Ha!
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Sounds like a fun day at AK and a successful tour of epcot. Love the Seinfeld reference. Can't wait for more.
Aimee
I ove reading about it now, though, because it gets me ready fro NEXT WEEK! WooHoo! So, yes, that evening in the UK was completely out of control! Let's see what pictures I have from that night....
What a sweet Easter Bunny you have, too.
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