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I love your trip report!! The food pictures are great! I am adding new places to eat to my list. I hope that in the near future my husband and I can tour Disney like you and your husband.
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It was a great place....especially scoring two rocking chairs!
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Those last days at Disney are always sad, but looks like you are having a great time!! So glad you went in to visit with Tink!
It is very sad when you come to the end of your trip! BUT....writing a trip report and looking through all the pictures once you get home helps to stretch out the magic a little longer. It's funny too, how we start putting together a "to-do" listfor next trip even before we leave! I like knowing that if we aren't there, at least we are planning!!
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I love your trip report!! The food pictures are great! I am adding new places to eat to my list. I hope that in the near future my husband and I can tour Disney like you and your husband.
Thanks for reading! The food is a very big part of any trip for us, especially Disney. I like sharing pictures because I always like looking through food pictures when deciding where to eat. I often say, when we are at a restaurant, that I wish I could walk around and see what everyone ordered! I like a visual!
Hope you and your husband get to do some laid-back touring on future Disney trips....it certainly works for us! Peter hates planning...I love planning...we make a good combo! LOL
What a great spot you got from the parade! I was planning on watching it from there in June but the parade got cancelled because of the weather. I never got to see it.
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What a great spot you got from the parade! I was planning on watching it from there in June but the parade got cancelled because of the weather. I never got to see it.
Since we had added this night to our stay, we hadn't made dinner plans. Last night, we talked about a couple of places we might go. I told Peter that House of Blues might be an option that he would like, and after looking at the menu we made reservations.
Peter ordered the St. Louis Ribs - house smoked rack of ribs rubbed with adobo spice covered in smoked tomato BBQ sauce with green beans and House of Blues Salad - fresh field greens, red and yellow tomatoes, spicy pecans and crumbled feta cheese drizzled with balsamic vinaigrette dressing. He said, hands down, the best ribs, he's ever had!!
I got the Signature Burger w/sauteed bourbon onions, smoked BBQ sauce, wild mushrooms and swiss cheese and a side of sweet potato fries. This burger was soooooo good!!!!!
We both agreed that we will definitely return! This meal was OOP, but we used the 20% discount from our travel packet. I highly suggest checking out all the discounts in your packet, as there are many, most of which we didn't get to use, but the ones that we did saved us some $$.
As we headed to the bus stop, we saw that the balloon was flying tonight....
....we both agreed to put flying in the balloon (at night) on our to-do list!!
I'm sure the view is awesome!!
We had planned to try to make it back for Wishes fireworks at Magic Kingdom at 10:00, but it had gotten chillier and we needed to go the resort first to get some warmer clothes on. We made it back to the resort with probably enough time to get back to MK, but decided to stay at the resort. We had already seen Wishes twice (just not in front of the castle), and it had been such a great last day, ending our trip with an awesome dinner. We didn't want to push it by rushing to MK only to possibly miss Wishes. We stopped at the food court to fill our mugs and made a quick trip to the gift shop, before calling it a night.
What a fun last night! Your dinner sounds delicious. I didn't even know that the Character balloon flew at night. How cool! Once again, I love how you guys just go with the flow.
What a fun last night! Your dinner sounds delicious. I didn't even know that the Character balloon flew at night. How cool! Once again, I love how you guys just go with the flow.
Tara
We made a great choice for dinner and will definitely return. The balloon ride at night looks fun! Not sure if Peter was serious about flying in the dark though! I'm glad we can both (me especially) be flexible with our plans. I remember the first few trips, trying to fit every last thing in, and not feeling as relaxed as we have the past couple of trips. If we don't get to something, it just gives us more things to look forward next time!
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BUT....writing a trip report and looking through all the pictures once you get home helps to stretch out the magic a little longer. It's funny too, how we start putting together a "to-do" listfor next trip even before we leave! 
I like knowing that if we aren't there, at least we are planning!! 
The food is a very big part of any trip for us, especially Disney. I like sharing pictures because I always like looking through food pictures when deciding where to eat. I often say, when we are at a restaurant, that I wish I could walk around and see what everyone ordered! 
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I didn't even know that the Character balloon flew at night. How cool! Once again, I love how you guys just go with the flow.
I'm glad we can both (me especially) be flexible with our plans. I remember the first few trips, trying to fit every last thing in, and not feeling as relaxed as we have the past couple of trips. If we don't get to something, it just gives us more things to look forward next time! 
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