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I'm amazed the luck you have at the casinos in AC. I may have to bring you along the next time I go to AC. I went in June and lost overall, but not too bad, but did pretty well on my last day there!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
I'm amazed the luck you have at the casinos in AC. I may have to bring you along the next time I go to AC. I went in June and lost overall, but not too bad, but did pretty well on my last day there!
Oh gosh, Dave!. This was all on the ship. I have t been to AC for quite some time. We are planning on going down for a night sometime soon!
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AN UPDATE IN PROGRESS AND A HUGE BIRTHDAY FOR MY BETTER HALF!!
So we are fast approaching our FP time!! I need to wait until after I talk to my sister today, but I have a fairly good idea of what we will go for with FP's.
Just as an aside, today is Muffin"s 60th birthday!!! Gosh he's old!! We are having a party at my house at 4PM today in case anyone wants to come! . I am more than sure we have enough food, enough drink and enough spare room in case you have too much of the latter!. Anyway! That is the reason I will see my sister today!
We are having meatballs, roast beef and a hoagie bite tray along with various snacks. Both of our crazy families and a few close friends will be here. In total, we are expecting around 40 people.
Getting back to Disney stuff:
We changed pretty much our whole schedule around for the latter part of the week to spend some time with Laura and Angela. It turns out that they will be spending their first night at Disney Springs, which works out great because that is our MVMCP night. I don't mean it's great we won't see them but it's great that they have something to do!
My sister will join us for part of the day on both the 9th and the 10th as Angela will be rehearsing for the CP or in group activities with her school. Since we originally had planned to be in AK and then Epcot on the 9th we changed that to MK and then DHS. We normally don't go to EMH parks but the reasoning behind this was that my sister has never been to WDW at Christmastime and we wanted her to be able to see all of the parks!! Our dinner reservation for this evening will be at Sanaa. If my sister is able to join us, I am more than sure that this reservation will not be a problem to change.
On the 10th, we are planning on going to AK during the day with my sister and then going to MK in the evening with a dinner at the California Grill. If my sister is able to join us for dinner tonight we will most likely have to give up this reservation as you all know. We the Cali Grill but we my sister more so we will see what shakes down! If MK is insane, we will most likely head back to AKL after dinner. Our plan B is to switch our Jiko ADR to tonight and enjoy the resort for the evening with my sis!
Laura and Angela will also obviously be at Epcot on Sunday, the 11th. We have the CP dinner reserved with my sister for the 8:15 PM show at La Hacienda de San Angel. We originally had booked Chefs de France but Muffin suggested that my sister might like La Hacienda better. We ate here last year for the CP and really loved it. The location can't be beat and the atmosphere is very festive!! Laura has to attend both shows this evening but should be fine with a 4:30 PM ADR. (She may even be able to get us good seats!!)
When I see her later on today, we will firm all this up and go over details. I will post an update with my revised plans to follow!
October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
. Well Muffin's 60th birthday party was a huge success!! My sister and I did not get to talk too much Disney but that is because everyone was having such a great time!!
What she did tell me was a little disturbing. Her group is booked through a travel agent so she could not give me a reservation number and furthermore, her travel agent said that she did not think that they could make fastpass reservations in advance.
This information put me in a tough spot. I didn't want to tell my sister that by staying on property, you really can make fastpass reservations 60 days in advance. I understand that by booking as a group, you can't do that yourself but am I crazy in thinking that any travel agent worth their salt would do that for you?!
Maybe I am and maybe by booking through a travel agent, you really can't do anything on your own. Maybe the group got such a great discount that the travel agent doesn't need to do anything else for them.
In any case, I think the whole setup stinks. My sister and niece will most likely not be able to get on Frozen Ever After, Soarin', or 7 Dwarfs Mine Train unless they are willing to wait in line for those attractions.
I am going to call my friends at WDW reservations tomorrow and find out what is up. This really does not make sense to me at all. Anyway! We will make the best of it no matter what!!
Back to Muffin's party!!
Everyone came and everyone seemed to have a great time!! Here are a few pictures:
Dave- Muffin's BFF for 45 years!
Muffin's sister Lois and Finn
Adrienne- my BFF and Dave's better half
Bob-Lois' husband
Colin- my nephew
Katie and her boyfriend Andy
Diane- Muffin's warehouse manager
Sean and another of Muffin's sisters, Eileen
Finnegan
My niece Alex
My brother Mark and Finn
Paula- Mark's girlfriend and my nephew Mark
Muffin's brother Bob and sister Lois
My niece Megan and Muffin
Sean and Meg
Marianne-another of Muffin's sisters and Lisa, Bob's wife
Sean, Jane and Finn
My Dad and his wife, Caroline
Me and my bro
One of my very bad selfie attempts
My nephews Anthony, Mark and Colin
Another bad selfie with my sis
Much better!
Jane's parents- Joyce and Ralph
Muffin's Dad and Dave
My dad
Laura' s husband Dave and Anthony
Me and Katie
Lisa and Finn
Me and my niece Angela
Me and my nephew Jesse
Katie and Muffin's mom lighting the candles
Singing Happy Birthday
Muffin and Dave
Muffin and his mom
Alex, Jane and Megan
Angela and Finn
It really was a good time and people stayed and helped clean up and Muffin got lots of great stuff!! He said he couldn't have asked for a nicer birthday!! Also, Mike and Gabby Skyped with everyone and Logan called too!!
Great photos and looks like everyone had such a great time! Sorry to hear about the Fastpass+ situation!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
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I may have to bring you along the next time I go to AC. I went in June and lost overall, but not too bad, but did pretty well on my last day there! 
Gosh he's old!! 
We are having a party at my house at 4PM today in case anyone wants to come! 
. Anyway! That is the reason I will see my sister today!
the Cali Grill but we 
Laura has to attend both shows this evening but should be fine with a 4:30 PM ADR. (She may even be able to get us good seats!!
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My sister and niece will most likely not be able to get on Frozen Ever After, Soarin', or 7 Dwarfs Mine Train unless they are willing to wait in line for those attractions.
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