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What a cool small world moment meeting Kate at the hair salon of all places! I’m sorry to hear that Andy can’t come on the trip, but it sounds like you’re making awesome plans to fill your time! I haven’t heard of the Highway in the Sky dine around, I’ll have to check that out.
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What a cool small world moment meeting Kate at the hair salon of all places! I’m sorry to hear that Andy can’t come on the trip, but it sounds like you’re making awesome plans to fill your time! I haven’t heard of the Highway in the Sky dine around, I’ll have to check that out.
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Yes it really was a neat thing meeting Kate! See my next post about the latter.
So! Last night Muffin told me that now Katie was no longer going on our November trip. As you guys know, Andy already couldn’t go. However. This came from Muffin and not Katie.
He had been thinking that it would be sad for Andy to stay home by himself and also that he had his brother, sister and employee, Ross, going anyway. He didn’t want to tell Katie not to come so he made her an offer.
He told her that if she skipped this trip and agreed to stay home with Andy that she could have both airfares for a trip for the two of them in the Spring. He said he completely left the choice up to her and she went with it. Anyway!
He also told me that it would make him very happy if I would reconsider having dinner with him and Ross on Monday the 13th of November. I do like Ross but I asked Muffin why it was important to him.
He said that since Katie wasn't going and his brother and sister weren't coming down until the next day, he just thought it would be nice to spend one more day together since he had to work the rest of the week.
Mind you, he knew I had booked the TOTW wine tasting and the Highway in the Sky Dine Around for this day...……..
At first, I was pretty annoyed as I was really looking forward to both of these events but then I thought about it and said okay. . So, the Highway in the Sky Dine Around will have to go back on my bucket list for now. I wasn’t as upset about the wine tasting as I figured we could also save that for another trip.
Plus, I had to prepay both of those things which means I will get over 200 bucks back on my Disney gift card. He promised me that I wouldn’t have to change anything else around as he really would be tied up both day and night with customers for the rest of the week and that we would go somewhere nice as well.
Hard to turn that down.
P.S. I thought about just switching the Dine Around to another night but then I would have to change too many other plans.
Sorry to hear about Dine Around, but it's something to look forward to at another time! And dinner someplace nice with your sweetie...hard to pass that up!
Hope you get to do the Dine in the Sky on another trip as I know you were looking forward to it. Sometimes it's not worth doing another day when you have to change to many other things to accommodate just one thing. Hope all works out and you can make some other changes that make the trip even better!
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Sorry to hear about Dine Around, but it's something to look forward to at another time! And dinner someplace nice with your sweetie...hard to pass that up!
I'll get to the Dine Around eventually!! It was very hard to say no for sure!
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Hope you get to do the Dine in the Sky on another trip as I know you were looking forward to it. Sometimes it's not worth doing another day when you have to change to many other things to accommodate just one thing. Hope all works out and you can make some other changes that make the trip even better!
I will get to it, Dave! I am sure that there will be a few more tweaks coming up!
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So sweet that Muffin wanted to spend even more time with you, I am sure you will find a way to fit the tour in on another trip.
I guess I will keep him for a bit. I will definitely do that tour at some point!
I was looking forward to hearing all about your Dine in the Sky experience but it's nice that you'll get to spend more time with Muffin. That was very sweet of him to offer Katie and Andy the money for the plane tickets in the Spring too.
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See my next post about the latter. 
I do like Ross but I asked Muffin why it was important to him.
. So, the Highway in the Sky Dine Around will have to go back on my bucket list for now. I wasn’t as upset about the wine tasting as I figured we could also save that for another trip.
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Sometimes it's not worth doing another day when you have to change to many other things to accommodate just one thing. Hope all works out and you can make some other changes that make the trip even better! 
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