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Great pics! It sounds like so much fun to be with such great friends. It is making me super excited for my BFF trip coming up in 104 days!! Getting to meet my 2 best PP and not in PP friends for the first time. I can hardly stand it!!!
Dinner looked like lots of fun, and I am loving Zacks different poses. I have to say, I like the "Who's that boy?" poses the best.
What a fun night! Weird about the alarm though. That happened to me once. I think housekeeping does it sometimes just to mess with you. Ever since then, I always examine the alarm clock before I hit the hay!
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I love Chick-fil-A but not those pickles, yuck! warm and mushy. I always order mine with out pickles. As far as fast food chicken I think they are the best and mine at home even brings the food out to you and throws out your trash - never get that at BK or McD's.
Let me just say the beach ball pillows are just so cute -I want one.
Carsland look great but can't imagine waiting in an hour long fast pass line. I'm really hoping that if I can get out to DCA/DL next year that the lines have died down some. That is one of the reasons I'm waiting a year.
So sorry the alarm went off in the middle of the night - so scary but at least it was a false alarm.
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That Craig! I need to sit him down and talk some sense into him.
Ugh, yes...please do!!!
Love the 'cars' monorail! So cute. Love the picture of you all with Goofy. And of course all the pictures of all or part of Zack's head and his Dragon Ball poses. Reminds me of when Tyler was 4 and after meeting the Power Rangers posed like one for EVERY picture after that. My boys would have a BLAST posing for pics with Zack
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I had to get Peter and Jacob to explain the Dragonball Z pose to me. They thought the photo of Goofy doing it along with Zach was hilarious!
Look at your kids. Look at my kid. Look at your kids. Look at my kid. Somehow I need to help Z-man upgrade the humor.
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Ugh, yes...please do!!!
Love the 'cars' monorail! So cute. Love the picture of you all with Goofy. And of course all the pictures of all or part of Zack's head and his Dragon Ball poses. Reminds me of when Tyler was 4 and after meeting the Power Rangers posed like one for EVERY picture after that. My boys would have a BLAST posing for pics with Zack
Your kid was 4! Adorable! My kid is 19! Not so adorable.
Shashi, I'd say that it's your camera that is making us all look so shiny and happy, but I think it's just us being together that does that. Love!
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While the beach ball pillows are cute, I have to say that even though the room looks very nice, I can't say that I am overwhelmed by the theming. Doesn't it seem, I don't know, a bit perfunctory? Anyway, I completely understand wanting to check this one off, but I think for my first stay I will go with Grand Californian or the Disneyland Hotel.
Gosh, Sharon, you went right to sleep?
Larry, you may remember "The Big Kahuna Family" trip report - Paradise Pier was awful - great service but they did us no favor giving us that big suite! We've been repeats of the GC and the DL hotel, but never PP! I'd like to see an implosion with a new hotel or at least a DVC addition because we do love the theming!
Sharon - we prefer Wendy's Chicken Sandwich, family style (love it!), over Chick-Fil-A, although it may be second.
I definitely vote for pics with Zac and Dawn's boys! That would make me laugh!
Watching fireworks in pajamas sounds great. The middle of the night wakeup call, not so much.
Sounds like you had the perfect room at the DLH! How amazing to be able to watch the fireworks shows from the room with the tv for sound! Do the rooms there have balconies? Love the photos from the character meal. Zach is too funny-- I can't wait until he becomes a famous film-maker. Those will be some films!
The rooms at the DLH do not have balconies, sadly.
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I can share some pictures, including this very sweet one of the BFFs toasting my success:
Little did I know they were in the CLUB LEVEL LOUNGE AT THE TIME!!!!
If you knew how many tries it took to get this photo, you'd suspect this wasn't our first drink of the night.
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And here's how my name appeared on the four Jumbotrons (and I'm not joking about that) in the ballroom at the Marriott on the night of the big to-do:
That's my pen name, and the old version of the title of this book. (It's new working title is "Gentling a London Gentleman.")
So very And we're so proud of you!
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And... even more exciting than the fact my mug was flashed on four massive screens, I got to meet the goddess Deanna Raybourn, the woman who has been my inspiration for a long, long while.
Apparently, being starstruck makes me look a bit manic. (And I blame my crappy hairspray for leaving me with limp hair. Ugh!)
Not manic, a happy glow!
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Now, on to teasing Sharon...
Shashi, I think you and Goofy need to get some blue contact lenses -- you look out of place with all those Koenigs and Weiss eyes!
Smooches!
Now I take back those nice things I said. Besides, Goofy and I don't want to blend in with the crowd.
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Sorry to hear about that alarm. Did that happen to them once at WDW? Or am I remembering it incorrectly?
I don't remember, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen! My memory isn't that great.
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What a fun night! Weird about the alarm though. That happened to me once. I think housekeeping does it sometimes just to mess with you. Ever since then, I always examine the alarm clock before I hit the hay!
It wasn't the alarm clock (though I've had that happen to me before). It was the carbon monoxide (or smoke) detector.
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I love Chick-fil-A but not those pickles, yuck! warm and mushy. I always order mine with out pickles. As far as fast food chicken I think they are the best and mine at home even brings the food out to you and throws out your trash - never get that at BK or McD's.
Let me just say the beach ball pillows are just so cute -I want one.
Carsland look great but can't imagine waiting in an hour long fast pass line. I'm really hoping that if I can get out to DCA/DL next year that the lines have died down some. That is one of the reasons I'm waiting a year.
So sorry the alarm went off in the middle of the night - so scary but at least it was a false alarm.
I think the lines will go down by next summer. It seems like all of California was coming to see it. It'll stay popular, just not insane like it is now.
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Ugh, yes...please do!!!
Love the 'cars' monorail! So cute. Love the picture of you all with Goofy. And of course all the pictures of all or part of Zack's head and his Dragon Ball poses. Reminds me of when Tyler was 4 and after meeting the Power Rangers posed like one for EVERY picture after that. My boys would have a BLAST posing for pics with Zack
I am sure Zack would adore inspiring your boys to pose for goofy pictures.
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Thats is a great picture of you all at Goofy's Kitchen!!! Beautiful group!!
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Shashi, I'd say that it's your camera that is making us all look so shiny and happy, but I think it's just us being together that does that. Love!
We all get that happy glow when we're together.
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Larry, you may remember "The Big Kahuna Family" trip report - Paradise Pier was awful - great service but they did us no favor giving us that big suite! We've been repeats of the GC and the DL hotel, but never PP! I'd like to see an implosion with a new hotel or at least a DVC addition because we do love the theming!
Sharon - we prefer Wendy's Chicken Sandwich, family style (love it!), over Chick-Fil-A, although it may be second.
Will have to try Wendy's family style chicken!
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Mickey's so happy to see me back, he can barely contain himself!
Just caught up with the rest of the report. Great pics of DCA! I'm so excited, I'm bouncing up and down! I can't wait to get back to DL - sooner rather than later!
I was surprised you drove from PP - maybe because Karen had to drive over from Embassy Suites? At least you used the tram so that saves the feet. We were exhausted when we walked over from PP to the parks, although we learned to cut through the GC. Your pic with Goofy inspired me to dig out our pic for the sig line.
Congrats on upgrading to the E-ticket Club. We upgraded to the E-ticket Club one Thanksgiving weekend. The Christmas decorations were awesome and the views of the fireworks are fabulous. Our room was 2 doors down, so that was quite convenient. The CM insisted we take milk and cookies back to our room with us - boy do I miss that - lol!
Kudos to Eileen for having her name in lights. As one writer to another, I know how exciting that is and to being a GH finalist at the RWA awards ceremony!
So sorry I missed the convention. If we hadn't moved to Florida... oh well, at least there will be lots of Disneyland cuz we're moving back west - woo hoo!
If we can ever time our trips right, well, that would be awesome!
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