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Looked like a great lunch and glad you and AJ had some good quality time together! Funny, that your younger ones would not enjoy BOG for dinner as they must be really finicky eaters! I guess, that's why my parents loved taking me out to dinner, when I was younger as I was always a good eater! Love my food!
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Sounds like a very nice lunch at BOG and some enjoyable wandering of the park.
I actually enjoyed walking around the park, doing nothing.
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Some one on one time looks like fun, and you got to eat in the castle. The photo pass pics are cute.
I was glad I was able to get the fastpass for BoG. I enjoyed it a lot.
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Sounds like a nice morning wandering the parks. Lunch at BoG looks delicious
It was.
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for all you're going through right now.
LOVE the pic of you and the frog!
The best part of the photo was that I got Mr. Cool Guy to pose for a silly photo.
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Too bad the rest of your crew didn't make it to the MK, but it looks like you and AJ had a great time together! Lunch at BOG looked delicious
Yeah, crazy people preferred to go to the pool. Smh
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Looked like a great lunch and glad you and AJ had some good quality time together! Funny, that your younger ones would not enjoy BOG for dinner as they must be really finicky eaters! I guess, that's why my parents loved taking me out to dinner, when I was younger as I was always a good eater! Love my food!
They have a huge appetite but they are not adventurous at all. Even my husband doesn't stray too much from his familiar dishes.
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Great pictures from MK! Glad you and AJ enjoyed lunch at BoG!
Just got caught up with your last few updates. Sorry you're going through a rough patch with your son and your finances. I'm sure most of us can relate in some way to what you're going through and hope that things get easier for you soon. It must have been so much fun to experience the MK with just you and your son! Sometimes it's just so much easier when it's just the two of you
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Just got caught up with your last few updates. Sorry you're going through a rough patch with your son and your finances. I'm sure most of us can relate in some way to what you're going through and hope that things get easier for you soon. It must have been so much fun to experience the MK with just you and your son! Sometimes it's just so much easier when it's just the two of you
Thanks! It was fun having that time with just one of my boys. It was even better that he's the more easy-going of the 4.
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I think it's great that you got some one on one time with AJ . Looks like you two enjoyed yourself!
We did. I know there will come a time (sooner than I want) when he won't want to spend that much time with us.
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Nice relaxing MK morning Sometimes it's nice to spend time with "just one". I hope things get better soon for you guys
When we got back to the room the guys were back from the pool and were having some lunch. Arben had been a good daddy and had bought something from the gift shop, to prepare at the villa.
The room was cleaned and the mousekeeper had left us a lovely note. Spreading some Disney magic. Gotta love it!
Our friend left on the bed.
AJ and I showered and then we all settled down for some relaxing time. Well relaxing time translated to nap time for all the boys.
Adriel being a baby.
After a while I started getting ready and then tried to get them moving. They were very slow, to the point that I just decided to skip our first FP+, which was for 3:35 - 4:35. We were meeting some friends, who'd be arriving at the park after 4.
Some pictures I took while we were leaving. These were with my phone so they're not the best quality. I left my camera back in the room. I know...
Thank goodness this wasn't our trek to get to the room.
Our door
Selfie with mommy
Adriel's new bracelet. He got it at AK and it was delivered at the resort that day.
We arrived at Epcot at about 4:15. We met up with our friends, they were also arriving. I then realized we could make on to SE for our FP+. They also had a fastpasss we headed there together.
I rode with Abniel. After answering our questions, it was time to see our future. Well let me tell you, my future isn't looking that bright. In our future, Abniel and I go skiing. Well, turns I fall and break my arm. What the heck! Not even in the future am I athletic? Abniel had a good laugh at my future misfortune. But in the end, the ride taught me something... stay away from the slopes.
After we got out, we all headed to the Visa M&G. Our friends both have Disney Visas and they were going to give us one of the photos. When it was our turn, we went to pose with Mickey Mouse. And let's just say this was the friendliest Mickey I've ever encountered. This Mickey was very touchy; hugging me a lot, patting me, putting his arm around me. As we were leaving he gave me another long, strong hug. Thank goodness Minnie wasn't there or she would've been jealous.
After fleeing from the Visa M&G ( LOL), we headed towards TT. This was the first time we've ridden since the refurb. Our friends also rode via stand-by line.
The boys loved designing their cars. And they loved it even more when their car beat mom and dad's car. Little stinkers!
The boy's car
Our car
We liked the ride! It's not a favorite but we had fun.
Afterwards we stopped to see some of the cars.
Next we rode Figment and then the kids had a little fun.
Not too cool after all
The guys had FP+ for Mission Space, while I had one for Living with the Land (a first for me). AJ wasn't felling MS so he decided to tag along with me. At this time we separated from our friends, as they had other things to do. We planned on meeting up later so they could give us our photo.
As AJ and I arrived at LwtL, the wait time was posted at 0 minutes. Great, another wasted FP+. Anyways, we rode and I thought AJ wouldn't enjoy the ride but I was wrong. We both enjoyed it very much and learned quite a few things.
We caught up with the rest of the gang and started heading over to WS. We had an adr later on at Rose & Crown. Since it was a bit early, we explored the UK pavilion.
We were all starving so I went to see if they would take us early. They did. After a short wait we were seated, at the upper part of the patio.
Arben, AJ, Abniel and I got he Fish 'n' Chips, Adriel got pasta.
Food was good! When I first saw the plate of food I thought it was a small portion and wouldn't get full. I was wrong, it was very filling.
Or friends would be waiting for us in Norway, so when we were finished we headed over there. After they gave us our photo, we said our goodbyes. They were staying for Illuminations, but since we had seen it the other night, we decided to beat the crowds and head out of the park.
We took some photos on the way out.
We got on a bus quite quickly and arrived shortly thereafter at Kidani. It was lights out early.
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Funny, that your younger ones would not enjoy BOG for dinner as they must be really finicky eaters! 
I guess, that's why my parents loved taking me out to dinner, when I was younger as I was always a good eater! 
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Crazy kids!
Great, another wasted FP+. Anyways, we rode and I thought AJ wouldn't enjoy the ride but I was wrong. We both enjoyed it very much and learned quite a few things. 
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