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There are other changes as well.
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We go on to the joy and through the tears
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Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
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Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
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Wow! The arcades are a nice way to get from one end of Main Street to the other without having to dodge folks in the gift shops.
I love the photo of the castle on the hilltop! Again, so very scenic!
The skies were looking ominous for a bit there! The park is so pretty, I really love seeing all the photos from everywhere within! Barb and her poncho! That's funny.
Those arcades are brilliant.
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Saturday 30 April – part thirteen: where is our room?
When we got out of the park, we bid our farewells to the others, as we were going to head back to our hotel to get our room details.
When we got to reception, we were given our room number, and were pretty gutted to discover it was on the other wing of the building. The way the Disneyland Hotel works is there’s one wing above the reception area, close to the car park, then there’s a walkway between the two wings, where you find the shop, the restaurants and the bar, and the other wing has the swimming pool and spa area. That’s where we were… and by the looks of the map, in one of the furthest out rooms. Ugh!
The guy explained how to get there in French, which was a bit odd, given he knew we were English, but never mind… whatever, I just about understood what he was trying to tell us.
We trudged over to the car to go and get our other bits and pieces. Earlier, when Mark brought his parents back, he had put the suitcase into luggage services, but we’d kept the rest in the car. The last time we were here in November 2014, I’d had problems with my tear ducts (I finally got the operation to fix them a few weeks ago ) and I had to come back every four hours to get them from the fridge. Well, the last day, the weather was awful, so we decided to sit in the bar and chill, and I went down to luggage storage to get the laptop from out of my hand luggage bag, and let’s just say I wasn’t overly impressed with what I found down there, so we’d decided to keep the valuable stuff in the car until we had our room, then we’d take it directly over there.
We brought our stuff back, and of course had to pass it through the metal detector, then got wanded again as we walked back into the reception. We then went to baggage services to ask for our case to be taken to our room, only to be told it was already there. Well, that’s a big improvement. If only Walt Disney World could do that, but of course they won’t, as then they’d miss out on gratuities.
We headed off to the other wing, and misunderstood the details of our room. We thought it was on the third floor, so we set off that way, with all our stuff, walking all the way over to the end room, only to discover our key didn’t work. Ok, so I guess we’re on another floor then…
We headed back to the elevator, and found out we were in fact on the first floor. D’oh! If only we’d looked at the numbering of the rooms in the lift, we’d have known that.
Oh well, we got there in the end, but we were distinctly exhausted when we did. We pretty much collapsed into the room, although we waited a bit, so I could get a couple of photos of it:
I was half hoping that, given the trek we’d had to get there, there might be a nice view outside, but sadly
However, my spirits were at least raised by the sight of this!
We spent a little while in the room, and headed out just before 5:30pm, as our Buffalo Bill Wild West Show was at 6:30pm, and they suggested you turn up an hour beforehand, so we did as we were told to…
As you can see, it was still pretty miserable out…
… and talking of miserable, here’s my friend!
This was on the hoardings where some of the work is taking place. Nearby was his friend Piglet, and I think you can imagine Mark couldn’t let that go, so I’m afraid to report Piglet got very cruelly kicked by a certain person – and no it wasn’t me!
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That's a lot of walking on top of a day of walking in the park! Exhausted indeed. The room does look very nice, if not a little small? Maybe it just appears that way in the photos, I don't know. Bummer the view is a little lackluster.
The Eeyore is funny! Love that donkey.
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Don't you sometimes wonder who gets the close convenient rooms? I feel as though both our own experiences, and so many here on PP mention rooms at the farthest end of the corridor.
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Smee actually looks cute as a weeble.
The room does look very nice, if not a little small? Maybe it just appears that way in the photos, I don't know. Bummer the view is a little lackluster.
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