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great update....the breakfast looked great....will definitely have to remember that for next time!!! good luck to you on your weight loss..
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Great updates! I really want to try Winter Summerland. That looked like a lot of fun. And what fun you had at breakfast with Goofy! Love the picture he drew of Shayne!
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Mickey's so happy to see me back, he can barely contain himself!
So glad to see Goofy is a lefty like me! LOL! What a great interaction with the characters!! Did you keep that paper??
Your photos of the BC area makes me homesick and I want to go NOW.
We did keep the paper. It was so funny.
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Love the updates. Keep em' coming
Should be up in the next day or 2
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Oh my gosh! What a great time at CMC! The drawing of Shayne is hysterical! And, how awesome that you were able to meet Art. Wonderful photos! Looking forward to more
Thank you
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wow love the pics goofy had drawn! he hung out with you alot it seemed.
*note to self- have a bc cape may breakfast*
and you met the famous Art!! nice
love the pics!!
Cape May was one of the best interaction we had. We went around 10:00am for our ADR so the crowd was thinning out. That was Goofy second trip to our table when he drew Shayne
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What a great morning....breakfast looked so delicious and tons of fun. I have this breakfast on our maybe list for August but it is quickly moving up the line, and it is perfect for a day when you want to stroll into the WS at opening.....
I would definitely suggest Cape May's
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Love the pics!!! What a great time with Goofy! Can't wait to read more!!!!
More to come
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great update....the breakfast looked great....will definitely have to remember that for next time!!! good luck to you on your weight loss..
Thank You
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Love all your pics. We will be at BCV in Sept/Oct - love getting to see all those photos of my "other home".
We will be at WDW Sept/Oct this year too.
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Great updates! I really want to try Winter Summerland. That looked like a lot of fun. And what fun you had at breakfast with Goofy! Love the picture he drew of Shayne!
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LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE the update!
It brought me right back to our trip last summer! I loved your pics! Cape May was one of our very favorite Disney meals ever! and I loved your pics of the Epcot resort area! As always I cant hardly wait for more!
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE the update!
It brought me right back to our trip last summer! I loved your pics! Cape May was one of our very favorite Disney meals ever! and I loved your pics of the Epcot resort area! As always I cant hardly wait for more!
More to come Thank You for the great review of Cape May
Day 4 Fri Sept 26 part 2 So it was probably around 1:00pm when we headed into Epcot. After heading in we got a locker & I went to the store inside the gates to get a new pair of sunglasses mine broke while we walking around BW area.
We started at France & made our way around the world showcase. First stop was to get a Grand Marnier & my mom got a Lemincello I bought a really cute purse from France that says Paris on it.
We started exploring all the shops around the world. My mom wanted to get a pearl from Japan. Therefore, we stopped there & it was such a treat. She had it made into a necklace Shayne & I went out to watch some of the performances. My mom told me she would buy me a pearl so I went inside & got my pearl. I had a big pearl so I got the whole drums & everything the girl was great.
I got mine set into a necklace we decided we would pick it up later. We moving along at a leisure pace to explore & take every thing in. It was the first day of Food & Wine so I did get picture of all the menu boards. I got another drink from Italy while my mom couldn’t finish hers from the first time. She pass hers off to my dad we had just finished with Germany got some pretzel & sat down for a while to take a break.
We had a nice leisure stroll around Epcot. We made back to Canada so that we could watch a performance from Off Kilter. We did found a bench to sit on but it was in the sun as along as the clouds were over the sun we were okay.
We browsed the shops a little more & headed over to England to watch British Invasion. We still had a little time before our ADR at Le Cellier at 8:00pm. We just browsed around.
We checked in a little early for our ADR while we were waiting outside needed a break so we walked up towards England on our way back there was a photo pass guy so we got a couple of shots with just the two of us.
I think we were finally seated at 8:20pm. & dinner was great as usual. After dinner, we headed out to our locker to collect our things. We stop by Japan to pick up my necklace then went to the front to catch the monorail. We had got out of Le Cellier around 10:00pm I was surprised that all the food & wine kiosk were closing down even though it was EMH.
We all fell into bed that night but it was a great day.
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Great update! Looks like you all had such a wonderful time in the World Showcase. I totally this photo of you and Shayne!
The one of you with the Stitch hat on is another favorite - makes the blue in your eyes pop! Looking forward to more
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