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Great updates - what a great breakfast you had and how cool of Andy to get that cake for you! And I hear where you're coming from about seeing your favourite character - I'm exactly the same with a certain donkey!
Well you are in full throttle update mode now that your next trip is in 2 weeks. Your birthday breakfast sounded great. Anything Coach is a great gift in my book. (you should see my pocketbook collection ). Can't wait to read the next update and see some video!!
What a great birthday breakfast you had! How sweet of Andy to get you a cake. I wish I had a piece of that cake right now, too! And I love the fact that Andy's such a ham. Your pics of him just crack me right up!
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Mickey's so happy to see me back, he can barely contain himself!
Well you are in full throttle update mode now that your next trip is in 2 weeks. Your birthday breakfast sounded great. Anything Coach is a great gift in my book. (you should see my pocketbook collection ). Can't wait to read the next update and see some video!!
I know right! I just can't start a new one with an unfinished one hanging about. That and I have a killer final assignment this week for one of my grad classes and it's going to make me physically sick. I'm trying to find every way to avoid it until the last possible minute
I just caught up on your entireTR so far! You all are so funny and look like you have the best times! Hope to read the rest soon. And looking forward to your next one. Great pics and video.
That cake at Ohana looks fab-u-lous!! Much better than the dumb soup I just ate for lunch! I am sorry the crowds at MGM were so bad, but it looks like you had a great day at AK! And how neat that you got to see Wes Palm!
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Saturday, October 9, 2014 - Kaitlyn and I before the Happy Haunted 5K at ESPN Wide World of Sports
A quick update again before our dinner time
After we left the AK we went back to the WL as I said earlier. We enjoyed sandwiches from Roaring Forks again in the room. We really liked their sandwiches. (I think I gushed over them earlier in the TR).....
After our lunch settled (cause you know what the old wives say...swim right after eating and you'll get cramps and drown.....) so we settled our food for a total of like 10 minutes and then we headed out to the pool. A little group tagged along with us...
If only the kids at school could walk in such a straight line....
Those little guys were so cute walking in their little line all around the courtyard area. Then they got even cuter....
And this picture just makes me laugh everytime I look at it....look closely at it...
For the majority of our trip the water hadn't been running down the rocks into the pool for some reason, but finally today it was up and running. We liked hanging out in that area, until this group of 10 yr. old ish boys came over and started jumping in as hard as possible, running on the rocks, pushing and wrestling with each other. Talk about killing a romantic atmosphere.... The teacher in me really wanted to let out my famous "Excuse me... you need to settle before you fall and hurt yourself" But I thought surely the lifeguard would take care of that..... I think he said something to them once and I figured well surely the parents will hear that and ask them to settle....but honestly I never could figure out who those kids belonged to b/c nobody was claiming them. Now I understand kids playing, trust me, me of all people knows how to block out crazy hyper kid behavior....but seriously people, somebody was going to crack open a skull on those rocks and I'm pretty sure the WL doesn't consider that rock area part of the pool..... Okay, I'm over it....
It started to come up a storm so I snapped a couple quick pics of the finally kidless area....
I have to say though, after they got that water flowing back in the pool, while it may look like a tame little trickle, there were moments that I wondered how salmon felt swimming upstream.... you really had to hold on to stay in one spot there
During the rain we showered and got ready to head out... Tonight's birthday plan was to spend it in my favorite area of the World..... The World Showcase
Great update, Melissa! I was admiring the neat line of ducks wondering why they don't do that in junior high! to hear the kids were a bit to rambunctious...I'm all too familiar with parents looking the other way! Can't wait to hear about the evening's birthday events!
That's soooo funny. We had the ducks swimming with us when we went as well. And the same group of kids were hanging out by the stream area, too. Were those kids there for 2 months? LOL. I'm loving these fast and furious updates! Keep it up
Great updates!!! WL needs the POFQ lifeguards my DH and I nicknamed them the bossy ones!!! They told me that my DD could not ride on my back we were both down in the water playing motorboat. They were so strict! We started going over to the POR pool to avoid them!!! Ready for more!!!
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And I hear where you're coming from about seeing your favourite character - I'm exactly the same with a certain donkey! 
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Your birthday breakfast sounded great. Anything Coach is a great gift in my book. (you should see my pocketbook collection
). Can't wait to read the next update and see some video!! 
Danny and I at Epcot 8/14/08
How sweet of Andy to get you a cake. I wish I had a piece of that cake right now, too! 
And I love the fact that Andy's such a ham. Your pics of him just crack me right up! 
I know right! I just can't start a new one with an unfinished one hanging about. That and I have a killer final assignment this week for one of my grad classes and it's going to make me physically sick. I'm trying to find every way to avoid it until the last possible minute 
You are posting like a maniac!! And I love it!! 
Much better than the dumb soup I just ate for lunch! 
I am sorry the crowds at MGM were so bad, but it looks like you had a great day at AK! And how neat that you got to see Wes Palm! 
to hear the kids were a bit to rambunctious...I'm all too familiar with parents looking the other way! 
Love the ducks in a row picture 
Sorry the loud kids ruined your atmosphere 
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