The “”I Don’t Have to Cook for 10 Days" TR - Aug 17-27, 2010 - COMPLETED 11/2! - Page 19 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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Take your time and get well. You have a really busy schedule. Good luck.
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Feel better soon!
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Originally Posted by WishandDream
The kids look so great all decked out! Great TR so far.
Hope you feel better soon!
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Originally Posted by KMB733
Hope you feel better soon!
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Originally Posted by islandgirl
Great TR so far...love all the pics!!
Feel better soon!!
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Originally Posted by Colexis Mom
Thanks for all the pixies...hopefully they'll kick in soon, since I'm still feeling lousy
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Originally Posted by lissybri
All caught up now. Such a great TR so far. I'm glad I inspired you try a cookie bar (and honored to be mentioned in your TR). Did you like the cookie bar? The kids look adorable all done up like that. I wanted my boys to do it again this past July, but Aidan (the little guy) hated the makeup and didn't want it again. How was the food at CRT? Did you like breakfast or dinner better? I've never been and am seriously considering for next trip. Just need to decide whether we want breakfast or dinner.
I really did think of you when I saw the cookie bar and snagged it! It was delicious! Thanks for the recommendation I liked the dinner better because we had time to eat before the princesses came out; however, I'm a breakfast person, so I liked the food at breakfast better. Sorry I'm not more help! The boys are treated like little princes there - it's cute.
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I am back in and caught up--
So Many great pictures! I remember how rainly it was on 8-21--that was to be our "day off" to spend all day at our resort pool before leaving the next day. boo. Looks like it was a great day at MK, however!
Oh no, that day it rained so much! Were you able to swim at all???
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all caught up!
thanks for sharing
Love the pics of the kids as a pirate and BBB...
can't wait to read more!
Thanks!! I'll probably post more tomorrow - it's almost ready to go.
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Why do these kids look so pathetic?
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Have fun at the wedding, I hope you share a pic or two of you and your family all dolled up!
Thanks - I'm feeling marginally better today. At least I'm not coughing every 5 seconds, more like every 10 seconds I'll gladly post a few pictures next week if you'd like
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Why do these kids look so pathetic?
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Ahhh....no alarm again today! Despite that, my kids are naturally early risers and were stirring by 7:45. We leisurely got out of bed and grabbed some breakfast (have I mentioned how much I love having breakfast stuff in the room? So handy!). Then we poured the sunscreen on the kids and got ready for the pool. I took lots of pictures along the way – here’s a few!
Alex's graceful exit from the hammock....
Ahh....serenity....
View of our section from across the lake.
We made it over there by 8:45 and the kids spent some time playing in the playground before jumping into the pool.
Checkers anyone?
Another graceful exit....
Trying to reach the sky!
Continued....
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Why do these kids look so pathetic?
Find out in: A New Grade, A New House, and A Surprise!Final Thoughts 01/30
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We had the pool almost to ourselves and we had fun floating around and playing until the pool opening ceremony at 10:00. The kids had been waiting all week for this – it was cute, but nothing overly exciting in my opinion.
Once the pool was officially opened, it was off to the slide for Sabrina; Alex refused the whole vacation to try it – party pooper! By 10:30, we’d had enough pool time for now and headed back to the room to get ready for some serious shopping.
By 11:40, we were out of our room and waiting for a DTD bus. It took about 15 minutes to arrive (of course!) Since we were all starving, we beelined it to Earl of Sandwich for lunch. What a madhouse! The line moved fairly quickly, but it really was insane – we wandered for a few minutes and lucked into a table when we passed by a family just leaving.
Enjoying his dessert!
Up next: That sky doesn’t look very pretty....
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Why do these kids look so pathetic?
Find out in: A New Grade, A New House, and A Surprise!Final Thoughts 01/30
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