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Those Epcot pages are amazing! Good work.
Sounds like a great day at Epcot as well. Fun with the princesses. Plus you managed to knock out a bunch of rides too. Score!
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#8 Air Supply:
Ceasing Our Eating to Get on Our Beat
It was 5:30 when I heard a familiar sound from my days of a teenager in the 80s and drug Cammy out of the wine shop in Italy towards the America Gardens Theatre and a line that was building. I could hear, but I could not see them...but I knew who was starting their first Eat to the Beat Concert of the evening...AIR SUPPLY. Any girl of the 80s knew those love ballads! I was so excited, last time I heard these guys in concert was in the early 90s with my sorority sisters in Denver and ever since I saw the line up for Eat to Beat Concerts, I knew exactly where I would be on this Wednesday night. I left Cammy in line for a moment to sneak up to the back of the theatre so I could text a picture my friend Amy, who was supposed to be here with me. Listening to the music and seeing Graham and Russell instantly transported me back to time many years ago, and listening I was sad that Amy was not here with me. It was all that I could do to pull myself back to the line...but when I did find Cammy she was singing right along with the music....she might have been born in the 80s but she was making her mama proud (who I might add is a big fan). Not much later, the first concert was over and we were being ushered into the theatre. We found some great seats right next to the stage and began chatting with other people around us, mostly sharing our memories with Air Supply! We happened to leave the handicap seats open next to us, when about 10 minute before show time a couple (who were not handicapped) sat down and then asked if they could squeeze in friend of theirs. Being in the happy mood we were, we slid down a little to make room for the friend...but instead of 1 friend they tried to squeeze in 4 friends. REALLY? Thankfully 2 of the friends found some room behind us, but there still was not room for 2 more people next to us...we basically ended up squished and sitting on top of each other for the entire concert....so much for being nice but I was in such a good mood that it really did not bother me that much. These ladies were "Air-Heads" self proclaimed fan club members...with shirts to match and during the concert drew a lot of attention from the guys on stage. When Russell and Graham got on stage and started playing,
all thoughts of being squished were gone and I found myself being transported back to the 80s...although I have to say these guys need to start acting like they are living in 2013...while they still sound great, I have a little problem with old men in tight leather pants and unbuttoned shirts...ICK! The music was awesome and we had so much fun singing along! After the concert, we thought about just sitting and waiting for the next one to start, but we still had another half way around the world to go and many more foods to try!
Those Epcot pages are amazing! Good work.
Sounds like a great day at Epcot as well. Fun with the princesses. Plus you managed to knock out a bunch of rides too. Score!
I think you just have eat with the princesses once...I was hoping to score a CRT but it did not work out...I enjoyed Akershus...but you simply have to eat in the castle too!
We did manage a lot of rides...did everything we wanted and then some!
I worked most of Christmas vacation trying to figure out a touring plan...the great news is that I think I have a skeleton framework for what we are going to do each day. DH asked me if this trip was going to be planned down to the minute...yikes he thinks I am still OCD when it comes to planning. My response was I am trying not to do that, but we don't want to miss anything (because unlike WDW I know this will be a once in a lifetime trip).
Does anyone know of any places to post a PTR for this vacation...much like we do her for Disney? I find that I like doing PTR to keep me organized and get input!
Congrats on the plans for Rome. If you want to post a pre-trip report for Rome (and I'd love to read it for one! ), then head over to the Globetrotting General Trip Reports forum, which is home to pre-trip reports and trip reports from literally around the world!
By the way, if you continue to have problems with double/triple/quadruple posts in this trip report, you may need to start a new thread, as that's usually the first sign that it's getting a bit long and the boards are struggling to cope with adding to it.
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