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You all had an amazing time at 1900 Park Fare, especially with the Lady Tremaine interaction. The cake was perfect! Great way to finish the day with some rides at MK.
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What a great dinner at PF...I think lady Tremaine and the step sisters are hysterical and my favs, for sure. So glad th GF Bakery came through with an awesome Olaf/Stitch cake and nice bonus that it was yummy, too. Nice to see you could match up Monsters FP with the rainstorm and stay relatively dry. Overall, fab evening at MK and Jaz snagged some amazing shots of the the FW over the castle!
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Great start to the day at TL. Glad your headache subsided quickly for you. I deal with headaches and migraines too, so I definitely feel for you and know how it can ruin your day!
Dinner at PF looked like a lot of fun! The cake turned out really cute!!!
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What a great day Meg! Glad you were able to nip the migraine in the bud early! Sorry about the rain at TL! Great pictures though! And what a great dinner and night at MK! Your pictures are fabulous and I love the cake! More please!
Sorry for the delay everyone....I have been working to close out a project and working crazy hours. Hoping that by next week I will be back so I can finish off the trip report.
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What a classic encounter with Lady Tremaine! I love the Stitch and Olaf cake, how neat is that?
I always love seeing lady Tremaine, I think that some of my best character interaction memories are with her. It is why we end up visiting 1900 PF almost every year (add that I love the mashed potatoes there) and it is one of our favorites.
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A great celebration dinner. They came through with the adorable cake! Your interaction with Lady Tremaine is a riot. I'm glad you got a sweeter Cindy this year! Again, for such a short visit to MK you did so much. Wonderful castle photos and I think Jasmine did a beautiful job with the firworks shots.
It was a fun dinner and I really loved how the cake came out, it was delicious as well.
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The Stitch/Olaf cake is just adorable! I it.
They make a cute team don't they?
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They did a great job on the cake! Sounded like a fun meal too!
Do you remember the cost of the cake? We'll be celebrating lots of birthdays in October so I'm thinking a cake might be a good idea.
I think the cake was about $90. We usually are there for Angel's birthday, we don't do a cake each trip since sometimes it is just us so it is just too much cake, but with a nice group this year it was definitely worth it and fun and the girls loved it.
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Love the cake and hopefully it survived being in the locker! Dinner looked like a lot of fun with so much interaction with the characters and especially Lady Tremaine! You had a fun time in the MK as well.
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What a great cake!!!! Did it make it from the locker?
The cake did not make it , shoving it into the hot locker turned it into a mess and in the end not worth bringing it back to the resort (as we were changing resorts the next day as well) but mess and all we all took another snack of the cake before we threw it out (and we brought the white chocolate Olaf and Stitch back to the resort for later).
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You all had an amazing time at 1900 Park Fare, especially with the Lady Tremaine interaction. The cake was perfect! Great way to finish the day with some rides at MK.
It really ended up being such a perfect day. Dinner was fun, cake delicious and the MK is always a perfect way to end an evening.
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Great looking cake!! Jasmine's fireworks photos are really good! Jasmine makes a pretty good step sister or Lady Trmaine!
LOL, yes Kenny I think she would fit in perfectly.
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I love 1900 Park Fare! You had such a great interaction with LT & the cake came out fantastic!
I wish Jasmine was with me last week to work on my camera setting! Her pics came out beautiful!
And we had the same Cindy.....that princess has crazy eyes!!
I really loved the pictures as well, Jasmine was like mom they are not that good don't post them but I loved them.
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What a great dinner at PF...I think lady Tremaine and the step sisters are hysterical and my favs, for sure. So glad th GF Bakery came through with an awesome Olaf/Stitch cake and nice bonus that it was yummy, too. Nice to see you could match up Monsters FP with the rainstorm and stay relatively dry. Overall, fab evening at MK and Jaz snagged some amazing shots of the the FW over the castle!
danielle
I agree about the Monsters Inc. FP, I really did not think we would need it but with the rain everyone ended up there so it came in very handy.
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Great start to the day at TL. Glad your headache subsided quickly for you. I deal with headaches and migraines too, so I definitely feel for you and know how it can ruin your day!
Dinner at PF looked like a lot of fun! The cake turned out really cute!!!
I was happy that I caught the headache early. I usually get a window of a few minutes where if I catch it and take pills I can alleviate the worst of it, so I am glad I was at the resort so as soon as I felt it I could take a pill.
In October I got hit with one and by the time I got off the ride and got something to drink to take my meds it was too late. It took almost 8 hours for it to subside.
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What a great day Meg! Glad you were able to nip the migraine in the bud early! Sorry about the rain at TL! Great pictures though! And what a great dinner and night at MK! Your pictures are fabulous and I love the cake! More please!
Sorry, to hear about the cake! I guess the cake in the locker with heat doesn't go rather well! Reminds, me of the time I got a large Mickey white chocolate in my room at the GF for my birthday. I basically nibbled on it through the course of my trip and brought the rest home. It was wrapped and left it in my bedroom and had a really hot day. I didn't have the a/c on and when I came home from work it was a big gooey mess. It was wrapped up, so it was contained. Wish I had thought about storing it in the fridge. Oh, well and too late now!
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I had a feeling, the way you told the story, that Olaf & Stitch might not survive the locker in their cake form. Glad you all were able to grab a snack before tossing it.
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Sorry, to hear about the cake! I guess the cake in the locker with heat doesn't go rather well! Reminds, me of the time I got a large Mickey white chocolate in my room at the GF for my birthday. I basically nibbled on it through the course of my trip and brought the rest home. It was wrapped and left it in my bedroom and had a really hot day. I didn't have the a/c on and when I came home from work it was a big gooey mess. It was wrapped up, so it was contained. Wish I had thought about storing it in the fridge. Oh, well and too late now!
I had a bad feeling about the cake from the beginning, but in the end it served its purpose, it was delicious and the girls were so happy and excited about it so it was all worthwhile.
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What a great dinner and evening at MK.
I had a feeling, the way you told the story, that Olaf & Stitch might not survive the locker in their cake form. Glad you all were able to grab a snack before tossing it.
It was a great evening, I was not too upset about the cake as even if it had survived the locker not sure if it would have survied the commute to the new resort tomorrow.
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Not much of a break but enjoying an hour or so reprieve this afternoon as I am waiting for edits to come in so figured I would have time for a quick update
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Thanks for the cake info! Too bad it didn't make it, but I like that you ate some more before you let it go.
The little snack before tossing did make me feel a little less guilty about throwing the cake away (even melted and all it was still quite tasty )
Dinner at 1900 PF looked like great fun! Jasmine's photos of Wishes were very good. Sound like you guys had lots of fun that evening at MK. I'm like you - I have to see Wishes once every trip
Looking forward to your upcoming days at BCV......
I had some time this afternoon to update. I feel like I am so far behind. Don't have my notes in the office but think from the pictures I can remember most of the day so here it gos.
Day 6 - August 12th
Today we got up early and finished any left over packing as today we were moving to the Beach Club. While the kids were excited it is always sad to say goodbye to AKL as we love our "home". We had called Bell services and they came and got all our bags together and set up for the resort transfer and soon we were saying goodbye to our rooms and heading down to the lobby.
We posed for some last minute photos before heading out.
We headed out towards the buses and had maybe a 5 minute wait before a Hollywood Studio bus was pulling up. We made it to the studios around 9:30 or so. It took Jasmine a moment to realize that she did not have to do the TSMM sprint anymore (I think she might of actually missed it.....lol).
We had our first FP for ToT, Jasmine was going to enjoy VOTLM alone, but I was able to switch my FP to hers, figuring I would ride with the kids later on standby as there was no way Angel would settle for just one ride on one of her favorite rides.
With the switch made, Angel, Alexa, Leeor and Hugo made their way to Sunset Blvd. and Jasmine and I headed over to Animation Courtyard. We had some time until out Fast Pass opened so we stopped to take some pictures, with Olaf joining in on the fun.
Now Olaf was having a ball, he sure got himself in many of our pictures that day.
It was soon time to head in for our FP for VOTLM, not that a FP was needed but soon we headed in and enjoyed the show. The rest of the group was going to meet us at out next FP which was TSMM but we had some time so Jasmine and I decided to go and visit with Woddy and Buzz. Everyone on this trip really had fun with the characters.
When we finished our meet & greet we went outside and the group was waiting for us outside. They had a great time on ToT.
But Angel was pretty excited because she finally conquored her last attraction at WDW. RnRC was one of the two attractions that she had never ridden. MS - Orange Side was the other and she had conquored that the other day but she was still undecided about RnRC.
I figued having Alexa would prompt her to ride but after their ride on T0T she said the line was a bit long so they decided to ride the SRL. Angel said she would so she went through the queue with them and I guess they figured if she decided she did not want to ride she would just wait for them but she rode it....and had a blast.
Here is the picture of her first ride....she looks like she is holding on for dear life. They rode several times today and you will definitely see the progression of her enjoyment level.
Our FP time for TSMM was open so we headed over and we all had a great time. This is one of Jasmine's favorites and the boys and Alexa really enjoyed it as well. We were hoping that we could get on again later but the line was always super long.
We had some time until our FP on Star Tours so we headed in that direction and stopped for a bathroom break and some photos on the way.
They were not getting that surprised look in their face real good....Jasmine and I said that our photo came out much better
Angel and Alexa did get into character for their next photo however.
After our visit with the Jedi we were going to split up. Olaf decided to pose once we got off the attraction.
Jasmine and the boys were going to head over to the ESPN ZOne for lunch and maybe minature golf and the girls and I were going to enjoy lunch at the Sci-Fi and then head over to the resort for a bit at the pool.
Ok it was hot today....really, really hot. I guess the idea of walking to the BW or playing golf just did not sound too promising because as we were being seated in the Sci-Fi I got a text from Jasmine that said they had decided to see if they could get a walk up and they did at 50s PT. I told them enjoy lunch and we would see them when we were all finished.
Alexa was really exicted for this ADR as she thought it looked so cool and she was not dissappointed.
I wasn't going to eat much as we had dinner later tonight at MM but I ended up having a burger and a shake. The chef came over to discuss allergies and Angel was very happy that the chef said she could make Angel a shake as well so that made her happy. The girls wanted to share a burger and onion rings so that is what they did.
I had recieved a text from Jasmine that they were heading to One Man's Dream so once the girls and I finished up we headed out.
Up Next: Singing in the Rain and Leeor takes a voyage
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Nice to see you could match up Monsters FP with the rainstorm and stay relatively dry. Overall, fab evening at MK and Jaz snagged some amazing shots of the the FW over the castle! 
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Great pictures though! And what a great dinner and night at MK! Your pictures are fabulous and I love the cake! 
I love the Stitch and Olaf cake, how neat is that? 
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Reminds, me of the time I got a large Mickey white chocolate in my room at the GF for my birthday. I basically nibbled on it through the course of my trip and brought the rest home. It was wrapped and left it in my bedroom and had a really hot day. I didn't have the a/c on and when I came home from work it was a big gooey mess. 
It was wrapped up, so it was contained. Wish I had thought about storing it in the fridge. 
Oh, well and too late now! 
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