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Check out the menu I think they have a bunch of the regular desserts listed and definately try one when you are there, you can thank me later
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That's awesome.... and perhaps our paths will cross, since I'll be there 7/30-8/10.
That would be cool, look for a party of 11 in funky mickey head tye dye tshirts that my dd & I made everyone (althought I'm not sure how long some of the group will wear them)
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Great dining plans--make sure you try the new hotdog offerings at Casey's they are awesome!
What new offerings???????????????????? I'm heading over the menue's right now!!!!
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So 9 of our party leave on 8/10 and we are back to a party of 2. If you recall we move to CSR on 8/9 (DHS day) so here are our general plans for the 2nd half of our trip. It works out that it seems like 2 different vacations with the resort change and most of our party leaving.
8/10: Resort most of the day - bikes/kayaks and laundry then either AK or DTD but most likely DTD
Breakfast: Pepper Market
Dinner: Wolfgang Puck Express
8/11: AK/Epcot - AK is only a 1/2 day park to dd & I and since our friends only have 3 day base tickets they chose MK, DHS & Epcot to visit so we will hit AK after they leave
Breakfast: who knows
Lunch: not really sure
Dinner: could be anywhere
The joys of having the QSDP during the summer. We are nappers and now that our friends leave we will most likely take a nap between AK & Epcot. Food can be obtained whenever and wherever we like.
8/12: MK - Epcot and MK are our favorites so we hit them alot at the end so it's the parks we remember the most
8/13: Our last full day we always end the day at MK watching SpectroMagic -- but of course our favorite parade of all time isn't showing at the moment so we will have to suffer thru Main Street Electric Parade BOOOOOOOOOOO. This parade could be wonderful but we are both so upset that SpectroMagic is missing that we will probably hate it on principle. We might do Epcot in the morning or we could do some more DHS. The joys of the ability to park hop is nothing needs to be etched in stone.
8/14: Our departure day DME will most likely pick us up around 4:30 so we have time to spend in MK. Breakfast on the last day is always Main Street Bakery and lunch is always Casey's Hot Dogs.
Now who knows just how close to this plan the trip will actually be. I will finally have to figure out how to post pictures too because we made tshirts. We tried to tye dye the Mickey head design and it sorta worked on most of the shirts but not all of them so we set off to fix some and we ended up making them even better if I must say so myself and our friend asked if we would do them for her family too so there will be 11 people getting their picture taken with these shirts on. Should be interesting. If you see a huge group with matching shirts come by and say hello.
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DME will most likely pick us up around 4:30 so we have time to spend in MK. Breakfast on the last day is always Main Street Bakery and lunch is always Casey's Hot Dogs.
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