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Great update Cheryl!
I love Marks hat!
That pic with the random guy in the background is HILARIOUS! It almost looks like he's trying to put rabbit ears on Bob and Larry and Mark!
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Mark is soo cute!!! I'd watch that Daisy Duck though!!! Great pictures, Cheryl. I thought Obama also looked like Jamie Fox also when I saw your picture. I am worried about your next installment...and curious at the same time.
Nice start to a day at MK! Love the interaction with Daisy! Mark's hat really is cute. The pictures of the challengers are priceless, but the random man makes that photo the funniest.
Friday 11 December – part four: what a disgrace to America
We wandered through to Fantasyland and got in line for Snow White’s Scary Adventures, which was saying a five minute wait, but a couple of minutes later and we had barely moved and there was still quite a way to go, so we gave up and headed off instead.
We saw Scrooge McDuck nearby, so got in line for him, but he headed off before we got there, to be replaced with Donald Duck in all his Christmas finery! We were fine with that and, of course, he was very taken with Mark’s hat. We had a great time with him and, best of all, it turned out that Carrie and Patrick don’t do character meets, so it was fun to see them with him.
After that, it was time to say goodbye to them, as they had a lunch ADR at the Plaza. We headed off for Tomorrowland and I made a beeline for the Tomorrowland Transit Authority to see what it was like after its rehab. Honest verdict? I hated it. That’s not a phrase I use very often at Disney, but I don’t know why they felt the need to mess with this. : They certainly didn’t make a good job of this and that’s such a shame. I hated the way they’d removed all the fun phrases and replaced it with a very matter of fact narration. At the same time, they hadn’t updated anything else. I don’t know what else I was expecting, but at least if the narration was worse, but they’d bonused it up by improving something else, that would be something.
I don’t know if Mark realised that the Cast Member was doing this when I took this shot!
From there, we headed towards the exit, seeing Carrie at the Plaza. I was thinking that maybe we could get a haircut for Mark, so we headed to the Barbershop. When we went in, it did look busy, but the guy in front of us got served immediately, or so we though, so I thought maybe there wouldn’t be too much of a wait, but no. The guy was politely told that the other people in there were there first. Ok, so that’s going to be a long wait then.
As we came out of there, we got a really nice surprise, as the Move It, Shake It, Celebrate It parade (have I got that the right way round? ) came out. I was glad Mark had a chance to see this, as I’d really enjoyed seeing it in May.
Instead, we went to guest services and I wished that we hadn’t. I don’t know what happened, as I didn’t see it, because I was taking a break and sitting down, but apparently a guy walked in and went to the Cast Member, bypassing the line. Mark challenged him about it and let’s just say it got very nasty with the guy screaming at Mark, who shouted back. He told me later he was angry, not just for us, but because the family behind had an autistic son and also commented on this guy and he didn’t think it was a fair way to treat any of us. The guy was obviously a seriously insert whatever word you want in here, especially when he talked about us being foreigners. I really bit my tongue, but there were a lot of things I could’ve told him at that point. He was quite frankly a disgrace to America and that’s from a very proud foreigner who usually loves this country.
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Ugh, sorry about that rude guest at GS. But at least I'm sure you have had enough interactions with Americans to know that he's the exception, not the rule. Love Mark's photos with Donald. That looked like lots of fun! And I wonder if you saw the same Move It Shake It Celebrate It parade that we did.
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Mickey's so happy to see me back, he can barely contain himself!
Those pictures of the questors in action are FABULOUS!!! I was told that you had some good ones! I absolutely love the expression on their faces!
And I hope that every notices that Eileen and I were actually standing . . . and not sitting in those rocking chairs . . . in the pictures you have of us as you're approaching HM!
You also made me remember that the first stop the Eileen and I actually made that morning at MK was to see Bob & Larry at the bakery that morning! I had totally forgotten! I bet the other guests in there that morning must have thought they were famous (excuse me . . . let me rephrase that . . . must have realized how famous they were) .
And the photo of the guys with the mystery guest?!? Too funny!
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It almost looks like he's trying to put rabbit ears on Bob and Larry and Mark!
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The pictures of the challengers are priceless, but the random man makes that photo the funniest.
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We were fine with that and, of course, he was very taken with Mark’s hat. We had a great time with him and, best of all, it turned out that Carrie and Patrick don’t do character meets, so it was fun to see them with him. 
That’s not a phrase I use very often at Disney, but I don’t know why they felt the need to mess with this. 
: They certainly didn’t make a good job of this and that’s such a shame. I hated the way they’d removed all the fun phrases and replaced it with a very matter of fact narration. At the same time, they hadn’t updated anything else. I don’t know what else I was expecting, but at least if the narration was worse, but they’d bonused it up by improving something else, that would be something. 
) came out. I was glad Mark had a chance to see this, as I’d really enjoyed seeing it in May. 
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I remember you speaking of him. I am so glad Mark gives it back, that's for sure! 
Love Mark's photos with Donald. That looked like lots of fun! And I wonder if you saw the same Move It Shake It Celebrate It parade that we did. 
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