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I just love all the shots of your husband's backpack necklace. Sorry about the family behind you. I don't want to sound snobby but I think as Americans we are so used to all this space around us, our homes and yards and even our own personal space. I think in other countries they don't have that luxury so when then come to America their culture is to be up the butt of the person in front of them. They think nothing of it. That is one of my biggest complaint with foreigners (well that and the fact that many don't wear deodorant).
I love the details in the walkway even. Just beautiful!
It was neat. I can't wait to go back and see it again now that the 2nd Dumbo is done.
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I can't wait to see the new area for myself in December. It looks amazing.
I am really hoping more things are opened in Nov. I really want to eat at Be Our Guest too.
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Great pictures! I can't wait to see the new Fantasyland, although I have to wait until next April.
It will be here before you know it.
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The new area looks so great! Wish I knew when we'd make it back to see it!
And LOVED the "new ride"!
I have been fortunate to get to Disney a couple of times this past year and a half.....but after Nov, I have no clue when I'll be back. If it's up to Skip, it may be a while.
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I just love all the shots of your husband's backpack necklace. Sorry about the family behind you. I don't want to sound snobby but I think as Americans we are so used to all this space around us, our homes and yards and even our own personal space. I think in other countries they don't have that luxury so when then come to America their culture is to be up the butt of the person in front of them. They think nothing of it. That is one of my biggest complaint with foreigners (well that and the fact that many don't wear deodorant).
Finally we got to hop in our elephants. I took a few more pictures before lift off.
And we now are in the sky!
I was really trying to get pictures of the new Fantsayland.
If I had been thinking though, I should’ve looked down and got some of the other Dumbo ride being built. Sadly I thought of that while we were ending and this was the only picture I got of it.
We had a fun time. I’m glad we rode it. We debated on Goofy’s Barnstermer, but Claire said no. The line had gotten long, but she was adamant about not riding it as well. So we headed off to the new bathrooms.
I took this picture because this is a brand new bathroom and already the hook had fallen off and it looks like they tried to put it back up with some sort of adhesive, but that obviously didn’t work either.
We passed by Goofy’s Barnstomer and headed towards Tomorrowland.
I never had used this backside path before.
We came out not too far from a smoking section, so guess where Skip headed?
We also ran into a few characters.
They were going back behind a stage, so we just sat for a few minutes at the smoking area.
And then we realized why they were heading that way…there was a show starting.
We sat a few minutes and relaxed.
Skip and Claire decided to go and ride the Tomorrowland Speedway. I didn’t feel like waiting in the line, so I went and got myself a drink.
They called me and told me the wait was 40 minutes. I decided to give the Carrousel of Progress a try. They wouldn’t let me on with a drink, so I roamed a bit while I finished it.
Some more roaming while I drink up this very large drink.
BURP!!!!!!!
Ok it’s all gone now. I headed back to COP and rode it for my very first time ever. They said no pictures, so I actually followed the rules and didn’t take any. It was just OK to me. I am glad I saw it, but won’t make an effort to see it again….BUT I do think Claire would like it (Skip wouldn’t), so we may try to fit it in again in Nov. so she can see it for her first time.
While in there I did silence my phone, but evidently that doesn’t silence the direct connect beep, and it kept beeping over and over. While we were going between scenes I quickly picked it up and said quietly that I am in a ride and I’ll be out soon.
I guess their car ride went much faster than the posted time, so they headed to the TTA while they waited. So when I got out, I had to wait on them once again.
As you can see it was crazy crowded.
You can see Skips head here.
One thing I realized this day…Each day I would look for the color of shirt that Skip was wearing to locate him. Today was turquois. Well it must’ve been turquois day today, because sooooo many people wore that color. There were groups of people wearing that color.
Another gross moment….As I was waiting for them to come down I saw a couple coming down …and they were very much in love…..so much so that they were making out on the conveyer belt down. Really, did they need to kiss that much right then and there?
I can’t remember exactly what we did next,….well next was another smoke break for skip…. but it involved heading towards Fantasyland again.
I am now thinking this might’ve been when we used our Peter Pan Fast passes.
I think it has to be when we used them. Because the next stop was a smoking section and there is a time lapse in the pictures.
While we sat there, we tried talking Claire into Splash Mountain, she wasn’t really for it, but no longer fighting it. So I sent Skip and Claire to the Country Bear Jamboree and I headed over to Splash to get FP’s for later. I had a little time to kill before my window opened for the next FP, so I explored a bit while waiting.
Yesterday was our 10 year anniversary. We didn't do anything special really. Very anti climatic. I know so many people who go al lout...my my husband. It was just another day. We did go out to dinner to a favorite spot and Claire joined us. And when we got home, he headed out to the barn because his buddy was over and didn't come in till 11. It was fine though as I did some catching up on the computer then! :thumbsup2
10 years ago yesterday...and 50 pounds lighter!
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