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This sounds like a perfect family fun evening. I love the pictures of your Dad with his 3 girls. He looks so happy to be with his family. (I hope he is continuing to improve these days as well.)
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Looks like everyone enjoyed the night out in the Springs! I love the sandwich posing at EOS as just so funny! That was some big group you had with you afterwards.
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
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This sounds like a perfect family fun evening. I love the pictures of your Dad with his 3 girls. He looks so happy to be with his family. (I hope he is continuing to improve these days as well.)
He was a great evening. Dad always says the only gift we need to give him is being there. He saw his neurologist on Wednesday and the doctor feels he is progressing, but it will just take a while to be completely back. That has really encouraged him.
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Looks like everyone enjoyed the night out in the Springs! I love the sandwich posing at EOS as just so funny! That was some big group you had with you afterwards.
Compared to Luke's family we are actually quite small with everyone included in my sister's families there are 13 of us. Luke is one of five kids and with all our siblings kids and grandkids there are over 50 of us.
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I was LOL at all the sandwich photos! And now I want me some EoS.
How great that you were able to spend some time with your dad and Pam and her family!
Sounds like you all had a wonderful evening together in DS. I loved all your pictures that you took with your sandwiches!
We sure did. We have fun with food photos this trip.
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I was LOL at all the sandwich photos! And now I want me some EoS.
How great that you were able to spend some time with your dad and Pam and her family!
When Morgan started her little routine with the sandwich, I was laughing myself. :rofl2;
Today started earlier at 6:45 AM. Still it was a little after 8:00 before everyone was ready and headed to the bus stop for Animal Kingdom. Our bus arrived right at the park opening (actually a smidge before at 8:52). As we came into the parking lot, Luke pointed out that the walls hiding Pandora were down, so I snapped a couple of quick photos from the vantage point of our bus.
After picking up a map and times guide, we headed into Discovery Island in order to get some Tree of Life photos. For the first PhotoPass photos we stopped at the top of the hill.
Then we moved down the hill and got a few more PhotoPass photos closer to the tree.
After our two different photo sessions both far and near to the Tree of Life, we moved in the direction of Africa. But before we arrived in Africa, we came upon some otters on our climb into Discovery Island. We haven’t seen Finding Dory yet (but I bought it Friday, so we hope to see it this week), but I saw the otters in the trailers and just know I will love them when I finally see it. Because of that, I knew I needed some photos of these guys.
Then we got distracted by the Red Catfish and Tamarin monkeys. If you haven’t guessed already in this update, my camera and I were big buddies again. More pictures were taken this day than any other. But no surprise since this is my favorite park.
Red Catfish
Cotton-top Tamarin monkeys
Mr. Turtle seems to be joining the Cotton-topped Tamarins.
We did eventually find our way into Africa, stopping first for a photo of the Vaughns with the sign. JP took a terrific photo of just the sign here and made it the screen shot for both his and his mom’s iPhones.
We only walked a little further on to the bridge where we stopped for our third PhotoPass session of the morning. These are with the Harambe sign.
When we finally made our way into the African marketplace, the musicians and dancers were just about to begin their first show of the day. One of the dancers was calling for volunteers. Immediately June, Morgan, and John Paul turned to me to see if they had time, and when I nodded yes, all three joined the other dancers and the African musicians. FUN!!! Of course, I wanted you all to get a glimpse of the party, too. So here goes.
NEXT: He is so adorable! Do you mind if I take a photo? Or two?
Great time in the AK and looks like all the young ones had a great time getting involved in Harambe Market. It's a great show and I saw this last month. Nice photos of the construction as I saw the cranes when pulling into the Ak but wasn't fast enough with my camera!
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I love the sandwich posing at EOS as just so funny! 
I expected as much. I love your sandwich poses and also the awesome photos with Pam and her family!!
It's a great show and I saw this last month. Nice photos of the construction as I saw the cranes when pulling into the Ak but wasn't fast enough with my camera! 
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