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Glad to hear your Dad's surgery went well. I have the same reaction to anesthesia, so I can sympathize. Glad you'll be doing the tour! I know y'all will love it!
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Happy to hear your Dad's surgery went well and is recovering well. Yes, your are right the choice is a no brainer " The Tour". Happy that worked out for you and Luke!!!! Still sending pixies for your ADRs!!!!! Thanks for posting the blog for the babies, my DGD loves keeping up with them!!!
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So glad to hear that your dad is doing well. I hope you find the key to Luke's car before you have to spend anymore money on it! Congrats on the DL Tour!!! It sounds wonderful
I am very glad that the surgery went well. But I can so sympathize with the reaction to the anesthesia. It is rough. I hope he feels all better very soon. And about the car fob I hope that magically appears too!
But on another note I am super excited you got the tour. I cannot wait to hear all about it!
My Dad, June, and I just don't handle anesthesia well at all. Once it wears off we are back to ourselves.
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Happy to hear your Dad's surgery went well and that he is feeling better this evening. Hopefully a little Disney magic will help your key fob appear. The Walk in Walt's Footsteps sounds really great and I am anxious to hear all about it. We were at DL in December 2014 and took the Holiday Time at Disneyland and Disney California Story Tours. We enjoyed both tours and there is a truly magical surprise at the end of the Disney California Story Tour. Hope things open up soon on the ADR front!
If we were there at Christmas time, I'd probably have talked him into those tours as well.
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Glad to hear that your dad's surgery went well and that he is starting to get over the anesthesia. Be sure that he stays well hydrated as that seems to help me flush it out of my system. Also, I am sure his doctor mentioned this with his hernia, but, make sure he doesn't lift anything heavy or strain too much as that can cause problems.
I am also glad that you are going to get to do the tour. I hope you both enjoy it as much as we did!! If they let you, please make sure to get lots of pictures of the apartmant ( like I think you would miss that opportunity)
I promise as many pictures of the apartment as they will let me take.
All caught up! The path you guys walk on looks very much like one of my favorite running paths. Funny that they are so similar given you live in KY and me in NY. Happy that your Dad's surgery went well and he is home. Very cool that you and Luke are doing the tour! that you find Luke's keys.
That is neat that our walking/running paths are so similar. Proof again that it is a small world after all.
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So glad to hear your dad is doing well!
And how exciting that you're doing the tour!!!
The tour is going to be a much better way to spend our money.
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Glad to hear that the surgery went well. Super excited to hear that you're doing the Walk in Walt's Footsteps tour. I considered doing that one.
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Once I read the description for the tour on touringplans.com, I was sold.
Glad to hear your Dad's surgery went well. I have the same reaction to anesthesia, so I can sympathize. Glad you'll be doing the tour! I know y'all will love it!
Sorry you can sympathize because I wouldn't wish our reaction to anesthesia on anyone else.
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Happy to hear your Dad's surgery went well and is recovering well. Yes, your are right the choice is a no brainer " The Tour". Happy that worked out for you and Luke!!!! Still sending pixies for your ADRs!!!!! Thanks for posting the blog for the babies, my DGD loves keeping up with them!!!
In many ways I feel so connected to the animals at AK, and find it so cool to know their names, especially the gorillas and the giraffes.
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Glad to hear your dad's surgery went well! for his recovery.
Congrats on the tour!
Thanks! I'm hoping this tour is as good as the KTTK tour was at Magic Kingdom when we took it several years ago.
Check bag pockets.. Remember when Coop lost a key and in the ned it was in a never used pocket in her bag?
We've checked all my purses, even ones I haven't carried in months, all of Luke's shorts whether he has worn them or not, all of jeans, every drawer, and lots of places we can't imagine having set the keys down in. It's getting borderline hilarious at all the places we've looked.
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So glad to hear that your dad is doing well. I hope you find the key to Luke's car before you have to spend anymore money on it! Congrats on the DL Tour!!! It sounds wonderful
We have a friend who lost her cars keys and didn't find them for 3 months. I don't know if we'll wait that long, but we'll be patient and keep looking a while longer.
You all just may get lucky and I’ll post two updates today because I want you to know just how well Daddy is doing today. He slept very well. He was hungry again this morning after feeling nauseous most of yesterday and fixed himself a sausage and cheese biscuit for breakfast. He says the pain is not too bad at all, but under the bandages for each incision a rash has developed. He has been having issues with a rash for little while now according to June. She said his doctors think it is a reaction to one of his medicines. It’s more irritating than painful, but I hate that he has this to deal with, too. He has been puttering around the house this morning, pretty much as usual. Thanks again for all those pixies.
No luck today on the WoC and Fantasmic dining package front, but park hours are now up all the way through Wednesday, October 9. That makes me hopeful that dining package dates may be open very soon.
I also checked on the Walk in Walt’s Disneyland Footsteps tour, and learned that I can’t make reservations for this until 30 days prior to the date we want the tour. I need to first check over the parks hours, and our dining plans so far before we actually pick a date. That will have to wait until I’m back home this weekend. We still have 39 days before our trip begins so that gives me 9 days to to pick a date.
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Glad to her that your dad is doing much better. I have that same reaction to anesthesia too and it is Miserable. Sounds like maybe the ADRs will open up this week if the dates are finally open. Here's hoping!
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