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When BBBB was done Bro, who had been in the waiting area, headed off to try for Space, Splash, and to pick up Jungle Cruise FP and then meet us at HM. DD & I went into fantasyland at the rope drop. A CM was giving instructions for walking with him to Dumbo. If you remember we tried to ride Dumbo on our 1st day but the line was riduculous. DD was standing right by the CM as he told the people no running, they could walk fast and he was a fast walker but no one was to run ahead of him. DD power-walked right next to the CM, she was determined to ride Dumbo. I however was left in the dust.DD would have been the 1st on the ride except 2 teenage boys rudely cut in front of her, but she would be the 1st to ride , which is something she really wanted to do.
There she is, flying with Dumbo.
When her ride was over she was all smiles. Next I led her over to a greet area, but didn't tell her who was supposed to be there. There were a few other people there waiting so we lined up and then Fairy godmother came. I didn't even know this character was available until reading the boards and DD was excited.
Then on our way to check out the Rapunzel greet we spotted these characters.
They ended their time and walked off (very funny) before we could even consider meeting them but it was fun to see them.
The line for Rapunzel was tremendous so we didn't stay. Instead went to ride IASW (again) before we headed over to HM to meet Bro.
Up next HM.
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We headed to HM, Bro wasn't there yet but to the right of the entrance was a couple of rocking chairs on a porch so we snagged them. A couple of ladies walked by and offered to take our pic.
Bro had ridden space, for a reason I can't remember didn't do splash but did POTC (again) and stopped by the shootin' range where a PP guy took his pic and wanted him to turn it in for the memories show.
Onward to HM.
We had a bunch of fun with the interactive queue.
I love reading the headstones.
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Next was the SFRT, I like this a bunch, but am sure it, like DL will probably be made over to Tarzan. I have nothing against Tarzan, I just grew up with the older movies.
Climbing the steps.
Then we used our FP's for the Jungle Cruise.
Next was CBJ.
We were running a little behind my time schedule which meant we missed the beginning of Dream with Mickey but we stopped and watched part of it as we headed out of the park.
We went back to the resort for some down time, lunch in the food court, and to finish the packing I had started yesterday after we got back from Epcot, because tomorrow is checkout day.....
Up next: The end of our day at MK.
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We were back in the park about 4:45 because I wanted to see the flag retreat, (1st for all of us). Bro was disappointed at how disrespectful several people were in not stopping for 2 minutes to honor the flag being taken down or taking off their hats while the national anthem was played. Bro was in the air force and we come from a patriot family. We enjoyed the it anyway. We ended up having almost 30 minutes before our ADR's at Tonys so we hopped on the train.
Here comes our train.
Interesting scenes while riding the train.
Back on Main street, we found out where the PP counter was (in the same building as Tonys and asked them to transfer the 4 cards we had all onto the one I purchased which they did as they admired all our photos. One of the CM's there suggested we find a photographer in front of the castle and as for a magical pic for DD. We did that after dinner, which I'll put in - in the next section. We checked in at Tony's, DD was hungry and very thirsty and our water was gone from the bottle I carried; not unusual, I was always looking for a place to fill it.
I thought this was so cool.
Waiting to be call while DD drains the cup of water.
Continued...
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DD would have been the 1st on the ride except 2 teenage boys rudely cut in front of her, but she would be the 1st to ride 
, which is something she really wanted to do.
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A couple of ladies walked by and offered to take our pic.
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And glad your DD loved the makeover! 
and asked them to transfer the 4 cards we had all onto the one I purchased which they did as they admired all our photos. One of the CM's there suggested we find a photographer in front of the castle and as for a magical pic for DD. We did that after dinner, which I'll put in - in the next section. We checked in at Tony's, DD was hungry and very thirsty and our water was gone from the bottle I carried; not unusual, I was always looking for a place to fill it.
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