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GREAT start on your first day at Disney! Glad the room worked out for you guys! We have stayed at the POP before and loved it! The food at ESPN sounded good and lots of it! More please!
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Me and Cole in the Sears Tower Skydeck, 103 floors up, in a glass box hanging off the side!
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I should be updating over the weekend. Katie started high school on Wednesday. 9th grade!! Anyway...we are adjusting to her new schedule. She has to get the bus at 6:45am and I have to pick her up after cross country practice at 5pm so we are ALL tired!! Her first day of school, she had to run 6 miles in 91 degree weather. Poor kid is coming home dirty, tired and starving to death! I made a bunch of stuff to throw in the fridge for her to eat when she gets home. Last night I had to wake her up at 7pm so she could do her homework that was due today!!
Last night I also preorded my 2011 passporter even though we aren't going on a trip until 2012. I also bought the 2010 DCL passporter. I want to see if maybe we can do a cruise someday!!! I have never been on one. We'll see!!
So I'll update soon. I'm at work and if they catch me on here I'm done for.
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Yesterday she finished practice early. I picked her up at 4ish and she had something to eat when she got home. I was talking to her about 5:30 when I realized she wasn't talking back. She was out cold and I left her alone. Poor thing!! She didn't even wake up when her father came home at 9.
Update coming soon or tomorrow. Katie promised me she would help me with my pictures.
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We finally get to go to the parks!!! The alarm goes off at 6:00am. I am already awake and throw some clothes on. I went down to the smoking section for a few minutes. When I went back upstairs, everyone was still sleeping. I took a shower and got dressed and slowly everyone got up. Katie took a shower next and when she came out she said " How come the water is so cold?" I told her mine was hot so Dave goes in and says to her "you need to turn the dial so the small end is facing the hot not the big end." OH!!! She is the dumbest, smart kid I know!!! Anyway...showers all done we head down to the foodcourt for breakfast. I can't find my receipt but I know They had mickey waffles and I had a cinnamon bun and bacon. It was okay.
We went to the car, drove over to the car care center and dropped it off. They called us when the bus came and we were off to EPCOT. We arrived at about 9:10am. Not too bad for us!!!! We walked over to the Land and got fast passes for Soarin'. With those in hand we headed over to Living with the Land since it had no wait. It is one of my favorites!!!
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After we were done with our ride, headed over to test track. There was a 35 minute wait so we got in line. 181.jpg.
The ride was great as usual!! We love test track and plan on doing that again. So we got fastpasses for that. After that we headed over to mission space. As I said before, I was scared to death to ride on this. We got in line on the green side. There was a couple behind me that looked like they were in their 70's. So I thought how bad could that be? We LOVED this ride. It wasn't at all what I thought it would be!!!!079.jpg So we would definitely be back for more!!
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. Poor kid is coming home dirty, tired and starving to death! I made a bunch of stuff to throw in the fridge for her to eat when she gets home. Last night I had to wake her up at 7pm so she could do her homework that was due today!!
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getting use to Katie's schedule!!
. She was out cold and I left her alone. Poor thing!! She didn't even wake up when her father came home at 9.
Anyway...showers all done we head down to the foodcourt for breakfast. I can't find my receipt but I know They had mickey waffles and I had a cinnamon bun and bacon. It was okay.
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