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Yay you are in your happy place. It's so cold here I've a good mind to get in the car and come join you. I'll be at the turf club in 44 days [emoji2]. Hope you're enjoying the treehouse.
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Hi Cheryl, I have loved reading your pre trip report and am looking forward to your trip report. It would be great to see your pics of your trip you've posted on face book. I will friend request you. Don't feel obliged to accept obviously. Kate.
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Just caught up. Sounds like a wonderful trip! Have a great time! I am enjoying the photos on FB as well!
I'll keep posting as we go. If I can get the phone to upload on to Facebook, that will make it easier. The phone is a bit of a nightmare right now - we can make calls on it, but can't seem to send texts (they seem to go, but no-one receives them) and we're not getting incoming texts.
Yay you are in your happy place. It's so cold here I've a good mind to get in the car and come join you. I'll be at the turf club in 44 days [emoji2]. Hope you're enjoying the treehouse.
Hi Cheryl, I have loved reading your pre trip report and am looking forward to your trip report. It would be great to see your pics of your trip you've posted on face book. I will friend request you. Don't feel obliged to accept obviously. Kate.
Oh thanks for posting here - I'll accept you, as when I looked this morning, I was wondering who it was making the request!
I didn't get a chance to duck in yesterday to give an update (too busy trying to get up to date with the trip report! ) so I thought I'd do one quickly now. We'll be heading down to cheer on the runners shortly, and it's fascinating to watch all the activity outside, as usually at such early hours as this, it's dead in Disney. Not this weekend!
We had a wonderful day at the Magic Kingdom and did everything and more we hoped to do there. Trust me, at busy times of the year, get there for park opening! We did that and had three hours of a basically deserted park. Those of you I'm friends with on Facebook will have seen that we got to see Anna and Elsa with a 15 minute wait!
The parade was superb and we had such a great location to view it in Liberty Square, we got some wonderful photos. We had an absolute blast with Michael and Judy at the Crystal Palace - a very funny time with Piglet and a very sweet time with Eeyore. You can't ask for anymore!
We also had a ball with Amy, her husband Peter and Kim at Top of the World lounge last night, so much so that we don't know where the time went, but we were late for our dinner at the California Grill. Thankfully they were fine about that and, once again, we had an amazing time there with more superb food.
There, I think that's just about us up to date again!
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) so I thought I'd do one quickly now. We'll be heading down to cheer on the runners shortly, and it's fascinating to watch all the activity outside, as usually at such early hours as this, it's dead in Disney. Not this weekend! 
We did that and had three hours of a basically deserted park. Those of you I'm friends with on Facebook will have seen that we got to see Anna and Elsa with a 15 minute wait! 
Thankfully they were fine about that and, once again, we had an amazing time there with more superb food. 
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