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Great plans! Our no park trip has a 'Dream' in the middle. So it does help.
Your shirts sounds interesting and I hope to see them at some point.
Have a great time with chocolate & cheesecake!
This update had me chuckling! We are here because we're planners addicted to planning! So hard to keep ourselves from booking all the cool stuff.
This made me giggle too Especially since I said earlier that Holly's "No Plans" plans sounded great. I would be guilty of this too -- there are just so many things to do at Disney -- not even stepping in a park. I can't wait to hear how everything went when you get back
Happy Travels!
PS -- I am SO trying the Lounge @ WL -- their menu looked amazing as did the review on the food blog!
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Enjoy the cheesecake and chocolate tour! If we don't hear from you, safe travels and have a magical time.
for the well wishes! And both the chocolate and the cheesecake were great!
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Sounds like you and your sistah have a great day planned in Boston! Your cruise plans and excursions look terrific!
We had a great day yesterday
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Great plans!
I'm really thinking about parasailing with DD on our next stop at CC. We were supposed to do it on my 45th birthday trip, but the weather cancelled all boat-related excursions on Castaway Cay.
Hope you had fun today - but with chocolate and cheesecake, seems hard to miss!
I know that the parasailing does get cancelled fairly frequently so I'm prepared for that but if we go, I'll let you know how it was . It is hard to miss with chocolate and cheesecake .
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Great plans! Our no park trip has a 'Dream' in the middle. So it does help.
Your shirts sounds interesting and I hope to see them at some point.
Have a great time with chocolate & cheesecake!
I have not attempted the new Photobucket yet, but I promise I'll try to get a picture of the shirts for the TR .
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This made me giggle too Especially since I said earlier that Holly's "No Plans" plans sounded great. I would be guilty of this too -- there are just so many things to do at Disney -- not even stepping in a park. I can't wait to hear how everything went when you get back
Happy Travels!
PS -- I am SO trying the Lounge @ WL -- their menu looked amazing as did the review on the food blog!
I can't help planning even when I try not too . And the Territory Lounge is high on my "no plans " list so I'll be sure to report back on it.
Just checking in quickly this morning......I'm still not completely packed !!!!! But I wanted to give you a quick update on our day yesterday.
We had a fabulous time at the JFK Presidential Library and Museum. I had been here before (many years ago -my sister used to live in the apartments right next door to this), but I had forgotten what a powerful place this was. I highly recommend it to anyone visiting Boston . John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum
After the JFK Library, we took a tour of the Taza Chocolate factory. What a great time that was!!! Taza makes Mexican style chocolate which I found quite delicious. Here is a link to their website if anyone is interested in learning more. We learned that Whole Foods is their largest distributor so if you have a Whole Foods nearby and want to check it out, I would highly recommend the salted almond chocolate Taza Chocolate | stone ground chocolate
Traffic was heavy leaving Boston, so we decided against visiting the Braintree Cheesecake factory and instead stopped at her house in North Attleboro to pick up DBiL and then headed to the Cheesecake Factory at Providence Place Mall. DS was disappointed that they no longer offer corn fritters (okay, and me too). The food was great and DSis and I each tried the S'mores Galore Cheesecake......Yummy!
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All of your plans sound fantastic. I have always said I would like to take a day off in the middle of our trip and adventure outside of the parks. From the sound of your plans, I am more and more convinced I would love doing it.
Have fun and can't wait to read all about it when you return!!
Well, I'm back ! We had a fantastic time at Kidani, and an absolutely wonderful time on our cruise!!!! I'll try to get to the trip report tomorrow or the next day.
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for the well wishes! And both the chocolate and the cheesecake were great!
Your cruise plans and excursions look terrific! 
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!!!!! But I wanted to give you a quick update on our day yesterday.
! We had a fantastic time at Kidani, and an absolutely wonderful time on our cruise!!!! I'll try to get to the trip report tomorrow or the next day.
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