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Love the pictorial report! You all always hit the ground running! Great PP photos, and you know I love the hat! Your pictures of the Village People are awesome.
Thanks! Figure it's the only way to bang this out before the next TWO trips :roll eyes:
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I know I'm late. But I'm here. Great start to the TR.
Stinks it rained on y'all. We got to see the Journey band when we were there in June. They were really good.
Looking forward to following along.
Thanks! And never too late!!! I'm late starting this!! lol.
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From your photos, the Village People looked like they were having a lot of fun!
Thanks! They were a TON of fun!!! Everyone was dancing and singing along!
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Awesome photos of the Village People!! what a fun time at F&GF for everyone!!
Thanks! It was a lot of fun!! Even if the kids were rolling their eyes!! :roll eyes:
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I so want to go to the flower and garden fest one day!! Looks beautiful and sounds soooo yummy!
Oh, you have to!! So much fun!!!
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Lol omg the Village People!!!! Looked like a good concert!
I know, right?!?! They were fun!
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Great trip report so far. You had a full first day
Thanks!
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Love that you got to see the Village People! Do you know if they were all the original members? They looked better than I expected!
Thanks!!! Two of them are original! The Indian guy and the Army guy! Yeah - they did look great!
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What a great and fun concert! You got some great photos!
Thanks!
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Great TR so far! Love the photos you took of Spaceship Earth on your way out of the park!!
Thanks!
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We all woke bright eyed and bushy tailed after a great nights sleep!!! We met at the bus stop and headed to Animal Kingdom (everyone just grabbed quick breakfast foods from our rooms), as our first fast pass was going to ripe soon!
We entered the park and headed straight back to Africa for Kilimanjaro Safari! If you have read my TR's before, then you know that this is my MOST FAVORITE attraction here at AK!!! I could seriously ride this all day long!!!
We had a great ride!
This is Big Mac!! Usually he only shows us his back side!!
Someone looks annoyed with a text message???
Peek a boo!!!
Lazy rhino....
After our safari, we walked the Pangani Forest Trail in hopes of seeing the new baby gorillas.....
First we saw this bird hitching a ride on the hippo!
Then we did see some baby meerkats!
The babies were hiding, but we did see some big guys!
And I believe this is Lily taking a nap!
It was now time for our next Fastpass over in Dinoland - for Dinosaur!
yeah, um, Em looks real "scared"!
And we had timed it right that now our fast passes for Expedition Everest were ripe, so that was our next stop!
And apparently the kids (including a rather large one :roll eyes hadn't had enough, so they went back through the single rider line, while Joie and I sat and shared a cold beer!
Everyone was starting to get hungry and HOT.....so we decided that we would start making our way out and grabbed snacks along the way. I know Cait had gotten some noodles from somewhere along that path (they were really good!!), and we stopped for a photopass photographer.....and yes, Em was sitting in a wheel chair.....if you read the PTR you probably remember that Emily dislocated her knee cap hours before we were leaving!! And it was really bothering her this am, so we made it easy for ALL our sakes!
One of my favorite snacks!!
Oh - and this was just outside the entrance to AK!!! So neat!!
We finally made our way to the bus, and back to SSR - where we changed, grabbed our snacks and beverages (I had ordered from Garden Grocer) and met back up at the Grand Stand Pool - which we basically had to ourselves!
Up Next: More Epcot!
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I love all your safari photos, but you know my favorites are of the giraffes. Great work! I"m with you in that I could ride KS all day and never get bored. Sorry the baby gorillas were not out, but your photo of Geno is quite impressive.
A nice couple of days in WDW! A fun time in Epcot with the Village People concert and some good snacks for the F&G festival! It's funny as you had some torrential rain as about the same time( I'm guessing about 5 or 6 pm), when The Magic was setting sail from Port Canaveral, there was no rain. But there is enough distance, that I could experience no rain, plus it seems it didn't last long for you!
Nice photos at the AK for KS and EE as you all enjoyed it, even though Emily looked a bit scared throughout the latter and Dinosaur too!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
Eep you got off to a running start with this TR! Great start so far and glad Emily was able to manage with her knee okay so far love the pool to yourselves
Wonderful AK photos! I love that Big Mac actually turned around for once. The assortment of expressions on the ride photos are really funny! I don't know how you are able to actually take photos on EE. I'd be clinging on for dear life, probably with my eyes closed. The noodles Cait got were probably from Mr Kamal's kiosk. Yummy!
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You all always hit the ground running! Great PP photos, and you know I love the hat! 
Your pictures of the Village People are awesome.
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