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Just catching up! Sounds like Luke is having an amazing birthday! Personally, I think you should use your Aladdin Broadway offer as an excuse to head to NY!...Just saying'...
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What a fun day out yesterday for you guys!! I hope you get lots of great presents!! Your dinner looked delicious, especially the desserts!! We loved that place when we last went in 2013, but the weather was much cooler to sit outside in!
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Oh wow, they have macaroons too something good to know for our next Disneyland trip...
You are so right about a lot of stuff being outside and just about every time we visit Disneyland (apart from our holidays visit in 2012), the temperatures have been crazy hot!
I did think of you the minute I saw the macaroons on the menu. I ate the pistachio, which was very tasty. We were both too full to try the raspberry.
Luke and I have decided that this was our year for unseasonably hot vacations because we arrived in Orlando the day their heat wave started, too.
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A nice time in the parks again and glad Luke was able to fulfill his birthday wishes! Looked like a nice lunch at the WC Trattoria!
I'd definitely return to Wine Country Trattoria as except for the greens beans just being okay, everything was very well done.
Just catching up! Sounds like Luke is having an amazing birthday! Personally, I think you should use your Aladdin Broadway offer as an excuse to head to NY!...Just saying'...
Funny you should say that because last night I had a dream we were visiting NYC. It seemed so real that I was disappointed when I woke up. We will get there eventually. I just don't know when yet.
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What a fun day out yesterday for you guys!! I hope you get lots of great presents!! Your dinner looked delicious, especially the desserts!! We loved that place when we last went in 2013, but the weather was much cooler to sit outside in!
By the number of bags I saw, I'll be quite happy Christmas day.
Funny you should say that because last night I had a dream we were visiting NYC. It seemed so real that I was disappointed when I woke up. We will get there eventually. I just don't know when yet.
I think that is not only a sign but a message of something to come. Jersey Boys would be a great option as well as I think you'd like that as well as Cheryl and I have!
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Your meal looks delicious! I always look forward to sitting down in an air conditioned restaurant to take a break from the heat when at WDW so I will keep that in mind for DL. I didn't remember that most restaurants were outdoor seating!
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Your meal looks delicious! I always look forward to sitting down in an air conditioned restaurant to take a break from the heat when at WDW so I will keep that in mind for DL. I didn't remember that most restaurants were outdoor seating!
Quite a few also had indoor seating, but even those told you ahead of time that your seating would be first serve, meaning which ever opened up first, indoor or outdoor, is where you'd be seated. I really don't think it would be a problem most of the time, but with the heat we were experiencing some A/C would have been nice.
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Your dinner looks delicious
Luke hadn't had a filet in so long, and was surprised by how much he liked it.
While we had been dining at Wine Country Trattoria, Luke had asked me if there was anything we hadn’t done yet that I’d really like to do next. I knew exactly what attraction I wanted and it wasn’t far from where we were, Toy Story Midway Mania. So after paying our bill, we headed back across the bridge into Paradise Pier. The standby line was posted at 30 minutes, but my initial thought was that it was going to be longer than that as the queue began outside and seemed quite full. About 20 minutes later we were inside, sort of. This part of the queue felt like a hallway that guests snaked around four times. Along the walls were posters that kept me occupied part of the time.
This portion took another 10 or so minutes before we came to where we picked up our 3D glasses. My brain was thinking, where is all the cool stuff from Andy’s room? A few more feet and we were in front of Mr. Potato Head but my photo of him did not turn out as at this point I had to keep moving. We were about to board our Slinky Dog car. I was still adjusting to these outdoor queues, so we’d only waited a little over 30 minutes to ride and play.
I don’t know why, but Luke and I both did very well on this version. Luke even scored over 200,000 for the first time, which made him a very happy birthday boy. I managed over a 100,000, so not bad for me either. Luke was also best in vehicle.
One difference between the DHS version and this one at DCA was the exit. I feel at DHS I have to exit as quickly as possible because the bins for the 3D glasses are right at the door and people seem to keep spilling off the ride. But at DCA there is quite a bit of space before the exit back into the park. This seemed to give the crowd room to disperse without crushing each other. I took a few pictures of this exit queue as it was so much cooler than the entrance queue.
While we’d been shooting dart, breaking plates, and ringing aliens, it had gotten dark outside. Paradise Pier is so cool lit up at night. As we moved through the area I had to get a few photos. The first photo is my favorite. Really it was just so beautiful with all the lights.
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I hope you get lots of great presents!! 
Your dinner looked delicious, especially the desserts!!
We loved that place when we last went in 2013, but the weather was much cooler to sit outside in!
something good to know for our next Disneyland trip... 
Looked like a nice lunch at the WC Trattoria! 
Luke hadn't had a filet in so long, and was surprised by how much he liked it. 
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