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Sounds like a great ending your your first evening. Except for the broken magic coffee machine (but Hot chocolate and kahula sounds even better) it sounded like a great night. Love the gift basket, Betsy does do some great work. Can't wait to hear about your first full day.
She does do grerat work! I was very pleased.
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Great TR so far, Kelly. I've just caught up and am looking forward to your next installment. I love the gift basket for the boys. Too cute! Your room looks beautiful, and I love the neat welcome bags y'all got. More please!
6/8/09
Our normal morning routine was Mike got up first and got ready then went and got breakfast for himself & Dylan. While the boys ate in the lounge or in the room Becki & I got ready.
Today we headed to DHS and were there about 9:15am. Our intention was to get there earlier as it was AM EMH for DHS, but obviously that didn’t happen. I had planned on doing EMH at each of the parks, but I learned this trip to not to the AM EMH parks for quite a while until I know we can get up and moving at that time. Anyway, the parks were so crowded we barely got anything done this morning. We stopped for some PhotoPass pics on the way in.
We made our way to Star Tours for Mike & I to get FPs. Becki didn’t want to ride so she’d stay with Dylan and we thought we better get this ride out of the way today and not when we’d be back for SWW. Mike at one of the SWW displays
On we went and the line for Lightening McQueen & Mater wasn’t too long and since Dylan know knows what ‘cars’ are we decided to have him meet him. As you can see in the next set of photos, it didn’t really work out so well. Mater kind of revves up every once in a while and of course at the moment Dylan walks over there it happens and above was the result.
Next we headed and watched Muppet Vision 3D. I just love this show! (Sam: “Stop this foolishness!” Gonzo: “What foolishness would you like to see?” LOL! This gets repeated weekly at our house.) OK, back to the TR. We looked through the shops after this and since it had been a while since Dylan had eaten breakfast (it was 10:54am according to my receipt) and it would be a while until we ate lunch, we stopped in The Writer’s Stop and got him a cookie and a bottled water for us all to share. It was time for Mike & I to take our space tour so we left Becki with Dylan and his cookie and headed off into space. I think they even took in a little of the Jedi Training Academy while we were in space. After Captain Rex got us safely (somewhat) back to Earth we headed over to AK for our ADR at Tusker House. Mike as an action figure.
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Morning EMH never works for the Matthews! We're night owls and love the night EMH, but we struggle to get up early. Love the pictures in front of the Hat! I wouldn't have even thought about Mater's revving up scaring a kid. So sorry for Dylan!
Aw, poor Dylan! From the little I've seen of him, he has such a sunny personality that the tears are even more sad. But he sure is cute. I agree that morning EMH only work out if you're there right at opening. Even 30 minutes later and you've missed the moment and hit big crowds.
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(Sam: “Stop this foolishness!” Gonzo: “What foolishness would you like to see?” LOL!
This gets repeated weekly at our house.) OK, back to the TR. We looked through the shops after this and since it had been a while since Dylan had eaten breakfast (it was 10:54am according to my receipt) and it would be a while until we ate lunch, we stopped in The Writer’s Stop and got him a cookie and a bottled water for us all to share. It was time for Mike & I to take our space tour so we left Becki with Dylan and his cookie and headed off into space. I think they even took in a little of the Jedi Training Academy while we were in space. After Captain Rex got us safely (somewhat) back to Earth we headed over to AK for our ADR at Tusker House.
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