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Love the Carsland photos, especially the PP ones with Jeannie. Very cute poses! So glad you got to spend a little time with Jeannie. She knows every inch of those parks!
I was so happy to gain so much information about the parks just listening to Jeannie. It all proved quite helpful.
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Sorry I haven't commented before now, but we only got back from WDW a few days ago!
Regarding the ornament, you are so welcome. I saw them on a UK-based Disney fan board, and immediately thought of you because of the white feather. I ordered it, had it personalised, and also got the writing and ribbon done in Tinker Bell green, as I believe I read that she was Stefanie's favourite character.
I hoped you would like it, but didn't mean to make you cry - sorry!
Anyway, just caught up with your report after 2 weeks away. I know what you mean about the queues, we were surprised by how much queuing is done outside - Pirates of the Caribbean is another one, where 90% of the queue is outside, then when you get inside, you are almost immediately on the ride, unlike in WDW where it is all enclosed!
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Glad you enjoyed your meal. Looked yummy. Love the nighttime shots!
We were having the best evening.
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Sorry I haven't commented before now, but we only got back from WDW a few days ago!
Regarding the ornament, you are so welcome. I saw them on a UK-based Disney fan board, and immediately thought of you because of the white feather. I ordered it, had it personalised, and also got the writing and ribbon done in Tinker Bell green, as I believe I read that she was Stefanie's favourite character.
I hoped you would like it, but didn't mean to make you cry - sorry!
Anyway, just caught up with your report after 2 weeks away. I know what you mean about the queues, we were surprised by how much queuing is done outside - Pirates of the Caribbean is another one, where 90% of the queue is outside, then when you get inside, you are almost immediately on the ride, unlike in WDW where it is all enclosed!
I realized a day or so later that you all were in WDW, so I didn't expect you to be reading then, just enjoying the magic. Tinker Bell was Stefanie's favorite so the green is perfect. The tears were good tears so no need for sorry.
Glad you had a great time on TSMM! Some great photos and especially the one below of Paradise Pier, which is stunning and absolutely perfect! You should have this one mounted and framed as I think it's that good!
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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!
Just caught up with your TR. We are really enjoying your trip report. We plan to visit DL as part of our daughters graduation trip in 3 years. We can't wait!
Glad you had a great time on TSMM! Some great photos and especially the one below of Paradise Pier, which is stunning and absolutely perfect! You should have this one mounted and framed as I think it's that good!
Thank you so much, Dave! That is one of my favorite photos that I took the entire trip>
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Great updates! Love the night time photos.
I enjoy taking nighttime photos, and a lot of these came out well.
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Just caught up with your TR. We are really enjoying your trip report. We plan to visit DL as part of our daughters graduation trip in 3 years. We can't wait!
Thursday, October 8 – Taking Flight and More Nighttime Beauty
From Paradise Pier, we walked back into Grizzly Peak with the goal of riding Soarin’. It is interesting to see Soarin’ as a stand-alone attraction rather than inside The Land as it is at Epcot.
We hardly ever use the stand by queue at WDW for this attraction, and I find the FastPass+ queue quite boring, but thankfully the wait there is usually short. The stand by queue for California Adventure’s version of Soarin’ is like a mini museum on aviation. Of course, I took a plethora of photos as we waited about 20 minutes to board. Eventually, we were guided to bay C where we boarded our simulator hang glider in the middle row. For the most part, this attraction is identical to its twin at WDW with the exception that the projection system has already been upgraded and the movie is no longer film, but digital. So nice to see it one more time without all the black flecks everywhere. I can’t wait to see what we fly over in the future.
Luke mentioned as we came out of Soarin’ that we had both mentioned earlier seeing Cars Land at night, so that became our next destination.
I’m pretty sure my jaw dropped the moment we entered this area. We found two different PhotoPass photographers along the way. We had so much fun making all the poses. In the first bunch image we are in a car, sometimes Luke is driving and sometimes I am. See if you can figure out who is driving.
For the next PhotoPass session we were in front of Flo's V8 Diner.
This place is the coolest all lit up at night. Just check out my photos and see if you don’t think so, too.
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