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Sorry for the lack of updates. It's just that time of year where there seems to be so little time to do everything I want to. I hope to work on it some in the next few days, but this weekend is already full of activities.
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Great photos from around the resort.
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Great photos of AKL!
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Can't wait to read more! Sounds like a great trip!
Thanks, slowly but surely working on it.
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Fun Trip so far.... Can't wait to read all about it
Great updates. Your pix from the DME bus are really clear. It seems that all of our vehicle pix are fuzzy, shaky, full of glare, etc. Sorry the room was not ready. But you did get the chance to take the pix in the girls room. Lunch was "interesting".
Great updates. Your pix from the DME bus are really clear. It seems that all of our vehicle pix are fuzzy, shaky, full of glare, etc. Sorry the room was not ready. But you did get the chance to take the pix in the girls room. Lunch was "interesting".
I get a lot of fuzzy ones to when driving. Ther is just no way for me to get some clear ones through a window while moving and heads in the way. I think sitting in the front really helped.
Claire really liked the zero entry. I was then given instructions. I am sure if you are a Mom, or even a Dad, you know about these “rules” you have to follow. I was to walk to the other side of the pool and then “wait” and watch her come in from the zero entry side. Of course she made it much more complicated and there was a reason for this, though I am not sure what it was. I did as I was told and then watched (and took pictures) of her coming in.
I settled on a chair and pulled out my kindle, took my shoes off and relaxed a few minutes and shot a few pictures as well.
I then kind of looked out and around for the slide and spotted it. I found it and pointed it out to Claire. I now had new rules. I had to move close to the slide so she could swim over there and go on it. I told her I could see her just fine from where I was, but that was not the correct answer. I NEEDED to be over near the slide. I am sure this had to do with a bit of the jitters about going on the slide for the 1st time by herself. So I gathered my stuff and moved over a little ways closer to the slide.
I settled in once again. Claire slowly swam over. Like I said, I think she was nervous and excited about going on the slide. I took some pictures while I waited for the “moment”.
That is the pool bar over on the other side.
And now the moment we all have been waiting for. She is going to go on the slide!!!
I was supposed to take a picture of her coming down, but it was hard to see and then time it right. I think this is her head just going under.
That was not good enough for her and I had to keep trying off and on all day long.
I liked this sign, too bad it’s kind of hidden.
So Claire’s goal was to go down the slide as many times as she could, and I was supposed to take a picture of her each and every time.
Ok, after about 50 times down, I told her that I think I could sit down now as I am sure I got at least a couple of pictures with her in it.
I loved that the resort had free wifi, and though it’s not the best and I would lose it every so often, it was great to take my kindle out and try to catch up on facebook. Sadly facebook doesn’t always like me and at times I try to post and it tells me it can’t be done. I had this issue at home and thought maybe it was my connection there, but it did it to me at Disney as well, so it’s just me in general that isn’t liked. LOL
Claire had spent about a half hour of going down the slide and then she wanted to go check out the hot tub.
We moved on to get another view of the Flamingos from the other side. We spotted a few pay phones.
Flamingo overload.
They look like headless Flamingos.
And we moved on a little further.
We found the other hot tub.
Getting artsy.
And pool games.
Pool games, I think, are more common now at all resorts than they used to be. I think up until last year, they really didn’t have much going on at Values, at least not like they do now. But since we never really have taken a full resort/pool day, we have never witnessed this too much. This was all new to Claire and as the time went on, she really loved “watching” the games.
We found the sign for Simbas kids club and went in search of it.
It appeared to be down a hallway and we gave up fast.
We then went in search of more animals. I believe these shots were taken through a window.
Then we found a porch overlook and we were trying to figure out how to get to it.
And another shot through the window, but this was kind of neat looking.
Here’s a porch!
Getting artsy!
Hidden giraffe.
While we stood there, I just took several pictures.
And we kept moving too.
We spotted a few birds.
Another try at an artsy type shot.
I still had rules to follow as we walked around. One being these little tunnel type areas through the rocks. I was NOT allowed to go through till Claire did. Since I was kind of wandering and taking pictures, I broke this rule a few times …and of course was scolded for doing so!
We have found more animals!
Exploring some more.
Aren’t these so cute.
They had these little metal art type animals hidden in the rocks.
We headed inside now to explore the lobby.
It’s really so pretty and I can see the resemblance of Wilderness Lodge.
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