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OMG That's hilarious!! He was! There was a kid at the back of the room getting down and it cracked us up so Andy started copying him by doing the robot That was our last night So we were just chillin' and enjoying our last night. You should've said hi!!
She must have been intimated by my Robot!
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Melissa and Andy, Charleston SC, February 2008.
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Coming up: July 2010 - Animal Kingdom Lodge for Mel's 30th Birthday!!!!!
Sorry you had a rough start to the day, but glad to hear you were feeling better and could enjoy the moring at DHS. Look forward to the next update.......
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Okay Melissa and Andy--I must admit that because you have such numerous responses to your thread I keep putting off reading it because I want to read it all at once! Well, tonight I found out why everyone loves reading you two--you're hilarious! . I promise to keep up with you from now on!
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Read all about it in my TR, "Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot!" Jill Phil. 4: 13
Just an update from me today. I'm home on a sick day from school.... so I figured I'd get back on this TR
So now we're on our Day 2 part 2..
We got ready and headed out towards the lobby. We wanted to check the pin trading board to see if we could find any good loot. I think it was this day that on our way past the foodcourt Marnie came out from the foodcourt door to say hey to us They had just checked in and were getting settled. We thought it was funny she spotted us in passing like that After a few minutes of "hope you have a good time" we headed on to the lobby. I made a trade for one of the Haunted Mansion CM pins I was collecting. That made 3 out of the 4 for me. The CM standing at the pin trading asked me if I knew about the changes made to it and we were like "duh yeah" and he goes "when was your last visit on the ride" I guess he asked it thinking we're just regular joe shmoes who only come like once every 5 years or something When I busted out with the "we were here in May" I think it caught him off guard Anyway... I also spotted a Stitch Buzz Lightyear pin that I wanted to get the next day if it was still there
So after a successful pin trade we headed out and caught a bus to Epcot. Brandi had open house that afternoon at her school so she was going to meet Pom and then meet us. We got there before she did so we hopped in line for SSE. We do love SSE now. Might have something to do with the picture taking....... as you'll soon see......
The line was moving very quickly and we were on the ride before we knew it. We decided on the face we would make for our picture..... if we only knew how great it was going to be
We got stuck a couple of times on the ride.... I always take that as somebody couldn't manuever on the moving walkway and car thing.
I took a picture while we were stopped.
That guy must get tired of pounding that paper all day long.
Finally we got to the end where we could build our future..... oh yes.... the moment that made Andy cry.
First, remember waaaay back to the beginning of our TR. Andy's Upper Class Twit of the Year face on Everest? I told you it'd make another appearance.
Andy I think went for Twit #1's look up there.... while I went for the look of Twit #3
This picture makes me laugh... Andy's got on a FABULOUS sweater there.
And this one makes it look like Andy's flicking a booger across the table at me
And finally.... here you go Andy... just for you.....
A close up ..... I am the ULTIMATE upper class twit of the year!
(cue Andy crying from laughing while reading this and looking at that picture. I'd bet money he is).
How about one more time... a side by side comparison...
After wiping the tears away from our faces, we headed over to see how bad Test Track was. It was bad so we decided to save that till the morning. We stopped by the pin central to pick up some new LE pins. I got the Stitch Decoder pin (man I'm a nerd). And I got one other one....but I can't remember right now which one.... Andy? Do you remember?
While we were crossing over towards Canada we got a call from Brandi that they were heading in the back towards the UK. We met up and it was great to see our pals again! Mo was supposed to be with us but this was during her fiasco week of water exploding in their house, so she wasn't able to make it. We stood around for a bit trying to decide what we wanted to eat. I was starving! So Pom (I did tell you earlier his name is Tom right? But his myspace says Pom, so we call him Pom....) anyway, Pom suggested The Land. We'd never eaten there so we said sure!
On the way Andy acted like Paparazzi taking a billion stupid pictures of us. This one I thought was hilarious b/c it looked like Pom was eating his cane....so we photoshopped it a bit to make it really look like he was
Did Pom think that was funny?
Pom says no
We were in the elevator at The Land for that one.... and this one..
Andy looks suspicious....
Andy took some pictures while I was getting my food...
And he took so many in a row that I had to make another gif..
Andy went with oriental food...
I had the Turkey and Muenster Cheese on Foccacia which was very tasty
I don't remember what Pom and Brandi had. Maybe they'll remind us
After dinner we headed out and to Mexico I think....... It's hard for me to remember everything b/c, if I haven't said it before, these two make me laugh so hard I have to pee.
Now, here's the part of our trip where you can judge us if you like. BUT, we were here with our new close pals and we wanted to spend as much time with them as we could. We can't help they choose to LIVE here and are not staying on property. So.... we got our EMH bracelets early on that evening....... and now that we were with them.... we gave them our room keys and had them go get themselves a couple of bracelets. I KNOW.... SHAME SHAME. but honestly I don't care. I wanted to hang out with my friends.....so I did what I had to do. You'd have done it, too. Judge not lest ye be judged I say....
We rode The Gran Fiesta Tour and b/c of Pom's wheels we got to ride in the cool boat.
Aye Aye Capt'n
We laughed and joked our way around to Germany where Pom wanted to go in the Christmas shop. He loves the Christmas shop and anything Christmas. Seriously, he'd put his Christmas tree up now if Brandi would let him.
We all wanted some chocolate so we all got something sweet from the candy shop there in Germany. We came out just in time to snack and watch Illuminations from the back of Germany. We lost Andy at one point. He went to get me a bottle of water but the line at the beer/pretzel stand was so long he ended up going to the counter service back there. Finally we were all back together. Pom wanted to see the Frenchie movie as they call it. But alas, the Frenchie movie does not show during EMH. We made a promise that we'd see the Frenchie movie tomorrow with them. (We'd never seen it before )
We made our way on around to Nemo b/c Pom could ride in the clam-mobile. After the ride Brandi and I caused some trouble (what else is new?)
I was screaming/laughing b/c I had Bruce's tooth going into my armpit!
After Nemo we stopped to see if Stitch was at Character Chaos...he was....but it was too chaotic so we decided to go ride Figment. We hadn't ridden Figment in years so it was time to do it again.
While waiting for the cool car to come pick us up Andy took some more gif friendly selfshots..
A lot going on in that one...
On the ride.... Andy took this picture right as Brandi took one behind us so her flash lit up the picture
After the ride we played around with all the sound stuff...
Brandi and Andy the conductors...
Brandi and Andy the noisemakers....
We were all getting pretty tired by now. Brandi had to go to work in the morning for a work day so we all said goodnight and set up a time to meet tomorrow night. Andy and I were on a bus back to POFQ in no time. Another succesfully fun Disney Day in the memory book.
Coming up: It's been too long my beloved blue buddy!
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Great update, Melissa! Sorry you're sick, but I'm glad it got us an update. Those SE pictures are stinking hilarious! And I love all the animated gifs. Too funny!
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That's hilarious!! He was! There was a kid at the back of the room getting down and it cracked us up so Andy started copying him by doing the robot 
So we were just chillin' and enjoying our last night. You should've said hi!! 
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They had just checked in and were getting settled. We thought it was funny she spotted us in passing like that 
When I busted out with the "we were here in May" I think it caught him off guard 
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Glad you had a great time in Epcot!! Love the SE pictures 
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