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I that picture of Roger in the wave pool! I thought about trying for a picture like that with my family but figured for sure both the camera and I would end up under water. I just love his expression!
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What a wonderful day of fun celebration!
Your meal at California Grill sounds so delicious!
That dessert trio that Roger got sounds amazing!
I have had the dessert you got Tricia, and I it!
Fun, fun update with wonderful pictures!
Day 6 (8/13/09)
Today we were up early to go have breakfast with Donald at AK before the park opened. This is one of my favorite things to do – book an ADR for 8:00 a.m. in the various parks so that we can have pictures of an almost empty park, have a great character meal and be already inside the park when the rest of it opens at 9:00. This was the first time we had tried Donald’s Safari Breakfast since they had moved it to Africa from Dinoland. We were impressed with the changes. Veronica, who checked us in, was really fun to chat with while waiting to have our picture taken with Donald.
Us with the Tree of Life with hardly anyone else in the picture!
Saying Hi to Donald on our way into breakfast.
The way the buffet was set up with different kinds of entrees (hot entrees on one side, cold entrees together and the sweets in the middle) in each area and the plates below the food was really cool. I love all the décor around the restaurant too. We had our pictures taken with the characters as they came around and got their autographs for my pre-schoolers back home. What was even more fun was the look on Dorothy’s (our waitress) face when we asked if we could get our picture with her since she is the one who really is the star for doing all the hard work at breakfast!
The “Sweet” section of the buffet. Yum!
Roger and I with Dorothy at the end of our meal.
Since we were already in Africa, we walked right onto the safari with no wait!
This is how close the Giraffe were to the Safari Vehicles this morning!
to be continued....
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We met a couple of characters on our way to Asia after the safari and stopped to take some pictures of the Tree of Life including some close-ups of the animals in the trunk from across the river.
Roger bugging Flik for a picture.
Tree of Life from across the River
Roger's artistic view of me with the Tree
A close-up of the octopus, iguana and a bear.
to be continued....
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After grabbing fast passes for Expedition Everest, we headed over to the Maharajah Jungle Trek to check out the animals. We stopped to check out the cool fountains in Asia on the way.
A very cool fountain – literally
I appointed Roger as photographer of the bats since I don’t do bats ever since they used to get into our attic in our old condo.
Roger’s bat picture
We saw the tapirs & the Komodo dragon and watched the tigers for a long time. We found some hidden Mickey’s in the murals along the way too.
The tiger pacing back and forth
A hidden Mickey in the mural by the tigers.
We headed over to Dinoland where we took a break inside Restaurantosaurus to cool off before heading over to Dinosaur. We did some exploring around Dinoland on our way back to Expedition Everest to use our fastpasses.
A hidden Mickey on the ground in Dinoland.
to be continued...
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Roger can’t find the big, yellow dinosaur I was trying to warn him about.
Our picture with Everest on our way over to ride it.
After Expedition, we spent some time exploring the Oasis on our way out of the park.
Some of the beautiful residents of the Oasis.
We headed over to Blizzard Beach next since it is very easy to get there from the AK since they are on the same bus route. We wanted to go play miniature golf at Winter-Summerland before cooling off at Blizzard Beach but first we went into BB, changed into our suits, left all our excess stuff in the locker, bought the refill sticker for our mug so we could fill it up and take it with us and then went over to play golf.
I got a hole-in-one!
Roger is really concentrating!
We won’t mention who won but Roger says that I have an unfair advantage for having taken golf lessons in the 6th grade. As if that would give me an advantage at miniature golf 26 years later!
After golf, we went to drown Roger’s tears in the waterways of BB. Unfortunately we did not get very far through the park, when they had to close it due to a lightening storm. They say lightening doesn’t strike the same place twice, but this is the second time I have taken shelter in the BB store right before it has struck there! By the time we had made it to the bus stop in the pouring rain, we had just missed our bus. A very kind driver by the name of Larry drove us to the WL on his way to the Contemporary and Poly so we wouldn’t have to wait for another bus. Way to Go Disney Castmembers!!! And thank you wet people on the bus who had to wait through an extra stop to get back to their resort.
Since the rain just kept coming, we changed our plans and went to Downtown Disney tonight. We decided to use our travel voucher for Planet Hollywood to dodge the rain for a bit longer and grab some dinner. Maybe I’m just getting old, but it seems to get louder and louder every time we eat there. I had a huge headache by the time we left. The rain was letting up by this point, so we did some shopping around the marketplace and had dessert at Ghirardelli’s (seemed like a good way to cure a headache to me)! And with that, we called it a day.
We have an early tour in the morning…..more to come!
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I love the picture you got of Mickey in the parade! Too cute! Awesome TR, can't wait to hear more!! We're going to have to try this whole getting up early thing next year!! LOL
Just caught up Tricia. What a wonderful Anniversary Day, from your breakfast at CP to dinner at the CG everything seemed perfect. Glad you and Roger and such a great day to celebrate.
Looks like you had a great morning at AK, Sorry your time at BB got cut short but while dinner at PH was not perfect having a yummy dessert sounded like the perfect way to end the evening.
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that picture of Roger in the wave pool! I thought about trying for a picture like that with my family but figured for sure both the camera and I would end up under water. I just love his expression!
We're going to have to try this whole getting up early thing next year!! LOL 
Love being Goofy on Space Mountain!! LOL 
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