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Okay enough of that application to the Pith Moan and Beach club for upgrading the Wookie Wagon We now return you to our regularly scheduled PTR
We did change our plans for the last 3 nights on the road before we check in. We are staying at Lazy Days in Tampa and will check out what they have in stock that we can trade up to unless we hit POWERBALL then choice is made we'll still stay at Lay Day but will drive over Ft W in a BRAND NEW from the factory TIFFIN ZYPHER Hey if I am going to dream might as well go 1st class
26 Dec x 30 Dec
Last year Lucille found out that in World Showcase the food kiosks that come out during Food and Wine Festival would be out during the holidays and we are hoping they will be back this year. So while we nosh our way from country to country we'lll try to catch as many of the Live performances that we can
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Hey, we all dream!!. I'd buy season tickets to the Eagles!! Nice plans for the coach and that also sounds like a fun stop. Hope they have the food booths again!!
Hope you win the lottery! And I hope the food booths are out for Christmas again.
We will need that Lottery win as that coach cost 4x what our house cost but hey i can dream right. Love the idea of the food stands and just checking out Santa in each of the countries
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Nice that they had the food booths out for Christmas week. Hope it's the same this year.
Last year was first time they did it Donna and we so looked forward to it so hope they will repeat again this year.
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Hey, we all dream!!. I'd buy season tickets to the Eagles!! Nice plans for the coach and that also sounds like a fun stop. Hope they have the food booths again!!
Tara I hear that they have padded Booths at the Linc you might want to consider one of those.
The big Powerball drawing is tomorrow Mike and hope you got plenty of tickets! I'm pulling for you on this one!
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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!
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Well we didn't hit the POWERBALL so I guess we are back to reality. We are looking at a few other options in terms of our coach so we need to make a decision here soon. Looks like we go To the BIG RV show in Hershey Pa this year hope its not only ADVENTURING trip we do this year.
Lucille is a bit worried about not seeing the decorations at AK and DHS so more than likely we will during the week between Christmas and New Years make a trip to each of them. AK has become a favorite for both of us. We spend lots of time just walking around TOL admiring it and checking out the various residents that occupy the grounds around it. Some how this tends to nearly always ends up with us checking out FLICK and his friends at ITTBAB. We laugh almost as much here as we do at HDDR. We both really are looking forward to the new AVATAR area but think for now we'll wait to explore it later in the trip when we hope crowds will have eased off some. When we do go there we intend of devoting a full day to checking out all the new things it has to offer.
Plans are looking good! AK is a great park and so much fun just to walk around it and seeing it all and taking it in! Hope something happens good for you at the RV show!
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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!
You know AK is my favorite, and it is so pretty for Christmas. We will get to explore Pandora in November, and I'm already bracing myself for the crowds in this area.
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And I hope the food booths are out for Christmas again. 
. I'd buy season tickets to the Eagles!!
Nice plans for the coach and that also sounds like a fun stop. Hope they have the food booths again!!
I'm pulling for you on this one! 
AK is my hands down favorite park!!
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