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Great update. I really like the pictures. Don't know how Mike walked out of Epcot. I know that I would not have been able to handle the amount of liquid much less the high octane content. Continued thoughts for the successful arrival of Lucas.
How fun, I love the drinking around the world, You were so amazing for getting so much done while pregnant, I remember long before your PTR seeing you post on someone's TR and seeing your countdown and pregnancy ticker thinking, that lady is crazy!!!!! But you did so much, I love it!
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You really did a lot and I'm amazed at Mike for getting as far around the world as he did. I would have been snoozing in a corner after just one drinkie.
Love the photopass pics.
Great day!!! Thats was alot of adult beverages and sill did not finish...I would have passed out! Hate the trip is comin to an end! Our next trip we are goin to buy all of us the big vinylmation and that them around the "world"!!!
Have fun with the Vinylmations! The CMs really got a kick out of them too.
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What a great birthday IMO I showed Eric the pictures of Biergarten and the big beer LOL I couldn't resist!
Wow those were some angry skies in the background! But it looks like it didnt hamper the rest of the day
I Mousegears. I swear its my fave store...I can spend lotsa bucks in there!
Sounds like a great birthday and the turndown service! I hope I dont forget to ask! BTW not much longer for baby lukas
Those beers I'd have to hold with 2 hands - they're huge!! We too Mouse Gears!
This time next week I'll have given birth to baby Lukas!!!
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Great update Kelly! What another wonderful birthday day celebration! Mike did a pretty good job drinking around the world for one day even though he didn't get to all the countries.
for hoping the next week goes by quickly and you getting some R&R. Your almost there!
THanks Shelley!!
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What a great rest od Mike's Birthday. Looks like a wonderful evening in Epcot. Love the pictures. I'm impressed how many AB's Mike drank on his Birthday. So sad your trip is almost coming to an end, but on a positive note a new baby will arrive soon. Take it easy and I will be patiently be waiting whenever you're able to. I think all of us Moms can completely empathise with you on the swollen feet and the last few days leading to baby's birth being exhausting and overwhelming. Take it easy and enjoy it before Lukas comes.
Thanks Becki! We have no plans this weekend and I'm looking forward to doing nothing, but then I think about stuff I should be doing. I'll probably just do some laundry and dye my hair - I gotta cover these grays up before all these pictures are taken of me.
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Great birthday for Mike! I think you managed to do quite a bit pregnant as I think I would have given out much sooner.
Well thank you! It was fine if I went back for a rest everyday and I would take breaks during the day too.
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Great update. I really like the pictures. Don't know how Mike walked out of Epcot. I know that I would not have been able to handle the amount of liquid much less the high octane content. Continued thoughts for the successful arrival of Lucas.
After coming home and looking at the pictures and writing the notes for this portion of the TR I told Mike he was quite the boozer after dinner, but he really wasn't all that affected by it - must have been all that he ate at dinner.
Thanks for the thoughts too!
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How fun, I love the drinking around the world, You were so amazing for getting so much done while pregnant, I remember long before your PTR seeing you post on someone's TR and seeing your countdown and pregnancy ticker thinking, that lady is crazy!!!!! But you did so much, I love it!
LOL!! Everyone else thought I was crazy too, but I think since we 've been enough times and will go back I knew what I could handle.
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Great update! Was Mike sad that he didn't get all the way around the world? Rest up!
No he really wasn't - he was just happy to be in Epcot ALL day!!
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Great update Kelly! Looks like Mike had a great birthday in EPCOT!
Thanks Marnie!
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You really did a lot and I'm amazed at Mike for getting as far around the world as he did. I would have been snoozing in a corner after just one drinkie.
Love the photopass pics.
We were quite the troopers that day I guess.
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Looks like a great day! I'm sorry to hear its coming to an end!
The end is always so sad isn't it?!
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Love the poster that "your" Imagineer Joe did. I've always loved that one!
I haven't been inside the pavilion, but apparently it's a big mural too or was and then they decided to make a poster out of it too. Very !
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Great update Kelly!! Glad to hear Mike had an outstanding birthday!!
I'm surprised you didn't have to carry Mike out of Epcot!!! He did great if you ask me and so did you for keeping up with him! I've never eaten at the Beirgarten, but it looks like a really great place, just not big on German food.
BTW...One More Week til your little prince arrives!!!
Glad to hear you are doing nothing over the weekend. Laundry, not bad, dying the gray hairs had me laughing(sorry Kelly), as I constantly ask Erick if he'll let me dye his and he's only 26. I hope you're all packed and ready to go to the hospital for Lukas's birth. That was my rookie mistake. In a week we'll have Lukas to ooh and aah over on the boards and see the cute pictures of Dylan & Lukas together.
Glad Mike had such a great birthday, love that he was able to get his Vinylmations signed in so many countries. Can't believe the birthday trip is almost over.
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I think you managed to do quite a bit pregnant as I think I would have given out much sooner. 
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He did great if you ask me and so did you for keeping up with him! 
I've never eaten at the Beirgarten, but it looks like a really great place, just not big on German food. 
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