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Love the new Lego displays! We hope to make a stop at DTD after our cruise, on the way to Sanford for the autotrain. If we do, I know I definitely need to check these out!
Sorry about the meltdown! My DD is famous for under the breath mutterings about how mean we are when she's mad!
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The story you wrote for Stefanie brought tears to my eyes! Do you do all of your scrapbook journaling in 3rd person? I seem to fluctuate back and forth between first person and third person, though I try to be consistent throughout an entire scrapbook.
The Lego store looks really cool! Love the pics of Stefanie with Buzz. We rarely make time for DtD, but my boys would love that. We'll have to try to check it out in December.
Sorry about the meltdown -- it happens to the best of us! -- but glad that she came around before you got back to the hotel. When I did online check-in for POR in February, I could have sworn that "close to transportation" was an option, as that was our desire and we did end up with a room just a few steps from one of the bus stops there.
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Wow..I was something like 15 pages behind. Sounds like your AK day was truely magical. How awesome to be in the parade and all your animal shots on the safari were wonderful.
Love all the new lego displays. They aer really cool. And sorry about the meltdown...but we all seem to have them every once in a while. In fact my DD (17) had one on Saturday night. It included the "angry eyes" from Toy Story, our little inside joke about her evil, pissed at the world stares. She too, sat away from us as well. Ahhh kids, what would you do without them?!!
Don't you just love Joanns?! We have a really crappy one where I live, but about 40 mins up the road they have a new one that is loaded with Scrapbook items, and they have been on sale for 40% off for a few weeks now. I have to go up to DC tomorrow to take my DD for her endo appt and will try and stop by there. I love when scrapbook items are on sale. My kids...not so much. I wanted to stop at Michaels yesterday, but my DS advised he would set the place on fire if I did. Guess he doesn't like the place.
I am more amazed everytime I see pics of what some people with way too much time on their hands can do with a simple childs toy Got to get me some of those Lego's
Sorry that Stephanie had a Saddlecrap episode fortunately it didn' last too long
After shopping, we took a restroom break where a mother and grown daughter kept staring at me while I washed my hands. As they exited, I heard the mom say, “You’re right it is the same as our.’ Who knows what IT was?
My 5 year old is always doing things like this! It's usually because someone has a hidden (or not-so-hidden) Mickey somewhere, but I can only imagine how it can be percieved sometimes! I do try to affirm what she's talking about loud enough (and with a smile) so that they know it's harmless!
I'm with Stefanie on the shopping...I probably act the same way when we leave DTD, atleast on the inside!
Love your giraffe gifts from Ann! She's so sweet. And that really was a wonderful day. Your DTD time sounded great too, except for Stef's meltdown. Glad she quickly got over it! I can't wait for the shopping photos. I need a little retail therapy, and your pictures will give me a fix.
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Cute story for your scrapbook!
I love the new displays at the LEGO store. I have the same Harry Potter magnet set. Can't wait to see pictures of the rest of your purchases. Sorry Stefanie had a meltdown, but at least she wasn't mad at you for too long.
Just getting caught up again Cam! Such wonderful pictures from AK! Love the character pictures and the parade ones as well! And what a great story for the scrapbook!
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I have to say that it was very funny how fast Cam and I scooted out of that bathroom with the continuous flushing potty!
The food was good, the Hidden Mickey booth was fun! The friends....they are priceless!
What a wonderful way to finish such a magical day!
Ok - I think we must have posted at the same time, because your last post was not here when I was typing!!
Poor Stefanie! I remember you texting me about her meltdown! I think she had shoppers overload!
I am glad she came around while on the bus!
I am really sorry that I didn't venture over to the new Lego store! I really missed quite a bit of cool stuff.
I am really wondering why I didn't go there!
It sounds like your check in at Kidani went smoother than ours. But, I think our room location was a lot closer than yours!
Note to self.....when staying at Kidani - request a room close to the main lobby!
We did skedaddle out of that restroom in record speed! Kidani is so large that making a room request here is probably a very wise idea. We would pass our old room from 2009 every time we headed to the bus stop and I wished so much to be there again.
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I absolutely love the scrapbook story and it made me tear up. I'll bet that'll be a favorite story for Stefanie to listen to. I love a shopping day and sort of sympathize with Stef for having a meltdown. She's usually such a trooper. Even her meltdown face is sweet. I'm glad for your sake she came out of it pretty quickly and was nice to you again!
I have to agree that her meltdown face is actually sweet, but then I just love her face. She always comes around fairly quickly, thank goodness!
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LOVE the little story you made for stephanie!! What a magical day at AK! You really are so talented
I love how kids can have a meltdown and be so "angry" with you but then 5 min later talk to you as if nothing had happened
Your purchases sound great! Can't wait to read the rest!
Oh I love the photos from the new lego store! I'm so sorry Stefanie had a melt down, but it sounds like it didn't last too long. I'm curious to hear about Kidani, because even though it is our home property, we haven't stayed there--we seem to always end up at Jambo--either because we're splurging on Concierge points or saving on Value points
This was our first time to stay on points at Jambo House. I truly Kidani and that didn't change with the long walk.
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Great story for your scrapbook.
Sorry for the meltdown.
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Love the story for the scrapbook! The room at Kidani doesn't sound promising though...
It ended up not being all that bad.
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Love the scrapbook story! Sorry to hear about the meltdown but it sounds like it passed rather quickly. When we stayed at AKL we had the very last room farthest away from the buses at Jambo. It was quite a hike after a long day at the parks! (And as DH points out - it was always UPHILL!)
You will definitely empathize with the walk we had then. We were actually pretty close to Jambo House and could see some of the rooms there from our balcony.
What a great story! You did a good job with that and I'll bet Stefanie loves to hear it.
WOW -amazing pictures of the new Lego models! I love the shot of Stefanie with Buzz. So sorry that she had a meltdown, but glad it was over soon.
Stefanie was very patient waiting to get her photo with both Buzz and Woody as these were very popular photo ops.
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the story! I'm sure Stefanie does, too. I'm sorry about the post shopping meltdown.
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Your gifts are so adorable as are the figurines on your shelf at home! The giraffe mug that you put your pens in is perfect for that use too! The dinner at Sanaa sounded wonderful and I'm glad that your server was so helpful. The Legos at DTD are so neat! I hope I get a chance to make it down there on our upcoming trip.
I can't imagine how much time it took to build each of these.
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Love the new Lego displays! We hope to make a stop at DTD after our cruise, on the way to Sanford for the autotrain. If we do, I know I definitely need to check these out!
Sorry about the meltdown! My DD is famous for under the breath mutterings about how mean we are when she's mad!
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And what a great story for the scrapbook! 
She does recover very quickly! 
The room at Kidani doesn't sound promising though... 
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