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I came home from work last night and watched this 30 minute Jeff Goldblum program about sneakers... Weird. Both the show and Jeff Goldblum.
So... that's what I chose to be the first thing I watched on it.
I still haven’t watched anything yet, hopefully this weekend!
 
It is a bummer that SW doesn't fly direct to Orlando. My SIL is always going to Orlando since that's where both sides of their families are located, and she does say it gets old having to deal with layovers. Maybe one day!

Your resort hopping evening sounds lovely. My guilty pleasure is potato chips, so I actually understood the excitement over your Lays purchase. :rotfl2: On Halloween, because I was taking the kids trick or treating, I just did sandwiches and chips for dinner, and the kids kept laughing at me because I kept saying all afternoon, "I get to have chips!" So munching on that then watching HEA from afar seems like a pretty great night to me.
I know, all the SW flights from Minneapolis have connecting flights! Oh well, the price is right and we get to fly out of terminal 2 which is way less busy!
Lays potato chips are my all time favorite chip, such a treat!
 
I did FP this morning and it went really well. No IT issues and I got everything we wanted. I didn’t have any problems getting FOP, SDD, 7DMT. I noticed there weren’t any FP for Test Track so it must be under refurbishment as is Splash Mtn.

Today after work, I found a few memories on my email from Shutterfly so sweet. This was November 2014 at Disney. Here are a couple pictures!

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Have a nice weekend Everyone!
 


Disney+ is up and running and Andi has already text me, saying she is crying, watching the Imagineering show. She loves it. I haven’t watched anything yet on it but soon.
I had tears in my eyes watching it too and can't wait for the next episode! Also looking forward to watching a bunch of "older" movies from when I was younger and hoping at least one of the boys will watch with me!

get macarons
::yes:: I plan on getting some in 2 weeks!
We got off here and really explored the resort, inside and outside. This place is so nice.
:love:
a magic bar for me
Ah yes, I'll be having one of these on Dec 4th. Uh-huh I've worked it into the schedule lol

noticed there weren’t any FP for Test Track so it must be under refurbishment as is Splash Mtn.
Glad you got the FP's you wanted! I just finished switching some around for our Dec trip and was able to get good stuff too just a couple weeks out. Monday I do our January FP's and we'll have to compare plans! Stay warm!
 


Hope you are staying warm. I've been complaining about the 20's here. Think I'll keep my mouth shut.

Looks like you all had a great evening resort hoping and snacking! Love this idea.
 
had tears in my eyes watching it too and can't wait for the next episode! Also looking forward to watching a bunch of "older" movies from when I was younger and hoping at least one of the boys will watch with me!
I have to watch this! I did watch the 2 episodes of the Mandalorian, I liked it!
plan on getting some in 2 weeks!
You are lucky, those macarons are so yummy!
Ah yes, I'll be having one of these on Dec 4th. Uh-huh I've worked it into the schedule lol
Another good choice, the magic bar is so good for vacation breakfast!
Glad you got the FP's you wanted! I just finished switching some around for our Dec trip and was able to get good stuff too just a couple weeks out. Monday I do our January FP's and we'll have to compare plans! Stay warm!
It was painless this time, highly unusual with Disney’s IT
Hope you are staying warm. I've been complaining about the 20's here. Think I'll keep my mouth shut.
It has warmed up to a balmy 35 degrees now haha!
Looks like you all had a great evening resort hoping and snacking! Love this idea.
This is a fun way to relax and enjoy the resorts around MK
Yay! So happy to hear this.
It was easy this time to secure our FP choices!
Awwww, how sweet indeed
I love looking at the Disney memories that pop up!
That's always a relief!
Some FP mornings have been awful and this one was a breeze, yay!
 
It is very cold this week, I hope Florida has warmer temps for you!

It was beautiful! A couple of evenings we needed a sweater or light jacket, but otherwise perfect temperatures!

I know, the CM said they actually need to be separated it is the way of the tigers still made me sad.

This makes sense. But sad.

I was surprised how rough and hard the hide was

Me too!

Hello from the Artic Freeze. It was -2 this morning, that really sucks!!

Oh no! Gross!

Disney+ is up and running and Andi has already text me, saying she is crying, watching the Imagineering show. She loves it. I haven’t watched anything yet on it but soon.

Ooh I really wanna watch this! We haven't signed up yet because I've got a lot of stuff to finish in the next couple weeks before I'm done my school term, but after that I think that'll be the first show I watch.

I am thinking of adding a day at US in January so we can try to ride Hagrid’s, get macarons and Vodoo Donuts.

Ooh fun! That sounds like a good idea.

I did something majorly stupid in August, I didn’t upgrade our US tickets to seasonal AP’s.

That's too bad :( It's amazing how much more affordable this is at US.

We got off here and really explored the resort, inside and outside. This place is so nice. I want to stay here at some point. The price sure has increased over the past few years. The lobby is very inviting. It was over 90 degrees outside and inside the WL the fireplace was roaring, how funny is that. It sure adds to the beauty of the rustic lodge.

So lovely! I love WL. The fireplace is so cozy, but kinda funny in the summer!

We decided to buy junk food item #3, some Lays potato chips and dip in the gift shop. Contemporary has a bigger store with food items. This is the best deal at Disney:laughing: Right around $5.00 with AP discount. This is cheap and a good deal for the best potato chips around!

Haha good tip!
 
I definitely dont blame you on switching your flights! Thats like half of another disney trip LMAO If you do stay at SS I think you would like it! Me and Dan definitely liked our one night stay there AND it was only like $20 more than Pop with the discounted dvc points! I would just recommend getting a preferred studio so you;ll be close to DS! And if you have any interest in spas, theirs was very nice!
 
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This is so accurate!

Andi was so funny, she was saying don’t look behind you mom, keep going mom, oh my gosh mom the crowds are coming, keep going don’t look back!

:rotfl: :rotfl:

The delicious warm cinnamon roll came out with our drinks. This was delicious, it was soft and gooey like it should be.

I dream about this cinnamon roll!

We did get the 10% off for being passholders but wow, this breakfast is 59.99 now per person.

What!! That's insane. We ate there in June and I don't remember it costing so much!

We had plans to try the Polite Pig for lunch. I read about the macaroni and cheese and knew Andi would like this.

Oo we just ate there last trip for the first time! So delicious!

Andi turns to me and says see Mom there are worse things to lose than your phone!

Aw what a grown up way of thinking!

Disney+ is up and running and Andi has already text me, saying she is crying, watching the Imagineering show. She loves it.

I cried watching it too! I'm currently watching Boy Meets World on Disney+ lol.
 
It was beautiful! A couple of evenings we needed a sweater or light jacket, but otherwise perfect temperatures!
Sounds wonderful, I hope it is like that in January
Ooh I really wanna watch this! We haven't signed up yet because I've got a lot of stuff to finish in the next couple weeks before I'm done my school term, but after that I think that'll be the first show I watch.
I still haven’t watched much yet, I need to!
So lovely! I love WL. The fireplace is so cozy, but kinda funny in the summer!
It is such a welcoming lobby and the ambiance of the fire draws you in, even in the summer!
definitely dont blame you on switching your flights! Thats like half of another disney trip LMAO If you do stay at SS I think you would like it! Me and Dan definitely liked our one night stay there AND it was only like $20 more than Pop with the discounted dvc points! I would just recommend getting a preferred studio so you;ll be close to DS! And if you have any interest in spas, theirs was very nice!
Thanks for the info, I still haven’t priced it out yet, I have to get on the website and check out the deals.
I dream about this cinnamon roll!
GG has a yummy cinnamon roll indeed!
Oo we just ate there last trip for the first time! So delicious!
2 thumbs up for Polite Pig
I cried watching it too! I'm currently watching Boy Meets World on Disney+ lol.
I need to have a Disney+ evening soon!
 
Friday 8/23/19

A morning at MK and a proper tea for lunch.

This post could be called, my love/hate relationship with MK, could our photos be any worse, pinky out for tea, could we be any closer to these guests? where did our server go? Is she ever coming back?

It was extra magic hour at MK and we were ready, except the monorail wasn’t, oh no, this really delayed our early start. We had to take a bus and the security at MK was so busy this morning. Tomorrow Land was our first stop and it was about 8:10 as we made our way to Buzz. We did Buzz twice, the second time Andi was a galactic hero, yay, again, happy for her.:sad2: This ride makes me happy. I honestly have no idea what I am doing on it and I still love it.
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We still had time in the extra hour and decided on meeting Rapunzel and Tiana. We did wait about 15-20 minutes. I don’t remember much about the meets, not too exciting. The one thing I remember are the awful photos. Poor Andi is squinting in most of them and the lighting was bad. I will show you how bad these pictures are! #photopassfail!

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Yuck!
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even worse! 😟
We stopped at the tangled bathroom and then lined up for HM. We were the second group to get on the ride this morning. We did better with the picture here. We enjoyed our ghostly trip.
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We wanted to do JC next, however, the wait was already to long. Pirates was a short wait, so we jumped on a boat to meet some interesting pirates.
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Once we finished up on pirates, the park was already so crowded. This is where my love/hate feelings came out. I love this park so much except the crowds, with pushy, and rude people gets to be a bit much. We needed to escape to a less stressful world so we headed back in time on the CoP. What a nice decompressor this ride is, even when we got stuck in the 40’s for awhile.
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PM was next. This is another great stress reliever. I got the obligatory picture on here.
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Andi was craving her Mickey pretzel with plastic cheese. We went to Lunching Pad and the CM gave me a free Diet Coke, that was nice. I must have looked like I could use the caffeine.:drinking1

We decided to head out of the very busy park. We took the boat back to the GF. This was a nice relaxing ride as well. I was feeling more zen after CoP, PM, and the boat ride.


We rested for awhile and then we got ready for our afternoon tea. The tea room was not very busy and with our seating luck, we were brought to a table less than 6 inches away from another table of two. We found out they were also a mother/daughter traveling team. We talked to them for awhile. They had just arrived from South Carolina. They were enjoying the tea except the daughter was a little cranky and short with her mom, huh, imagine that. I had no idea what the poor mom must be feeling!:rolleyes1:hyper:
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love Andi’s farmer tan😂
We left them to their tea and started ours. We had a fair waitress, she was sweet, however, a bit pushy and wanting us to order right away. Andi didn’t even know what tea she wanted and did feel rushed. She literally brought everything at one time. I thought it was spaced a little more in May, oh well not a big deal. We enjoyed our tea. We shared a fruity tea and a chai tea. Both teas tasted very good even on a hot day. We had the service which included the tea, finger sandwiches, scones, and dessert.
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Andi was able to substitute the curry chicken salad with another vegetarian choice. Well, everything arrived all at once literally 2 minutes after the tea and then we never saw our waitress again. It was the famous Disney disappearance of the wait staff!

My favorite finger sandwich is the chicken curry and the cucumber one. I also love the scone with the clotted cream, lemon cream, and jelly. The onion tart is really yummy as well. Andi and I both chose the parfait with the fresh strawberries for our dessert. We really enjoyed our afternoon high tea. We made sure to have pinky out when drinking the tea. The service was initially very rushed and then basically non existent so definite negative for me.😞

It was raining by the end of the tea. We looked around the lobby for a little before we made a run for it. We rested in the room for awhile before our evening plans. Stay tuned for DHS and more bad photos!🤪
 
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It's so frustrating when the attraction lines get out of control. Jungle Cruise in particular seems much busier with FP+ than I ever remember it being with FP-. I'm glad you still enjoyed multiple attractions even with the craziness!

I'm glad you enjoyed your tea despite your sub-par waitress. It's definitely unusual to get everything at once - usually they bring the sandwiches and scones first and wait a bit offer you dessert. At least you just had an absent server - my 2015 visit there involved getting hit on by our waitress which was all sorts of uncomfortable. I felt like a train wreck that day (and had even visited urgent care that morning with a sinus infection) so I'm sure I looked like a prize. Also, bless her attempt, but she was aiming her affections at the wrong person as I would never be interested. It was the strangest interaction with a server that I've ever had.
 

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