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Thanks! :) I totally agree. I'm really excited, nervous, anxious to go and also anxious about going - lots of emotions, but I know it will be great. Oh my gosh - that little girl looks terrified! And yes, I think that's exactly what her dad is about to do! Mr. Napkinbra is alive and well, and very much still a part of our lives! He and Danielle took a brief break in the fall while she got her feet under her at school, but then they reunited and are closer than ever. Here are the two of them plus Jodi last month when Danielle was home for the 70th birthday party for Buddy

That's the best update yet. I love love love extended family pictures. Your SIL must be a tiny thing. Stella looks like she is every bit as tall as her. Glad y'all got to have a great day with your family. Looking forward to hearing about the INC family visit!

Totally behind, but now totally caught up. Again. I love Stella's selfies. My girls fall into the same camp as your older ones - many fewer pictures overall, no underwater selfies, etc., at least when they were young. Now, pictures are so pervasive - on phones, cameras, everywhere it seems - that there's almost too many sometimes. Still an awesome report. Looking forward to more.

Sunday – our last day! I woke up on our last morning in enough time for one last run around SSR. I had fun finding a Hidden Mickey in this here fountain: It was yet another beautiful day. Why can’t they all be like this at home? We all finished packing up and toted our bags to the airline check in, and then hopped a bus to the MK. We had ADRs at Chef Mickeys that I had scored at the last minute. But first we had time for a quick run into the MK for a ride on BTMRR. I have no idea what is happening here: Chef Mickeys was exactly as it always is, which was just

Hey guys! I'm so sorry I've been so negligent in dragging this report out so badly! I figured I better wrap up this portion before leaving for the last trip of this triple trip report. So, if you're still here, thanks!! Exactly! That's one great thing about WDW - I have yet to go to a resort that wasn't worth being at, just for the sake of being there. The dessert was awesome. I don't remember what it was, but I do remember that it had nutella and obviously lots of chocolate. And I ate every.single.bite. Thanks! It was truly awesome. Thanks, Duane! That's so sweet!

Saturday Sorry to be so slow in finishing up this part of the report! I promise I'm almost done! Thanks for hanging in there! Saturday morning, I woke up one minute before my alarm went off and made another wildly successful trip to the MK to score FPs for the girls who would be going there that evening. I loaded the old MBs with rides between 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. for them to use, and then got back in time to get them moving toward the AK for their morning there. Ray and I had different plans, though. We decided to have our first-ever whole day at the resort!!! We had breakfast and

I know! Almost as good as sneaking a picture of Devine in somewhere you know Dave will see is. I love the food at Marrakesh. But I like weird food a lot of the time. It's definitely different, but I think it's very yummy. It's definitely not too spicy, or at least everything we had wasn't. Y'all should try it sometime, and if David doesn't like it, you can always grab a pizza afterward. (Been there, done that many times with Ray!) Thanks! And I miss the hat too, though I'm looking forward to seeing the theater when the hat is completely gone. The partial deconstruction just

Oh wow. I had no idea I was so behind on this report! Good updates. Too bad you didn't figure out that the whole FP system seemed to be down before time to go. It would have been fun for you to test that and see what all y'all could have gotten on without FPs.

Oh my gosh - this is adorable. The blurry excited Anna with Santa pic was awesome also.

Finally caught up again. Still loving this non-trip-trip-report trip report.The pictures from the mine train, Anna and Anna, late night Stella and INC, and just all of y'all are just great. Looking forward to hearing about Christmas!

Will do for sure. Are you just going through your MDE account as you would with any other restaurant? That's what I've been doing but want to make sure I'm not missing anything. I also called to try but was told they didn't have any. Thanks!

I've been trying over and over for the past 2 days for Danielle's trip this summer and haven't been able to get anything.

After all our fun being band groupies, we first battled Darth Vader, flew off into space, headed to RNRC and TOT and then happily hopped the bus back. There’s one in every crowd: Everyone had just a little bit of downtime before it was time to head to Epcot for dinner at Restaurant Marrakesh. http://youtu.be/Y0HeBIxEuqo Dinner was great and we felt fully satisfied with our day. After supper, we returned to the room for a relaxing evening in the room and a relatively early bedtime. Up next: Our last full day

Friday After such a big day on Thursday, I still woke up early on Friday and decided to go on a run around the resort while everyone else slept in. I ended up running over to the Treehouse Villas to check them out, as I was already by then trying to start thinking through a possible New Years trip there. The thing I learned this trip is that the THVs don’t have their own busses to the parks. Rather, you have to take a bus to the main bus stop at SSR and then wait for the right park bus to come. That could be a deal breaker for us, but I don’t think so. We may end up renting a car to get

Yay! Y'all haven't left me yet, despite how long this one is dragging out... Yup! It really was. :) As best I can tell, you can't make the FPs on the extra bands because they're not linked to any active ticket. But, I think (emphasis on think) that you can modify them online or on the app once they are made. I never tried though, so I can't say for sure. And yes, no matter what else is happening there, anywhere with Mickey waffles is worthy. Even if Stitch is there. Yes - take your old MBs, at least ones that are for people who are different from the people who are going

Yay for the twins! And yay for more west coast TRs!

Love all the pics from this update, but I really love that Izzy went off to the MK by herself! That's just awesome that she is so self confident. And her pictures were adorable.

Oh my gosh - I have just been dying about the Jasmine story. Awesome story-telling, especially with the pictures to help get a real feel (!!) for how things actually went down in that little encounter. Awesome report!

We arrived! Just a small crane in the background here: (The girls clearly rode Space a few times on standy.) Even with all those FPs lined up, the girls had time to do a treasure hunt of some sort. They looked like they were having fun with it. After lunch at CHH together, we all split apart from each other for a bit. Ray headed back to SSR for a big nap, the girls continued knocking out rides on the FPs, and I got to do something totally unexpected – go see a group of wild women I had no idea was going to be at the Fort while I was the

Thursday This morning, I woke up early to try something that I didn’t know whether it would be possible or not – getting same day FPs on old magic bands during AM EMH at the MK. We had 8:25 ADRs at ‘Ohana, which I made before I realized that it was an EMH day. I knew that by the time we got there after breakfast, that chances would be decreasing of getting as many good FPs, so I left everyone else in bed and hopped a bus to the MK around 7:00. I was so close to the front of the crowd – only a couple of people between me and the rope. I really, really thought about abandoning the whole re

Hey guys! Sorry I've been slacking on this report! Danielle was here over the weekend for a big family party (Buddy is now 70, for anyone who has been reading my TRs for a while!), and I was just overrun with stuff to do. But after a one day weather delay, Danielle's now out west again and life is resuming some sense of normalcy, though I miss her again! Anyway, I'm going to try to get this report going again so I can be way done with trip #2 before trip #3 starts! Can't say I didn't warn you! You should definitely try Bluezoo. It's so great. And yes, I was really surprised

It's not really mainstream Disney, as it's at the Dolphin, but I wholeheartedly recommend Bluezoo for an adults-only seafood dinner. It was just amazing. The service was better than anywhere I've been on property and rivals anywhere I've ever been off property. And the food was really as good as I've ever had anywhere.

Nooooooooooooooooooooo!

Yup, this is definitely a TR. I agree with Disney actually getting things right for the photopass/memory maker thing. I love that they now include ride photos too. I'm also guessing MK for the first park day. Just too close to not go.

The reason we were in a hurry at Bluezoo is we had to make it back to SSR before Jodi and Susan arrived. We made it, but just barely! We took what we thought would be a cab from Bluezoo back to SSR, but I noticed that the van wasn’t marked with any cab company markings. I didn’t think anything about it until he told us when we got to SSR that it would be $20 for the ride. Given that the cab that took us to the Dolphin (exact same ride, just in reverse) cost $12, we knew we were getting the shaft. But we just paid it and went on about our business. I guess it was because the Dolphin isn’