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Love your early morning pictures at your resort. Wow, great views of California Adventure from the upper floor.
I'm glad you got to get into DTD, and had a fantastic breakfast at Whitewater Snacks. We got a lot of food from there during our stay, but never the Mickey Waffles. Now I'm sorry! But we were always at the parks by 7 am.
Your pictures in the lobby of the GC are great! It is really hard to take photos there since it is so dark except for the upper windows that let in a lot of light.
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Bummer about RSR being down for so long that morning. I'm glad you were able to get a FP for that, and World of Color along with your ToT and Goofy's Sky School. Sounds like you missed the Goofy's FP time, I'm curious to see if you rode it later and what you thought.
Oh wow on that pasta! Sounds amazing! You hit the jackpot so far that day on meals.
I totally agree with you about the Toy Story Mania queue at DL (boring!). Good thing the wait times are a lot less than at WDW.
I
at your experience on the swinging gondolas. OMG they are horrible!!! My youngest son Ben and I rode those and regretted it.
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YAY for loving your ride on RSR!!!
We never made it over to the Tea Party area and didn't even see the Monsters Inc Ride or Muppets.
The faces on the people in the standby line say it all. I would NEVER! And fortunately, we didn't have to.
I have to say that Carsland at sunset and the Aladdin show are a good tradeoff for missing Soarin'. I think Aladdin is my favorite show at a Disney park. I watched it solo because my guys didn't want to see it.
But:
While this picture didn't come out very good, I had to include it because it represents (as Kevin and I called it) "That Awkward Moment When Jasmine Had a Song". Not that her song wasn't good, or that the actress wasn't good - it just didn't feel like it fit at this part of the show. Hopefully now that they're bringing the show to Broadway they'll give her more to sing at places that feel more organic in the story!.
LOL!!! I thought the same thing- could have done without the song.
We loved our rice bowls from the Lucky Fortune or whatever it was. A little different option.
Pretty picture from the World of Color, but glad that you decided to just sit back (stand back) and enjoy the show.