Trip report- A Jedi craves not these things

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I ordered a couple of these beauties. I hope they get here before we leave.



Oh that would so suck if that happened! You should have plenty of time for that though.

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great shirt

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they said allow three to five weeks for delivery, so who knows.

I guess with under a month to go, this went from a pre-pre-trip report to just a pre-trip report.

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I'm doing the seven day dance! banana

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Lots of great magical moments for sure...Have a blast... awesome

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The Colonel wrote:
I'm doing the seven day dance! banana

May I lead? laugh Doing the FIVE day dance!! banana

See you there Colonel!!

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I'm doing the seven day dance! banana

congrats congrats congrats congrats We want video waiting

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Sure- stand clear though, people tend to get hurt when I dance. Hey- are you going to be at MK rope drop 5/22 at 6am?

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The Colonel wrote:
Sure- stand clear though, people tend to get hurt when I dance. Hey- are you going to be at MK rope drop 5/22 at 6am?

Of course I will.......wearing my Fairy Godmother costume!! Mickey mickey is giving me an awesome birthday gift....24 hours of Magic. Having breakfast with Cinderella in her castle and dinner with the Beast in his castle! muchlove

Will you be at rope drop Colonel?

yay clapping yay clapping yay clapping

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Congrats Colonel and Ohio! Have a blast!

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Sure- stand clear though, people tend to get hurt when I dance. Hey- are you going to be at MK rope drop 5/22 at 6am?

Of course I will.......wearing my Fairy Godmother costume!! Mickey mickey is giving me an awesome birthday gift....24 hours of Magic. Having breakfast with Cinderella in her castle and dinner with the Beast in his castle! muchlove

Will you be at rope drop Colonel?

yay clapping yay clapping yay clapping

I'm going to try but my flight lands at 10 the night before. I kind of know what Michael looks like or you guys might recognize me. Anyway we're bound to meet somewhere.

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See you at C Grill on Sat the 23rd. Our ADR is at 6:50. Yours is at 7:10. laugh

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See you at C Grill on Sat the 23rd. Our ADR is at 6:50. Yours is at 7:10. laugh

If you see me, I want you to say very loud, "hey there's The Colonel and Mrs. The Colonel!" Go ahead, make my day. awesome

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See you at C Grill on Sat the 23rd. Our ADR is at 6:50. Yours is at 7:10. laugh

If you see me, I want you to say very loud, "hey there's The Colonel and Mrs. The Colonel!" Go ahead, make my day. awesome

You have no idea what you have just done! laugh Have you forgotten that we are all enablers?!

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See you at C Grill on Sat the 23rd. Our ADR is at 6:50. Yours is at 7:10. laugh

If you see me, I want you to say very loud, "hey there's The Colonel and Mrs. The Colonel!" Go ahead, make my day. awesome

You have no idea what you have just done! laugh Have you forgotten that we are all enablers?!

And if you add a great big "Kungaloosh" I'll have to salute you! Beer

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The Colonel wrote:
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See you at C Grill on Sat the 23rd. Our ADR is at 6:50. Yours is at 7:10. laugh

If you see me, I want you to say very loud, "hey there's The Colonel and Mrs. The Colonel!" Go ahead, make my day. awesome

You have no idea what you have just done! laugh Have you forgotten that we are all enablers?!

And if you add a great big "Kungaloosh" I'll have to salute you! Beer

Will you be wearing your Pith helmet? silly

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You know you two have to stand if front of the webcam and wave at us. If I knew when you would do it I would record it or get picture.

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I will be wearing my blue, hooded Fairy Godmother robe with the big pink bow!

It will also have my Happy Birthday pin. birthday

laugh muchlove laugh

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where is the webcam?- i'll let you know when we are there- we those tees I bought

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The Webcam is mounted on the Train Station platform facing down Main Street. Here is a picture from it so you can get the perspective.

This should be the same perspective unless they move the camera some.

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Thanks! "See" you there!! awesome

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The Webcam is mounted on the Train Station platform facing down Main Street. Here is a picture from it so you can get the perspective.

This should be the same perspective unless they move the camera some.

nice- what is the web address for that camera?

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You have to wait until the day of to get the url. They don't put it up on the site until the park opens that day. It will be on the disney blog page.

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Ok- I've been home for a few days. We had a great trip. I'm going to write some kind of trip report.

At great expense, I added two nights to the beginning of my trip in order to attend the 24 hour event at MK 5/22-5/23. My flight arrived at about 10:30pm on 5/21. By the time we settled into POP and got to bed it was almost 2am. I set the alarm for 4:30am. I never heard the alarm, woke at about 6:10am. Mrs. C was ready to go, but I reasoned that since we missed rope drop, we may as well go back to sleep and that's what we did. So we woke at about 11 and spent the day at the Pop pool relaxing. The new plan was to hit MK about 6pm and stay through the night.

Pop wasn't bad. I would definitely stay there again in a pinch.

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We walked across the bridge to Art of Animation. It looked pretty cool.

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The 24 hour thing sounds better in theory than it actually is. It was cool to see a parade at 1am and go on HM at 2am, but it got tiring pretty fast. Disney really didn't put much effort into it. The only thing really going on after 2am was a couple of dance parties; a big one in front of the castle and another in Frontierland. Most of the rides shut down and the only places to eat were Casey's and Plaza Ice Cream. The fact is that about 4am to 6am was an endurance test. But we were committed to stay till the end. I don't know how people did the whole 24 hours. Then at 5:30 there was a little parade down Main Street to the train station and a little show from the train station and it was over. It took almost 2 hours to get back to POP on the Disney bus. I'm too old for this crap.

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Great pictures Colonel! I'm pretty sure I could not have stayed up all night like you did, but it would be fun to try at least once. Too bad about the rides being shut down.

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Wow, the photos are EXCELLENT, Colonel! Very well done. Especially like the ones of Main Street, the castle and also the blue vertical lights. Thanks for posting them. awesome

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Thanks- sadly those vertical lights reminded me of the Trade Center post 911.

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A 2 hour wait for a bus at 5:30am?! Oh hell no! That sounds miserable! Your pictures are gorgeous, as usual! Can't wait for more! awesome