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    Pre-Trip Bee's Big Birthday!

    I love a Bee report, and I'm so excited for you to experience travel in Asia! I've been to India several times, and it's jarring but also expansive to go someplace so radically different from home. Can't wait to hear about your adventures!
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    Pre-Trip First Time, Disneymoon, Birthday... Oh My!

    You can pick up a Food and Wine Festival Passport for free to check off the items you try!
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    Trip Report Beauty & The Beards Reunited: LIVE! Sponsored by Smoked Turkeys

    We always just buy it by the half gallon in the shop/food court. It fits in the mini fridge, and I think it costs between $4-$5.
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    Trip Report Soarin' Through Our Extended Family Vacation! COMPLETED

    It IS stressful being the group leader. If only all members of the group could follow simple directives and follow the leader! I guess that's probably why I enjoyed my time alone with K; she goes along with everything, and everything is fun and exciting to her. And that transferred to me, too.
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    Trip Report Soarin' Through Our Extended Family Vacation! COMPLETED

    I hear your pain. This was C's first trip, and I'm sad that it's so tainted with so much sadness, for me. I keep telling myself that her first REAL trip will be when she knows what's going on and will remember things, and I really do think that's true for me. But the disappointments have been...
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    Trip Report Soarin' Through Our Extended Family Vacation! COMPLETED

    Final Thoughts: We left the next morning around 7AM (by the time we got some gas). The ride home was a little longer with more stops, but we all survived it. I tried to process the past four days and come to terms with some hurt feelings. I am still trying to do that, I guess. Lots of my...
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    Trip Report Soarin' Through Our Extended Family Vacation! COMPLETED

    Thank the rain on May 19 for this very text-heavy post: After the UP! show, things got a little... messy. We all went to Expedition: Everest, where DH and DD6 rode twice (she loved it!), and I let C wander around. Thank goodness she wandered over to the Anandapur Ice Cream truck so I could get...
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    Trip Report Soarin' Through Our Extended Family Vacation! COMPLETED

    We did have a little time to kill, so we explored the Maharaja Jungle Trek first. It was hot, I was dehydrated, and my mental game was about done. It was a chore to hold my tongue and to fake happy at this point. But I tried. Some water helped, some one-on-one time with K helped (we were using a...
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    Trip Report Soarin' Through Our Extended Family Vacation! COMPLETED

    We continued on, catching some of the massive silver backs in their mountainside environment as well. I'm with this guy: We had an Expedition: Everest FP+ in the near future, so it was time for a trek to Asia. I did pause for a few pictures along the way.
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    Trip Report Soarin' Through Our Extended Family Vacation! COMPLETED

    When we finished, we were just steps from the Safari entrance, so in we went! The wheelchair entrance is straight through the FP+ line and onto specified wheelchair trucks. We had a couple minute's wait when we got to the loading area, but we were soon on our way. Our safari driver was... a...
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    Trip Report Soarin' Through Our Extended Family Vacation! COMPLETED

    So I lead the group to the Harambe Fruit Market, where we picked up some watermelon, carrots/celery, and a Mickey pretzel (my first ever!). As a side note, this was the day I was most disappointed to be saddled with the added task of pushing a wheelchair. I never had a free hand (or two) to take...
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    Trip Report Soarin' Through Our Extended Family Vacation! COMPLETED

    As we approached the Navi River Journey queue, the wait time was just 20 minutes, and I was happy that we would be able to ride when I'd really thought there was no chance. (Getting the other adults up for EMH was an unwanted lesson in patience everyday...) As we navigated the queue, I was...
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    Trip Report Soarin' Through Our Extended Family Vacation! COMPLETED

    Our final park day was Animal Kingdom day! I was very happy to visiting the park during its 20th anniversary year! Also, I was able to snag a Flight of Passage FP+ at 7AM sixty days out, so I was looking forward to seeing Pandora for the first time and riding this much-lauded ride. But first, we...
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    Trip Report Soarin' Through Our Extended Family Vacation! COMPLETED

    The Enchanted Tiki Room was as fun as ever -- and afforded me a chance to really rehydrate and cool off. At this point, I was on day two of pushing the wheelchair with MIL in it and wearing the thirty-plus-pound backpack from Hell. And I hit 33 weeks on this day, so I was extra grumpy about all...
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