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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fractal" data-source="post: 9476722" data-attributes="member: 65986">Taking all the fun out of mining!<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/n-MDGKb/WDW-July-2020-2/i-46rmcx5/0/058ea76c/X3/DSC00714-X3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Common sense rules to follow.<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/n-MDGKb/WDW-July-2020-2/i-G3tkVBv/0/3263dd63/X3/DSC00715-X3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Alex and Sterg have an interesting relationship.  When younger, Alex would more or less "bully" and tease her little brother. He claims he would complain to us but we never listened and that was mostly true.  It wasn't until recently when we watched some old family videos that we realized his complaints were valid.  Things like pinning him down and pretending to spit on him, etc. That all stopped however when Sterg grew up bigger than her.  Today they are very close and have a great time together.  I call Alex "Sterg's laugh-track" because she will literally laugh at any of his jokes and antics no matter how stupid they may be.  And the problem with that is it only encourages Sterg to continue his comedy show even if it devolves into more stupidity and antics.  But it's all in good fun and I love that they maintain a great relationship.<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/n-MDGKb/WDW-July-2020-2/i-TFBmvGW/0/4d240391/X3/DSC00716-X3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Getting closer.<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/n-MDGKb/WDW-July-2020-2/i-MWJXbph/0/afc1faff/X3/DSC00717-X3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />I love all the signs and other details in the "new" queue line for BTMRR.<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/n-MDGKb/WDW-July-2020-2/i-dFkfrfR/0/09bd9e2b/X3/DSC00718-X3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Down we go, moving at a fast clip.<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/n-MDGKb/WDW-July-2020-2/i-6Vxnm6V/0/18a0b4c7/X3/DSC00719-X3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Alex and Sterg on Big Thunder circa 2011 - this picture was taken at 20 minutes till 1am on August 8th 2011.  Remember the days when MK would have Extra Magic Hours until 2am? We loved and miss that.<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/n-MDGKb/WDW-2011/i-FzS7tLh/0/83105d2e/X3/DSC01707-X3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />2020 - another AM ride on BTMRR - this time at 9:15 in the morning.  We often joke that Alex looks exactly the same as she did when she was 15. Lol. By the way - Alex is easily the worst abuser of saying "Hi" to everything."Hi taking our picture, Hi wearing my new shirt, Hi your light on your camera..." Those were just a few from that day.<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/n-MDGKb/WDW-July-2020-2/i-LDjxjK6/0/036feda1/X3/DSC00720-X3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />I requested sitting in the back, but just like with Everest - no special requests granted.No photos on the ride because I decided to take a video of the entire trip up the mountain and back. [USER=90882]@Longers[/USER] I thought of you while doing this.  This is your little surprise! I hope your patience is rewarded with this video despite Sterg continuously saying "the wildest ride in the west" and me continuously correcting him. He even tells me I'm number one during the ride! See what his human laugh track does for him? <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😁" title="Beaming face with smiling eyes    :grin:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.0/png/unicode/64/1f601.png" data-shortname=":grin:" /> Anyway - Whenever you, or anyone for that matter, wants to take a ride on Big Thunder with us you can just hit play!  [MEDIA=youtube]RMdFkciZ75o[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

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