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    Our completed trip report to Universal Studios Florida August 9th-13th

    I just wanted to drop a trip report for our experiences at Universal Studios during August 9th-13th. We stayed at Lowes Royal Pacific Resort. Very nice hotel and no issues with the hotel at all. They were completely helpful but not on the level of Disney world helpful but a lot of the issues...
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    4th family trip to Disney, 1st in 4 YEARS! AUG 2013(we leave August 9th!!!)

    Yea goto American idol first thing in the morning(passes run out rather fast) , the child interested must be present. They stopped doing the random picks and honestly this was better and my son knew all day he was doing it so it was cool.
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    4th family trip to Disney, 1st in 4 YEARS! AUG 2013(we leave August 9th!!!)

    Trip home Monday, 8/19: Left Downtown Disney 6:25pm Left Disney property 6:32pm Stopped 8:05pm at BK in Flagler Beach, FL Back on road 8:43pm Mel driving Crossed into GA at 10:08pm Gas & bathroom stop 11:20-11:30, @ Richmond Hill, GA - filled up tank, and Dave now driving... Crossed into...
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    4th family trip to Disney, 1st in 4 YEARS! AUG 2013(we leave August 9th!!!)

    Magic Kingdom, Day 10: Packed van, left room at 8am Drove to T&TC, at monorail station at 8:25am(opens at 8:30am)... at MK booth at 8:45. Opening show Got fp for splash Thunder Mtn (2X) Pirates Dave got fp for space Met Aladdin & jasmine Splash w/ fp Got ice cream Met chip n dale...
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    4th family trip to Disney, 1st in 4 YEARS! AUG 2013(we leave August 9th!!!)

    Chef Mickeys/Typhoon Lagoon, Day 9: Chef mickeys 8:05am arrived typhoon lagoon at 10am Luke & I did shark reef, once with Dave, then Matt & Dave hung out in lazy river... Luke and Melody did crush n gusher Shark reef (3X) Lazy river Wave pool Humunga kowabunga Storm slides (2X) Shark...
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    4th family trip to Disney, 1st in 4 YEARS! AUG 2013(we leave August 9th!!!)

    Hollywood Studios, Day 8: Emh, arrived @ 7:35 Got fp for toy story Toy story mania standby TOT Grabbed Aerosmith fp Met Donald & Daisy Toy story w/ fp Met Buzz & Woody Ice cream/pretzel break Aerosmith w/fp Indiana jones stunt show Star tours Pizza planet lunch Met mike & sully...
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    4th family trip to Disney, 1st in 4 YEARS! AUG 2013(we leave August 9th!!!)

    Magic Kingdom, Day 7: Opening show Fp space Rode space Astro orbiter Met stitch Buzz Mel run to voyage mermaid fp Dave & kids blue line tta Rode space w/ fp Stitch's Great Escape Ice cream break Voyage w/ fp Grabbed Peter Pan fp Philharmagic Peter Pan Lunch at pecos bill Splash...
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    4th family trip to Disney, 1st in 4 YEARS! AUG 2013(we leave August 9th!!!)

    Epcot, Day 6: arrived @ 8:40 in line Grabbed fp for TT for 10:05-11:05 Test track 9am Grabbed fp for soarin at 1:05 Mission Space TT Ice cream/pretzel Figment Captain EO(only watch once - painful didn't age well) Soarin w/ fp Characters!!! (Matt and Melody) Lunch at America More...
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    4th family trip to Disney, 1st in 4 YEARS! AUG 2013(we leave August 9th!!!)

    Hollywood Studios, Day 5: arrived @ 8:40am, they let in around 8:45... Fp runner got toy story fp for 10:45 while I signed Luke up for Jedi training at 12:30 Rode Aerosmith w/ 20min. wait at 9:10... Tower of Terror Star Tours Pretzel/ice cream/muffin break Got fp for Aerosmith Rode toy...
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    4th family trip to Disney, 1st in 4 YEARS! AUG 2013(we leave August 9th!!!)

    Blizzard Beach/DQ, Day 4: Arrived @ 9am Teamboat Springs family raft ride Chairlift Teamboat Springs Runoff rapids single enclosed slide (twice?) Cross Country Creek lazy river Snow stormers (purple) Luke and mom single run on a mat slide Ski patrol training camp area with zip line drop...
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    4th family trip to Disney, 1st in 4 YEARS! AUG 2013(we leave August 9th!!!)

    Animal Kingdom, Day 3: Emh hour arrived @ 7:50 Rode Everest twice, front row(just ask and they will put u in special line) Safari Pangani Animal trail Kali Maharaja jungle trek Kali w/ fp Tough to be a bug Dinosaur w/ fp Lunch restaurantosaurs 1:40pm Primeval whirl w/ fp Got fp...
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    4th family trip to Disney, 1st in 4 YEARS! AUG 2013(we leave August 9th!!!)

    Epcot, Day 2: Test track Mission space Grab fp for soarin TT Checked SOAT but too long Spaceship earth Club cool ice cream Figment Soarin w/ fp Lunch electric umbrella The seas Mexico boat ride Maelstrom Friendship boat Got fp for mission space Univ of energy Mission space...
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    4th family trip to Disney, 1st in 4 YEARS! AUG 2013(we leave August 9th!!!)

    Trip to Disney 8/9/13: Left house 6:03pm Stopped at bottom of hill to check if Luke had golf balls, 1 min. Stopped for gas at local Hess, 6:10-6:15 On road again... MD at 6:27pm Entering VA at 8:14pm Hitting the wonderful off and on traffic in Northern VA from dumfries to...
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    4th family trip to Disney, 1st in 4 YEARS! AUG 2013(we leave August 9th!!!)

    Sorry for the lack of posts. We are recovering to the cold air. :-( First the rooms. The said the fridge was unplugged and unusable. Ours was plugged in and worked fine, we just ignored the note. We didn't use our blowup bed, kids were fine sleeping together. but you can do it if you move a...
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    4th family trip to Disney, 1st in 4 YEARS! AUG 2013(we leave August 9th!!!)

    We stopped at the Florida welcome center, it was closed till 8am so no free OJ. We r at exit 341 for Denny's for breakfast. 2.5 hrs drive remaining. Traffic has been nonexistent.
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    4th family trip to Disney, 1st in 4 YEARS! AUG 2013(we leave August 9th!!!)

    We r on pace taking a Break in Virginia we've had a little stop and go traffic wise but overall not too bad we are about 40 minutes from Richmond
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    4th family trip to Disney, 1st in 4 YEARS! AUG 2013(we leave August 9th!!!)

    Ate dinner waiting for my wife to come home. We are counting down to 6pm Ill post from time to time tonight
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    4th family trip to Disney, 1st in 4 YEARS! AUG 2013(we leave August 9th!!!)

    Cool we stayed at Pop In 2009 and loved it there and I guess you can test the new system. We leave in 3 hrs. 18 hrs is a haul. Ill post an update and see how things work out sleeping wise in the room. We are all set to go, just need to throw stuff in car, eat dinner and we go at 6pm.
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    4th family trip to Disney, 1st in 4 YEARS! AUG 2013(we leave August 9th!!!)

    I am very excited that our trip begins tomorrow night but the adventure begins today. I leave work in an hour, then we go see the new Percy Jackson movie. We get home around 6:30-7pm, then eat dinner, then have everyone get dressed into PJ or old clothes for the night so we can do another...
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    4th family trip to Disney, 1st in 4 YEARS! AUG 2013(we leave August 9th!!!)

    Very exciting, we have 2 days until our drive starts back to Disneyworld. :cool1: Work seems to be going smoothly. Laundry was done last night. Some minor items to pick up during lunch. Tonight, I do some cleaning in the house and then I can setup my suitcase. Then tomorow, we have a minor...




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