Well, it's Tuesday morning and it was time for AK. DH loves AK so we were up and out the door early. We arrived at AK by 9:15am and make a bee line for the Safari. DH insists on doing the safari the minute we walk in the park and we have yet to be disappointed! The animals were quite active and we got a few good pics!
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While walking around, we ran into Divine! It's always amazing to see her!
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AK was not the least bit crowded and we were able to ride EE twice in a row and grabbed a FP for later. We also rode Dinosaur twice. Don't know why the line for Primeval Whirl was so long, so we skipped it for now! We also walked around and got some good photos!
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We even met a new friend! We've actually never seen Meeko and apparantly, Stitch was taking a bit longer of a break than expected so this was a nice surprise!
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We then went and used our FP for EE and by now it was around 1pm and we were starved so we decided it was time to head out! CS at AK is actually worse than at DHS, so we hopped a bus back home to SSR and walked over to Earl of Sandwich!! YUM!! After lunch we went home, grabbed our suits and went up to the High Rock Springs pool for a bit! After our swim, we went home, showered and went out to the bus stop to go to MK then over to GF for dinner. At this time, our friends had called, finally, so that we could meet up at
MNSSHP. We got over to MK pretty quickly and hopped on the monorail over to GF. Here is where our evening starts to go down hill. We had a 5:20pm ressie for 1900 Parke Fair. We arrived at 5:10pm and checked in. 2 large parties checked in (40 minutes early, per their admission) after us. Long story short, at 5:50pm, DH and I hadn't been seated, but both large parties had been seated long before their ressie time. The CMs were rather rude, didn't even apologize and had no idea when we could be seated. DH and I turned in our beeper and went to the CS place at GF and had burgers, which weren't bad and $70 cheaper than dinner would have been. Thank goodness we had TIW and not
DDP otherwise we may still be waiting for a table! By 6:30pm we had arrived at MK for party #2 and we had planned on spending the evening with our friends. They were running late (in their defense, they have 3 small children) so DH and I got in line to Mickey and Minnie.
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Our friends got in touch with us as soon as we finished with Mickey and Minnie so we went to meet up with them. We did the Alice Trick or Treat trail and rode Buzz. At this point DH decides to run over to Emporium for pins (we missed out the previous party) and we had all planned to meet up at Tiana. Well, the best laid plans....DH got there long before we did because we needed a pit stop then had to go all the way around due to the Villians show. No DH. Long story short after 1 HOUR and 2 trips to guest services, DH calls. Well, DH left his phone in our villa which could only mean 1 thing...DH went home...with ALL of our ID, credit cards, money, tickets and room keys! I could have done something to him that I won't post here because it's a family place! Well, DH eventually came back, our friends were a bit crazed because we all thought this party was frantic for some reason (too much to do and not enough time to do it) While DH was en route back to MK, our friends and I rode the carpets, met Tianna and Naveen and watched the parade. The fireworks were starting as DH came back. After DH was returned to the group (with all of our cash, id, credit cards, room tickets and his phone!) we went over to meet some of the Villians while our friends took their kids back to Fantasyland.
Me and Tianna and Naveen
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Here are a few pics from the actual Villians show!
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After the Villians (our friend's kids weren't too excited to meet the Villians) we met back up with them at Donald and Daisy. We then went back to see Mickey and Minnie and while the CM looked at me funny (as in how did you know that?) We were fortunate enough to get Mickey and Minnie in their other outfits. Here is the next snafu for the evening...our friends photopass card was somehow lost and since they had just gotten it, they hadn't written down the number or taken a pic of it. Here's are pics from our meets!
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We didn't realize the missing photopass card until after we were walking out, so I took the two girls on the Barnstormer, which they loved and were super excited because not only did they get to ride in the front seat, we got to ride twice in a row as there wasn't anyone in line. After the Barnstormer, our friend Vince decided to take their youngest and go to guest services to see if they could somehow find their pics while Missy went with their girls and DH and I to ride HM. Disaster strikes again when her DD4 got a bloody nose for no apparant reason and it was a bad one! She wound up leaving to find her DH and then go home to BLT. DH and I hit a couple of trick or treat stands (they are quite generous after 11pm) and rode HM then POTC. After POTC, we'd had enough, it was nearly midnight and time to out an end to this evening! I should mention that our friends actually used to live across the street from DH and I. They moved right after their DS was born as their old house was a bit small for all of them. We were quite excited when they bought BLT because we referred them to our guide and DH and I got a nice referral bonus!! After they found out we had booked for this trip, they booked most of the same week so that we could all hang out at "our other houses" as we say!
Up next...break day...or so we thought!!!
I have to ask who is the blonde behind you wearing the crown in the Crystal Palace pic??
) we got the great idea to take advantage of little to no wait on the rides. We did TT, decided MS was probably not a great idea, then went over to Soarin. I should mention that DH is the only human I know of that doesn't like Soarin. He thought it wouldn't be so bad after our partaking, however, as our flight was over, DH said "Note to self...do not ride anything that plays tricks on your brain after that much beer!" 
which we had learned about ahead of time and had big plans for those! The event included a nice DVC reusable bag, prizes and some finger foods. We also received limited edition DVC pins. It was a nice way to spend 90 minutes. Wish we hadn't done an add on a month before we left as we may have done a bit better, but oh well! Here's a pic we took from TOWL. 
I managed to keep my temper in check and we walked to DTD so I could cool off even though it was 90 degrees out! We went to Team Mickey and they did not have a shirt in DH's size and they gladly took the shirt back and refunded us. I was still mad and crabbing about having to run to Epcot and it turns out, a manager was who was taking care of us and asked what happened. I explained to the manager what happened and he asked if we could wait a few minutes. Sure. Well, this man was a saint sent from Walt himself! Not only did he take care of getting our glass replaced, he was having it sent to our gift shop for us. 
I thanked this kind man profusely and we left the shop and as we were walking up to the bus stop, the Contemporary bus was pulling in. We arrived there within the next 15 minutes then walked over to MK. I should mention that DH brought his obnoxiously bright Michigan shirt so he wore that instead. We made it to MK by 5:30pm and decided we were hungry. Our options were limited so we wound up eating at Tony's. This was the WORST MEAL EVER!! EVER!! In 12 years!! The service was good, but that is the nicest thing I can say about this place. We were out of there in less than an hour and spent the next hour just enjoying MK before our 3rd and final MNSSHP!!
I really enjoyed it!
