Majestic
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Well, ask and YE SHALL RECEIVE!!! Here is Day 3!
I should start by mentioning that last night when we got back to our room, there was a gift basket loaded with fruit and a toy bucket loaded with a shovel and lots of cookies and candies for Julia. The card was from the concierge staff. I can't believe it. Was very nice of them. They also recognize me by name and that impresses me. I know we were just here in September but it's so cool. I love this place. Of course, we all know that right???
Today was a busy day but we ran by the seat of our pants so it wasn't TOO bad. I gotta tell ya....I know in the past that I insisted on driving a car and having a rental but we have had a GREAT experience with Disney Transportation this trip! Haven't waited for any rides and we took monorail, boat, and bus!!
We actually started the day out at MGM and went to do Playhouse Disney Live. Julia still gets a kick out of this show and she has seen it 4 times already. Funny too because when the story part was about to start they had a system failure and the show stopped in it's tracks.
They did a good job of improvising but I think all the kids wondered why Bear stopped talking. After that we pretty much walked around and contemplated doing lunch but decided to head on over to the Magic Kingdom and see the Share a Dream Come True parade.
Before the parade, Scoop came down pulling his rolling dogs and pulled me out by my pin lanyard and embarresed me in front of the crowds.
It was funny I tell ya. Then, he picked Renee and played, "What's my flippin pin!" with her. She was a good sport and ended up winning a rare pin that is only given to guests that promote pin trading. We also got two muppet 3D pins from him. He is really funny. Anyone else had an eperience with Scoop?It was a great parade even though it started some 25 minutes late! (How odd???) Julia got brought into the dancing 3 seperate times! She loved it. I loved it. Then Julia fell asleep and mom and dad took a nice walk around looking for things to do. We shared an ice cream cone and sat for a while in a nice quiet place between the castle and futureworld.
When Julia woke up we went over to the tommorowland speedway and I let Julia take the wheel. WOW was that fun! She loved it and I mean EVERY minute of it. Daddy of course controlled the throttle and brakes though.
Then Mommy took her on the Astro Orbiter. Renee didn't care for it much but Julia loved it. After that, we shopped for a bit then went to find a nice spot to watch Wishes. It was even better up close. I give Disney LOTS of credit for this one. It's a tear jerker every time. Especially when towards the end the little girl sings, 'wishes come true". Very moving for me. Don't know why but I know Disney does and they did it like that for that very effect.
Then, we did what we never did....WE DID A THREE-FER! After closing the MK, we went on over to the TTC and jumped the monorail to Epcot to do dinner in Japan! Renee and I had never done three parks in one day. This was a GREAT experience for us. We did dinner and on the way to the bus, Julia fell asleep.
Alas, that is my story. We are now back at the hotel and relaxing a bit. I AM TIRED! Julia is snoring her butt off and Renee isn't too far behind.
More later.
Sprinkle some PD...so I can find my way 
) was so overtaken by my enthusiasm towards being at Disney and seeing Scoop that he presented me that magnificent pin (The pin is about 3 1/4" high, triple layered and hand painted cloisonne, its awesome and very rare) at the Seminar. I started to cry and Scoop was telling everyone, "Look Everyone--your witnessing a Magical Moment!!
When I took two of my nephews down is was right after the World Series, we had such a great time on the hunt they wanted to leave you something special...They went to DTD and found a 
. We won't be getting there til about 6-ish, so we'll miss each other. Bummer! Maybe we'll cross paths in the airport!
