Nice lack of crowds! The morning is the best time to be at MK. You can get so much done. I agree on the breakfast options at MK. The best option seems to be the bakery or Crystal Palace. I'm excited for the new fantasyland to open. Hopefully that will give us more options. Can't wait to see the Be Our Guest restaurant!!
I agree about the morning being the best time to be at MK. That particular preference was one thing I discovered on this trip. I hope we'll have another option and I can't wait for the new restaurant, either. Beauty and the Beast is my favorite of all the princess movies...by far! And "Be Our Guest" is one of my favorite songs!
I'll be keeping y'all (especially Max) in my prayers for all to go well with his surgery!
I agree with you on the lack of breakfast options in MK! Seems like they would offer more there to get people in the park.
I still can't get over how empty the parks seems on this morning! Although, that's too bad that Haunted Mansion was down. Had Max done that ride before? I'm trying to talk it up to Reid so that he'll ride it this fall.
Thanks! Everything should go well.
I don't know why they don't offer a few more options, especially with the park open so early.
Don't want to give too much away about HM.
One thing that helped was that we have the Four Parks, One World CD and he loves the music from the ride.
I hope everything goes well with Max's surgery. I know how that can be stressful... even when it isn't life threatening.. it is surgery and surgery is always scary!!!
Your pictures are the perfect size... so they must have resized just fine?
Love all that you were getting done. Morning is the best time to be at MK!!!
Thanks, Ann. And I agree. AMs at MK are the best!
Tina, I thought I had replied to your previous update, but obviously I didn't - might be that it was one of the posts that I just gave up on because the DIS was so slow.
I'll keep you all and Max in particular in my thoughts this week! I hope everythings goes well for him (and you!)
Max is such a cute driver on the speedway - and I don't blame you on not doing the teacups - that is one thing I don't do either, makes me really 
Can't wait for more ...... 
Thanks, Karin!
It should all be fine and I'll update FB.
The teacups are not my cup of tea!
I will definitely be keeping all of you in my thoughts this week and sending you the best of wishes for Max's surgery!!! I'm sure everything is going to go great!!
MK really does not have a lot of breakfast options! I know Sleepy Hollow now has breakfast waffle sandwiches (I'm not sure if they just have the waffle alone as an option), but they're supposedly HUGE! Not a great choice for just a hungry kid!
Thanks for the well-wishes.
I wish I had remembered about the waffles. I love waffles and Max does, too, and when I had originally read about those they had certainly piqued my interest. I think I might have forgotten about it because they weren't on the
DDP?
All caught up (I think). I will be thinking of you this week and hoping that all goes well with Max's surgery.
How fun to have a girls trip so close on the horizon. I also can't quite wrap my head around someone who has unused points (enough for a 1 bedroom even!) but that's a bonus for you!! I think you will love TiW... it's a nice discount and with 3 trips coming you'll definitely realize some savings. My recommendation is to hand it to the server when you ask for your bill- it has to be processed differently & sometimes only a manager can do it so it has the potential to add quite a bit of time to the process. Also remember that when you use the card they will automatically add in gratuity at a certain % - think it is 18%.
I am not a morning person so have never seen MK so empty! That makes rope drop sound almost tempting!
Thank you!
I don't know how/why her aunt has all those extra points to spare, but...hey...I'm not complaining, that's for sure. I suppose its possible she either has a lot OR she bought in years ago and doesn't use it as much anymore?
Thanks for the TIW tips, too.
I'm not a morning person, either...except when I'm at Disney!
Plenty early enough for me. 
I can now safely say that the surgery was relatively minor. It took about an hour. I cannot possibly say enough good things about the staff at the Children's Med. Center in Hartford. They are truly wonderful people! Max even got to drive an electric toy car into the OR. (OK, just outside the door of the OR, but still...) The only scary part was when Max was coming out of the anesthesia and was thrashing around and the nurse and I to restrain him so he wouldn't rip his IV out. And even that wasn't scary so much as....well, just one of those things that is really tough to watch when its your baby.
Plus, I worked my butt off earlier this week so I can now take off the entire weekend and not even so much as think about school until Monday morning. Believe me, for a teacher not working on a weekend is a big deal. 
And knowing that everything went well today means I can start to get excited for the trip because it really is going to happen. Max's surgery was originally scheduled for December, but got pushed back because he had a head cold. Then it was rescheduled for February, but it got pushed back again because of a scheduling issue with my school. When I bought the plane tickets for April, I had no idea that Max's surgery would end up happening a week prior. Thankfully, tickets are Southwest, so I could've gotten a credit had something happened to prevent me from going.
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Glad you have the weekend to relax!
