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After a fun in the sun at Blizzard Beach, we head back to Port Orleans Riverside to turn into pirates!  Well pirate costumes anyway…  Once dressed in full pirate garb, makeup included, we hopped the bus over to Magic Kingdom for our family’s first ever Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party. We arrived before the…
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We always spend at least one day of our Disney World trip at a water park… this year we chose Blizzard Beach.   The Disney water parks are the best we have ever been to! Details, Details, Details… is what makes them so great! Disney takes the theme and immerses it into every aspect. Blizzard…
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This week for Vlogmas, we wanted to share our family Christmas game:  Prep – buy 20-25 inexpensive gifts or candy that kids will like (I go to the dollar store for this) and a couple of rolls of saran wrap.  Start with the largest in the middle and wrap a ball of plastic wrap around…
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We had breakfast at Chef Mickey’s for the first time on our trip in 2015 and we were hooked!  This is one of our family’s favorite place to go!  So we get up early, but not too early, on Sunday morning and take the bus from Port Orleans Riverside to the Magic Kingdom.  From there,…
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We have the best neighbors!!!  They put on one of the best Christmas light displays in the USA, so good they are being featured on The Great Christmas Light Fight on ABC on December 19, 2016!  So we feel confident in calling this the best Christmas house in Louisiana!  They not only have a phenomenal…
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Our day at Hollywood Studios is coming to a close… but we’re not done yet!  Toy Story Midway Mania We head over to Toy Story Midway Mania for our second ride of the day.  Now, we have never done this twice in one day before because we could only get one Fast Pass and never…
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We had a great time this year at Alexandria Winter Fete!  It started with Santa Claus being brought in on a fire truck and lighting up downtown.  Atwood’s Bakery had an amazing gingerbread decorating station where we could customize our gingerbread men with icing and candy.  We saw this setup as we were coming in…
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One of the best shows at Hollywood Studios is the Frozen Sing-a-long!!!  Now, we are huge fans of Frozen, we just fell in love with the movie when it came out, even before all the hype. This show is so much fun!!!  So it goes like this… Princess Anna come on stage to introduce the…
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One great thing about Hollywood Studios is the unexpected meet & greets!  Sure there are some set spots for meeting some of your favorite characters, but there are also places where different characters appear throughout the day.  One of these is in front of the Chinese Theater or The Great Movie Ride. We were lucky…
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We had a great time decorating out house for Christmas!  We wrapped the tree in 1200 lights!  No pre-lit trees for us!!! The boys pitched in to help decorate the tree (including our awesome Disney ornament collection) and the rest of the house and then everyone went to the front yard to get our ‘Clark…
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