The Promise of Spring: F&GF 4.0 UPDATED: 5/11 - Page 48 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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There are other changes as well.
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We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
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for your dad. I will include him in my prayers. We call my dad the cat with nine lives as he's had so many illnesses and diseases and every time we think he might not make it, he pulls through. I noticed how incredibly hot it is suppose to be the week that we're there too. Hopefully the humidity won't be in full force with the high temps as that will make it quite uncomfortable. I'm so excited to see you in a few days!!! I hope you're feeling better today.
You made me think, so I checked on the real feel temps for the days and that doesn't look goo either. Two days show over 100 degrees. Oh well!
Gosh, I hope you and your dad are feeling better soon!
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Lots of pixie for you!! Getting sick when there is so much to be done before leaving is terrible. I have learned never do much without taking a break. Make sure not to miss eating or drinking, Keeping your immune system in good shape. Lots of pixies for your Dad that all of his test come back with good results.
Passporters are always so generous with the pixies.
for you and your dad. Sorry about the hot weather forecast! If it helps, I was there last week and there was zero humidity, which was lovely!
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My experience has been that 96-100 is hot with or without the humidity. The humidity will be with us if the predictions are correct until near the end of our trip. But we'll make it. Today we discussed breaks in the afternoon.
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for you and your dad.
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Hope you are feeling better and that your Dad's test results turn out good.
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I’m going to attempt to streamline the summary of our day as I need to finish laundry still before bed. We took the Edge in arriving about 8:55 for our 9:00 appointment. Once it was dropped off, we took off walking around Sam’s Club, Home Depot, and our mall. Luke said it we were doing the proverbial “killing two birds with one stone.” We even stopped in Home Depot to pick up a door stop for my closet door. The old had broken, and if I wasn’t careful the closet door hit the glass shower door. Not good! By the time we got back to Sam’s we had walked 4.8K. Inside we bought drinks and then wandered the store, waiting for the tires to be done. About an hour twenty minutes after we dropped it off it was ready to go. Next stop, Target to pick up a prescription. Luke wanted to walk down to Best Buy to pick up a portable phone charger as I tend to run my iPhone down posting to Facebook. That bought we checked to see if my niece and her family were home as we wanted to drop off these cool spoon, fork, knife combos we’d picked up for her kids when we were at the Eddie Bauer outlet. They camp out a lot and we just knew they’d love these cool utensils. What we didn’t know is that we’d end up walking their entire small farm. We loved it though as we got to see all the improvements they’ve made and spending time with our great nephews and niece is so sweet. I even got to old a tiny gray baby bunny. My great niece Heidi even plucked a number of flowers for me. We didn’t get home until almost 1:30 and still needed to eat lunch before starting to pack. Finished off the milk at breakfast and bread at lunch. Fridge is now cleaned out of all perishables. But in the end we’ve gotten quite a bit of that done. Still some packing for tomorrow, but we’ve put a huge dent in it. By the time we cleaned up, it was 5:00. So Luke ordered a pizza from Donato’s online to dine in, and we arrived with about 5 minutes to spare before the pizza arrived at our table. When we got back from supper, I got out my foot spa and allowed my poor feet to soak away the day. Now as I said, I’m off to finish the last load of laundry. See y’all tomorrow! Just two more sleeps until Disney.
What a productive day with The Edge and some quality shopping completed as well as a great walk! Just two more sleeps and you'll be there! I am so jealous as October is not even close yet!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
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Oh my gosh!! My feet need a soaking just reading that!!. What a productive day and how nice to spend some of it with family!! I'll bet your Fitbit was going nuts!!
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Hope you feel better and perhaps you were dehydrated as you felt better after eating! 
Passporters are always so generous with the pixies.
We loved it though as we got to see all the improvements they’ve made and spending time with our great nephews and niece is so sweet. I even got to old a tiny gray baby bunny. 
We didn’t get home until almost 1:30 and still needed to eat lunch before starting to pack. Finished off the milk at breakfast and bread at lunch. Fridge is now cleaned out of all perishables. But in the end we’ve gotten quite a bit of that done. Still some packing for tomorrow, but we’ve put a huge dent in it. By the time we cleaned up, it was 5:00. So Luke ordered a pizza from Donato’s online to dine in, and we arrived with about 5 minutes to spare before the pizza arrived at our table. 
When we got back from supper, I got out my foot spa and allowed my poor feet to soak away the day. Now as I said, I’m off to finish the last load of laundry. See y’all tomorrow! Just two more sleeps until Disney. 
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