Today is Mikaela’s last day of 2nd Grade. For comparison’s sake, here are the pictures we took of her first day of Second Grade, and one we took this morning.

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We had a great Memorial Day Weekend. It started a bit rough on Friday night, as a Jonathan meltdown cost him his movie night. But Mikaela and I enjoyed ourselves with what has become our regular Friday night hangout at Take Five Coffee + Bar.
On Saturday, we headed back out to World’s of Fun [...]

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OK folks, here’s the deal. I got WAAAAYYYYYY behind on the whole blogging thing. I could make all kinds of excuses, like things getting busy at work (two trials in the last seven months), or getting caught up in my new blogging project over at Disdads.com (which includes hosting the bi-weekly Dis Dads Podcast – [...]

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Quite conveniently, the Swan is very near Hollywood Studios. Even though we arrived a couple of hours before check-in time, they had a room ready for us and we were able to get moved into our new room and get everyone down for a nap quickly. The goal was to get to the Magic Kingdom [...]

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Day 8 – the last theme park touring day of our vacation – was a split day (in more ways than one). The plan was to spend the morning at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, transfer our stuff from the Polynesian Resort to the Swan, take a nice long nap, and then go to the Magic Kingdom [...]

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We decided to spend Mikaela’s birthday in Epcot, culminating with dinner with the princesses at Akershaus. By this time, we had the morning routine down pat – wake up, get dressed, breakfast in the Concierge Lounge, fill the water bottles, and get on our way to our theme park for the day. We were at [...]

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The original plan for this day was to spend it in Hollywood Studios. But I really wanted another full day at the Magic Kingdom, and the more I looked at our plans, the more it seemed we could be happy with a 1/2 day at the Studios. I was a little worried that we’d have [...]

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OK, a little background is probably in order here. The decision to go to the Main Street Electrical Parade and Wishes fireworks show caused a major shuffling of our plans. Part of that shuffle was that this day was all kinds of problematic. Against my better judgment, I decided that we’d go ahead and make [...]

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I was a little concerned about our early start this morning, after the late night at the Neverland Club the night before. But the morning routine we’d established the day before getting ready for Animal Kingdom went off without a hitch. We breakfasted in the Concierge Lounge and loaded up our water bottles there, and [...]

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The kids were completely wiped out by the morning in Animal Kingdom. How wiped out? How about this wiped out. (Sorry for the crappy cell phone picture – clearly I was just about as wiped out as they were).
I had been concerned about our fairly late (7:15 p.m.) dinner ADR at California Grill since I [...]

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