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Sailing with the Gang, Disney Magic, Feb 7. 2016


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My first trip!

 

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And you must start out with a few chocolate covered strawberries too. (kind of like always starting your first meal at Cabanas with a chocolate chip cookie).

 

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I think Cass had like 3 things on her plate. LOL

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I also ordered the margarita (sp?) pizza and was offering to share it with others, but I think in the end everyone else had so much it wasn’t completely eaten.

 

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Ellen (and several others) got the pancakes, which looked fabulous.

 

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I got the Chicken Parm with risotto! I LOVE this risotto. I could live on it! Seriously, it is just so awesome!!!! ( I think on our Oct cruise I am going to make a Palo reservation for Mom and I so we can have that dish again.)

 

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And a few desserts! I really didn’t have much room left, but I forced them down.

 

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I had been sitting where 2 tables connected and there was a bump/uneven ledge there…..and I set my diet coke down right on it at one point and it spilled all over. How embarrassing! Just like a dang kid, you can’t take me anywhere!

 

We cleaned it up and Cass noticed a spot that had been left in a very familiar shape.

 

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Yes, I made a hidden Mickey!

 

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And with it being Katie’s b-day they brought out a special plate for her.

 

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Up next, I am such an artist!

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After we all finished up our meals, we each paid our bills and added a tip and headed out front. I took a few pictures.

 

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Since they had changed the Castaway Club bag to a more generic one last fall, I was a bit bummed that I would never get the “gold” bag. I was due to get one on my next cruise…though in reality this cruise I would have gotten one since both Brook and Cass are gold and they didn’t want the bag. Ellen has several gold bags and said she would bring one for me. Now that was months ago and I actually kind of forgot, but Ellen told me early on that she brought it.

After brunch I headed back to Ellen and Katie’s room to pick up the bag, plus Ellen had bought all the girls a Minnie tote bag from NYC. It was really cute. (And Claire has taken it from me already, so I guess she liked it too).

 

Ellen and Katie had a pretty normal room, very nice and towards the aft. They told me I had to come out on the balcony and look at their neighbors’ balcony, so I obliged.

 

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Holy Cow!!! That is one big balcony.

 

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Now before you go running out and saying you have to have this room, it is a handicapped accessible room. So I would not suggest anyone going for it…for 1 so that those who really need that room can get it…and 2, it will be a different room, so most likely not the split bathroom, probably no tub, etc.

 

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And here is Ellen and Katie’s room all decorated. (which reminds me I need to make new magnets for my next cruise)

 

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I then went and joined some girls who were doing trivia in O’Gills. After that was over there were some animated classes starting. I decided I wanted to do that. Several of the girls were going to the matinee show. Cass messaged me that she was saving me a seat, but I let her know I was just going to skip that show today.

 

As we waited for the class to start they had the previous classes drawing up.

 

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We were doing Donald today….which I have done before with Claire on our last DCL cruise.

 

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I always feel like such an artist when I do these classes. They take you through step by step and seriously…I have trouble even drawing a circle. That being said, the people next to me must have even less talent than me because one was pretty bad. LOL.

 

I decided to stay for the next class too, which was Goofy.

 

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My Goofy was a bit off. LOL.

 

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I stayed after for the next trivia class, but it was so hard that I bailed out really early.

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I ran into Cass and Michelle as I was looking right outside D Lounge as they had some stuff set up for the DVC presentation. I saw Michelle go in and Cass was going to go do something else (perhaps swim?). They had this really neat picture of Walt and Lillian on a ship deck and I wanted it (and of course I now have no clue where I put it, but it’s around somewhere and I will frame it eventually and put it in my office) so I decided to go in and they gave me the picture and I sat through the presentation. I didn’t see Michelle when I walked in so I just sat by myself.

 

They of course tell you the value of DVC and they compared prices of the Poly from 1971 to today’s prices. Holy cow, can you imagine staying there for $29 a night?

 

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Our presenter was Scott. I know some of you have seen him before….I think he was on the Wonder last summer. Scott is a little extra special.

 

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Scott does the voice of the monorail at Disney World. I got a short video of him. It’s hard to tell in this short snippet, but I could hear it every so often.

 

 

Now I may be mixing days up, but I think I headed to the pool after this. If not, then I have no clue what I did. I know one afternoon Cass and I hit the pool, well I hit the hot tub and then took a nap on the lounger and Cass swam. (This could have been on our Castaway Cay day though…Getting old sucks when you can’t remember which day you did what).

 

Anyways I am pretending it was today, even if it wasn’t.

 

I enjoyed the hot tub for a bit and then laid on the lounger and just totally drifted off. It was nice to get a nap in. Cass did laps in the pool. When I woke up I saw several of the girls sitting at a table nearby. I think I woke to hearing my name…probably I was drooling or something and they had a good laugh.

 

We sat and talked for a while and it was so nice. This trip was just so much fun. It’s really nice to be just me sometimes and not worry about children or a husband.

 

After a bit it was time to get ready for the evening. Again, my memory is poor but at some point I had to pack. Yes it was it that sad time where you know the cruise is going to end.

 

Cass and I both were chatting and packing. I am going to say it again, but I LOVE my new luggage. I had packing cubes and I had a laundry bag I was throwing dirty laundry in. I just condensed all the clean clothes left and packed the dirty ones in the other cubes. This was so amazingly simple and easy and then I just chucked them in the suitcases. I can’t believe I have traveled all these years without packing cubes. I thought ziplock bags would be the same. They aren’t….at least for me. Of course now over a course of over a week I had bought things too, so I had to fit those into the case as well. I just packed as best I could and didn’t worry about weight too much at this point as I had a day at WDW yet and I would reorganize later.

 

The ship really started rocking now. I could feel it and I took a second bonine to help. After I had my bags pretty much packed I told Cass I was going to go out for a walk…or puke. I hadn’t decided yet for sure which it would be.

 

The sun is setting.

 

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I saw Minnie out for a meet and greet.

 

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Walking around did help a bit, but I was still pretty queasy. I went back to the room and Cass was gone, but Brook was there working on her suitcase. I mentioned how rocky the ship was and she said she didn’t feel it. Seriously? You can’t feel it? Nope she said she was perfectly fine. Ok, maybe I’m a wimp then.

We headed to dinner and found Cass and sat down. Charlotte, Kelly and Ellen sat across from us. Charlotte was feeling awful too and Kelly was also feeling it.

 

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We ordered but honestly I wondered if I would be able to eat.

 

This is one of my favorites and I managed to get it down.

 

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I always feel Animator Palate is the worse place to be when you feel sea sick and of course I always seemed to be scheduled there on the roughest nights. I was getting pretty woozy as were others. Ellen saved the day! She said green apples help with sea sickness and she hollered to Jason to get us some. He was right on it and he must’ve known it helps too because he had bowls of them out to the tables FAST!

 

Several of us nibbled on them and I did seem to feel a little better, not 100% but I now knew my dinner was going to stay with me at least.

 

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A couple of the girls left. They just couldn’t make it through dinner.

 

By dessert time I was starting to feel a little more normal.

 

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Katie got a birthday treat!

 

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Up Next…Sorcerer Mickey

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It was now time for the show to start. I was glad I made it to the end….and honestly the ice-cream seemed to give me a new life. (Or maybe those apples were kicking in?)

 

 

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And some

 

And Mickey appeared! He moves so dang fast though that it is really hard to get his picture.

 

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And then our servers paraded around.

 

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Brook was hooting and hollering! (keep that in mind of later)

 

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We said goodbye to Jason as we all had plans tomorrow and were going to just hit Cabana’s instead of the main dining room for breakfast.

 

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And most of us raced to Fathoms for 80’s trivia. Yep, we are geeks and were all riled up for 80’s trivia!

 

We were messaging amongst outselves and several were bowing out due to feeling sick. I was most shocked to see Brook message that she was going to lay down as she was feeling awful. This was the girl who told me earlier she couldn’t feel the ship rocking AND was hooting and hollering not too long ago.

 

Matt looking cute as ever!

 

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The trivia was fun and we were getting into it. It was Charlotte, Kelly, Cass and I and it was hard sitting 4 across to hear all of us and sadly I kept turning away from Cass shouting my answers to Kelly. I am grateful Cass is a good friend and didn’t hit me upside the head…well at least not too hard.

 

We did really well and there were only a few that we were stumped or made a stupid mistake on. I believe we were 2nd or 3rd in correct answers and sadly the drunk group with Mrs. Waldo was the team that won. That made losing all the worse.

 

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After trivia I ran back to the room to set my bags out. Brook was lying dead on the bed. She said she was too sick to even get up and tug her bag out to be picked up. I asked if it was packed and she said yes, so I tugged it out for her too. I was really amazed at how sick she had gotten. She said she ate green apples when she felt it coming on, but it had gotten worse. Cass ran down to the dining room and got some ginger ale for her. With that all taken care of, I dashed back to Fathoms to join the gang in more fun.

 

I think there was another game of dancing. We had a good time. I believe we had to do moves to certain songs and they would be voted on. At one point they had a dirty dancing song and Kelly and I were shimmying up and down each other and bounced off each other’s chest and just started laughing. Matt had been watching and said..well that didn’t quite work out the way you planned, did it? It was too funny. Now we probably would have won except that some couple did the dirty dancing jump where Patrick Swayze gets her and holds her in the air. Seriously? This girl weight 80lbs soaking wet probably and the guy was super tall. I admit they deserved it, but man I went to a lot of trouble to perfect my dirty dancing moves!

 

At some point in time, Matt took Katie out on the dance floor to dance with her for her b-day. We all swooned! LOL.

 

Pam and Matt had a little relationship of joking back and forth all through the cruise. Pam wanted something he was giving away at a lot of the trivia games and I think he thought it was funny she was never winning it, but always super close. He gave her a little surprise that night and said good bye to her.

 

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Notice Ellen’s shirt? That is the one I almost bought on Castaway Cay.

 

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After the games the DJ came out and played some 80’s music. Love me some 80’s music. People trickled out but Kelly, Charlotte and I and a few others stayed. It was a lot of fun and we practically shut the place down. I had a second wind and the sea sickness was long gone, though it did feel like we were in smoother waters now too.

 

Sadly the night had to come to an end and I had to go to bed. Brook was in the top bunk when I got back. I was more than willing to take it again and I felt guilty that she went up there. I knew she hadn’t been feeling well, though she said after the ginger ale and the seas smoothing out she did end up feeling much better.

 

I got ready for bed and soon was out too.

I really liked the cruise portion of our trip the best. Being at Disney together had been fun, but with so many people and all with different likes it was hard to get us all together and do different things. With the cruise I just felt I had more time to mingle with different people and get to know those who I had never met before. We basically were all trapped on the ship, so we only had so many options. And no arguments about where to have dinner each night since that is set in stone (unless you do Palo of course).

The app with texting is super fabulous. It was nice to send and receive messages and know what others were doing and if you wanted to join you didn’t have to look all over the ship for the rest.

 

I will put this out there now before I forget. There are already plans for next year to do a trip to Disneyland. As much as I want to go, I promised my family that the next time we head that way, all of us will go. The week that has been picked will not work for us. I am already taking Claire out of school for a week in the fall so I am going to avoid taking her out much. I have something in mind for the weekend over president’s day and we’ll see if that pans out. She should only miss 1 ½ days if we do that.

I know I will be jealous seeing others post things on social media, but I know in my heart that it just isn’t going to be doable that week.

 

Up next……Get off the ship!!!!

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My next post will end the DCL experience. I am going to finish up the trip here with a day and a half at Disney World. Since a lot of people often add a WDW stay to their cruise I am sure many of you will be interested. If not, that is fine and you can stop reading. :D

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Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016

 

We all know how that last morning is….it sucks! These wonderful Cast Members you have come to know and love are now smiling at you in a different way….It’s been nice….but get off the ship, we have very little time to prepare for the next set of travelers.

 

I got up way too early again. I always notice this is the one day I would like to actually sleep in. Crazy, isn’t it?

 

We went to Cabana’s for breakfast.

 

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Evidently I wasn’t too hungry? Or maybe I had a 2nd plate and didn’t take a picture of it.

 

Everyone had different plans today. Some were going back to Disney World, some were heading to the airport and one lucky one, Patty, had her family meeting her at the port and she was sailing the Magic once again. Brook was almost as lucky..well lucky in a different way. Her family was flying in as well but they were spending the night at WDW and then sailing the Dream tomorrow. I proposed this to my husband and he looked at me like I was insane.

 

I was heading back to Disney for 1 more night. It is so depressing to have to go back the airport when getting off the ship. I try to avoid it if possible. Plus I knew that hanging with a group meant that what I did in the parks was going to be minimal early on in the trip.

 

Cass was flying out but she had a later flight. She had rented a car for the day and said she would take me back to Disney. Brook had her mom’s car and offered as well, but Cass said she had time to waste and it was perfectly fine so I went with her. Good thing. It took basically hours for Brook to get to her car and then get it out (it was blocked) at the offsite parking area. I don’t remember which place it was but I have noted to myself to never use it.

 

We got off the ship and got a porter and breezed through customs. Cass checked to see how long before an Uber driver could be there to pick us up and take us to Hertz. They were not that close and we decided since taxis were waiting there already we would just hop in one of those.

 

Bye bye Disney Magic!

 

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Only a few minutes later we were at the Hertz, which is located right in front of the Residence Inn….and a new hotel, which I think just opened recently but was not at the time we were there.

 

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Cass ran in and got settled and then they brought the car out and we loaded all the bags in and set off for the World!

 

We chatted away about the likes and dislikes of the cruise and both had felt it went fairly well. We weren’t sure if we were going to like everyone in person…talking online is one thing, but meeting and hanging out can be full of surprises sometimes. Luckily we had a great team.

 

As we approached Disney, Cass said I should get my camera out since this is probably going to be the best shots of arriving I will ever take…so true. I am either driving or on a bus most times. And even a front seat on a bus is hard to get a good shot.

I took about 30!

 

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As we were driving I got an email that said my room was ready and it gave me the room number. Well that’s great. Cass could drop me off near it and less hassle with the bags.

I was staying at All Star Sports this time. I decided from the beginning to just stay cheap. I also have a goal to eventually stay at all the resorts. I figured with 1 night I would get it out of the way since I really had no desire to stay here. Nothing wrong with the place, I just don’t like sports so the theming isn’t great for me.

As we got closer to the trip, I really debated at moving to the Contemporary to be close to MK as that is where I planned to be and knew it would be much easier getting back and forth so close. I also looked at Port Orleans Riverside in a Royal room and decided to save that for when I have Claire with me. In the end I stuck with Sports and I am glad I did and saved the money and got that one off my list.

 

We pulled up and Cass helped me with the bags. We went to the room, which is WAY far out, not close to the main building at all. I swore I booked a preferred. I always book preferred because I can’t stand being far out. I have done standard a few times at a Value and was always unhappy with how far out I am put.

 

I scan my band and nothing…I try again and again and again, and nothing. Ugh! What the heck am I going to do? I have 3 bags and one is Mr. Tippy who falls over if you look at it cross-eyed. Cass said she would help me lug the bags up and see what is going on. That was a long walk. All 3 of my bags are spinners but they were all heavy and I was just achy and ready to be done lugging bags around.

 

When we got to the lobby I double checked my reservation and I did book standard! Who knew? Won’t make that mistake again.

 

As we tried to figure which line to go in a CM came up to me and asked how she could help. I told her my problem and she looked into it.

 

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I had a new band for this part of the stay, but they somehow linked everything to the band from the Poly. I have no clue why as both were in my MDE and this one was for Sports. And I have heard that most of the time you can use any active band and it will work for everything. I know some change band colors to go with their outfits. Let me tell you this does NOT work for everyone. I have another friend who goes often and she said the same thing. None of her old bands EVER work.

 

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The CM got it all squared away with my current band. The other was buried in the luggage somewhere and I was not about to hunt for it in the middle of the lobby. She also got a guy from bell services to help with my bags.

 

We made the walk back and put everything in the room and the guy told me his name and said to ask for him tomorrow morning.

 

Then it was time to say goodbye to Cass. We had been together for over a week and I hate saying goodbye. I hate getting mushy. I don’t want to tear up and I could see she just might do so. I hugged her and told her not to cry. (mainly because I didn’t want to cry either. ) I like to think we will see each other again soon and it’s not really a goodbye. Yes that is a coping mechanism, but it works for me. We said goodbye and I had a pang in my heart as Cass walked away. If this was a movie, I would have ran back to her and hugged and cried and we could spend another week together because I just got a text that that I won the lottery. But that didn’t happen, unfortunately.

Now I was on my own. What was I going to do without Cass with me. Yes I had been with all the girls throughout most of the trip, but I had been with Cass since Day 1 and we really just gel together well.

 

I went into the room to look it over and take pictures.

 

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Now I always get anxiety when I know I have only a short time to do all I want. I decided to fight that anxiety and just chill out. My original plan was to head right over to MK but I decided to be more laid back and walked around the resort a bit to check it out. (I actually even debated taking a nap).

 

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It’s a fun resort, but again I have no interest in sports so I just was not overly impressed with the theming.

 

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26252334416_3f64be1ed7_z.jpgsports28 by Jenseib, on Flickr

 

26212019271_1a179e34ff_z.jpgsports29 by Jenseib, on Flickr

 

This football field was a hot spot for a lot of young boys. I think there were some teams of some sort staying here and the boys would play on this field all the time. They were kind of wild actually. I always seem to notice when I go to hotels with a team staying there that the parent’s kind of let the kids do their own thing while they stand or sit off to the side. Sure the kids are having fun, but in most cases they are annoying everyone else around. I have found this in the pool area a few times on different hotel stays we have done and accidently stayed when a team is staying as well. This held true for this field area, but at least they weren’t bothering so many people in this area.

 

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26325647355_686a52f9d5_z.jpgsports43 by Jenseib, on Flickr

 

26299686786_881d5a50ee_z.jpgsports44 by Jenseib, on Flickr

 

26299686306_bab5aafb6b_z.jpgsports45 by Jenseib, on Flickr

 

25722881253_7b0b905e64_z.jpgsports46 by Jenseib, on Flickr

 

I then decided to head to Disney Springs. Yeah, I know…that was not in my plans either. But I honestly wanted Earl of Sandwich for lunch and I had no one to answer to but myself now.

 

I got on the bus and got a seat. I laughed at this girl with her suitcase. I am actually shocked she was let on. I know when changing resorts you are not allowed to take your luggage on the bus. Your options are to have it transferred via Disney or take a cab or uber. She must have not gotten that memo and I guess the bus driver didn’t catch her.

 

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Up next….Disney Springs

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Soon I was at Disney Springs.

 

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26233400942_14a4176cb1_z.jpgsprings3 by Jenseib, on Flickr

 

26259584291_79c8c649d6_z.jpgsprings4 by Jenseib, on Flickr

 

26052944000_9b900212d5_z.jpgsprings5 by Jenseib, on Flickr

 

I tried to get a lot of shots as it has been awhile since I have been here, but I still never made it very far and missed a lot of the new stuff. We plan to spend half a day here in Oct and I hope to do more exploring and perhaps even bowl a game.

 

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I went into Earl and placed my order and got a little buzzer.

 

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26233397662_b12138806b_z.jpgsprings8 by Jenseib, on Flickr

 

26052941870_f4503303a2_z.jpgsprings9 by Jenseib, on Flickr

 

I tried to take pictures while in line but they obviously didn’t turn out well.

 

26325806885_33465bfd60_z.jpgsprings10 by Jenseib, on Flickr

 

I didn’t pay attention to the chips I picked up and got the baked ones. ICK. I never am a fan of these.

 

26303120261_29a6b4ece8_z.jpgeos1 by Jenseib, on Flickr

 

I got the tuna…one of the best tunas ever. I just love them from Earl and it had been a few years since I had one last.

 

26276987272_26a67b1bc4_z.jpgeos2 by Jenseib, on Flickr

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