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Race done, a little bit of rest and recovery in the room, and it was time to get some drinks (and food) and enjoy the afternoon. Around 12:30pm we headed over to Coronado Springs resort to enjoy a new activity for myself and our daughter (my wife had done this once before on a girls trip)...

I'm sure that anyone reading this who has done a Disney race before knows what it is like. Alarm goes off between 2am and 2:30am. You catch a bus or drive to Epcot at about 3am. You walk an extra half mile to get to the corrals. And then you stand around for a couple hours. Maybe you sit down...

Coming soon to a trip report near you... Dorothy, Dinah, and Debbie Max!

Let's get back to the action... mid-afternoon on Friday. And it was time to catch a bus (no roulette involved) to this place with which I expect you are familiar. It was actually going to be a quick visit to MK with only one destination in our plans. Okay, maybe that's not the best picture...

Arrived at the Expo at about 10:30am (opened at 11am) and were very happy to see that the crowd was MUCH smaller than it had been the preceding morning. In fact, we were just about the first folks into the bib pickup area. Which meant... zero lines for the characters! Both Minnie and Daisy were...

Friday, February 27 was another early morning. Not roulette this morning, but we did have plans to hit at least 3 parks plus! So we were up an out the doors just a few minutes after 7am and driving over to Animal Kingdom. Things were not quite as empty as my first morning, but we also were just...

WINNER!!!! More to come later, but you guessed it! Well done.

And, here's another clue as to our running outfits for the 10k. We had nametags. The characters in their original form do not have name tags, but us wearing name tags was pretty essential to people understanding who we were. The names of these characters are VERY important (especially mine).

Once I was back at the car, I actually had a stop to make before the room and that was the grocery store. Went and picked up some fruit, breakfast items, and some drinks and was moving into the room almost exactly 12 hours after I had woken up in the morning. Yes, that would be 3pm. Not a bad...

So, I found myself back out at the Art of Animation bus stop a few minutes before 9am. I expected that the next bus to arrive would most likely be one of the parks since we were right around opening time, but I was wrong! Let's go!! Once again, I had the bus completely to myself. 3 busses so...

It was not, but we did see a couple at a race a few years ago as the auctioneer and the redhead. I thought it was pretty impressive that they went with the auctioneer and not Jack Sparrow.

Counting appearances of these lovely dancers would be an even larger number than the 200 million that I estimated for the hitchhiking ghosts!! I think this is kinda close on degree of obscurity, but these characters spent about 35 years in the park with quite a few appearances every day. Both...

Oh my gosh, I LOVE this idea! I've seen some pretty cool ghost costumes in the past and could definitely see this in our future. Kinda wish we had thought of it and you were right!!! 🤣 I'm not sure how you would count number of appearances for them - but if you are talking each Doom Buggy that...

It's time for another costume clue... But first to review: 1) Running dress 2) We are dressed as a 'trio' 3) Not a princess 4) Appeared LOTS of times in WDW (and DL) 5) Kinda obscure (which seems odd for half a million appearances) Things we are not: Fairies from Sleeping Beauty, Donald's...

Having had a nice, calm ride down some random river on Pandora, I decided to briefly explore a little more of this strange planet that I somehow got to by walking over a bridge... It really is quite a beautiful place, with all these cool mountains hanging in the sky. At some point I really...