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Alrighty, for my birthday Heather took me to Disney World.  Yay!

I know it's been a month since my birthday but I've been recovering from the trip of trips.

It was a total surprise and I honestly had no idea that's what we were doing.  I could sit here and recap the whole whirlwind trip, bit by bit, but that would take forever, since it was the best trip ever!  I'll just recap the super-highlights to make you jealous.

We were on a duck hunt, since Donald Duck is my favorite Disney character, and boy did we find some Donalds.  We met Frontier Donald at MK and Three Caballeros Donald at the Mexico pavillion at Epcot.  There are tons of "Hidden Mickeys" throughout the park, mostly due to over-exuberant cast members, but there at a few "Hidden Donalds" as well, so we were searching for those and going on anything that we wanted as much as we wanted since the kids weren't with us.  

We got a last ride on the TTA (Tomorrowland Transit Authority) since it's shutting down when they refurb Space Mountain.  The best part of this ride is that you go inside Space Mountain and when the lighting is ideal you can see the whole coaster.  Good stuff!

We got drenched on Splash Mountain by a mega water cannon right at the beginning of the ride. As many times as I've been on this ride, this water cannon has never been this robust. Usually it spits a little water, that never makes it to you, when a log goes over the falls.  Yeah, that day, it was on "super drench" because we got nailed.

We met Drizella and Anastasia who are hilarious!  Let's face it, the best job in the world is being a totally rude obnoxious person all day long and people loving every second of it.  Come on, you know you love it.  They even had a great conversation with Heather about Cinderella's rodent-made dress. It was priceless.

We toured Epcot World Showcase on a Segway (which is really fun to ride once you learn how to use it.)  We finally got on Spaceship Earth together and got a picture of ourselves on the new touch screen on the ride.  

We even suffered through the worst ride in all the parks..."Stitch's Great Escape."  Yeah, it's bad.  I actually hadn't even seen the movie (though I knew what it was about) and after seeing the movie I hated the ride even more because the movie is D-U-M-B DUMB!  We even asked the imagineer why certain things actually get made into rides and he really had no words for that.  Just goes to show you, all business is politics.

We rode the Tower of Terror together, which we've never done, and Heather loved it, she was laughing every time it took us up to get a glimpse at the park (which is funny, because you then plummet about 10 stories in a free fall before it takes you back up for another go.)  We found the 100,000 point target in Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin (Heather hit it 4 times on our last go 'round.)  We hooped it up on Toy Story Midway Mania and a ton more.  We're a super team, and kidless we moved like lightning through the parks(actually, even with the kids we move like lightning, so imagine how fast we were this time.)  There's nothing more satisfying than knowing you're going to get to do everything you want and then some.

We had some unreal meals.  I discovered lamb a few months back and was not disappointed at Citrico's with the lamb rack and the unreal birthday cake.  I've still got the white chocolate Donald that was on top of the cake (he was highlighted with gold leafing.)  We ate with an Imagineer(who was really sweet and really fun to talk with) and I had a vegetarian lasagna that was to die for at Chefs des France.  There was a Mushroom Bisque, a Cobb Salad, this unreal roast beef sandwich at Liberty Tree Tavern, just great stuff!  Every meal we ate was off the charts, I could go on and on all day, but then you'd be too jealous and stop reading, and we don't want that.

The one gem that we discovered was the Carousel of Progress.  It's a 20 minute ride that moves you from the turn of the centry to present day, chronicling all the household advancements that have been made in that time.  The stages are great, you learn alot, and the song "There's a Great Big, Beautiful Tomorrow" is a keeper.  As we speak it's running through my head.  If you ever have the fortune to go, please don't miss this attraction, we feel sacreligious for not having found it sooner.

Needless to say, I had the time of all times with my beautiful bride :o)