In case you missed my past re-cap posts
Disney Wine & Dine: Friday
Satchels: Pre-Disney

On Saturday, Noelle and I decided to hit up Animal Kingdom!  Lacy was so burnt out and exhausted from our Friday night activities, that she decided to stay back in the hotel {bummer}.  I headed out of the hotel room with my oatmeal in hand.  It’s the quickest, fastest, healthiest way to get breakfast in, in my opinion!  When you’re at Disney, there is no time for something more extreme.  You want to be the first people there!

First, I wanted to return my shirt and get a smaller size, which didn’t work out, but we ended back at ESPN WWS first.  Figured out that I couldn’t return my shirt because they didn’t have any more sizes and then booked it on to Animal Kingdom!  Unfortunately, we didn’t pre-purchase our tickets, which was a terrible idea, because we waited in line for a little while.  We had a $10 Disney gift card from the race, so I used that to purchase my ticket. We finally arrived!

The first ride we ran to was Mount Everest.  It’s my absolutely FAVORITE ride ever!!  We chose to do single rider because we would get through faster and unlike Rock’n Roller Coaster, it did not disappoint!  We zoomed through the line.

After Festival of the Lion King, we met up with Nick’s sister, Collette, and it was great to spend the day with her!  Her and Noelle hit it off really well because they both majored in education and they had a lot to talk about.  They even worked at the same school.  We first stopped for some lunch, which consisted of a Mickey Mouse pretzel (my fave!)

After Dinosaur, we didn’t have much time left and we really wanted to see the Mickey’s Jingle Jungle Parade, so we went back to Mount Everest and got in single-rider again and rode that 2 more times.  Last time Collette and I were at Disney together, I was in the College Program and she was there visiting.  It was insane because this has now happened to us TWICE.  We got in single-rider line, and then they ended up putting us together, we had to document our second occurrence of this phenomenon!

Afterwards, it was time to pick a spot for the parade.  We ended up finding a super great location, but noticed that pictures with Mickey and Minnie were only a 5 minute wait!  We ran over to get our pictures and they were the CUTEST in their Christmas outfits… I mean, I die!

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My best friend, Makayla, grew up with diabetes.  We’ve been best friends for 18 years now and she’s battled diabetes for 15 of those years.  On May 10, 2014, the day before her 25th birthday, I’ll be cycling 50 miles with Tour de Cure in New Orleans, LA in honor of her to raise money and awareness for diabetes education and research.  I have no doubt that you or someone you know personally has been affected by diabetes.

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Hey y’all!  I’m excited to share about what happened on Friday during the Disney Wine & Dine Weekend.  It was a packed-full day of fun and awesome and tired!

It’s a little bit of a lengthy post, but it’s mostly pictures and videos!  ENJOY!
In case you missed it: Pre-Disney

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So on Friday, we were all packed up from Lacy’s grandmother’s ready to go.  They cooked us breakfast before we left.  I was over the moon excited about returning to Disney!  Our first stop was the Expo.  At the expo we could pick up all of our race material and do some shopping.  Since funds are pretty tight right now, I didn’t do much shopping, but I did pick out an awesome wine glass (I couldn’t help myself, Disney WINE and dine!)  The expo was a lot of fun.

Y’all know I was planning on meeting Meg at Disney.  We had chatted about when we would be at the expo, but I wasn’t sure if we would end up seeing each other there.  The truth is, when I arrived, I was so overwhelmed with everything and the excitement that I forgot she was on her way.  I picked up my packet and then we were rushing over to the pre-race taste packet pick-up when someone grabbed my shoulder, I turned around and IT WAS MEG!!! I embarrassingly jumped up and down like a lunatic because I was sooo excited to see her!  We chatted, I met her mom, dad, and Mike and then we sadly had to depart : (  Our time together surely was not enough!

Also…. we had a good many blogger fails over the weekend!  1. We didn’t take a picture when we first me  2. We didn’t finish our originally planned interview vlog and 3. We didn’t get enough time on the blate overall…