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Yes, I forgot to post yesterday. Second time I fully completely forgot in almost a year. Why? Same reason as last time - TGF and Disneyland. Not bad reasons mind you. We rolled into Disney around 8 and there really wasn't anyway for me to post so you get two separate posts today, one for Thursday and one for Friday. Here's Thursday.

As I said we rolled into town around 8am. The drive wasn't bad. A little bit of traffic on the way in but it was okay because the park didn't open until 10 anyway. We walked around Downtown Disney and had breakfast. The kid took care of her season pass stuff and we were in. Since we knew we had both days it was nice and relaxing. The park was moderately full since it was a Thursday. Not horrible but enough that you knew other people were there. We went on rides, ate too much sugar, and had a great day.

Around 3 we went and checked into the hotel and we were all starting to get tired but kept on going. We headed down to my old town around 3:30 and arrived around 4ish. That's when the real fun started. We walked to the beach, cruised around saying hello to a hundred people. I had warned TGF as did the kid that we would be saying hello to everyone we knew which was everyone. After the third or fourth time we stopped to talk to someone she realized I wasn't joking about knowing everyone in town.

We got to my buddy's restaurant around 5:30 and the party kicked in. Two bottles of champagne, foie gras, bone marrow (which he ran up to another friend's restaurant to get for us), duck confit, pork belly sliders, all topped with a special chocolate cake dessert for the kid. TGF was blown away. She FINALLY understood why I am the way I am about food and how I like to be treated. It was incredible. We all had a great time and we were stuffed out of our minds.

Got back to the hotel around 9:30 and crashed. I got us a two room suite with two queen beds and a sofa bed to make sure everyone had their own bed. Thank you Hilton points. I think we stayed up for no more than 30 minutes before we all crashed and fell asleep.

All in all, a wonderful magical day that only Disneyland and good food and friends can provide. Now on to Friday...