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Been home a little while but was too tired to do anything except go to bed for a few hours. What a day yesterday. Insane.

We got up around 6:30 when room service brought breakfast. It was nice sitting in the room and having breakfast in bed even if it wasn't anything exciting. TGF had some bacon and eggs and I had an egg white omelet. We lounged and got over to the park around 8:45. I texted the kid at that point to see how she was doing. Her response was 'I just went to bed two hours ago so ask me later'. Nice. I think having friends around helped her big time. Our friends were still having breakfast so we wandered around starting our pin trading. We got our picture taken with Goofy and by the time we met them around 9:15 we already had 12 new pins. Once we all hooked up we went on Star Tours and then headed over to CA for Tower of Terror. We rode that twice and then let the our friend the birthday girl set the agenda. She wanted to do everything at CA which was weird for us because we normally just do ToT and CA Screaming. But the rain was coming down and we ended up doing NEW things. How often is it you can go somewhere you go every four weeks and end up doing something? We went on Monsters Inc, saw the Muppet 3D show, Bugs Life, Tron, and had a blast. We had lunch at the Italian place and ended up spending more time in CA in that morning that we had our entire last visit. After that back to Disney for more rides and pins and rain.

The rain was coming down all day in buckets but we all had plastic ponchos and sucked it up. It was wonderful. The park had nobody in it because of the rain. We walked right on to Pirates, Haunted Mansion, Thunder Mountain, and more in the middle of the afternoon on a Saturday. The only bummer to the rain was it caused our reservation for dinner to be canceled because it was outdoors at the BBQ. Oh well. Our friends left around six as they were meeting some old friends for dinner then heading off to the show. The woman was guest performing for another cast and we were going to meet up with them in LA later to see the show.

We went back to CA for dinner and more pins and rides and world of color. In the end we got 69 new pins total and had one of the best days in the parks that we have had in months. No crowds, no stress, and had fun. Thank you rain.

We headed to the theater around 10. It was so weird being on the other side and actually watching another cast. All I know is our director and our performers are lucky they have a tech crew that is as awesome as we are. Seriously. Plus as a cast overall, we are light years better. It's too much to go into in minutia but at the end of the day, we blow these guys away.

Left the theater about 2:30 and just took our time getting home. I almost squished a coyote who wanted to run across the freeway but otherwise an uneventful drive home. Off to get the kid.