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What is it about stuffed animals???? Every time I am at  Disney, I feel the need to come home with Mickey Mouse. This year Mallory picked up a Mickey Mouse thanks to Nonnie & Poppie! She alternates sleeping with Micky and her Teddy bear-so cute!

More from EPCOT–yes that stands for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.

The Welcome Dinner was scheduled to be held outside on a private terrace at the United Kingdom in Epcot. The lovely people at Disney kindly switched our location to a room at the Living Seas (yeah air conditioning) as it looked like rain would fall from the sky at any moment. The dinner was lovely, the room was great and it had a spectacular view of the enormous saltwater aquarium. After dinner we were able to take a quick ride with Nemo and friends before the bus took us to the UK to see Illuminations.

the glowing bride and groom

the aquarium in the background

the hidden Mickey in the aquarium

The Illuminations show is a fireworks spectacular over the water in the World Showcase. This is where we were scheduled for dinner and they brought us to see the show. Have I mentioned the heat, humidity, and heat index??? It was hot and we had cute little fans to help keep cool.

the World Showcase at dark

We are home from the wonderful wedding week. It was great and totally fun and we are so pleased to have Nathan and his sons in the family. I will be posting more regularly as I have internet again, I’m so cheap (and was exhausted) that I refused to pay the daily fee to post everything while we were at the Saratoga Springs resort. Speaking of the totally great resort……

This is just one of the pool areas. The resort is themed around the horse racing community in upstate New York. Mallory loved playing in the pop jets and watching the big kids run around.

the groom looking handsome

the newlyweds outside the Living Seas

just before lunch in France

the paparazzi that followed Nathan and Jenn all over this week