Sunday, December 11, 2016

Chef Mickey and PattiPark

On Thursday Mark and I joined 48 of our closest friends in the Solivita Disney Fan Club for a late lunch at Chef Mickey in the Contemporary Resort.  We stuffed ourselves on delicious food and mingled with all the characters who came by our table.  Then we took the boat over to the Wilderness Lodge to check out the Christmas tree and decorations.  We had never seen those decorations before.

Around 6 p.m. we met my high school girlfriend, Pat Park Miller, at Epcot.  She was visiting for her anniversary with her husband Terry and her daughter Lara.  We had only 10 minutes in the DVC lounge.  We did not know that it closed at 6 when we arrived at 5:50.  Ridiculous.  So then we just chatted and got caught up as we walked out of the park.  They had an early morning the next day.  At least we exchanged all the pertinent contact information and made a pact to try to get together again next year when they come for a visit.  I had not seen Pat in almost17 years!  Hardly seemed possible.

Yesterday we enjoyed a half hour presentation of Japanese Taiko, drumming.  There were about a dozen drummers giving an awesome performance.  Then we had dinner at the home of our friends Jonathan and Susan S. at the Cove.  They had recently spent two weeks on a music tour of Cuba!  They share photos and videos of their trip, which was a lot of fun.

Today I finished all of my present wrapping and boxing.  All the packages are ready to go to the post office tomorrow morning.  Then we drove up to Winter Garden to see A Charlie Brown Christmas at the Garden Theater.  It was an adaptation of the 30 minute TV cartoon. They made it last 47 minutes by having some Christmas carols before and after the show.  Took us a lot longer to drive up and back!

Solivita Disney Fan Club at Chef Mickey

Me with Barb and Susie

All of us in red!

A Goofy selfie

Good doggie

The Chef himself

Donald has always been Mark's favorite.

Wilderness Lodge lobby

Me and Pat in the DVC Member lounge

Me, Pat, Lara, and Terry

Saying good night

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