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Mon, 12:38: Lovely breakfast of poached eggs on bacon, Brie, arugula, on toasted baguette. Plate of pastries for the table, incl in prix fixe.
Mon, 12:39: Open faced egg sandwich, pastry platter, at Be Our Guest breakfast. http://t.co/rdkeFpj6G8
Mon, 13:02: Walked the new queue for Peter Pan, walked on ride, done before 9 am official park opening.
Mon, 14:46: Rode Mine Train w FP, done by 9:13. Headed to Main St. to pin trade and see if Scoop Sanderson is in town to pin trade.
Mon, 14:47: Nice CM in Emporium asked if I was looking for special pins, produced one of new Apple hidden mickeys fr pocket.
Mon, 14:50: Scoop is here today! Watched him trade w family and give the Mom his special Scoop piña-trading pin.
Mon, 14:54: K reminded Scoop of Feb meeting where she traded a pin to give away. He asked if we had droid pins to trade, said he'd be back out in hour
Mon, 15:36: Met back w Scoop -- it was not a regular trading time (that's 9:45, 12:45) so we found a spot for private trade.
Mon, 15:52: K got special Figment pin, I picked a pin-on-pin Cheshire Cat pin, in exchange for extra droid completer.
Mon, 16:16: Rode Pirates for more dark and cool, almost too fast w FP. Couldn't change time of expired Haunted Mansion w app, Svc Center CM did it.

Mon, 16:17: About to do Haunted Mansion, then will go back to Main St to trade w Scoop
Mon, 17:33: And indeed traded w Scoop again, also w someone else in the line who had Disneyland mystery pouch tickets.
Mon, 17:34: Etiquette for trading w Scoop: say hello, introduce yourself, ask if you can trade (may I, not can I). Politeness pays.
Mon, 17:37: Monorail to Poly to get a snack and pin trade. Have dinner reservation at Flying Fish, older brother and wife will join us.
Mon, 18:47: Monorail to Grand Floridian for another pin sweep v
Tue, 01:10: Some of the newest pins at GF from lanyards. Monorail on to MK and took bus to BWalk.
Tue, 01:11: Had a little downtime mostly spent pin sorting and trading back and forth to finish sets. Down to lobby to wait for T&S.
Tue, 01:13: Checked in for flight while waiting, Tom and Shannon arrive right on time for reservation at Flying Fish.
Tue, 01:19: Lovely dinner, food & service superb. We all traded bites--hard to pick favorite. Caught up on family news, discussed collecting obsessions
Tue, 01:19: Ordered banana florentine dessert to share, waiter also brought chocolate mint creme brûlée. Tasted like Girl Scout thin mints, in best way.

Tue, 02:54: After dinner walked towards Epcot, on around lake. T&S not familiar w area, as a local, Shannon never comes to Disney. :)
Tue, 02:56: K split off at BC to pin trade, I walked rest of way around lake w T&S. Said goodbye, then I changed into shorts and walked to HS.
Tue, 02:57: Pins I wanted at Studios not there, are SWW exclusive and weekend is over. Boated to Swolphin, walked to Bwalk, pin traded in store.
Tue, 02:59: K off to Downtown Disney suitcase shopping, to haul home purchases, also pin trading. Fr texts, she had very good luck.

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