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Brett & Jo's Pilgrimage to Where it All Began: Day 5 - A Very Merry Unbirthday To Me!

Anyone would think I’m a rookie when it comes to this Trip Report writing lark as I made no reference to what time we got up, what we did in the room, or what time we met up with Jon and Lisa!

Here’s what I do know though… today is my birthday… and in essence, the whole reason behind this trip to California!



As I’d requested, Jo didn’t give me a birthday card or even wish me happy birthday. I just wanted today to be like any other day (Jon and Lisa had also been warned about this!) Before we left to come away though, Jon had sent me a cool homemade ‘Breaking Bad’ birthday card and got me a game called ‘Utter Nonsense’ which will no doubt be brought out at some point when me, Jo and our friends are all suitably drunk… which should make for some hilarious chaos! Something else Jon had done in advance is make us all matching t-shirts… the design is made up of words, phrases and descriptions of things I like and things associated with our holiday in California.

I have a photo on my phone of Jon and Lisa in the hallway, and the timestamp says 8:31, so that’s obviously the time we met! From there it was a quick 10minute walk to the front of DCA where quite a crowd was already waiting.





While standing in line and waiting for them to start letting us in, I’m studying Jon’s t-shirt, noticing new words and phrases the more I look. Some of the writing is quite small and hard to read, and in an act of complete idiocy (and I can’t believe I’m admitting this) I put my finger and thumb on a word I can’t read, and do the swipe motion with my fingers to zoom in like you do on an iPhone! Jo immediately comments on what she just saw me do… and there’s no point in acting like I was joking or playing about… in that split second I thought I could swipe and enlarge the text on a t-shirt!



The park doesn’t open until 10am for regular guests, but we have another Extra Magic Hour this morning… so at a little before 9am they open the gates and people start filing in. As we get into the park we can see that they’ve set up a rope across the length of the street stopping anyone from getting any further into DCA. They are obviously trying to stop some of the congestion outside by letting people in but not letting them venture in too far. At 9am we’re let loose, and in scenes similar to those I’ve witnessed on TV of people rushing into Dixons at 5am on Boxing Day, people around us begin to engage in a bit of pushing and shoving so they can be the first ones in line for Radiator Springs Racers (because let’s be honest… this is where we’re all headed!)





At 9:05 we’re in the queue and its already saying it’s a 20minutes wait. How is that even possible?! Anyway, this is the first time we’ve seen Radiator Springs as an area, and I’m quite impressed at how good it looks. The theming is great… and this is coming from someone who doesn’t even like Cars the movie! I just don’t get it! Are the cars possessed? Do humans exist in their world? If not, why do they have human sized seats inside them? Sorry… I’m going down a rabbit hole there with that line of questioning.















While queuing we start playing a game called ‘If I ran a theme park’. It’s basically a way of airing the things you hate in theme parks and what you would do to combat the things that wind you up. As an example, one was to do with people cutting in line. If someone cuts in line then the ruling would be that that once they reached the front of the line, they would be sent all the way to the back to have to wait all over again! Another was to do with unruly kids in the parks. The verdict on that was that the parent or parents themselves get sent to a naughty step and made to sit there for a ‘to be determined’ length of time. Thus meaning not only do the kids not get to ride anything, but neither do the parents. The theming in the queue line is almost non-existent, and considering how popular this attraction is, I’m surprised they’ve not added more into it. Still, our little game made the 20 minutes fly by and also made for interesting discussion!

Even though I’d heard the ride was great, I had no preconceived expectation of how good it would be! It’s a cross between Test Track and a good old fashioned Disney dark ride. The animatronic vehicles are really good, and the scenes you travel through are very well designed… then you enter a race and it’s like the end of Test Track. I videoed the whole attraction on my GoPro and watching it back when I got home made me realise just how good the attention to detail is on this attraction. Jon had called for us to do a pose for the camera, but having never been on the ride I didn’t know when it was coming, so I missed it!













From the RSR we walked round to Paradise Pier and California Screamin’ was a 5 minute wait. I asked if Jon would be coming on and got a big fat “no!” as my answer. Turns out Lisa didn’t want to do it either as she said she’d be too cold if she went on it, so they waited by the launching area as we went on.











It’s a great coaster… very smooth, very fast. It has some great drops and is actually much longer than I thought it would be. In the middle it does a full 360 loop, and honestly, it didn’t need it. It felt a little like Disney thought people wouldn’t think it was thrilling enough, so stuck a loop in the middle. Needless to say, we really liked this ride, and when we got off we said to Lisa she’d have to come on it with us the next time we did it.



Our next stop on the pier was Toy Story Midway Mania. I really enjoy this attraction as I’m ultra-competitive, so Jon suggested we have a wager! The team with the lowest score would buy churros for everyone. Seemed like a fair bet… so we shook on it. What was being displayed at a 15minute wait, turned out to be closer to 30minutes, made to seem even longer by how the woman in front was dealing with her three kids… two of them were fighting each other, and the third (just a toddler) was having a hissy-fit when he was being held by the mother, and then crying his eyes out and having a meltdown when she put him down to walk! She couldn’t do right for doing wrong. Then literally a couple of minutes before we got the front of the line, the dad appeared (having no doubt cut in front of everyone behind us) and suddenly all three kids were behaving!







There isn’t much more to say about the attraction as it’s exactly the same as the DHS version although the building is very different and more in keeping with the theme of the boardwalk. And as for who won Round 1 of the Toy Story battle… let this picture answer the question!



We continue round Paradise Pier and see that the wait for the Golden Zephyr was only 5 minutes so even though it’s basically like a version of Dumbo (or Aladdin’s Magic Carpets, or the Astro Orbiters, or anything else that just goes round in a circle) we decide to go on. I can see kids really enjoying it, but it didn’t do anything for me.



After that we carried on and upon arriving at the Little Mermaid building we could see from the outside that it was a walk on… so we went in. Again, nothing to say about this ride… it’s another identical attraction to the one in MK.

It’s now just about 11am and we decide to stop for brunch at the Pacific Wharf Cafe! They’d just started serving their lunch menu, but were also still serving the breakfast items, which meant I was happy as I could get one of their Egg and Bacon Boules (yes… I’ve spelt that correctly!)… scrambled eggs served in a bread bowl, with bacon and fruit.





Now, if any of you have read Jon’s TR you’ll have seen that the guy loves bread! I’ve seen pictures and heard tales of him sitting there and eating a whole baguette to himself in Epcot. A plain, dry baguette! So he’s over the moon that we’re eating here because he gets to have his baguette and post his now infamous ‘baguette eating’ picture on IG! They also get an Egg and Bacon Boule… although I think that was more for Lisa’s benefit!





I couldn’t wait to see just how amazing this bread tasted that John has been raving about. I take a bite and I’m surprised. First off, its sourdough. I wasn’t expecting that. Not that I don’t like sourdough, but I don’t recall ever having a sourdough baguette. It’s not that it’s bad or anything… it’s actually really nice bread… I just expected it to be lighter in texture and not so dense.

Me and Jo crack on with our boule (yes… we’re sharing again) and it’s not bad… although I would’ve liked a bit more scrambled egg and definitely more bacon! Once the contents of the boule have been eaten, we set about ripping the bread bowl apart and eating it. It’s the same sourdough as Jon’s baguette, so even though he’s offering to share his much beloved bread stick, I don’t feel like I need to take him up on his offer and deprive him of his much beloved loaf! All around us are tables where people have left their trays and not bothered to take them to the bins (lazy sods)… and on those trays are bread bowls that people haven’t even attempted to eat! I really can’t believe people have just eaten the contents (of which there wasn’t much) and left the bowls! After a while I’m stuffed and can eat no more carbs… so dump the very small amount that remained into the trash.

My voice-memo at this point becomes a little sketchy. The photos on my phone kind of confirm what it says, but it all seems higgledy-piggledy! We ended up in the A Bugs Land area of the park and although there was nothing in there we wanted to ride, Tower of Terror was nearby.



So if I remember rightly, we wanted to get a FP for ToT, but wanted it for a certain time so we’d be able to catch the 12.40 performance of the Aladdin show. As we got to the FP machines we noticed the return time was a little too early for what we wanted, so to kill some time we wandered into A Bugs Land and had a little look round.





I recall this as being one giant area for kids. The only adults in there were the ones using the toilets and the ones trying to stop their kids from running away. In one incident we witnessed a mother too busy talking to another woman, whilst her toddler (who was literally only about 2years old and just standing next to her), sprinted off. She then turned round a minute later and the kid was gone. Luckily, one of the kid’s grandparents had spotted him and was giving chase!

So while all this time wasting and waiting for the TOT FP time to tick over was going on, we’d arranged a spontaneous meet up! Many years ago, when I first had my Haunted Mansion tattoo (at that point it was just the outline and a coloured in croc) I met a CM in a store in the WDW Frontierland who spotted my tattoo and loved it. We had a photo taken together, we chatted, and we started following each other on IG and occasionally chatted and posted comments on each other’s photos. Well Marissa (that’s her name) was now living and working in Disneyland, and when I mentioned I was coming out to Anaheim she’d suggested meeting up to say a quick hello. She’d messaged me saying she was in the parks today, so I thought why not just see if she was nearby whilst we had some time to kill. Because the Disney parks out in California don’t have free wifi, I was reliant on Jon to message her and set up the meeting… which he did!

We were standing right by the FP machines keeping our fingers crossed for a few more people to come along and get them so that the time would move by another 5minutes. Then at just gone 11:45 it finally did, and was now showing a time of 12:25-13:25… so we grabbed our three FPs. YES… three! Jon said ‘*please insert your own pitiful excuse here*’ and that was why he couldn’t go on ToT! It was at this point in the trip that I realised Jon wasn’t going to ride anything faster than Goofy’s Sky School, so I wasn’t going to press him anymore on the matter… for this trip!



A few minutes after we got our FPs, Marissa turned up. We gave each other a big hug and then I introduced her to the rest of the group. We stood around and she asked us what we’d been up to, what our plans were for the rest of the day etc. She then told me off for not having a Happy Birthday button, and I’d explained my wish for no fuss to be made of my birthday… but she insisted that I got get one from the Town Hall when we got into Disneyland. After 20minutes we said our goodbyes and said that we should arrange to meet up at Trader Sam’s the following night when she finished her shift at 11pm.


May 2015, Disneyland CA


September 2012, Walt Disney World FL



It was now time to get into the queue for the Aladdin show. I’m not a big fan of shows of any sort really. I always seem to end up behind the person wearing Mickey ears who refuses to take them off… or the iPad-womble who’s completely blocking my view of the performance, so I didn’t hold out much hope for (a) my view of the stage, and (b) the show itself.





Firstly, I was amazed at how big the theatre was! We chose to sit up in the balcony and off to the right hand side of the stage, which meant a completely unspoilt view! It was like sitting in the Royal Box (or at least I imagine it was having never done that before!) Secondly, I was surprised at how good the show was. Without doubt the most enjoyable Disney show I’ve seen! And yes… I’m including the Lion King show at Animal Kingdom in that! I’ve seen it twice I think… and it just doesn’t do anything for me! (I’m gonna catch some flack for this aren’t I?!)




Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!

It was funny… the pace of the show was good… and the performers were brilliant… especially the guy playing the Genie. A lot of the jokes were very topical so references to the Kardashians and Miley Cyrus were plentiful. As it was coming towards the end of the show I glanced down at my watch… it was 1:20! We’d been sitting there for 40minutes and hadn’t even realised it. This meant our FP window was expiring in 5 minutes, and as good as the show was, I was willing it to end and the final curtain to come down! Finally it did, we applauded the cast and then we bolted out of the theatre and rushed over to ToT. It was 1:30 and I was hoping that the CM at the FP entry gate wasn’t paying too much attention.

I handed him the tickets and he thankfully just took them and ushered us in to the building where we went straight into the ‘Library’. I didn’t get much time to look at the reception area of the hotel, but it looked the same as in DLP and WDW. I couldn’t see many difference with the actual ride itself either… aside from the fact that the elevator doesn’t move out onto a track and through the ghostly images like at WDW, it’s almost identical. We had an elevator full of screamers though… and they didn’t stop from its first drop ‘til its last. We seemed to get some really big drops that set them off even more. When we got off the ride, first stop was to have a look at the photo… it’s a shame that a guy sitting in front of us is blocking Lisa’s face.



We decide that we’re done with DCA for today and make our way to the exits and into DL. As Marissa instructed, I go and get a Happy Birthday button and then we carry on down Main Street. We quickly pop into Starbucks and grab some drinks, along with a couple of the Disneyland ‘You Are Here’ mugs, and a giant tumbler with a straw.



As we’re coming out the store I spot a little doorway and above it says ‘Lockers’! Brilliant… we can dump all our mugs in a locker and pick them up again as we leave tonight. We put a $20 bill into the machine to pay for our locker, and Jo is suddenly super excited as it gives us seven silver dollars as our change! (I only ever remember having one of these before in all the years we’ve been visiting the US!)

With all our Starbucks stuff stashed away, we decide that we’ll proceed up Main Street by going through all the shops. In the first shop we’re brought to a sudden halt as Jo spots the limited edition Dooney & Bourke Star Wars bags. They only have one on the shelf and the woman behind the counter informs us that it’s the last one they have and they don’t know when they’ll be getting any more.

Jo needs a bit of coaxing, but I tell her if she likes the bag, then I’ll buy it for her as a present. The woman turns round to get the bag but it’s clear she’s not tall enough to reach it on the top shelf. I offer to retrieve it for her, but she tells me customers aren’t allowed behind the till. She looks about to see if there’s another CM who can help her, but the store is virtually empty. “Oh go on then… be quick… and don’t tell anyone you came behind here!” she says to me and ushers me behind the counter.

I quickly grab the bag and hand it to her, then go back round to the front of the counter. Jo’s looking at the bag and I can tell she really likes it… but she’s hesitating. The reason for the hesitation is that her Haunted Mansion D&B bag that I got her for Christmas a few years back is the same size. She loves that bag and treats it better than she treats me!

She then says that she also quite likes the smaller Disneyland exclusive D&B bags (of which they have a few left). The woman pulls them off the shelf, and her and Jo set about looking at the placement of the designs on the bags. A couple are discounted immediately, it’s narrowed down to three… and then she finds her favourite. “Get both of them” I say, “you like both of them, and it’s not like we’ll be here at Disneyland again any time soon!”


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Jo is still hesitant (she doesn’t really do labels or expensive bags/shoes etc) so I just turn to the CM and say “we’ll have this little one, and the Star Wars one please”. The CM delicately starts packing them away and I tell her we’d like them sent to our room. “Oooh you don’t want to do that with such nice bags. You should take them to the Package Check window by the park entrance. They’ll keep hold of them for you and when you leave you can pick them up again”.





As she’s getting another woman to help her pack the bags up, she stops, picks up the phone on the counter, dials a number and then hands me the phone. I listen and it’s a call from Goofy wishing me a happy birthday (if memory serves me right.. he even sung a little bit!)



With the bags purchased we thank the woman for all her help and I head back to the park entrance to leave the bags at the drop off point. Now we have to remember to collect our mugs from the locker, AND the bags! We’ve been in the park an hour and we haven’t even got out of Main Street!

The whole time we were in the store, the CM (who must be in her late 60’s) was chatting with us. She was a really lovely woman and while talking to Jon and Lisa about where they were from, she suddenly said to Jon “you know… you look a bit like Justin Timberlake”. John started laughing and said that people had mentioned it before. He’s now beaming from ear to ear about this and seconds later he’s on his phone, calling a friend to tell him a CM just said he looked like JT. Apparently this is a running joke between the pair of them.

(FYI for the rest of the time we were with Jon, he would refer to himself in the third person as ‘Jonny T’. “Jonny T ain’t scared of riding Space Mountain, he just don’t want to… Johnny T was holding on tight for safety reasons”… that sort of thing!)

It’s now 3pm and we head into Adventureland to get a FP for the Indiana Jones ride. Return time is 5:30-6:30 which gives us time to mooch around the park for 3hrs before coming back.



Seeing as we haven’t ridden it yet, Big Thunder Mountain is where we head next. It’s showing as a 30minute wait time but we can see that the line is moving quickly, so start queuing. It’s only a 20min wait and the line is always shuffling along, so it doesn’t feel that long. Plus… it gives me time to do a VM about the day’s events so far.

This version of BTM feels very similar to WDW. There are a few different touches in some of the cave sequences with LED lights made to look like fuses burning down to the TNT so it appears like the tunnel/cave is about to come crashing down around you… they also use a lot of smoke which makes it even more impressive. Then at the end of the attraction as you pull back into the station you pass an old Wild West town… but other than that the ride feels the same as its East -Coast brother. I still think the DLP version is the best with its underground tunnel leading to the rest of the ride on an island in the middle of the river!











Once we’re off the ride we look at the map and see that we still haven’t done Jungle Cruise… and although it’s not exactly one of my favourites… it’s an original attraction so is on my ‘Must Do’ list. The screen says 20minutes… but it’s lying!





We wait at least 30, possibly 40! And it is the most horrible of queue lines with cut back upon cut back… up stairs… down stairs… in buildings… out of buildings… and there is almost nothing to look at the whole time except people’s miserable looking faces as you pass one another over and over again.

Someone passes by us and says “Happy Birthday Brett!” and I reply with a “thank you”. We then pass by them about six more times as the endless line for the attraction keeps switching back on itself. It’s like a giant game of Snake. You know… that game on the early Nokia phones!

The queue tricks you too! Just when you think you’re going to heading out to the dock it then makes you loop outside the building and you realise you are nowhere near getting to the dock! The last time I experienced a line like this was at HHN when we got in line for American Werewolf in London. Now at the end of that hideous queue… we at least had a fantastic experience. Unfortunately the same can’t be said about this Jungle Cruise queue. It’s exactly as you’d expect from the Jungle Cruise… cheesy and predictable. I’d always heard about how great the Skippers were here, but we must have had one that was on an off day! The ride itself was very much the same as WDW except that DL doesn’t have that scene where you go into the cave. The DL version did have a scene featuring piranhas which was good (but brief) though. I did of course give a little nod towards our buddy Trader Sam when we saw him… but this was definitely a one-and-done attraction.







We seem to be jumping all over the place today, and from Adventureland, we walk across the other side of the park to Tomorrowland and to the ‘Tomorrowland Movie’ exhibit. They have some artwork from the design stage of the movie, as well as some props and some of Walt’s own personal artefacts that inspired him to want to create a futuristic land in Disneyland.















There is also an exclusive 10 minute preview of the movie being shown in what I later found out was the Captain EO theatre. I’d always been quite interested in the movie and had planned on seeing it at the cinema anyway, but after seeing the teaser I was even more excited to see it.



*Quick update: Since getting home from the trip, we went to watch this at the cinema and both loved it. It wasn’t what I expected, but enjoyed it from start to finish and can’t wait to see it again on Blu-ray so I can spot all the little Disney Easter eggs!*

We hadn’t been on the monorail yet, and although it just loops the park, goes to DTD and returns, we wanted to give it a go. There isn’t really a wait (5 minutes or so) and we load up to begin our little journey. The cabins are a lot smaller and seeing out the windows isn’t as easy. The seats are laid out differently, as there are inward facing benches at the end of the cabin, then a long bench in the middle running the length of the cabin.





When we get to DTD a few people disembark and there’s situation involving a group of four friends talking to one another about getting off the monorail, and an elderly man who got confused and thought they were talking to him! He kept saying “I don’t want to get off… I’m staying on!” when the girl was talking to the guy in her party that just happened to be sitting next to him. Eventually he realised she wasn’t speaking to him and the four younger ones got off.

We completed our monorail loop and we got off right where we’d started from. Feeling a little peckish, we grab a hotdog from Refreshment Corner (DL’s version of Casey’s Corner). I go for a loaded Mac-n-Cheese dog, while Jo just gets a plain one. I look at Jo’s and I have never seen a more unappealing hot dog in all my life (and I’ve eaten streetfood in Portugal at 4am after a night of clubbing!) Bland just doesn’t do it justice. I think Jo’s face tells the story of how she feels about it too! Mine is ok… nothing special.









With the hotdogs consumed, and our bellies filled with bland, mediocre food, it’s now time to use our FPs for Indiana Jones (this time with Jon!) It’s still a 15 minute wait with our FPs and this time I’m able to look around a little more than I was the first time we rode it… and I notice lots more of the details.

Our next stop is Haunted Mansion. When we’d got in the queue it said 20minutes… but yet again this is another case of the wait time being twice as long as posted. To make matters worse, we’re just behind yet another family with a kid having a meltdown.

The kid is slapping his mother (who’s carrying him) while the dad speaks on his phone! The little Son-of-Satan is properly slapping and hitting her in the face… and when he’s not being violent he’s screaming at the top of his lungs! As the line snakes its way back and forth outside the Mansion, we can see people’s faces as they react to either seeing him slap his mum, or scream the place down. At one point our line converges with another, and I turn to another group and say “you can go first… I insist!” They’ve obviously seen what’s been going on and laugh and say “oh that’s very kind of you, but we really couldn’t… you go”. Luckily for both of us, the doors to the Mansion close and we’re both outside while the child from hell is inside causing everyone with them to wish they were back out in the queue!

What I’m not impressing on you all is how busy the parks are… ALL THE TIME! And because it doesn’t have the same physical space in the parks like WDW does, you are always stuck behind hordes of people was you walk around… and attractions have queue lines spilling into the streets causing more congestion. Unfortunately the VM I recorded for the tail end of this day didn’t come out properly… so from here on out I’m using photos to jog my memory of what went down!




Hey, it’s Jonny-T!



So… looking at my photos it appears that after our HM experience, we decided to call it a day and go back to the hotel for a bit before we went out for something to eat. Obviously we had to collect our mugs from the locker in Main Street, and then Jo’s Brett’s-birthday bags(!) from the front of the park.

It’s 8pm when we get back in our room, quickly get changed and by 8:30 we’re sitting at a table in Tortilla Joe’s.





We order a round of drinks, and get some guacamole with extra tomatoes (made table-side) and chips to share as a starter. I’m sure I mentioned what our drinks were on the VM but as that’s corrupt and I don’t remember what we all had, you’ll just have to look at pictures instead.







For my main I had fish tacos… that were very disappointing. I wasn’t expecting it to be breaded… so it was basically like a fish finger taco! Jo had avocado cannelloni… or at least that’s what I think it was! And I’m pretty sure Jon and Lisa went with fajitas to share.









I think the best thing about the meal was the guacamole. Jon and Lisa had actually eaten here the night they arrived and Jon said he’d picked the wrong thing from the menu that night, but had enjoyed what he’d eaten this evening. To me, that says that TJ is a hit and miss restaurant and if I was in DL again, I probably wouldn’t eat here in case I picked the wrong type of meal.



With the meal over, we spent an hour or so looking round some of the shops in DTD. The majority of that time was spent in World of Disney deliberating over gifts we’d buy for people back home, as well as trying not to buy all of the retro looking park merchandise they had in the store. We failed miserably! We ended up buying serving trays, bowls, plates… it was getting out of hand and we had to say enough was enough (for now anyway!)

Jo had been looking at the Alex & Ani Disney charm bracelets. After looking at each and every bracelet on offer, she decided to go for the Disneyland park one. Lisa also got herself one… but I can’t remember which one it was! We were pretty much the last people in the store, but from there we went in the Quicksilver shop… and me and Jon ended up buying matching pairs of sock! Jon suggested we wear them the following day… I called him a ‘bell’ and said that wasn’t happening!



After that we finally decided to call it a night… I don’t remember what time we got into bed, and I don’t know if we went off to sleep straight away… but that my DIBB buddies is the end of my (un)birthday!

There really isn’t a lot to add to the end of this (‘Hooray’ I hear you cry!) The day was exactly what I wanted… to spend time in DL, forget I was now 40 years old, and just have a fun time.

As always, thank you for reading, I hope you’ve enjoyed it… and join us soon for Day 6 which is our final day at the Disney parks.

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Brilliant read,as always! You've captured the day so well! Thank you.Looking forward to more. Linda
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About time matey, great trip report! Dashed straight over to the dibb when I saw your IG post
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An excellent read from my two favorite DIBBERs! I was very much looking forward to how the Johnny T situation was going to play out... and boy was it amazing.
I was literally laughing every time I even glanced at that part, took me a good 10/15 minutes to finally move on.

Per the usual, excellent photos, writing, and all that other stuff.

Looking forward to day 6!
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Nearly spat my coffee out at the Jon looks like Justin Timberlake but looking at his photo on BTM...I can actually see it! Another great day even though it seems lacking in unbirthday cocktails. Love Jo's bags, looking forward to the next day.
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Twitter alerted us to this day... Ace as always. Thank you for sharing.
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