{"id":41835,"date":"2019-11-24T08:18:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T15:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=41835"},"modified":"2019-11-25T06:32:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T13:32:58","slug":"up-at-the-crack-of-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=41835","title":{"rendered":"Up At The Crack Of Dawn!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle, or it will starve to death. It doesn\u2019t matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle. When the sun comes up, you\u2019d better be running.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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I work hard at it!<\/p><\/div>\n

It must be true; I do love my family!\u00a0 Before the Sun rose, I was sitting in my office surrounded by three phone, a credit card, and pencil and paper just waiting for 6:59 AM to display on the clock! The Disneyland ticket office phone number is now engrained in my cerebral cortex, and I shall not misdial!<\/p>\n

6:59 AM, and my fingers and arms spring into action. Dial, Dial, Dial; three phones are working hard to make the necessary connection to Disneyland ticketing! If a camera had been rolling, I’d of looking like a deranged octopus with arms flying in all directions.<\/p>\n

Phone #2 won; my iPhone 11 found the way!\u00a0 When they answered, the other two phones had the Disneyland background music playing, and I had to hold phone #2 to my ear while turning the other two phones off, not an easy thing to do!<\/p>\n

Anyway, we have our Christmas Walking Tour reservations made for eleven of us.\u00a0 This year we have the Adams, Dudas, and Linds going!\u00a0 It will be Sue’s 56th consecutive year at Disneyland on Chrismas Eve.<\/p>\n

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Christmas Eve 2014 at Disneyland with the Finch’s and Duda’s<\/p><\/div>\n

When Sue and her folks came to California, they knew no one.\u00a0 On Christmas Eve, they were not sure what to do, so dad said, “We are going to Disneyland,” and every Christmas Eve since then, Sue has gone to Disneyland!<\/p>\n

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Time for shopping so off to Ralph’s for the necessities of life; cherry pie!\u00a0 Amazing! I had five items on the list but came home with three bags of goodies.<\/p>\n

Lunchtime and Sue wanted eggs with hash browns.\u00a0 The internet gave me some clues, and we had great hash browns, just like a diner would serve.\u00a0 I went to YouTube and got the secrets, and by golly, they worked.<\/p>\n