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Tonight I went to see 42nd Street with my Grandma at Kilworth House Theatre. We had such a great evening, the show was really good and was amazing what they did with a smallish cast.

Its fathers day today, Ethan got me some really cool Lego plants for my office. We then went to Go Ape at Coombe Abbey for Treetop Adventure Plus. Ethan and I had a great time, it was great being in the trees. We then went to Costa for lunch and in the afternoon we played Minecraft.

The Plex data SSD died and I had wanted to build a new server for a while. I was originally going to go for an Epyc processor, but it wouldn't have been new, with no warranty. After some research I decided on an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16 Core 32 Thread CPU with a MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK MAX motherboard, an 850W MSI MAG A850GL power supply, 128GB Corsair DDR4 Vengeance LPX of RAM, a few WD SSDs, a 4GB PNY NVIDIA RTX A400 graphics card, a Hauppauge WinTV-quadHD PCIe TV card and a be quiet! Pure Loop 120mm AIO Cooler. I got it all setup on my bench first and once I had got Plex installed I removed the old hardware from the case and added in the new hardware. It took another few days of configuration to get everything installed on it. It is now back in the rack. The machine is super quick, Ethan and I have a Minecraft server running on there so we can play together which is great.

Dad, Ethan, Thomas and I went skating today at Midlands Roller Arena. It had been a while since I had been on my skates, but I had a great time skating around with Ethan. He has really improved and can now go round on his own without needing to hold onto me. After skating we had dinner at McDonalds.

We packed the cases this morning before heading for breakfast. We then went into the park and went on Buzz Lightyear Laser Blast, then Le Pays des Contes de Fees before having a walk round La Cabane des Robinson. We then queued up for photos with Donald Duck. We had lunch at Starbucks before heading back into the park and going on Cars Road Trip. We then headed back to the hotel and picked up our cases and caught the Disney bus back to the airport. We had a McDonalds before going through to departures. Our flight was at 10pm and we ended up getting back home just after midnight.

This morning we had breakfast at the hotel before heading into the park. We then went on Star Tours: The Adventures Continue which was quite good as we didn't know what to expect. We then went on Le Carrousel de Lancelot before heading to Starbucks for lunch. We then reserved a slot for the photos with Stitch, in which he looked really cool dressed up as Elvis. We had an afternoon drink in the hotel and then photos with Goofy. Ethan and I then went for a swim before having dinner back at Hunters Grill. I then went off on my own to go on Star Wars Hyperspace Mountain and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril, before meeting back up with everyone to go on Buzz Lightyear Laser Blast. We then stayed and watched Disney Tales of Magic show.

It is Rachels 40th Birthday today. We had breakfast at the hotel before heading into the park. We went straight for Buzz Lightyear Laser Blast before heading on Le Pays des Contes de Fees. We then went for lunch at Starbucks, had a look round the shops and then went to the hotel for an afternoon drink and had some photos with Mini Mouse. Ethan and I went swimming. We then headed back into the park for dinner at PYM Kitchen, which served lots of cool food. We then went on Ratatouille and then I went on Avengers Assemble: Flight Force and The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror before we headed back to the hotel for a drink before bed.

This morning we had breakfast at the hotel before heading into the park. We went on Spider-Man W.E.B. Adventure first as we really enjoyed it last time. We then to watch the new show, Alice & the Queen of Hearts: Back to Wonderland and it was great, they had fire, trampolines and bikes. We then had some Marvel photos taken before heading for lunch at Starbucks. In the afternoon we went on Buzz Lightyear Laser Blast before heading back to the hotel and had photos with Mickey Mouse and then had an afternoon drink and some food in the Compass Lounge. Ethan and I then went swimming before heading out for dinner at Hunters Grill. We then went in the park and Joy and I went on Pirates of the Caribbean before watching the Disney Tales of Magic show.

We were up at 3am this morning, drove to Birmingham airport for 5am. We then had breakfast in Starbucks before getting on a flight to Paris. Once we walked half way across the airport we got to the bus terminal and got on the Disney bus to take us to the Disney Newport Bay Club. We had upgraded to the Compass Club, so we had private check-in which went nice a quickly. We then headed to Starbucks for some lunch and a drink. The first ride Ethan wanted to go on was Buzz Lightyear Laser Blast, which is our favourite ride. We then went on Autopia followed by its a small world. We then headed back o the hotel for an afternoon drink and some food in the Compass Lounge. In the evening we went to Hunters Grill for dinner and then had a look round the shops before heading back to the hotel and went bed after a long day.

It is Rachels 40th on Wednesday so her Auntie and Uncle had everyone over for a family lunch. It was great to see everyone, chat and eat some good food. We then went for a walk, went to a park and then had an ice cream.