when i left you we were on our way to meet erin in front of CP. we made our way through the swarms in front of the restaurant up to the check-in window thing and were given our buzzer. when i turned around after tara had checked in who do i run into but my mom's neighbor!!!
of all the places to see him! he asked where ray was and i explained this was an all-girls trip. we chatted for a few minutes, then me and the girls found a seat on a wall near the ramp going up to CP. i called my mom and told her who i had just seen......she was overly-amused - i think she had had a few drinks! she's a lightweight and was playing cards with her friends!!!
we people watched for awhile and ended up waiting a few minutes more than we had expected to wait. we finally got buzzed and went inside. the hostest made a big fuss about erin's birthday pin, seated us and returned with this for our table.....
here's erin sporting a piece of mickey confetti....
we were seated in one of those half-booth, half-tables in the middle section on the right side of the restaurant. tara had the pleasure of sitting next to a little boy who wouldn't sit down in his seat the entire meal and was standing/sitting practically ON TOP of her, then would CRAWL OVER her every 2 minutes. it was fun!
the hostess explained how the characters/buffet worked and before our server even made it to our table, we had a visit from a chubby little bear....
he was so cute! shy, but cute.
our server (stephan, i think) got our drink orders and we made our way to the buffet. this is my first plate....
clockwise from bottom, salad with blue cheese and peppers, cous cous, dinner roll with some sort of basil butter, pasta salad.
my favorites were the butter for the roll and the pasta salad. the cous cous was good except it had chick peas in it and....well, just gag!
here's my second plate.....
clockwise from bottom, salmon, mahi mahi, prime rib, some sort of corn casserole thing, mashed potatoes, broccoli, veggies and some sort of pasta with mushrooms in the middle.
my favorites were the salmon (to die for!!!), the potatoes and the broccoli. whatever seasoning they put on the broccoli is very yummy. i have to say the mahi mahi was very dry though.
as soon as i got back to the table with my second plate they started the parade thing......
then we got a visit by tigger!!!
he was sooooooo cool! i'm not a big tigger fan, but this guy was so much fun. when erin asked him to bounce, he did and i said something like, "it looks like he's raising the roof," to which he responded with actually raising the roof!
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during dinner erin, tara and i tried to guess if the people in the character costumes were male or female. the consensus (i think) was that tigger was a male and eeyore and piglet were females. we couldn't decide on pooh. yes, we are dorks.
after tigger we met eeyore. i think erin asked if he was sad today and he just kinda shrugged his shoulders.
next came piglet. we got NUMEROUS kisses from piglet......so sweet!
just when erin thought piglet was walking away, piglet turned around and got back behind erin and kissed her in the ear. this scared erin so bad she almost jumped out of her seat!
piglet turned around one more time and i thought he (or she?) was gonna do it again, so i snapped a picture. but he (she?) was just waving at me.
after the characters we rolled ourselves to the dessert bar. i think i got some tiramisu, some other kind of whiskey cake and some fruit. i don't remember....too much food! oh, and i forgot to take a pic....sorry.
just when we were all ready to go (read: take a nap to digest all this food!) our server showed up with a little birthday treat for erin.....
i don't even think we ate it because we were so full! but she did get a cool little card from the pooh gang!
next up....evening at MK with spectro and wishes......and three very tired girls!
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