Continued from above...too many images
Anyway, I do remember that since it was pretty close to our ADR time we head right for 50’s PTC for our 5:45 ADR. There are a ton of people checking in, so I think we are going to be in for a wait. We are handed our pager and go sit in the bar area. It really is a fun looking place. DH and I were just deciding what we wanted to drink (I knew something with a glow cube…gotta start my collection for this trip!) when the pager went off. So we probably waited all of 5 minutes or so.
We are shown to our table and Aunt Cindy is our server. This place is actually pretty cool and we get a good table with a TV.
I’m thinking DH must really like it cause he loves things from the 50’s and 60’s…he’d probably furnish our house with half the stuff in this restaurant.
I’m also trying to be very careful and not get caught with elbows on the table or anything. I must admit to being a little worried about some of the antics that I know could possibly go on here…normally I’d be all for it, but I am a wee bit tired after being up since 3am and wasting all that energy pouting earlier
Thankfully, it was just the right amount. Aunt Cindy kept calling DH skippy and made him set the table. I was almost hoping he would do something wrong to get one of the more torturous tasks, like standing and singing I’m a little teapot, but alas, nothing like that happened
. Our drinks come and I actually get a star glow cube…had no idea they came in stars. And my Dad’s Electric Lemonade was outstanding on top of it.
I probably could have had a couple had I not been so wiped out, and I knew I wanted to try and stay to see Fantasmic. She comes to take our orders next…I had known for months what I was getting – the fried chicken. Growing up this was my absolute favorite food and it’s probably still in my top three. And the pictures I had seen just made it look so yummy! So I order it and DH gets the pot roast.
My chicken did not disappoint…I thought it was fantastic. DH liked his pot roast (which I tried and was really yummy) but thought it was on the smallish side. I thought it was a normal portion. I also got DH to eat my “greens” as I told him we might not get dessert otherwise.
We did order dessert – the Smores:
I tried a little bit and it wasn’t bad, but DH really enjoyed it. We get our check, hand back the TIW card and wait for our new receipt. I have to tell you guys I went back and forth about whether to get the Dining Plan or not, but all my numbers told me we would be better off without it and just using the TIW card. People say that you don’t save anything with it, but I disagree. We tend to tip 20%, so we looked at it like we got all the tips for free. When I did the analysis when I got home, we ended up saving about three hundred dollars
over using the Dining Plan and this for other things. Our savings for this meal was $10.30 and the automatic tip that they add was $9.27. So the only way the TIW card really doesn’t save you anything is if you were planning to NOT tip everywhere you went. Ok – off the TIW soapbox.
So we go outside, but I decide I need a pit stop – when I come back out DH is nowhere to be found. So I wait, and wait, and wait and start to get really annoyed
I finally call him and he’s standing across the path just watching me get annoyed!
We then had some time to kill before Fantasmic…we are never ones to get there early and wait and have never had a problem. I really wanted to see the updated Journey into Narnia, so we hit that first. I was really glad we did as now they have the broken Stone Table (or Aslan’s How in Prince Caspian) and we could take pictures by it…cue me jumping up and down and DH looking lost as he had no idea why I was so excited…he hasn’t read the books.
So I get my picture and we head over to see, just for the heck of it, how long a wait Toy Story Mania is…I think it was about 50 minutes and this is at 7:15 at night. We decide we would come back to it later in the week (famous last words!) and go see Voyage of the Little Mermaid. I think I saw this about eight years ago and DH had never seen it, and since a show was just about to start, in we went. It really is a good show and I think DH even liked it.
It’s now about 7:45 and Fantasmic is in 15 minutes…let’s go see if we can get in. But first, even though it’ll start any minute I find a Photopass Photographer and we have to do pictures…hey – the CD is paid for!
We finally get into the theater and all that’s left is the far left side…fine with us, we’ve never been over there. But as we are walking I suddenly hear a CM yell I have room for two just to the left of center. I throw my hand up, grab DH and promptly go right to her. She seats us and then a minute later a lady comes back and starts asking her DH why he let the CM give up seats..at least that’s what my DH said…I couldn’t hear the conversation. We all fit anyway, but we were willing to move, but I guess it didn’t come to that. They must have just wanted more room than what they had, as I said, we all fit anyway. I hate to see what is going to happen when they cut this down to just two days a week…I’m glad I’ve seen it every trip in case I have to skip it next year.
So after Fantasmic, we were going to take the boat back to BW, but just missed it. We thought about waiting for the next one, but decided to walk…and boy and I glad we did. Just as we got back to BW, a boat passed us to pick people up…we would have been waiting a loooooooooooong time. The plan was to just stop in the room and then head to Epcot for Extra Magic Hours. The stopping back in the room became the fatal flaw. As soon as we both sat down, the 3am wake-up call caught up with us. No way were we going anywhere. I did manage to step outside onto the patio and get a couple shots of the higher fireworks at least.
It didn’t dawn on me till the next day (after I’d had some sleep and my brain was functioning again) that had I simply left the room and gone out the exit right next to our room I wouldn’t have had the trees blocking my view!
Tomorrow the plan is Downtown Disney and Cap’t Jacks for lunch, then O’Hana for dinner and finally the Magic Kingdom for Spectro and Wishes. That’s the plan at least……
<..."Well, I just read one of your trip reports at TyRy's request...and now I'm too intimidated to post! GREAT stuff tb!!!" 
...More to come. (I know I said that last trip...but this time I took notes!)
- but I'm not buying it, Duckie-Boy!!! Get writing!!!
<..."No, not that shower (yet)!"
, (not at 3AM in Illinois! 
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.....wanting to get the luggage and find a car...
(it's already written and everything!)So did you buy anything???
) The one thing I did notice I wanted was an Epcot Center shirt. It was six bucks in the outlet store and I actually saw it later for 25 
< "...does THIS look like someone in serious talks with a CM?"
. The other character joints we checked out "off campus" paled in comparison to the old joint as well.
nts4wdw - glad to have you aboard. I made DH take a bunch of shots but that is the only one that really came out. I need to make him watch the movies so he gets why I was so excited. 
