Pinch me, did it REALLY happen????? - All wrapped up, and yes, it DID happen!

[PrincessInOz]

Did you get anything (or any ideas) from that "gift shop"??? I've seen those cars. They are gorgeous!!!


Looks like a nice way to get on Test Track now with a bit more interactivity up-front.

 

[TruBlu]

Did you get anything (or any ideas) from that "gift shop"??? I've seen those cars. They are gorgeous!!!

We sat in one of the cars and I almost fell asleep waiting for my kid to try his car out on all the extra stuff they offer at the end.

Did you miss the cheesy video, Alison? We did.

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[rentayenta]

Can't wait to get back to WDW and ride the new test Track. It was closed this past October and we definitely missed it.

Breakfast looks yum!

 

[Leshaface]

Did you get anything (or any ideas) from that "gift shop"??? I've seen those cars. They are gorgeous!!!

Exactly what I was wondering too.

 

[franandaj]

Did you get anything (or any ideas) from that "gift shop"??? I've seen those cars. They are gorgeous!!!


Looks like a nice way to get on Test Track now with a bit more interactivity up-front.

Exactly what I was wondering too.

No, we're actually a Ford kinda family. We inherited a Chevy Malibu and it is a total Lemon. We loved our Expeditions, my Explorer, her Ranger trucks, and don't forget our Cougars, Continental and the Ranchero. Our next car is most likely going to be a Flex.

We sat in one of the cars and I almost fell asleep waiting for my kid to try his car out on all the extra stuff they offer at the end.

Did you miss the cheesy video, Alison? We did.

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I missed the Cheesy video too.

Can't wait to get back to WDW and ride the new test Track. It was closed this past October and we definitely missed it.

Breakfast looks yum!

I really liked the new Test Track, I never said anything about that. I liked that it was all High Tech and sort of a dark ride with all the neon.

 

[franandaj]

My Destination:

I did the Orange Team. I thought about how much more fun this ride was than Forbidden Journey because even though, it had all the funny G forces, I wasn’t swinging to and fro in a wild unpredictable manner so as to make me sick.

Fran met me in the gift shop (as we normally do on this ride) since even the green team makes her sick.

By this point the window for our FPs had opened up so we headed back to The Land Pavillion.

I find this queue so dull and boring compared to the entry at DCA. There is a lot to look at and read when you’re waiting in line, but the ride never seems to have a line that extends into the queue area. I’m not sure why the ride is so wildly popular with such long waits in FL when in CA it is almost always close to a walk on.

Since we were right there we decided to go on this ride. It had probably been 15 years since I last rode this one. The wait was 25 minutes, but the CM noticed Fran with her two canes and let us board through the Handicapped/FP line instead.

I tried to take pictures during the first part of the ride, but it was too dark, so here’s the rest. I had forgotten how cool all of this high tech plant growing really is. You’ll have to excuse my abundance of pictures. Those of you who followed my first PTR will remember the extensive gardening that we did last year just before Fran got really sick. I’ve had herb gardens growing ever since my first year at the Napa Rose Cooking School and we almost always have tomato plants growing in the spring and summer. My attempt at Zucchini and Cucumber failed miserably, but our citrus trees are coming along nicely. I am fascinated by all the things that Disney is able to do. We hope to do the Behind the Seeds sometime in the future, now that Fran is more ambulatory.

Holy Pumpkins!

 

[franandaj]

Then we went into the fish and other live critters area. It always amazes me that they raise all these creatures and plants and put them to good use feeding guests in the park.

While Fran did get a good picture of what was in these tubes, neither of us got an actual picture of the creatures. I did see the eels and can verify that they were in there.

Back out to the greenhouse portion of the tour….

I thought this was an odd little tree.

I took this picture, not for the millet, but the for pumpkins in the background.

This sign said Nine Pound Lemons, judging from the size it doesn’t surprise me!

Again, I did not take this picture for the lemon, but for the Agave behind it….Tequila! I wonder if they make that at Disney!

Then there were these sweet potatoes hanging down here.

The little lettuce plants…

And strawberries.

And tomatoes

So I’m not quite sure what is up with this stuff, but I guess it would make the home garden more easy to manage in a small space.

These peppers looked quite nice…

I swear, I wish I could grow cucumbers like this!

Some of this would be yummy for my next stir fry, and look at the Rosemary tree in the background.

And now it’s in the foreground!

I love me some basil…. it’s about that time of year that I can get a new plant!

This was a “mixed use” area where they allow something from the fish (maybe the water) to do something to the plants (hydrate them?) I wasn’t sure what they were saying, but it was interesting to combine plant growing and fish growing.

After that we decided to leave the Land pavilion and pursue one of Fran’s favorite pastimes. Shopping! Where did we go? You’ll have to stay tuned.

 

[PrincessInOz]

I love the Land. Just love looking at all those plants.

I'm not sure about Mission Space anymore. Don't know if the boys will want to go on it...but I think I might have to try the Green line instead of the Orange.

 

[Leshaface]

We didn't get to go on Mission:Space this time around. I do remember talking about it, but not sure why we didn't get on it.

Interesting. I haven't been on Soarin' at WDW and had just assumed that the queue was the same as DCA. Is that all there is, is that blue-ish looking hallway? How boring.

LwtL was the one ride I really wanted to do but couldn't because of DS's mishap. I know DM would have really enjoyed that too.

Oooh that would be so cool if they used the agave over in the Mexico pavillion!

 

[Pinkocto]

I'll have to remember to give the new Test Track a try one of these days. I'm sad the Tron party at DL has been stopped. I love all the neon lights and sci-fi feel.

Living with the Land is one of my favorites. I love all that creative growing. I think the fish at the end fertilize the plants above.

Great update. Can't wait to see what Fran buys next

 

[dgbg100106]

Nice job Alison, I really like the land and going thru to see all the plants.

David and I ride the line that has the most G forces, I can't remember the color. but we try and ride it at least twice while we are there.

 

[dolphingirl47]

I am all caught up again. The weekend was pretty intense. You are the first person who has said something positive about the new Test Track. A lot of people seem to hate this.

I could never do the orange version of Mission:Space as I do suffer from motion sickness. I am OK with the green version though and love it.

I know what you mean about Soarin. This is one of the many reasons why I love coming to Disneyland. Between the generally shorter lines for Soarin and the single rider line, I can essentially do the ride as often as I want. Toy Story Mania is another one that is crazy at WDW, but quite manageable at DCA.

I have always loved Living with the Land and if Fran is up to it, I can recommend the Behind the Seeds tour. We did this a few years ago and it was amazing. By the way, the Fish poop in the tank in the last area on the ride acts as fertilizer for the lettuce.

Corinna

 

[ACDSNY]

You'll love the pumpkins when you go in October.

 

[rentayenta]

I really liked the new Test Track, I never said anything about that. I liked that it was all High Tech and sort of a dark ride with all the neon.

It looks so high tech and less mechanicy.

Soarin's line in DCA is much better. WDW's is so blah. It's one of my favorite rides.


I'm with Fran, I don't do Mission Space either. It makes me nauseous.

Are the agave plants the pineapple looking plants?

I wish I could grow cucumbers like that too. I've never been able to grow a good one. I can plant, raise, and harvest about anything else but not those.

We missed Living with the Land last trip. Even though we practically have a homestead here between our huge garden, chickens, compost, and animals, it got vetoed. Haters!

 

[franandaj]

I love the Land. Just love looking at all those plants.

I'm not sure about Mission Space anymore. Don't know if the boys will want to go on it...but I think I might have to try the Green line instead of the Orange.

I've gone back and forth. I say the Orange is too intense, then I go on Green and say it's not enough. I finally told myself, "Just go on the Orange, what can it hurt?"

We didn't get to go on Mission:Space this time around. I do remember talking about it, but not sure why we didn't get on it.

Interesting. I haven't been on Soarin' at WDW and had just assumed that the queue was the same as DCA. Is that all there is, is that blue-ish looking hallway? How boring.

LwtL was the one ride I really wanted to do but couldn't because of DS's mishap. I know DM would have really enjoyed that too.

Oooh that would be so cool if they used the agave over in the Mexico pavillion!

It was only on our 2010 trip that I finally tried it and was amazed at how different and boring the queue was.

I'll have to remember to give the new Test Track a try one of these days. I'm sad the Tron party at DL has been stopped. I love all the neon lights and sci-fi feel.

Living with the Land is one of my favorites. I love all that creative growing. I think the fish at the end fertilize the plants above.

Great update. Can't wait to see what Fran buys next

Evidently they make a ton of money off the young twenty somethings at the Mad Tea Party selling overpriced watered down drinks. I guess the Trol folks were too geeky and smart to spend all their money there.

Nice job Alison, I really like the land and going thru to see all the plants.

David and I ride the line that has the most G forces, I can't remember the color. but we try and ride it at least twice while we are there.

That's the Orange side. I must be getting older, I didn't ride nearly as many thrill rides in quantities this time.

I am all caught up again. The weekend was pretty intense. You are the first person who has said something positive about the new Test Track. A lot of people seem to hate this.

I could never do the orange version of Mission:Space as I do suffer from motion sickness. I am OK with the green version though and love it.

I know what you mean about Soarin. This is one of the many reasons why I love coming to Disneyland. Between the generally shorter lines for Soarin and the single rider line, I can essentially do the ride as often as I want. Toy Story Mania is another one that is crazy at WDW, but quite manageable at DCA.

I have always loved Living with the Land and if Fran is up to it, I can recommend the Behind the Seeds tour. We did this a few years ago and it was amazing. By the way, the Fish poop in the tank in the last area on the ride acts as fertilizer for the lettuce.

Corinna

Thanks for explaining about the poop!

I prefer both the rides and the waits for TSMM and Soarin at DCA. I'm almost caught up on your TR, I've just reached where you are going to Candlelight.

You'll love the pumpkins when you go in October.

In the land or at the MK?

It looks so high tech and less mechanicy.

Soarin's line in DCA is much better. WDW's is so blah. It's one of my favorite rides.


I'm with Fran, I don't do Mission Space either. It makes me nauseous.

Are the agave plants the pineapple looking plants?

I wish I could grow cucumbers like that too. I've never been able to grow a good one. I can plant, raise, and harvest about anything else but not those.

We missed Living with the Land last trip. Even though we practically have a homestead here between our huge garden, chickens, compost, and animals, it got vetoed. Haters!

I liked the techy part of the ride. I didn't really like the whole "industrial" type feel to the old TT, the lights were on too much as far as I remembered, but it had also been a long time since I rode it. That ride was not on my "must do" list.

 

[franandaj]

Our next stop was Mouse Gears. We needed to get some gloves as she did not bring a pair and I had already loaned her mine. We had the nighttime safari that evening and the heat wave from earlier in the week was long gone. Lows were dipping into the high 30’s, but definitely in the low 40’s at best. This was one of the items I looked for at Publix the previous day, but they didn’t have any. Strange, I just saw them at my local grocery store a couple days ago. So I found a cute pair of gloves with glittery Mickey Mice on them. Clearly I was the one getting the new gloves for tonight.

She also looked at this necklace and asked me if I wanted it. I declined, but she took a picture of it anyways in case we wanted to order it online or come back for it.

I don’t remember what else we bought there, but it wasn’t a lot of stuff. Oh yeah! I got these babies!

We then headed into World Showcase for our lunch reservation. The park was not that busy.

Someday, I will get up here and check out this place!

More trash can pictures…

Jolly Old England!

And we’re almost there!

We were a little early for our reservation so we walked around a bit. We checked out the new bakery. It seems to be a great improvement over the old place. It was so small and cramped and always packed. At least with the new place there is an area for people to queue up and several counters to order the food. I didn’t take any pictures inside and I would have been a weird paparazzi like stalker lady (like at Bubba Gump’s) taking pictures of people eating their food.

It was close enough to the time of our reservation, so we decided to go in and get seated.

We were seated on the far end of the restaurant and it was pretty quiet for that place when we arrived there. Our reservation was for 1PM, and the place was still fairly busy, but I think they were taking walk ups.

We perused the menu, but for me it really wasn’t necessary. I pretty much already knew what I was going to have.

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[franandaj]

We took a couple pictures waiting for our orders to be taken.

We placed our orders and the waiter brought us some bread. We asked for more butter later and it seemed you could only get butter if the waiter brought you more bread! We ended up taking two loaves of bread back to the room with us!

Soon the Maitre’ D came by with a guest.

This guy was pretty funny. He’s all, “Vould you like a peekture?” Of course we said that we would. So he posed!

This was of course the picture that we really wanted!

We both went with the three course Prix Fixe meal, but I remembered something we had for the last time that we dined here. It was so good, so I decided we should get it again.

The Alsacian Tart. Bacon, Onions and Crème Freche all on a crispy thin shell. Yummy!

Our waiter also offered to take our picture.

Fran went with the Lobster Bisque

I had the French Onion Soup.

Both were quite tasty, we shared a couple bites, but I was happy to have ordered the onion soup. It was really good!

For our entrée she got the Croque Monsieur with Salad.

I had the famed Gratin de Macaroni. It was just heavenly! I couldn’t eat the whole thing, but made sure to take it in a box. Sadly we were so stuffed this trip, I never got the second portion.

Then it was on to dessert. Essentially by ordering the package our dessert was almost free. I was planning on ordering the soup and the Macaroni anyways, so the package just seemed like a perfect deal.

We split both, but the Crème Brulee was the winner of the day. This was the strawberry and cream cake with the strawberry sorbet.

And with that we rolled out of there, completely stuffed!

We came upon this mime and acrobat show and stopped for a bit to watch. They just kept adding chairs to the stack. I think in the end there were six chairs, I swear I thought the guy was going to fall!

Where do we go next?

 

[TruBlu]

Has Fran ever tried closing her eyes on the bad parts of MS:Green? I have crazy bad motion sickness, but I always ride. I make it to the moon then close my eyes & let the cool air blow in my face. I never feel bad at all.

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[dolphingirl47]

Your lunch looks delicious. Now I want to make a reservation for our next trip to have the Macaroni Cheese. So far the best Macaroni Cheese I have tasted was at Steakhouse 55 at Disneyland. Remy is so cute. We met him at Disneyland Paris a few years ago.

I love the necklace. I don't think I could have resisted it.

Corinna

 

[TruBlu]

I love the necklace. I don't think I could have resisted it.

I agree!!!

Fran would have only gotten out "Do you wa..." and I would already have it in my hand at the register!!!!

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