Mmm....all looks so good.
I'm not a fan of the Olive Garden anymore but I will have to try Carrabba's, I think we must have one around here. Looks like somewhat normal portion sizes too?
Very surprisingly, the portion sizes were spot on. Not ridiculously huge like seemingly almost everywhere else, but just perfect....even for a more substantial eater like Steve.
we like Carrabba's. Though we are not frequent. Never had a bad meal, and the wait staff and food are very good at the one we do go to. Since working in a very Italian neighborhood for many a years, I have a fondness for homemade red gravy and noodles. I am not a fan of Olive Garden either, but we love the salad and go for the soup and salad combo only. My kids eat several bowls of the salad.
Wahoo! USO is on tap next. I am still heavily thinking about a solo October trip to USO. Airfare and car rental seem reasonable, but the hotel rates not so much. I may still pull the trigger though, as a late birthday gift. Hm... Thinking 11 to 16.
Yes, yes, yes!! We're there the 10th to the 17th! We're even meeting up with macraven for a Butterbeer at some point that week.....how cool would it be for you to be there too??? Pull that trigger, Lynne!!
Carrabba's is my favorite chain Italian restaurant. Good choice! The bread is awesome and I love their penne with scallops.
I still insist you try 4 Rivers on another trip, though. It absolutely blows those chain barbecue places out of the water.
Noisy neighbors? Yikes.
4 Rivers is on the tentative itinerary for October....and if that doesn't work out for any reason, we still have December to play with
. So many awesome places to try, so little time!! (first world problems, I know!
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Now Carrabbas is somewhere we have never been. I like Olive Garden, DH doesn't rate it - so maybe an alternative for us?
Sorry to hear you had noisy neighbours, I always find noise a problem in the hotels which is why I prefer a condo (top floor) or Townhome.
Definitely give Carrabba's a try if you can. It really is a good step above Olive Garden (a little pricier, but not anything ridiculous.....I am happy to pay for quality).
We were, indeed, on the top floor....the issue was unfortunately coming from beside us. Ugh, people can be so inconsiderate!!
I love, love Carrabba's. I also really like Macaroni Grille- I think both are better than Olive Garden. I recently ate at Olive Garden again for the first time in a while and it was good but the other two are just even better! As soon as I saw the mozzarella sticks I thought of Jake and all the pictures of him stretching the cheese. I am really thinking we will drive next February and have our car there so we can do some dining offsite when we go to Disney- so many amazing choices.
We saw a Macaroni Grille in Kissimmee, and wondered how it compared to OG. Might have to add that one to a future trip, too!
I really disappointed my boy with the lack of cheese stretching with our only mozzarella sticks of the trip. I should have had Steve pull the old stretcheroo and snapped a pic, just for tradition's sake.
All of your food pictures make me hungry
The day I'm about to write about was filled with food, food, food....almost embarrassingly so! Stay tuned
.... and have a snack ready!
. Didn't you realize how dull my report gets without your perfectly timed spurts of wit and sarcasm?
More reviews (especially food) with lots of pics are coming up 
Please don't tell me a fight broke out between the moms.......
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. Somewhere in the wee hours of the morning, all hell broke loose in the villa next door to us. 
….and it only got worse from there. The cursing, the banging, the screaming all progressed into what sounded like furniture being turned over and …. No word of a lie … someone walking on the roof. Now, I have no proof that there was someone on the actual roof, but we could hear sharp, deliberate noise coming from above us, and we were on the top floor 
. After more than a half hour of this chaos, Steve called down to Guest Services and they promised to send security up. Eventually, there was a brief respite…..and then it started up again (but this time, it was even worse). Another 40 minutes later, with no apparent end to the fracas, I called down to Guest Services….during which they apologized profusely, and vowed that security would be dispatched a second time to remedy the matter once and for all.
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. As a bonus - their light seems to be on all the time as the teens eat them up so fast.
