So everyone- I'm glad to hear it is not just me with Cosmic Rays! I kind of felt like a brat who wanted her own way (I did), but the crowds there just get to me and I don't think the food makes up for it!
I know it is just one lunch, but still this is sad. You know you were close to a perfect lunch spot and instead you were torn in a different direction. Every little crowd and wrinkle along the way just made it that much worse.
I can just imagine how I'd feel in that situation. I likely wouldn't have finished my lunch either.
But hey - nowhere to go but up, after a crappy lunch! (People mover, I hope.)
I was disappointed!
I'm not a huge fan of Cosmic Ray's. Tom and I had an ok meal there during
MNSSHP in October but we generally avoid it.
I'm an expert at losing children!
Amanda
We are not fans either.
I lost children AND an adult.
Cosmic Ray's is generally okay as far as the food goes but the crowds are awful. Add in the fact it wasn't what you really wanted would definitely make it even worse. It's like that for me at home......I have my mind set on a certain restaurant for dinner, we get there and the wait is unreal so we have to choose something else. Even though we will go to another restaurant I usually enjoy I won't just because it wasn't what I wanted. And you had been planning CHH for months!! I must say you handled it much better than I would have!!
It was not one of my favorite dining experiences ever!
We did Mickey's Philharmagic during our YES program also. Our tour guide said something about 3D and how we should take our glasses off during the portion with the big red jewel. I did, but couldn't understand why I was doing this.
I had seen 3D without glasses before and knew what it looked like.
I'm with you, love CHH and we always head upstairs too. My DH doesn't even eat seafood, but likes to eat there too.
I had that separation during a field trip, it can be scary, but also irritating to know you are going to waste valuable ride time waiting for everyone to meet up.
Good to know what the point of the attraction was.
CHH is my family's favorite place to eat at MK. We ate there this past summer during our one day visit, but at the time, the lobster roll was not on the menu.
Ugh! Sorry lunch didn't turn out as you'd planned!
Me, too!
I was really sad for you when I realised you didn't get to eat at CHH You had been looking forward to it so much I think yoou will just have to persuade Mark you need to go again soon so you can do the trip your way!!
Have to I would have been freaking out ever so slightly at not being able to see where the others where! Hope you caught up with them soon
Thanks for the sympathy! I'll float out the idea of a makeup lunch to Mark.
I didn't like it when we separated and I didn't know where everyone was, but we did end up meeting up soon after lunch.
As I always suspected you are my twin sister separated at birth!
CHH is always our first MK day must do lunch.
If only people would listen to Disney Nuts!
Sadly, even in my own family people do not always listen to me! Do you know how many times I've sent one kid to get everyone else and either the kids comes back alone or stays with the others leaving me sitting alone.
Dee - loving your report and pictures.
I'm so glad to hear you are following along and enjoying the report, sis!
Nobody ever listens!
I am traveling to WDW in less than a month with my DDs Dance Studio to perfom in Disney and I am so glad I found this TR! Going as a group this time has me all turned around not knowing what to expect.
I am definitely going to try going with the "go with the flow" attitude
, but the insanely detailed planner in me is dying!!!
Can't wait for the next installment
I hope you can get some useful info from this report. You are off to a good start adopting a "go with the flow" attitude. That should serve you well.
A group trip is definitely different from a family trip.
Bleh. That's about how I feel about Cosmic Rays, just not want I would have wanted either. Just the crowds alone are a pretty huge deterrent for me. Although my family would easily pull what your group did. But...food is better than no food and at least the gelato was tasty!
YaY, Food!
Didn't work.
Still disappointed!
Ugh, Comic Rays? Really? We've only eaten there two, maybe three times, in all of our trips to WDW 'cause it's just not that good. I am keeping my fingers crossed that you found the rest of the group before you had a heart attack.
I'm sorry, but I had to laugh at your post about what's going on at work today. What can I say? Goat pee makes me laugh.
Cosmic Rays was really not in my list of preferred lunch choices!
I'm glad my tales from work amused you! Goat pee is pretty funny!
I HATE Stitch too!
I LOVE CHH too! we always eat lunch here on MK days. I've only eaten at CR once.
I did have the lobster roll last time-it wasn't very good.
Love your castle pics Dee!
You and me could definitely kick it at MK and show 'em how it should be done!
I have heard mixed reviews of the lobster roll AND I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO MAKING MY OWN JUDGEMENT.
Dee, as much as I'm enjoying your TR, it is seriously raising my blood pressure!!! You are a saint, my friend.
Sorry to hear the report is causing you stress. I wish I could tell you the rest of the trip is without hassle, but that is not the case.
Cosmic Rays NO, Sonny Delight or what ever his name is, YES! When I was at the MK on my last trip, during a very late night, I contemplated having a discussion with Sonny about the sad state of affairs in the food dept at Cosmic Rays, but he just kept doing one set after another, and never stopped. The guy is a machine I tell ya!
I tried the lobster roll at CHH and let me tell you it could have used more butter on the toasted roll. Lots of claw meat too but that's what you get with a "lobstah" roll so that was fair. Next time I will go back to my fried shrimp plate which I thought was heavenly!
I seem to remember reading on one of the previous incantations to the YC/BC FAQ thread that the Captain's Grille had a "lobstah" omelet for breakfast. I wonder how that tastes?
I will have to try it on my next trip and report back.....
~NM
We weren't even near Sonny.
I would be willing to try the lobstah in any of its incarnations, any place in the World!
Okay, a backstage tour at Haunted Mansion sounds AWESOME!
I hope we got to do something like that when we do the Keys to the Kingdom Tour in January. Although Franklin was on the verge of tears when I told him you weren't allowed to take photos on the tour.
Your lunch at Cosmic Rays sounds about right. I always have something in the meal that is terrible and the rest is just meh. I've narrowed my main CS choices at MK to CHH and Casey's. Pecos Bill's wasn't too bad, so that goes on my list as "if we're in the vicinity, we'll go."
I believe the reason it's called Mickey's Phillharmagic is because the concert hall is where Mickey is the conductor and in the show, Donald takes his place with disastrous consequences.
Sorry Franklin! . As I said, I have taken some pretty rebellious photos (I may have one from my youth taken inside a fairly famous residence in your neck of the woods), but I was not going to mess with the mouse on this one.
Pecos Bill was my backup plan, but I really think CHH would have been a winner for our group.
Thanks for the input on Philharmagic.