Oh my Gosh, Day 4
So its Wednesday, our last full day. We made it to bed early last night so we decided (make that: I decided) wed get up and get to the park when it opened. After a really light breakfast (an apple) we were out the door and on our way.
No lines this early in the morning so we decided to do some of the regular queues to check out the themes. Im glad we did. Connor enjoyed the details we miss in the FOTL queues.
Our breakfast apples didnt stick with us long, so we stopped at Louies for an early snack. I think we interrupted the wait staff. Their conservation was more important than the customers standing in front of them. (I know they are mostly young kids, but one of them was pretty rude to us.) We managed to order our 3 slices of pizza and a couple of drinks. We were really disappointed in the quality of the food. It was early, like 10:30 so we figured it would be freshit may have been, but it sure looked and tasted like last nights leftovers. Oh well, good excuse to try somewhere else later.
The rest of the morning we spent hitting some shows we wanted to see. They were all good and well worth the time. We saw Horror Make Up, and Animal Actors. The biggest star spotting of the week was Max from The Grinch Movie.
Hes so cute.
We really enjoyed both shows. If you've never seen them you should. We also saw T2. We had done this one on a past vacation but Connor didnt remember it too well and he wanted to see it again. Im glad we did. It was better than I remembered, but I hope they update it soon.
Over in IOA we hit DD while there was still no line. Again we went through the regular queue. It is awesome. Really worth the extra time. (Although there wasnt a line anyway so we didn't really spend any extra time, but it would have been worth it if there had been a line.)
We spent some time enjoying the rest of the park. As we were headed out for the afternoon (nap time) I decided to stop in Mythos and see how late they were serving.
She took our name for their latest seating (8:30). We figured if we made it back, great. If not, no big deal.
By now it was really hot so we headed back to the hotel to sit in the shade at the pool (or in the arcade, depending on your preference).
Earlier in the day we had been discussing what everyone wanted to do on our last day: just go to the pool, go back to the parks, check out the other hotels??? But since check out is at 11am, we decided we would just hang around the pool and hotel. We didnt want to get all sweaty and gross for the plane ride home.
(Bob was coming to pick us up at 3pm). So as we headed out to the pool I swung by the front desk and asked about a late check out. Ya never know
we might get lucky. The front desk clerk made a mysterious phone call to see if she was cleared to grant us late check out. Into the phone I heard her say Yes, theres a number one and a star---VIP What? I thought
that really does mean something! She hung up the phone. My wish was granted by the mysterious-late-check-out-god on the other end of the phone. You have a 1:00 check out she said. Oh wow! Thank you so much!
I really wasnt expecting that! Now our last day wasnt a total loss after all! I hurried to the pool to tell Dave the good news.
Imigane that, he's asleep!
Now we could really plan what we wanted to do. Think, think, think
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After a relaxing late afternoon/evening we got cleaned up and made it back to Mythos just in time. I am going to tell you what we thought of ithope I dont ruffle any feathers
Like I said, we got to Mythos right at 8:30 and were seated right away. There were others in the lobby, but there were plenty of open tables in the restaurant.
We placed our appetizer order for Tomato and Mozzarella Flatbread. I ordered a glass of Merlot, Dave got a Beer, and Connor got Sprite. Dave and Connor had been teasing me all week about taking food pictures so to drive them crazy I took a picture of our drinks
We took some random pictures while we waited.
I love the décor and the atmosphere. Even the chairs are neat.
(Connor had had enough of my picture taking and was teasing me by messing up my photos. This was the third try--I still got his fingers in the pic.)
Heres one with him picking that guys nose
Anyway, the appetizers were pretty goodI forgot, Dave also ordered the Tortilla Soup.
The soup was better than the flatbread. It was actually Tomato/Mozzarella FlatCracker. No bread, just a super thin, very crisp cracker. Weve never had flatbread like that before. The soup was good and fairly spicy.
For the main course Connor and I again ordered the same thing (we must have the same food preferences). We got the Risotto of the day which was a Steak Medallion and 2 Shrimp Scampi on top of Spinach Risotto. Sounds yummy right???? Dave got the Mythos Bistro Filet that came with the weird mashed potatoes I remembered from NerdBoy RockStars trip report. This time I did remember to take pictures!
Now I really dont want to sound like nothing is ever good enough but
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Daves filet was more like medallions than the steak that came on the risotto. It was 3 slices of shoe leather, a pile of fried onions, a squirt of brown potatoes and a
big glob of butter on top. It was seriously bad. I mean it. The steak was dry and had no flavor. I think our waitress sort of felt sorry for him. It was a sad looking plate. (They really need to change those baby poop looking potatoes too. Seriously!)
On the other hand, I liked the steak that came on our risotto, but strangely enough Connor didnt care for it.
A unanimous thumbs up for the shrimp but unfortunately we both agreed the risotto was pasty and more like a gloppy lump of goo than a creamy rice dish. So we ate what we wanted, paid too much for mediocre food and headed out to watch the 360 show.
Dont get me wrong, we werent upset about our food. More like disappointed. I wonder if the poor quality had something to do with being the last seating before the restaurant closed? The atmosphere was excellent. We did enjoy ourselves. Plus, we still had room for ice cream at Emack and Bolios! Bonus!
So we wandered our way over and watched some of the 360 show. It was sort of interesting but we were ready to go back and relax. We decided to head back and get some ice cream.
Emack and Bolios is a great ice cream parlor. Really good ice cream.
Dave and I shared one scoop of Mint Chocolate Chip. Connor got 3 scoops of Chocolate with Hot Fudge.
Needless to say, Dave and I shared the rest of what he didnt eat. As we enjoyed our ice cream we discussed our plans for Thursday. We settled on getting up as early as we could stand, pack our bags as much as possible then head back and hit our favorite rides ONE LAST TIME. We would leave the park by 11:45 in order to get back to the room, shower and check out by 1pm. Then we would grab some lunch and wait for 3:00 to roll around. Boo-Hoo its almost over. I knew it would go fast, just not this fast
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By this time it was around 11:30 and we were full (and slightly sick) & tired, so off to bed. Tomorrow is our last day
waaaaaaaaaaah!
) Mostly people say he looks like Chi Chi Rodriguez the golfer. 
HEY!!! Does you husband work at the Meridian Palms resort?!?! 
He'd love that.
We were sort of sad. We should have skipped Spidey and opted for Hulk. Oh well, next time
right? 
