Day 5
We started the day by each eating an entire Rice Krispie pop(bought the night before), they are huge and I might have felt slightly sick afterwards, but they contain cereal, so count as breakfast, right?
So tasty and at almost $5 such great value for a snack credit.
I initially had planned a shopping trip to to outlets for today but after our stop at
Walmart on Friday and the Florida Mall yesterday, we we're a bit shopped out and moved the Outlets to Tuesday.
So off we went to Hollywood Studios.
After a ride on TSM(our first), the Mermaid show, Muppets, the Great Movie Ride and a second ride on TSM(FP) it was 12:00 and time for lunch.
Having done plenty of research I knew I wanted to eat at
Starring Rolls at least once, just for the cupcakes really ;-)
We were lucky and found a seat easily.
My mum chose the ham sandwich, salted potato chips, a bottle of water and the peanut butter chocolate cupcake
I had the turkey sandwich, the salted chips, a diet coke and the butterfinger cupcake
Well, the sandwich was big, but in my eyes not really big enough to share, also difficult to cut up to share really.
I ended up leaving some of the bread and just eating the turkey.
The chips got put away and we ate them at some point during a parade or something. I don't like these kettle/handcooked chips and would have never bought them if they weren't part of the meal.
Now the best part:
The cupcakes were good but simply too big, we didn't finish them(but like I said didn't want to share one meal as it wouldn't have been enough food) and towards the end I just ate the frosting as I didn't care too much for the cake part.
We would return but I don't quite understand the big hype around Starring Rolls.
The total here was
$35.36
After watching the Beauty and the Beast show, which we both love, we needed something cold to drink and got two slushies/frozen drinks.
I had the cherry one and mum chose Pina colada, very sweet but refreshing.
They came to
$7.86 or 2 snack credits
After the parade we stopped at the
Writer's shop for a carrot cake cookie and I asked for some ice water. They weren't able to give me water, but gave me a cup of ice instead and I got water from a drink fountain outside. We've been getting lots of ice water, helping us save our snack credits-not that we really need to with 40 between us.
We saved the carrot cake cookie for breakfast the next day. It was okay but not amazing, but that may be due to the fact that we shoudl have eaten it fresh.
This is actually a pretty terrible picture and doesn't make the cookie look very appealing:
$4.20, 1 snack credit
We took a break at the hotel since it was very hot today and returned to Epcot for dinner.
We arrived at the parking lot and the heavens opened
So instead of the World Showcase we had dinner at
Sunshine Seasons, a place that always gets such great reviews.
I had the Spicy Cashew Chicken, a fountain drink and the Strawberry Shortcake
Mum had sustainable fish with veggies(sorry, that's all I wrote down), a fountain drink and key lime pie.
They were decent meals and I liked the strawberry shortcake. Mum thought the key lime pie was refreshing and they were both nice alternatives to the carrot or chocolate cake offered with most CS meals.
$36.25 was the total for our dinner.
After riding Living with the land and Nemo we returned later to ride Soarin as a walk on
At the end of day 5:
23/40 Dining credits remaining
24/40 snack credits remaining
total (not) spent: $420.09
Day 6
Like I mentioned, we started the day with half a carrot cake cookie each as well as some chocolate milk(we would get hot chocolate in our refillable mugs at night and then cool it in our fridge after it reached room temperature)
Just enough to keep us going for a while.
Today we did Epcot, where we went to see some charcters and rode Figment before taking a break with some popcorn.
We really enjoy this, a nice alternative to all the sweet treats available and good for sharing.
This will have to do as we munched it all up without taking a picture, but I'm sure you all know what popcorn looks like ;-)
$3.25
Afterwards we went to Club Cool, where I drank my bodyweight in the Watermelon drink from China and Mezzo Mix from Germany.
cost: $0, which to be honest still amazes me.
I do wish they sold full size bottles of the drinks available. I'd love to take a bottle of Smart Watermelon with me...or even if they just sold 20oz cups to be filled from the fountains.
We then made our way through the World Showcase and had another snack at
Fife and Drum near the American Pavillion
We had another jalapeno cheese pretzel, a cup of ice water and 'The American Dream', a mix of strawberry and blue raspberry slushie layered with soft serve ice cream. So good!
Cost for this was
$8.82, 2 snack credits
A couple of hours later we had lunch at
Tangierine Cafe, where we had eaten before in 2006(but shared a meal since we were paying oop then. I remember having a chickenwrap, which looked different to the wraps they are selling now, back then it was cut in half and easier to share)
Mum had the lamb platter, a large diet coke and the baklava for dessert.
I had the chicken platter, the large diet coke and also the baklava for dessert.
So good but quite a lot of food, I know lots of people share their meals here but we wanted different meat and also had lots of credits so didn't share ;-)
We really like eating here.
We saved our baklava for later and it was a nice little sweet treat.
Total was
$38.62 but I think he only 'charged' small drinks and then gave me the large ones because I asked, what can I say, I'm thirsty ;-)
After a couple of hours at the Boardwalk it started raining, so we jumped on the first bus and ended up at Downtown Disney, where we took a bus to the Animal Kingdom Lodge to have dinner at
The Mara again,
We each chose the same salad as last time, the Mara salad with chicken. I had a chocolate milk and a cinnamon scone and my mum had a bottled green tea and a parfait.
The salad was just as good as last time, so filling.
The green tea wasn't very good, I think we never managed to find a bottled drink we liked apart from the Soda and water of course.
We saved the chocolate milk, scone and parfait for breakfast.
Our dinner tonight cost around
$33, I forgot to write down the exact amount and the receipts always said $0.00
19/40 Dining credits remaining
21/40 snack credits remaining
total (not) spent: $503.78
So Day 6 out of 11 and we have passed the $500 mark. Do you reckon we will have a total of above or below $1000?
I can picture a scone that travelled 15.5 hours
So much food! I couldn't have eaten all the food on the QSDP that you have shown so far. . I reckon you may have a final total ot around $1200 what a bargain and all for free
