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The orange zinger (also in Paradise Pier).

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You can also see a little bit of the Paradise Pier Disney hotel in the background here too.


The "Golden Gate Bridge" ...

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The 3 girls we had with us in front of the "F" (for FUN) of California at the entrance to Disney's California Adventure.

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These are all the Disneyland photos we have down-loaded. If I can get DD15 to put a few more on photobucket, maybe I'll have more to share later.

I do still have a few more food pictures to share soon too from our April/Easter 2007 trip.
 
This ferris wheel on Paradise Pier was awesome!!! :cool1: :thumbsup2

Funny story though ~ we went with some friends and you could choose to go on the "moving" or "non-moving" cars. My friend gets "ride sick" very easily, but we thought "hey, it's a ferris wheel, how bad can it be?" WRONG! :scared1:

We chose the moving cars and the first thing she noticed after we got "locked inside" was barf bags. She even asked "why in the world would they need these?" :confused3

Unfortunately, she found out! She did NOT love this ride!!! :eek:

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:lmao: that story is too funny...when we went back to California in 2004 on vacation my best friend took the day off work and met us at Disneyland with her 2 kids...At California Adventure we also went on the ferris wheel... onli I am the one with motion sickness, but ferris wheels don't usually bother me:rolleyes1 can you see where this is going:lmao: well we too picked the moving one:rolleyes1 my husband said "oh great they have barf bags, this isn't going to be good"
well I did fine until we had to stop so they could load more on to the next seat... I guess I turned green:sick: because my husband said 'do you need to get off" I just nodded, afraid to open my mouth:goodvibes so he hollered down to the CM and they started the wheel and brought us all the way back around... when they opened the door I got out in a hurry but I had 4 (yes all 4) people at my heels:lmao: :lmao: they couldn't get off fast enough either:lmao: I didn't get sick but when the CM asked if we would like to go on a non-moving car I just smiled and said no thanks... come to think of it none of the others got back on either:lmao:
 
:lmao: that story is too funny...when we went back to California in 2004 on vacation my best friend took the day off work and met us at Disneyland with her 2 kids...At California Adventure we also went on the ferris wheel... onli I am the one with motion sickness, but ferris wheels don't usually bother me:rolleyes1 can you see where this is going:lmao: well we too picked the moving one:rolleyes1 my husband said "oh great they have barf bags, this isn't going to be good"
well I did fine until we had to stop so they could load more on to the next seat... I guess I turned green:sick: because my husband said 'do you need to get off" I just nodded, afraid to open my mouth:goodvibes so he hollered down to the CM and they started the wheel and brought us all the way back around... when they opened the door I got out in a hurry but I had 4 (yes all 4) people at my heels:lmao: :lmao: they couldn't get off fast enough either:lmao: I didn't get sick but when the CM asked if we would like to go on a non-moving car I just smiled and said no thanks... come to think of it none of the others got back on either:lmao:

TOO funny! :lmao: Thanks for the laugh! Who would ever think a mild ferris wheel could be so "sickening." :sick:
 

I can't help but giggle at your Mickey - I just keep thinking "And now, here's Nickey, he'll be filling in for Vana"... :rotfl:


Now introducing WCC at the WL. This is an all-time family favorite of ours.

DD11 realized she loves these WDW sticky wings. She got them several times during our trip and loved them ...

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I had the nachos, which is now called the "Western Chips". WCC has recently changed their menu and the nachos have changed significantly. I didn't think I'd like the "new" nachos, but they were in fact really, really tasty! Change can be good! :scared:

The sauce accompanying the chips is a spicy cheese sauce which was YUMMY!!!

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DD15 tried the new cheese & sausage (and pickle :upsidedow) plate. This was also delicious!

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And of course, the always succulent and fabulous WCC cornbread!!! LOVE this stuff!!! :love: Apparently Mickey loves it also. See the way he is "eyeing" it! :laughing:

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Us 3 ladies had the "all you can drink" milkshakes ... vanilla and chocolate. And DH "winked" at our server and asked for a "LARGE" diet coke and this is what he got (and wanted) ...

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For entrees, we had the new shrimp dinner ...

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which DH said was "okay." It was hard to peel them all. It took FOREVER too.

I had the ribs dinner, which I didn't like (too fatty and not "barbeque" tasting enough for me) ...

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DD15 got the chicken pasta, which is her standard favorite at WCC ...

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DD11 got the broasted chicken dinner with fries instead of whatever potatoes usually come with it ... this is her standard favorite at WCC ...

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My standard favorite here USED to be the steak. I missed it this time around as it's no longer on the menu. :mad:

And last, but certainly NOT least is dessert! Of course by this time, we were ready to waddle out of WL, but we didn't say "NO" to dessert. We're not idiots!! ;)

The banana dustbowl ...

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The smores cheesecake ...

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The carmel apple pie ala mode ...

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Of course we cannot forget the oodles of ketchup bottles that we had at our table for like 2.2 seconds (the minute we got them, they were summoned away by another table). We all grabbed some before they left though ... I love this about WCC! Also because it was my birthday, they made my dd11 ride the pony around the restaurant singing "happy birthday to Mom" - that was awesome!!! :thumbsup2

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I promise more, but alas it is bedtime as I still have jet-lag from our CA trip this past weekend! Sorry and good-night for now!
 
Excellent pics from Disneyland - did I read rightly that you used your WDW tickets there :confused3
 
Excellent photos especially of Disneyland! Great review, thanks for taking the time to write it! :goodvibes
 
Excellent pics from Disneyland - did I read rightly that you used your WDW tickets there :confused3

You did read rightly! We did indeed use our WDW non-expiry tickets at Disneyland. I had emailed Disney prior to our trip to see if it was okay as I had heard others here say they did it. I got an email back saying it was okay and to just take my tickets right to the ticket line (where you put them in the machine at the main gate).

So we did this and the cm barely spoke to us and told us to "wait there" and pointed to a spot. Well, we waited :rolleyes1 and waited :rolleyes1 and then waited some more (only about 10 min. I guess, but we were anxious to get inside so it seemed longer). Finally we asked him what we were waiting for. I think his answer was "Yolanda." OHHHHHH we said, of course - Yolanda!

What??????? :confused3

So Yolanda comes and grabs our tickets and leaves. We yell after her "Yolanda" and she turns back. We ask her to explain what we're waiting for and where she's going. She says she has to exchange our tickets for a one day, park hopping DL ticket and she will also check how many days are left on our WDW tickets for us. This is nice, but we wish we didn't have to chase her down to get some answers as to what all the waiting was for.

So, we are now waiting for Yolanda to come back. And we waited :rolleyes1 and waited :rolleyes1 and waited some more (okay, again, it was only like 10 min. but again, watching everyone else run through the turnstiles and go on to have fun made it hard to wait that long).

So after about 20 min. total and us missing the park opening (we did arrive 1 hour early and with the horrible parking situation there and then all this waiting, we finally got into the park about 9:30am when it opened at 9am and we arrived at shortly before 8am!!).

It was worth it though to be able to use WDW tickets as it saved us a TON of money for our family of 4. However, if you do this - be aware - it involves a lot of patience AND waiting!! :rolleyes1
 
Thanks for the info. You really do look like you're having a ball there :)
 
WOW!! I just want to thank you so much for this fabulous dining report!! :thumbsup2 Holy Moly am I hungry now!! So many pictures of sooooooo many things I want to try when I get there..... I don't know where to start.

The only fear I have is that my fiance will not be 'astute' in spending his (our) Snack Credits wisely. I'm afraid he'll want to use all of his Snack Credits on bottles of water and bags of Doritos. I know the best places to use the snack credits is at Goofy's by the looks of things!!!! I'm just drooling, and oh so hungry now!! Unfortunately i'm on a low carb diet but that is OVER when we get to WDW on 10/6!!! :banana:
 
Hello fellow Sconnie! It's good to know that LLT can get the fried cheese curds right. I enjoyed reading your reports:)
 
These are from our April 2007 trip (Easter week). It was DD's 15th birthday :cake: party: :bday:

We celebrated at Whispering Canyon Cafe. I had lots of surprises in store for her and WCC even had a few of their own. pixiedust:

I had ordered a chocolate cake with chocolate ganache icing ...

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Here's an "inside" view ~ marble cake with chocolate buttercream filling ...

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It was inside a pirate chest and had a POTC talking bank (which we have SO much fun putting money into), a POTC beach towel (sweet Lindsey even threw in an extra one for FREE for dd11), a beanie-baby Eeyore (DD's favorite character) and a signed picture from Mickey & Minnie (we wanted Captain Jack, but they couldn't do that). It also came with the balloons. She was super surprised!!

Imagine our surprise then when we thought we were all done and here comes a cop ...

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He wrote DD15 a ticket and put her in jail! :scared1:

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I hope she's not that smiley :) if they ever put her in "real" jail. :rotfl:

Then they made DH "bail her out" by riding a stick pony around the restaurant singing Happy Birthday to her. Sorry no pictures of that ... I think we were laughing too hard to remember to photograph that moment in time. :lmao:

That looks like so much fun. Now the cop giving her the sitation was too funny. Was he set up by fairy tale bride, or did WCC set that up when you ordered the cake. I think my son would absolutely love that when we have his birthday dinner there next year.
 
That looks like so much fun. Now the cop giving her the sitation was too funny. Was he set up by fairy tale bride, or did WCC set that up when you ordered the cake. I think my son would absolutely love that when we have his birthday dinner there next year.
We had also worked with Lindsey from the dis (fairy_tale_bride) who had just been hired to help make surprises like this come true. She was AWESOME to work with and this gift basket was SO COOL! DD15 loved it!!!!!

You know, I have NO idea how the cop thing got set up. It was just one of those cool surprises. It was really funny and so cool! I have to admit though when I first saw him, I did get that nervous feeling in my stomach for a second, like what did we do? Then, it was just pure fun.

You could probably ask the manager or call ahead and see about it.

Yes, Lindsey is fantastic!!! I will certainly work with her again and would HIGHLY recommend contacting her for a special surprise.
 
You know, I have NO idea how the cop thing got set up. It was just one of those cool surprises. It was really funny and so cool! I have to admit though when I first saw him, I did get that nervous feeling in my stomach for a second, like what did we do? Then, it was just pure fun.

You could probably ask the manager or call ahead and see about it.

Yes, Lindsey is fantastic!!! I will certainly work with her again and would HIGHLY recommend contacting her for a special surprise.

Thanks so much for the quick reply. I must say I really enjoyed your dining report.
 















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