Before going to world show case we stop at a Kim Possible booth and I find out they need help saving the world so Mark and I grab an assignment for after lunch at the UK. Yeah I had heard that the UK’s assignment was one of the better ones. Up to this point Mark had no idea who or what Kim Possible was.
We grab a boat over to WS and get off at Morocco. We split a Moroccan beer and start walking towards. France. Stop and get a glass of cabernet and a Kronenbourg. While we’re sitting and enjoying the drinks the French waiters started to perform their show of balancing on chairs. It was very entertaining. As we are walking away Marie the cat shows up. I just loved her she was so sweet….as she finishes with the first child in line she immediately runs off to the side to play with a special needs child in a wheelchair. It was so heart warming.
We had reservations at Le cellier at 2:20pm so we start heading that way. As we’re walking through UK Mary Poppins is there and she complements me on my Minnie ears and we have quick conversation and pose for some pics.
We stop to check out the red phone booths. I still had the phone numbers programmed in my cell phone so we decide to start calling them to see if the ppl there will pick up. It was funny when one gal did pick it up and told me I had a pay phone booth. I laughed and told her it was at Epcot red booth…she turns around and sees me standing there grinning….. oops cat out of the bag.
Make it to our reservation early and sit in the great air conditioning while we wait. Get seated in about 20 minutes and proceed to enjoy the meal.
Le Cellier Fri 9-17
Our waiter was Thomas and he was good. We each started with a Moosehead Ale since we’re drinking around the world. Mark had been eagerly awaiting the Moosehead and it didn’t disappoint him. Then we each had a cup of the Cheese soup very yummy, you could make a meal just out that and the pretzel bread.
We had each ordered the Filet and they were so delicious. I’m not kidding when I say they were so tender you could have cut them with your fork. This was definitely better then Ca. grill. At this point we are stuffed but had to order the dessert just because it was included in our
DDP. Mark got a Chocolate Moose and I got the Canadian Chocolate cake. Both tasted good etleast the one bite of each that we took. Marks Moose was so cute it had chocolate antlers on the top of it.
After lunch we head back to UK to find out what our KP mission was to be. We receive our communicator and find out what our first step was. As we doing our mission Mark is loosing his patience and is not enjoying it. As we are looking for the toy soldier in the Toy shop Mark discovers Pooh and Tigger and abandons the mission. We get our pics taken with them and then go and turn our communicator in w/o finishing our mission. Oh well I tried.
We walk past France and Morocco and next stop is Japan. We walk into Mitsukoshi and watch the ladies working the Pearl booth. Mark asked if I wanted one and a I say no since the one I got on our honeymoon is still sitting in it’s plastic bag and still isn’t mounted. We go and check out the different mounting settings and he talks me into getting another pearl. So I decide to get one and picked out a great one. It was large at 7.5cm in size and was blue/silver. They say it’s rare only about 5% are that color. Yeah bonus. We got it mounted in a pendant setting. I have worn it several times and am very glad he talked me into it. We then go find some tea for Mark to take home.
Mark gets a Japanese beer a Sapporo I think. Over in the United States I stop at the Fife and Drum and get a Samual Adams seasonal beer. I can’t remember what it was but it was good (it wasn’t an Oktoberfest). Ran into a bachelor party here from MI. and had a good time joking around with them.
We continue walking and are now in Italy. We sit at a table on the corner of Italy and the main street of Epcot and enjoy ppl watching. We each enjoy a glass of wine from La Bottega Italiana. Shortly a street play about Romeo and Glendora ??? starts in front of us.
Cute entertainment.
Our next stop is Germany. Germany @ Epcot holds a special place in our hearts. We ate here on our honeymoon before it was a buffet. We really enjoyed it and we befriended another couple from our table who were also on their honeymoon. The husband from the other couple got pulled up onto the stage to direct the band. As soon as dinner was over we walked right out of the restaurant and out to the lake for Illuminations. We had about a ½ hr wait for Illuminations but Mother nature gave us a great show of lightening. It was so cool. I actually had to find the video and rewatch prior to leaving for this trip.
We stopped at Kunstarbeit in Kristal and bought a couple of pilsner glasses w/ Mickey and Minnie in German clothing and had our names engraved on them. While we waited for them to get done we waited in a forever beer line for some Altenmunster draft beers. While we waited we got to watch the bell tower/coocoo clock go around several times with the little girl chasing the villain. Another Kim Possible antic.
We go and sit out by the lake and drink our beers and meet several other folks. We proceed to sit there the rest of the evening getting another glass of beer and visiting w/ our new friends. We had dinner reservations at 7:30pm for Via Napoli but there is no way we could eat yet. So I walk over and see if they can change our reservations to 9:30pm….and they are able too. Funny when we did show up at 9:30pm they were telling walk ups that nothing was available. Glad I went when I did to change our dining time. We stayed at our position in Germany to watch Illuminations and said good bye to our new friends and made our way over for some pizza.
The crowds were starting to build in Via Napoli as we arrived and several ppl got turned away. We were seated in less then 5 minutes. I’m not going to do a full review of Via Napoli but just hit on a few basics. Mark was disappointed that you can’t just have a pizza to order. You can have things taken off from a pizza but nothing added. So we ordered a lg Pepperoni pizza and I had a quart of merlot and Mark had an iced tea. When the pizza came out the bottom appeared charred/burnt but tasted great to me though Mark complained about a burnt taste. When finished we order our deserts Apple torte cake to go since we weren’t hungry and I gave our server Paolo our Key To The World to pay for it. Paolo comes back and says that there are no table credits left on the card. At this point I’m confused according to all of my planning we should have had enough credits left to cover the meal. The only thing I could think of was that Le Cellier had already started charging 2 credits for their meals. At the time I didn’t think to find my Le Cellier receipt and look at credits used……remember all of those drinks I had. Mark wants to send the desserts back since they aren’t free but I don’t think that’s fair so we pay for them too and leave. Upon looking at my receipts we did still have a table credit a piece left. So Paolo was wrong and now I wish I had questioned it further. So I paid for a meal that should have been included in our DDP.
After leaving Via Napoli we decide to leave since we were tired and had had plenty to drink. So we gave up on drinking around the world. Good thing as I think we would have been hurting after we would of made it to Mexico and done tequila shots. LOL. I do believe that we drank enough German beer to make up for not finishing DATW.
Tomorrow will be a resort day and our last day at the world.
and Mickey
calling us on the phone. If you have little ones I highly recommend getting wake up calls...very cute.
I think that AKL did not take into effect the discounted rate I had paid for the CBR room $78 @ nt. When we received our bill it appeared that they had credited us the full price of a CBR rm instead of my discounted price……so more pixie dust. We saved about $200.
They had added a second showing for Fantasmic but our tickets were for the first showing. We decide to take a beer with us to our seats and stop at Rosie’s All American Café and wait in line for 20 min. We arrive at our seats at 7pm and I am shocked at how full the regular side was. They stopped seating ppl about 45 min prior to show time. Of course many ppl tried to sneak into the package seating area but, I will say that the CM's did a good job at keeping most of them out. I don’t envy the CM’s their jobs here. So many rude ppl. While waiting Mark and I make fast friends with a couple of little girls near us and it helps to pass the time. The show finally starts and is good….but I would never wait in the humongous lines for this show. When the show was over and we were walking out I could not believe the line of ppl waiting to get into the second show. Boy they had to be hot standing in that area w/o any air flow.
WOW more power to them definitely not worth the wait IMO.
I've been reading your food report and just came across your trip report
Mark asks what I want to do and I tell him the Sum of All Thrills. So we start heading back to Innovations and I stop to ask a CM where to find S.O.A.T., she’s never heard of it…..huh really. Mark is loosing all patients at this point. We continue towards Innoventions East. So we’re in front of I.E and I stop to look for SOAT as Mark just continues walking away….at this point I have had it and am not about to yell across the park for him. A CM comes out of the building and I ask him. He doesn’t know what I’m talking about I describe it as the build your own ride and he immediately knows what I’m talking about and sends me inside. I stand there for a few minutes waiting for Mark to look my way so I can wave him into the building. So we had thought it would be a big ride but it is just a small area inside of the building. It’s a 20 min wait and I get in line. This is a ride I couldn’t wait for I knew I wanted to do a jet ride. After I built my ride and go to get on it and I don’t fit. What the he**. 
At this point you would think I would be embarrassed oh no, not embarrassed just upset. You would think that Disney would have a test seat to check first. So on my way out I step up to the CM working the front of the line and ask her to pass on a suggestion to her supervisors and recommend the test seat. She says that they have one and points to a back corner I look for a little bit and finally see it way back in the dark corner. At this point she says that the CM’s many times have recommended moving the seat to the front of the line area (humm makes sense it’s where I’ve seen them at any other amusement park). I just can’t say how disappointed I am not just because of my excitement for the ride but also the waste of time. 
Seems like it's taking me forever to get this TR done.
