I love the picture you took on the boat of the monorail and sunburst. So pretty!
Thanks!
I must say I"m jealous that your girls like to sleep in. I dream of a day like that!
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I just got caught up! Glad you enjoyed the WL, we loved it and DH now refuses to let me even suggest another resort for our next trip. We had breakfast at the WCC and unfortunately we didn't get to experience ANY of the fun antics that make the WCC's atmosphere. I ended up canceling our lunch ADR and I regret it now.
You’ve created a Resort Snob! Awesome!
Wow, looking at your Princess pics I noticed that none of the princesses are the same. We weren't that impressed with Akershus either but it will probally stay on our list since of the interaction. Tell Hailee I am right there with her on shoes I would go barefoot year round if I could!
I noticed that in other folks photos are a tone of different CM’s playing the roles. The best CM of the bunch character wise during our visit was Snow White. She had the voice and mannerisms down PERFECT. Ariel seemed like she was in a bit of a daze the entire time and her entire repertoire was limited to “Good Morning Princesses”. Aurora and Bell both did a great job interacting with the girls. Cinderella was the most “royal” and remained regal & proper throughout.
Awesome update as usual GB!!!! Funny how for us it's early mornings that work !!! Kyle is up at the crack of dawn and then it's useless to even try to sleep!!!!
Now by supper time he is DONE only wants the POOL!!! So it's what works for you !!!
The thing I think I learned the most from our “training run” and our many trips to Sea World is that forcing the girls to get up early and go all day always ends poorly. Conversely we would often see parents forcing their kids to stay till closing during said excursions whose kids were in full on meltdown mode. You have to know your kids and plan what is going to work best for you. Let’s face it. We’d all LOVE to be able to be at the Morning EMH rope drop and stay till the Evening EMH gate closing. And if you had a one day trip, and everyone was well rested the day before, and your kids were old enough to handle the power touring, and if it wasn’t too hot outside, then MAYBE you could pull it off. But reality for us is, we have a limited number of hours per day the girls can handle so it’s best to use those hours during times when the girls will have the most energy and get the most enjoyment out of it. (Was that a ridiculously long reply?)
Another update well done.....your talent for writing is why I started reading your TR's and it's why I keep coming back for more.
Thanks Millie!
Looks like I'm going to have to rethink our ADR for Akershus's, my dd10 looked at reviews and liked what they had to offer for breakfast over what the Castle had. <sigh> I still have the Castle ADR scheduled (scored that today) but I'm not sure if I'm willing to let either go at this point. I have roughly 6 months to decide.....oh the torture of ADR's.
I think in the end I'll end up honoring what the little lady wants.
This trip is big brothers high school graduation celebration, but we need to maker her feel she's just as special.
Sorry to hi-jack.
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I wouldn’t put too much stock in reviews. Like the saying goes, “Opinions are like rear ends. Everybody’s got one and most of them stink.”
what a funny update with the writing, GB. Sorry your breakfast was less than stellar, though.
I am not wired for mornings either, by a long shot.
Hey BSG! Glad you enjoyed it. All told if only one morning out a whole 8 days spent at the world turned out to be less then ideal, well, I’ll call that a successful trip any day!
Masterful writing, oh scribe of great renown! Chronicles such as these in history may go down!!
Thanks!
Yeah, we're so with you- late(r) nights, NO early AMs. They stink!
Bummer the food was so meh. I'd have been mad too at the bill- good thing you were on the noblemen's dining plan!
Now we know. And knowing is half the battle. G.I. JOE! Anywho…I was definitely glad it was a “credit” and not actual cash I was paying at the time. It made it easier to deal with.
blahsville food, melting princesses and all from a writing standpoint one of my all time favorite Biscuit updates!
Awwww…thanks!
What a riot and it is lovely you are able, in retrospect, to make light of what sounds like a horribly draining morning with little reward at the time.
Yeah, we were definitely glad to see that morning come to an end. But in hindsight, it wasn’t nearly as bad as it could have been.
My family has a split personality, we have half of the sleep in late night variety and half of the up early late (but not AS late) night variety. It causes morning anst. It remains to be seen how that really pans out on this next blisteringly hot trip.
My dad gets up EVERY day at 5AM, without fail. So when we all get together, he’s ready to crash in the evenings while we’re just getting started. I’m not sure how he managed to survived EMH. Must have been the Disney Magic rubbing off.
I'm so sorry your meal wasn't as Magical as the others. Early mornings are rough after late nights and the heat makes it even worse. I'm trying to remember if I saw any bananas when we were there. Although I like bananas my true love is strawberries and yes I do remember seeing those. I've eaten there 3 times and had good experiences except for the wait. Next trip we're going to try lunch.
They did have strawberries when we went. In fact, I think that’s what Hailee eventually settled for.
You know, people just don't use the phrase "sally forth" as much as they should.
This is my point exactly.
Thanks for not leaving us hanging for too long, GB.
Thank my trainer. We had a section of class where we were given a Blackberry technical problem that we had to: Identify, list the steps to resolve, compose an email to the customer, and list the escalation path. She gave us 90 minutes to do this. 90. As in an hour and a half. That’s like an entire Disney Animated Feature. With Previews. In her defense, most of the people in the class were not from tech support. I spend 8 hours a day troubleshooting Blackberries. I was done in 4 minutes. I asked her what I should be doing and her reply was “I don’t care as long as you’re quiet.” And thus Episode 71 was born.
My girls (13, 8, and 3) never sleep in. Ever. And since late nights are out of the question for us, we stick with what we know and always hit rope drop. Kind of the non-GB touring plan.
The Anti-Biscuit. I like it!
We loves us some breakfast ressies at the World.
I wanted to. Really I did. Just not sure if the place was having an off day or what.
This year (as we always do) we had an 8:00 at CRT, and the food was different. Very meh-like. It was definitely a theme, as we were disappointed at Chef Mickey's and many other places as well.
But it's still Disney World, and I still didn't have to cook it or clean up, so it's was all good. And it was all "free." This was our first year of free dining, and we tried many, many places we normally wouldn't spend the time or money on. It was fine, but not even Le Cellier lived up to my expectations.
Next year, if we have the options that have presented themselves in the past, I think we'll go for the room discounts instead of free dining. We'll go back to our limited array of table service meals, but mix it up a little bit. We've never tried Norway, and despite being fully briefed on what to expect, we'll see how it goes.
This has sadly been a recurring theme since the induction of free dining. Don’t know if it’s that they restaurants make less, or just have such a larger quantity of orders to fill that they can’t maintain quality or what. It’s sad really. In a way I’m glad I didn’t eat at many TS places in the old days. At least now I don’t know what I’m missing.
I kept hearing you speaking in the prince's voice from Enchanted. (If you haven't seen it, you must!) At least you didn't stab any busses on the way to Akershus!
