Yay....Sherry, someone remembers the gingerbread house besides me! My kids were disappointed last Christmas because they were expecting to see that again. But it was soon forgotten when they saw the Christmas decorated deserts & treats. I have a feeling the Christmas decorations at Storytellers aren't gone forever. Variations in stuff like this depends on who's in charge at the time and resources available. It could very well be that the gingerbread house broke and they never got around to making a new one yet. We are going back there again this coming Christmas so I'm excited to see if there will be any new surprises..
What is a bit surprising is the few CMs who remember it. We've been eating at Storytellers for the past 4 years and I know some have been there for a while.
You could be right about why the decorations come and go. The server who waited on me last year said it seems to be "hit or miss" with having a Christmas tree in the restaurant. He said that, in the past, some years they put a tree in Storytellers and some years they did not, and he wasn't sure why.
It is perplexing, though, that White Water Snacks has a Christmas tree and the Hearthstone Lounge has its own Christmas tree, and I found several trees together in the GCH ballroom/conference room/hall (or whatever they are calling it) - and yet, no tree at Storytellers!
Isn't that odd, when you think about it? It seems very strange to me!
Heck, they could take one of the several trees I found in the conference hall and stick it in Storytellers! That is so weird to not have anything - no tinsel, no garland, no tree - nothing - in Storytellers!
Then again, when I really paid attention, I noticed that the decor had been scaled back in small ways around all of DLR. In certain areas it was really evident to me that something was missing. In other areas, unless you are extremely detail-oriented, you probably wouldn't realize anything was missing. But little things here and there had disappeared or certain spots were no longer decorated. So I guess Storytellers was just a casualty of the scaling back of the holiday decor!
Yes, that gingerbread house in Storytellers was quite the mystery! My waiter was confused as to what had happened to it from the time he spotted it last season to when it disappeared. It seemed to literally be out for 2 minutes and then it vanished. That alone was odd enough. But when I asked other employees in the restaurant the next day, and they all looked at me like they had no clue what I was talking about when I said "gingerbread house," I felt like I had wandered into some sort of alternate universe!!
Even when I told them that their co-worker had said (the previous day) that he caught a fleeting glimpse of the gingerbread house, and then it was gone, they still looked totally clueless - as if they had no idea what was happening in their own restaurant!
