Dining Adventures with Character, March 8-14

[jenseib]

Day5

Thursday March12

I got breakfast this morning while waiting for my gang to wake up. I just ate it outside the room at a table.
I got the Adult platter, - scrambled eggs, potatoes, biscuit, sausage, and bacon. It was pretty good. Nothing out of this world either.
I also got a milk and a lemonade to take to the parks later.

I believe this cost $11.37, used 1 CS credit.

Claire had a granola bar in the room that we brought from home and the grapes from the Pizzafari.

This was our Epcot day.

We did some morning touring and then Claire got hungry. We were in the UK, so we decided on Fish and chips, 2 strips of fish served with chips, at Yorkshire County Fish shop. I really didn’t even know if Claire would like them, but they sounded so good to us. LOL! I ordered 1 order and the only dessert option there is a shortbread cookie thing. I don’t care for them, but Claire did eat one later on.


I didn’t get the price but according to Allears it is
Fish and chips~$7.99
Shortbread~$1.69
Drink~$2.19
All plus tax

1 CS credit

We sat down at a table and immediately Claire had to go potty. I quick snuck a bite in before taking her. It was sooooo good. As we were in the bathroom I realized I didn’t get a picture, and I knew DH would be totally diving into it by the time we got back.
So we stopped off an ordered another one. LOL!
1 more CS credit
We got back to the table and we had a few extra people sitting with us now, so I got totally distracted and didn’t take the picture again!
And it was totally gone by the time I remembered again. This food was really good though. I just wish they had another dessert option other than shortbread. I really don’t like shortbread at all.

Claire only ate a few bites of fish. It wasn’t her thing, but she did pig out on the fries. LOL!

 

[that's nice]

Oh My Goodness......

I was over on the Dining Reviews board to look for some ideas for our trip and I just found your report.... I must be blind because I just noticed that you had the link in your siggy!!!!!!

Where have I been? Now I have to catch up on your TR and your dining report too!!! LOL

 

[jenseib]

Oh My Goodness......

I was over on the Dining Reviews board to look for some ideas for our trip and I just found your report.... I must be blind because I just noticed that you had the link in your siggy!!!!!!

Where have I been? Now I have to catch up on your TR and your dining report too!!! LOL

 

[jenseib]

After lunch we strolled through World showcase and then went and used our FP’s for Test track. After Test Track it was time to get Claire changed and head over to Norway for our ADR at 4:20.

We then got checked in and took some more shots.

Here she is proudly showing off her Test Track toy.

We then got called. Or so I thought. In Norway they pronounce W’s like V’s and we have a W in our name. So it sounded similar to our name, but I wasn’t sure. I went and check and sure enough it was us!
We went in and then got in line for Belle.

 

[jenseib]

Here is Claire anxiously waiting to see Belle in her “marrying” dress, as Claire calls it.

We got up to the photographer and she was kind of rude. She told me only 2 pictures and did we want a family shot. I said no, but I wish I would’ve said yes, and made her take more. Her pictures weren’t very good either. They came out fuzzy. Oh well, next time I will open my big mouth and have more taken and ask for the fuzzy ones to be retaken.

Here’s what I took.

Here’s what the photographer took.

We were then taken to our table and seated right next to the cold bar.

 

[ssr4me]

great review:............just found it!!! i love this site

 

[jenseib]

great review:............just found it!!! i love this site

Thanks for joining

 

[jenseib]

Since we had the early seating, the Princesses weren’t out yet. Our waiter, who was wonderful, told us they probably wouldn’t be to our table till dessert.

Rolls were brought out right away.

And pictures of the cold bar.

Claire ordered the Hotdog (imagine that. LOL) with corn and also got a lot of the cold cuts from the cold bar. She was very impressed with the cold bar. LOL!

I tried several things off the cold bar. It was pretty good. DH said you could just make a meal off of that.

He ordered the Mustard Glazed Grilled Salmon,~ with salad greens, roasted potatoes, and corn tossed in a Zinfandel vinaigrette~ which I asked “Do you like Salmon?” and he said "I don’t know." So our waiter told him if he didn’t like it he could order something else.
When the food came we noticed that our Waiter (I think his name was Axel) was kind of hovering in the area to be sure that Skip liked it, and he did ask a few times too to be sure.

I got the Traditional Kjottkake ~ Ground beef and pork patty served with garlic mashed potatoes, seasonal vegetables and Lingonberry sauce~ It was very good. It was like a meatball, but with the taste of kielbasa .

Claire nibbled at her food, but she really waited to see the princesses. I kept walking around the corner as they came out to see who was there.

 

[jenseib]

They brought out our picture pretty early on. Here it is.

It was fuzzy and I was a little mad about that, but it wasn’t the horrid.

Dessert came out. It was a threesome of Norway dishes, but I can’t find them on allears, so I’ll tell you what it was to the best of my ability. LOL!
We had the traditional rice cream with strawberry sauce. The strawberry sauce was good, but the cream had no taste really and the texture just was kid of icky in my mouth. So this wasn’t a hit with any of us.
There was some kind of chocolate cake. I think I have read before it is sugarless or there is something different about it. It was just OK. The raspberry sauce on it made it better, but the cake was very bland. Not a hit, but better than the rice cream. Claire grabbed the raspberries right away off of it. LOL!
And then Skool bread (sp?) This was good EXCEPT that it had coconut on top. I hate coconut so I had to scrape the top off. DH didn’t seem impressed with it, so I ate most of it, after I cut the top off. LOL!

Alice was the first one out. So this would be our 3rd meeting with Alice this trip. I don’t think we ever even saw her except for parades the last 2 trips. LOL!

She arrived shortly after dessert was served.

It was the same one from the afternoon too.

Claire has a really skinny belly, but for some reason she kept puffing out in this outfit. Not super attractive. LOL!

 

[jenseib]

Next was Jasmine. This was one we had hoped for, since Claire was wearing the “matching” outfit. All the other princess referred to her as Jasmine’s sister when they visited.

The puffed belly again! LOL!

Ariel arrived shortly after Jasmine. Our second meeting with her this trip, but this time with legs! We had hoped she would be here.

We told Ariel how Claire wants to change her name to ArielBelle, and she thought that was a lovely name.

 

[meanmom121]

That was an awesome report and thanks for all the food picks. I have been worried that there might not be anything that my DS11 would like since he has to order off the adult menu. But I think he is going to fair just fine. I have to agree with you on the desserts though. I didn't see anything there that really excited me. So I plan on filling up on meal and cold bar and skipping dessert here unless this is one of the places I can order the chocolate princess slipper.
Hugs, Karen

 

[jenseib]

That was an awesome report and thanks for all the food picks. I have been worried that there might not be anything that my DS11 would like since he has to order off the adult menu. But I think he is going to fair just fine. I have to agree with you on the desserts though. I didn't see anything there that really excited me. So I plan on filling up on meal and cold bar and skipping dessert here unless this is one of the places I can order the chocolate princess slipper.
Hugs, Karen

You can order one of those celebration cakes here. I think they are about $15

 

[jenseib]

The bill came and we paid, and Skip decided to walk outside and wait for us since we still had one more princess to wait for.

Claire was having a hard time waiting for the next princess. LOL!

Here she comes!

It was Cinderella, again! This was our 3rd meeting with Cinderella this trip.
Claire was happy to see her again though.

I really enjoyed this meal. The food might not be for everyone, but I liked it and loved the experience. I would love to try the breakfast here sometime too now.

Our bill came to $97.95. We used 3 TS credits

After Cinderella, Claire and I grabbed our stuff and walked out to find Skip. I grabbed the stroller and was about to take a drink from the cup I had on the stroller and realized the straw was gone! I don’t know if someone took it or not, but I wasn’t about to drink it now, in case someone messed with it, so I threw the rest away. We also realized later that night that DH’s refillable mug was missing, and we think it was taken while at Akershus too. So be sure to take important things in with you when you leave your stroller. This has never happened to us before, but I guess you never know. And who the heck would want someone’s used straw?
But aside from that, it was a great experience and the little episode could’ve happened anywhere in the park.

 

[meanmom121]

What is with that guy in the background's expression in picture 4 - looks like he might be a little in awe of Cinderella himself

By three Ts credits - I assume you mean one apiece

 

[jenseib]

Yes, one a peice.
I noticed that guy too!

 

[OneTreeHillAddict]

Skip's salmon looks tasty. How'd he like it? I can't get enough Salmon. Sometimes I eat it twice a day. How did you like that rice cream? I wanted to puke. I actually spit it out into a napkin.

 

[jenseib]

Skip's salmon looks tasty. How'd he like it? I can't get enough Salmon. Sometimes I eat it twice a day. How did you like that rice cream? I wanted to puke. I actually spit it out into a napkin.

He said it was good. I know I don;t like Salmon, so I never tried it.
yes the rcie cream wasn;t good. It really had no taste and a weird texture in my mouth.


Did you see the post on the budget board? they are no longer allowing any shares that exchange money. So no more photopass shares are allowed as of today, and the current ones will have there threads locked tomoorw. Thats a bummer. I guess I'll have to join another board next year if we go to do one, or look at TGM's or see if they have one on Yahoo.
Oh well, it was good while it lasted.

 

[OneTreeHillAddict]

He said it was good. I know I don;t like Salmon, so I never tried it.
yes the rcie cream wasn;t good. It really had no taste and a weird texture in my mouth.


Did you see the post on the budget board? they are no longer allowing any shares that exchange money. So no more photopass shares are allowed as of today, and the current ones will have there threads locked tomoorw. Thats a bummer. I guess I'll have to join another board next year if we go to do one, or look at TGM's or see if they have one on Yahoo.
Oh well, it was good while it lasted.

I thought I saw Salmon on your cold bar plate? Gosh I love it.
Just share with friends going at the same time. If you do a PTR you'll find people with counters going at the same time! I don't know why the stroller/fridge is a big deal? I can see why they don't want to advertise the photoshare things because Disney doesn't "allow" that.

 

[jenseib]

It was. I didn't know what it was, and then when I tasted it I was luck yuck. LOL!

 

[Megan76]

We had to make a quick potty stop for Claire first and then went to the long check in line.
We evidently walked passed a small vendor selling stuff and Claire had a mini melt down. She wanted some stupid light up Mickey sword. I told her not now, but maybe later or another day. She was being a brat. Skip walked up to us and asked what was going on, and I told him and he was disgusted that she wasn’t happy with the toys she just bought. He was super grumpy about the money being spent, which I’m not sure why, since most of it was bought with gift cards or Claire’s spending money.
He walked away, and I was happy, because who wants TWO babies next to them. LOL!

We got checked in finally. I asked where we were to be seated and she told me first floor. OK! I didn’t care actually where we sat, but I wanted to know ahead of time.
I found DH, sitting and pouting, and left Claire with him while I took a little walk.

On my walk around Fort Wilderness (right near Pioneer Hall) I found this armadillo digging. I don’t know a lot about armadillo’s so I wasn’t sure how close I could get. But this guy never looked up at me. He just kept going about his business. I didn’t want to use a flash though and scare him and have him attacking me. LOL!

I went back to show DH the picture, and found them at the playground. He seemed in better spirits and Claire was too.

And this was near the playground

While she was playing, Skip disappeared and came back with the sword. That made on little girl very happy with her daddy. Yes she has him wrapped around her finger.

It was then time to go in. We got seated in the back on the first floor. No seats are really bad here, so that was no big deal. We started in on the salad and cornbread that is on your table when you arrive.

They took our drink orders…..beer for DH and me…LOL.
Then a manager comes over and tells us we’ve been seated at the wrong table and we were actually supposed to be upstairs. Now this is no big deal, BUT I know he was lying because I asked prior where our table was and was told first floor. I then see him go talk to another family and they said they didn’t mind going upstairs, and he said, “no since you added an extra person, that table upstairs only seats 3, so we have to put you down here.” So basically he needs a 4 table and we were 3 at a 4 table. No big deal to move, but I wish he didn’t lie about it. Just tell us they made a mistake, or one family added a person and needed the table.

Claire is confused by all this moving. LOL! But we do fine and move upstairs and a whole new table is set up for the other family and we get to start in on a whole new fresh bucket of salad and cornbread. LOL!

So DH was mad about spending money, but he is okay with wasting DDP credits HAHA! MEN!