Crystal Palace - Character Breakfast:
This was our last TS meal of the vacation, and my mom was definitely looking forward to meeting Tigger! The wonderful DISer
Aubriee booked this breakfast for 12 people and had room for my family to join in! Thank you so much from a former ADR newbie!
DISer list: Aubriee (Vanessa), her mom, her husband, ANTS (Timmy, what a hoot! Love the present you gave me!), PennConn (Rich), PennConn's Adrian
, Jamstew (Jamie), and Kat. It was so fun to meet DISers, and Rich & Adrian were so funny.
My mom found another Red Sox lunatic--I mean fanatic--in Kat.
This breakfast was booked for 8:10AM, so we left our hotel room around 7:15 to catch an early bus to the Magic Kingdom. This was our last day in the world, so I think my brother and my mom were ready to kill me for setting the alarm clock for 7AM or earlier all week!
We made it to MK really early and met with Aubriee & her family at the WL dock. Ironically, two men walking behind us and who had commented on my brother's Red Sox shirt were Rich & Adrian! It's a small world?
After waiting a few bus-loads for the remainder of our party (minus Timmy!), we entered Magic Kingdom early and got to stroll around Main Street. I had been looking forward to seeing Main Street without a huge crowd, but honestly there were so few people in WDW that week, that even at peak time during the parade it didn't seem that packed!
We took our picture in front of the castle (and ended up getting the "professional" version of this one as our free 5x7):
We all finally made our way to the Crystal Palace, which my mother had always wanted to eat at since the first time she visited WDW. We didn't get to eat right away though, as Timmy was crazy-late! She somehow had parked in the CM parking lot and had to move her car to the correct parking lot, and was very far away. When she finally joined us, she was out of breath from running down Main Street. :laughing
We were seated in two tables that were next to eachother and everyone was starving by this point, so we ran up to the buffet. The food was the general breakfast fare with a few differences. There was a make-your-own omelet bar, which my mom enjoyed. There was a Pooh's Corner for little kids that had these sugary-sweet-really-bad-for-you doughboy-like puffs. They were so yummy, though something I would only eat on vacation!
The character interaction here was so-so. I felt kind of ignored because we were two tables of 11 adults, but toward the end of breakfast (while we were waiting for our bills to be calculated, which took about 20 minutes) the characters started coming around.
7/10 - The food was warm, standard fair, and honestly not as good as Cape May's breakfast. The characters were OK, they were really slow getting around, and they weren't as fun as Goofy and Chip & Dale.
Sorry this review is so short, but of the four TS meals we had, we enjoyed this one the least. The redeeming part was meeting all the fun DISers.
I just couldn't bare to leave this review set unfinished.
Oh wow, a picture that came out decent! 
I think he warmed up to it after a few days, our last day we ate with other DISers. 
Thanks for running a tough line for the greater good of mouse-eared mankind
