I just wanted to say, that after long hours of consideration, tears, sleeplessness, and stomach upset, I have to boycott your Trip Report until you realize that the week of April 20 would be best spent at WDW. Perhaps meeting a certain Diser who's living overseas? Maybe sharing a Slushie at EPCOT? Playing with Spongebob beanies?
Just food for thought in your dining report.
Oh Briarmom, if there were any way that Jay and I could actually swing a WDW trip we would, but we have family in Vegas and that's one (of many) reasons we are headed out there come April.
I would love to meet up with you some time - judging by your posts and the cool little avatars you always have in your signature you would be a hoot! Why don't you consider a cruise in October 2009?
I agree - we will be there then too. Never mind Briarmom - maybe we could meet up instead minus the 'Benda'.
Benda will be sad not to have met up with either of you, but wishes you both wonderful trips filled with
yummy food and boozie good times!
Another great update - I did notice however that you had sweet and savoury on one plate again - waffle and sausage together
Poor Karen ... I forget how much you dislike that. I, on the other hand, love snausages dipped in maple syrup. Delicious!
Just wanted to point out that they've added Stewie to It's a Small World. C'mon! You know you want to see it!
Awesome! I love Family Guy ... but then, why should that surprise you?
So sorry to hear your waitress missed her dose of Pixie Dust that morning. But, I do have to say that your Cafe Mocha looked absolutely YUMMY!
Hear that? Yummy, yummy, yummy!
Signed: Your sarcastic 8 year old friend, Sistah Goose.
(yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy)
Thank you for that emphatic post, Nancy my friend. You made me laugh my head off and I sure needed that - Jay has been a sickie today and that always makes me sad.
This whole exchange cracked me up! I can't believe the absurdity of the waitress arguing with you over whether your drinks were correct or not! Wow, unbelievable. And what exactly is that stuff they call coffee?
I've never been able to figure that out . . .
I'm working on my pinkie extension, so bring on the tea!
Well, tea is served my friend so come and join us when you have time!
As for the conversation with our waitress, I'm glad you caught the humor ... Jay and I were trying to get it just right when we talked about it. Because even while it was happening part of me wanted to laugh at how dumb the whole situation was ... the other part of me wanted to go back into the kitchen and make the damn drinks myself!
And I'm not sure that stuff in the pitcher qualifies as coffee ... we think it may actually be Postum (a powdered coffee substitute).
This is EXACTLY what I was going to say!!!
That cafe mocha looks so yummy!
You and Mother Goose are two great minds! I want to try a cafe mocha on the cruise and see how those Cove Cafe bartenders serve it up.
You can't say the
"y" word it's so uncouth...
ps...I found a picture of a Jason and Brenda's "nibble's" table....
AFEG ... that picture doesn't include a cheese plate and it's got too much pasta, but that won't stop Jay and me from destroying it.
Gee, how times have changed. Whatever happened to the customer is always right?? I am always loathe to complain about a server because anyone can have an off day and I would not want someone to lose their job because of a moment in time but that was so outrageous that even I would have said something to management before that 'waitress' done sucked the magic out of someone else's Disney Day!!
If we do not start complaining, in a nice way, to management folks will get away with a lot they should not. IMO it is Disney's job to make sure that the servers are earning their mandatory tips.
SG/Linda (who is off to lay down after just reading about all that booze)
You're absolutely right, Linda. I didn't complain, mainly because I think it was an off day for everyone involved. We will speak with our dining dollars though, because we won't go back on our next visit. Hopefully others will have better experiences than we did, and in all fairness this was the only time we've eaten at Yacht Club Galley where things were ... Gacky. Jay just told me that his breakfast potatoes were cold, too ... the hits just keep on coming!
You canceled a spa appointment
That cafe mocha looks to die for and I don't like coffee
I know, I know ... the whole morning was just wrong, wasn't it? I'll never cancel another vacation spa apointment again, I swear!
I'm a geek pin collectpr too. That birthday pin is very nice. I can't wait to go back and get some more pins. Sorry about the cafe mocha, the picture you posted from 2006 looked very yummy. Maybe next time you go, take the picture with you and show it to the waitress that feels they don't ever make those drinks there. Can't wait for the tea.
Laura
Too funny that you said that about showing them the previous mocha - Jay said that if we'd brought our laptop with us he would have gone back to the room and brought it to our waitress to show her just how wrong she was.
That birthday pin is so cool - I love playing with it!
Sorry, I'm having a flashback to my first waitressing job.....
Nothing good ever comes from one of those crappy plastic pitchers, my friend. They are the swill-purveyors of choice for greasy spoons everywhere.
Sorry to traumatize you with that pitcher-picture ... thankfully we'll have a nice Kona press pot soon to make up for it.
Maybe you can tell the rest of us ... is that stuff coffee or postum???
$200 booze?!?
That's 5 half-hour massages! (here, not at Disney, obviously). I hope you adjusted that nasty waitresses tip accordingly! I'm sounding very cheap today, aren't I?
I know, $200 is a lot to spend on one bottle and it's not something we've ever done before. But this is a very limited edition product that is very difficult to find. And it's one of those things that you drink very slowly over time ... on very special occasions. And I really wanted Jay to have it ... he does so much for me and he puts up with me (which is saying a lot) and I just wanted him to have something special that we can't get here at home. Oh well, maybe next time.
And yes, the "tip" was adjusted accordingly. You know it's bad when Jason won't leave 20% - he used to work at a restaurant way back when so he's very insistent about leaving a fair tip because of how it's shared out between the staff. Let's just say that he had no qualms about not even leaving 15% this time.
How do I say...your coffee... it is like swill to us. Am I saying that correct? Only a swine would drink this?
OK, now I am going to be laughing all day thinking about that comment!
Glad you liked that - we stole it from a Simpsons episode because we really have no independent creative thoughts of our own. It seemed very apt in this case and made us laugh quite a bit, too. Thanks for reading!
) and yet you still made it so entertaining! 
instead of working.....
