Hungry Are The Damned! 10/15/07-10/25/07 - COMPLETED W/LOTS OF PICS!!!

[DisneyLaura]

I've always wanted to say that.


Great news! Zip-zap-grabulous news!


We're going to WDW this October!


We have a tenative reservation through DVC that I'm still trying to tweak a bit, but long story short is that a some good fortune has smiled on us (sadly not the Powerball or we'd be there for the entire 6 weeks of F&W) and we can now swing one week in October this year on top of some of the other smaller things we already have in the works!!

Join me in the food love, won't you?

Lucky dog you. That's awesome. I'll be expecting a TR from you missy.

 

[oybolshoi]

Great news for all of us, too!!! Yaaaaaay!

Thank you - now just keep your fingers crossed that neither of us is felled by any viruses, infectious agents, chronic health condition flare ups, weather snafus, or food poisoning.

Was I the only one who let out a little Huzzah! at the mention of the BiMonSciFiCon? BiMonSciFiCon. It's hard not to keep saying it. It just feels good.

How could I not use BiMonSciFiCon??? And you're right ... the more you say it the better it feels. Now I think we're going to go watch repeats of Battlestar Galactica!

And, Huzzah! again for October and the good 'ol DVC. Now we shall have more adventures to distract us from the hustle and bustle of our daily going's on. Squee!

I didn't want to say anything until we were sure we could swing it, so I apologize to everyone for the red herrings I had to throw out. We are very excited, so I hope everything goes according to our as yet unplanned plan.

Lucky dog you. That's awesome. I'll be expecting a TR from you missy.

Thanks Laura! I hope we can manage to put something good together again this year.

 

[yearbook50]

I've always wanted to say that.


Great news! Zip-zap-grabulous news!


We're going to WDW this October!


We have a tenative reservation through DVC that I'm still trying to tweak a bit, but long story short is that a some good fortune has smiled on us (sadly not the Powerball or we'd be there for the entire 6 weeks of F&W) and we can now swing one week in October this year on top of some of the other smaller things we already have in the works!!

Join me in the food love, won't you?

When are you going?

I'll be there columbus day weekend gorging myself with my husband (for his first Food & Wine...boy he doesn't know what he' getting into does he?)

 

[oybolshoi]

When are you going?

I'll be there columbus day weekend gorging myself with my husband (for his first Food & Wine...boy he doesn't know what he' getting into does he?)

Hi Meli! Right now our dates are October 11 - October 18, although that could change tomorrow after I talk to member services. We're not locked in to the dates this year like we have been in the past, so if I can nab a studio at Beach Club or Boardwalk I'll change the dates accordingly.

Oh yeah ... he's in for a big treat! He'll love it, I'm sure!

 

[DisneyMom5]

If you drag out all of your reports long enough, and I drag out all my reports long enough, you might just help me make it until the next trip.

Disney co-dependence...it's a beautiful thing. Sniff.

 

[BriarRosie]

Sunday, October 21st - BiMonSciFiCon or ... That's a Pretty Effing Good Ten Dollar Milkshake!

After eating ourselves senseless the night before, we decided to take things slow on Sunday morning. We munched on some mini-bagels and fruit while sipping our own fine coffee that we brought with us from Stinktown. With a food and wine pairing scheduled for later in the afternoon at the Rose & Crown, Jay and I didn't want to wander too far from the Epcot resort area, so we opted for a visit to MGM. **As an aside, I don't like the new name for the studios and I don't think it makes any sense and I'm not ever going to use it, so there!**

**rolls eyes** Oh wait, forgot there was an emote for that.
Ok, if you absolute must avoid all that "Hollywood" crap they did, do what I do. Call it the Studios. It's nice and generic, and it should survive any more name changes. Maybe.

During this trip Jay and I discovered that we walk faster than the Friendship sails.

I don't call it the Slow Boat to China for nothing.

So, based on that experience we set out Sunday morning from the Beach Club Villas and walked to MGM - I'd say it probably took us about 25 minutes. It's a lovely walk along a winding path that follows the canal and the back portion / pool area of the Boardwalk Villas. We encountered very few people along the way but were briefly accosted by a family of surly ducks who were searching for a long-lost family member. And we only saw one Friendship the entire time we were burning off the prior evening's caloric splurge.

That's right - one.

The ducks probably were in the mood for more Brenda leg. It explains why you only have one leg now, doesn't it?

I've done the walk when it wasn't so freakin' hot as it was that week. Otherwise I would probably pass out from the heat and humidity. The walk is great in December. Even in the pouring rain. (If you have a great raincoat to walk around in, that is.)

**Alcohol Alert!! Alcohol Alert!! I repeat: Alcohol Alert!!

Jay and I just created our own version of Keoke Coffee ... and is it ever good!

We brewed up a pot of freshly ground coffee and heated some milk.

Depending on the size of your cup, you may want to adjust your pour, but we just eyeballed it. Anyway, we poured 1/3 coffee and 1/3 warm milk into each cup, and then added a generous splash of Kahlua, Napoleon Brandy, and Godiva Chocolate Liquor. I also added three sugar cubes to my coffee to sweeten it up a bit and then we topped both drinks off with a cloud of whipped cream.

YUMMY!!!!

**End Alcohol Alert**

Ah, you had a Sandra Lee Moment! I'm going to call that drink, Brenda's Cup o' Sin.

We have to claim how much in Miscellaneous Income???

Did you pose yourselves to that mock look of horror, or did PhotoPass tell you to pose that way? My money is on you, of course. You do adore cheese. In its many forms.

Jay and I spent the next fifteen minutes debating whether or not we should ask this man to pose for a picture with Plankton, who had somehow managed to sneak into Jay's cargo pocket before we left the villa.

The conversation went something like this...

Brenda: Do you think I should ask him? I bet he'd do it since he's wearing the hat.

Jason: You're a freak.

Brenda: It would make a great picture!!!

Jason: I bet one of his kids picked that hat for him.

Brenda: I'm just going to ask. What's the worst that can happen: he reports me to security and I get hauled off for an interrogation about smuggling a non-Disney plush toy into a theme park?

Jason: If you get arrested I'll bail you out after the Food & Wine pairing this afternoon.

I took a deep breath and tapped the gentleman on the shoulder. He turned to face me, looking slightly puzzled.

"Pardon me," I said, trying to appear both cute and non-threatening at the same time. "We couldn't help but notice your SpongeBob hat and were wondering if you wouldn't mind posing for a picture with Plankton."

He still looked puzzled and answered me in a distinctly non-American voice. "I don't know who that is."

"Ummm, he's a character on SpongeBob Squarepants ... the villain who's always trying to take over the world. He's our vacation mascot." I never realized before now just how lame this must sound to people who don't really know us or our sense of humor.

The poor man was completely baffled and he took off his hat to examine it more closely. "Is this SpongeBob? My children chose this for me at the airport."

"Oh!" I exclaimed, smiling at the group of tweens while Jay doubled over with laughter. "Then you guys know what we're talking about, right?"

As a group they all shook their heads. "No, not really. We've never watched SpongeBob."

By now the moment had moved from slightly awkward to downright confusing and perhaps even a little disturbing. Luckily the man had a healthy sense of humor and thought the whole thing was funny - it probably didn't hurt that Jay and I fit right into his idea of "daft Americans."

You Yanks are crazy but harmless

Thanks again Guy from Wales, for being such a good sport and for not reporting me to security as a potential escapee from the local mental asylum!!

Oh that's just freakin' brilliant! You've taken a page from me and imposed yourself on a stranger! Although technically, I knew who you two were before I imposed myself upon you. But I have asked Disneyland cast members to pose with my plush Figment beanie baby.

We must have lucked out because we had arrived shortly after the restaurant opened for business, and we were soon being led into the "theater" where we were seated in the back of a car facing the movie screen. There are a fair number of "cars" scattered around the restaurant, but there are also flying saucer tables in the back of the theater near the "snack bar." We loved the theming and the premise of this restaurant right away, but it did feel a little strange to be seated in a car with another family. We thanked them for the "ride" but they seemed a singularly humorless group and weren't interested in human contact outside of their own little group of three.

Many people don't "get" your kind of humor. Sadly, many of them also travel to Disney.

Hold the onions and the 'shrooms - needs more bacon!

Yeah, I think you need more bacon!

I chose Marsha's Martian - chocolate and vanilla milkshakes mixed with Bailey's Irish Cream and Kahlua.

It's Choc-tastic! And Van-tacular!

These over-priced drinks also included a seizure-inducing glow cube! How much fun is that? I chose red, to match my shirt.

We have a level-four meltdown!

Jason decided to order the Space Monkey - a chocolate shake with Malibu Rum and Banana Liqueur - and requested a blue glow cube so that we could create a police car effect.

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Wow! You actually bought one of Disney's myriad of radioactive drinks! More power to you. I can't convince myself to pay that much to get a glowcube when I can get at Oriental Trading Company for a lot less.

We thoroughly enjoyed our milkshakes and finally were able to have our long-awaited Vincent Vega moment. Yes Vincent, it was a pretty effing good $10 milkshake!

Not to mention the Royale with Cheese (and a heap-load of bacon) earlier.

Look at us in the backseat of some guy's car ...

I'm so glad it's not a pic of you two making out in someone's backseat. That's a really cute pic of you both. Not just Mr. Photogenic. You too, missy. Yes you.

We really thought that Sci-Fi was a fun experience. The movie clips were absolutely hysterical and we spent a good part of our time at the restaurant laughing ourselves silly. So many of those clips were from movies that we first watched during Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K for those in the "know") and that just made the whole experience even more fun as far as we were concerned.

Now I know that Jay and I find a lot of things funny that other people don't, but for the life of me I can't figure out why we were the only two people snickering at the movie clips and "educational" shorts. And don't try to blame it on the milkshakes - there wasn't that much alcohol mixed in! The only thing that we can think of is that the other guests were trying to be quiet so that they could follow what was taking place on the movie screen, because it sure was quiet in there ... except for the giggling and snickering and running commentary from the backseat of that orange cadillac.

I'm not fond of Sci Fi Dine In under normal circumstances. But if I had lunch there with you too, doing MST3K commentary, I think I'd enjoy it a heckuva lot more! (My favorite MST3K movie isn't sci fi. It's that Joe Don Baker classic, "Mitchell". Some things bear the "rewind and replay" feature in many parts of it.)

This last picture pretty well sums up our morning; and most of my trip reports now that I think about it!!

Awesome.

But ewww, keep the brain farts to yourself.

 

[yearbook50]

Hi Meli! Right now our dates are October 11 - October 18, although that could change tomorrow after I talk to member services. We're not locked in to the dates this year like we have been in the past, so if I can nab a studio at Beach Club or Boardwalk I'll change the dates accordingly.

Oh yeah ... he's in for a big treat! He'll love it, I'm sure!

Makes sense.

It would be cool if we end up going to a signature dinner together

 

[nts4wdw]

Thanks for the pics of Scifi!! We'll be back there for Star Wars weekend, baby!!
Congrats on the October trip! I would love to go on our just the two of us trip then, but Chuck's heart is set on Mousefest (December.)!

 

[cntkg1]

Thank you - now just keep your fingers crossed that neither of us is felled by any viruses, infectious agents, chronic health condition flare ups, weather snafus, or food poisoning.

Awwwww Brenda, did ya hafta??

 

[ncsjodi]

I've always wanted to say that.


Great news! Zip-zap-grabulous news!


We're going to WDW this October!


We have a tenative reservation through DVC that I'm still trying to tweak a bit, but long story short is that a some good fortune has smiled on us (sadly not the Powerball or we'd be there for the entire 6 weeks of F&W) and we can now swing one week in October this year on top of some of the other smaller things we already have in the works!!

Join me in the food love, won't you?

Brenda, you've got to move your dates later!!! I think the LEGO Plankton would love to meet his larger, more famous, counterpart. We'll be there from Oct. 19-24. That's DD6's fall break from school. Plus, Buzz (MontanaDisneyFan) and his family will be there then as well!

By the way, our newest update shows Plankton with his favorite chocolate temptation.... you'll have to come over and check it out!

 

[Ms. Heimlich]

I.

Am.

So.

Jealous.


I'm not sure I can talk to you now...


You are toooo lucky! YOu get to go back for another F&WF. I wanna go so bad!!

Well - here's a heartfelt congratulations although I will admit, I wish I was going with you.

Loved the update. I think I may just have to go to Sci-Fi now - 50's PT won out before. The burger looked calor-iffic.

Have a happy workweek. (now you know you're going back - it should be easier! )

Ms. H

 

[A fat english gent]

Another fabulous installment Bendy Finally, a picture of something I would actually eat! The burger looks yummy but what the heck is up with the runaway bacon??? Perhaps the chef thought it a good idea to partake in those $10 milkshakes before starting his shift

Thanks for the much needed break, back to scrapbooking I go

Cass love trust me that is not Bacon you see in that picture,it's fake cheap Bacon you can find it all over the U.S.A,should come see the Buttie Hazel has just presented me with i think Ive died and gone to Bacon buttie heaven,half a pig in a flat bread cake.....

I love the pic of you guys in the back of the caddy......k

The food looks good too. We made a mistake when we went here; we didn't stick to burgers and "simple" foods. I think we had something Italian--not bad tasting, but not what we should have ordered. Oh and my DS12 had way too many shakes (non alcoholic, of course..)..

Can't wait to read about your Food & Wine pairing.

I did not Paige i felt the bounder she was with was way over friendly for my liking...

I've always wanted to say that.


Great news! Zip-zap-fabulous news!


We're going to WDW this October!


We have a tentative reservation through DVC that I'm still trying to tweak a bit, but long story short is that a some good fortune has smiled on us (sadly not the Powerball or we'd be there for the entire 6 weeks of F&W) and we can now swing one week in October this year on top of some of the other smaller things we already have in the works!!

Join me in the food love, won't you?

Without us?... ......Just when we thought our "After the REPO" depression couldn't get any worse Bendy goes to WDW without us,am going to go take out my frustrations on the fruit bowl,no am not going to eat the bloody stuff am going to kick the living daylights out of a grape....

 

[jakenjess]

Just what I needed to start a crappy Monday morning out right ... an update from Brenda!!

Glad you enjoyed the Sci-Fi. We had lunch there in October, too, but obviously ordered the wrong thing. Our meals were kind of . . . blech. I had some chicken sandwich thing that was really dry and tasteless. I can't remember what DH had but he didn't care for it. My parents were very happy with their reuben, that they split. Really, it's just a sandwich, you can't manage that on your own? I'm not sure how I missed those alcoholic milkshakes. The kids had the regular kind and they were very good, so it may be worth a trip back just for the alcoholic version and a couple of sides of onion rings.

I'm so glad you're going back in Oct.! With no trip in the works, I'm living vicariously through trip reports. Looking forward to more!

 

[arieljasmine]

Loved reading about your experiences at the Sci-fi, Brenda, I really must give the lunch menu a go, I love the atmosphere in there. I giggle at the clips too! How could you not?

Laur's

 

[WDW Poly Princess]

I guess you know by now the STL metropolitan area received 10-12 inches of snow yesterday in about a 6-hour timespan. The commute home was a joy ...

...and THAT is why I no longer live in MO!

I have one of them new-fangled "days off" today, so I shall attempt to catch up on your tales of eatin'!

 

[Yzerbear19]

You Yanks are crazy but harmless

Thanks again Guy from Wales, for being such a good sport and for not reporting me to security as a potential escapee from the local mental asylum!!

Great photo!

This was our first visit to Sci-Fi and I had done enough research to know that we should keep our food choices simple. We both ordered the Angus Chuck Burger, which came with a choice of cheddar or swiss cheese, onion, mushrooms, or bacon. It was also served with a choice of fries or some weird veggie-fruit salad.

Hold the onions and the 'shrooms - needs more bacon!

That looks pretty good.

We really thought that Sci-Fi was a fun experience. The movie clips were absolutely hysterical and we spent a good part of our time at the restaurant laughing ourselves silly. So many of those clips were from movies that we first watched during Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K for those in the "know") and that just made the whole experience even more fun as far as we were concerned.

My sister and I didn't go that last time we went. She went with her best friend in 2005 and said it was good. Sadly our friend who she went with has seen the full length versions of pretty much all of those movies they show. MST3K was a great show, so many bad cheesy movies out there. Supposedly there is a site where you can download tracks for more recent movies that play while you watch the movie that is done by the same people that did the show. My brother has done this several times and said they work really well.

Now I know that Jay and I find a lot of things funny that other people don't, but for the life of me I can't figure out why we were the only two people snickering at the movie clips and "educational" shorts. And don't try to blame it on the milkshakes - there wasn't that much alcohol mixed in! The only thing that we can think of is that the other guests were trying to be quiet so that they could follow what was taking place on the movie screen, because it sure was quiet in there ... except for the giggling and snickering and running commentary from the backseat of that orange cadillac.

My sister and I have this problem as well. We went to one movie recently where we were the only people laughing and that theater was packed. Of course there are some things that make us giggle because it ties into an inside joke, but even at movies that are supposed to be funny it seems we are the only ones laughing.

 

[PinkPrincessZ]

Hilarious update - I actually laughted out loud while imagining the whole conversation with SpongeBob dude. I love the fact that he was wearing a hat that he didn't really "get" simply because his kids picked it out for him. Too sweet!

Congrats on heading back to the F&WF!! We'll miss you guys by a day, so there's no chance of another Oybolshoi sighting - bummer! Oh well, at least we have another awesome food/trip report to look forward to!

 

[LMO429]

subscribing

 

[oybolshoi]

Popping in during lunch to say:


It's Official!!


We will be at WDW October 8th - October 17th ... staying at SSR this time because that's all we could get, but you'll hear no complaints from me.

Woo hoo!!

 

[TigerKat]

Popping in during lunch to say:


It's Official!!


We will be at WDW October 8th - October 17th ... staying at SSR this time because that's all we could get, but you'll hear no complaints from me.

Woo hoo!!

Great news Brenda!!!!