Breakfast
Today was a super duper EXCITING day for US!!! well for me, LOL .. FINALLY i was going to do the Living with the Land Tour at epcot!! Dan was less than thrilled and i think he would have rather endured the HP ride at hogwarts again than be on this tour! ahaha
I started my own little urban garden this spring and as of today - i am proud to say i have my first ripened banana pepper!! so cool! can't wait to chop that bad boy up for my salad tomorrow!
Anyways, on to breakfast!
Like i said before, pop has a bajillion choices for breakfast.. ranging from eggs (scrambled, sandwhich'd, wrapped, sided, omlettes).. CARBS! (pastries, waffles, pancakes, pizzas).. and even some healthy stuff too lol oatmeal, fruit.. and everything else under the sun.. so seeing as they had my two of my fav bfast foods together ... eggs + croissants! i found a winner!
Bacon Croissant Sandwich with breakfast potatoes $6.99
this bfast sammy actually came with bacon but i asked them to put it on the side (for Dan) but i found out at the register, not that it matters if you have the
DDP, but if you ask them to leave off the meat it will be less $$, which is cool!
This was REALLY good, the potatoes were soooo tasty, they had seasoning on it that was a little spicy.. not crazy but just a little kick.. and the sandwich had like this cheesy sauce - when they were pouring it, kinda looking like yellowish water.. but it tasted
!!
Dan had a
POP Waffle with Meat $5.69
look at us living on the edge.. croissant sandwich and a waffle!
we are such DAREDEVILS.. how can you people even stand us! lol
Total: $16.78
DDP: 0 credits used
OOP: $16.78
*again, making the mistake of assuming that it was a waste to spend QS on breakfast.. which financially you are not getting your moneys worth, but we had so many to use closer to the end of the trip!*
Lunch
just had to share a little about the tour first! IT WAS AWESOME! it was i believe about $18 but they have so many discounts! we used our disney visa for a discount!
The tour was an hour and children get to release lady bugs, we got to taste a fresh picked cucumber and then feed the fish!
The plant above is SO BIZARRE AND COOL! i'm actually gonna go see if i can buy one this weekend! It's called a
sensitive plant ..
and the best part is, when you touch the leaves, they fold in.. they shrink away!!! ITS SENSITIVE... IT DOESN'T LIKE TO BE TOUCHED!!! OMG
i am cracking up over this!! no, but really, lol the leaves close up as a defense mechanism and then will reopen later! weird!
We had ressies at Coral Reef, which has become one of our must do's! Last year we were lucky and got sat right next to the tank and this year we were lucky again! I noticed they really only have seating for 2-4 down near the tank, so larger groups would not get to be that close. If you have never seen or known where the restaurant is.. its to the right of finding nemo, towards the back - hidden!
Our waiter was sooo professional, i mean he had a whole script he used the whole time we were dining there.. and i only call it a script because he repeated it 2 other times to the tables next to us.. lol but he was on his game, so go on with your bad.. scripted self!
He brought out some nice, warm and fresh
so good.. like i need anymore carbs in my life.. but ok!
Coral Reef Lobster Orecchiette Pasta - with White Cheddar Cheese and Basil Oil $26.49
Dan and I both had the lobster pasta.. Dan LOVES lobster and cheddar cheese so this was right up his alley! As for me.. I mean, if you don't know my taste by now, 6 pages in.. we just are not connecting, lol.. meaning that CARBS + CHEESE + SEAFOOD = my kinda meal! This was fantastic.. it was more like shredded lobster which was.. mmm mmm good! The only downfall to this was that there was not enough! and usually i would never say that about pasta because they always give you so much.. but we cleaned the plate.. and we were def looking at each others plate to see if either had any left (to steal more lol).
For dessert
Baileys and Jack Daniel's Mousse* - topped with caramel crisp $7.99
past times we have gotten the chocolate wave.. and it was.. ehhh
so we both tried the mousse ( i know, the waiter was prob like "how borrring they both get the same thing" lol)
Now if you were every worried about the alcohol in it.. relax, your not gonna jump on the table and start tearing your clothes off.. but you can taste it a bit! it was so so so good, and the little crunchy balls
on top were extra tasty with the mousse! Dan liked the choc on the bottom better and i like the white part on top.. i thought you could really taste the Jack Daniels in the bottom part! This was hard for me to stop eating!
Total: $73.45
DDP: 2 TS
OOP: Tip
Dinner
We hit up hollywood studios.. and i had one thing on my mind.. the Art of animation academy.. i have a seriously LOVE/HATE relationship with this place.. i love drawing/art/crafts..etc. so this place is a disney art mecca for me - in theory - you get taught to draw a beloved disney character, and you get to keep it (FREE! WHAT, unheard of!) ... BUT I AM SICK AND TIRED OF DRAWING MICKEY, MINNIE, DONALD, GOOFY, AND PLUTO.. c'mon! can i get a princess, a bambi character, pixar.. somethin! Dan is totally turned off by this place after constantly drawing the same character.. but going here is an ADDICTION.. i mean you sit and wait for 20 minutes.. not knowing who you will draw.. you get in there... and then.... you think .. hmm.. could it be... some one.. new!
YES! PERRY THE PLATYPUS! i dont know anything about him, but it wasnt the fab 5 so
!
we used a QS for dinner, and most disney food is the same every where you go so it was nice to see something different. We stopped at Backlot Express, which is the food place right next to star tours.. it was raining so we figured we'd eat and cross our fingers it would stop by the time we got done.
Grilled Vegetable Sandwich - basil asiago artisan bread, mushrooms, red peppers, zucchini, tomato, watercress and cheese with sundried tomato pesto, served with carrot sticks or french fries $8.99
I got the veggie sandwhich, and let me say for being a QS this was delicious, the vegetables were super fresh and the sandwich was just made as its on a panini so its grilled! YUM-O! and all the veggies worked with it, the pesto really kicked the sammy to the next level!
Dan had
Grilled Turkey & Cheese - multigrain ciabatta with arugula and red peppers served with French fries or carrot sticks $8.99
dan does not like "stuff" on his sandwich, he is a stricly meat and cheese kinda guy, so here it is without the "stuff," lol. Dan said it was good, but the cheese was swiss and he'd have rather cheddar.. so hard to please
I was so confused on dessert.. as my choices were marble cheesecake or.. *all ears says strawberry parfait* but im 99.9% sure it was just strawberry yogurt.. i'm not a huge cheesecake fan and JEEZ i eat yogurt like everyday of my life, no thanks.. so when i was about to order the CM told me they also had choc chip cookies and mousse! HELLO! mousse, i love mousse.. since like 4 hours before.. so i will take the mousse, and i decided dan will eat the choc chip cookie..
Well by the awesome powers that be, we ended up with an xtra free mousse.. which dan ate and we saved the cookie for later (which we never ate
).
this was no jack daniels mousse, but it held it's own! more chocolaty and lighter.. the other was kinda like pudding, but this was legit mousse!
i cant speak for this poor cookie.. it felt soft though, so i'm sure it was pretty good.
Total: about $30.00
DDP: 2 QS
OOP: $0.00
bonus Living with the Land Tour pics! DO IT! its the cheapest tour you will ever get to go on in disney! ahaha Oh and you can go the day of and sign up.. thats what we did!
hidden mickey!
... crazyy
thanks for all the love !!!
and then on the package it shows the droids wearing little mickey ears.. well they havent had the little mickey ears since Star wars weekend. so one night back at Pop.. i noticed the tiny bottle of shampoo has mickey ears! I BROKE THE TOP OFF AND IT FITS ON THE DROID PERFECTLY!!!! there is a little hole on the top of the droid and there is a little stick that comes out of the hat!!! amazing!!! 
