MGM : Jiko and my feet!
Ok here we are on day 3 and things are not that bad, a few things here and there, the heat so on... This morning I woke up and my feet were throbbing! I looked and noticed that my left foot had a terrible blister on it and was cracked between the big toe and the next toe, and my right foot had the rubbing skin against the
crocs. I decided today to wear my hikers
I love my crocs! Today is MGM day and we fenagled a meal at Jiko! We are excited. This was also going to be Typhoon lagoon day. So we get up and for some reason we decide to go to the contemporary. So we do the bus tour to the contemporary and noticed they are doing work over there as well. We wanted to do lunch as well, but did not like the counter service they had there. We decided that since MK was close we would go there and eat. We had an early dinner at 4:50 at Jiko, so we had to eat fast. It was approaching noon. We head to MK and pass on Caseys, then I remembered a Mexican place by POTC. I enter, and it is closed!
We are running out of time still, so we look at the park map, and what do we see? Pecos bills! Right next door! So we head there. The thing is the lines were terribly long and we did not get to eat till a bit after 1. We both had the taco salads! They were pretty good, but we didnt eat it all, because of dinner. At this point our day is pretty much hashed, because of the time we wont be able to make TL, so we head to MGM for about an hour lol. We head to the great movie ride and get the gangster. They were running both shows at this time, but we just missed that car. We had never been on this ride before, so we really enjoyed it. When we were done, we walked about a bit, then decided it was dinner time. We head back to the room, dress up a bit, then head to Jiko! We get to Jiko, and check in. There is practically noone in the place, and they tell us to wait.... no problem. We sit in the bar and have a couple of drinks. We waited about 20 minutes... We thought, this is the great Jiko so it will be worth it. We get seated and get what seemed to be a nice oriental fellow as our waiter. He asked the proverbial Are you on the dining plan? (see a pattern here?) We say yes and he says ok what do you want to drink, what do you want for an appetizer? We said coke or something, and had not looked at the menu yet. He left... forever... still only 2 other parties in the whole place (this would change shortly) I tell him my allergies, and he says dont order this, this or this, so DW orders the taste of africa, and I order the lamb. He brings out the order, I start to eat, but quickly notice the lamb has onion in it, I bring this up to the waiter, and he says let me go check. Sure enough there is onion, so he then brings me the sweet potatoe in corn husks, which was just ok... So far he has been pretty good ( I get onions in all sorts of stuff back home so nothing new, except I was expecting a bit more being WDW and all
). At this point we order the meal, I had the Scallops without the chaka laka, and DW has the chicken, both were great and went off without a hitch! Meanwhile, we start noticing the same sort of behavior, the lack of service... Argh! Things seemed fine up until the main course, then we couldnt get a refill to save our lives! Finally, he came back to ask about desert we both get the Pistachio Creme Brule OMG this was good! Wow! So we eat up and wait for the ticket, and this is where it gets good. Now we had 2 drinks at like 7-8 bucks each so we figure with tax and all maybe 20 bucks. Well our bill for the drinks was 28 dollars! So we paid it, then later examined the evidence. This happened to us 2 times on this trip this way and eveytime the other way. Ill explain. With the
ddp the check shows what you ate and totals all 0's. Then you get another check with the alcohol, or whatever you had that was not on the ddp. Well they got sneaky here, they put the prices of the meal on the ticket which came to a bit over 100 dollars, then taxed it, then added 18% tip, then rolled this onto the drink tab. So if you look at the dinner ticket, it showed the 100 dollars then no change due, but showed the taxed and gratuity, which they just added onto the drink tab. Wow! That was very sneaky. So we put it away, and just waited. The thing is, we could have complained, but disney would have offered free this and that blah blah, but that is not what we want, so at that point, we decided that the day we leave we will tell Disney about this sort of thing, just so they know. We didnt want anything free or extras, and if we did it on the day we leave there would be no freebies they could give us, because we are leaving. Right? Right! So we laugh this off, and head to MGM we are determined to watch Fantasmic, but when we get there it is pouring rain, and lightning. This was our MGM day both times we came to watch, we would be rained out.... Oh well, the show is canceled, and we head back to the room! Again, more refurbs the rockin rollercoaster was down. There were a lot of refurbs at WDW hrm.... We get back to the room and hit the sheets for another long day. By this time my feet are killing me! The blister popped, but is now red and swollen. I am limping now... Time for sleep!
Tomorrow : Epcot, Weak Margaritas, and Coral Reef!
about a surprise trip back to the wonderful land we call Walt Disney World! I had been raving about this magical kingdom since we went a couple of years ago, and wanted to plan a trip in September. When I brought this up to my wife, she explained that we could not afford it 
, so this surprise months later made me very happy
! The planning begins!
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