It's cheap! It's free! Can this really be Disney???Complete with pics.
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When we got back to our that afternoon, we had another little surprise from Mousekeeping!
With our robots, we now had a nice collection of 4 aliens on our table!
We had a 6pm ADR for the Yachtsman Steakhouse. Yummy! My favorite place to eat in DW! After a nice nap and freshening up, we drove to the Yacht Club and checked in. We waited less then 5 minutes to be seated at a nice table for 2 in the center area of the restaurant. Ricardo was our waiter and he was very friendly and helpful. He said he had worked for Disney for something like 15 or 20 years. His wife also worked for Disney at Saratoga Springs I believe. He took very good care of us and even walked us out of the restaurant when we left.
Another waiter Samir got to talking to us too. He was Lebanese and Im ½ Lebanese so we talked about when he lived there and how long he had been in the US. He was really nice also.
DH had the shrimp cocktail for an appetizer and I had the Caesar salad. We both had the Yachtsman Filets which were scrumptious. I know a lot of people thing the steaks are better at Le Cellier, but I think Yachtsman steaks are much, much better. DH had the Key Lime pie and I had some kind of strawberry dessert that was really good. I just didnt write down what it was.
Now comfortably stuffed, we drove back over to MGM. We got there about 745pm and went straight to Fantasmic. While the theater was fairly crowded, we were able to find seats right in the middle from left to right and towards the top so we wouldnt get wet from the blowing mist, we hoped. There was plenty of space around us so we werent crammed all together.
There were 2 Japanese girls sitting on my right who might have been in the late teens or early 20s. They had evidently been doing a bunch of shopping at MGM and were looking through their purchases. One of the items they had was this string toy. When turned on it blows the string around and around and has a light that shines on the string. It sounds pretty goofy but once you started looking at it, it was hard to stop. It was like it hypnotized me.
Well the one girl is playing with it for awhile and then it stops working. The other girl tries to get it working but no luck. I finally tapped the first girl on the shoulder and asked her if I could help. She handed it to me and I tried a few things and finally got it to work again. The string was stuck inside the toy. The girl was very thankful and spoke some English so we talked about where she was from, outside Okinawa, and talked about Tokyo which I had been to. It was very nice and helped pass the time until Fantasmic started.
Another funny story while we were waiting. As I mentioned, we were sitting in the middle of the theater. A man sitting in our section but closer to the front was trying to get the wave started. The people to the left of him finally caught on and started doing it. Then the people on the right of him caught on and every time he would start the wave it would go to both the left and the right at the same time. The man tried to tell the people on the right to wait until the wave came around from the people on the left but they just didnt understand what he was saying. He must have started the wave ½ dozen times and every time it split and went both ways. The man finally gave up and sat down. Too funny!
Fantasmic was wonderful as always. I was disappointed that the big boat with all the characters doesnt come out anymore. When Fantasmic let out, MGM was closed so we drove over to Downtown Disney to do some shopping. As we were parking in DTD, DH asked me if I had the Disney Rewards gift card with over 100.00 credit on it. Nope! It was in the room in the safe. Safe from being lost. Safe from being stolen, and especially safe from being used! Darn it! So we went into World of Disney and looked around anyway deciding what we would buy when we came back.
Of course we saw tons of stuff that we wanted. Tons of stuff that we (I) needed, but not really. After filling our heads with lots of wonderful ideas we drove back to our resort and hit the hay about 11pm. The end of another great day in the World!
TFI--Now Im not sure exactly which day it was but at some point we did go back by GlendaMaxs room and hang a LGMH from her doorknob. Im sure that was a much better surprise then the lovely check out invoice found there on the last day of your trip!
With our robots, we now had a nice collection of 4 aliens on our table!
We had a 6pm ADR for the Yachtsman Steakhouse. Yummy! My favorite place to eat in DW! After a nice nap and freshening up, we drove to the Yacht Club and checked in. We waited less then 5 minutes to be seated at a nice table for 2 in the center area of the restaurant. Ricardo was our waiter and he was very friendly and helpful. He said he had worked for Disney for something like 15 or 20 years. His wife also worked for Disney at Saratoga Springs I believe. He took very good care of us and even walked us out of the restaurant when we left.
Another waiter Samir got to talking to us too. He was Lebanese and Im ½ Lebanese so we talked about when he lived there and how long he had been in the US. He was really nice also.
DH had the shrimp cocktail for an appetizer and I had the Caesar salad. We both had the Yachtsman Filets which were scrumptious. I know a lot of people thing the steaks are better at Le Cellier, but I think Yachtsman steaks are much, much better. DH had the Key Lime pie and I had some kind of strawberry dessert that was really good. I just didnt write down what it was.
Now comfortably stuffed, we drove back over to MGM. We got there about 745pm and went straight to Fantasmic. While the theater was fairly crowded, we were able to find seats right in the middle from left to right and towards the top so we wouldnt get wet from the blowing mist, we hoped. There was plenty of space around us so we werent crammed all together.
There were 2 Japanese girls sitting on my right who might have been in the late teens or early 20s. They had evidently been doing a bunch of shopping at MGM and were looking through their purchases. One of the items they had was this string toy. When turned on it blows the string around and around and has a light that shines on the string. It sounds pretty goofy but once you started looking at it, it was hard to stop. It was like it hypnotized me.
Well the one girl is playing with it for awhile and then it stops working. The other girl tries to get it working but no luck. I finally tapped the first girl on the shoulder and asked her if I could help. She handed it to me and I tried a few things and finally got it to work again. The string was stuck inside the toy. The girl was very thankful and spoke some English so we talked about where she was from, outside Okinawa, and talked about Tokyo which I had been to. It was very nice and helped pass the time until Fantasmic started.
Another funny story while we were waiting. As I mentioned, we were sitting in the middle of the theater. A man sitting in our section but closer to the front was trying to get the wave started. The people to the left of him finally caught on and started doing it. Then the people on the right of him caught on and every time he would start the wave it would go to both the left and the right at the same time. The man tried to tell the people on the right to wait until the wave came around from the people on the left but they just didnt understand what he was saying. He must have started the wave ½ dozen times and every time it split and went both ways. The man finally gave up and sat down. Too funny!
Fantasmic was wonderful as always. I was disappointed that the big boat with all the characters doesnt come out anymore. When Fantasmic let out, MGM was closed so we drove over to Downtown Disney to do some shopping. As we were parking in DTD, DH asked me if I had the Disney Rewards gift card with over 100.00 credit on it. Nope! It was in the room in the safe. Safe from being lost. Safe from being stolen, and especially safe from being used! Darn it! So we went into World of Disney and looked around anyway deciding what we would buy when we came back.
Of course we saw tons of stuff that we wanted. Tons of stuff that we (I) needed, but not really. After filling our heads with lots of wonderful ideas we drove back to our resort and hit the hay about 11pm. The end of another great day in the World!
TFI--Now Im not sure exactly which day it was but at some point we did go back by GlendaMaxs room and hang a LGMH from her doorknob. Im sure that was a much better surprise then the lovely check out invoice found there on the last day of your trip!
Wednesday9/13
We had an 820am ADR for Cinderellas Royal Table for breakfast. We got up early and drove over to the MK. Except, when we went through the toll booth thingy at MK instead of going to the left to go into the parking lot we went to the right like we were going back to the Contemporary. We were talking and talking and all of sudden it dawned on me that we didnt go the right way!
I told DH and we both thought about it for a second and realized what wed done. So we took a left at the next stoplight which took us in front of the Polynesian. We knew where we were and where this would take us. We followed that road to the end and made another left. This is how you exit out of the MK. Then we saw a little sign that said to MK parking and we had to make a sharp left turn with little warning. There we are up on 2 wheels again! You could tell not many people used that turn as the asphalt was kind of broken up and had grass growing out of it. But at least we were now headed in the right direction!
We parked and headed to the monorail. There werent any express monorails running at this point so we had to take a resort monorail. We left the TTC without riding in the front with the pilot, again. We stopped at the Polynesian to take on passengers and waited for maybe 10 minutes. We have no idea why. But were both starting to get nervous that were going to miss our ADR. Finally the monorail starts moving again.
Next we stop at the Grand Floridian. Luckily were on our way again after just a couple of minutes. We exit at the MK and do the walk/run thing down the monorail ramp to get into the park and down Main St. We checked in right at 8:20am which is not a good thing. This is one of the few places you really need to be early.
We went inside and had to wait in line for 10-15 minutes to have our picture taken with Cinderella. The picture turned out well and one picture is already included in the price of your breakfast.
But most people would want 2-3-4 different pictures taken. One with each child, one with children only, then one with whole family. Blah, blah, blah. Were tapping our feet going come on people. Were late for our ADR.
I know we shouldnt have. We didnt get checked in early (thank you monorail!) so you take what you get. Finally we get up to Cinderella who is very nice and snap, our picture is taken and we head right upstairs.
Were immediately seated and are the last table in our section to be seated. Weve already missed some of the princesses too. But our waitress was took very good care of us and made sure that before the princess took their break that we saw the 2 we had missed. So we saw Fairy Godmother, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Belle. The food was good as always and we enjoyed our view out of the castle window into Fantasyland, except for the part of the crane that was in our way!
The crane was being used at night to dismantle the golden accessories on the castle as it was almost the end of the Happiest Celebration on Earth.
We really did enjoy our view. It was Fastasyland EMH that morning so Fantasyland was already open. We could see the characters out in Fantasyland playing with the kids who were there riding the rides. It was really cute.
We finished our breakfast and decided to start in Fantasyland, since we were already there. We walked on Peter Panfor once no 30 minute wait! Next up was Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and then Snow White.
We headed over to Frontierland and rode Splash Mountain twice and then rode Big Thunder Mountain. DH rode TM twice and I rode once. From there we went to Pirates and waited about 5 minutes to get on. No flashes going on this time thank goodness!
Inside Splash Mountain.
When we got off Pirates, Captain Hook and Smee were out for photo ops so we had the nice character handler take our picture. She took a crooked picture that makes us look like were on a ship that is rolling in rough seas. Very appropriate for Captain Hook!
At some point in here we stopped to get a Dole Whip. I had heard a lot of people raving about how good they were on the Dis so we wanted to try it. But wait, theres no line. Is that a good thing? No! The stand isnt open yet. Well we would be the first ones in line then. But how long until they open? Were wasting precious ride time here!
So we walked over to a nearby souvenir cart and asked the CM there if he knew when it opened. He didnt but said he could call to find out. By the time he finally found the number and got through to someone, we looked over and the window had just opened up and there were already 5-6 people in line! Where the heck did all those people come from? Were they hiding in the bushes waiting for the counter to open? Darn it!
So we got in line and bought our whips. We werent first but we got one and that was all that mattered! They were very refreshing and yummy. We just the whips this time but will try the floats on our next visit!
We caught Captain Jacks Pirate Instruction show which was very cute. Jack was a dead ringer for Captain Jack in the movies. His side kick was very funny too. As the show was ending a woman walked up to me and asked me if I was on the Dis boards. I said yes and she said she was MickNPluto. She didnt have any LGMHs with her but I gave her one of mine. She and her family were very nice. As they were walking away, I thought I heard that infamous lineSee, Im not crazy! There are other people on the Dis too! Too funny!
Next up was the Haunted Mansion. It was a walk on too. After that we were starting to get hungry again. Weve had good luck at Columbia Harbor House on 2 previous trips so we decided to go there again. I had the veggie roll, which Ive had before, but it was terrible this time. DH had the tuna salad sandwich which he said was just ok. Chips came as the side with both and then the only dessert they had was a prepackaged chocolate cake that was terrible. This lunch sucked! Thank goodness it was free with the dining plan or I would have been very upset.
We decided to head over to Tomorrowland. We dont normally spend much if any time hereI know, were weird, but thought wed do something different this time. We did the Tomorrowland Transit Authority which we hadnt done in years. I dont remember every doing it but DH says we have ridden it before.
From there we went to Buzz Lightyears Space Ranger Spin. Weve never tried this before either. Anything that has spin in it, I avoid. I cant ride things that spin around, like the Carrousel in Fantasyland. But I had read so much about Buzz on the Dis boards that I wanted to check it out.
I asked the CM loading us in if the ride spun around and he explained that we were in control of the spinning and it was mainly to be able to hit the targets on both sides of the ride. So we rode it. I was on the left and DH was on the right. I had a terrible score but DH did pretty well. We got off and got right back onyea baby! And this time DH sat on the left and I sat on the right. I got the good score this time baby! Next time I think well try to each have our own car, if its not crowded, and that way we can both be on the right.
DH rode Space Mountain next. I can ride this but it is so rough that it tends to get my motion sickness going. So I took pictures and fought off the love bugs and waited for him.
Next up was snack time so we used some of our snack credits to get FREE popcorn and fresh water and walked over to Fantasyland so DH could do the Teacups. Me, I ate popcorn and swatted love bugs off of me. No spinning for me!
We headed down to Toontown next to buy our Mr. Potato Head and parts. What a deal! $18.00 and you get the head and as many pieces parts as you can cram into Mr. Potato Heads butt and into the box. A friend told us about this and we were very excited to buy our first one. Luckily a very nice CM helped us load up the box and butt so we could get all our pieces parts in it.
OTIve read that we should buy the actually potato head at Wal-mart and then stuff the box at DW with the pieces. We werent positive we were going to get into the whole potato head thing so we didnt prebuy anything at Wallyworld. TFII do have a Ms. Potato Head on my desk at work. My co-workers already know that Im crazy so they dont think anything of it!
Back on topic--we decided to take the train back to Frontierland and see how long the wait was for Jungle Cruise. I know, its in Adventureland. But you have to get off the train where you can! We checked on the Jungle Cruise at various times that day and it was always a 30 minute wait with long lines every time and the FP machines werent operating that day. We wanted to check it one more time before leaving for the day.
DH is into model trains so he loves riding on them. After waiting for about 10 minutes for a train and then boarding it, we all had to get off and walk as the train was broken! The brakes were locked up on it.
We were kind of tired at this point so we slowly walked over to Frontierland. The new Dreams Come True parade was getting ready to start. So we stayed to watch it and see what they had changed instead of riding Jungle Cruise.
The parade was still very good and I got lots of pictures. When it ended in Frontierland we were able to wind our way through the park and the shops on Main St. and managed to exit the park before the parade got to the front end of Main St.
We exited the park without a crowd and took the monorail back to the parking lots and played find the car again! We headed for home to nap and freshen up.
Well we had one more surprise when we got back to our room. Number 3 in our little towel family:
So here is the whole gang:
We had an 820am ADR for Cinderellas Royal Table for breakfast. We got up early and drove over to the MK. Except, when we went through the toll booth thingy at MK instead of going to the left to go into the parking lot we went to the right like we were going back to the Contemporary. We were talking and talking and all of sudden it dawned on me that we didnt go the right way!
I told DH and we both thought about it for a second and realized what wed done. So we took a left at the next stoplight which took us in front of the Polynesian. We knew where we were and where this would take us. We followed that road to the end and made another left. This is how you exit out of the MK. Then we saw a little sign that said to MK parking and we had to make a sharp left turn with little warning. There we are up on 2 wheels again! You could tell not many people used that turn as the asphalt was kind of broken up and had grass growing out of it. But at least we were now headed in the right direction!
We parked and headed to the monorail. There werent any express monorails running at this point so we had to take a resort monorail. We left the TTC without riding in the front with the pilot, again. We stopped at the Polynesian to take on passengers and waited for maybe 10 minutes. We have no idea why. But were both starting to get nervous that were going to miss our ADR. Finally the monorail starts moving again.
Next we stop at the Grand Floridian. Luckily were on our way again after just a couple of minutes. We exit at the MK and do the walk/run thing down the monorail ramp to get into the park and down Main St. We checked in right at 8:20am which is not a good thing. This is one of the few places you really need to be early.
We went inside and had to wait in line for 10-15 minutes to have our picture taken with Cinderella. The picture turned out well and one picture is already included in the price of your breakfast.
But most people would want 2-3-4 different pictures taken. One with each child, one with children only, then one with whole family. Blah, blah, blah. Were tapping our feet going come on people. Were late for our ADR.
I know we shouldnt have. We didnt get checked in early (thank you monorail!) so you take what you get. Finally we get up to Cinderella who is very nice and snap, our picture is taken and we head right upstairs.
Were immediately seated and are the last table in our section to be seated. Weve already missed some of the princesses too. But our waitress was took very good care of us and made sure that before the princess took their break that we saw the 2 we had missed. So we saw Fairy Godmother, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Belle. The food was good as always and we enjoyed our view out of the castle window into Fantasyland, except for the part of the crane that was in our way!
The crane was being used at night to dismantle the golden accessories on the castle as it was almost the end of the Happiest Celebration on Earth.
We really did enjoy our view. It was Fastasyland EMH that morning so Fantasyland was already open. We could see the characters out in Fantasyland playing with the kids who were there riding the rides. It was really cute.
We finished our breakfast and decided to start in Fantasyland, since we were already there. We walked on Peter Panfor once no 30 minute wait! Next up was Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and then Snow White.
We headed over to Frontierland and rode Splash Mountain twice and then rode Big Thunder Mountain. DH rode TM twice and I rode once. From there we went to Pirates and waited about 5 minutes to get on. No flashes going on this time thank goodness!
When we got off Pirates, Captain Hook and Smee were out for photo ops so we had the nice character handler take our picture. She took a crooked picture that makes us look like were on a ship that is rolling in rough seas. Very appropriate for Captain Hook!
At some point in here we stopped to get a Dole Whip. I had heard a lot of people raving about how good they were on the Dis so we wanted to try it. But wait, theres no line. Is that a good thing? No! The stand isnt open yet. Well we would be the first ones in line then. But how long until they open? Were wasting precious ride time here!
So we walked over to a nearby souvenir cart and asked the CM there if he knew when it opened. He didnt but said he could call to find out. By the time he finally found the number and got through to someone, we looked over and the window had just opened up and there were already 5-6 people in line! Where the heck did all those people come from? Were they hiding in the bushes waiting for the counter to open? Darn it!
So we got in line and bought our whips. We werent first but we got one and that was all that mattered! They were very refreshing and yummy. We just the whips this time but will try the floats on our next visit!
We caught Captain Jacks Pirate Instruction show which was very cute. Jack was a dead ringer for Captain Jack in the movies. His side kick was very funny too. As the show was ending a woman walked up to me and asked me if I was on the Dis boards. I said yes and she said she was MickNPluto. She didnt have any LGMHs with her but I gave her one of mine. She and her family were very nice. As they were walking away, I thought I heard that infamous lineSee, Im not crazy! There are other people on the Dis too! Too funny!
Next up was the Haunted Mansion. It was a walk on too. After that we were starting to get hungry again. Weve had good luck at Columbia Harbor House on 2 previous trips so we decided to go there again. I had the veggie roll, which Ive had before, but it was terrible this time. DH had the tuna salad sandwich which he said was just ok. Chips came as the side with both and then the only dessert they had was a prepackaged chocolate cake that was terrible. This lunch sucked! Thank goodness it was free with the dining plan or I would have been very upset.
We decided to head over to Tomorrowland. We dont normally spend much if any time hereI know, were weird, but thought wed do something different this time. We did the Tomorrowland Transit Authority which we hadnt done in years. I dont remember every doing it but DH says we have ridden it before.
From there we went to Buzz Lightyears Space Ranger Spin. Weve never tried this before either. Anything that has spin in it, I avoid. I cant ride things that spin around, like the Carrousel in Fantasyland. But I had read so much about Buzz on the Dis boards that I wanted to check it out.
I asked the CM loading us in if the ride spun around and he explained that we were in control of the spinning and it was mainly to be able to hit the targets on both sides of the ride. So we rode it. I was on the left and DH was on the right. I had a terrible score but DH did pretty well. We got off and got right back onyea baby! And this time DH sat on the left and I sat on the right. I got the good score this time baby! Next time I think well try to each have our own car, if its not crowded, and that way we can both be on the right.
DH rode Space Mountain next. I can ride this but it is so rough that it tends to get my motion sickness going. So I took pictures and fought off the love bugs and waited for him.
Next up was snack time so we used some of our snack credits to get FREE popcorn and fresh water and walked over to Fantasyland so DH could do the Teacups. Me, I ate popcorn and swatted love bugs off of me. No spinning for me!
We headed down to Toontown next to buy our Mr. Potato Head and parts. What a deal! $18.00 and you get the head and as many pieces parts as you can cram into Mr. Potato Heads butt and into the box. A friend told us about this and we were very excited to buy our first one. Luckily a very nice CM helped us load up the box and butt so we could get all our pieces parts in it.
OTIve read that we should buy the actually potato head at Wal-mart and then stuff the box at DW with the pieces. We werent positive we were going to get into the whole potato head thing so we didnt prebuy anything at Wallyworld. TFII do have a Ms. Potato Head on my desk at work. My co-workers already know that Im crazy so they dont think anything of it!
Back on topic--we decided to take the train back to Frontierland and see how long the wait was for Jungle Cruise. I know, its in Adventureland. But you have to get off the train where you can! We checked on the Jungle Cruise at various times that day and it was always a 30 minute wait with long lines every time and the FP machines werent operating that day. We wanted to check it one more time before leaving for the day.
DH is into model trains so he loves riding on them. After waiting for about 10 minutes for a train and then boarding it, we all had to get off and walk as the train was broken! The brakes were locked up on it.
We were kind of tired at this point so we slowly walked over to Frontierland. The new Dreams Come True parade was getting ready to start. So we stayed to watch it and see what they had changed instead of riding Jungle Cruise.
The parade was still very good and I got lots of pictures. When it ended in Frontierland we were able to wind our way through the park and the shops on Main St. and managed to exit the park before the parade got to the front end of Main St.
We exited the park without a crowd and took the monorail back to the parking lots and played find the car again! We headed for home to nap and freshen up.
Well we had one more surprise when we got back to our room. Number 3 in our little towel family:
So here is the whole gang:
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Adi12982 said:
I think you are right. We could tell we had 2 different people. One would leave a towel animal each time they came. The other--no towel animals but our beds would be made and then turned down for us and we would have lots of extra towels and wash clothes. So they were both good but towel animals were much more fun!
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Scrap4u - I am loving your trip report. Love the phots too. It's good to see that you go to character meals without children! I am going next year with a friend and no kids, and want to do one or two character meals, but didn't want to feel like the "odd one's out"! I guess that is why Disney is for everyone!!!
Thanks for the report, and I look forward to reading more.
Heather
Thanks for the report, and I look forward to reading more.
Heather
hjd0411 said:
Goodday HJD0411! So glad you're enjoying the report.
We do a bunch of character meals just the 2 of us. It felt strange the very first time but once we remembered we're just big kids anyway, it didn't make any difference at all.
I hope you have a great time when you come next year!
I have been down under before but didn't make it to Brisbane. I'm sure it's lovely as I loved everywhere we visited--Sydney, Melbourne, and Cairns!
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IT'S ME! IT'S ME!scrap4u said:
I can't believe that we were at the same park on the same day, at the same time, and EVEN ate at the same place and did NOT see each other! While you were taking a break at the pool, we took our break in the room! Man, this is worse than a "Three's Company" episode!
When you took this picture below, I was to your left, sitting on the curb!
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A sure sign of what was coming!
See Look . . .
Glendamax said:[We were so comfortable, and I was excited because we were in a great area. Well, as we waited, the sky got dark . . .
After it rained we went over to Pirates, then to Haunted Mansion, then we watched Wishes! Sound familiar? Wow, this really is 2 ships passing in the night!
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Excellent.
Madsofa said:We have ADR's for CRT - dinner and H & V with Fantasmic! Your pictures, once again, are great! Thanks sooo much for sharing and providing insights!
Morning Madsofa! We've never done dinner at CRT or eaten at all at H&V. I can't wait to hear what you think of both of them!
Thanks for your kind comments! They are much appreciated!
Glendamax said:IT'S ME! IT'S ME!
I can't believe that we were at the same park on the same day, at the same time, and EVEN ate at the same place and did NOT see each other! While you were taking a break at the pool, we took our break in the room! Man, this is worse than a "Three's Company" episode!
Hey Gmax!!! I felt the exact same way when I read your trip report. Almost everything you said you and your mom did--we had done on the same day. We must have been following each other around the parks but never passing each other.
I was on the look out for you but just never saw you!Now that we you know what I look like--if we happen to be in the parks at the same time again, we'll both be on the lookout for each other.
Next we had a 6pm ADR at Restaurant Marrakesh. Wed had lunch here before a few times and loved it! So this trip we decided to try dinner too.
We drove over to Epcot and the park seemed pretty crowded. We walked around World Showcase entering from the France side. As we got over to Morocco we saw that MoRockin was playing. These guys and gal are great to watch and listen to! We stopped and watched the end of their show and then checked in for our ADR.
We got an ok table that was in the middle of an aisle. Not a great location but the restaurant was very busy. I dont remember much about our waiter except that he was busy and his name was Youssef!
We ordered and DH got the Chicken Bastilla and I had the Beef Brewat rolls for appetizers. We love them both and were able to share the two appetizers so we each got some of both.
For our entrees DH ordered the Night in Casablanca which was Lamb, Chicken Kebab and Seafood Bastilla. He said it was pretty good. I ordered the Chicken Kabobs but instead was served the Shish Kebab which was beef.
The waiter offered to go get the chicken for me instead but I told him the beef would be fine. Plus I didnt want to have wait for my entrée to come out. DH is a fast eater and hed have been finished before I ever got mine!
Usually I like beef kebobs so no problem, right. Nope! They werent very good at all. I should have waited for the chicken. We both got the Moroccan Symphony for dessert which was 3 different types of Baklava type pastries. At least it was another free meal. If I had been paying for it, I would have complained about the beef kabobs for sure!
We noticed that a few people at another large table got the wrong entrees delivered to them too. Dont know what was going on in the kitchen but someone was confused somewhere. I dont think well go back there for dinner again but well still go there for lunch.
After dinner we walked over to France and I got my glass of champagne.
I don't think I have my pinkie out! What a faux pas! Merde!
Then we headed to Canada to hear Off Kilter play. As I mentioned before, I love me some men in kilts!
My cousin S called during the show and said he and his fiancé, K2, were in the park and wanted to meet us near the Rose and Crown. They wanted to drink some beer there but for some reason they had entered World Showcase from the Mexico side.
So we left Off Kilter ( I never did get to see their entire set this trip!) and started walking back through World Showcase. We stopped back in France and I got a glass of wine this time.
We walked on and ran into S and K2 somewhere along the Showcase. It was pretty dark by the time we found them so Im surprised we didnt walk right past them.
We headed to Rose and Crown and stood around inside while they drank their beer and we all caught up with each other. DH and I had never been inside this restaurant/bar before. It is very atmospheric and British. We liked it.
We went outside right before Illuminations started and it had started to rain again. Nothing really heavy but enough to get you wet. We saw Illuminations from the UK and then went back to Rose and Crown for them to drink some more beer and have a few shots. I dont know how they got up and went to work the next day! I was tipsy from a 1/2 glass of champagne and a 1/2 glass of wine on a full stomach! I'm a light-weight though.
Then we walked over to Mouse Gear and picked up a few things. We started looking at the Mr. Potato Head parts to see what they had that we hadnt already found.
Well they had a number of pieces/parts that we wanted. At $2.00 a piece it was cheaper for us to buy another box for $18.00. So we did and got a second Mr. Potato Head body.
I told DH wed have one at home and I would have one on my desk at work. And he fell for it!
He was as into this as I was, helping me find parts and helping me cram everything into the box and Mr. Potato Head's butt!
We gave my cousin and his fiancée an education in Mr. Potato Heads as they didnt know anything about them. They agreed with us that it was a pretty good deal.
We headed out of the park and said goodbye to S and K2. I was a bit sad as this was the only time wed end up seeing them this trip.
We walked to the car and headed back to POFQ for some sweet Mickey dreams.
We drove over to Epcot and the park seemed pretty crowded. We walked around World Showcase entering from the France side. As we got over to Morocco we saw that MoRockin was playing. These guys and gal are great to watch and listen to! We stopped and watched the end of their show and then checked in for our ADR.
We got an ok table that was in the middle of an aisle. Not a great location but the restaurant was very busy. I dont remember much about our waiter except that he was busy and his name was Youssef!
We ordered and DH got the Chicken Bastilla and I had the Beef Brewat rolls for appetizers. We love them both and were able to share the two appetizers so we each got some of both.
For our entrees DH ordered the Night in Casablanca which was Lamb, Chicken Kebab and Seafood Bastilla. He said it was pretty good. I ordered the Chicken Kabobs but instead was served the Shish Kebab which was beef.
The waiter offered to go get the chicken for me instead but I told him the beef would be fine. Plus I didnt want to have wait for my entrée to come out. DH is a fast eater and hed have been finished before I ever got mine!
Usually I like beef kebobs so no problem, right. Nope! They werent very good at all. I should have waited for the chicken. We both got the Moroccan Symphony for dessert which was 3 different types of Baklava type pastries. At least it was another free meal. If I had been paying for it, I would have complained about the beef kabobs for sure!
We noticed that a few people at another large table got the wrong entrees delivered to them too. Dont know what was going on in the kitchen but someone was confused somewhere. I dont think well go back there for dinner again but well still go there for lunch.
After dinner we walked over to France and I got my glass of champagne.
I don't think I have my pinkie out! What a faux pas! Merde!
Then we headed to Canada to hear Off Kilter play. As I mentioned before, I love me some men in kilts!
My cousin S called during the show and said he and his fiancé, K2, were in the park and wanted to meet us near the Rose and Crown. They wanted to drink some beer there but for some reason they had entered World Showcase from the Mexico side.
So we left Off Kilter ( I never did get to see their entire set this trip!) and started walking back through World Showcase. We stopped back in France and I got a glass of wine this time.
We walked on and ran into S and K2 somewhere along the Showcase. It was pretty dark by the time we found them so Im surprised we didnt walk right past them.
We headed to Rose and Crown and stood around inside while they drank their beer and we all caught up with each other. DH and I had never been inside this restaurant/bar before. It is very atmospheric and British. We liked it.
We went outside right before Illuminations started and it had started to rain again. Nothing really heavy but enough to get you wet. We saw Illuminations from the UK and then went back to Rose and Crown for them to drink some more beer and have a few shots. I dont know how they got up and went to work the next day! I was tipsy from a 1/2 glass of champagne and a 1/2 glass of wine on a full stomach! I'm a light-weight though.
Then we walked over to Mouse Gear and picked up a few things. We started looking at the Mr. Potato Head parts to see what they had that we hadnt already found.
Well they had a number of pieces/parts that we wanted. At $2.00 a piece it was cheaper for us to buy another box for $18.00. So we did and got a second Mr. Potato Head body.
I told DH wed have one at home and I would have one on my desk at work. And he fell for it!
He was as into this as I was, helping me find parts and helping me cram everything into the box and Mr. Potato Head's butt! We gave my cousin and his fiancée an education in Mr. Potato Heads as they didnt know anything about them. They agreed with us that it was a pretty good deal.
We headed out of the park and said goodbye to S and K2. I was a bit sad as this was the only time wed end up seeing them this trip.
We walked to the car and headed back to POFQ for some sweet Mickey dreams.
Thursday 9/14
This morning I had nothing planned for breakfast again but DH wanted to go back to Boma. I was able to get a 9am ADR for breakfast so we drove over to AKL again. No wait for our table this time either. We had a wonderful waiter named Albert. He was so nice, had an upbeat attitude, friendly and took really good care of us! We tipped him well! We enjoyed our buffet there yet again and tried not to over-stuff ourselves. It didnt work! The food is just too darn good!
We left AKL and drove to AK.
We walked on EE again. I went in with DH so I could see the preshow and then took the chicken exit. I have ridden this ride before but didnt want to ride it right after breakfast. It would be barf city for me if I did!
We walked onto Dinosaur. More fun! We walked over to the Safari again and had about a 5 minute wait. This time, we were in the very last row of the ride vehicle. I dont think weve ever ridden in the back before. This driver wasnt quite as nice in that he didnt slow down as much for picture taking.
I still got some more good shots of the lions. This time the cheetah was out but I missed the picture because the driver was going so fast! Dadgummit! I swear the driver speeded up as we came to the cheetah/leopard. It was very bumpy in the back and by the time we got off the ride both DH and I were feeling kind of sick. And it takes a lot to make DH get motion sick! You can be sure we wont ride in the very back again!
We did have some sprinkles off and on while here but not enough to have to put our ponchos on. We walked back over to Dinoland and got more Mr. Potato Head parts. They sold them to us individually which was nice as there were only a few pieces we wanted. Our day was done here so he headed out of the park and drove over to MGM.
We got to MGM about 1145am. We managed to make a show of Beauty and the Beast. We were on the far left side of the theatre and the fan on that side up in the rafters was broken. We sweltered through that show! We left there and headed over to see the Indiana Jones show. DH really likes that one. Lights Motor Action was closed this day so we didnt get to see it this trip.
We headed over to Mama Melroses for lunch. We didnt have an ADR but were seated in about 5 minutes. There is long walkway to get to the back of the restaurant and the hostess wanted to seat us at one of two 2 top tables stuck along the wall on this long dark hallway.
You may have guessed by now that I wont accept a bad table, so I said Im sorry, but there has to be a better table then this available. I had seen tons of empty tables on the way to this dark dingy table. She got a little huffy but finally took us into the completely, totally empty back dining room and seated us at a 4 top table.
Fine, whatever. Luckily our waitress Jen was very nice and seemed happy to be waiting on us. We were the only table she had at this point. We had the Bruschetta as an appetizer, we each had a Caesar salad and we split the Vine-ripened tomato flat bread. It was all very good. We skipped dessert there and paid for this meal.
From Mamas we walked into Muppets 3D. We checked for the key under the mat and it was there. But for some reason, I didnt think to take a picture of it. The heat must have gone to my head! We walked right into the theatre and it was only ½ full for this show.
After Muppets we headed over to the shop that has the Mr. Potato Heads at MGM and bought a few more pieces parts. While in this store, a huge thunderstorm rolled in. Lots of lightening and thunder and very heavy rain. We hung out in the store and looked at all the kids stuff in there and waited the storm out. It was over within 30 minutes. Once the rain was pretty much over, we headed back to the tram to go back to our car. Back to our resort for a nap and to clean up.
You can see that naps are very important part of our trip. Weve learned that if we dont take an afternoon nap, between 45 minutes and 2 hours, then we are extremely tired and grumpy in the evening. No one likes to be grumpy at Disney so we take a nap.
This morning I had nothing planned for breakfast again but DH wanted to go back to Boma. I was able to get a 9am ADR for breakfast so we drove over to AKL again. No wait for our table this time either. We had a wonderful waiter named Albert. He was so nice, had an upbeat attitude, friendly and took really good care of us! We tipped him well! We enjoyed our buffet there yet again and tried not to over-stuff ourselves. It didnt work! The food is just too darn good!
We left AKL and drove to AK.
We walked on EE again. I went in with DH so I could see the preshow and then took the chicken exit. I have ridden this ride before but didnt want to ride it right after breakfast. It would be barf city for me if I did!
We walked onto Dinosaur. More fun! We walked over to the Safari again and had about a 5 minute wait. This time, we were in the very last row of the ride vehicle. I dont think weve ever ridden in the back before. This driver wasnt quite as nice in that he didnt slow down as much for picture taking.
I still got some more good shots of the lions. This time the cheetah was out but I missed the picture because the driver was going so fast! Dadgummit! I swear the driver speeded up as we came to the cheetah/leopard. It was very bumpy in the back and by the time we got off the ride both DH and I were feeling kind of sick. And it takes a lot to make DH get motion sick! You can be sure we wont ride in the very back again!
We did have some sprinkles off and on while here but not enough to have to put our ponchos on. We walked back over to Dinoland and got more Mr. Potato Head parts. They sold them to us individually which was nice as there were only a few pieces we wanted. Our day was done here so he headed out of the park and drove over to MGM.
We got to MGM about 1145am. We managed to make a show of Beauty and the Beast. We were on the far left side of the theatre and the fan on that side up in the rafters was broken. We sweltered through that show! We left there and headed over to see the Indiana Jones show. DH really likes that one. Lights Motor Action was closed this day so we didnt get to see it this trip.
We headed over to Mama Melroses for lunch. We didnt have an ADR but were seated in about 5 minutes. There is long walkway to get to the back of the restaurant and the hostess wanted to seat us at one of two 2 top tables stuck along the wall on this long dark hallway.
You may have guessed by now that I wont accept a bad table, so I said Im sorry, but there has to be a better table then this available. I had seen tons of empty tables on the way to this dark dingy table. She got a little huffy but finally took us into the completely, totally empty back dining room and seated us at a 4 top table.
Fine, whatever. Luckily our waitress Jen was very nice and seemed happy to be waiting on us. We were the only table she had at this point. We had the Bruschetta as an appetizer, we each had a Caesar salad and we split the Vine-ripened tomato flat bread. It was all very good. We skipped dessert there and paid for this meal.
From Mamas we walked into Muppets 3D. We checked for the key under the mat and it was there. But for some reason, I didnt think to take a picture of it. The heat must have gone to my head! We walked right into the theatre and it was only ½ full for this show.
After Muppets we headed over to the shop that has the Mr. Potato Heads at MGM and bought a few more pieces parts. While in this store, a huge thunderstorm rolled in. Lots of lightening and thunder and very heavy rain. We hung out in the store and looked at all the kids stuff in there and waited the storm out. It was over within 30 minutes. Once the rain was pretty much over, we headed back to the tram to go back to our car. Back to our resort for a nap and to clean up.
You can see that naps are very important part of our trip. Weve learned that if we dont take an afternoon nap, between 45 minutes and 2 hours, then we are extremely tired and grumpy in the evening. No one likes to be grumpy at Disney so we take a nap.
Tonight we had a 530p ADR at Le Cellier. We drove over to Epcot. Again the park felt crowded as compared to during the day. Le Cellier was very crowded. We checked in about 505p. We were early and the hostess suggested we go see the movie in Canada. I told her sorry, I cant do big screen movies or I get motion sick. Well just wait right here within your sight, thank you very much! We were beeped for a table within 10 minutes.
We had a fairly nice waiter named JohnW. I explained to John that wed had a very bad experience at Le Cellier when we ate here in May. Food not great, screaming kids and parents playing games and running around. He said he hoped it would be a better experience this time.
He told us all about the breadsticks and which parts of Canada they come fromthe regular spiel. DH had some kind of salmon/crab appetizer and I had the Caesar salad. DH had the NY strip and I had the 7oz Filet for our entrees. It was much better then last time but it still didnt compare to the steaks at the Yachtsman. Sorrydont mean to offend all you Le Cellier lovers!
For dessert DH had the Chocolate Whiskey cake and I had the crème brulee combo. They were yummy. Thankfully this trip there werent any terribly behaved families. So overall the meal was enjoyable. Especially the part where we didnt have to pay. Love that free dining!
We headed out to see Off Kilter again and who do we run into but SoRUL8 and her family. They were quite nice and chatted with us awhile. They had just arrived that morning. Off Kilter finished up and we headed back to our car.
We drove over to the MK to try and catch a full Spectro Magic parade. There were a lot of dark black clouds over the MK but we hoped the rain would hold off. We went to Liberty Square to watch it and thank goodness it didnt rain and cut it short again. I got a lot of good pictures of this too. Here is one of the scary clowns that UtahMama doesn't like:
When Spectro finished up we headed over to the hub in front of the Castle to get a spot to see Wishes.
We managed to get a spot in the hub right on the street. We sat ourselves down to rest and wait for Wishes to start. As it got closer to 9pm, we did finally stand up. A very nice lady next to me was using her camcorder and zooming in on where Tinkerbell comes out of the castle. I was zooming in with my digital camera too. But I forgot that Wishes actually starts for a few minutes before she flies out and I missed her yet again. Dag-gone it!
Wishes was excellent as always and I did get some great shots of the fireworks.
After Wishes finished up we sat down to wait for the crowds to clear out. We grabbed seats on a bench right in the hub and watched the changing colors on the castle and watched some teenagers near us taking pictures of each other. It was very sweet. It would have been a perfect moment for a few kissesbut DH and I were both too hot and sweaty for that!
We went back to the Plaza Ice Cream Parlor and used some more snack credits to got ice cream one more time. We walked and ate it this time and then headed over to the monorail.
We drove back to POFQ and got back about 1030pm. Neither of us mentioned the fact that tomorrow was our last full day at Disney. Maybe if we ignore it we won't have to go home! Yeah! That's it! If only it really worked that way, we'd never go home!
We did a lot in one day and it wasnt really that late. But we were exhausted and went right to sleep.
We had a fairly nice waiter named JohnW. I explained to John that wed had a very bad experience at Le Cellier when we ate here in May. Food not great, screaming kids and parents playing games and running around. He said he hoped it would be a better experience this time.
He told us all about the breadsticks and which parts of Canada they come fromthe regular spiel. DH had some kind of salmon/crab appetizer and I had the Caesar salad. DH had the NY strip and I had the 7oz Filet for our entrees. It was much better then last time but it still didnt compare to the steaks at the Yachtsman. Sorrydont mean to offend all you Le Cellier lovers!
For dessert DH had the Chocolate Whiskey cake and I had the crème brulee combo. They were yummy. Thankfully this trip there werent any terribly behaved families. So overall the meal was enjoyable. Especially the part where we didnt have to pay. Love that free dining!
We headed out to see Off Kilter again and who do we run into but SoRUL8 and her family. They were quite nice and chatted with us awhile. They had just arrived that morning. Off Kilter finished up and we headed back to our car.
We drove over to the MK to try and catch a full Spectro Magic parade. There were a lot of dark black clouds over the MK but we hoped the rain would hold off. We went to Liberty Square to watch it and thank goodness it didnt rain and cut it short again. I got a lot of good pictures of this too. Here is one of the scary clowns that UtahMama doesn't like:
When Spectro finished up we headed over to the hub in front of the Castle to get a spot to see Wishes.
We managed to get a spot in the hub right on the street. We sat ourselves down to rest and wait for Wishes to start. As it got closer to 9pm, we did finally stand up. A very nice lady next to me was using her camcorder and zooming in on where Tinkerbell comes out of the castle. I was zooming in with my digital camera too. But I forgot that Wishes actually starts for a few minutes before she flies out and I missed her yet again. Dag-gone it!
Wishes was excellent as always and I did get some great shots of the fireworks.
After Wishes finished up we sat down to wait for the crowds to clear out. We grabbed seats on a bench right in the hub and watched the changing colors on the castle and watched some teenagers near us taking pictures of each other. It was very sweet. It would have been a perfect moment for a few kissesbut DH and I were both too hot and sweaty for that!
We went back to the Plaza Ice Cream Parlor and used some more snack credits to got ice cream one more time. We walked and ate it this time and then headed over to the monorail.
We drove back to POFQ and got back about 1030pm. Neither of us mentioned the fact that tomorrow was our last full day at Disney. Maybe if we ignore it we won't have to go home! Yeah! That's it! If only it really worked that way, we'd never go home!
We did a lot in one day and it wasnt really that late. But we were exhausted and went right to sleep.
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