Day 10: Saturday, October 20, 2007:
It's the last day of the trip. Cue the violins.
We were going to have breakfast at the Yacht Club Galley (now called Captain's Grille), then I would show my Mom, sister and Sharon the Magic Kingdom area resorts. Who knew that there would be such a long wait for breakfast? The restaurant didn't even have a lot of people in it, and we had to wait about 30 minutes to get in.
What's for breakfast? Well, you won't get any pictures, but we all had the buffet, along with a pot of the swill that passes for coffee. I like the buffet at this place, but I seem to remember that they used to have a Japanese breakfast. I don't recall seeing it there now. The best part of the buffet were the blintzes. When a new batch was about to come out, a herd of us were moo'ing around the buffet waiting for them to be served. We did the same for the chocolate croissants, too.
The buffet had your basics, with eggs, a frittata, breakfast potatoes that were
not hash browns. I have issues with hash browns. Most places don't seem to crisp them up enough for me, so they are almost raw potatoes inside. Blecch. Breakfast potatoes are usually diced/cubed/wedged, mixed with onions and/or peppers. I like those way more than hash browns.
Ahem. And there were the usual items like Mickey waffles, pancakes, pastries. And those cheese blintzes I liked very much! There were bagels with lox, but I thought the lox looked like it had been sitting around for a few days. Just not appealing visually enough for me.
If I didn't order the buffet, I really wanted to try the crab cakes benedict. I just like having a smorgasbord of choices. Cari likes to call it a "smorgie" for short. She and my mom are also big "smorgie" fans, so it must run in the family.
Now, about our server...what can I say...
The server we had was a bit of an oddball. He seemed to be trying to be funny, but it came across as stilted and just plain odd. It's like someone you know who tries to say something funny, but it comes out like a non-sequitor. You could almost hear crickets chirping after his attempts of witty banter.
Well, since we had a large breakfast, we were not going to need another meal, but we definitely wanted something to eat at the airport. So we had sandwiches from the Beach Club Marketplace. I am stodgy. I always get the roast beef with brie, and today was no exception. It was way better than anything I could have gotten at the airport, and I was really happy to have that while I was waiting at the gate. The sandwich was enough to get me through the flight without being hungry.
I guess I can do a summary next to recap! Hope you all enjoyed my food report, blurry pics notwithstanding.
I saw the "face" in the peanut butter after I posted, and leave it to you to find it. Although I thought it was more like a fedora than a QE hat. A very strange fedora.
I think I compare too much to PFTS! Your Winemakers Dinner looks great! I hope you will do reports on it all!
Yeah, I'm a food hypocrite.
I was mostly surprised at how much I enjoyed the Signature Dinner at California Grill. I'm a meat eater who enjoyed a vegetarian menu. Of course, the fish course helped, but if I didn't have the fish, I still would have enjoyed it.
