Mike & Suzy's Honeymoon Photo Filled Food Adventure

[familyS]

Great start, looking forward to reading and seeing more

 

[plutosgirl]

Can't wait to hear more!!! YES YES YES!!

 

[disneyquilter]

Congratulations!!

I am totally on board for food porn

 

[mom2fivecs]

Great review and pictures so far....Congratulations as well. Looking forward to more.

 

[Momof2princess]

Great Start!!! Can't wait to read your reviews.

 

[libinatorsmom]

OH I WANT MORE!!!!!!!!!! LOL Bring it on...

Congrats on the Marriage!!!!!

 

[MikeR]

Mike and Suzy overslept a little bit and had to hurry through the dark to get to Epcot and make it to their reservation on time;

They arrived at Restaurant Marrakesh, and were shocked, shocked, that it was packed on New Year’s Eve;

They were about a half hour late for their reservation, but the receptionist didn’t even comment on it and just told them to wait over there. At least the architecture was pretty to look at;

It was loud and busy, but time passed as it has a tendency to do, and Mike and Suzy were soon seated and enjoyed a very tasty Moroccan tea;

The servers were dressed in beautiful Moroccan outfits and were quite helpful in making various recommendations;

Mike and Suzy decided to split an order of Couscous, seasonal vegetables, and a Lamb Shank

It was tasty and filling, but a little fatty. The couscous went especially well with the Moroccan wine.

As is their want, Mike and Suzy received a free desert of Bastilla - crispy leaves of pastry topped with vanilla cream and sprinkled with toasted almonds;

The restaurant had entertainment throughout Mike and Suzy’s. They had belly dancing;

Which Mike along with some other tourists tried to learn, failing miserably;

And they had some Moroccan music played on an instrument which the author cannot remember the name of. Does anyone know what this is?

After they left there was an impromptu dancing by a tourist out in the street

But Suzy refused to join in with that and instead preferred to save her dancing for the solemn dignity that only a stall selling bells can provide;

All in all, Mike and Suzy have eaten at better Moroccan restaurants. The scenery was very nice, but the food could have been improved upon. Still, it was a fun place to have their last meal of 2007.

 

[MikeR]

The New Year was fast approaching, so Mike and Suzy began to get their drink on with a quick trip to the Rose & Crown Pub.

Mike got a Strongbow Hard Cider while Suzy got a Guinness. You may not be able to see it, but there is a “2008” printed on the foam in this drink;

The hard cider was the hit of the night, and both Mike and Suzy ordered a Woodpecker cider and some more Strongbow cider over the next few hours. They tried to keep their drinking under control as they passed by the Ghost of Hangovers yet to come being wheeled out in a kiddy-stroller;

After watching some fireworks, and welcoming in 2008, Mike and Suzy went back to the Rose and Crown and came across the coolest T-shirts in the World. This group was doing a Drink-Around-The-World-Tour of Epcot’s World Showcase and some of their members didn’t show up;

So Mike and Suzy talked to them for a while, and the group offered to sell them the two spare T-shirts they had for cost. The reason these T-shirts are so cool is that on the back they have eleven blank circles on the back with the name of all the eleven World Showcase countries on them so that you can write the name of each alcoholic drink you have in it’s corresponding nation’s circle with a black sharpie. That way, you have a record of your drunkitude, which is oh so very important. Mike and Suzy got stopped over five times on their vacation by various people asking where they could buy their T-shirts, but they were one of a kind artifacts so no go for anyone but Mike and Suzy!

Mike and Suzy went off to France to fill in one of their circles and got some tasty Pomegranate Glow-In-the-Dark Champaign.

It was a little unusual, and Mike couldn’t taste the fruit very well, but it was a nice change of pace from the Hard Ciders they had been drinking.

After they were done drinking, it was time to drink, so they went to the Yakitori House at the Japan pavilion and got some sake as well as some udon noodles.

The Sake would have been undrinkable if they had just started the night, but thankfully their taste buds had been pounded into submission by that point, so they managed to drink half of it. The Udon noodles were no different than you could get at any cheap and easy Japanese restaurant, but after a long night they went down perfectly. Soup is one of the world’s most perfect drinking foods.

 

[disneyquilter]

Love your food trippie so far!! Keep it comin'!!

 

[christinou]

Great review thanks.....
Those T-Shirts sound great, what a fun thing to do.

 

[Momof2princess]

Great review!!!

Love the T-shirts and the 2008 in the beer foam-
Did you get a drink in everyone?

Moroccan food can be so hit or miss and it has been years since we ate at Restaurant Marrakesh.

Can't wait to read more!!

 

[plutosgirl]

Great review!!!

Love the T-shirts and the 2008 in the beer foam-
Did you get a drink in everyone?

Moroccan food can be so hit or miss and it has been years since we ate at Restaurant Marrakesh.

Can't wait to read more!!

I had to take a double take!! Your girls look just like mine and I even have the same dog (well, hopefully your dog is less annoying than mine!) Great picture!!

 

[MikeR]

Before he went to sleep Mike put a menu in the bathroom so that when he woke up he could order room service for breakfast without waking up Suzy,

and when the morning came that is exactly what he did;

From Ohana he order some sausage and eggs as well as Tonga Toast. The eggs ans sausage were extremely edible. Tonga Toast, on the other hand, is basically French Toast stuffed with Bananas and it was extremely yummy-licious. It was so good and different from normal French Toast that Mike is considering cooking it himself next New Year’s Day as kind of a special Honeymoon-Anniversary-New-Year treat. It seems like it could be a fun tradition to start. On the other hand, he is deeply lazy and cooking with a lot of oil after a night known for the imbuement of alcohol might not be the best plan, so we shall see.

Mike and Suzy puttered around the room some more after eating, took a short nap (all that waking up and eating was exhausting) puttered around some more, showered, got dressed and looked into the concierge room to see what type of free goodies we were getting;

Well, not exactly “free.” In fact, if you do the math these are some of the most expensive cupcakes you will ever eat. The concerige room was nice, but Mike and Suzy didn’t actually use it that much. They got so much food on the trip, that they didn’t really need any extra food, but what they most got from concierge service was, unsurprisingly, the concierge service; all the help in making reservations, questions answered, etc.

However, Suzy did quite enjoy the chocolate covered Mickey Mouse Shaped Rice Crispy Treats;

She took a half-dozen of them when we left the room and was very reluctant to throw them away at the end of the trip when they had grown new life forms that evolved into a miniature civilization in the midst of developing masonry.

 

[MikeR]

Did you get a drink in everyone?

Not on New Year's Eve, but we made a serious effort to do so during our Honeymoon.

 

[BoosGram]

OK, I'm LMAO here. Can't wait to read more about Mike and Suzy, who are infinitely more interesting and funny than Dick and Jane.

This is a great thread so far! Thanks.

 

[DisneyDarlings]

I am LOVING this report! We want more!!!

 

[MikeR]

Soon enough it was time for the favorite part of any honeymoon, getting leid;

Mike and Suzy had tickets for the Hawaiian Luau. Mike ordered the best tickets they offered, and while it was closer to the stage than the back row tickets, it honestly did not feel that the tickets were that special as they were still a few rows back.

The first round of food was appetizers consisting of sweet bread, pineapple, and salad;

And the main course was pork spare ribs, chicken, and rice;

With a desert of a chocolate mousse shaped like a volcano;

This food OK, but as was often the case if you are used to eating ethnic food in your home town you might find Disney’s version of it to be a bit watered downed and low grade in comparison to what you are used to. At Mike’s old college they had a huge luau every year in which an entire pig was roasted underground, real poi was served, and other Polynesian dishes were prepared. That was all put on by volunteer college students in their spare time and it was fantastic. You’d think that Disney could match that, but it wasn’t even close. That’s not to say the food was bad or not enjoyable, just that it could have been better and it wasn’t really Polynesian food.

The show itself was cute and funny at times;

It stared and island girl who came back from the mainland and told of her journey to rediscover her island roots by shaking her moneymakers;

Also it guest-stared fire!

 

[Sazzo'sMommy]

Awesome! Kepp them coming!

 

[50 years Too!]

Pacific University, heh?
My daughter is applying to pharmacy school at Pacific (new program).

Enjoying your reports very much!

Deb

 

[jazzmine]

Loving it! Congrats on your marriage and honeymoon - can't wait to read the rest.