After our nap, we headed back to the Magic Kingdom for dinner at Cinderella's Royal Table with the princesses.
There seemed to be a little bit of a backup, and we probably waited at least 20 minutes to be seated. As I was sitting there waiting, at least five people must have come up to the podium trying to get reservations for their parties. The woman had to keep explaining that they were all booked up, and that reservations had to be made ahead of time. That must get really old for her after awhile. One woman complained, "But I have been calling every morning since I got here, and they keep telling me there's nothing available." Guess you should have made your reservations on the 180 day mark like I did, lady! (I hate to complain, but it kind of gets on my nerves when people start giving the cast members a hard time because they failed to plan ahead...this wasn't the case with the lady I mentioned above, but it was with some of the others.) My absolute favorite comment was when someone came up and said she was told she could use her quick service credits there!
I kid you not; this really happened! The cast member just had to keep a straight face and tell her she was mistaken.
After a while, we were finally seated at a table with a pretty window view, and we placed our orders.
For our appetizers, I got the salmon and crab cake, and my fiancé got the cheese plate. They also gave us some bread while we were waiting for our appetizers.
My fiancé really enjoyed his cheese plate. I thought my crab cake was good, but it still couldn't beat the ones from Hollywood Brown Derby or 50s PTC.
While we were waiting on our entrees, they brought us a plastic sword and wand like they give to all the kids. They did the last year too, but they changed the type of wand they give out. Personally, I like this new one better. It's much more girly.
For our entrees, my fiancé got the lamb chops, and I got the Cornish hen. Mine was supposed to come with macaroni and cheese, which I hate, so I asked to substitute the potato and asparagus that came with another meal.
Just like last year, everything was very tasty.
For dessert, we both ordered the chocolate mousse, so I only took one picture. This was good--not too heavy, but just right!
Just after desert, the princesses started visiting our table. We saw Snow White first, followed by Belle, Aurora, and Ariel. I got pictures with all of them, but figured I'd just pick the one that turned out best to post.
After dinner, we headed over to Liberty Square to ride the Haunted Mansion, which was a walk-on.
Since we were already in Liberty Square, we visited the Christmas shop there to see if we could find the ornaments we wanted at DTD. Unfortunately, they only had one of the two we wanted, but luckily, they were able to personalize it within a half an hour.
By the time we were done there, it was about 8:10, so we headed up towards the front of the park to see if we could find a good spot to watch Wishes.
Up next: Wishes pictures!
!!--sigh) Our trip this year was postponed due to DD's surgery, so I have been living vicariously through Jane's & now your trip report until we can get there next year (fingers crossed).
. We rode Buzz Lightyear with a five minute wait. My fiancé beat me mercilessly this time because I couldn't remember the secret trick I had learned about on the DIS before for scoring lots of points!
), so we got something to drink and a little snack at Cosmic Ray's to settle it down. We were going to visit Frontierland next, but my feet were getting to the point where I didn't know if I'd make it to midnight! Not even my blisters, either, just good old-fashioned, been-on-my-feet-too-long hurting. I suggested that I meet my fiancé back at the resort so that he could go on some more rides, but he didn't want to stay without me. I managed to drag my sore little feet back to the resort monorail, and I thought we were in luck because there was one there waiting for us. Not so lucky actually. We must have waited 10 minutes in the monorail before we even started moving, and when we did started moving, it was inching along on the track and stopped dead on the track two times before even reaching the Contemporary. I have no idea what was going on, but we eventually made it back to the TTC...a half an hour or so later. I limped all the way back to the room and took a hot bath to soak my feet before going to bed.
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: I still have to post my report from today, some photos from my real camera, and my final thoughts on the trip as a whole as well as some of the places we visited in particular. I will probably have that all done in the next couple of days, so keep an eye out and let me know if there are any questions I can answer for anyone.
