Back Story. 2005.
Last year, marked the first time our family were ON SITE resort guests (OSRG). A HUGE step up from the Holiday Inn Kissimmee from years past (HUGE connection with Holiday Inn, sweet price!) With the perks of OSRG we had
.FREEEEE DINING! To rednecks, the free stuff is a huge big fat deal! Some of you can relate, you KNOW who you are! Others of you can laugh at us, I dont mind
.(snooty patooties!)
We (as in my male family members, not I and singular female offspring) are HUGE outdoorsy, camping, roughing it, log cabin in the woods, bears, elk and moose fans! A bus family had told us of the rollicking good time to be had at Whispering Canyon Café. WE WERE ALL OVER IT! Sounded like redneck nirvana and it was!
Even with our free dining, we never bothered making ADRs. Yup, were the folk who got all bent when places like Le Cellier sent us on our way! Shooo, theyd wave us away like gnats! BUT not WCC! They did have an opening for 6, as a matter of fact! Itll be just a few minutes, take a seat and well be right with you! a cowgirl, prairie gal told us. We played Lincoln Logs and waited only a few minutes before our table was ready.
It was the 13th of September. 2005, my 38th birthday. AND our server was a cowboy named
..SENIOR DUSTY TRAILS!!!! Lookie baby Norah last year (ahhhhh... that was back when she was sweet!)
I emphasis his name because theres a handful of you who know I never stood a chance with my birthday button displayed innocently upon my chest. I dont remember what we all ate but we needed Ketchup. Senior Dusty Trails yelled
.HEY!!!! THIS TABLE NEEDS KETCHUP!!!!!! and I swear no less than 30 bottles of ketchup were set on our table! What Fun! All my boys acquired a raging case of ADHD the entire meal and then some! Even my then sweet 1 year old was yelling by the middle of the meal! Then it happened! Senior Dusty Trails came out tap, tap, taping the stick pony of doom as he walked over to OUR table! He explained to the audience of diners that it was this SMART ALLECs birthday and she is going to giddy up around the whole restaurant and sing Happy Birthday to herself LOUDLY
and IF she doesnt sing loud enough, shell have to run through the entire LOBBY and sing Happy Birthday to herself!!!! Oh Lordy! I tried to quietly decline saying I have a weak blatter and he would NOT back down! So in a smiling mean lady voice I told him He Didnt Know Me Very Well Did He? I swiped that ponyon-a-stick from him and with as much courage I could muster
and I galloped and sang loudly to myself
. (The Proof's In the Pudding , whatever that means!)
Thanking God I was bladderly protected (those of you whove birthed can relate?) At the end of the rounds I handed over the pony and bowed and blew a kiss to the applauding diners. YES, I was very embarrassed. Mortified even. Hopefully, Id never see any of these people ever again! (Which is what I tell myself when putting on a swimsuit and going to the resort pools!!!)
Last years visit to the WCC was very fun. My DH twirled like a ballerena and sang My Little Buttercup in a long line of menfolk. My kids all rode the stick ponies and swore not to go to Universal Studios. We made newbie errors like trying to order dietPepsi
and were loudly informed that MICKEY DRINKS COKE!!!!! My diet Coke was brought out in a teeny little shot glass, which I downed and slapped it down on the table and said Hit me again! See, what I smart allec I was? I deserved to ride a stick pony and sing to myself! I was asking for it!!!!!
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*Present Day Trip Report
. 6:20 ADRs made 6 months in advance, but NOT on my birthday!!
We rode the ferry to the Wilderness Lodge and hour before Go Time. We wanted to take in the WL and plan for when were rich and could afford such digs! On the ferry, a CM told us those annoying joined flying bugs were called Love Bugs which are a pesticide resistant experiment gone wrong from the U of Miami! I commented they had quadrupled in the last year. This CM agreed! I think I had EATEN one earlier in the day!
We arrived with plenty of time to spare and visited with the Disney Vacation Club guy. Oh, he was smooooth! We were promised all kinds of perks and freebies to attend their sales pitch at Saratoga Springs. Having just barely aquired employment the week before, we thought wed wait on that! I know for a fact, wed be card-carrying DVC members if wed have made the time for the sales pitch, we all KNOW that to be true, eh?
We showed up to our ADR with 20 minutes to play Lincoln Logs. Funner at WCC then at home, we all agreed. Norah just put them in her mouth causing me much anx!!!!
Our Hostess Prairie Dawn (I just made that up) seated us thankfully no where near last years table. Whew! Im reading the menu with great concentration, avoiding anything requiring ketchup, when I feel the dark presence. OH CRAP I think out loud as I look up at the smirking face of none other than Senior Dusty Trails
! Oh Crap I think again out loud. I look down at my menu and hope hes having a good day. DH says, Heyyyyy, youre the guy who made my wife run around the restaurant on a stick horse last year!!!!! Dusty says something snarky like, Ya? So? and DH says Thank You! and receives a painful kick to the shin under the table from his smiling wife!
Heres what we politely ordered and ate half of:
Me: salad, meetloaf and cheesecake
Ron(DH): nachos, strawberry-orange smoothie, and the NY Strip steak
Jordan (DS17): chicken wings, steak and chocolate cake
Dallen (DS8) nachos, macncheese, chocolate shake
Riley (DS6) macnchese, chocolate cake
Norah (DD2) Plate Moocher!
Whew, good thing I wrote this all down on a napkin! All the food was just Ok. You go here for the atmosphere not the fine cuisine! Here's the 3 stick pony riders I gave birth to: 2 of which dont have ponies. They are at the end, not the beginning...
I had thoughtfully ordered a diet Coke (Im no dummy!) which was refilled into larger and larger and LARGER canning jars!
All the same fun went on. The stick pony races, My Little Buttercup, WE NEED THE KETCHUP!, and someone else had to run around and sing on a stick pony (SUCKER!)
.Senior Dusty Trails said I was much better at it (with a wink)! Like he remembered! He is a funny character to experience. I think he picks on whom he thinks will be a good sport. Ive read reports of not fun people going to WCC and not getting it. This is a fun place and is not for the shy, thats for sure! Consider yourselves warned! Dont let me hear you whine about you being picked on in a Dining Report!
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.Yeti Toe Jam!
I don't know how I would have taken the "just kidding & get it?" I still love the corny jokes on JC - and DH has only been twice so he is always up for it - it's not old to him!
gotcha! (Boys are much easier in that regard) She's also on Lactobacillous to help her flora and fauna. No way we can be sure about the paint brush. It was just the first thing I could think of because I think the "paint" made her chapped lips WAY worse...making way for the Impetigo. She's so clingy! I guess I like that...
- which, hey - that's another question in and of itself, right?? WCC sure brings out the best/worst in people. My DS actually stood up on a chair in front of the whole restaurant - and it was packed with 20-30 minute waits, and sang Hakuna Matata from the Lion King show at AK the day before into a microphone...TOO CUTE. I never would have guessed he'd do something like that - nor would I have guessed that I'd gallop thru the lobby singing happy birthday to myself either!! Good times, good times! 
Yet another good read girlfriend! Can't wait for more...one of these days I'll pull myself away from reading everyone else's and finish my own! Hope Princess Norah is feeling better...give her 
Darn work and school and kids - so demanding!
