A funny thing happened in The Magic of Disney Animation attraction. Our animation tour guide dude kept falling asleep! He basically did his whole 10 minute deal with red rimmed eyes and head-bobbing whenever it was Mooshus turn to talk! Poor GUY! Ive been there! Its fun to see how your favorite characters where originally drawn by different artists. Like Ursula the Sea Witch, and the Toy Story Characters. I like the history behind all things Disney. So I lingered here longer than my kids liked.
We had 6:20 Dinner reservations at 50s Primetime.
Wed heard so much about this place from the DIS dining reviews. I was positively lusting for a Smores desert! When we entered this restaurant, it was like traveling wayyyy back in time. In the 70s my grandparents were STUCK in the 50s
and I swear Grandma Smith decorated this place with all her doo-dads and memorabilia ( I had the chance to inherit all her roosters
about a million roosters decorated her home, and when she died, I was offered them, but didnt want them so they all ended up in the Goodwill box. I turned down a small fortune, people!)
On the console Television sets played Black and White shows like Lassie and Father Knows Best and the Mickey Mouse Club ( Im Cubby! Im Darlene!) in little family-room settings. The furniture, wallpaper, lamps, art, EVERYTHING vintage and comfy. I really thought my Grandma was going to sit with me on the naugahide lazy boy and read to me from her Hansel and Gretel book! ((sigh))
We were seated after walking all the way through this restaurant to the very back. The way back. Our server was so cute! Her name was Diana.
She briefed us the rules and the specials and introduced us to our UK cousins (our UK cousins were not into this place at all
I just want to strangle unfun people! DONT go to interactive restaurants if you are a stick in the mud!)
Right away, my DH stirred the pot
by putting his dang elbow on the table! GEEZ! So, he had to stand and sing "Im A Little Teapot"
which made his kids almost laugh themselves silly! I was still pissy from the morning, so I was secretly GLAD (see? be glad youre NOT married to ME!)
Guess what Dallen and Riley ordered??? Rhymes with smack and sneeze. Yup! MacnCheese x2(which is what they ordered every single time it was available!)
I ordered the salad for appetizer and the Salmon for my entrée. DH ordered shrimp cocktail, grilled chicken. Jordan ordered the deep fried herb cheese and the fried chicken tenderloin withOUT vegetables (I clued him in
) . While we were waiting for our meals, Diana gave us homework! We needed to come up with 12 one-word Disney movie titles. Lets see if I can remember because I didnt write them down: Dumbo, Bambi, Aladin, Holes, Pollyanna (that was mine, Diana gave me extra credit) , Mulon, Cinderella, Pocahantas, Cars (thanks Riley!), Hercules, Tarzan, Pinocchio!! We got an A+
We got Shirley Temples for the kids
which they thought were very tasty (I havent had a Shirley Temple since the 70s!!) they were served in the "costs extra" glowing ice cups! Diet Choke for me, and a rootbeer float for DH! My salmon was RAW inside
and I had been worried it would be tough and overdone. So I didnt eat it. If I were paying for it I would have sent it back but I wanted to save room for the REASON we were there
SMores! Yippee! (OHHH, IT WAS GOOOOD!)
My kids loved the View Master dessert menus! I think they said, This is fun, we need to get one of these and I thought the poor little view master wouldnt stand a chance with all the electronic toys they have!
The kids chose the brownie sundaes which had Cracker Jacks on them! Which they gobbled up and used their sleeves for napkins!
Jordan had been labeled the Trouble Maker of the family, which is TRUE. I think that label has stuck! Im really glad that child did not order vegetables! He would have gagged if he had to taste them. As another child at a different table did! How he is a healthy growing teen, Ill NEVER know! Growing up, hed survive on two bites of food a day, it seemed. And the ONLY veggies hell eat are ketchup and fried potatoes! Oh the power struggles he and I have had!
When we were all done, Diana brought Norah a milk to go and said she had a fun time with us! I hope she didnt find my raw salmon in my napkin!
Theres a hole in my meticulous notes as to what we did between our dinner and Fantasmic so lets just assume shopping, whining, and going potty!
We parked our stroller (to be rearranged by some over-achiever CM the minute we leave) and found a choice spot a little to the left but pretty close to the front. Close enough to really feel the fire! Our family LOVES this show! I just sort of dont get the whole Pocahantas white-man part?? Is it because of their greed and ignorance they were the true villains? Ill guess that to be true but its a little deep for kids, yes? We filmed the whole thing and LOVE to watch it over and over! (In fact, this vacation yielded over 10 hours of video!!! We dont EVER have to go back, we can save a buck and watch our videos (DVD's)!! Our own private Vacation Club, REDNECK style! OH YA!)
During the pre-show I text-messaged TwinkieMama something like $5.00 Glowy necklaces! Each! No Thank You! DH went to go change DD poopy diaper 5 Mins B4 Fantasmic! His Turn! Haha! She was in the Know!
And we sat and danced to Bow Wow-wow Yippy yo, Yippy Yay! (pre-show crowd mood-music!) Made me ALMOST forget how pissy I was!
Tomorrow is Epcot (Apricot) Day and my date with Gary Sinese, sorry Mel, he prefers his women with a little meat! And my Dramamine stupor!
O.k. UM I have been following this trip report for months now. Can you please hurry up with the next installment before I am in an old folks home and unable to surf the internet? 
Or are you and DH too busy making up after that sweet apology? 
or 
with her DH (or pool boy) or 
or maybe she is 
or she could be 
Nah, 
she would not leave us to do that 
she could be 
(although I doubt it) I certainly hope she is not 
(that would be bad) My bet is she is 
without us. 
Please come back!
Looking forward to the next installment. 
Come on help me out fellow diser's 
That is great that you will be getting her baby blanket back.
