PTR-Cheating on Mickey w/Harry!...OMG! Only a month to go!

[PrincessInOz]

Onwards with PTR planning for F&W. Looks like you've worked out your menu plan for the kiosks! Now you've got me salivating!

I would vote that you catch a bus direct to WL. The other option just seems like way too much time....unless of course, you've got the time to spare.


And that bar and food is just AWESOME!

 

[franandaj]

Onwards with PTR planning for F&W. Looks like you've worked out your menu plan for the kiosks! Now you've got me salivating!

I would vote that you catch a bus direct to WL. The other option just seems like way too much time....unless of course, you've got the time to spare.


And that bar and food is just AWESOME!

Thanks! We'll see depdending on when we leave. It's a real pain for the bus drivers to lock down the scooters and you wouldn't believe the dirty looks that you get from the people who wait. It's enough to make us consider other transportation even if it might seem to take longer. You wouldn't believe the comments and stuff that you get.

 

[dgbg100106]

yummy.... that is all I could think when reading your review so far..... The views are amazing....

Hope you are having a wonderful time.

 

[bangzoom6877]

We have syrup in our Owner's Locker I would be more likely to make French Toast over pancakes. On our previous to last trip I made carbonara one night because we had all that stuff on hand. I just checked the contents of my OL and we have spaghetti in there. I was thinking I could get a can of clams and we could have spaghetti and clam sauce, but Fran didn't like that idea. As I said, must start on that shopping list!

You could always get a jar of alfredo sauce and have that with the spaghetti...you could even throw in some of that bacon, it would taste great! I would be more likely to make french toast instead of pancakes too!

Your pics are delicious...that is the only way to describe them!

Wow, single digits already! That sure went by quickly...now the only thing left is to go and enjoy yourself! Can't wait to hear all about the trip...but wait a sec, I CAN wait...I want your trip to go by nice and slowly for you and Fran!

 

[PrincessInOz]

Thanks! We'll see depdending on when we leave. It's a real pain for the bus drivers to lock down the scooters and you wouldn't believe the dirty looks that you get from the people who wait. It's enough to make us consider other transportation even if it might seem to take longer. You wouldn't believe the comments and stuff that you get.

WOW! That's so un-disney like.


I'm sure you'll work it out.



But Hey! Single Digit Dance time!

 

[ACDSNY]

Congrats on reaching single digits!

My adult kids and grandson have been plotting this afternoon on a family DL trip next Oct. Hopefully they'll still have the Trick or Treat Party at DL instead of DCA.

 

[dgbg100106]

Congrats on reaching single digits!

My adult kids and grandson have been plotting this afternoon on a family DL trip next Oct. Hopefully they'll still have the Trick or Treat Party at DL instead of DCA.

my DH and I are trying to think of a quick trip for the two of us for Thanksgiving...

 

[ACDSNY]

my DH and I are trying to think of a quick trip for the two of us for Thanksgiving...

We were thinking of early or mid November and then my DD and DIL voted for October. I love the X-mas decorations at DL.

 

[dgbg100106]

We were thinking of early or mid November and then my DD and DIL voted for October. I love the X-mas decorations at DL.

I am trying to convince him to take me Iceland again.... to do a spa week.

 

[franandaj]

yummy.... that is all I could think when reading your review so far..... The views are amazing....

Hope you are having a wonderful time.

Just reminising on the GD trip, but it's kind of fun....pretty soon we'll be in WDW!

Wow, single digits already! That sure went by quickly...now the only thing left is to go and enjoy yourself! Can't wait to hear all about the trip...but wait a sec, I CAN wait...I want your trip to go by nice and slowly for you and Fran!

Yeah, I hope it doesn't fly by, but I hope getting here it sort of flys, but not too fast because I'm not hardly packed yet!

Congrats on reaching single digits!

My adult kids and grandson have been plotting this afternoon on a family DL trip next Oct. Hopefully they'll still have the Trick or Treat Party at DL instead of DCA.

You must be pretty soon on hitting your trip too! We should run into each other somehow since we'll both be in the Poly for breakfast on the same day!

 

[franandaj]

Saturday morning was the scavenger hunt and we needed to meet at Carnation Plaza at 11:30AM. Our plan was to get out the door early, but we were over come with common sense and realized that we live close enough that if we really want to come out and do something we can so why bother getting up and trying to do stuff when there are an extra 30,000 or so people here!

So we moseyed our way into the park taking time to look in the shops like we usually do and arrived at Carnation around 11:15AM. To our surprise the Scavenger Hunt was being run by two of our friends Alan and Gregory. They designed all the questions and things you had to look for. Sadly I didn’t take any notes on the things we had to locate.

The way that the hunt worked was that there were four sheets of paper per team. Each piece of paper covered two lands. For each land, there were three questions about various fixtures, statues or other attributes. On the first land on the page, there was a picture asking “Where is this?”. On the second land on the page was another picture and you were required to get a picture of your team in front of that spot.

They gave you an hour and a half and once you finished one sheet, you came back had your photo verified and then you got your next assignment. It was good because teams were sent to different parts of the parks and not everyone was going to the same place at once. Here are the three pictures that we successful got.

Of the four page of items, we completed three pages, and got three of the eight on the last page. We didn’t even get to Tomorrowland to find it. What hung us up was a picture of the Crocodile from Pinnochio and the question where is this located. We looked all over Fantasyland. Turns out that the Bibbity Bobbity Boutique used to be the Villans store or something related to Pinnochio and they never removed Captain Hook’s Crocodile from the wall outside the store! That cost us precious time since we couldn’t turn in our sheets until they were completed, but we had a good time anyways!

We were starving after the scavenger hunt and I was really anxious to try some of the new menu items at Pinochio’s Village Haus. Fran got the Chicken Sausage in the Pretzel Roll

I got the BLT flat bread

We scarfed down lunch because at 2PM they were taking a group photo at the Festival Arena this is the same place where they held the Octoberfest only three nights ago. It looked very different in the day without all the food and oompah band! Notice us on the left side of the picture…

Based on another DL TR, I wanted to see the spooky shack. Since we were back there we took the opportunity for a photo op.

So I’m not sure if any of you remember but several years back one of the White House Turkeys was pardoned and it went to DL for their Thanksgiving day parade. We learned at one of the Destination-D events (the one at DL) that this was one of the best promotional events that DL ever did. They don’t HAVE a Thanksgiving Day parade!!!!!! However as a publicity stunt they took a few shots of the turkey riding down Main Street, called it a parade and released the new footage to the press. Evidently they received world wide coverage on the pardoned turkey! And here is he is.

So after this we decided that we would head back to the room, but we each wanted dessert before heading back and each of us had a different idea of what dessert was. Fran wanted the traditional Mickey Bar.

I wanted a funnel cake and had for several weeks.

So after we enjoyed our sweet treats, we headed back, but I decided that I wanted a 2011 Gay Days pin so we stopped back by the Gay Days information center where Jane Lynch was signing copies of her book. I like the way my random shot makes it look like the poster in the background is eating the guys head!

 

[franandaj]

We had about an hour to relax before we had to get ready for dinner. We headed out to our favorite restaurant in the park.

This is what we could have ordered from.

This time we had decided to play Marcel Roulette, we do this every time there is a special event, but this was a little more tailored. We said that we wanted the special lobster salad that we had at our anniversary dinner two years ago. I said I wanted a soufflé for dessert and Fran wanted something chocolate. Other than that, those were the only choices we made!

Of course they bring you bread

And we started off with a couple cocktails. A Belvedere Gibson up and a Margarita on the Rocks with Salt

This was our amuse bouche, blood orange shooter, duck confit on pastry.

This is the Lobster Salad with a truffle vinaigrette

Our next course was a Jerusalem Artichoke in a butternut squash soup. It was accompanied by a Pinot Noir.

Our next course was served by the Chef himself. He knows that I’m really into cooking and how interested I am in the processes that he does to make our meals. One time he made a Lobster Bisque that had so much flavor it was absolutely unbelievable! Turns out he simmered it for 2-3 days! I tried that the next time I made my shrimp bisque and it was out of this world! Anyways, he served us the third course.

It was a Chicken cooked in a Sous vide. For those who are not familiar with this process it is a vacuum bag cooked in water at a low temperature which creates an amazing broth and sauce. It was a new utensil for the chef and I felt honored that he was “testing” it out on us! He served the chicken in the broth from the vacuum bag, with Israeli Couscous and it was absolutely wonderful. Flavorful, full of rich chicken flavor and more tender than you could have believed! The people at the table next to us were looking at us like “why is the chef coming to their table and bringing them food?” I do have to say that the other member who was dining there with his wife ate many of the same courses as we did, but did not have them served up and explained by the chef!

Our main course was a Filet of Beef Tenderloin served up wonderfully and if we had asked he might have even served us bison (which he has in the past), but it was very tasty but unfortunately we couldn’t finish it all!

I’m not sure what the dessert wine we had was, and Fran was not having the wine pairings, however, I requested that our server bring her a glass of the dessert wine so that she didn’t finish mine! Oh yeah and I forgot to mention that once we were seated our server showed us that under his tuxedo uniform shirt, he was also wearing his red shirt in honor of Gay Days!

I didn’t get a picture of Fran’s dessert because I was so excited about my soufflé! I just love an excellent soufflé and I had the best one I ever had in Las Vegas last January, but Marcel’s are right up there with Chef Andres! It was so good, he put raspberry and chocolate sauce in there and I believe it was a Grand Mariner soufflé. I don’t necessarily like the Chocolate ones and would rather add chocolate sauce to a Grand Mariner soufflé.

And after dining, you always receive these wonderful mints with your check.

After this dinner we pretty much rolled out of there and headed back to the room. I can’t remember if we watched WoC, but I think this was the night that we ran into friends (the ones who did the Scavenger Hunt) in the Convention Center Hallway. They were on their way to the party for the night and we were ready for bed! I think by this time it was 10:15 and our dinner reservation was at 6PM

Good night for now! Next update will be on Sunday with a DISmeet, but not a lot of food porn!

 

[skiingfast]

How did you get a picture of the group shot? Is it a picture of the picture, copied from the web, or did someone take you camera up the tower?

The lobster salad looks very good but I'm not sure I could eat it if the lobster is chilled.

 

[PrincessInOz]

Alison !!

What a fantastic meal! I am speechless. I am without words.

That just puts my chicken and lamb schwarma that I just scarfed down for dinner in its proper place.

I tell you what.....next time your contact makes a booking like that at Club 33 and you have about 8 weeks notice, let me know. I might just throw DH and DS over and hop on a plane just for one meal.

 

[dgbg100106]

Alison,

I am very impressed with the food and wine.

The hunt looked like so much fun.

You both like to live it up

 

[bangzoom6877]

Yay, more food porn!! And awesome food porn. Thank goodness it's almost time for dinner here!

 

[dgbg100106]

That is an amazing dinner.

 

[ACDSNY]

You must be pretty soon on hitting your trip too! We should run into each other somehow since we'll both be in the Poly for breakfast on the same day!

Two weeks from now we'll be at AKV.

It might be difficult to run into us...the girls gave up breakfast at the Poly for eating in our villa and then swimming, go figure.

Looks like you were well taken care of at Club 33. Awesome dinner!

 

[franandaj]

How did you get a picture of the group shot? Is it a picture of the picture, copied from the web, or did someone take you camera up the tower?

The lobster salad looks very good but I'm not sure I could eat it if the lobster is chilled.

I copied from the PhotoPass page, they gave us all one PP card per party as we entered the Arena, then I did magic with print screen and "save as web page" to get a copy of the picture.

Yes the lobster was cold, but it was awesome.

Alison !!

What a fantastic meal! I am speechless. I am without words.

That just puts my chicken and lamb schwarma that I just scarfed down for dinner in its proper place.

I tell you what.....next time your contact makes a booking like that at the Club and you have about 8 weeks notice, let me know. I might just throw DH and DS over and hop on a plane just for one meal.

Next time you guys come we can take yours and DHs likes combined with mine and Fran's and make up a menu. We've done that on a few occasions and never been disappointed. This is the first time that we have been so lax in suggestions, in the past we've asked for things by each course and been fabulously surprised!

Alison,

I am very impressed with the food and wine.

The hunt looked like so much fun.

You both like to live it up

That is an amazing dinner.

I know! I just love what they do for us! We are TOTALLY spoiled! We do love to live it up!

Yay, more food porn!! And awesome food porn. Thank goodness it's almost time for dinner here!

Thanks!

Two weeks from now we'll be at AKV.

It might be difficult to run into us...the girls gave up breakfast at the Poly for eating in our villa and then swimming, go figure.

Bummer! I was going to meet up with both my Sacramento area peeps on this trip! I'm sort of reconsidering the Kona breakfast reservation, but I think Fran will really like the Tonga Toast, but then splitting the Big Kahuna would also be a good move. We'll have to talk! I also like the idea of breakfast in the room and while we're at BCV it will be sort of hectic. I'm looking forward to chilling out once we're at VWL.

 

[ACDSNY]

Bummer! I was going to meet up with both my Sacramento area peeps on this trip! I'm sort of reconsidering the Kona breakfast reservation, but I think Fran will really like the Tonga Toast, but then splitting the Big Kahuna would also be a good move. We'll have to talk! I also like the idea of breakfast in the room and while we're at BCV it will be sort of hectic. I'm looking forward to chilling out once we're at VWL.

I agree bummer!

Neither of the girls are big eaters so I figured it might be good to keep the morning and afternoon on Nov 1st low key since we have the MNSSHP that night and Discovery Cove the next day.

If we don't meet up this trip we'll have to try next Oct at DL.