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[Pinkocto]

It opens at noon. We were there about a quarter til and it was locked. Went in slightly after noon and it was empty. Ice cream martinis are like $11 but you get 2 decent sized scoops of gelato and the booze - so a good deal for disney.

I'll skip the booze and just have gelato I'm one of the rare people on the planet that doesn't care for the flavor of most liquors.

 

[TifffanyD]

I'll skip the booze and just have gelato I'm one of the rare people on the planet that doesn't care for the flavor of most liquors.

No probs - that's cheaper!!!!

I used to be like you.

 

[ACDSNY]

I'll skip the booze and just have gelato I'm one of the rare people on the planet that doesn't care for the flavor of most liquors.

You're not alone, I'm another one that normally prefers ice cream over adult beverages.

 

[Leshaface]

Well this trip is certainly getting closer and more real! I placed my order just now with WeGoShop!

I cut my "cooking" dinner in the room down to the first night. I'm still planning on cooking a couple of breakfasts, maybe Bacon & Eggs one day and French Toast and Bacon another. Plus I've ordered Yogurt for the days that we are on the move.

We have two days of ADRs at breakfast buffets, so we'll definitely get our fill of characters!

20 days!

It's getting close!

I know you've gone at this time of the year before, do you think it's going to be terribly hot? This is the only thing i'm concerned about right now.

I'm hoping to get to 75% of the booths. Would be great if we could do all of them, but that's a lot of food and drinks.

 

[Leshaface]

They have ice cream martinis & ice cream macarons now too!

I liked the martini so much I got two last trip!

1 Scoop of Caramel, 1 Scoop of Coco-White Chocolate w/ Whipped Cream Vodka

Melon & Pomegranate Sorbet w/ Grand Marnier

Omgosh, seriously?! This looks ridiculously delicious.

 

[dgbg100106]

They have ice cream martinis & ice cream macarons now too!

I liked the martini so much I got two last trip!

1 Scoop of Caramel, 1 Scoop of Coco-White Chocolate w/ Whipped Cream Vodka

Melon & Pomegranate Sorbet w/ Grand Marnier

OMG... That is all

 

[dgbg100106]

Anyways there is now a BIGGER bakery and also an ice cream shop. Which serves alcohol. Win-win-win (the 3rd win is my butt... getting bigger... lol)

ha-ha LMAO... i wish i could laugh it off.....

 

[Paula Sedley-Burke]

Mmmmm ice cream macarons..... Come to mamma.....

 

[Pinkocto]

You're not alone, I'm another one that normally prefers ice cream over adult beverages.

I'm glad I'm not alone I'll try things if I'm out with friends but have not enjoyed most of what I've tried.

 

[lisaviolet]

They have ice cream martinis & ice cream macarons now too!

I liked the martini so much I got two last trip!

1 Scoop of Caramel, 1 Scoop of Coco-White Chocolate w/ Whipped Cream Vodka

Melon & Pomegranate Sorbet w/ Grand Marnier

I wish I was there RIGHT NOW. I don't even know if I would care for either of these two drinks but I would love to be sitting in France right now. Real would be first choice but I would certainly take WS. Love that area. Boy, they did it right with Epcot.

 

[lisaviolet]

Your plans look great! We really liked Raglan Road. Solid food, lots of beer, good service. Dinner will be so fun. The meets are going to be a blast.

They are.

Hey Girlfriend! I am just getting back to DIS again- clicked on your TR, and up came our day(s)! So much fun, hangin with you all! And that shopping of Fran's...OMG, you were REALLY not kidding about how much she was going to buy when we went in there! So glad I was there for the experience.

I need to catch up and find out what's up with you two. Soooo....I am off to read....

OMG, I thought I was all caught up today. And I'm like "WAIT! I can't even find these glorious pictures - when did I MISS THESE?"

LOVE THEM of all of you.

 

[franandaj]

I LOVE salmon!!! I wish I had grabbed more salmon napkins, though- they go quick!

I told Pam about the "Salmon" when we were there (she actually ordered it too) and she took some "salmon" in her napkins, but actually didn't care for it as much as she thought she would and let me take it home for Fran along with the "salmon" that I got for Fran.

Did they do F & W pins previous years? If so does Fran get them? I will get one if they do one. I love to collect pins also.

They did a pin the year we were there and I've seen the merchandise posted (in pics) online. She wasn't pin crazy when we were there four years, ago, but I'm sure she will be buying some pins this time.

It is in the ice cream shop in France which is located where the bakery used to be.

OK, I've got it on my list!

They have ice cream martinis & ice cream macarons now too!

I liked the martini so much I got two last trip!

1 Scoop of Caramel, 1 Scoop of Coco-White Chocolate w/ Whipped Cream Vodka

Melon & Pomegranate Sorbet w/ Grand Marnier

I'm not sure I would like the Coco-White Chocolate Ice Cream, I assume the Coco is for Coconut, that Grand Marnier one sounds right up my alley, better not have one on the day I do the Gran Marnier tasting!

You're not alone, I'm another one that normally prefers ice cream over adult beverages.

I sometimes have an adult beverage AS my dessert!

It's getting close!

I know you've gone at this time of the year before, do you think it's going to be terribly hot? This is the only thing i'm concerned about right now.

I'm hoping to get to 75% of the booths. Would be great if we could do all of them, but that's a lot of food and drinks.

I know that when we went this same week four years ago, it was pretty hot. Do you have ADRs? The last time we went we were there for seven days and had ADRs for every day. I felt that we barely got through all the kiosks and never got to repeat anything. I'm up for skipping a little bit more, than we did last time, but there are still so many things I want to try, I doubt we will make it through everything. I know my top faves and will make sure to get to those!

Plus we get to do the Tequila and French lunches, I think I might be in a sugar coma after the Grand Marnier tasting, and then I have to go and cook tri tip!

Omgosh, seriously?! This looks ridiculously delicious.

OMG... That is all

Mmmmm ice cream macarons..... Come to mamma.....

I know totally! I'm willing to try the vodka cream stuff that Tiffany didn't like, but I think I want the other one first.

I'm glad I'm not alone I'll try things if I'm out with friends but have not enjoyed most of what I've tried.

It's an acquired taste. My parents were handing me glasses of wine for as long as I can remember. I have a photo from when I was like twelve with me sipping a glass of wine, that one of my parents friends took at a wine tasting party they were hosting. It was sort of in my DNA to enjoy adult beverages!

I wish I was there RIGHT NOW. I don't even know if I would care for either of these two drinks but I would love to be sitting in France right now. Real would be first choice but I would certainly take WS. Love that area. Boy, they did it right with Epcot.

Epcot is definitely my favorite park, I just love each of the different countries, some more than others, but I could be happy just browsing the shops of Germany, France, England, Japan and enjoying a native beverage, oh yeah and must not forget Karamel Kuche! PIO and I talked about that one today. That is a mandatory stop on a trip to Epcot! I forgot to include that in the Day 4 report!

They are.

OMG, I thought I was all caught up today. And I'm like "WAIT! I can't even find these glorious pictures - when did I MISS THESE?"

LOVE THEM of all of you.

Check out page 51, I posted a whiney, "I'm so stressed out with all these fun things I have to do" post. And that's where those pictures are, there are a few others as well!

 

[franandaj]

We are now up to Day Five and the DISmeets are growing. We begin this day with breakfast at the Cape May Cafe. PrincessInOz arranged this, so she and her family will be there. We will also be joined by Bobbiwoz, her sister and Luvchefmic. This won't be a very leisurely breakfast since everyone has FP+ reservations at TSMM that morning.

I’ve never had breakfast here before so I don’t have any pics to share, but I will have plenty to share when I get back!

We'll probably head back to the room, maybe head to the pool. I'm going to try not to eat too much for breakfast so that we can enjoy a few morsels at the Epcot kiosks. Of course we can't eat too much there either because we have a 3:50 reservation at the HBD.

The last time I ate at HBD, I wasn’t taking food porn pics, so I don’t have anything to share for the whole day.

I might try to see about working out this whole FP+ thing and reserving us a FP+ for after dinner but before F! I haven't seen WDW's F! In quite some time so it will be interesting to compare it with DL's.

I’m sure after F! we will be heading back to the room, the question is will I be starving since we had dinner at 4PM? Good thing we have a kitchen and groceries!

 

[franandaj]

I mentioned somewhere I would love to plan to go with you to Theme Park Connection, what an awesome place it is I am long overdue for another visit

I would love for you to meet us there! We just rented a car for Monday night to Tuesday evening so that we can drive there. We are planning to get there Tuesday October 1st at 10:00AM. I don't know if we're going to stay from open to close, but based on your post, I think we might want to stay for quite a while!

 

[kmedina]

Sounds awesome. I like the Cape May breakfast. So excited to read how fastpass plus goes for he rides. I've read a little but wonder how it will change as it is rolled out property wide.

 

[scottny]

That food looked good.
The F&W food looks filling. LOL
Raglan Road the food was really good but we found way too noisy.
All the plans look great.

 

[Paula Sedley-Burke]

I would love for you to meet us there! We just rented a car for Monday night to Tuesday evening so that we can drive there. We are planning to get there Tuesday October 1st at 10:00AM. I don't know if we're going to stay from open to close, but based on your post, I think we might want to stay for quite a while!

So it's worth a trip here would you say?

 

[rentayenta]

You get to meet Bobbi too?

 

[franandaj]

Sounds awesome. I like the Cape May breakfast. So excited to read how fastpass plus goes for he rides. I've read a little but wonder how it will change as it is rolled out property wide.

I'm not getting any love just yet. It says that we are not eligible for My Magic +. For the price of our passes, we BETTER be!

That food looked good.
The F&W food looks filling. LOL
Raglan Road the food was really good but we found way too noisy.
All the plans look great.

That's what I'm afraid of. We got an early reservation to try and get out of there before the loud live music begins. I love music, I just like to be able to talk to my fellow dining companions more.

So it's worth a trip here would you say?

I'll have to let you know, I'm going the day after we meet up!

You get to meet Bobbi too?

Yup! I put that on the first page of the TR along with a picture of her!

 

[franandaj]

So here we are at Day 6. This is when we get to start our F&W special events. Most of the mornings so far we will have been rushing off here and there, so I think we are going to take it pretty easy this morning and just sort of hang out in the room. I have not cooked us breakfast so far on the trip, we will have eaten breakfast out at several buffets and rushed off with a yogurt or something in hand, so today I think we’ll have a proper breakfast. I have all the fixings for Bacon and Eggs and French Toast and Bacon, so we’ll see which one I feel like when the morning comes.

I laughed as I previewed this post because essentially these plates are almost exactly the same! The only difference is that in one the toast is covered in eggs, vanilla and cinnamon, while the other it is naked!





We’ll probably just chill out until it’s time to go to lunch, maybe visit a few shops along the way to the restaurant. Today is a Mexican Tequila lunch at La Hacienda. I don’t know much about it except what I have read in reviews of past events. Here are some pictures from a review in 2011.

Tequila Flight



Ceviche Verde (Green Ceviche). This dish consisted of scallops marinated in a salsa verde (tomatillo, avocado and lime juice). It was served with crispy shredded carrot for garnish, and a little spicy salt.



The empanada (on the left) was filled with Mexican cheese, and was still warm. The sope (in kind of a bread bowl) contained ancho marinated shredded pork and black beans.



With the anejo, Chef Ernesto presented a dish of Grilled Tilapia and Pork in Mole Negro.



For dessert, they had the Tamal de Dulche, a corn tamale filled with guava and pretty much drowned in very sweet strawberry sauce. The reader said that he scraped up most of the sauce on this one.



It seems like the chef was trying to show various flavors that the tequila with go with and how two very different dishes can compliment the tequila. They did the same thing at the sake tasting that I went to a few years ago.

After lunch, we’ll probably head back to the room via the “world showcase lap” and shop a little on the way. When we get back to the room, our next destination will be the Contemporary for an early dinner at the newly refurbished California Grill.







I’m looking forward to having some sushi when I’m there, but there are also a few other things on the new menu that look tasty as well.







This looks pretty good too, Duck in All It’s Glory. I’m sure this isn’t one serving as the serving is only $17 and this much duck would be waaaaay more than that. Homemade Sausage, Rillettes, Prosciutto, Duck Liver Pate, Cranberry Compote.



There are a number of desserts that look awesome like the Sundae Sampler and the Fritters. I hope I have some room left! And there will be about seven other people joining us, so hopefully we can do some sharing too!

After dinner we meet our Captain for our Hallowishes Cruise! This should be one fun packed day! However, much to my chagrin, it is yet another day, where the food is the entire attraction.