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[Luvchefmic]

What great pictures!

I haven't checked DH's set yet to see if he captured it but I might have to swipe the one of the 5 Dis-sers at the start of the morning from here to include in mine when I get up to this point.

Pity about the table layout. I didn't get a chance to chat with you guys, Bobbi or her sister properly. Otherwise, I had a great time at breakfast this day. It sure was nice catching up with Ruthie.

Agree on everything you just said above EXCEPT I am going to swipe ALL of the pictures

 

[rentayenta]

Hmmm.....let me guess which plate is yours? The one with a perfect 2 inches between each item?


Great character/meet photos. Everyone has got a great big smile on, it's wonderful.


Have you decided on ADRs for your VGF trip?

 

[scottny]

The room looks so nice. One day I will stay there.
I didn’t like Raglan Road inside but would like it outside probably.
Congrats on the trip. You leave the first day of gay days. I might go but then again probably not.
Why couldn’t they push the tables together?
Looked like a nice breakfast. Nice group photo.

 

[PrincessInOz]

Alison - I finally checked DH's set. There are pictures of the DisMeet members from Raglan Road as well as pictures from Cape May in there.

 

[Luvchefmic]

Alison - I finally checked DH's set. There are pictures of the DisMeet members from Raglan Road as well as pictures from Cape May in there.

yeah more pictures to look forward to ! Bobbi is in town her son ran the Wine & Dine 1/2 marathon last night we are trying to meet up but that may not be possible this time, she & her DH leave tomorrow So glad to have met new people along the way though

Alison I would LOVE to join you and Fran for dinner thank you a nice relaxing evening would be something to really enjoy

 

[Leshaface]

YAY on booking your Spring/Summer dates at VGF!!! So cool! I can't wait for that trip

I really love the breakfast buffet at CMC! Lots of characters and lots of yummy food. I love the group shot of you all at the end!

 

[ACDSNY]

Breaking News!!!!!!

We just booked a trip to WDW for May 29- June 5. You will never guess where! We got a Standard view one bedroom at the VGF!!!!!

That sounds awesome! I can't wait to see the pics.


Great pics of Raglan Road and Cape May!

 

[TifffanyD]

Breaking News!!!!!!

Sorry I haven't been around much. It's been crazy with Fran being sick and getting the new house together, but today she finally came out of her fog enough for me to put a 2014 calendar in front of her face and talk WDW dates.

We just booked a trip to WDW for May 29- June 5. You will never guess where! We got a Standard view one bedroom at the VGF!!!!!

I haven't had a chance to make a ticker, and we still have a few weeks to plan ADRs!!!!!

Hooray!!! I haven't seen the models yet but I looked at the pics and they look AWESOME!!! I hope to stay there someday (once we are out of points debt - LOL)!

 

[Paula Sedley-Burke]

Never done Cape May Cafe for character breakfast so that was an eye opener! Plenty of food porn and right up my street with sweet offerings. Wonderful characters too! Def have to check that out thanks for photos.

 

[dgbg100106]

Breaking News!!!!!!

Sorry I haven't been around much. It's been crazy with Fran being sick and getting the new house together, but today she finally came out of her fog enough for me to put a 2014 calendar in front of her face and talk WDW dates.

We just booked a trip to WDW for May 29- June 5. You will never guess where! We got a Standard view one bedroom at the VGF!!!!!

I haven't had a chance to make a ticker, and we still have a few weeks to plan ADRs!!!!!

Congrats... I am green with envy

 

[Luvchefmic]

quick drive by to let you and Fran know Went to the new warehouse location for Theme Park Connection yesterday put it on the list for May

Awesome, bigger, cleaner, brighter, much much more stuff, closer to WDW a much better drive will be posting pictures next few days ( have to sort through the 100s of pictures I took ) I hate to admit how LONG I was there !

 

[eandesmom]

Well, I will probably be here for your DLR band trip. BTW ours is tomorrow! 8 of us in a GV! :

YAY! I am hoping to see you guys while there. We almost bought tickets last week but given that we don't have any "official" news that we've been accepted...are holding off for now.

GV, how FUN!

Breakfast looks like a lot of fun but a bummer that you weren't together. I think they do a great job with the characters at Cape May, very cute and decent food.

 

[TifffanyD]

Sorry that we weren't able to coordinate our schedules while we were in Cali! It was hectic :/

 

[dgbg100106]

The food and people made a lovely breakfast. Glad your day got to start off with such great people...

 

[lisaviolet]

While we took this picture, Fran said something to Donald about not letting too many people smack him in his tail feathers, and he started laughing.

We'll add cheeky to Fran's list.

Boy that update was like one was *almost* there at Cape May Cafe. Thanks Alison.

 

[franandaj]

What great pictures!

I haven't checked DH's set yet to see if he captured it but I might have to swipe the one of the 5 Dis-sers at the start of the morning from here to include in mine when I get up to this point.

Pity about the table layout. I didn't get a chance to chat with you guys, Bobbi or her sister properly. Otherwise, I had a great time at breakfast this day. It sure was nice catching up with Ruthie.

Alison - I finally checked DH's set. There are pictures of the DisMeet members from Raglan Road as well as pictures from Cape May in there.

I thought so, he was the one who took the pictures with our camera....

That spread looks mighty delicious! The characters are so cute in their beachy outfits.

Love your dress, so cute!

I know! They are so festive! I thought the polka dot dress would go well with their attire too.

Nothing wrong with having a trip revolving around eating. I know I did that. Looks like you had a lovely breakfast.

Thanks for making me feel better. I need to get over to your TR and finish up reading it.

It is so neat to read about a DISmeet on the opposite side of the country in each respective report, since PIO is still reporting on your meet at Disneyland. It looks like you had another great meet. How awesome that you got so many meets at once! I love the way WDW celebrates special occasions. We had five restaurants booked at Disneyland noted with our anniversary but not one mentioned anything. We had a couple at WDW mention it. For Xander's 5th birthday, almost every restaurant mentioned it. Glad WDW took care of PiO's DH.

I love breakfast at Cape May. The buffet looks good, but the bananas look dreamy. Xander is so allergic to bananas, so I cannot bring them into our house. Whenever I see them on a trip, I get excited. They can prep far from him and clear the plate. There is no risk, so I indulge. Bananas are the best!

I find that both resorts can be hit and miss, I've good experiences at DLR and some that they have missed, and the same at WDW, but regardless, Disney is an awesome place to celebrate!

Very nice pictures of the food porn and from the DISMeet.

Thanks Bret!

Thanks for sharing the photos. I have a breakfast ADR at Cape May Cafe for our last morning and have been second guessing this, but the food looks delicious and I love the beach costumes for the characters. So I think I will stick with this.

Corinna

The food was really good and lots of different choices. I got full before I ate everything that I wanted.

Agree on everything you just said above EXCEPT I am going to swipe ALL of the pictures

Hmmm.....let me guess which plate is yours? The one with a perfect 2 inches between each item?


Great character/meet photos. Everyone has got a great big smile on, it's wonderful.


Have you decided on ADRs for your VGF trip?

You're the one who loves to analyze our plates!

We did have a really fun time even if we didn't get to socialize much between tables. We made up for it later!

I have decided on ADRs, we finalized those on the drive up here yesterday, days and times, but that's a new PTR! Gotta wrap this one up!

The room looks so nice. One day I will stay there.
I didn’t like Raglan Road inside but would like it outside probably.
Congrats on the trip. You leave the first day of gay days. I might go but then again probably not.
Why couldn’t they push the tables together?
Looked like a nice breakfast. Nice group photo.

The rooms were very nice, but noticeably smaller than at VWL. That's too funny about gay days, we didn't even think about that when booking, we were more interested in Star Wars Weekends!

They could have pushed the tables together, but then the folks in the middle wouldn't have been able to get out to get food without making the folks on the ends have to keep getting up and down. Even pushed together it would have been hard to talk between tables.

We had a lot of fun taking the group photos.

yeah more pictures to look forward to ! Bobbi is in town her son ran the Wine & Dine 1/2 marathon last night we are trying to meet up but that may not be possible this time, she & her DH leave tomorrow So glad to have met new people along the way though

Alison I would LOVE to join you and Fran for dinner thank you a nice relaxing evening would be something to really enjoy

I hope you and Bobbi were able to meet up. I'll have to figure out which night would be good for a dinner and see how it works out with your schedule, we just figured out our ADRs yesterday, maybe if it doesn't work out in the Villa, you could join us for an ADR.

 

[franandaj]

YAY on booking your Spring/Summer dates at VGF!!! So cool! I can't wait for that trip

I really love the breakfast buffet at CMC! Lots of characters and lots of yummy food. I love the group shot of you all at the end!

I can't wait to start the PTR for that one! It's coming along very nicely!

That sounds awesome! I can't wait to see the pics.


Great pics of Raglan Road and Cape May!

I know! I can't wait to stay there on points, it's so centrally located and so many great places to eat, we're taking advantage of at least two and who knows maybe even a third (not counting the QS).

Hooray!!! I haven't seen the models yet but I looked at the pics and they look AWESOME!!! I hope to stay there someday (once we are out of points debt - LOL)!

We actually had to borrow from our 2013 UY to book the trip, something I never expected with all our points!

Never done Cape May Cafe for character breakfast so that was an eye opener! Plenty of food porn and right up my street with sweet offerings. Wonderful characters too! Def have to check that out thanks for photos.

Maybe your next trip....

Congrats... I am green with envy

sometime when you are not cruising transatlatically, down the Rhine and escaping the Maryland cold, you will get back to WDW!

quick drive by to let you and Fran know Went to the new warehouse location for Theme Park Connection yesterday put it on the list for May

Awesome, bigger, cleaner, brighter, much much more stuff, closer to WDW a much better drive will be posting pictures next few days ( have to sort through the 100s of pictures I took ) I hate to admit how LONG I was there !

Did I miss these on your TR? Fran wants to know if she can take her scooter...if we are going to spend that long there, she might need it!

YAY! I am hoping to see you guys while there. We almost bought tickets last week but given that we don't have any "official" news that we've been accepted...are holding off for now.

GV, how FUN!

Breakfast looks like a lot of fun but a bummer that you weren't together. I think they do a great job with the characters at Cape May, very cute and decent food.

Now that you know you have been accepted, we could starting thinking about days.

Sorry that we weren't able to coordinate our schedules while we were in Cali! It was hectic :/

Yeah, me too, but it was the week that I was sick and you probably wouldn't have wanted to get my cold.

The food and people made a lovely breakfast. Glad your day got to start off with such great people...

It was a very nice day. Quite relaxed.

We'll add cheeky to Fran's list.

Boy that update was like one was *almost* there at Cape May Cafe. Thanks Alison.

She has her moments!

 

[franandaj]

Sorry it’s been so long since the last update! Life has been crazy around here and I haven’t had any proper DIS time. It’s only today that we are on holiday waiting for dinner to cook that I have some downtime to update, so first of all.

Happy Thanksgiving ​

Now back to the TR! After taking a nap for about an hour, I woke up restless. I checked the computer, did a little poking around on the DIS, and decided that it was sort of boring hanging around in the room. I realized that I wasn’t going to get Fran out of bed anytime soon, so I decided to go over to Stormalong Bay. It was just after noon and we planned to leave for DHS at 3PM, so I had over an hour to kill.

I didn’t have a robe, but I did have my Food & Wine T-shirt that I picked up at Epcot the day before which worked perfect as a cover up. I brought along a bottle of water, my room key and my magic band.

Now I haven’t talked about the magic bands much. You see, until yesterday I was still a little bit miffed at Disney IT. It seems that they couldn’t get the whole My Magic Plus to work with Premier APs, so I had to call up Disney and make my one FP+ reservation. Though I was able to link up my AP with MDE, when I tried to make FP+ the website told me I was not “eligible” for My Magic Plus. I ended up talking to at least three different Disney IT folks before someone was able to tell me that there is a glitch with people holding Premier passes and that we can’t make online FP+ reservations. Yesterday, I logged into MDE and there was a pop up saying that I could use My Magic Plus to plan my visit. I hope that means that I can use it for my next trip because needless to say, I didn’t really utilize My Magic Plus on this last trip. However, rant over and back to this day in October, I was completely surprised when my Magic Band got me into Stormalong Bay!

I wanted to take a spin on the lazy river, so I looked around to find a lounge chair where I could leave my stuff and finally found one. I should have realized to take my bottle of water with me, something I began to regret as I floated around in the hot sun. I took two spins around the lazy river before the heat got to me and I hopped out of the inner tube and moved over into the pool for a few minutes. After enjoying the cool of the water in a shady spot, I decided to check out the hot tub. It was nice, but it was in full sun and got really hot pretty quickly.

I decided that by this time, I really wanted that water bottle so I headed back over to my stuff and got a drink and my camera. I took a few pictures to prove that I was actually there, see the lazy river off in the distance?





By this time it was getting close to the time that I needed to get back to the room to get ready for our early dinner. We got dressed and headed to DHS for our ADR at the Hollywood Brown Derby. We took the boat over there.























And Fran on her rental scooter.



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[franandaj]

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We headed directly to the restaurant and met up with PIO and her family. I must say this is another one of those nights where I neglected to take any pictures of the people!

I did capture the room!





The view at our table.



Another one of the Disney Light Fixtures.



And on to the menu.







We were doing the Fantasmic! dining package, so we each got to choose one item from each section. Now I must mention that on our way over here I got an email from the realtor that Escrow had FINALLY closed on the house, and it was actually ours, so a celebration was in order! I had a Belvedere Gibson to mark the occasion.



Fran had a Margarita



I believe that this was PIO’s blue drink.



We were served Bread and Butter





For appetizers, Fran ordered the Portsmouth Lobster Bisque with a Crispy Lobster Ravioli and Sherry Gastrique. She said it was wonderful. I think PIO also went with a serve of the Lobster Bisque.



I got the “Famous Cobb Salad”, this is one of my most favorite things here. It was so good! Everything is chopped up nice and fine so that the dressing coasts every piece of salad evenly and you get a taste of just about everything in each bite!



I had a glass of Chardonnay to accompany my salad.



PIO’s DS went with the Cheese plate which had Champignon Brie, Midnight Moon Goat Cheese, Flora Nell Blue Cheese with Raisins on the Vine and Spiced Pecans. He didn’t say much, but I believe he enjoyed it because I think the whole plate was clear.



PIO’s DH got the Bibb Lettuce Salad drizzled with a Peppercorn-Sweet Onion Dressing, Cherry Tomatoes, Shaved Radishes, and Parmesan-Seed Frico.



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[franandaj]

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For our entrées I believe that again both Fran and PIO made similar choices and had the Chateaubriand.



I had the Roasted Rack of Lamb



DS had the Duck Two Ways



PIO’s DH had the Grilled Salmon.



While I don’t have reviews from any of the individuals, I believe everyone really enjoyed their meals, I don’t think there was much of anything left on anyone’s plates, including my own!

Next up was dessert. Fran went with the signature Grapefruit Cake. While she enjoyed it, I think she would have preferred the cheesecake or the crème brulee.



The birthday boy received a special chocolate mousse.



I got the Strawberry Champagne Cheesecake, this was good, but with finishing my lamb, I couldn’t finish this. Fran was more than happy to help me (which I why I know she liked mine better!).



DS got the Banana-White Chocolate Toffee Tower on Cocoa-Almond Cookie and Bananas Foster.



PIO got the Crème Brulee which she seemed quite pleased with.



After this we were ready to roll out of there!