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[jedijill]

Mmmm, lunch looked incredible and what a fun group of folks! Glad the menu/portions are getting better!

Jill in CO

 

[ACDSNY]

Yup! I bet you do! I got a headband to go with it as well!

Hmm, I might need to look for the headband once I get there.

Your lunch is making me drool, I'm glad you're seeing some improvement in your meals there.

 

[Pinkocto]

Lunch looked absolutely delicious! I would have gone with Fran's first two choices and then your fish. My mouth is watering!

 

[rentayenta]

It was a fun dy at the park! I'm sure I have pics but holy crap, I have NO time to post. The beer and margaritas were delicious as was lunch. Always such a nice time when we get together.

Your other lunch looks amazing as well. We also had the crab appetizer and it was TO DIE FOR! Rich and gooey goodness. I had the pea soup and really enjoyed it.

Glad you got the pool blue again. What a pain. That burger looks so good. I haven't eatne breakfast today and your updates aren't helping.

I can't believe we are going to miss you in October.

 

[Paula Sedley-Burke]

Just catching up! Congrats on letting out the apartment. The Wonder cruise sounds great. No formal night! Dress up anyway many folks do. That is what is great about DCL. The flexibility.

The Dream great! I hope you get your Remy brunch.

Your C33 lunch looks top notch. How neat the quail was deboned. I am with Fran to fiddly otherwise. How exciting about getting a new lense. Have fun with that! You had some nice meet ups with great folks and the weather looked smashing.

 

[mvf-m11c]

The lunch look very appetizing. All the food looks amazing and good to read that it is improving.

 

[PrincessInOz]

What an amazing looking C33 meal. It does look delicious! Thanks for sharing.

 

[franandaj]

Alison, so wonderful to read your report on our amazing lunch!! I am full of envy of the beautiful pictures you got! Will comment more in detail later today!

And the creme brulee was indeed the best one I ever had in my life!

It was a very amazing day, and I was so thrilled that the club finally had turned around back to a place that enjoyed visiting.

That is such a nice photo.

Thanks! It was the only one that we got to prove we met up!

I am glad that lunch was a success

After many frustrating experiences, I was pleased that it was so enjoyable.

It is pretty and I liked the look of what was on the main menu, too.

That's good, maybe you might want to order some of it sometime.

That sounds delicious. I am not normally keen on mint, but I do love the virgin Mint Juleps so I think I would love this.

You'll have to try one!

That's not a bad turnaround time.

That's our best so far since I've been working in the apartment business.

Well, uh...it's natural.

Natural swamp.

Wow! Nice work!

Much better!

Hard to beat that one.

It was cool!

Then your photoshop skills are better than mine!

Removing unwanted folks is easy, adding new ones in, now that's beyond my skill level.

Looks like a good one!

Definitely was.

That's ok. We can imagine that the others look like Matt Damon, Reese Witherspoon, etc.

Or not.

Glad to hear it! So glad you could meet up with Magdalene and company. I'm sure it was a great time!

They were all a lot of fun.

Keep your weeds, and give me the filet!

Hey, I didn't have the weeds either!

Good luck in your continuing effort to clear out and rent out the old place. I'm glad ebay is being good to you!

Yeah, about that. It's been a while since we've done anything on that.

The pool/burger party looks like a good time. I'm glad you were able to clear up the green water for it.

We probably have time (seasonwise) for one more this year. Not that we can't still hang out in the yard, but since the pool is heated by the sun, it won't get hot enough to heat the pool. The hot tub is always good year round!

Once again, I'm jealous of your random visits to Disneyland. I'm glad you got to have a fun afternoon with Dis friends though.

It's one of my favorite things about living in Southern California.

ETA- Missed the Club 33 update at first. Lunch actually looks really good. Again, I'm jealous of your visits to Club 33. And I thought the food looked fantastic.

It was a really good lunch, the first of quite a few good meals!

It's so nice that you can just pop over to Disneyland for the day or lunch! Glad Fran felt up to joining you.

The food was so fancy! But, your pictures literally had my mouth watering!!

That is one of the best things about living where we do, I have a few more days similar to that to post, but not all with such elegant meals!

Oh drat! Next time!
Yes, being laid up was very boring- I enjoyed back reading TR's and got to know a lot of Dis'ers.
With this next trip I'm looking forward to taking it slow and really enjoying details.
Maybe we will catch you guys on the next trip, I bet you will have a blast on the cruise, we'd like to try one of the classic ships sometime.

I know! I was bummed when you posted your dates and they're the same dates that I'm gone! Maybe next time. I've only been on the Classic ships, my first time on the new ones will be in December.

Whoops should have multi quoted but oh well!

Great update, green pools can be sooo frustrating- my inlaws have a pool at their ranch where we spend a lot of time and help maintain, they can really drive you crazy!

I'm not supposed to have to worry about the pool. That's why we pay people to do it!

Your lunch looks yummy, can't beat homemade buns

Wow that C33 Lunch menu is fab, so many great dishes! DH and I would order very similar to you and Fran actually! Someday...

The dinner was great as was the Club 33 lunch. The menu has become a lot better, maybe the menu hasn't changed, but the dishes seem a lot better.

 

[dolphingirl47]

That's good, maybe you might want to order some of it sometime.

You never know.

You'll have to try one!

I think I may have to.

By this time next week, I am hopefully all checked in at the Disneyland Hotel and then I get to meet you the day after.

Corinna

 

[franandaj]

Mmmm, lunch looked incredible and what a fun group of folks! Glad the menu/portions are getting better!

Jill in CO

It was a great lunch and we laughed almost the whole time. I'm so glad the experience had improved. I'm looking forward to my next trip there!

Hmm, I might need to look for the headband once I get there.

The store next to the Gumbo stand.

Your lunch is making me drool, I'm glad you're seeing some improvement in your meals there.

Me too. As I said above I'm really looking forward to my next meal there.

Lunch looked absolutely delicious! I would have gone with Fran's first two choices and then your fish. My mouth is watering!

It was really good, she was a little heavy on the veg, but I imagine that's what you liked! The fish was so good!

 

[franandaj]

It was a fun dy at the park! I'm sure I have pics but holy crap, I have NO time to post. The beer and margaritas were delicious as was lunch. Always such a nice time when we get together.

It's not that you have no time to post, it's that you choose to spend your time off work with your family and friends. Since we don't have any nearby, I have plenty of time to post when I'm home!

Your other lunch looks amazing as well. We also had the crab appetizer and it was TO DIE FOR! Rich and gooey goodness. I had the pea soup and really enjoyed it.

That crab appetizer was so totally good! I would go back and have that alone in a heartbeat!

Glad you got the pool blue again. What a pain. That burger looks so good. I haven't eatne breakfast today and your updates aren't helping.

I don't want to have to deal with the pool again. If this pool service doesn't work out, I'm at my wits end. We are on our third pool service. At least this one we can go into the store and complain if they screw up!

I can't believe we are going to miss you in October.

I know, I'm so bummed. I wish you guys were still on the cruise.

Just catching up! Congrats on letting out the apartment. The Wonder cruise sounds great. No formal night! Dress up anyway many folks do. That is what is great about DCL. The flexibility.

I'm going to at least dress up for the Palo night, you should see the skirt that I have, you will in the pictures on the TR!

The Dream great! I hope you get your Remy brunch.

I did! Now I'm in charge of organizing a private mixology class, so far we have 12, I hope we get enough to book one!

Your C33 lunch looks top notch. How neat the quail was deboned. I am with Fran to fiddly otherwise. How exciting about getting a new lense. Have fun with that! You had some nice meet ups with great folks and the weather looked smashing.

Well, the quail was not completely deboned, but mostly. I still haven't gotten the new lens. We are still looking and working on what Fran is willing to spend, at least that is what I am thinking is holding her back. The one I want is $1500, but even I can justify that.

The lunch look very appetizing. All the food looks amazing and good to read that it is improving.

What an amazing looking C33 meal. It does look delicious! Thanks for sharing.

You're welcome!

You never know.

I think I may have to.

By this time next week, I am hopefully all checked in at the Disneyland Hotel and then I get to meet you the day after.

We'll have to see what transpires! I hope that your plans all go as you hope!

 

[skier_pete]

Sorry, getting back in the loop after our WDW vacation - looks like you had some good days in the park this past month! The meals look delicious!

 

[franandaj]

Sorry, getting back in the loop after our WDW vacation - looks like you had some good days in the park this past month! The meals look delicious!

We had a few more as well that I'm still working on! This month has been a little lean, but I'll make up for that next week!

 

[franandaj]

We left off with a great lunch and I know that our companions ended up back in the park enjoying some rides while Fran and I went back home so that we could make sure our cats were not torn in half by Coyotes running the neighborhood after dark.

I headed back to the park the following day to meet up with Magdalene and friends. I think our first ride was Soarin, but I’m not exactly sure. Radiator Springs Racers was right up in there for the top of the list, and while I had rented a cool lens that was supposed to be able to take great dark ride pictures, somehow, I had turned it from Auto focus to whatever, and none of my pictures on RSR came out. It wasn’t until the ride was over that I figured it out. I did get a picture of us all in the car, but since no one wanted to be pictured in the red neck shot, I cropped it for just Magdalene and me.



We may have gone on CA Screamin, and I think there was some sort of big delay on that ride which really slowed us down. I know we headed over to TSMM, but by this point, but we wanted to see a specific show of Aladdin. One of the friends in our tour group knew the puppeteer for Iago in the show we were trying to make. We ended up bailing on the TSMM ride in order to make the particular show of Aladdin.

We got great seats, up front in the 3rd row. I finally got to make good use of the lens that I was renting. It worked out really well for how close we were to the stage, but I really did find the fixed length rather limiting in this case. I was able to capture some scenes that I would have been unable to shoot with my other lenses.

















The Genie always steals the show, and this time was no exception.



I just love this scene. I am really going to miss this show when it is replaced by Frozen.









Our close location to the stage gave us a great view of the Prince’s procession.







Then there’s the romantic and touching moment. I didn’t get any shots of the flying carpet, but it’s nice to see that they have brought back this element. Probably with more straps and secure cables.

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And then the story takes a turn for the worse.


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The effects in this show are great! Love the demise of Jafar!

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And then we have the happy ending.

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By the time we reached the happy ending, I was so pleased with the lens in this setting that I was taking pictures of rapid movement in low light, just because I could.

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Final Curtain Call.

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[franandaj]

After the show, we were all hungry, but we were waiting on the friend from the show who puppeted Iago. We left the guys to wait for the friend, and Magdalene and I went on Tower of Terror. By this time, the group was ready for lunch. We headed to Flo’s V8 Café. This was a new one for me, so I was happy to try something new.







They had these cute little screens like Juke Boxes at every ordering counter.





Most people in our party ordered the Roast Beef and Cheddar. I got this and it was pretty good. I was surprised because I was able to eat the entire meal. I must have worked up quite and appetite.



One person ordered the Citrus Turkey Salad. I didn’t get a review of this one, but it looked pretty good.



A couple people in our party ordered this Turkey Dip. I think this was enjoyed because everyone seemed to finish it all.



I did forget to take a picture of Magdalene’s Ribs. They looked really good and I’m not sure why I missed it. I did take a few shots of our view during lunch.





And then we were on the move again, but where to next? You’ll have to wait and see!

 

[jedijill]

I'm going to cry when Aladdin goes away! Its such a great show! Guess I need to go see it on Broadway and the cruise!

Looks like a fun day...so cool someone knew the puppeteer! The food at Flo's looked great...I haven't eaten there yet either!

Jill in CO

 

[mvf-m11c]

It is going to be sad when Aladdin goes away for another Frozen show. It is an amazing show especially with the Genie. I remember sometime back around 2009 when Disney announced that Toy Story the Musical was going to replace Aladdin but it never happened. Nice that you were able to do a lot of rides that day with Magdalene and their friends. From the shots you posted with the rented lens, I would guess that it is a 50mm f/1.8 prime lens. You took nice pictures from the Aladdin show.

I haven't been to Flo's V8 Cafe in a long time since I didn't enjoy the food. Maybe it might have improved since 2012. The food looks nice.

Very nice update.

 

[Pinkocto]

I do NOT like that Frozen is taking over everything. Sure, a few things here and there but things have gotten too much. IMHO. But I do love Olaf so I'm not totally against it.

Great pictures cool about Iago's handler.

The outside eating area looks really cool with RSR in the background.

 

[dolphingirl47]

It looks like you had another lovely day in the park. The photos from Aladdin came out great. In November, we were in the first row of the second section and the process passed right in front of us. This was quite something. How neat to get to meet one of the people in the show. Lunch looked lovely.

Corinna

 

[afwdwfan]

I just love this scene. I am really going to miss this show when it is replaced by Frozen.

Such a disappointment. This literally is the best theme park show I've seen and it is a shame that it will be going away. I haven't followed this story closely. Are they replacing it with a new Frozen show, or are they just going to move the Frozen Sing Along into that building?

And then will Muppets come back?

Most people in our party ordered the Roast Beef and Cheddar. I got this and it was pretty good. I was surprised because I was able to eat the entire meal. I must have worked up quite and appetite.

I really thought all the meals there looked good. It was one of my favorite Disney counter service places on either coast. I enjoyed it and I'm glad you did too!

I did forget to take a picture of Magdalene’s Ribs. They looked really good and I’m not sure why I missed it.

They were awesome! Thanks for not getting a picture because I'd probably try to lick the screen.