Table for Humina, Humina?_____completed! 7/30
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Sorry to hear about the loss of your Nana Laura. Sounds like you have lots of great memories. Sending some 
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So sorry to hear about your Nana
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So sorry about your Nana
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Hi Everyone, I'm back and will have another review posted later today.
Thank you for the kind thoughts, words, ands. Especially Superduper Thanks to:
KeepMovingForward, BriarRosie, JerseyJanice, danalee, oybolshoi, TigerKat, hmgray95, Tink rules, jeminni, PNO4TE, robinm1215, Sandy321, wilma-bride, butiflfeet, you guys are the sweetest.
Thank you for the kind thoughts, words, and
s. Especially Superduper Thanks to:KeepMovingForward, BriarRosie, JerseyJanice, danalee, oybolshoi, TigerKat, hmgray95, Tink rules, jeminni, PNO4TE, robinm1215, Sandy321, wilma-bride, butiflfeet, you guys are the sweetest.
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When we last left our intrepid heroine she had already stuffed herself at a buffett, gorged herself on a pack of zebra domes, and devored a dolewhip. And yet, by the time she wandered back to her hotel in the early evening her belly, and only companion on this trip, started rumbling again. Feed me seymour!
Not being one to disobey my food bag, I hopped the next boat to DTD. This is one of the best parts about staying at POR, POFQ, OKW, and SSR. I've stayed at all of them, except SSR. I've stayed in this area for half of my WDW trips and it's so nice to cruise on over to DTD and not have to worry about busses. I find the DTD bus stops to be just so annoying. I think staying at either an EPCOT resort or a DTD area resort are the best ways to go for me. Though, without the Adventurers Club
I think I'm going to find my way to the Swolphin on my next trip.
What I find so weird aboout POR and POFQ is you never see that many people around. Both resorts put together are huge, but I only really see people in the food court, at the pool, and at the lounges when there is music. I've walked around the whole resort at every hour of day and only bumped into a handfull of people. It makes me feel like I'm in the Truman show or something.
This particular boat ride to DTD should have been more pleasant than on my arrival night. For starters it wasn't negative-buttfreeze degrees outside, there was only a nice quiet couple on the boat, and the captain wasn't one of those overly chatty tour guide-y kind of guys. Sometimes I just want a nice relaxing ride and not the poor man's jungle cruise. How ever when we made out stop at POFQ our boat was boarded by the most dreaded creatures in all of Dis-endom. Tweens
And with them were the third most feared bipeds after tweens and ostrichs Surly Teens
The tweens (about 5 of 'em) went to the back of the boat sans parental units btw to speak in tongues or whatever about lord only knows what. What I do know is that they were reaching decibels so high that Goofy was going to have quite the headache the next day. The nice couple who had been at the back of the boat moved to the front, since they were so loud.
In the benches across from me sat the teenagers who were just mortified at their siblings (I guess they were the defacto parental units for the evening) and couldn't believe how lame Disney World was, and wah wah wah. Oh, poor baby, your parents spent thousands of dollars to take you on a memorable family vacation with your cousins. Seriously kids, push out the jive and bring in the love.
It was like the bipolar cruise experiance. Manic crazy energy in back, lazy crybabies in the front. All I know is that nonone shut up for the whole ride to DTD. I practically launched myself off of the boat and ran to Raglan Road.
can't talk, running to booze
I did not have an ADR, but since it was a Monday they were able to seat me right away. The hostess started heading to one of the side areas, walking right past the 6 or so empty 2-tops in the main room. I asked if I could be seated where the action is and I got 2 tables over from where I sat earlier this week.
Nobody puts baby in the corner!
First order of business was getting my buzz on. A Celtic Martini si'vous plait. Yes, that's french, not gaelic, but I only know how to speak Irish Drinking Songs, not actual Irish.
I was given a basket of the irish soda bread with the Guinness sauce and mmmmmmm this is tasty. I love soda bread, I make soda bread at home, and usually the main complaint people have with it is that it's dry. Real soda bread doesn't really keep very well, so it has to be consummed within like 2, maybe 3, days. This soda bread was tasty and even though soda bread always is a little dry, the dipping sauce totally helped.
mmmm beer sauce
This evening I decided to get 2 appetizers, in instead of a main course, and first up was Granny's soup: Tomato, basil, and gin soup.
God bless the irish, there's even liquor in the food.
Tomatoes, incase I haven't mentioned this before, are my most favorite food. I hail from the great state of New Jersey, where we grow the juiciest, plumpest, tastiest tomotoes in our toxic waste infused soil. I have had heirloom tomatoes out here in California that aren't even half as tasty as what I could get back in South Jersey. This soup totally did not disappoint. Creamy, tomato-y, tangy. Where is my drool emoticon?
Next up was the Scallop Forest:
Scallop-ula the Impaler
Neither of my two shots worked out that great, so here's another where you can see the whole thing but the flash was wonky.
All I can think is someone must really hate the dishwasher. I guess it's nice if there are a lot of people sharing, no chance of touching someone else's food, or if you have a fork fetish personally I prefer spoons , but it's kind of a silly presentation imho. I guess I can't see the forest for the forks.
Now here is where I'm going to disappoint some people. It was dessert time and I did not order the Ger's Bread and Butter pudding.
I had every intention of getting it, but by my third drink I was really starting to feel all the food I had inhaled during the day. I still had to order something of course, so I got what looked like the lightest option.
Dundon's Delight- Raspberrys, sorbet, some kind of sauce (that's all my notes say, and it's off the menus rotation online now) When they brought it out I giggled because the meringue on top looks like a little hiney.
waiter! my dessert is mooning me
It was light, which is what I needed at this point. It was also nice and cool, a little zingy, and didn't make me explode.
This evening there was also another round of undead foot stomping fun.
These zombies will never sneak up on us, beause we will defidently hear them coming.
And so ended another great meal at Raglan Road. I have put it on my ADR list for this upcoming trip and I will be getting the bread pudding. And also several more Celtic Martinis.
After my meal I took the boat to POFQ and walked back to my room at POR, as if I hadn't already done enough walking that day between Animal Kingdom, AKL, FtW, WL, and DTD.
this is what nightmares are made of
i don't know if he wants to hit on me or wear my face as a mask
Up next: The Brown Derby, the seconding
Not being one to disobey my food bag, I hopped the next boat to DTD. This is one of the best parts about staying at POR, POFQ, OKW, and SSR. I've stayed at all of them, except SSR. I've stayed in this area for half of my WDW trips and it's so nice to cruise on over to DTD and not have to worry about busses. I find the DTD bus stops to be just so annoying. I think staying at either an EPCOT resort or a DTD area resort are the best ways to go for me. Though, without the Adventurers Club
I think I'm going to find my way to the Swolphin on my next trip.
What I find so weird aboout POR and POFQ is you never see that many people around. Both resorts put together are huge, but I only really see people in the food court, at the pool, and at the lounges when there is music. I've walked around the whole resort at every hour of day and only bumped into a handfull of people. It makes me feel like I'm in the Truman show or something.
This particular boat ride to DTD should have been more pleasant than on my arrival night. For starters it wasn't negative-buttfreeze degrees outside, there was only a nice quiet couple on the boat, and the captain wasn't one of those overly chatty tour guide-y kind of guys. Sometimes I just want a nice relaxing ride and not the poor man's jungle cruise. How ever when we made out stop at POFQ our boat was boarded by the most dreaded creatures in all of Dis-endom. Tweens
And with them were the third most feared bipeds after tweens and ostrichs Surly TeensThe tweens (about 5 of 'em) went to the back of the boat sans parental units btw to speak in tongues or whatever about lord only knows what. What I do know is that they were reaching decibels so high that Goofy was going to have quite the headache the next day. The nice couple who had been at the back of the boat moved to the front, since they were so loud.
In the benches across from me sat the teenagers who were just mortified at their siblings (I guess they were the defacto parental units for the evening) and couldn't believe how lame Disney World was, and wah wah wah. Oh, poor baby, your parents spent thousands of dollars to take you on a memorable family vacation with your cousins. Seriously kids, push out the jive and bring in the love.
It was like the bipolar cruise experiance. Manic crazy energy in back, lazy crybabies in the front. All I know is that nonone shut up for the whole ride to DTD. I practically launched myself off of the boat and ran to Raglan Road.
can't talk, running to booze
I did not have an ADR, but since it was a Monday they were able to seat me right away. The hostess started heading to one of the side areas, walking right past the 6 or so empty 2-tops in the main room. I asked if I could be seated where the action is and I got 2 tables over from where I sat earlier this week.
Nobody puts baby in the corner!
First order of business was getting my buzz on. A Celtic Martini si'vous plait. Yes, that's french, not gaelic, but I only know how to speak Irish Drinking Songs, not actual Irish.
I was given a basket of the irish soda bread with the Guinness sauce and mmmmmmm this is tasty. I love soda bread, I make soda bread at home, and usually the main complaint people have with it is that it's dry. Real soda bread doesn't really keep very well, so it has to be consummed within like 2, maybe 3, days. This soda bread was tasty and even though soda bread always is a little dry, the dipping sauce totally helped.
mmmm beer sauce
This evening I decided to get 2 appetizers, in instead of a main course, and first up was Granny's soup: Tomato, basil, and gin soup.
God bless the irish, there's even liquor in the food.
Tomatoes, incase I haven't mentioned this before, are my most favorite food. I hail from the great state of New Jersey, where we grow the juiciest, plumpest, tastiest tomotoes in our toxic waste infused soil. I have had heirloom tomatoes out here in California that aren't even half as tasty as what I could get back in South Jersey. This soup totally did not disappoint. Creamy, tomato-y, tangy. Where is my drool emoticon?
Next up was the Scallop Forest:
Scallop-ula the Impaler
Neither of my two shots worked out that great, so here's another where you can see the whole thing but the flash was wonky.
All I can think is someone must really hate the dishwasher. I guess it's nice if there are a lot of people sharing, no chance of touching someone else's food, or if you have a fork fetish personally I prefer spoons , but it's kind of a silly presentation imho. I guess I can't see the forest for the forks.
Now here is where I'm going to disappoint some people. It was dessert time and I did not order the Ger's Bread and Butter pudding.
I had every intention of getting it, but by my third drink I was really starting to feel all the food I had inhaled during the day. I still had to order something of course, so I got what looked like the lightest option.Dundon's Delight- Raspberrys, sorbet, some kind of sauce (that's all my notes say, and it's off the menus rotation online now) When they brought it out I giggled because the meringue on top looks like a little hiney.
waiter! my dessert is mooning me
It was light, which is what I needed at this point. It was also nice and cool, a little zingy, and didn't make me explode.
This evening there was also another round of undead foot stomping fun.
These zombies will never sneak up on us, beause we will defidently hear them coming.
And so ended another great meal at Raglan Road. I have put it on my ADR list for this upcoming trip and I will be getting the bread pudding. And also several more Celtic Martinis.
After my meal I took the boat to POFQ and walked back to my room at POR, as if I hadn't already done enough walking that day between Animal Kingdom, AKL, FtW, WL, and DTD.
this is what nightmares are made of
i don't know if he wants to hit on me or wear my face as a mask
Up next: The Brown Derby, the seconding
wilma-bride
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Great update - I really, really want to try those scallops at RR
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I have GOT to figure out a way to make it over there... I may steal your idea and order appetizers... and Dessert!! Most of the entree's never really spoke to me so it seems like a logical course. (Wish I'd've thought of it!)
Great update. Welcome back.
ETA - I have to say I LOVED your piccies of POR. We stayed there last trip and l.o.v.e.d. it.
Great update. Welcome back.
ETA - I have to say I LOVED your piccies of POR. We stayed there last trip and l.o.v.e.d. it.
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welcome back!
And funny funny update ...
... we've had Granny's Soup at RR and it's gin-licious. 
I may have to try one of those Celtic Martinis come October ... I usually start with a Celtic Sangria but the last time I was there it was pretty weak and I had to fortify myself with a beer sampler and two whiskey samplers.
And funny funny update ...
... we've had Granny's Soup at RR and it's gin-licious. I may have to try one of those Celtic Martinis come October ... I usually start with a Celtic Sangria but the last time I was there it was pretty weak and I had to fortify myself with a beer sampler and two whiskey samplers.
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Amen sister! I have found my Jersey tomato twin. I may soon take on a reddish pallor and it won't be due to sun exposure. Now if I start to sprout of third eye or something, then we definitely know our toxic soil may in fact be an issue. Did I mention I glow in the dark already?
Love the mansion buildings and I'm always amazed by the lack of people around the resort too. Its so pretty there that you'd think folks would want to stroll around a bit and enjoy.
That cracks me up over the kids on the boat. I'm so happy my teenagers never thought of Disney as being lame. We raised 'em right! Now that high pitched squealing the kids do...I don't know, this happens to my DD when she's with her friends. Sounds like dolphins talking to each other and I'll never understand. I guess I didn't study my Flipper episodes too well in my youth cause my dolphin speak is no good.
Shenanigoat
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They were really good, just presented funny. It's one of the "for two" choices, and they have another one for solo enjoyment that I'm eyeing.
I have GOT to figure out a way to make it over there... I may steal your idea and order appetizers... and Dessert!! Most of the entree's never really spoke to me so it seems like a logical course. (Wish I'd've thought of it!)
Great update. Welcome back.
ETA - I have to say I LOVED your piccies of POR. We stayed there last trip and l.o.v.e.d. it.
Oh thank you! It is a lovely resort isn't it? And I do the double appetizer thing alot, especially if I'm going to be boozing.
Glad to have you back! Great installment, we love RR.
It's good to be back, thanks!
welcome back!
And funny funny update ...
I may have to try one of those Celtic Martinis come October ... I usually start with a Celtic Sangria but the last time I was there it was pretty weak and I had to fortify myself with a beer sampler and two whiskey samplers.
I was eyeing those samplers too, but as a solo person I thought it would look funny. The Celtic Margarita is really good, and packs a little kick. I think it's just pure happy juice, and a little cherry.Amen sister! I have found my Jersey tomato twin. I may soon take on a reddish pallor and it won't be due to sun exposure. Now if I start to sprout of third eye or something, then we definitely know our toxic soil may in fact be an issue. Did I mention I glow in the dark already?
Love the mansion buildings and I'm always amazed by the lack of people around the resort too. Its so pretty there that you'd think folks would want to stroll around a bit and enjoy.
That cracks me up over the kids on the boat. I'm so happy my teenagers never thought of Disney as being lame. We raised 'em right! Now that high pitched squealing the kids do...I don't know, this happens to my DD when she's with her friends. Sounds like dolphins talking to each other and I'll never understand. I guess I didn't study my Flipper episodes too well in my youth cause my dolphin speak is no good.
Tomato twin! I am soooo jealous that you still live in the land of plenty!
What's so scary to me is how in alot of cases I'm closer in age to people I'd rather not be with (teens) than all my friends and family, but that gap is widening thankfully. The Spouse has a good 11 years on me and he surely doesn't squeal, well not unless you ask nicely
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I've been on that Downtown Disney boat from Port Orleans when the weather was colder than a witch's....you get the idea. That would have been the icing on the cake for you. I bet the kids would have gone quiet if you pitched the mother of all hissy fits.
Don't blame you for wanting some liquid refreshment. Don't be afraid to get the beer sampler. It won't bite.
I've done the appetizers/desserts thing before, especially when solo. It's pretty awesome, isn't it! I would have wanted the other fork-centric item on the menu, those li'l snausages thingamabobs.
By the end of that meal, you turned into Mr. Creosote from Catherine's signature pic. Would you like a wafer-thin mint?
Welcome back.
Don't blame you for wanting some liquid refreshment. Don't be afraid to get the beer sampler. It won't bite.
I've done the appetizers/desserts thing before, especially when solo. It's pretty awesome, isn't it! I would have wanted the other fork-centric item on the menu, those li'l snausages thingamabobs.
By the end of that meal, you turned into Mr. Creosote from Catherine's signature pic. Would you like a wafer-thin mint?
Welcome back.
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Ohhh how I miss my Jersey Beefsteaks.... 
& the corn!!!!!
You'd think... I live in the middle of farm land & you'd think they could figure out how to grow a decent tomato...
I think you're right... they could turn the Meadowlands back into farm country as soon as the close the landfill...
& the corn!!!!!
You'd think... I live in the middle of farm land & you'd think they could figure out how to grow a decent tomato...
I think you're right... they could turn the Meadowlands back into farm country as soon as the close the landfill...
Shenanigoat
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I've been on that Downtown Disney boat from Port Orleans when the weather was colder than a witch's....you get the idea. That would have been the icing on the cake for you. I bet the kids would have gone quiet if you pitched the mother of all hissy fits.
Don't blame you for wanting some liquid refreshment. Don't be afraid to get the beer sampler. It won't bite.
I've done the appetizers/desserts thing before, especially when solo. It's pretty awesome, isn't it! I would have wanted the other fork-centric item on the menu, those li'l snausages thingamabobs.
By the end of that meal, you turned into Mr. Creosote from Catherine's signature pic. Would you like a wafer-thin mint?
Welcome back.
Get the bucket!
Ohhh how I miss my Jersey Beefsteaks....
& the corn!!!!!
You'd think... I live in the middle of farm land & you'd think they could figure out how to grow a decent tomato...
I think you're right... they could turn the Meadowlands back into farm country as soon as the close the landfill...
I hear you about farmland, that's what CA is supposed to be and yet, sad tomatoes. My Spouse doesn't even believe me that they are that good in NJ. When I eventually drag him to the Mothership he'll understand.
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I was anxiously awaiting your next review (I rely on "update" in the subject line...I know, a snazzy system I have.) I was a little bummed it was taking longer than usual, but didn't check the actual thread. Sorry to hear why it took longer 
I keep hearing good things about Raglan Road (well, minus MickeyNiki's review!) I might have to try it for myself!!
I keep hearing good things about Raglan Road (well, minus MickeyNiki's review!) I might have to try it for myself!!
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