Thanks for pm-ing me your new TR link! I'm rarely on the
DVC boards. Just so used to the regular Trip Report boards!
On that trip, she didn’t get to do exactly what she wanted to do, you might remember that she feigned illness to go back to the room, and then I GPS tracked her all over Epcot shopping and “doing her thing.”
That is just too funny!!
Every single time we fly the TSA searches my luggage and they never relock the locks. There are thieves out there, and I don't want them stealing my stuff! I carry my jewelry and meds in my carry on, but still there is stuff in there I like!
Haha that is a good idea! Is there something that makes them search your bag each time?
They likely are using the SSR renovations as a handy excuse to move Guests they feel are most likely to spend on Riviera." Well, we will see. I have my 1000 points and don't really need anymore, but it will be nice to experience this brand new resort at SSR point prices.
Haha that would be my reasoning too! But what a nice upgrade! I saw a one bedroom at the Riviera last time because Molly got upgraded to a 1-BR and it was so nice. Much nicer than the room we were in at CBR.
The soup was the clear winner here. It was hot and tasty. I might have been happier with a large bowl of that and some crusty bread. The real loser here was the fries. They were cold, needed salt and just generally disappointing. We weren't going to complain though. We rarely do over stuff like this, sometimes it's just too much work to complain. It takes too long for them to make the food all over. And we were tired, but at least we weren't hungry anymore.
We got the Croque monsieur there too once. I think it was actually the croque madame with the egg on top. We really liked it! I got fries with my burger one day and luckily it wasn't cold. Cold fries are no good!
While many of you might think this is cool. I'm still a little traumatized that it's first accident happened the first day on my arrival of the last trip. Plus the fact that Fran and I have to ride in separate cars and several cars apart. Only one scooter can travel in the gondola. I have separation anxiety and the fact that I could be stuck alone in a car is a little disconcerting.
It sucks you guys have to ride separately! I really like the skyliner though, it gets us to those two parks really quickly. Although really only good when you're staying at the Skyliner resorts.
Business taken care of we headed to our first FP which was Star Tours. They had all new scenes, at least to me! It was very cool!
It was really cool!
We did a little shopping. I found some Dark Roast coffee in one of the shops, and we found Mickey hand corn holders. Fran won't use those little yellow corn ear holders that we have at home, but she said she would use these.
Haha because these are Mickey corn ear holders!
We took the elevator two floors up, and Fran asked, "Where do we go?" And as soon as we got out of the elevator she said, "Oh, it's just like the Fantasy." Tell me if you understand that reference cause I had the exact same thought!
Is it like walking from forward to aft and taking the elevators to Palo/Remy?
It was a huge portion. This picture is after we split it in half. The sauce and pasta were very tasty. The shrimp were overcooked. It was a little disappointing. Last October, for half the price, we had a lovely scampi at Tony's with perfectly cooked shrimp. This dish was rather unfortunate. We ate it anyways because I think for somewhere around $40 we weren't going to let it go to waste. As I said the sauce and pasta were very good.
Your food looked good! Too bad the shrimp were over cooked. We really enjoyed Topolino for brunch.
Fran asked for another half of muffin with some of the leftover Ricotta on it.
Yum! I would really like fresh ricotta on a raisin muffin now!
Well now we know. A room like this would cost around $600.00 per night on cash. DVC was one of the best investments we have ever made! Even the SSR room was up there in price!
I agree!! Even just a studio at the Poly is up there in price!
Yum I loved this!
However, my favorite here was the tomato stuffed with braised beef. This was really tasty. The beef was so tender and the tomato was done just enough so it would hold the filling without being undercooked.
We also got this and found it really good as well!!
We also got the French Martini. This was very good!
This too! France is a winner during this festival!
She wanted to visit the restroom and the closest one was in Morocco, so we headed there and that’s when I realized what a mistake it was to visit during the Festival of the Arts. In all the TRs that I’ve read, people showed pictures of the food, they posted pictures of them posing in the works of the Masters, but no one mentioned that there were dozens of Art Galleries throughout the park! Just about every artist you find in the Disneyana store at DL, or the other fine art stores throughout WDW had a tent or a part of a tent showcasing their paintings. Doh! I was able to keep her from buying an actual piece of artwork, Fran edit: She says that it was her own self who showed restraint. She did buy a poster at the first booth we came upon. It was for Greg McCullough.
LOL I guess I don't really buy that much art and when I do I get in online so I didn't do any art buying. We did browse and admire though!
The only thing that I wanted here was the Risotto. I thought it was really good, but Fran didn’t seem to care for it at all.
I enjoyed this a lot!
She got the Salmon Gateau, and thought it was just fabulous.
Oooh this looks fancy! Is it smoked salmon?
I wish we could travel that light.
1901 
YIKES!!! Glad they got it resolved... But still, YIKES!!! 
I had to reread it. What does it taste like? I usually like cosmos and lemon drops (all the sweet martinis).
