The Pilgrimage with the Big Surprise - Trip from August 2010. LOTS of Pics. NEW 6/5

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Off to Japan for dinner. We were getting tired thanks to not being used to the Florida humidity. We were glad for the break.


A little silliness before the meal.

We love this restaurant, and made this one of our new favorites. It isn't just the food, but the show that goes on as well.

We had dinner with a nice couple from England who had never eaten at Teppan Edo. They liked it too, and agreed they would likely come back.

We were pretty whacked out at this point, and exited the park before Illuminations even began.

Tomorrow: DHS. One our favorite restaurants in the World.

 

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We slept in today. Only rising at 8:30am. This morning our DD was being difficult.

We grabbed some breakfast again. Adult platters and sandwhiches for the kids.
We only got to the Park around 10:30 am. Not needing to rush through this park, we knew we had time.

The line for Little Mermaid was pretty long, so we decided to hit the Great Movie Ride first. We had the Gangster.

We moved on to the Little Mermaid show after this.

 

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Becauser our DS is autistic, we have the GAC, which make any stroller function like a wheelchair for seating purposes. Well, the handicapped area in this theater is poorly designed. Enough to make DW complain about it. They gave us priority fastpasses for RRC and TOT.

We decided to make use of those passes since the two rides were near each other. We took a leisurely stroll down that way, and snapped a few pics.

Up next TOT, CCR, and Lunch.

 

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So again rather than toss our lunch on our fellow riders, we hit the TOT and RRC first, before filling our bellies.

Here's some shots of the TOT queue.

Again we got a pic taken. I do not come out looking well.

We hit the RRC, but we didn't take any pics here. I wait at the exit, since I refuse to ride this ride. DS got a car by himself, since his co-rider chickened out. We went to have lunch at Fairfax Fare. We'd not eaten at this place before, so it was new to us. The ribs were not as good as they are at Flame Tree BBQ in AK. (They're probably the same, but they tasted different here.)

Some food porn:

We then headed off to do the backlot tour. Here's some shots of the walk, and the show.

 

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Some personal issues kept me away for a week, but here we go again. We'll start with more of the backlot tour.

 

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Finishing up the backlot tour

 

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Guess we took a lot of pics here.

We went off to get pics with the Toy Story crew, since we were all wearing Toy Story shirts. We had to wait a good long time here, but with Toy Story Mania closed, it took up that same time. Perhaps.

 

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We did a family shot, and yours truly by himself.

At this point we went off to do Star Tours and Sounds Dangerous. Star Tours was getting ready to shut down for it's remodel. I understand it's up now. After those two, we decided to go relax for a bit and wait for our dinner rezzie at 50's PTC.

Next up, Dinnet at 50's PTC.

 

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More waiting and some of the decor. DW just loves this place. Reminds her of her grandparents house.

 

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Here's everyone's favorite: Food Porn!

The Seafood Salad

The lettuce wedge salad

DS & DD both had the chicken noodle soup.

The kids got milkshakes for thier beverage for dinner.

I got the steak.

DW got the meatloaf.

DS got the pot roast

DW got the Mac & Cheese.

Desserts are coming!

DS got the Smores

More Smores

DD got the build your own sundae.

DW got the Dad's Brownie Sundae.

While I got the Apple Cobbler.

We also got the kids each a little something extra here. A surprise cake with little trinkets and a chest for each of them.

After dinner we headed home. Fantasmic was not being shown tonight due to budget issues. We left the park about 8:30, went back to the hotel, and let the kids swim from 10:15 to 10:45.

 

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Drat & Tarnation! Looks like I have to wait until the 25th to make my next post.

 

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So finnaly we get to the Magic Kingom. We skipped breakfast today due to an early lunch reservation.

We were so happy to be taking the monorail to the park from the hotel. It was different somehow this time. Here's some shots of us getting over there.

We were outside waiting to get some pics done. I took a few of the kids.

The family portrait

We'll end this post with a classic:

Next up: We begin our trek.

 

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I started off taking a few pics of the Station house.

We went looking for this quasi-mystical phone, that will give you a message from some Disney character. We found it, but we couldn't hear from it very well.

The approach to the phone:

The phone:

I took a few shots outside:

A better castle shot:

My wife has a shot of her & her sister in this spot in a stroller from like the 70s. I'll have to dig it up from somewhere....

Found it:

We headed in to Adventureland, since our lunch rezzie was at LTT, in Frontierland.

The kids wanted to trek through the Swiss Treehouse, so I followed along.

 

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More from the treehouse

Off to the Tiki Room!

From here it was off to the Jungle Cruise!

 

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We had a good 'Captain' for this ride. Jeff was his name. He gave the 'dry' humor a bit of 'wet' that it desperately needs.

 

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The conclusion of the Jungle Cruise

We made our way around to Pirates and got on the classic ride.

We got stuck on this ride for about 20 minutes as we were nearing the exit. Not sure what the issue was, but we were in danger of missing our lunch rezzie. Never fear we made it.

Liberty Tree Tavern for lunch.

Food Porn in the next post.

 

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We had Lunch in the LTT. We like the food here. Good and simple.

The Clam Chowder soup:

Fried Cheese:

Another Soup pic:

Some of the decor

Kids Mac & cheese for DD:

The DW and I got the same thing, which is rare. The pot roast:

DS got the turkey with stuffing

A better (?) shot of the mac & cheese

Anoter shot of the mug:

Me being silly:

DS & DW got the brownie dessert:

I got the toffee Cake

DD got this:

Off to the Hall of President for some shots:

Next up: Haunted Mansion!

 

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Off to the Haunted Mansion to finish our tour of Liberty Square

DS caught his shirt on the exit near the pet cemetary and ripped it. Not too bad, so we did not let this slow us down. Onward to Fantasyland!

We hit Peter Pan. Small World was closed today for some reason

 

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We continue onward to Mickey's Philharmagic.

Then off to the Snow White Ride

Then Winnie the Pooh

 

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Winnie the Pooh Continues:

We continued our loop to:

We it the barnstormer, but then caught the train:

We got off again in Toontown, and headed towards Tomorrowland. First stop the TTA