christygobar
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Cast of Characters:
Linda - mom, 52, goes with the flow of her bossy, perfectionist of a daughter. Spent much of her trip sick. Left my dad at home
Christy - daughter, 26, the ultimate in over-planning and the biggest Disney fan in the family. Single.
My dining review scale: 1-5 stars *****
Part 1 - Pre planning & Friday
Part 2 - AK, DTD & Cirque de Soleil
Part 3 - Epcot
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So we're tired. Make that exhausted. We decide to SLEEP IN. We *gasp* didn't set an alarm this morning.
I get a mickey belgian waffle with apples this morning, a cinnamon roll and a water. Can we say sugar high?? The mickey waffle with apples quickly rises its way to the top as one of my favorites. Mom gets nothing. Her stomach isn't doing so well still. She makes a breakfast of Pepto Bismol, Pepcid AC and Tums. Betcha didn't know you can combine all of those.
And we saunter into the Magic Kingdom around 10am. Ok, there's no sauntering involved. More like pushing and shoving our way onto the ferry boat. The crowds are much, much larger than they have been the 2 previous days. And the weather is feeling a liiiiiitle warmer (read: hot! And I'm born and bred Dallas, people!) than it has the past 2 days. There don't appear to be storm clouds around us this morning.
We head to Tomorrowland. Where there is now a 1 hour wait for Space Mountain and a 1 hour wait for Buzz Lightyear. We grab Fastpasses for Buzz first and head to get one for Space Mountain where I learn that you can only have ONE!FASTPASS!AT!A!TIME! My bad. We should have gotten it for Space Mountain instead. We ride TTA, walk to Mickey's Toontown Fair, and go back to Buzz Lightyear. Never could get that laser to work. My one and only chance - blast. Mom is feeling bad once again, so we go grab food from the Cosmic Ray's Food Court. Nothing says here, eat something to make your stomach feel better. Am I right?
I get the turkey bacon wrap with grapes, water and a sugar free brownie, and she gets the vegetable sandwich with pasta salad, a water and the carrot cake. All of the food was great here. The turkey bacon wrap was HUGE, the grapes were good, but I didn't realize the brownie was SF until I got to my table. I took one bite and wasn't thrilled (and I eat low fat, low-sugar foods all the time). I threw it out and ate a few bites of her carrot cake. It was good for being pre-packaged. I think we spent about $23 here, and I give it ***.
We head to the Haunted Mansion and walked right on in about 15 min waiting time. When I was a kid, I remember being creeped out by the cast members at the HM because they really played up their roles. I was disappointed to see regular friendly CM faces at this ride this time. I liked the acting that they used to have
From here, we decide to almost call it a day. She is REALLY not feeling well. Sadly, I sacrifice Splash Mountain, Space Mountain and Big Thunder Mountain to let her get some rest.
We take the dreaded "afternoon nap time" and head back to our hotel. We each slept for about 30 min, hang out at the pool after to wake ourselves up and go to the Kona Cafe for dinner.
This was the BEST meal of our entire trip! Remember the talk of servers really pushing the food on the dining plan? It is alive and well here. Our server, Debi, was attentive and personable and really knowledgeable about the dining plan offerings at their restaurant. Remember, mom's still not feeling well, so she still didn't take full advantage of all the offerings. To drink, I was allowed a non-alcoholic strawberry daiquiri/pina colada mixed drink. It was made from scratch, you could tell. Did not taste pre-mixed at all. Very rich, like a dessert! To start, mom had a salad and I had the seafood bisque which even beat out the lobster bisque from the night before. It had lobster, shrimp and whitefish in a rich creamy soup. To eat, I had the filet mignon with the most amazing yukon gold potatoes and broccoli. Mom had the vegetable rice bowl and said it was very good. It was sticky rice with sweet/sour type veggies. For dessert, we packaged up the Choc. Macadamia Nut torte "to go" and split the banana crème brulee. Dinner was ~$90. The macadamia nut torte ended up being portable and came home with her! My dad got a little bit of the magic
Back to the MK for Spectromagic and Wishes! We park a spot along the parade route and I go fetch an ice cream sandwich from the Plaza Ice Cream Parlor. Good value there, less than $4 for 2 enormous cookies and a good size serving of Edy's ice cream.
The parade and fireworks were great and we ended the day by watching Mickey wave goodbye to everyone at the train station! I got a couple of short movie clips that I took with my camera.
Tomorrow: Mom starts feeling back to her usual self and it's time for MGM.
Linda - mom, 52, goes with the flow of her bossy, perfectionist of a daughter. Spent much of her trip sick. Left my dad at home
Christy - daughter, 26, the ultimate in over-planning and the biggest Disney fan in the family. Single.
My dining review scale: 1-5 stars *****
Part 1 - Pre planning & Friday
Part 2 - AK, DTD & Cirque de Soleil
Part 3 - Epcot
--------------------------
So we're tired. Make that exhausted. We decide to SLEEP IN. We *gasp* didn't set an alarm this morning.
I get a mickey belgian waffle with apples this morning, a cinnamon roll and a water. Can we say sugar high?? The mickey waffle with apples quickly rises its way to the top as one of my favorites. Mom gets nothing. Her stomach isn't doing so well still. She makes a breakfast of Pepto Bismol, Pepcid AC and Tums. Betcha didn't know you can combine all of those.
And we saunter into the Magic Kingdom around 10am. Ok, there's no sauntering involved. More like pushing and shoving our way onto the ferry boat. The crowds are much, much larger than they have been the 2 previous days. And the weather is feeling a liiiiiitle warmer (read: hot! And I'm born and bred Dallas, people!) than it has the past 2 days. There don't appear to be storm clouds around us this morning.
We head to Tomorrowland. Where there is now a 1 hour wait for Space Mountain and a 1 hour wait for Buzz Lightyear. We grab Fastpasses for Buzz first and head to get one for Space Mountain where I learn that you can only have ONE!FASTPASS!AT!A!TIME! My bad. We should have gotten it for Space Mountain instead. We ride TTA, walk to Mickey's Toontown Fair, and go back to Buzz Lightyear. Never could get that laser to work. My one and only chance - blast. Mom is feeling bad once again, so we go grab food from the Cosmic Ray's Food Court. Nothing says here, eat something to make your stomach feel better. Am I right?
I get the turkey bacon wrap with grapes, water and a sugar free brownie, and she gets the vegetable sandwich with pasta salad, a water and the carrot cake. All of the food was great here. The turkey bacon wrap was HUGE, the grapes were good, but I didn't realize the brownie was SF until I got to my table. I took one bite and wasn't thrilled (and I eat low fat, low-sugar foods all the time). I threw it out and ate a few bites of her carrot cake. It was good for being pre-packaged. I think we spent about $23 here, and I give it ***.
We head to the Haunted Mansion and walked right on in about 15 min waiting time. When I was a kid, I remember being creeped out by the cast members at the HM because they really played up their roles. I was disappointed to see regular friendly CM faces at this ride this time. I liked the acting that they used to have
From here, we decide to almost call it a day. She is REALLY not feeling well. Sadly, I sacrifice Splash Mountain, Space Mountain and Big Thunder Mountain to let her get some rest.
We take the dreaded "afternoon nap time" and head back to our hotel. We each slept for about 30 min, hang out at the pool after to wake ourselves up and go to the Kona Cafe for dinner.
This was the BEST meal of our entire trip! Remember the talk of servers really pushing the food on the dining plan? It is alive and well here. Our server, Debi, was attentive and personable and really knowledgeable about the dining plan offerings at their restaurant. Remember, mom's still not feeling well, so she still didn't take full advantage of all the offerings. To drink, I was allowed a non-alcoholic strawberry daiquiri/pina colada mixed drink. It was made from scratch, you could tell. Did not taste pre-mixed at all. Very rich, like a dessert! To start, mom had a salad and I had the seafood bisque which even beat out the lobster bisque from the night before. It had lobster, shrimp and whitefish in a rich creamy soup. To eat, I had the filet mignon with the most amazing yukon gold potatoes and broccoli. Mom had the vegetable rice bowl and said it was very good. It was sticky rice with sweet/sour type veggies. For dessert, we packaged up the Choc. Macadamia Nut torte "to go" and split the banana crème brulee. Dinner was ~$90. The macadamia nut torte ended up being portable and came home with her! My dad got a little bit of the magic
Back to the MK for Spectromagic and Wishes! We park a spot along the parade route and I go fetch an ice cream sandwich from the Plaza Ice Cream Parlor. Good value there, less than $4 for 2 enormous cookies and a good size serving of Edy's ice cream.
The parade and fireworks were great and we ended the day by watching Mickey wave goodbye to everyone at the train station! I got a couple of short movie clips that I took with my camera.
Tomorrow: Mom starts feeling back to her usual self and it's time for MGM.
