Thursday, October 9th - Breakfast in a Studio Yields Many Surprises ...
There's so much backstory for this silly little segment that I don't really know where to start. I suppose it should be with the coffee ... over the years Jay and I have turned into something akin to coffee snobs. While we sometimes drink the swill that Disney peddles as their version of java joy, we find that in most instances we're better off bringing our own coffee and starting the mornings off nice and slow in our room.
Prior to this trip Jay and I have always stayed in a one-bedroom vacation home which includes a nice little kitchen with dishes and silverware and hand towels. And of course, a coffee maker! I've always been a little puzzled as to why coffee filters aren't already in the kitchens, but they never are. And even though I know this, I invariably manage to forget to buy coffee filters for the trip. I can perhaps be excused just a little because our coffee maker here at home doesn't require paper filters so it just doesn't dawn on me until it's sleep o'clock at WDW and I'm holding a pot of water in one hand and a baggie of ground coffee in the other wondering where the hell the filters are ...
again.
This year I made a concerted effort to pull my act together and I bought paper filters at the grocery store about two weeks before we left for WDW. I was so proud of myself until we went to make coffee Thursday morning and found that I had purchased what looked to be filters for Malibu Barbie's single-cup coffee maker.
Jay and I had a good laugh at my expense because of course now we were going to have to go buy coffee filters at the Big House once again. Luckily there was a sample pack of French Roast that was encased in one of those flow through filters, so we drank that instead of our home brew.
I have to touch on something else though, and that's this: the studios at SSR don't have dishes or silverware.
I assume the rationale is that without a dishwasher in the studio it's too difficult for Mousekeeping to keep things clean, but drinking coffee out of a tacky styrofoam Year of a Million Dreams cup is not in my contract. Along with said cups, there were a couple of paper plates and one set of plastic flatware. That's it.
This meant that we had to go shopping on Wednesday for coffee cups and a milk pitcher (we heat milk for our coffee), and while doing so we just happened to wander past the Main Street Bakery and were entranced by the warm, sugary smell wafting from their doorway.
**Nice segue way, don't you think?
Thursday was going to be our first day at Epcot sampling the culinary joys (we hoped) of this year's Food and Wine Festival, so we wanted to keep breakfast light. But the baked-good joy that is the Main Street Bakery went to our heads when we were at the MK on Wednesday afternoon and we purchased two of the most beautiful, calorie-laden cinnamon rolls we've ever laid eyes on when one certainly would have sufficed.
The good news is that in purchasing more than we needed we had enough for two mornings - mmm, twice the cinnamon-ey joy! We microwaved them so that they were nice and warm and delicious... and the smell was divine!
So here it is: breakfast courtesy of the Main Street Bakery. Feel free to admire our spiffy new coffee mugs while you ogle our split cinnamon roll.
Mega roll ... so sweet, so fresh, so glazed with sugary goodness!
That's all for this installment. Coming soon our first experience with the F&W booths - yum yum yum!!!
Nice mugs! 
