jtowntoflorida
Looking Like I Can't Really Afford To Go To Disney
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The cake thing: We got an awesome cake for my son for his birthday on our first night there. It was delicious and expensive (but no more expensive than I would have paid here in Philly for the same type of cake). Anyway, naturally, we wanted to take it back to the room. We did, shoved it in the mini fridge at the WL.
Guess what, we had nothing to eat it with all week? Finally we started taking some forks from the food court. We were like savages digging into this cake -- we each had a "section" but we didn't want to waste it.
We did end up throwing about half out and it broke my heart but we were just full and when we came in from the parks, too tired to eat.
If I was to do it again, I'd get fancy cupcakes for everyone or just do the piece of cake with dinner.
OMG, we had the same cake experience on our first trip (except we were staying in a villa, so we did have the supplies to eat it!). The cake was super expensive, and we nibbled at it all week, but in the end, it was a big waste of money. We did get cupcakes the two following years instead (fall break falls on my daughter's birthday, so she's a lucky kid to have spent three birthdays at Disney!) and those were a bigger hit. The Contempo Cafe at the Contemporary has some awesome cupcakes...made in the same bakery as our super expensive cake! Lessons learned...