Why did we plan out this entire trip?! A 2nd Honeymoon Report...sorta.The End. 5/21

[OhMari]

Since we had a million quick service credits we decided to see what Norway had to offer. I had heard good things about the real food at the bakery. The offerings are amazing! It quickly became a new fav of ours!

For one credit we got a Norwegian Club, a large soup, large drink and an almond pretzel!

I knew about the little gem Norway. When my dh went back last year to his convention-I went in and got 2 desserts. Had to try the "soda bread" and chocolate cake. Soda bread was dry and when I got to the cake, I had a little girl screaming her head off that she "wanted her mama". 20 minutes of screaming. So much for enjoying my chocolate fix.

Last Nov., we really didn't have ADR's either, we just winged it. The pizza window at POFQ saved us, especially when my boys flew down for the weekend.

 

[KathyRN137]

This is where we played a game of “Where’s KC”. Can you find him?

Is he there in the middle, hugging the tree?


Kat, I'm so sorry that we didn't get together that morning, but it sounds as though your plans got tossed around a bit due to the DP fiasco anyway. You absolutely did the right thing by going to Epcot and enjoying the F&WW to the fullest... you guys needed to recover from the awful check-in experience. Your DIS-meet was just what the doctor ordered!


Thanks for posting all the great food pix, too. As you will read later, I didn't get a chance to sample but one or two things at the festival so it's great to read a detailed report!


Tell KC he did a great job with the Illuminations pix... I can never get good fireworks pictures!


Looking forward to more,


Kathy

 

[praisehisname]

This is where we played a game of “Where’s KC”. Can you find him?

I saved the picture and blew it up to 300% and STILL couldn't find him!

Sounds like you had some good snackin' around the World! And all that food at Norway for 1 credit?!?

Score on the great viewing spot for Illuminations!

 

[Nicole&Becker]

is he on the third floor balcony behind the tree on the right?

 

[KatGarcia]

I knew about the little gem Norway. When my dh went back last year to his convention-I went in and got 2 desserts. Had to try the "soda bread" and chocolate cake. Soda bread was dry and when I got to the cake, I had a little girl screaming her head off that she "wanted her mama". 20 minutes of screaming. So much for enjoying my chocolate fix.

Last Nov., we really didn't have ADR's either, we just winged it. The pizza window at POFQ saved us, especially when my boys flew down for the weekend.

I love so many things in that bakery I could eat there a LOT! We seem to luck out with that seating area, its always mellow. Not having ADRs messes with the planner in me tho!

Is he there in the middle, hugging the tree?


Kat, I'm so sorry that we didn't get together that morning, but it sounds as though your plans got tossed around a bit due to the DP fiasco anyway. You absolutely did the right thing by going to Epcot and enjoying the F&WW to the fullest... you guys needed to recover from the awful check-in experience. Your DIS-meet was just what the doctor ordered!


Thanks for posting all the great food pix, too. As you will read later, I didn't get a chance to sample but one or two things at the festival so it's great to read a detailed report!


Tell KC he did a great job with the Illuminations pix... I can never get good fireworks pictures!


Looking forward to more,


Kathy

I def let him take the fireworks pics i never take good ones unless I am leaning on something. I'm glad you got to have a least a few things from F&W...and I am about to read your latest installment momentarily.

I saved the picture and blew it up to 300% and STILL couldn't find him!

Sounds like you had some good snackin' around the World! And all that food at Norway for 1 credit?!?

Score on the great viewing spot for Illuminations!

Yep all the food in Norway was 1 credit, great deal for the credit! I have a fix on the pic in a min...see below.

is he on the third floor balcony behind the tree on the right?

Nope!


OK here is a link to the high res version of the image and if you zoom in you will find him. He was just excited at the quality of the pic so he made me take 'em. LOL.

WHERE'S KC

See him now?!

 

[englishrose47]

Between the trees ??????

 

[KathyRN137]

WHERE'S KC

See him now?!

Ah-ha! Well, I was partially right!

He's between the tree limbs but he's not hugging them; he's behind a hedge!

Whew! I'm glad the others had a hard time finding him, too. I thought I needed new glasses!


Kathy

 

[praisehisname]

Yep, I saw him!

Denise

 

[jenseib]

Now I see him!

 

[KatGarcia]

Hi everyone! I'm am really sorry for the lack of updates...But I have a good reason, really.

We are celebrating our 5th Wedding Anniversary this week. We are having a bunch of things for it too.

Thursday is the actual day and KC is taking me out to dinner somewhere he secretly picked. I am excited to get dressed up and have him surprise me.

Friday afternoon we are meeting a bunch of random friends at a cupcake shop in NYC called Crumbs (http://www.crumbs.com/) and going to bryant Park In NYC (http://www.bryantpark.org/) to hang out and eat the cupcakes.

And finally, Saturday we are having a vow renewal ceremony and brunch with a few close friends. It's going to be intimate with just about 15 of us, just those who have been there for us the most through the good and bad stuff.

The ceremony itself is at: Wisteria Pergola in Central Park. It's gonna be cold but it's a place that has meaning to us, so it'll be short and sweet and very bundled up. Then we are having brunch at Chez Jacqueline in Downtown NYC.

So forgive me if I will not be posting an update soon, after this weekend I should be able to again, for now planning and prep are the weeks priority. I will post lots of pics and videos of the weekend too!

 

[praisehisname]

Sounds like a busy but fun time! Congratulations!

Denise

 

[jordanyosh]

I am so glad things have worked out!

I hope you'll post pix of your weekend

Love you Kathy.

 

[KatGarcia]

Sounds like a busy but fun time! Congratulations!

Denise

Thanks so much!

I am so glad things have worked out!

I hope you'll post pix of your weekend

Love you Kathy.

You are the sweetest, I shed a bit of a tear there, my friend! I will definitely be posting pics and videos!!!!!!!

 

[KathyRN137]

Have a lovely time, both of you!

Congratulations!


Kathy

 

[kmaria]

Okay, I was lurking. I always lurk. This is probably the second time I've replied to a post in the what, the 3 years I've been lurking on the boards.

Honestly I am blown away by the fact that there was *nothing they could do* for you in regard to your dining plan option. I've only ever heard good things when it comes to stuff like that! I'm happy to hear you guys were able to make it work for yourselves in spite of all of that!

All that food from the F&W F looks delicious.. i'm hungry now!

 

[askelton]

Happy Anniversary!
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Have a great time this weekend! Congratulations to you both!

 

[KatGarcia]

Have a lovely time, both of you!

Congratulations!


Kathy

Thanks!

Okay, I was lurking. I always lurk. This is probably the second time I've replied to a post in the what, the 3 years I've been lurking on the boards.

Honestly I am blown away by the fact that there was *nothing they could do* for you in regard to your dining plan option. I've only ever heard good things when it comes to stuff like that! I'm happy to hear you guys were able to make it work for yourselves in spite of all of that!

All that food from the F&W F looks delicious.. i'm hungry now!

Thanks for coming out of lurkdom!!!!! I feel honored! I agree with the nothing they could do thing, i know Disney is not that company but we did turn it around and it got better and better.

Happy Anniversary!
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Have a great time this weekend! Congratulations to you both!

Thanks Angela!

 

[KatGarcia]

Part One:

We had a wonderful weekend for our anniversary. I have a bunch of pics and will resume the TR after you indulge me these. Thanks for reading!

First was the night of our actual 5th anniversary, February 4th, 2010.

We met up that evening in NYC (KC had to work part of the day) and both got haircuts before heading out to dinner. KC wouldn't tell me where dinner was. He rarely surprises me, so I was really excited. He wouldn't even tell me which stop on the subway.

We took this on the corner while we were waiting for the gps of the restaurant to work.

Then we got to our destination. Vincent's NYC. it's in Little Italy. It's a place I had only been to once before and always said I wanted to go back to. KC did good.

We were one of only a few customers in the place since it was pretty early and a cold Thursday night.

We had the waiter take our picture at some point.

Wouldn't be me if I didn't take food porn, right?

I had lobster ravioli in a vodka cream sauce and KC had veal marsala. I was so glad the food was good, it lived up to my memories of it. We had a really nice meal. We even shared a canoli for dessert. We exchanged cards at dinner too and both cried at the sappy cards we bought and the sappy notes we wrote inside them.

KC also had a surprise for dessert for me. We walked to a place we loved, that used to be a mobile dessert truck. They recently got a store and we went to check it out. It was a bit of a walk but it was nice strolling along.

The food was AMAZING there. Wanna see more food porn??

We shared a few things. Hot Chocolate, a pineapple macaroon, Brioche Donuts with Nutella filling and a Chocolate Bread Pudding with Bacon Sauce (I swear its good!). We relaxed and ate there and got a nice guy sitting near us to take a pic.

We ended up getting home fairly early but it was a beautiful night.

The next day....

February 5th, 2010

This was the day of our Crumbs Cupcake Party. We wanted a way to invite all our friends, not just the super close ones who were coming to the vow renewal, so this was our answer. I invited a bunch of people and about 10 showed up. A lot of people never even RSVP-ed, I hate that.

We got there before everyone (naturally) and got our cupcakes first because the line was out the door (always is).

We got: Chocolate Covered Strawberry, Cappuccino, White Hot Chocolate & a Half Baked. They lasted DAYS and were so yummy!

A few people came and we ended up hanging around at the store for about an hour in total and then decided to take it to a warmer spot. There was a McDonalds a block away with an upstairs seating area. So we all got some coffee and took over the seating area. It turned out great, we were warm and could easily socialize.

People ended up coming who we hadn't seen in ages. One of my former closest friends came and she and I got along so well I think we may have brought back our friendship. One of KC's friends from high school even showed up, and we haven't seen him since high school. It was a really fun night. We were both really touched that the people that came did, it really meant a lot.

Leave it to KC and his work friends (seated to the left) to have to do some work even at the party.

See we took over.

We got a nice pic take of us again.

We took a few pics before we left. Don't mind my friend Dany. LOL.

We made it an early night since we had the vow renewal in the morning and also because the stupid snow storm was coming. it didn't end up snowing until like 4 am but at least it snowed because we changed everything around for mr. snow.

 

[KatGarcia]

Part Two:

The Vow Renewal. February 6th, 2010.

Since there was snow we had to change our original plans for doing our ceremony in Central Park. It took a while but we decided on Grand Central Station. Why? It's actually where KC originally proposed to me many moons ago. So it seemed to fit, and it's indoors.

We started off the morning meeting up with our friend's Andy (who got ordained to marry us), Kevin & Lisa. Once I took off the boots and leggings and sweatshirt I wore to get there, due to the snow, we were set to go. My heels were much nicer with the dress than the big black boots. We stopped by what we refer to as "the spot". The palce where KC proposed. it's inside the subway, near an exit in the center of this kinda sun dial compass thing. The pillar we were standing at had stupid blue ads on it , but it was nice anyway. We took a few pics there before meeting up with everyone else.

On the way to meet everyone we scoped out a place for the ceremony and decided on this spot.

It was blocked off above the steps due to a restaurant and so it would be easy to just stand there and keep it blocked from people. MY friends had strict instructions to knock over anyone who tried to walk in our way! So us and 8 of our closest friends went up the steps and had us a vow renewal ceremony.

We wrote our own vows, something we didn't do the first time.

Funny enough our vows were so similar, we laughed about it afterwards.

Everyone took pictures and video so we have yet to collect their stuff, but this was with my camera. The video is being stubborn and KC has to figure out how to play it without the actual video camera.

All of us split up into different cars and met up in downtown NYC for Brunch. We chose a small French place since we love French food. The service turned out to be horrible and the food wasn't so great either. We actually all left hungry. BUT we had a good time with each other.

Since Andy got ordained so he could remarry us, we made a lot of jokes about him starting his own religion, so a chance to take a pic with his bread and wine was too funny not to pass up.

Please note the orange. KC has had a thing for wanting to have worn an orange tie at our first wedding, and always picks on me about not letting him. So this time the whole thing was based on the darn orange tie. I even bought a shawl to match.

My marscarpone and strawberry stuffed french toast.

Turned out it was completely burnt on the bottom and we had to send it back. The second one was decent tho. Again, the portions were too small and we all were hungry when we left.

Somehow we ended up with only couples at the brunch...

Angelo & Chrissi. Chrissi & KC grew up together and have been friends for over 10 years.

Kevin & Lisa. KC's closest friend at work.

Lou & Diana. They have been to WDW with us. KC & Lou met when they both worked in the Nintendo retail store in NYC, and I became fast friends with Diana after that.

Eric & Cathy. Eric and I go way back to my wrestling days, he's one of the few wrestling friends I still speak to.

We all drove back to our house (minus Lou & D, who went home) to hang out and order some food! We ended up watching some old VHS tapes of my wrestling and then ordering some wings and fries from a local pub.

And of course there was gaming. LOL.

We had a spectacular, wonderful, fun filled, awesome weekend. It couldn't have been better, well maybe if my BFF, Laura(who lives in Fl) was there, but she was in spirit. We really had a great time and are so incredibly happy. I am thrilled beyond beief to say that we really are ok and that happiness is the only thing I see in our future. It was a really long year but this anniversary made it all seem like a distant memory and the only way to go now is up.

The best day ever...

Thanks so much everyone for reading along and for your good wishes and thoughts for us.

I promise to resume the TR now!

 

[KathyRN137]

Kat, you looked so beautiful at the ceremony... and the two of you looked so much in love in all your pictures!



Congratulations!


Kathy