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Glad to hear your lunch was better than your last trip here, everything looked delicious (especially your pie), they have seemed to change up the Sunday Roast, that is what I had last year but then it was more like a shredded pot roast, I liked the look of the roast beef / prime meat cut.
Glad you were able to take care of the GPS issue...sorry about missing Mouse Memories but glad you were able to accomplish a bit at Michael's, even if it was not everything you were looking for.
R&C scored better and your meals both looked very ! I'll have to look at my notes, but I'm pretty sure I had the same dessert that you did, only Stefanie and Luke helped me eat it. It was more than I could handle alone, too. For some reason this week as I've been reading TRs, I've really wished we could get back at Halloween time (not happening this year, just wishing) and then your pictures of Gaylord Palms where we stayed October 2009, just made me a wee bit homesick. Glad you got the GPS traded out, but I couldn't help but laugh at it turning itself off. Stubborn little techno piece!
That R&C meal looked superb! I love shepard's pie - and think the veggie version sounded good. And Yorshire pudding is a favorite of ours.
Glad you have a working GPS now!
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Just caught up again. So glad you had great meals on this portion of your trip. Sorry about the heat and crowds, though. That always makes me a bit cranky.
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I understand the whole rude people and kids thing.
We live in a nice little middle income neighborhood. The houses are all ranch style and our end of the neighborhood is nice and well maintained. Well towards the entrance to the neighborhood...the owners have started renting out those houses and the residents have gone down hill. The kids are out at all hours...little kids with no parents. Yesterday I was driving home...some extremely obese little girl (probably 4, maybe 5)was standing on the street barefoot (on hot blacktop in 98 degree weather) swinging a tiny kitten by it's tail. Literally swinging it in a huge circle in the air.I stopped my car...rolled down the window and told her to stop that...she was going to hurt that kitten. She looked at me...started to put the kitten on her shoulder. It turned and bit her. Leaped for it's life and took off. I couldn't believe it...I waited for her to move off the street...and drove the 1/4 mile to my house irate. Literally seething...where were the parents, why would they let her handle that little kitten...she wasn't even decently clothed...and she was very dirty!!!
If I see it again...I'm calling children's service and animal services to report them!!!
One of our nice little neighbor girls heard me telling my husband about it and said that she knew that little girl and that her parents leave her home alone all the time!!!
I don't even know what to say to that!
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I think I may have asked you this before in one of your other TR's when you were eating "English" food away from England, but how did the food at Rose and Crown compare to the real thing? Did it taste authentic?
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Glad your meal was much better this time around! I have to ask you, do you by chance remember what shop you saw the Paddington Bears in while you were waiting for your meal at R & C? Paddington Bear is one of my favorites from my childhood. I have read all the books when I was younger and bought a Paddington Bear during my very first WDW trip back in 1988 there in the UK at Epcot. (I still have that Paddington bear! ) I didn't remember seeing any PB's when I was on my last trip.
Yay!! I am glad your meal was better this time around!! That Scotch Egg that Mark got looked amazing!! Can he make it at home??? Is it easy???
I have no idea! I've never made one and I've never seen him do one either. If he wants one, he usually just buys one at the shops, as they're quite cheap.
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! I'll have to look at my notes, but I'm pretty sure I had the same dessert that you did, only Stefanie and Luke helped me eat it. It was more than I could handle alone, too. 
For some reason this week as I've been reading TRs, I've really wished we could get back at Halloween time (not happening this year, just wishing) and then your pictures of Gaylord Palms where we stayed October 2009, just made me a wee bit homesick. Glad you got the GPS traded out, but I couldn't help but laugh at it turning itself off. Stubborn little techno piece! 
) I didn't remember seeing any PB's when I was on my last trip.
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I've never made one and I've never seen him do one either. If he wants one, he usually just buys one at the shops, as they're quite cheap.
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