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Double digits. That food looks very yummy. I think I am going to steal this idea when it gets close to our time to go.
Sorry to hear about your husband having to go to the hospital. I hope he is better now. I hope your father will feel better now that he is on dialysis. I understand it is rough.
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Double digits. That food looks very yummy. I think I am going to steal this idea when it gets close to our time to go.
Sorry to hear about your husband having to go to the hospital. I hope he is better now. I hope your father will feel better now that he is on dialysis. I understand it is rough.
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Congrats on double digits. The food looks delish!!
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more please
Please do try the idea! It's so much fun and the kids can't wait for the next weekend's dinner and a movie!
The girls and I went crazy and decorated a pumpkin as Cindy's castle, complete with multi-changing color light inside! (some of the pumpkin light pics are blury, but you get the gist!)
I told you I had a lot of updates to make up for...
Last Saturday was our weekly Disney movie night leading up to our trip. And while some weekends fly by unnoticed because there's just too much to do, we DO try to make the dinner and a movie thing happen when we can.
Last night we were not feeling the movie thing (nobody could decide on what they wanted to watch) so it was dinner night instead. And because I'm still getting back into the swing of things I also completely spaced taking pictures!
Chicken and Leek Pie (a la Rose and Crown)
Bread and Honey Butter (a new family favorite!)
Pineapple Upside Down Cheesecake (a la Boma)
I wish I could pluck the memories in my noggin and show them to you all, but alas, I cannot. Suffice it to say the pie was DELISH, and the cheesecake was SO RICH that even with 6 of us eating dinner there was still more than half the thing left. CRAZY GOOD.
...and because I love you all so much I went to the fridge and snapped a quick pic of what was left of that cheesecake...
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So I mentioned that we'd made some major changes to our ADR list.... and I WASN'T KIDDING!
We've decided (whether this sticks or not, who knows) to stay with the regular DDP, for a few reasons. The first is that there are some counter service places I really want to try, and the second is that the tips alone are going to be a pretty penny. We're a party of 6 with the automatic 18% gratuity (no matter what level of service we get), and with 5 meals, drinks, etc. being ordered, even though it's paid for by the DDP, the gratuity on all those things could be the equivalent of a QS meal somewhere else. I'm a cheapskate and that'll drive me NUTS to do this more than a few times during the week!
So yeah, we'll let the kids explore and find QS places they want to try as well. (Let's face it, they'll fill up on every junk food under the sun most of the afternoon anyway.)
Also, I present to you... Our new itinerary!
I decided to sign up for Tour Guide Mike after hearing such good things about line avoidance, etc... and I'm ALL ABOUT avoiding the hordes.
And naturally my original itinerary (based on EMH's and the DinseyWorld.com site) had us hitting all the worst parks each day! So some frantic time was spent reorganizing our schedule, and we decided that we really don't need Park Hoppers. We're going to be leaving each park mid-day anyway for naps, etc., so it's natural we'd want to pick up where we left off in that park later in the afternoon, not run to another park we haven't been to yet. Conquer one park at a time! That's when I reorganized our ADR schedule and we decided to stick with the DDP as well!
I made an overview list for park hours/dining for each day we're there, which I'll send to my cellphone for a portable reference! I'm also working on a daily version of this with our ADR numbers, times guide, etc. for each day...
Now, here's where some audience participation would be appreciated...
Boma. I hear great things and I'm sure 99% of our crew would love it, but my poor husband seriously cannot eat spicy food. Or potatoes. It's a digestive thing but he can't do it. So much of what I read/see seems to be curry/spiced/potato at Boma that I'm thinking I need to find an alternate dinner choice for that night! And we'll be in Epcot that day... there are so many choices at World Showcase... if you could pick your ONE table service meal of choice, where would it be?!
Cali Grill. LOVE this place, want to try it... BUT... the plan has been to get a sitter from one of Disney's recommended places for Stasia and Lexi, then take Kyle and Tatiana for dinner here. As we get closer to January though I'm just crazy hesitant about someone I don't know being in my hotel room, babysitting my PRECIOUS BABIES. It's driving me batty and I'm considering...
Cancelling.
It's our first trip to WDW and letting a stranger watch my girls in an unfamiliar location is so far outside my comfort zone it's not even funny.
We'll be at MK the day of our Cali Grill dinner. IF I did the unthinkable and cancelled that, in favor of someplace I would take the whole clan, where would YOU suggest (that's not already on our list)? I love hearing your opinions, especially since all (most?) of you have actually BEEN to these place before! I value what you have to say!
I thought about doing dinner on our Epcot night in the Japan pavillion, to make up for loss of sushi my DH and son would miss out on... but I'm still out an MK or close resort dining option...
Hey, two ADR's to stress over is much better than the 27 or so I've had up until now!
Well if you aren't comfortable with the idea of having people in your room you can always take them to one of the child sitting service places on site. ie: the neverland club etc....
Well if you aren't comfortable with the idea of having people in your room you can always take them to one of the child sitting service places on site. ie: the neverland club etc....
I thought I'd read that the babysitting clubs were for potty trained children only? I have a 1 year old who will definitely not be potty ready by January... that's why I'd originally thought of the in room service, before my gut got the better of me!
And it's not the having someone in our room that's bugging me as much as it is that our daughters will freak OUT with our leaving them in a strange place with a stranger... it's not like they're in the comfort of their own home or something... usually their big brother babysits them so they're not used to sitters at all.
Oh my goodness! You've been busy!! Your dinners sound scrumptious!! I can relate to your apprehension about leaving your children alone with a virtual stranger in a strange place. Our DS is 16, but we never left him alone with a sitter while at WDW. We figure we'll be able to do all those things once he's on his own and we're travelling as a couple instead of a family. Every family is different and I'm sure those sitting services are wonderful, but you need to do what is best for your family and what makes you feel the most comfortable. figuring everything out.
Great plans and ADRs You're right, you can only take potty trained children to the on-site kids clubs
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Oh my goodness! You've been busy!! Your dinners sound scrumptious!! I can relate to your apprehension about leaving your children alone with a virtual stranger in a strange place. Our DS is 16, but we never left him alone with a sitter while at WDW. We figure we'll be able to do all those things once he's on his own and we're travelling as a couple instead of a family. Every family is different and I'm sure those sitting services are wonderful, but you need to do what is best for your family and what makes you feel the most comfortable. figuring everything out.
I think I'd be more comfortable with it if it weren't for the fact that the girls are so little (1 and 3) and if Stasia (our 3 year old) weren't so terribly people-phobic from time to time. You never know with her- sometimes she'll walk up to perfect strangers and be willing to walk away with them and sometimes she literally hides her face and cries. This is her first trip to the World and I don't want to scar her with a fearful experience!
DH and I were last minute shopping on Saturday morning (we threw a Halloween party that night), and I was filling him in on the Food & Wine TR's I've been reading here and there. Now, DH LOVES unusual food, food from different countries, etc. Very adventurous palate and willing to try everything (except potatoes!) once. I told him what a blast it would be to go to WDW again next year during F&W- we could celebrate our anniversary (which is actually in November, but it's our fifth next year!), go to one of MNSSHP's and get to enjoy Halloween at WDW all in one trip. He LOVED the idea! So now I need to figure out details!
Does any one know when the dates for MNSSHP are set? And is F&W at the same time every year? I doubt this will be another long trip like the one we're taking in January- maybe only 4 or 5 days so I want to be sure there would be a MNSSHP overlapping our visit to F&W.
But I have always wanted to go to Disney over Halloween! Food & Wine and our 5th anniversary would be just the icing on the cake!
I think dinner in Japan would be a great alternative to Boma - I have not yet to try but hear amazing stuff about Teppan Edo, and the menu looks wonderful.
For your MK day how about doing O'Hana for dinner, we love the meal there and the kids have so much fun. It is real family dining. It is a family served meal, check out the menu I think there is something that everyone will enjoy...and then you can hop back on the monorail back to MK or take the boat and make it an adventure.
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