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A quick change to Day one of the rehersal trip. We have added a ressie at Portobello for dinner on arrival day. This replaces the Bistro ressie we lost due to refurbs and the idea of grabbing something at Big River Grille. Portobello is on our list to try and will add to the number of sit downs we have tried. After this trip we will have eaten at 36 of the 71 available table service restaraunts, over halfway there.
Oh, and on a side note we have hit 10 days are have checked in-online. Rehersal time is almost here.
As the rehersal trip gets closer I am finishing a few details on the main show.
Puzzlewoman and I now have our plane tickets for January and I will be calling Universal tomorrow to set up Act 1.
Act 2 has gotten better, I just got ressies for Be Our Guest on January 10. So that sets up our dinner on the 10th and Cheeser had gotten ressies for Ohana's on Jan 11. Our dinners are all set up for Act 2.
We are about just under 2 months to being able to book cruise details. (me want Remy dinner and Palo brunch, yummmm!) along with a possible tour of Barcardi and a little photography outing for me while the others might do a beach thing.
It's all falling into place. Now it's time for rehersal (cue the Dole Whip and Main Street Bakery Cinnamon roll please)
We just got back from the rehersal trip. A bit wet and we both were fighting off a bug while we were there but overalll a good trip.
We arrived on Saturday and checked in to our room at Boardwalk Villas. This was our first stay here and this resort might now have topped WL as our favorite. The room was decent sized and the resort felt calm and quiet. The boardwalk with it's quick access to many good places to eat and easy access to Epcot and Hollywood Studios make this a great place to stay.
Our room was ready when we arrived at 1pm so we dropped off our carryon and headed to the Boardwalk to grab a bite of lunch. We went to Big River Grille. Nice place but a bit cramped in the dining area. I had the Beer Cheese Soup while Heather had the Chicken Quesidillia. Both were pretty good. In fact I think I like the soup better than the soup at Le Cellier.
After lunch we headed to Blizzard Beach to play the Winter/Summerland miniture golf courses. The courses are a lot of fun.
The Winter course Castle
The Summer course castle
After golf we began the always fun game of "getting to Downtown Disney from a park" game. A CM told us we could get there by going to the DD stop. I had my doubts from past experience and my doubts were correct. Shortly after we got to the DD stop another CM told us that the DD bus only goes to the DD resorts. So we got on the bus to Saratoga Springs. We figured we could walk, catch a boat, or hop a quick bus from there. When we got to SSR there was construction at the main entrance so the bus came in through a back entrance. This got me totally turned around. We went to the main lobby and asked how to get to the DD boat explaining that we had a dining ressie. When the CM found out our dining ressie was in about 25 minutes he decided that we didn't have enough time to get there by boat. He said he was getting someone who could drive us over. This came a a surprise to us. A girl showed up and loaded us into a Disney van and took us to our ressie. She was real nice and super talkitive (not in a bad way). We got to our ressie on time.
Dinner at Portobello went ok. Not what I was expecting. It wasn't bad but wasn't a stand out, gotta go back place. I had ravioli Giganti (really big ravioli with cheese and spinich) and Heather had (I think) the Tuscan Salimi pizza. I also tried the Birimisu (think Tirimisu made with Porter) and Heather had the Cappuccino Gelato which she loved but I couldn't get past the fact that is was a dark gray color that just looked wrong.
Once dinner was over we headed back to the resort and, unknown to Heather, an anniversary surprise I had arranged weeks earlier.
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Yay!! Sounds like a wonderful start to your trip so far. I can't wait to hear about the surprise!! Is Boardwalk the resort that has a quick back entrance into Epcot? I haven't stayed in any of the Deluxes, so I can't remember which ones are walkable to parks.
Yay!! Sounds like a wonderful start to your trip so far. I can't wait to hear about the surprise!! Is Boardwalk the resort that has a quick back entrance into Epcot? I haven't stayed in any of the Deluxes, so I can't remember which ones are walkable to parks.
Cheers!
Rachel
Boardwalk does have the quick walk to Epcot. Yacht and Beach club also have the same walk. We also found out (the boat driver told us this) that if you take the boat from HS get off at Swan and Dolphin (first stop) and you can walk to Boardwalk and beat the boat there.
We headed back to the resort after dinner. I had arranged a surprise for Heather that was going to be set up in our room while we were at dinner. I went through the Disney Florist and they were really nice and did a great job.
When we got back to our room all the lights were off. Of course this prompted a "Hey, I left some lights on when we left" fron Heather. I got her in the door and flipped on the entry light and told her happy anniversary. Leading from the door to the bed was a path of rose petals. On the bed was a large heart made from rose petals, two personlized towels, a bottle of Wishes sparkling fruit juice, two champagne flutes with etched Mickey's on them, and some mickey chocolates. Three led candles were placed around the room, a spa pack for two was in the bath area, a signed and matted photo of Mickey and Minnie was on the table, and above it all there was a siloutte of Tink making sure it was all just right.
The bed with rose heart, towels, sparkling fruit juice package.
The personlized towels with a Mickey chocolate on each one.
The bottle of Wishes and the champagne flutes.
The matted photo of Mickey and Minnie, signed and personalized.
Tink making sure everything was just right.
The surprise went over very well. We even get to keep everything that was put in the room. The towels are now hung in our bathroom at home, the Mickey and Minnie photo is on display, and the candles will be traveling with us on future trips as they make great nightlights. We are trying to find a place for Tink. I tried putting her on the wall above our bed but the cat and dog got way too interested in her. I'm pretty sure thr cat would have eventually climbed the wall to get her so we are finding a place for her to live without being attacked by the cat.
We called it a night. Tomorrow is MK which means I get my first Main Street Bakery cinnamon roll of the trip.
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So that sets up our dinner on the 10th and Cheeser had gotten ressies for Ohana's on Jan 11. Our dinners are all set up for Act 2.
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