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I think Ghirardelli's for breakfast is am excellent idea. I'll need to copy that one on my next trip. I'm sure the hot fudge sauce is the perfect energy boost for a day packed with walking and WDW seems to be a weight gain free zone.
One quick question please Who in the heck is STACEY? Sorry but everytime you or the big guy mention her I go back reread this and PTR and am still scratching my head.
Now for a very public THANK YOU on FGM duties. That post card has been one bright spot for my friend over past few weeks But she did look at me funny when I said Tink wont recognize me as I'm going to wear a False Mustache !! Sorry for Hijack.
Glad you had such a great day and reading where you watched parade and fireworks from couldn't help but think Greatly disturbed minds think alike Thats where we watched from Thought about bringing my scrubs from Morgue and being Dr A. Nuss Proctology but decided it was not time or place
Thanks! It was a lot of fun. We were just so tired and my camera battery died. I think we would have to do this one over again.
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The pulled pork sandwich at Pecos Bill's is my fave MK CS. Great update! Glad you actually got the breakfast you had planned for on this day.
It was good. We don't eat too many CS. Chuck was looking for a place that serves tacos. He thought it was Pecos Bill's but we come to find out it was Tortuga Tavern.
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Between your time at AK and the MNSSHP sounds like you had a great day!! How cool that you meet up with Melanie and Meri at the party!!
It was cool. Great to have another PP meet! They are really sweet!
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Over all, another good day! Fun to meet up with Meri and Melanie during the party. I'm sure I wouldn't be able to keep up with them, either. I'm always amazed reading other peoples' reports by how much they do during one day. I'm good in short spurts followed by long down-time.
Oh, no... sorry for the confusion! I just meant I was angry again for you since hearing briefly about it from your live update during your trip. I've had several fabulous breakfasts there and was very concerned that their customer service was so bad.
OH! I forgot that I told ya'll about it before! Duh! We really liked their breakfast. And we hadn't planned on too many breakfasts - instead we had more early lunches, so I was really looking forward to this breakfast!
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Sounds like a full and fun day! You got some good pics of the tigers. I am looking forward to the MVMCP, I have done the MNSSHP two times.
Glad you got to do your breakfast today. Peso Bills is one of my fave CS places. I just wish I knew that you could ask for a regular roll, instead of that hard nasty multigrain one. I think I read that they got rid of those? Hmmm....
Can't wait to hear about your relaxation day!
We've done MVMCP x2 but this MNSSHP was a first. I just wish 1- my camera hadn't died and 2-we had planned it a little better. We had decided to do this last minute so our "costumes" weren't planned well and that night, we were pretty tired. We don't do many CS so Pecos Bill's was new to us. It was ok. But I think it didn't agree with Chuck too well as he started not feeling too well.
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A down day no way!!! Bet they go shopping..
Hmmmm. Maybe . I don't think there was a day where we didn't AT LEAST go into the gift shop at the resort.
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What a packed day!
Yeah - we were kinda filling em up.
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OMG! That is SO cool Shazza! SO much better than that creepy guy staring. LOVE the pic!
Isn't it cool! I saved it to my ipad.
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What a great day! Love the pics from AK and MK! Glad you had a great time at the party!
Thanks! It was fun!
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Just used photoshop to replace the background with Mickey and Donald
I saved it to my Ipad! I'm so computer illiterate! I just figured out photobucket! (and sometimes still have issues with that!)
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Had a bit of catching up to do!!! Sounds like a great time!!!
Love the pic of Chuck sleeping on the monorail!
And LOVE that Shazza was able to photoshop that pic!!! Creepy guy! We have a few of those too I think!
Well, you're excused for getting behind. After all, you were decidedly out of town! Chuck always seems to catch 20 winks on the bus!
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I think Ghirardelli's for breakfast is am excellent idea. I'll need to copy that one on my next trip. I'm sure the hot fudge sauce is the perfect energy boost for a day packed with walking and WDW seems to be a weight gain free zone.
It was good!
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One quick question please Who in the heck is STACEY? Sorry but everytime you or the big guy mention her I go back reread this and PTR and am still scratching my head.
Now for a very public THANK YOU on FGM duties. That post card has been one bright spot for my friend over past few weeks But she did look at me funny when I said Tink wont recognize me as I'm going to wear a False Mustache !! Sorry for Hijack.
Glad you had such a great day and reading where you watched parade and fireworks from couldn't help but think Greatly disturbed minds think alike Thats where we watched from Thought about bringing my scrubs from Morgue and being Dr A. Nuss Proctology but decided it was not time or place
Mike - Stacey is the lady on the tv at the resort that does the "infomercial" about the "Disney Must Do's". It just constantly repeats. No problem about being FGM. It was my pleasure. Glad it cheered her up! It was my first time doing that. No worries about the hijack (it really wasn't that much of one). I would leave THAT name tag off the scrubs!
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Great updates! Sounds like you had a great time at the party!
Thanks! We did - but like I said, we didn't get all out of it that we could have.
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Today was an “off” day. We didn’t have park plans. We slept in. I woke when Chuck came back after starting laundry. He said “meet me at the pool after you wake up”. OK. So I had my tea and caught up on fb. Then I got ready and headed down to the pool. He wasn’t there. I figured he was in the laundry room so I waited but didn’t see him. I went to the laundry room and he wasn’t there. I thought maybe he went back to the room to drop off laundry and would come back to the pool. Nope. Finally, after I swam alone for a bit, I went back to the room and he said “How could you miss me?” It was just a comedy of errors really. We must have kept missing each other.
OKW pool
nice weather! For now
WARNING - FOOD PORN!
We got dressed and went to lunch at Olivia’s.
I want this ceiling fan!
Our server Jason was really nice. He told us how all the uneaten/left over food gets “composted” and fed to the animals. Chuck had crab cakes, shrimp and grits and I had onion rings and a Cuban sandwich.
We took our desserts to go (key lime tart - oh so good!) We took the tarts back to the room and then we were going to rent a pontoon boat. We signed the contract, got our life vests and went down to the dock.
As he was going over everything, they yelled down that they were shutting it down due to weather.
Yes, there were clouds - but we probably could have squeezed our ½ hour in there. So we rented a surrey bike instead.
Man - ½ hour on that and your legs are screaming! It is a work out! When we came back it was getting more cloudy and going to start raining any minute. We went back to the room and changed into our suits and decided to go for a swim. Together this time. It was raining but no lightening or thunder so we were ok. And we figured - we’re getting wet anyway. We practically had the pool to ourselves! After pool/hot tub time, we came back and napped. We also figured out our luggage situation for the trip home (bought an extra carry on for Chuck at the gift shop which we kind of planned to do.) and ordered an owners locker. Then we got ready for dinner.
WARNING: MORE FOOD PORN!
We took the bus to MK and then the monorail to GF. We made it in time for our ADR at Narcoosses. This was a first for us both. We had a seat by the window and it was a fine view. I had the cheese board and a margarita for app while Chuck had calamari.
Dinner I had the surf and turf. Now, mind you, I don’t eat fish. And I have NEVER had lobster. I was planning on sharing this with Chuck. But he didn’t get much of it! LOL! It was soooo sweet and tender and delectable and yummy! Not fishy at all. I don’t like fish because I don’t like the fishyness of fish. (sometimes it is a texture thing) Well, this trip has changed my mind. First the tuna at Fulton’s and now this!
Before
After:
Chuck had Ahi.
Then we had our desserts. We had been chatting with our server and it came up that tomorrow (9/16) was our “technical” anniversary. We have the anniversary we celebrate (in July) which is our ceremony day and our “technical” anniversary which is the day we did all the paperwork - we got the marriage license and filed it, etc. So our desserts came with little Happy Anniversary chocolate things on them. I had the molten chocolate cake and Chuck had the mango sorbet with fruit.
All in all - one of the best meals!
We decided to go home the easy way - we took the bus from GF to DTD and switched there. No need to battle crowds because Wishes had just ended. We actually left Narcoossees during the fireworks and watched some of it while walking to the bus stop. Once back at OKW, we decided to go over our plans for the rest of the trip since this was about midway. We ended up tweaking a couple of things. We cancelled our ADR’s at Rose and Crown and Hollywood Brown Derby. Because if we had kept them, we would have been zig zagging all over WDW. We would have had to go to Epcot in the middle of our last AK day (for lunch) and would have had to go to DHS in the middle of our Epcot day. It was just better this way. I was a bit bummed because I was really looking forward to those but it’s not like I wasn’t already eating really well. Anyway, after another full, rich day, we hit the sack.
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What a wonderful day of relaxing and eating. Your meals look delicious! Good for you for trying new things! I know what you mean about fishy fish. There is fish, and then there's fish stick smelling fish.
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The pulled pork sandwich at Pecos Bill's is my fave MK CS. Great update! Glad you actually got the breakfast you had planned for on this day.
Duh! We really liked their breakfast. And we hadn't planned on too many breakfasts - instead we had more early lunches, so I was really looking forward to this breakfast!
. I don't think there was a day where we didn't AT LEAST go into the gift shop at the resort.
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