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Quite a lot packed in with so many great animal photos from KS and Gorilla Falls. The first few gorilla photos looked like they were trying to hide from your camera behind the brush! Too bad you didn't get to experience Tiffin's but the Nomad Lounge is a good place with great drinks. Nice going with two great shows with FOTLK and ROL which you finally got to experience.
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Love your AK day! Great photos on the Gorilla Falls Exploration Trail, especially of the gorillas. The little ones are just so cute. Then the safari with some great animal sightings. Every time we see FotLK, I think I'll put the camera up. I've not been successful yet. So nice that you could switch out Tiffins for Nomad Lounge and still see ROL with FastPasses.
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Quite a lot packed in with so many great animal photos from KS and Gorilla Falls. The first few gorilla photos looked like they were trying to hide from your camera behind the brush! Too bad you didn't get to experience Tiffin's but the Nomad Lounge is a good place with great drinks. Nice going with two great shows with FOTLK and ROL which you finally got to experience.
Thanks, Dave!! There is always next time for Tiffin's!!
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Originally Posted by Cam22
Love your AK day! Great photos on the Gorilla Falls Exploration Trail, especially of the gorillas. The little ones are just so cute. Then the safari with some great animal sightings. Every time we see FotLK, I think I'll put the camera up. I've not been successful yet. So nice that you could switch out Tiffins for Nomad Lounge and still see ROL with FastPasses.
Thanks, Cam!! IT was an awesome day in my favorite park!!
When we got up this morning, Adrienne and I went for our morning walk and stopped at the Boardwalk Bakery for coffee:
Then everyone got ready and we headed over to Trattoria al Forno for breakfast with Rapunzel, Flynn Rider, Ariel and Eric!! I am so glad we found a way to squish this breakfast into our plans because it was so much fun!!
This restaurant is beautiful! When we arrived, it was packed already and our ADR was for 7:55 AM!! The hostess took my name and, honestly, was not very nice. She insisted that we had only made an ADR for three people and I pulled out my MDE app and showed her that it was indeed for four. She still acted like she was doing me a favor by allowing us to dine here and told me to wait to be called. This was such a stark contrast to the incredibly wonderful behavior of just about all of the other CM’s that we dealt with, that it really stood out.
Regardless, we found some chairs and waited. In about 10 minutes, another CM kept calling for a name that started with the letters Mc, but was not us. Interesting.y, she was calling for a party of three. I had a feeling that this was the original problem and went back up to the hostess and politely inquired as to whether she had mixed up our parties. She admitted that she had, but was not apologetic and brushed us off to the CM doing the seating. Jeesh! We all make mistakes, lady!
After that, we really did have a wonderful time and a great breakfast!! Everyone else was back to normal and couldn’t do enough for us!!
We were first served a cast iron pan full of creative pastries:
They were all, of course, Tangled and Little Mermaid related and they were delicious!
We were also given coffee and juice and then we ordered from the menu. Muffin ordered scrambled eggs with salmon and potatoes:
Dave got the Royale Breakfast:
Oak-grilled Steak, Cheesy-Egg Torte, and Fonduta with Breakfast Potatoes and crispy Onions
I got Tangled Eggs:
Fresh Mozzarella, Tomato-Basil Eggs, Sunday Gravy, and Breakfast Potatoes with Bacon or Sausage
And Adrienne got Two-Eggs Poached Underwater:
House-made Fennel Sausage, Sunday Gravy, and Parmesan Cheese over Golden Polenta with Toasted Focaccia
Everything was so good and we had a ball with the characters as well:
After our delightful breakfast, we goofed around on the Boardwalk and then we stopped back at our rooms to grab stuff for today. Muffin went to open up the safe and it wouldn’t work..........we didn’t get excited and tried it again but it still would not open. We tried one more time and this time, not only did it not open, it locked us out!! We called security and they came right up. The CM tried a special key and nothing happened. Then she tried a bypass code and that did not work either. She wound up having to get the manager and both were. Dry apologetic but said that they would have to call someone to drill the safe. They also said that we needed to be in the room because we had cash in the safe.
The manager told us to go to the park this morning and then call when we got back and they would send someone up to drill. So! We caught a Lyft to MK. There was nothing we could do in the meantime and we were both surprisingly pretty calm about the issue.
We had another beautiful morning!
We strolled down Main Street:
We made our way through Liberty Square:
To our first FP+ for IASW:
We the. Headed to our next FP+ for POTC:
Next, we had a visit with the Tiki Birds:
Next, we made our way towards our last FP+ for today and the Jingle Cruise!
We all wanted to go back for a swim and Muffin and I had to have our safe drilled, plus we knew we’d be back tomorrow night, so we headed out of the park.
When we got back to the Boardwalk, we immediately called security and they came up right away. Muffin said it would be silly for us both to wait and that I should go to the pool, so I did! It really didn’t take very long and I think Muffin joined us within a half an hour. I will tell you that from here on in, we did not put anything in the safe. : We did miss our beverage seminar at Epcot, but we were reimbursed in full for that, which was really nice. We know stuff happens and we really didn’t ask for anything.
We enjoyed the pool so much today and all got drinks at the bar as well:
Then Adrienne decided that she wanted to go in the pool, so I went in with her. Then she decided that she wanted to try the clown slide. She isn’t a great swimmer but was reassured that the water was not very deep where you came out. I agreed to go with her and in fact, I went first.
When Adrienne came down the slide, she did fine until she hit the water. Then she panicked and couldn’t catch her breath. The worst part was I was the only one who saw it. The lifeguard was looking the other way. So! I helped her to the side and once she caught her breath, she was truly fine. However, first one lifeguard came over to talk with her. Then she brought her superior with her. Again, Adrienne asked for nothing and said she was fine. Remember this.
We decided we were pushing our luck today, though, so we gathered our stuff together and headed upstairs to get ready for our evening right here on the Boardwalk!!
Next: Abracadabar, the Flying Fish Cafe and a surrey ride from H-E-double toothpicks! [
Great pictures from the trail and safari, my favourite is the meerkats, they are so cute. I really enjoyed ROL, it was a well done show, and it is so enjoyable to walk around the park at night.
Sorry you had issues with the safe, but glad that Disney was so helpful.
Ok, I'm a bit worried now about what might happen after the clown slide incident. Anyway, you've made me so happy that I managed to get breakfast booked at Trattoria al Forno - it sounds like a great experience... well except for Miss Misery at check in anyway.
Ugh, what a nightmare with the safe - I hope that all works out.
What a yummy looking breakfast, and so cool to meet some new characters!
That's crazy about the safe! :jaw drop:
And your teaser for the next update doesn't sound good at all! :
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The first few gorilla photos looked like they were trying to hide from your camera behind the brush! 
Too bad you didn't get to experience Tiffin's but the Nomad Lounge is a good place with great drinks. Nice going with two great shows with FOTLK and ROL which you finally got to experience. 
The hostess took my name and, honestly, was not very nice. She insisted that we had only made an ADR for three people and I pulled out my MDE app and showed her that it was indeed for four. She still acted like she was doing me a favor by allowing us to dine here and told me to wait to be called. 
This was such a stark contrast to the incredibly wonderful behavior of just about all of the other CM’s that we dealt with, that it really stood out.
: We did miss our beverage seminar at Epcot, but we were reimbursed in full for that, which was really nice. We know stuff happens and we really didn’t ask for anything.
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