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What a great start to the trip so far. It has been a long time since I have eaten at Boatwright's but your meal looked delicious. I think the first time we ate there was when entrée and dessert was included in the regular dining plan and it was so much food...but so good. We are staying there next September so I am hoping we make it back for a meal.
And meeting Princess Sharon was the perfect way to start off your dinner
The first time we experience the dining plan ( it was not called that then) was on our honeymoon in 2000. You got appetizer, entree and dessert and the tip was included as well. It was a ton of food but we totally miss that! You really should make it back there for a meal, it was really good.
It was wonderful meeting Princess Sharon!
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Breakfast items should be served at Starbucks on Main Street... So Disney right? We ran into the same problem at Disneyland a few weeks ago
I am pretty sure that Starbucks/Main Street Bakery does serve some breakfast items however Jonathon can not eat those items due to a severe peanut/tree nut allergy. MK used to have counter service breakfast and they really need to bring it back.
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Great pictures from your day at MK!
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I totally agree that MK needs more breakfast options. I think SDMT is a bit rockier from the very back where you all were. We've ridden in the very front and the very back. I preferred the front.
I kinda figured that the front might be a better ride. Maybe next time we ride it.
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Sounds like a very start to MK. I agree that MK needs more breakfast items, I miss the Main Street Bakery.
Maybe we should start a petition to bring CS breakfast back to MK!
So I was finally able to get a DAS return time for POTC and we decided to catch the train around the park. So we headed over to the Frontierland station and got on the train after a wait. We always like the train ride. Once we circled the park it was close enough to our return time for pirates that we headed that way.
We got in line and when we went to use our DAS they had some trouble at first but then it finally worked. So we headed on in. We love this ride but after riding it this time we understood why it was being closed for refurbishment. We were seated at the very front of the boat and when we went down the little waterfall we got very very wet. We have never gotten that wet ever on this ride. We also got wet a few times from the canon fire shots as well. Just crazy.
We got off POTC and decided to do some shopping in the gift shop. I found some really cute sunglasses and decided to get two pairs as I need to replace mine. My last pair of Disney sunglasses had broke a month earlier.
It was getting close to our next FP which was BTMRR. So we headed over that way. This was kinda of confusing because the signage here is not clear. There is a FP line but there is no signage for handicap access. Finally someone helped us out with that and we found our way to the handicap access. We had to wait a few minutes but finally a CM showed up and scanned our MBs for our FP. Then lead us in to where we would enter the ride. It had been a long time since I had road on BTMRR and I did not remember it being extremely rough. But this was not an easy ride. I think it was more because of Jonathon. The lap bar comes across both riders and Jonathon is a skinny little guy. So needless to say he kept coming up out of the seat and Mike had to really hold on to him. I was so worried about him that I did not really enjoy the ride at all. This will not be a ride we will take him on any time soon again. After it was over and we got off and were standing off to the side of the exit a little ways down to figure out what to do next, I realized that he was shaking a little. So I was trying to sooth him and felt bad that the ride had upset him. I think he did much better on SDMT than this ride. It was here that I decided that coasters were not his thing and that we would wait until he was much older to take him on another one, if we did at all. He calmed down fairly quickly.
I think after this we headed back over towards Fantasyland again. I think we caught the end of the parade at this point and we made our way along the side of it going towards HM. I think we decided to stop and ride the Liberty Belle. It was rather hot this day and the breeze on the boat was nice. Jonathon however did not like the ride at all, it was too warm in the sun and the shade was near the machinery and it did not like the noise of that. So it was a rather stressful ride for him. Once we finally got off there we headed over to IASW and rode it again in hopes to relax Jonathon. It did help.
We decided to head out of the park at this point. We did do some shopping in the Emporium though before we headed out. I wanted to go back to POP and change before we headed to dinner at Kona Cafe.
We went back to POP and changed. Our dining reservation was for 6:30. We drove over to the Poly and valet parked. We got our first look at the new lobby for the Poly.
It is very nice but I still miss the original lobby and the waterfall.
We checked in and we were seated very shortly afterwards. We ordered drinks. Now this is where it was rather strange. The server told us that because Jonathon had a allergy that they could not even get him a drink until the Chef said it was ok. That is a first for us in all the years we had been coming to WDW with him. They would not even let him have some water. That was just crazy. Plus we have had breakfast here before several times and never had that happen before. Perhaps it was just this server, I am not sure. But fortunately we did not have to wait long before the Chef came by. With that done we ordered our meals.
I ordered a Pomegranate Lemonade to start, Mike got tea and we ordered Jonathon Diet Coke. Although he decided that he liked my lemonade much better. I decided to order a drink and ordered the Island Sunset. It is pictured here on the left. The Pomegranate Lemonade is on the right.
For dinner we had: Pan-Asian Noodles - Yakisoba Noodles, Wok-seared with Vegetables and your choice of Chicken or Tofu in a Ginger-Garlic Sauce; can be made vegetarian upon request; (Mike and I both got this with shrimp as it was recommended by a friend) - So so very delicious!!
Kids hotdog with french fries.
Dinner was very very good. We enjoyed it a lot. After dinner we checked out the gift shop but did not see anything that we wanted and we headed out and got the van from valet. We headed out and decided to head over to Target to pick up a few things. Mike wanted some donuts or danish for breakfast and we checked out the Disney souveniers. We ended up buying a few shirts of course and found some donuts too. With that done we headed back to POP. We called it a night at this point, it was somewhere near 10 and we had had a full day. I do not recall Jonathon having any trouble getting to sleep this night. I think we all crashed early.
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Beautiful tree skirt! Sorry Jonathon didn't like the coasters, but then I'm only willing to do the small ones myself, and I'm pretty much once and done. Dinner at Kona looked very delicious.
Great start, Kim! It was really great to meet you, Mike and Jonathon (loved his Goofy t-shirt! ). Sounds like the trip is going well for you guys so far. It seems like Jonathon doesn't like the coasters much, but there's always IASW! And I'm so glad you guys finally got to meet talking Mickey! I feel your pain with the lack of counter service breakfast options at the MK. Sadly, it's the same story at all the parks. If you don't want pastries, you'll have a hard time finding breakfast, so I've started getting something at the resort before heading out.
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Mickey's so happy to see me back, he can barely contain himself!
Beautiful tree skirt! Sorry Jonathon didn't like the coasters, but then I'm only willing to do the small ones myself, and I'm pretty much once and done. Dinner at Kona looked very delicious.
Great start, Kim! It was really great to meet you, Mike and Jonathon (loved his Goofy t-shirt! ). Sounds like the trip is going well for you guys so far. It seems like Jonathon doesn't like the coasters much, but there's always IASW! And I'm so glad you guys finally got to meet talking Mickey! I feel your pain with the lack of counter service breakfast options at the MK. Sadly, it's the same story at all the parks. If you don't want pastries, you'll have a hard time finding breakfast, so I've started getting something at the resort before heading out.
It was so great to me you! Yes IASW is one of his favs! Yes the counter service breakfast thing is a real pain. We have decided to just bring some cereal, a bowl and a spoon for him with us. I am sure we can find milk somewhere. Then Mike and I can grab the pastries or waffles or whatever. Jonathon seems to have an aversion to eating breakfast at the resort when we go to Disney. LOL I think he wants to get to the parks first.
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