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more Flying Fish................
Signature Char Crusted Black Angus New York Strip, pole beans, fingerling potatoes, root veggies and classic sauce Foyot
Remy with kids Mickey pasta-both girls ordered this and loved that the sauce and cheese came on the side!
Mickey's chocolate puzzle
Sorcerer Mickey's Milk Chocolate Cauldrons
They do love their chocolate!
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Great pictures of some great meals! For some reason the last one of the cheese board made me the hungriest. May be because I have a weakness for cheeses.
Great pictures of some great meals! For some reason the last one of the cheese board made me the hungriest. May be because I have a weakness for cheeses.
I'm the same way! I can take or leave a sinful dessert...just give me the cheese plate!
Ok so I think I got my pictures caught up to where my trip report left off........
Monday November 30th
As previously mentioned I told MIL that I would get up and walk with her this morning. Jeff didn't really think I would get up but I did. I woke at 5:30 but really felt as though I had been awake all night. It just seemed like the longest night ever. MIL and I dressed and tiptoed out the door for a pre sunrise jaunt. It was cool but not cold and DARK! We walked the path down to POFQ and I took pictures along the way...course not too many of them turned out to good because it was still so dark. We had a nice time though, walking and chatting.
early morning emptiness in the lobby
Empty and dark Dragon pool
The french Quarter had beautiful Christmas lights.
We walked around and sat and chatted for an hour and then decided to get some breakfast to take back to the room for the rest of our crowd. We went into the Sassagoula floatworks and Food Factory in FQ but really that was fine. MIL got a cappuccino ($3.19) and an order of Beignets ($4.29) I got two croissants for the girls ($2.29 each) and an order of the beignets ($4.29) for Jeff and an orange juice for Jeff. Two bottles of water ($2.50each) rounded out the order. I used 8 snack credits and no cash. Nice! We got back to the room and everyone was still sleeping. I woke Jeff so he could have his breakfast and started to try to get the girls up. The plan was for Animal Kingdom today. EMH from 8-9am so I wanted to get an early start. Remy ate her croissant but Gelsey only had a few bites....she's not a good breakfast eater. Once everyone was ready we headed out to get the bus to AK. Bus service wasn't too bad. I don't think we waited more than 10-15 minutes and the stop was close to our building if we walked out the back. This whole moderate hotel thing isn't so bad. I'm so rigid with always staying at the GF but I was really enjoying the PO! It seemed like we had a whole bunch of stops between us and the AK. There must be like, 5 stops at PO after ours. We went past a few without stopping as there was no room on the bus! We arrived at AK just about 8am and high tailed it back to Kilimanjaro Safari and walked right on...I don't know why I was rushing...there was no one there!
not sure why I got so many of the same pictures on there but the thumbnails at the bottom are good. Sorry! I'm still just completely incompetent on the computer!
After Kilimanjaro Safari we Kali River Rapid and spent some time in the jewelry store near there. Each of the girls got a new necklace. We also met up with characters from Jungle Book and Bugs Life. We spent a long time going through the Maharajah Jungle Trek. Remy was just fascinated, particularly with the bats...UGH, my DD is so weird! She LOVES bugs too! Gelsey was less enthused but she likes the tigers who were all taking naps!
Gelsey was repeatedly making remarks about being hungry so I told her we'd look for a snack somewhere. Our Yak & Yeti ADR wasn't until 12:30. But hey, it was a little after 11 and we were right by Yak & Yeti so I thought I'd ask if we could get in early. They had just opened so the hostess said it would be no problem. We waited in the big throng of people that always seems to be there whenever any restaurant just opens the doors and were seated in less than 10 minutes! I was really looking forward to this meal but I gotta say I wasn't WOWed. I mean, it's not that the food was bad or anything, but nothing tasted as good as it should have. That said, we will probably return here since there is such a lacking of table service restaurants at AK.
Some shots of the inside of Yak & Yeti:
Jeff, MIL, Remy & Gelsey checking out the menus...nice view out the window too!
The secret to enjoying your lunch with a busy body 4 year old? Small cans of play doh and a few cookie cutters. Kept her quite happy and occupied!
Great updates!
But I can't see your pictures! (I think the problem may be that your trying to put more than 5 pics per post-- you can only put 5 pics per post, so just make multiple posts when you have more pics; hope that helps!)
Great updates!
But I can't see your pictures! (I think the problem may be that your trying to put more than 5 pics per post-- you can only put 5 pics per post, so just make multiple posts when you have more pics; hope that helps!)
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Prawn flavored crisps...AKA NON Flavored crisps
my Appetizer: Pork egg rolls with chili plum sauce
MIL's entree: Maple Tamarind Chicken.
Gelsey's kids meal: Egg roll with fried rice and french fries...Gelsey loves her Carbohydrates
Jeff's entree: Crispy honey chicken. This was good but it sure wasn't crispy
My Entree: Shaoxing Steak & Shrimp. This was pretty good. The shrimp were awesome and i loved the rice. The steak, not so much, but I like my steak rare and you really can't cook a thin skirt steak rare so it just wasn;t my thing...good marinade though!
Remy's chicken nuggets and fried rice
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. We had a nice time though, walking and chatting.
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