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Wonderful food TR! I just love the pics and descriptions! Quick question. Did everyone have a good view of crush or only those closest to the walls. My fear is that we'll be placed in the middle of the room and won't be able to see anything or interact w/ him.
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Wonderful food TR! I just love the pics and descriptions! Quick question. Did everyone have a good view of crush or only those closest to the walls. My fear is that we'll be placed in the middle of the room and won't be able to see anything or interact w/ him.
I think most tables have a good view, but I'm trying to remember if the yahd screens in the middle too or not. I think they did.
I’m having a mind blank right now, but I think since we were 2nd seating dinner, our breakfast time was 7:45. I could be off by just a bit though.
We go there promptly, with carry ons in hand…only to wait with several others with carry ons. It appears 1st seating was running late. A good 15 minutes late.
Once they opened the doors it was kind of a free for all. They just said, do you remember where you sat last night…go there. Amazingly some people couldn’t remember at all…and I’m not talking about the people who went to Palo or Remy, I mean some people just plain forgot! I can say that because we remembered. LOL!
Brent was the first over to the table today. He took drink orders. Usually Srdjan did that. Claire started asking over and over and over….”where’s the guy who calls me Princess”. We told her we didn’t know, and maybe he wasn’t there today. She wasn’t to happy about that.
Then he showed up! And we had a happy girl. The first picture isn’t great, but you can see the little smirk on her face. Kind of like “I told you he was here”.
Srdjan gave Claire a hug and a kiss on the cheek and said good bye to her.
Breakfast then arrived
Claire got cereal (rice crispies, I believe) and a fruit plate.
Mom had waffles and bacon.
I had the Route 66 - scrambled eggs, bacon, grilled sausage, grilled ham and hash browns.
It was decent enough. Nothing fabulous, but Ok breakfast food. It wasn’t anything better than Cabanas had had.
We finished up, said our goodbyes and made our way off the ship. Very sad, but we still had more fun planned.
Oh wow, you're bringing back great memories of some wonderful food on the Dream! It's so cool to see those restaurants that we were enjoying just a couple of days ago.
Glad Claire got to say goodbye to Srdjan! She'll probably be looking for him whenever you cruise again.
I am glad too. She was worried when she didn't see him
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Sounds like a great final meal on the Dream
It was decent. But just sitting in that dining room made it great.
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So sad this part is over, but we have your REAL TR to look forward to reading! Thanks for sharing all of the yummy food pix!
I am going to continue on and add the WDW food too.
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Sounds like a great last breakfast, glad that Claire got to see her "favorite server" one last time.
I'm glad too. She really liked him
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Oh wow, you're bringing back great memories of some wonderful food on the Dream! It's so cool to see those restaurants that we were enjoying just a couple of days ago.
We had made our way over to Pop Century and checked in. Mom and Dad went off to Animal Kingdom then. They had lunch there, but I don’t know where, or what.
Claire took a quick swim and then we headed off to Magic Kingdom.
After doing a few things she declared she was starving. One of those things that if you didn’t get food she would just die on the spot. I had wanted to eat at Columbia Harbor House or Pecos Bills, but we happened to be in Tomorrowland at that point and I knew we I had to get her food fast. We settled for Cosmic Rays. We like it there, but it’s just a place we go to all the time, so I wanted to branch out a bit.
We got in line at Bay 1, just randomly. I gave her some choices.
The place was packed. I was amazed how busy it was. I think it was after 2 at this point. We had to wait in line to order for a bit, the whole time I kept hearing a little voice telling me how hungry she was. Finally after a cashier change right when it was our turn, we ordered.
We were greeted by this friendly CM as we approached the counter to get our food.
Claire got the kids peanut butter and jelly with fries. I kind of said to myself…”why am I paying for PBJ on vacation?” But that’s OK, that’s what she wanted.
I went back and forth on what I wanted. The chicken dinner sounded really good, but I wasn’t THAT hungry. I finally settled on the Chicken nuggets with fries.
These were good as well, but way too much. I should’ve ordered the kids meal for myself. OR just got these and shared with Claire, but since she wanted PBJ, that didn’t work. I only ate about half of it. Claire ate about half of hers as well, along with one of my nuggets.
We watched Sonny perform. Claire loved this when she was 2 and danced to the music on our first MK night that trip. She didn’t even remember him this trip. I know we have been here since that 1st trip with her, but we might not have sat down by Sonny.
The cost of this meal was $16.37.
We had fun and soon were on our way back out for more MK fun in the crowded heat!
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I do that a lot with Claire when we are are the dining plan at WDW. We will sometimes share a breakfast CS and then a lunch CS. I think by the time we got to WDW this trip we had eaten so much on the cruise that we weren't as hungry for the park food too. Two days we went without a lunch or a dinner. But we did have breakfast everyday too.
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I just love the pics and descriptions! 
Quick question. Did everyone have a good view of crush or only those closest to the walls. My fear is that we'll be placed in the middle of the room and won't be able to see anything or interact w/ him.
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It's so cool to see those restaurants that we were enjoying just a couple of days ago. 
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