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Very nice day. When you're staying at a resort as amazing as AKL it makes sense to spend a lot of time roaming around there. Glad you enjoyed your Sanaa lunch. I like lunch there better than dinner because you have more animals joining you-- that giraffe is so cute! I've never been to Splitsville. May have to try it!
What fun park free day you had relaxing and enjoying some great restaurants!!! I haven't tried either Sanaa or Splitsville but I'm going to have to keep them on my radar as the food looked delicious That sushi roll looked so good!
Love the bread service at Sanaa! Glad you were able to enjoy splitsville - not many places you can get sushi and a burger... Although I was recently looking into cowfish!
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Good to know about splitsville. We passed by there on our way to cirque show.
Love Cirque! But you NEED to make time for Splitsville - awesome food!
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All caught up - enjoying your narrative and photos. I agree - AKL is a great place to just enjoy. Your dining experiences so far sound delicious.
Thanks you! AKL was wonderful and where else can you dine so well but at Disney?
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What a wonderfully relaxing day!
Thanks Cheryl!
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What a great day with some yummy eats!
Thanks Marnie!
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What fun park free day you had relaxing and enjoying some great restaurants!!! I haven't tried either Sanaa or Splitsville but I'm going to have to keep them on my radar as the food looked delicious That sushi roll looked so good!
Thanks Linda! You need to keep those on your list! Chuck thought that Dragon roll was the best on property!
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The bread service is right up my ally. I could just make a meal of it. YUMMY!
Thanks. The bread service is wonderful!
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This sounds like a very enjoyable relaxing day. Your pictures have gotten me excited about eating at Sanaa on Friday.
It was wonderful! Enjoy Sanaaa! It would be even better if Dan was your server!
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Looks like a great day! Must give Splitsville a try!
Lisa, you really do! Their margarita gives other places a run for their money! I would definitely do a drink with you there!
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Love the bread service at Sanaa! Glad you were able to enjoy splitsville - not many places you can get sushi and a burger... Although I was recently looking into cowfish!
True - Splitsville has quite a choice! Cowfish????
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What a wonderful relaxing day!! I am not a fan of sushi...but OMG that looked really good!!
Cowfish is a new(ish) addition to Citywalk at Universal - it sounds interesting...
"Burgers and sushi. Sushi and burgers. Certainly unusual, absolutely great. That’s The Cowfish™, the first and only Sushi Burger Bar, focused on offering both the best sushi AND the best burger in town. Our signature creations are what we call "Burgushi®"! A cutting edge fusion of burger and sushi, Burgushi® items include sushi rolls created using burger components, and pick-up style sandwiches created using sushi ingredients."
We were up at 7 am and had our tea/coffee on the balcony. After getting showered and dressed, we headed over to the Mara at Jambo House for breakfast.
We had FP at Epcot this am - so soon (around 8:30ish) we were boarding a bus for where else but MK?! We kind of played bus roulette - whichever came first MK or Epcot. So we got over to MK and then got on the Ferry over to TTC where we got on a monorail headed for Epcot. Talk about round about way to get there! It took almost 90 mins total travel time! It would have been less time had we waited for the Epcot bus in the first place!
Work at the Poly from the ferry
Our first FP was for SE and we were right on time. We rode and our end video was the conga line but it didn't come through to my email. Our second FP was for the Character Spot and we were going to try to meet up with Cam and Luke around this time but we skipped this FP because we didn't get the Memory Maker and Chuck didn't really feel into it. I kept in text contact with Cam and they had done their visit with the fab 5 and headed on over to WS. We visited Mousegears and Club Cool then went over to ride Living with the Land. We checked on the wait time for Soarin' but Chuck didn't want to wait for it even though I said I'd wait for him because I no longer ride this. After all this, our TT FP was ripe. We designed our cars and rode that - I think coming in 2nd for our car design overall. Then we headed over to WS to start our F&WF! By this time, Cam and Luke had a head start and were somewhere around UK going on France. We stopped at Greece and had Spanikopita and the griddled cheese and a wine. Then I went to the Port and got us each a Cronut! Where have these been my entire life? After that it was on to Canada and we shared the filet and a cheese soup. Chuck got the MooseHead Beer and I had the apple ice wine. By this time, it was getting very hot and we were both a bit cranky so we decided to head back to the room and continue the F&WF for dinner later on. We took the direct way back this time and headed out for a swim.
When we got into the hot tub, it wasn't working right - no bubbles. One of the other people in the tub (there was another older couple and their teenage grandkids) got out and let the CM's know that there was something wrong. So they said they had to get maintenance down to fix it but in the meantime, one of the "pool game" people came over and tossed us some rubber ducky squirters so that we could make our own bubbles! Hahahaha. We had fun with those and so did the other couple - but the teenagers were just mortified! It was hilarious! Soon the CM's were there to fix the hot tub but by then we were ready to head out. We stopped for a quick drink at the bar to bring back with us.
We cleaned up and headed back to Epcot. I had texted Cam and found out that they would be finishing up with TT soon and we could meet outside of Mousegears for a few minutes. We pulled up a bench and waited. Not long and I saw Cam's bright neon yellow/green coat she had been wearing (I knew this as she had posted some pics on fb from earlier in the day) and I called out to her. We were soon in the biggest,warmest PP hugs ever! We chatted for a few but we noticed Cam checking her watch and knew that they had to scoot. Did we get a photo? Nooooo! Oh boy! So they were heading over to their dinner at Via Napoli and we were heading over to F&WF. We headed the opposite way this time going over to Mexico. I got the ribeye taco and Chuck had the shrimp taco and we shared the sweet corn cheesecake. I wanted to get a "real" margarita from Cava but the line was ridiculous - so I passed.
We went on to Farm Fresh where Chuck had the bacon pepper hash and I had a Key lime wine.
At Korea, Chuck had the kimchi dog and I had a blackberry wine.
At Germany, Chuck had a pretzel brat and I tried the pasta gratin which I found greasy, too oniony and lukewarm. I didn't finish it.
We slipped into Karmel Kusche for some caramel treats for later - caramel corn, chocolate covered caramel with sea salt and a german chocolate caramel cookie. We kept walking around the world but it was getting late. We stopped around America and the Eat to the Beat concert was Wilson Phillips so we listened to them for a couple minutes. Then we got a funnel cake - my first ever. It was just ok but very messy. We had decided to save the rest of the kiosks for another day and just headed out for a bus to AKL.
We had a little bit of a wait and the line was growing. We looked down the line and there was Cam and Luke! We all made it on the same bus but we were in the back and they ended up standing up front so no chatting on the ride. When we got off we did a quick "Bye" yell though. We got back to our room and dug into the caramel corn. That stuff NEVER lasts with us! A little catch up on fb and soon it was bedtime.
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