A Trip of Delicious Dining and Drinking Delights - September TR - food update 10/28

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We're fair weather golfers, fair weather bike riders etc. so it's a big deal for us to go out in the rain. However, we were at Disneyworld, so obviously we couldn't stay in our room all night! We had been looking forward to Tangierine Cafe, so we decided to head back to Epcot.

We arrived back at the park at about 6:45ish. I had one umbrella, so we had a nice cuddly walk from the bus to the front gate and into the first store on the left where Jason decided to buy a second umbrella! They were $12ish, which we thought was a great deal since the ponchos are $8 and we'd actually use the umbrella at home too! So we gained our independence and hoofed it over to Morocco. At the back of the park! Haha.

It was nice and quiet in Future World, but we were too hungry for rides.

The long walk was worth it!

We both got Shwarma platters and baklava. Jason had the lamb and chicken combo and I had the chicken.

Seriously, so much food! Everything was delicious. The chicken with the tzatziki was flavourful, the pita was soft and the hummus silky smooth. The couscous and tabouli salads were light and fresh tasting. We had no hope of getting through our meals and desserts, so we got a to-go box for our baklava and a bag to carry them in. This was handy because our umbrellas could share a bag with our dessert

I really like the ceiling and the light fixture here...

but boy did it ever LEAK! We had to adjust our chairs so we didn't get dripped on. Weird! We made sure we relaxed here to digest so I didn't regret eating so much again... I'll learn, I think!

After our lovely dinner, we decided to head over to Mitsukoshi (it was still raining). We spent like half an hour browsing here. I bought an origami kit and DH bought a thingee to go on his motorcycle (haha, so descriptive!)

I'll take one of these please!

So many stuffies!

Domo

Some cute, super expensive mini houses

And some amazing dishes that I'd love, but also quite expensive

Japan had the friendliest CMs! They always offered to take our pictures.

Cute!

Mini trees! Apparently I have an affinity for mini things.

We wandered towards USA and stopped for a potty break and to try and track down our friends since we had just overheard that Illuminations would still be happening! We didn't expect it would, so we were happy to hear that and stick around for it. Our friends decided to pass, I can't remember where they were though, DTD maybe? They did a lot of shopping in DTD.

So, we decided it was finally time for a GGS!!!! Grey Goose Slushie

We stood under a big umbrella next to the stand to stay out of the rain (still!). But it wasn't a very good place to watch the show, so we headed left towards the bridge and went down to the lower viewing area and grabbed a spot near a planter. We stood under our umbrellas drinking the sweet amazing GGS and waited for the show to start.

It's hard holding a phone for pics, an umbrella and a GGS at the same time. But I mostly wanted to just relax and enjoy the show, so I didn't take many pics.

Not sure why that guy is looking at his phone and not in the direction of the globe.

Halfway through the show, the rain stopped, hurrah!

I like Illuminations, but don't love it. It was nice feeling the warmth of the fireworks though and we had a pretty centred view which was nice.

We wandered slowly out of the park, into the England store for a minute.

And through Canada because I love home, haha. But just for a second.

I'm not a fan, but a lot of people love Tim Horton's coffee. This would be good to know in case you want to brew your own while you're in WDW.

Love the ball at night, and one of my fave pics of the trip.

And then we headed into Mouse Gears!

We both really liked these cups, but never bought one.

I was looking up, these gears move!

Jason tried on a shirt, haha, but decided not to buy it. He did fall in love with Perry this trip though!

Continued in next post...

 

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... continued from previous...

Mick and Min nerds!

Jason bought the Oswald the mechanic mug here, but that's it! I looked at all the shirts, but didn't find anything I loved.

However, I did LOVE the twinkly sidewalks. #placesihavestood (that's my brother's favourite hashtag, haha)

Goodbye, ball!

We didn't have to wait long for a bus again, and when we got back to Pop we decided to stop for a nightcap.

I'm pretty sure I had the grand margarita here one time, but I haven't stumbled upon the picture yet. Anyway, I had a Yuengling tonight.

And I just realized I missed this... wonder if they'll play it again?!

Jason checked out some of the local microbrews.

And then it was 11:30 and we hit the hay!

Tomorrow is the classic, MK!

 

[Disneyluvr81]

Getting all caught up with your updates but wanted to say we love Mitsokoshi's!! It's so easy to spend a ton of time (and money too) there!!!

 

[HumblePie]

Fun trip report!

 

[blabbermouth]

Getting all caught up with your updates but wanted to say we love Mitsokoshi's!! It's so easy to spend a ton of time (and money too) there!!!

Oh yeah, it's a good place to escape the rain! We were pretty good with spending, although there was definitely a lot more we could have bought!

Fun trip report!

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Another morning dawns, and I do up my hair with one of my bows, and put on my new shirt I bought at Everything Pop the night before I didn't feel like I had anything to wear that said 'magic kingdom!'

Haha, we look like complete slobs in this pic! Mirror photos are horrible.

So we head out to the meeting spot, aka Lady. She's so cute! Once again I never found the energy to explore the rest of Pop Century, but that's okay! I liked my little area just fine on it's own.

We slept in again and met up at 9! (Worst. disers. ever.)

Pop breakfast this morning was waffles and bacon all around! We had to wait for awhile, they were kind of slow, but that meant fresh waffles, so they were pretty tasty.

It was humid already, but not particularly sunny yet as we headed to MK. This is always the longest bus ride from Pop, so I was excited when I got off the bus... and therefore took photos of the bus stop and the pop machines!

This is a horrible photo, but the bus stops are so beautiful here.

And I like the retro look of their pop machines. How cold? ICE COLD!

We headed into the park and up main street taking in the festive sights.

Must have pic, and extra fall-ish with the leaves.

I loved the pumpkins on the ledge, makes me want to put pumpkins on my gutters, but how would I light their candles?

See? It wasn't really very good weather for castle pics. It was sort of foggy and gray

And there were many people milling about, don't they know there are rides out there?

Mickey pumpkin and the castle, aww.

Enhance!

We didn't actually stop for any pics in front of the castle, and I'm sad to say we didn't get any all trip! But it was kind of busy and it's hard to find a space to get out of everyone's way, and I wanted some rides!

I did get one with Mickey and Walt in the corner though.

We decided to head left

I will live here please

And before we take a hundred steps, K wants to go to the Tiki Room... umm, okay?! I was trying to be polite.

Jason was working on his farmer's tan today in his basketball jersey.

I DO love the Tiki Room, but it shouldn't be the first attraction!!!! I love the tikis with the moving human-like eyes (in a love-hate way), and yes, I sing along! It was pretty dead though, so I don't think I disturbed anyone. Plus, I'm pitch perfect, so...... haha.

Another update coming right up in the next post....

 

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Next up though, Pirates! That's a worthy ride. Arggg (like a pirate).

Hi Jack!

And also arggg (like frustration) because the young people on the ride with us talked. the. whole. time. Before we even got to the end we were decided we'd have to come back soon for a redo!

Hi Jack!

Still, love it though, I think this is Jason's #1 favourite ride! And I love the Pirates gift shop!

R was trying to be annoying and get in my photo, he did a good job, haha.

Off we head towards Splash Mountain (for our FP+), which I sort of don't really like, and I was really nervous about getting soaked...

The sun is coming out!

I tried to catch a catnap

but I got SOAKED. RIGHT in the face. My outfit was pretty much dry, but my face was drenched. Ugh, the only one of us four who wears makeup! I'm such a girl. I tried not to complain too much though! Just wiped off my face, put on some more sunscreen and looked like a drowned rat.

Long lines for all of the characters we saw on this trip.

Hi Jac... Woody!

Even after a lame first attraction (not even a ride!) and annoying people on Pirates AND getting a face full of water, I was still in a good mood.

The next logical ride was one of everyone's favourites, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad! Another walk on, even though we arrived at the park late, it was still quite quiet.

This has to be one of the best themed lines! Anyone have any other favourites?

I mean, real cacti! (Great word, cacti.)

When times are hard, head to hard times! I'm in!

I just checked the photo times and we had only been in the park for an hour and a half at this point! 4 rides in, one soaking, not too bad.

Out of Frontierland

...and into Hauntedland!

via boatland and tangledtoiletland

Neigh.

I like the new queue

K almost got sprayed, heehee.

I heart Leota

Love love this ride, there is so much to look at and I love the soundtrack. Although we got stuck on Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize. And not really looking at any scene in particular, so that was a bit disappointing! But only for about five minutes and then we were off exploring some more!

I will update again hopefully mid-week this week!

 

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[wiigirl]

Great pics!

 

[blabbermouth]

Great pics!

Thanks!

 

[blabbermouth]

Our day had picked up. The sun had come out.

The Tangled bathrooms were singing.

So pretty and I love the music. These were about a billion times better than the ones in Epcot the day before!

We were on a mission to Tomorrowland though, we had a FP+.

We watched these two walk over to their meeting spot, they're so cute! They really are Peter and Wendy!

Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work we go. DH made me take a pic of this crane because it's part of his job, haha.

The other palm trees of WDW...

Here we are!

This ride always makes me nervous while I wait. I think because it's dark and you feel like you're on a teeny tiny rickety track.

I felt better by photo time though! Fun ride! I had to hold on though, haha.

I wish they wouldn't put the text over our faces, I'm not going to buy it either way, I just want a freebie photo of a photo!

Here we go up the ramp. Gee, this technology is so cutting edge.

I'll take my future children on this ride, since I've never been on it before.

After flying through space, we were tasked with fighting Zurg.

The good guy

And, look what we did!

Holy lucky! I actually thought we maybe broke it. I knew 999,999 was possible, but I didn't think I'd ever ge it!

So I asked the CM at the end of the ride "Umm, we both got 999,999, do you think it was broken?" and she said "No. You're Galactic Heros, go around the corner and get your buttons!"

So we did.

We were super proud of ourselves. R&K were jealous. and a bit skeptical, haha. We got asked about our buttons a few times, and got a few 'happy bi... what's that?' haha.

So, we were on a high and decided we needed a celebratory lunch, so we headed towards the exit. We luckily arrived at main street in time to catch Move It! Shake It! We just walked right up to the edge of the street and watched it come by. I was in awe of our lucky timing and it was super cute! I think I had a huge smile on my face the whole time.

So cute!

Balooooo

One of my fave characters

And one of my fave movies

This sums up how I felt afterwards! Hahaha. I fail at selfies!

Well, I will end the post with THAT. Next up is lunch outside of the park!

 

[missangelalexis]

Enjoying your pictures and updates!

 

[klacey1]

Brava for going out to Epcot in the rain!! Hmmm, Tiki Room is fun but sure wouldn't be my first choice for the first ride of the day!
Haha, your Space pic is funny-- hold on tight! I've never gotten anywhere close to 999,999 on Buzz! You must have hit a secret magic target!

 

[blabbermouth]

Enjoying your pictures and updates!

Thanks!!

Brava for going out to Epcot in the rain!! Hmmm, Tiki Room is fun but sure wouldn't be my first choice for the first ride of the day!
Haha, your Space pic is funny-- hold on tight! I've never gotten anywhere close to 999,999 on Buzz! You must have hit a secret magic target!

Thanks! I was proud of us, going out in the rain and all, haha.

Yeah, DH googled it afterwards and found out that we just happened upon the secret target! I know I'd read about it before, but couldn't remember.

 

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So we left off heading out of the park... love this!

Bye for now train station

We were headed for our first monorail ride of the trip. I have to say I think I like the DL monorail better, but this one is fun too.

We pass through the Contemporary, can't you tell?

Next stop, the Polynesian! Love the indoor garden.

Here we are... bad lighting. You can finally see my Mickey shirt though. I wasn't 100% sure about it when I was buying it, but I love it now, it's sooo soft and comfy.

After a quick handwashing stop, we arrived.

I was really looking forward to eating here.

We didn't have any wait to get to the order kiosks. I really wanted a dole whip, but I knew at this point I wouldn't be able to eat a meal and a dole whip, so sad. So I checked out the pastry case for something I could take back with me.

Here is my pretty! Pina colada cupcake with pineapple filling. I really liked the cake and the filling, but the icing itself was a bit bland. I love that they have perfect little travel cases for them though.

Even though we didn't have to wait, it was quite hectic in the small inside area, so we decided to head outside to the garden area, it looked fairly cool under the umbrellas and surrounded by vegetation, haha.

DH apparently felt like a burger, even though I urged him to get pulled pork! Of course he thought it was just OK.

I got the chicken burger with cheese, bacon and pineapple. It was good, but a bit dry, and when I went back in to get some mayo the mayo/ketchup/mustard line was like 5 people deep, so I didn't bother. That's the annoying thing about the hydraulic pump ketchup. Fancy, but only one dispenser can make for a long wait. However, even though it was dry, the bun had a lovely flavour and the asian slaw was delish!

And I had this to drink which was really nice and not too sweet or fake tasting

Eating outside was a great idea, it was much more relaxing since there was no one around.

After this we decided to head back to Pop a bit earlier for a rest and then we'd come back to MK early since it was closing at 7.

DH and I managed another swim in the bowling pin pool, which was the only pool we used since our afternoon swim time always coincided with games time at the hippy dippy pool. After our dip we split my cupcake and got some blue powerade in our mugs, yum yum!

 

[wiigirl]

Great update!

 

[lvcourtneyy]

Welp-- I'm so far behind! Trying to catch up now!

That shirt is really cute-- and so accurate!

Love the picture of your DH playing with the puppets!

Traveling the WS did seem to be the hottest place EVER! Totally a good decision to make your way back.

Ah the food from Tangierine cafe is making me hungry! That was our favorite QS place in the WS! Glad you enjoyed too!

You guys looked too cute in Japan! I LOVE your shoes!

I agree that I like Illuminations but I don't love it. I feel like I just don't get the story part of it from the show so that's missing for me.

Did you ever get to see the Toy Story of Terror? I still haven't! I'm gonna have to look for it online.

Cute bow! I like the idea to wear it with a braid!

I agree- BTMRR has a really well themed queue! ToT is at the top of my list anddd I kinda really like playing the little games in the line for Space Mountain and get sad when I have to move past them!

Wow congrats on the Buzz scores! I royally suck at it!

Yay all caught up now!