6th September
We had a late start this morning and decided to go to
Wolfgang Pucks at the Marketplace for breakfast. I thought this was quite good
but Rob wasn’t as impressed.
We went back to SSR to do some laundry and then we spent
some time at the pool. It was obvious that a storm was coming but somehow we
ended up getting soaked on the very short run back from the pool to the room!
The rain seemed set in for a while so we waited but we were
going to Via Napoli for dinner so ended up getting wet again. We got quite wet
on the way there but we had quite a nice dinner. We had eaten here on our last
trip and this time I had a pasta dish. It was really nice but I couldn’t finish
it. Managed to squeeze in a Tiramisu somehow :)
It was still wet when we were finished so we skipped
Illuminations and went back to the room.
7th September
This morning we headed back to the Magic Kingdom. On the way in we saw Mary Poppins again and I got her autograph after forgetting the other day!
We decided
to have an early lunch at Pecos Bills, we took a quick ride on Pirates of the
Caribbean on the way.
After lunch we took a ride on Splash Mountain and then Big
Thunder – both had short waits.
We then went on Haunted Mansion before grabbing
a fast pass for Peter Pan for later.
During our trip we had called home a couple of times (using
facetime) and we had agreed to call Rob’s parents so that the children (niece
and nephew) could see some of Disney. We had earlier called them from the
Animal Kingdom but it wasn’t Disney enough for them!
We then proceeded to take them on a mega video tour of the
Magic Kingdom. They managed to hook up
the apple TV and so we able to watch the picture on the TV.
We basically walked all the way around the park showing them
all the landmarks. It was mega hot and really tiring as we weren’t walking
slowly! I met Stitch on the way round cos the kids wanted to see a character.
Then when we ended up in Town Square the line for Marie was
relatively short so I lined up for a quick photo and autograph!
We ended the call (after almost an hour) and then got a
drink cos we were so hot! Then we headed back over to Fantasyland as it was
almost time for our Peter Pan FP.
We had time for a quick trip on It’s a small world which Rob
loves (or not!). Got on Peter Pan with our FP and then decided it was time for
our afternoon break.
We caught a little bit of the parade on our way back - the beast saw me taking his picture and posed for me :)
We each got a frozen drink on the way out and sat on a
bench just before the park exit to eat them before we left.
Back to the room for a shower and a rest before we headed to
Epcot for dinner at Le Cellier this evening.
Off we went to Epcot and headed over to Canada. We were a
little early and when we arrived we heard them telling people that they were
only checking you in 10 minutes before your reservation time. This was a theme
across our trip – despite the Disney site recommending you arrive 15 minutes in
advance we found that several of the restaurants contradicted this.
All checked in and we were seated right on time. Our server
introduced herself and took our drinks order. As I have mentioned before I
normally don’t eat steak but I decided that I should try it again tonight.
Rob ordered the Dry-Aged Bone-In Rib-Eye (Medium) and I had
the Mushroom Filet Mignon (Well done). Whilst we were waiting we had the bread
brought out, I tried all 3 types and the butter was lovely! Much better than
the butter we normally find in the restaurants.
We had quite the surprise when the food arrived! Rob’s steak
was massive and much bigger than we expected.
We decided that it would be his
challenge for the evening to eat it! He did manage the steak but left quite a
few of the potatoes!
After a suitable break we ordered dessert. I had the Neopolitan
Cappuccino Cake and Rob had the White Chocolate Cheesecake. Somehow he managed
to eat that as well!
Overall we had a great meal, my steak was lovely – I might
consider eating it occasionally now. Rob said his was really good – I tasted a
tiny bit but I don’t like pink meat!
I have read many mixed reviews about Le Cellier and I’m not
sure why. The tables were not as close together as I was expecting (from the
complaints) and both the food and service were great. We will most definitely
return on another trip (although not in December).
We decided not to stay for Illuminations as we were so full!
8th September
We had a fairly late start this morning and decided to get a
sandwich from the Earl of Sandwich (we love them) before heading out to do some
shopping.
We went to the Florida Mall because we always like a visit
here – although we rarely buy anything! We had a look around and then decided
to head to some of the outlets.
We went to Premium Outlets and were surprised at how busy
the parking lot was. It was really hard to find a space – we refused to valet
park and eventually got a space just as we were going to give up!
I got a few tops in Banana Republic and Ann Taylor whilst
Rob got some new shorts in Timberland. Took us quite a long time to wander
around all the shops and before we knew it we had to head back as we were
having dinner at Wolfgang Puck Cafe.
I was super adventurous (well not really) and drove from
Saratoga Springs to Downtown Disney....which was the first time I have ever
driven over here!
After dinner we headed to Epcot to watch Illuminations
again.
9th September
We were up early this morning as we had breakfast booked at
Tusker House at 8.45.
We got to the park and arrived at the restaurant a few
minutes early. There was quite a long line for the photo with Donald but it
moved quite quickly.
We were seated after our photo and it was much noisier in
the restaurant than it had been at Cape May Cafe. We met Mickey quite quickly
and then went to the buffet to find some food.
We got back to our table and it seemed as though Daisy was
approaching but then all the characters seemed to disappear to do a dance.
Somehow when they returned Daisy managed to miss us out
which was slightly annoying – we were a table in the middle of three and it
seemed quite easy to miss out.
Thankfully Goofy had no such problems – and he also demanded
my autograph book to sign! I had the book ready for Daisy but had met Goofy
earlier in the trip so wasn’t planning on getting him to sign....but it seemed
rude to refuse!
We waited to see if Daisy might reappear but there did not
seem to be much chance so I mentioned it to our server as I was really keen to
meet Daisy especially in her safari outfit.
We were told that we could meet her once we were done and
sure enough we were taken to see Daisy once we were ready to leave.
We went for a little walk around and I really wanted to meet
Russell and Dug so we went in search of them. I got in the lie as they were on
a break...unfortunately only Russell returned which was a shame but I was still
pleased to meet him.
We decided then to go and watch It’s tough to be a bug which
we had never watched before. It was quite a good show although I was unhappy to
be stung by the wasp and also creeped out by the bumpy seats at the end!
We then went across to Rafiki’s planet watch to see if we
could find him. Sure enough he was there and had a reasonably short line so I
went to meet him.
Afterwards we found the little dark rooms that you can sit in
and listen to a little show. It wasn’t quite what I was expecting though!
We had unfortunately missed the procedures for the day and
so we went to visit with the animals. We quite liked watching the goats – they would
come out of the little ‘rest’ areas and literally run to the other area and
dodge straight under the ropes!
We finished up and headed back to the rest of the park. We
got a few photopass pics on the way out and then just after Rob came back from
the restroom I noticed that he didn’t have the photopass plus card on his
lanyard anymore!
We went to the photo place and explained (luckily I had
taken a photo earlier in the trip) and they replaced the card with a new one (which
I promptly took a photo of). We continued back to the resort and spent some of
the afternoon at the paddock pool.
We got dinner at the Wolfgang puck express (Westside) and
then popped across to the TTC to watch Wishes. It was a little more crowded
tonight but better than watching from Main Street!
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