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Another DR? And yes, it was live! Now complete..!

slk537

<font color=red>Sigh...other than WDW, if I could
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May 23, 2004
So when we last left our heroes, they were winging through the skies on Northwest Airlines from steamy July Florida back to not so steamy July Wisconsin. A delicious lunch at Wolfgang Puck Express had been their sendoff and the only remains of 10 days of Disney Dining was a few WPE chocolate chip cookies and a couple assorted items from Goofy's Candy Co.

Once these were gone, there was nothing more to do than start planning a trip and some ADR's for the next vacation: ten months in the future..

...and the future is TODAY!!! :dance3:

I'm sitting here with my beloved cats (I will miss them...:sad1:) surrounded by suitcases, waiting for 2:15 to come to go pick DS up from school. I've been pondering a live (ish) dining report for a while now and decided I had so much fun with the last one, why not? I also LOVE live dining reports and lurk shamelessly on any one I can find. So I'll do my best to do another one.

Shall we start with the "who are we"?

DS7 - our little WDW veteran. He loves his vacations and takes his planning veerrryy seriously. His can't miss of the trip is Le Cellier. He loves the pretzel bread and scarfs up most of it. He also love Mickey ice cream sandwiches, fresh fruit, macaroni and cheese and (gasp!!) has started trying new things. He is determined to try lots of new things on this trip and DH and I are hopeful......

DH - steak and potatoes. Caesar salad. Soda with sugar. More steak. Loves the Mickey bars and sandwiches and isn't really into anything that is, in my opinion, interesting. His can't miss is Yachtsman Steakhouse, although I'm working on that. We have a reservation at Shula's and if that works out I am convinced YSH is extraneous. He disagrees. Men.

Me - a picky eater, but I love interesting and ethnic foods. I love Boma and Jiko and I also love the mac and cheese and steak my boys enjoy. I am the only one of us who like coffee, but fortunately I am not addicted (since WDW is...uh...lacking there). Coke Zero is my addiction and I'll make due with diet coke. My can't miss is Spoodles. And...well...I don't want to talk about the fact that this next dinner will be my last here. :sad2: I'm sure Koussina (sp?) will be excellent. Yeah. :sad2:

So why is this only maybe live? Well, we'll be using our DVC points tonight (tonight!!!) but then tomorrow we head over to our RCI villa (GASP!) offsite. And I don't know if they have free internet access or how many nights we'll spring for it. Depends how much withdrawal we have from email and such. We'll be there for 4 nights and then we're checking out early to head over to Kidani Village for the remainder of our stay (free high speed internet!). DH and DS are very excited to be among the first guests there and I agree it looks beautiful. I am trying hard not to miss my Beach Club Villas. I know it won't matter once we're there - I'll love it just as much...!

So where are we eating?

In no particular order:

Boma - breakfast
Boma - dinner
Spoodles - breakfast
Spoodles - dinner
Shulas Steakhouse (new for us!)
Kona - lunch (new for us!)
Cape May Cafe - dinner
Teppan Edo (new for us!)
Le Cellier dinner
Chefs de France - lunch (new for us!)
Tutto Italia
YSH...?
Flame Tree BBQ
Earl of Sandwich
WPE
Kona - breakfast
Sanaa - dinner - definitely new for us!

and a few others along the way! We may be venturing offsite as well, so I can post those too for those who don't spend all their time on WDW property and are interested in the photos (incidentally, that is usually us...this is going to be a new adventure...which may include an afternoon at Gatorland....:scared1:)

So after a late afternoon, evening, night and and into the wee hours of tomorrow traveling...on with the show!
 
Your line-up looks faboo! I can't wait to stay at Kidani Village in September too! I love live reviews! I hope you get to do it.
 
I love your reports! Have a safe and fantastic time, take tons of pics and tell us everything!
 


A live report!! I am in!! I love your restaurant choices - can't wait to hear all about it!

HAVE A FUN TIME AT WDW!!!!
 
Yea! :woohoo: I love Live reports. I'm hoping I will go live when we arrive at WDW on May 7th. But I don't want to get to in over my head.

I cna't wait to hear more!
 


Well...good news and bad news for food porn. The good news? We're here and my cameras are ready to go! The bad? We ate at McDonalds last night at the airport so not much to show today while soaking up the atmosphere at OKW. We're leaving soon to check in to the RCI resort, but I am using up the last few minutes (okay, so I have until 11, but the boys are restless!) of free internet here to post.

Because I have nothing but a few silly shots of McDonalds, I'll post a few WPE shots from a month ago at the Mall of America (same menu though so it counts, right?

The divine chocolate chip cookie - SO much softer and fresher than they look (packaging always makes me think stale):

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A Mountain Dew (guessing they don't have this Pepsi product down here at WPE?)

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A sandwich that has chicken, aioli - very good:

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DH's rotisserie chicken and mashed potatoes (his favorite!)

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And finally, to begin our trip, we enjoyed a delicious dinner of a chicken McNugget Happy Meal (with apples), a two cheeseburger meal and quarter pounder with cheese meal.

Here is the quarter pounder. DH is opening and shutting the box, pretending it's talking to the camera. Weirdo!

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Other assorted "No! I'm not taking photos of my McDonalds food in an airport!" shots:

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And now we're off! Hope to be back soon with some WDW and other food pics!

Wishing you all a great day!
 
Subscribed!!

Boy that'll be a lot of food!!

:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

Your line-up looks faboo! I can't wait to stay at Kidani Village in September too! I love live reviews! I hope you get to do it.

I love your reports! Have a safe and fantastic time, take tons of pics and tell us everything!

A live report!! I am in!! I love your restaurant choices - can't wait to hear all about it!

HAVE A FUN TIME AT WDW!!!!

Sounds like some great choices, can't wait to hear about them.popcorn::

Yea! :woohoo: I love Live reports. I'm hoping I will go live when we arrive at WDW on May 7th. But I don't want to get to in over my head.

I cna't wait to hear more!

im in too, love a live report :thumbsup2

I'm in! Have a great trip ... can't wait for the reviews! :goodvibes

I'm on board! I can't wait to read more reviews. popcorn::

Welcome all!! What a wonderful day today! My genius DH has hooked me up online with his cell phone and it feels great to wrap up our day with a couple reviews/posts.

Looking forward to sharing more!
 
I love live reviews!!! You have an amazing line up there, and since we will be visiting some of those in oh about 2 weeks or so, I'm looking forward to hearing how they were! I hope you have a wonderful trip!!!
 
This morning DS had snacks I packed from the plane and DH and I drank exploding bottles of soda (half frozen from the fridge...had a few volcanoes...!). We drove over to our new resort to check in. Following this we drove over to DTD where we wanted to turn in our AP vouchers for tickets and get some lunch at Earl of Sandwich. I was really surprised how empty DTD seemed to be:

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DS wasn't sure what he wanted, so he opted for the kid's grilled cheese. It was very simple, but very good. He really enjoyed it and DH and I both thought it would be delicious dipped in marinara or pizza sauce.

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As is out tradition, DH and I shared a Cobb salad. This is a LOT smaller than it used to be, but still just as good. Large cubes of cheddar and swiss cheese, chicken, dried cranberries, tomatoes, cucumbers and ranch dressing.

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I had the Earl's Original - roast beef, cheddar and horseradish. I wish it would have had more horseradish - but the lack made it so DS would try it. This is my favorite sandwich here and I enjoyed it, but was full after half when you take into consideration the salad...;)

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DH had the ham and cheese with Earl's mustard. We'd never tried this and both really liked it a lot.

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For drinks, we went with diet coke for me and cranberry-raspberry juice for DH and DS.

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All in all, it was a very good lunch although not as "must have" as it has been in the past. We got there around 11:30 and had our choice of tables outside and a few inside (where we sat). By the time we were done (noonish) the line was as long and crazy as usual.
 
I love live reviews!!! You have an amazing line up there, and since we will be visiting some of those in oh about 2 weeks or so, I'm looking forward to hearing how they were! I hope you have a wonderful trip!!!

Oh! Two weeks!!! Our last two weeks flew - I was really surprised at just how fast. If you have ANY questions about the places we're going, just ask. I'd be happy to check out things on the menu, etc.
 
We spent about 4 hours at DHS (DS had his first ride on Rockin Roller Coaster - just hit those magic 48 inches! He loved it) and had a few snacks along the way. Wow. It is a lot easier to get those when you're on the DDP, isn't it? Looking forward to that on Tuesday!

Anyway, after RNRC, we decided to watch Beauty and the Beast so I picked up a frozen lemonade to share and an apple for DS:

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Following BATB, we went over and rode TSM (love this!!) and then went through One Man's Dream. It was getting time to head back to the room (finally ready) and we decided to have a drink and a snack. We went to Min and Bill's and got a large light lemonade (our compromise drink - diet for me, lemonade for them) and a spicy cheese pretzel.

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Love the new cups!

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We did like this - although I wouldn't buy one again. Snack credit? Sure! Might try the apple one later this week.

We really had a great day and after unpacking and relaxing in the rooms here, we decided to try Joe's Crab Shack for dinner. I'll be uploading the photos tomorrow and will post, even though they are from off property. IN short though, we really had a great time. We sat outside where it was pleasant and slightly breezy and watched DS play on the playground/structures there. Dinner was also really good and VERY reasonable for what we got. I'll update tomorrow.

Hope everyone has a great evening!!
 
What a great start to your trip! :thumbsup2I can't wait for it to continue, LOL! :cheer2:

Have the most wonderful time there!! Thanks for posting!!:flower3:
 
great start, cant wait for more :thumbsup2
 

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