We had FINALLY made it into a park! I was so happy to be back in my happy place to get married! We decided to grab a few bites before heading to our fastpasses, and here is where I admit, the first couple hours...we failed miserably at taking pictures of our food!! I know we stopped at Canada because it was on our way and got a couple filet’s and cheddar cheese soup. We also stopped at Dominican Republic and choose to share the Lechón asado: Roasted pork with mangú, pickled red onion and avocado, which after one bite we all knew it was a terrible idea to share one between four people! It was so yummy! Sadly, we never ended up going back to get another one.
Then it was off to The Land for our Soarin’ fastpass. We love this ride, but I can’t wait to see the new movie for it! I think it will be really cool! And hopefully it’ll get rid of the LA at night part that I hate! It really messes with my eyes haha!
After arriving back from California, we headed over to the festival center. My dad and I had read that if you have an annual pass, and visit the festival on 3 different days and check in at a certain location to get your ‘passport’ stamped, you will get a commemorative 20th anniversary port wine glass! So we went into the festival center to see where we needed to go, and to pick up passports. We looked around for a minute or 2 and then headed on our way! We knew it was in one of the Innoventions building but weren’t sure which one. Hint, we went through both because we went to the wrong one first! But we got our passports stamped and were ⅓ of the way to getting a wine glass!
When we were in Disney for the planning session, my dad left his Tables in Wonderland card somewhere, and since it would have expired soon anyway, he just decided to get a new one. So he was headed to Guest Relations to get a new one. Mary, Jeff, and I decided to look around the Art of
Disney store. Of course we saw lots of pretty things, but we didn’t buy anything. Then we decided to head back to the room to change for dinner. We were headed to Downtown Disney for a new restaurant!!
We haven’t found parking at Downtown Disney to be too bad. This time it said the parking garage was full. But we got turned around and ended up going in anyway. The nice thing about this parking garage is it tells you what levels have open spots and how many there are. I also think some of the rows have the lights on the ceiling over parking spaces that light up green if their free, and are red if their taken. So you can just look down the row for a red light. We ended up going down a row and seeing someone pull out! Perfect timing!
We walked around the shops for a bit before heading to dinner. DH Jeff is a HUGE soccer fan and there is a new soccer store at Downtown Disney. We saw their temporary stand when we were there in June and he was so excited to check out the new store. It turned out to be an awesome store! They had a lot of different jersey’s and you can get names printed on them in store if you want. We went back after dinner and he bought a PSG (Paris Saint Germain) jersey. It wasn’t originally one he was looking at, he had been debating since we left the store the first time between USA, Barcelona, and Orland FC...then kept changing. He was going to get Orlando but they ended up being like crazy expensive!
After killing some time walking around, it was finally almost time to check in for dinner, so we made our way to our next destination!
Mary was very excited to eat here, as was my dad! I was excited to try it but not quite as much as them. This restaurant was right up Mary’s alley. She loves places like this! My dad went to check us in and we were quickly seated. We had a lovely view!
We started out with some bread while we perused the menu and made our drink choices.
For drinks, my dad and sister chose to share a bottle of Merlot. I am not a huge red wine fan, I tend to prefer white wine so I decided to get my own glass.
I can’t remember what kind I got. I have a feeling it was the Conundrum. On our PS trip in June, I had it at Be Our Guest and really liked it, so I’ve gotten it since then when it is on the menu.
And not to leave my future hubby out of pictures, I took one of him with his diet coke. We made our dinner selections, and Mary decided she wanted to get some oysters. This girl loves her some good oysters!
They actually didn’t end up coming out when they were supposed to for some reason (idk if they ended up at another table or what). They arrived only minutes before our meal came.
DH ( smiley I love that I can tag that now) is not a fan of fish, so he decided to go with a burger. He thought it was a delicious burger.
I chose the crab cake. I wasn’t sure what I felt like having but when I saw the crab cake on the menu it sounded really good! I enjoy a good crab cake, and this was a delicious crab cake! Thankfully it was bigger than I expected, and what I usually see with crab cakes. It was also very filling, I didn’t quite finish the whole thing.
My dad and sister decided to get fancy! They got a chef’s special: The Boathouse Surf & Turf. A 24 oz dry aged Tomahawk rib chop and 1 ¼ lb. whole Maine lobster. They REALLY enjoyed this! The meat is very tender, almost like a filet. I’m not a huge fan of lobster but they really enjoyed it. It was the perfect meal for the two of them to split! If you like surf and turf, I would definitely recommend this one!
We also decided to share a couple sides since 2 of the 3 meals didn’t really come with sides. We chose the truffle fries which were very good. I thought the regular fries were just as good though (I stole a few from Jeff’s plate). And we forgot to picture is, but we also shared a roasted corn. We asked our waiter how the corn was. We are big corn fans and know good corn coming from corn country! It was pretty good, but not as good as we can get at home.
We decided to pass on dessert, as we were too full. We finished our drinks and did a little bit more shopping. Then we headed back to the resort. But we weren’t staying, we were just dropping our bags off. We decided at dinner that we wanted dessert, we just didn’t think anything at The Boathouse sounded appealing. So we made our way around the boardwalk towards the Yacht and Beach Club. We were headed to Beaches and Cream!
We were hoping to be able to get a seat inside, but they couldn’t get us a table for another hour or so! So instead we went over to the walk up window and ordered a couple sundaes to share, to go.
My dad and sister chose the No Way Jose: vanilla ice cream with peanut butter and hot fudge. This usually comes with a scoop of chocolate too but they opted for just vanilla. They thought this was really good! How could you go wrong with chocolate and peanut butter?! Unless you’re not a big peanut butter fan like me, then you opt for my favorite!
Jeff and I shared the Milky Way sundae: vanilla ice cream with caramel and hot fudge. I love this combination! It is so yummy! It even came with a couple fun size Milky Way bars. But by the time we finished the ice cream they were cold and hard to bite into.
With our bellies sufficiently full, we made our way back around the lake to the Boardwalk. Some wedding guests would be arriving the next day along with Jeff’s mom and sister. So we went back to the room to rest up for the excitement of the next day!