As always, excellent recap of the wine dinner. Looks fantastic! Sadly, we've never managed to get over to Flying Fish for a meal. And now, it looks like it's going to be closed for refurb next year.
A wine dinner with baby in stroller?
When are you leaving??? Has to be soon, right? We start our drive tomorrow after work. If I don't catch you before, have a great run!!
Thank you! It was a fantastic wine dinner (although the two I did this trip may have also blown this one away) I think they are in need of the refurbishment though as the decor hasn't really changed at all since it originally opened along with the Boardwalk. I imagine the kitchen could use some upgrades with the times!
We left Thursday evening and got back this morning! It was an interesting trip between the wine events and the races but overall, a good vacation. Too bad we didn't run into each other. I did get randomly recognized by a lady in the elevator at the Beach Club when I was with my husband but she wasn't sure of her Disboard Screen names.
Whew! I'm all caught up now!
Yay!
Your lunch snacking around Epcot sounded just great! I really can't wait to go back next year. Hearing all about your special events really makes me want to go again, and I'm so glad it is on the horizon! At least I can go to L'Artisan Des Glaces in just over a month!
It was a great lunch with the snacking! You will have so much fun next year being able to do the events - we have to see how much vacation time and points I have left after we set the days for Hawaii to see what we are doing next year. Enjoy your L'Artisan Des Glaces!
Wow! I have never seen a wait that long for this ride!
Outside of major US holidays, I haven't seen it that long before either! I would never wait that long for it either.
I despise "special" people like this.
Sounds really good! Everything you ate so far sounds pretty good!
That does sound incredible. I love the crispy bits on the top when I make a Prime Rib at home, I can only imagine how tasty that would be!
It sounds perfect!
I can imagine. I'll look out for this one next year, maybe we will luck out.
I had my fill of special people this trip! It just had me roll my eyes!
This dinner was amazing with the dishes - even things I didn't think I was going to like impressed me! I still know the taste of those lovely crispy bits!
That's so cute how they had him in each country!
I'm glad you posted them. Interesting how lots of people just ignored them.
That's awesome.
We just watched this one last week. I thought about you and wondered which episode you were at.
People don't really seem to care how they dress anymore it seems. Even around Naples, its like that at the nicer places where people don't just care anymore.
I watched all the episodes of that week to see what the other giveaways were (I think I won out!)
No wonder you are cranking out updates. I was so busy last week preparing to visit my parents, I kept seeing new updates pop up in my Watched threads and I knew there wasn't any time for me to read and comment, so yours is the first I'm catching up on now that we are here.
Thank you for having me be the first for catch up! I need to go around and catch up on my threads after this weekend as I had intentions of keeping up with it all but it just didn't happen as taking a nap was totally more important to me at that point in time.
I'm not big on beer, but I'm glad it was such a great event for you.
That's always great when you get a good value out of something at Disney, and I love it when they are pouring freely!
I think even a person not huge on beer but likes trying new things could enjoy this event as long as they are willing to try. I was really nervous about some of the beers but I like some at least. I've come a long way with beer since that Le Cellier Signature Lunch a couple years ago where before that I would say I hated all beers. Once I finally got to try some of the non-crappy major US beers, I discovered some that can actually be good! I'm sure the price will go up next year once they realized their true operating costs of it.
I saw that you hung these the other day. Always fun when you can get your Disney artwork up on the walls.
Yup! It looks much better on the walls than in a box on the floor but my husband wanted to wait until we got the Star Wars Donald Prints framed (goodness that is super expensive) to get them all up! We were supposed to look for another piece of art for the bedroom to take over the space of my Yoda Stitch he moved but we completely forgot.
I'm glad it didn't turn out to be more serious and you were able to fend it off with an icee and air conditioned movie.
I agree! My husband was about to strangle me once we decided on the movie and I kept saying I want a huge icee over and over again but I have zero shame when I want something outside of him calling me grandma because I kept repeating myself.
This is just crazy! I totally agree with you. There are places for kids, and signature restaurants really aren't one of them. There are exceptions for very well behaved children, but not babies in a stroller. Sorry, either bring a sitter along or wait until the kid grows up a little. Be a responsible parent, not an entitled one. It sounds like you hit the entitled persons jackpot this trip!
That sounds like a smart idea. I remember trying to get back to AK from FF via Disney transport and it took us an hour and a half to transfer at DTD. OK, all caught up!
Yup, totally hit the entitled jackpot that trip but at least I can laugh and just snark about it all later. Growing up, I was the well behaved child at nice places but my mother scared the wrath of hades into me if I was to act up so I didn't! Obviously the baby was too young to know any better so its strictly the parents fault.
Spending $20 on a taxi is well worth it for my time saved. 90 minutes is too long to get back when you are done!
My goodness that dinner looked amazing! Again so excited that I dropped in this morning to the Dis and saw many updates! I was having a rough morning and you totally brightened it so thank you!!
It was totally amazing! I'm so glad we did that dinner rather than try to see if we got in for California Grill (although one of these days, we will get it!) Sorry I've been slacking on the updates the last few days for you
Hopefully your weekend was going well.
So many updates, so much food, I'm not even sure where to start - except for ABC commissary, won't start there ; ) .
First, that Japanese craft brew event looks completely awesome. I mean ya had me at frozen Kirin, but then the tons of craft beer and great pairings (and REFILLS) on tops of that this looks like perfection.
I'm not even sure I have words Flying Fish meal. It's one of my favorite disney restaurants anyway, but your food looks absolutely delicious and then the wine pairings. Wow.
Gonna have to figure out how to get ourselves to food and wine for some of the special events in the near future. And of course we will leave the kid in childcare ; )
I totally get people not liking ABC commissary as it isn't the best reviewed place around here but it served its need of filling us up with food & being air conditioned. I had so much great luck this time around with all my events as they all were better than what I was expecting them to be. Hopefully you'll be able to drop your child off at one of the childcare places (the parents at our table at Flying Fish had great words to say about the Sand Castle Club & as a child, I enjoyed the Polynesian one and Wilderness Lodge well enough) Maybe next year for you!
You tasted so many great things...too many to quote - but this was something I had really wanted to try at F&W...looked sooo good!!!
I don't get why anyone would bring a kid to something like that...wouldn't be fun for anyone.
I tasted so much the past 5 weeks at Disney. I need to behave on my diet now until race season is over in the spring. My husband kept joking with me this weekend that I'm totally on my last binge as he thought I may have needed a new liver. I just needed to enjoy myself and goodness I did! Time for lots of water and veggies and clean protein now. That cream soda float was so good but at least you could make something similar at home with items from the grocery store if you want to try it.
At least the two main wine events I did this weekend, we had no entitled people - guess it made up for last time![/QUOTE]
What the HECK were they thinking here?
