emmysmommy
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Wednesday February 27, 2013: Day 5, Part 6
We took the bus from DHS to Contemporary Resort where we had to check in for our BLT room. Again, I had not done on-line check-in. When we were speaking with Pam, the super nice CM who was checking us in, and she said that we had a theme-park view room. I replied, excuse me I booked a Lake View room so yeah, could you please change that? Nah, I didnt say that.
They had upgraded us from a Lake View room to a Theme Park View!! Again, just another random upgrade but appreciated nonetheless.
Before we proceeded to the room, we said hi to my husbands step-cousin who is the Guest Relations Manager. We were able to spend some time with her and she even walked us over to the Business Center at the Convention hall to see if they sold memory cards for Ems camera. They didnt but apparently nowhere in WDW can you buy compact flash cards for the D series Canon cameras. Lesson learned... sometimes 4 GB isn't enough!
TPV Room
We finally made it to our room and the first thing I noticed bar stools! Yay! Anyone who has followed by past TRs know that I have a thing for bar stools. Only certain 1 and 2 bedroom villas have the bar stools. (I believe the TPV villas all do since the living room is wider due to the configuration of the rooms.)
I took the compulsory 101 photos of the room!
We had a 6:30pm ADR at Tonys Town Square so we had to leave our comfy room and walk over to MK not too long after we had settled in.
But first, a stop for yet another photo!
Once checked in and seated after a short wait, we had the same waiter as last time, Mark Anthony. He was very easy on the eyes, and yes, I have fully confessed to my hubby that both Em and I coveted thoughts of a pretty man while we were on our girl trip. No worries, my DH is still the man for me! This dinner was the best Tonys experience yet. Weve had a prior lunch and dinner so this was our 3rd visit to this restaurant. The rolls and olive oil that was the start to the meal was ok, nothing special or extraordinary. I ordered the cannelloni for my entree and it was superb. I was only able to eat 1 of the 2 tubes so I wish we had shared an entrée but Em ordered the shrimp scampi. She wasnt as thrilled with her choice especially when she tried my cannelloni.
I left room for dessert since the pistachio crème brulee was amazing last time. Em and I shared this dessert and it was ooohhhh sooo good. It arrived with a birthday greeting card from Mickey and pals and aglow with a candle. Mark Anthony sang Happy Birthday to Em and I felt bad that he was singing all by himself so I join in the song. It was completely unexpected when people threw flowers at my feet in tribute to my brilliant mezzo soprano voice! Ha! Not even close to reality there! I was able to join in for half the song before I rather faded to the background with rather a hum. I didn't want to spoil the moment!
I didn't count on Em liking this dessert as much as me. She didnt fall for the, oh, look theres Justin Beiber! ploy to distract her so I could consume the entire dessert myself but then again shes not into Beibs so that was a complete fail.
Up next: MK fun!
Continued Next Post - likely after I'm back from my travels this week to Connecticut. But first I have a bonus update to share.
Happy Father's Day to all the Dads out there!
We took the bus from DHS to Contemporary Resort where we had to check in for our BLT room. Again, I had not done on-line check-in. When we were speaking with Pam, the super nice CM who was checking us in, and she said that we had a theme-park view room. I replied, excuse me I booked a Lake View room so yeah, could you please change that? Nah, I didnt say that.
They had upgraded us from a Lake View room to a Theme Park View!! Again, just another random upgrade but appreciated nonetheless.
Before we proceeded to the room, we said hi to my husbands step-cousin who is the Guest Relations Manager. We were able to spend some time with her and she even walked us over to the Business Center at the Convention hall to see if they sold memory cards for Ems camera. They didnt but apparently nowhere in WDW can you buy compact flash cards for the D series Canon cameras. Lesson learned... sometimes 4 GB isn't enough!
TPV Room
We finally made it to our room and the first thing I noticed bar stools! Yay! Anyone who has followed by past TRs know that I have a thing for bar stools. Only certain 1 and 2 bedroom villas have the bar stools. (I believe the TPV villas all do since the living room is wider due to the configuration of the rooms.)
I took the compulsory 101 photos of the room!
We had a 6:30pm ADR at Tonys Town Square so we had to leave our comfy room and walk over to MK not too long after we had settled in.
But first, a stop for yet another photo!
Once checked in and seated after a short wait, we had the same waiter as last time, Mark Anthony. He was very easy on the eyes, and yes, I have fully confessed to my hubby that both Em and I coveted thoughts of a pretty man while we were on our girl trip. No worries, my DH is still the man for me! This dinner was the best Tonys experience yet. Weve had a prior lunch and dinner so this was our 3rd visit to this restaurant. The rolls and olive oil that was the start to the meal was ok, nothing special or extraordinary. I ordered the cannelloni for my entree and it was superb. I was only able to eat 1 of the 2 tubes so I wish we had shared an entrée but Em ordered the shrimp scampi. She wasnt as thrilled with her choice especially when she tried my cannelloni.
I left room for dessert since the pistachio crème brulee was amazing last time. Em and I shared this dessert and it was ooohhhh sooo good. It arrived with a birthday greeting card from Mickey and pals and aglow with a candle. Mark Anthony sang Happy Birthday to Em and I felt bad that he was singing all by himself so I join in the song. It was completely unexpected when people threw flowers at my feet in tribute to my brilliant mezzo soprano voice! Ha! Not even close to reality there! I was able to join in for half the song before I rather faded to the background with rather a hum. I didn't want to spoil the moment!
I didn't count on Em liking this dessert as much as me. She didnt fall for the, oh, look theres Justin Beiber! ploy to distract her so I could consume the entire dessert myself but then again shes not into Beibs so that was a complete fail.
Up next: MK fun!
Continued Next Post - likely after I'm back from my travels this week to Connecticut. But first I have a bonus update to share.
Happy Father's Day to all the Dads out there!
Look on a map and see where PEI is and you'll see how far I've got to go for all these DL trips! 
on the TPV upgrade!!! 
... The tour looks awesome I can't wait to read about the rest of it.
Lurker coming out of lurkdom here! I absolutely had to post when you mentioned that Mark was your waiter at Tony's.
