(Updated 1/18) How Bougie Can We Be? - Nov 2024 TR

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Ok guys, Festival of the Arts has started and I'm having SERIOUS FOMO! Dylan Bonner has a GORGEOUS Haunted Mansion bride piece that I want and I'm terrified it's gonna sell out before we get there lol. Tell me I'm being crazy! We fly in on the night of the 24th - less than a week! So excited - it's gonna be like single digits here in the DC area which is crazy cold for us.

Anyways, back to the TR!


Royal Palm Club Lunch Offerings - Sunday, Nov 17 2024 (part 4)

We got up at 1 pm, and got ready to head to Disney Springs. But first, snacks! We sampled one of the chocolates left in the room -
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Not sure what it was, but it had a red filling:
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It was good though! I like rooms that come with chocolate. :)

We had to stop by the lounge on the way out (conveniently enough, our exit path took us right through the lounge, so it was on the way. :) ) But before we get to the food in the lounge - they had this Rapunzel picture on the wall by the entrance and I loved it:
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Isn't it gorgeous?

Ok, the lounge food for lunch!
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Cookies.

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rice krispie treats.

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Hummus with celery, carrots, and broccoli, and then Greek Orzo salad. We didn't try any of this today but I tried the hummus a couple days later and it was yummy. I don't think we ever did try the salad.

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Apple slices and peanut butter, grapes, and uncrustables.

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House made chips with house made ranch dressing.

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Chex mix and graham crackers and trail mix.

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Cooler with yogurt and milk and juice.
 
Ok guys, Festival of the Arts has started and I'm having SERIOUS FOMO! Dylan Bonner has a GORGEOUS Haunted Mansion bride piece that I want and I'm terrified it's gonna sell out before we get there lol. Tell me I'm being crazy! We fly in on the night of the 24th - less than a week! So excited - it's gonna be like single digits here in the DC area which is crazy cold for us.
OMG me too! I made the mistake of looking at pictures of the art and now I realize this is going to be a painfully expensive trip! :rotfl2: Hopefully the HM bride piece is still there later this week!

And yeah, what is with the weather around here this week!??! It's supposed to be 9 the morning I fly down, I can't remember the last time we hit single digits in this area!
 
Jock Lindsay's Lunch - Sunday, Nov 17 2024 (part 5)

Ok just a couple more pictures of the lounge -
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Royal Poinciana (not sure what this is), lemonade, and unsweetened tea.

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A cooler of mickey bars and mickey ice cream sandwiches! :)

So definitely not AMAZING but nice to have the snacks out for grabs. That cooler though, the stuff of dreams. :) We didn't grab anything this time (well, except for some rock candy they had on the table by the concierge desk), but mostly just excited to be staying club level. :)

We headed down to the bus stop, and only had to wait about 5 min for a bus to Disney Springs, so by 1:45 we were at Disney Springs! For lunch we wanted to try the holiday food at Jock Lindsay's, so over there we went. :) There was a bit of a line, so we hopped in.
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But nicely they also had the holiday menu with pictures outside:
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So many choices! We were interested in the pigs in a blanket and the deviled eggs...but maybe the croquettes...not sure!

We got seated about 10 minutes later at the bar outside. The bar isn't our favorite spot, but we had a movie at 3:30 so we figured better to be seated quickly than try and wait for a table.
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And yes, we were wearing matching Jollywood Nights shirts for Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party that night. :)

We got some of the Christmas decorations outside, though most of them were inside.
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We started with our standard drinks - I got the Antidote (sprite and cherry juice which I think is basically a shirley temple but sprite instead of ginger ale)
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and I just realized I forgot to take a picture of Trevor's drink - he got the Poisonless Dart: soda water with mint, simple syrup and lime juice. Oops!

We ordered the Naughty or Nice Deviled Eggs (we got them "nice" with the sweet honey glaze)":IMG_4101.jpg
These were delicious - the ham especially was super tender and not overly fatty. Yum.

Then we got the Bread Dip pyramid - it wasn't a holiday thing but it was brazilian cheesy bread! So of course we had to get it. Brazilian Cheese Bread with a creamy tomato and chorizo dip.
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This was delicious too - the cheesy bread was super good (very similar to the cheesy bread at Skipper Canteen and MUCH better than the cheesy bread at Epcot in the Food and Wine festival), and then the dip was really interesting. It was almost like a deconstructed grilled cheese/tomato soup dish, so lots of fun. And delicious. :)

These two came out pretty quickly but the pigs in a blanket we waited literally another 30 minutes for (the time stamp on my pictures for the cheese bread is 2:17, and the time stamp on the picture of the pigs in a blanket is 2:48). So not sure what was going on in that kitchen but yea that wasn't ideal.
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These were SUPER SUPER hot, and took a while to cool down, and I was starting to get a bit nervous of the timing cause I'm me and wanted to make sure we weren't late to the movie. And also, they kept sliding out of the pastry! So not my favorite dish, though the cranberry mustard dip was interesting.
 
A Movie and then a Show - Sunday, Nov 17 2024 (part 6)

One last Jock Lindsay's picture - Trevor doublefisting the drinks cause he was inspired by me drinking multiple icee flavors at once at Universal:
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That's his "huh, not horrible" face. :)

We left a little bit after 3pm, heading to the movie theatre there at Disney Springs. Admittedly this was not a Disney thing, but one of my other big loves is Broadway musicals. One of my favorite Broadway actresses - Stephanie J Block - had gone over to London to star in "Kiss Me Kate" and they filmed it! But the only days they were airing it in theatres were today (Sunday) and Wednesday of that week, and today fit into our plans better. Trevor also likes musicals (as long as they're happy), so he was coming too. I'm glad we went too - sometimes they release these for purchase or do encore showings but so far no release or additional showings, and I would be so sad to have missed it! Anyways - we got to the theatre a bit early (which reassured my FOMO :) ) and settled in. Not gonna lie - we were super grateful for the rock candy, as Trevor and I both started nodding off a little bit in the first act (those late nights catching up to us!), but the rock candy woke us up.
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The only picture I have. :D

It was really fun though - I like Kiss Me Kate generally, and this cast was particularly good. Highly recommend if you ever get a chance (if they ever do a encore showing. :) )

We got out of the show at 6:30, and with Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party that night starting officially at 7, we had to hustle over there! Rather than take a bus to Contemporary or Grand Floridian or anything and go from there over to the Magic Kingdom, or take an uber to the TTC, we decided to continue being bougie and take a Minnie Van! We hopefully wouldn't have to wait, and they could drop us off right at the Magic Kingdom.
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I turned on all my light up things as we were waiting for the bus - light up necklace and light up ears! :)

We only had to wait about 5 minutes, and then we were on our way to the Magic Kingdom in the fancy fancy Minnie vans. They are expensive, but it was super convenient - at 7:03 we were walking through security at the Magic Kingdom. Phew! Expensive to get to Magic Kingdom either way - either in money via a minnie van, or in time with at least an extra half hour. In this case, I'll take the money. :)

At this point there were no lines to get in, thankfully. I did think that I'd gotten tagged for a bag search but phew - it was the lady in front of me.
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Pretty!!

We headed for the bypass:
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The DJ was out, so that was fun to see and hear.
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We almost stopped to get pictures with the gingerbread men but man was their line long.
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So you get this shot in between the people they were greeting. :)

Same with the snowflakes on stilts!
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At 7:15 we were through the bypass, had gotten our maps and ornament, and were deciding what to do. While deciding, photopass pictures!!
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Snowman! :)

Ok, the plan. The main things we wanted to do tonight were get a good spot for the parade on Main Street, so we could see it with snoap (and because the last time - our first time - at MVMCP we didn't get a great spot for the parade), and then ride Space Mountain with the holiday overlay cause last time it shut down early and we didn't get a chance to ride it. So with those as priorities, and the parade being at 8:30 (well kicking off at 8:30), we initially thought maybe we'd go ride Space, but we looked around and realize that Main Street was looking SUPER full, so we nixed the Space Mountain plan and went looking for a spot for the parade. Wish us luck!
 
OMG me too! I made the mistake of looking at pictures of the art and now I realize this is going to be a painfully expensive trip! :rotfl2: Hopefully the HM bride piece is still there later this week!

And yeah, what is with the weather around here this week!??! It's supposed to be 9 the morning I fly down, I can't remember the last time we hit single digits in this area!
Yea same....I'm stocking up on Target gift cards! LOL That bride piece though - the FOMO is real. If you're there before we are and it's there, pick me up the smallest one and I'll pay you back! (mostly joking but also a little bit not... LOL)

DUDE THE WEATHER IS NUTS. My brother moved out here this year from Utah and I'm telling him he is the one who brought the cold weather - we haven't had these types of cold snaps in years! Bonkers.
 
How does Festival of the Arts work? It looks like Bonner is only there until the 26th- will his art be available if I’m there in February? Or does the art leave with the artist?
the art is there the whole time, as long as they can keep it in stock/restock it. The artist is just there for their time to do signing and stuff, but you can definitely get art by artists that aren't there (as long as it's in stock). I just get FOMO that popular pieces will be gone and then the restock will happen after I'm gone :)
 
the art is there the whole time, as long as they can keep it in stock/restock it. The artist is just there for their time to do signing and stuff, but you can definitely get art by artists that aren't there (as long as it's in stock). I just get FOMO that popular pieces will be gone and then the restock will happen after I'm gone :)
Thank you so much! Btw, your FArts trip report from last year inspired me to book our trip for February- it sounded like so much fun!
 
Thank you so much! Btw, your FArts trip report from last year inspired me to book our trip for February- it sounded like so much fun!
oh my goodness that's so kind! I mostly write them for me to re-live so it's super heartening to hear that it helped someone else. I hope you have a GREAT time!! It's far and away my favorite festival :D
 













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