Well...Trip 3 of 3 in the books

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yay yay yay
It is finally Disney Day!!! Have a great time.

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Have a Magical Time!

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Are you having fun yet?

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Tomorrow- late flight. Thanks everybody.

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Have a great trip!

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I'm gonna continue this thread with my trip reports. Moderators, move it if necessary.

I'll just ramble and post some pics of my trip 8/30-9/8/2013 at BCV.

I'll start with dining since that's a subject near and dear to me. I also made a lot of ADRs for this trip.

Disney Dining
I've been disappointed by Disney "dining" many times. I even resorted to putting dining in quotation marks. Le Cell, Ohana, Kouzzina; they've all let me down in the past. But I am determined not to be a negative person. I know many of you love these establishments, so I want to put a positive spin on things.

I'm not going to dwell on my meal at BOG being perhaps the most forgettable $150 I've ever spent. I won't moan about the piece of wood I found in my burger at Yak and Yeti. I won't bore you with the fact that I found a hair deeply imbedded in a scoop of ice cream at Beaches and Cream. (They threw out an entire barrel of ice cream). And I won't whine about my $400 GF Intimate Dining experience being a complete mediocrity as far as the food was concerned.

I will be positive and tell you that the fried wontons dish at Yak & Yeti is probably the best desert in all the World. I'll tell you that I had a wonderful lunch at Kona Cafe. I can tell you that I had a fabulous meal at Sanaa while gazing at the animals. I had an antipasto and beer flight lunch at Tutto Gusto and enjoyed it immensely. Le Cellier totally redeemed itself in my book and not just because I was tipsy and met a charming couple at the next table who we chatted with the whole time. Hell, even Biergarten didn't suck. And Hollywood Brown Derby was OK.

BOG

GF Intimate Dining

Tuuto Gusto

Sanaa Bread Service

Biergarten ya

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Colonel, I totally understand where your coming from. Sorry to here your Intimate dining experience wasn't more enjoyable. I was really looking forward to maybe trying that at some point. Le Cellier, Ohana's they have let us down at times also.

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Sorry to hear that your intimate dining was less then spectacular sad Looking forward to hearing about the rest of your trip!

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Colonel, I always appreciate folks telling us the disappointments as well as the scores. Keep it coming!

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One of the benefits of going in September is that it is pretty empty.

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LOL! That snake would scare the crap out of Mr. Catperson as well. He HATES snakes.

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Ditto for Mrs Scrappy too, who I would then change her name to Mrs Crappy.

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possibly the cutest stuffed animal ever?

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mrhub wrote:
Ditto for Mrs Scrappy too, who I would then change her name to Mrs Crappy.

Oh my Gosh! This is SO WRONG MrHub, but it make me laugh for a LOOOONG time. laugh

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Ditto for me too, I HATE snakes!!!!

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muchlove baby giraffe muchlove

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

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Rope drop at MK

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I'm sure everyone knows about the Alix & Ani fad by now. I bought Mrs. The Colonel the three cuz she is a good camper. Better than most souvenirs IMO.

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The Colonel wrote:
I'm sure everyone knows about the Alix & Ani fad by now. I bought Mrs. The Colonel the three cuz she is a good camper. Better than most souvenirs IMO.

Nope, first I ever heard it of Alex and Ani, they are cute though.

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I have never heard of Alex and Ani and had to check it out myself. Where in WDW did you purchase these? I will haveto get one for myself. laugh yay clapping

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I got them at the store at Epcot Intl Gateway, but the World of Disney has them too.

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I've never heard of them either.

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The Colonel wrote:
I got them at the store at Epcot Intl Gateway, but the World of Disney has them too.

Okay thanks.

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Count me as a not either....but they look cool.....I like!

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Thi guy Is a dancer. I saw him cutting it up in WS a couple of times. He had interesting style of dancing to say the least. Saturday night he inspired a group of revelers to join him. Good fun. Then after dancing he would get back on his ECV and ride away.

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Then after dancing he would get back on his ECV and ride away.

LoL... I must admit, I've done that.

I haven't heard of Alex & Ani either - cute though!

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I heard about Alex and Ani for the first time about 6 months ago when my friend got a bracelet for her birthday. Those are cute bracelets.

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I have several of the Alex and Ani bracelets and love them. The disney ones are a must!!!