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Hello!

First off my thank you's to people will be held at the very end of my report. So if you feel like you should be thanked for something, or shown my appreciation for something...you're going to have to wait a while. Nobody cares about you anyway.

Secondly, I used the up-loader on this site for my pictures and it kind of did a number on them. Once I get everything situated with a photo hosting site this will continue. Thing that sucks is all those sites are blocked through my work computer so I am going to have to actually do this on my on time and not works time.

*Warning*

What you’re about to read are my thoughts and feelings from my most recent trip to Walt Disney World. A lot of sarcasm and pointing out the moronic things other humans do…along with their rudeness and pure oblivious behavior to others around them will be written here.

If you put kids on your shoulders to watch fireworks, leave messy food trays at tables or other places other than a trash can for someone else to clean, take flash pictures on or in “dark attractions”, stop in the middle of rows to sit down, talk during shows, pull that metal latch on the hotel door so it stops your door from closing and you continue to open your hotel door and let it slam shut 20 times in a row at 7am and other dumb inconsiderate things…you MIGHT not want to read this.

If you enjoy sarcasm, “decent” photography, food ography, side stories, pictures of people dressed “special”, and most of all ME!!! Then you are in the right place.

Swear words might be abbreviated. I may think that things YOU do are ignorant and inconsiderate to others around you. Please don’t be offended. LEARN from it. Don’t cry about it. I am not going to argue with you or justify why you should be beat with wet dish rags because you like to hang out and talk with other guests in your party in doorways leading to the entrance/exit of an attraction or the middle of stairs. There is just no hope for you.

This report is made to be funny. It is also made to be serious and informative as well. I don’t have ANY behind the scenes knowledge but I do feel like I have a pretty good grasp on how to have a pretty great time in Disney World and where you should eat delicious food.

I take a TON of photographs and I work rather hard to get good photographs not only for myself but for all of you to hopefully enjoy as well. I pride myself in taking awesome food photographs. I like to feel someone responsible for the big “boom” on this around here.

When I first started planning Disney Trips on my own I always wanted to see what the food looked like before I arrived. There was really NOWHERE to find it. So, I said to myself “Take pictures of EVERYTHING you eat and see and post them to help other people in the same boat as you.” I am a picky eater, which is why this was important to me. I hope along the way I have helped some people out. I hope this report does too. I took 3,444 photographs on just MY camera alone!

This trip is two years, well it WAS two years in the making.

The cast of this trip my fiancée Colleen and me.

Here I am...

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Here is Colleen, she is so hood.

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Also an "Artist"

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...and the much needed couple post...

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We knew we were going to, and when we were going to go but we booked it for real in April. That was the deadline so that we could do our 180+10 dining reservation thing.

We booked All Star Sports Resort arriving on October 9th and departing October 23rd! I missed the big turf field and being able to go out there and throw football after a long day of Typhoon Lagooning, Dining and Park Hopping. But that plan would soon crumble just like most of our plans this trip.

After calling and speaking to Disney World for what feels like 80 times checking for further discounts on the Cast Member plan never ever never once did they mention to me “Oh by the way, the food court at All Star Sports will be closed during your stay.” I had to accidentally find out about it on here.

So now we are faced with our first “White People Problems” of the trip.

Stay at All Star Sports and use Movies and or Music Food Courts?

Or…

Try for Art of Animation or Pop Century which we both hated on a previous trip?

We ended up at Pop because Art of Animation was booked solid. We figured we could walk across The Generation Gap Bridge and eat at AoA because that was really the only thing that appealed to us about staying at AoA in the first place. So here we are now at a hotel we both really did not want to stay at. We are 3 months out and we are already switching things around that we really did not want to switch at all. We almost considered spending more money and staying at Port Orleans or Caribbean Beach. It just did not make sense because we do not spend a lot of time at the resort, or so we thought…

About a month our from our arrival date I got an email asking if I wanted to participate in testing for Magic Bands. Umm, of course I do. You just made me feel really important by sending me this email. So we selected our colors and a day later we got these via UPS!

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A few days later our Magical Express packet came.

Now all that is left is our trip. No more ADR’s, no more waiting for things in the mail…the next big step is near.

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Day 1 10/9/2013

Finally…The day has come. Up at 3am, well alarm is set for 3am. We don’t have to leave until 4am. I think we dragged ourselves…yes we still had to drag ourselves out of bed knowing what was waiting for us a few short hours away. I think we left the house at like 4:15am for the 25-30 min right to Pittsburgh International Airport. Pretty weird that it’s 25 minutes from Pittsburgh though. Oh well.

We got to the airport checked our bags got through security all less than 10 minutes. Our gate for Air Tran was as far away as possible. I never have been that far back in the airport. The funniest thing I noticed at the airport is that it was 5:20am and Quaker Steak and Lube was about to open up. (Skip ahead 15 days) We passed it again when we returned home at 9:50pm and they were closed. That is pretty weird.

(Back to present time)

It is now time to board our flight. Our flight was pretty full. Normally our plane is half full but there were not too many seats open on our plane. AWESOME flight though. No bumps or dips at all. We arrived at MCO in about 1 hour and 50 minutes. 25 minutes earlier than posted. Sorry no airplane pictures. It was dark the whole time and then nothing but clouds. We came out of the clouds and landed 5 minutes after.

I know where I am going once we get off the “monorail” at MCO but it always strikes me as odd that they have pretty much zero signs saying where to go to check in for The Magical Express. Oh well…good thing I am not new at this. This is really all the help you get, but it is down on the bottom floor when you should pretty much already know where you are going!

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Then at the 2 mile point we saw this...

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To be continued...
 
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Tinkerbella16

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It must have been crowded if Maelstrom had a 40 minute wait! I love the ride, but I have never seen the wait time for it over 20 minutes in all of my trips to the World.

Couldn't agree more about the queue for Test Track. I do love what they've done to it but the FP line was awful. They make you go in the room to build your car even though those with fastpass don't actually get a card to scan to sync to the ride, so why make us go to that room to do it?? I would rather just bypass that whole thing anyway and get to the ride. There was one point last week where the FP line wasn't even moving at all... people were getting very aggravated but eventually it moved along.
 

Tiggerish

Resident Redhead
Premium Member
I can't wait to see that picture. You see some wild sights at Disney. We sat one day and had some good laughs just people watching. Of course, there maybe have been people laughing at us. Yes, our family is crazy and we laugh at ourselves and each other.

We have a rule in my family--if you can't laugh at yourself, you're not allowed to laugh at anyone else. :D
 

Minnie1976

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So I can see the sign for China now…I wanted to try that Strawberry Shaved Ice Cream. I was so excited. Annnnnnnnnnnnnd they are out of it. I am not even going to type what was going on in my head.


I had to laugh at this. I can't tell you how many times we go somewhere (not Disney) and go to order something and they are out of it.
 
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blackthidot

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In the Parks
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So I can see the sign for China now…I wanted to try that Strawberry Shaved Ice Cream. I was so excited. Annnnnnnnnnnnnd they are out of it. I am not even going to type what was going on in my head.


I had to laugh at this. I can't tell you how many times we go somewhere (not Disney) and go to order something and they are out of it.


I was so mad. But they would have it later in the trip and it really was not worth the hype.
 

PartOfYourWorld

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I feel I deserve a thank you at the end of this :p

I didn't have luck with Sunshine seasons...I wish I could like...I just can't.

So seeing your AMAZING review of that filet that blows LeCellier out of water....I am so excited to try it in May. I booked a dinner for Mike and I there to celebrate our anniversary...I am definitely having that.

And the jumping fountains in Splash...I haven't seen them working in at least 2 years....even after every YEARLY refurb...

I HATE that backway to DtD it takes FOREVER to get there...but they always use that way...I just don't understand it either....

Hilarious pics at Typhoon...I'm sure there will be more...gotta love "finger waves"
 

blackthidot

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In the Parks
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I feel I deserve a thank you at the end of this :p

I didn't have luck with Sunshine seasons...I wish I could like...I just can't.

So seeing your AMAZING review of that filet that blows LeCellier out of water....I am so excited to try it in May. I booked a dinner for Mike and I there to celebrate our anniversary...I am definitely having that.

And the jumping fountains in Splash...I haven't seen them working in at least 2 years....even after every YEARLY refurb...

I HATE that backway to DtD it takes FOREVER to get there...but they always use that way...I just don't understand it either....

Hilarious pics at Typhoon...I'm sure there will be more...gotta love "finger waves"


Thank you!

Yeah the back roads to DTD are the worst. So weak.
 

Goofnut1980

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I agree about Le Cellier... I was a fan for years... and the last two visits the steak was not cooked correctly nor did it taste good.... In addition it was super tough... For being the price it is, it should be better!

California Grill is much better! 12 days and I get to go back!!!

btw, love this report! SOOO to the point!
 

blackthidot

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Original Poster
In the Parks
Yes
I agree about Le Cellier... I was a fan for years... and the last two visits the steak was not cooked correctly nor did it taste good.... In addition it was super tough... For being the price it is, it should be better!

California Grill is much better! 12 days and I get to go back!!!

btw, love this report! SOOO to the point!

The steak was cooked properly and it was not chewy or anything...

It was just "off".

We are there three times. All three times it was good. Just not that "BANG" I get with first taste like normally. My buddy ate there with us for the first time and he really really liked it.

I'll eat there again...I'll just be sure it's once a trip instead of 3-4 like we normally do. Cali Grill will get that attention from us. It's just way way too good. Way too good. Can't stress that enough.
 

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