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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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blackthidot

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In the Parks
Yes
Day 7 10/15/2013 Continued…

More Jungle Cruise…

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After JC we headed over to see what the FP situation was for Splash and Big Thunder and it was just a dumb idea…but what else were we supposed to do?

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After we left there we figured we could get in to see PhilharMagic. That only had a 15 minute wait. We will take it at this point. We still had some time to kill before our Space FP’s.
After the show we headed over to Space and I have no clue how or why but we got to ride it twice in a row.

It’s still pretty early at this point and we both just decided to go back to our room. We had a 10”30pm ADR at Fulton’s so we needed to go back anyway and change before that. We just did not plan on doing that this early. Oh well…

To be continued…
 

blackthidot

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In the Parks
Yes
Day 7 10/15/2013 Continued…

We got on the bus heading for Art of Animation because we just wanted to get the hell out of there. Here are a few shots from that journey…

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Here is our buddy The Turtle. Pretty sure it’s not the same turtle but one can dream can’t he?

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Colleen spotted a Spotted Gar swimming along. Gars are pretty cool, ferocious looking fish. They are actually quite peaceful and really do not bother people like most people think. That long “snout” is packed with teeth. Rows of them. That is why they appear to be so threatening. These things get HUGE too. 4-5 feet long. Dude from the show River Monsters got into a lake in the wild with them and they just pretty much ignored him. Even though they are not aggressive fish, he is still an idiot.

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We saw this little dude before we got back to our room. He was running around like a maniac and I yelled out “Settle down and smile you *!$%-Head!!!” It actually appears that he listened to me…

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While in Disney World this trip we discovered Modern Family. It was on ALL the time. There are not too many shows that I have watched in my life that I can sit alone and just crack up. This is one of them. It’s one of the best things about the time we spent at the hotel.

Now it’s time to head to Downtown Disney.

It was really busy here as well. It was already dark when we arrived. There was a TON of entertainment going on though. More than I have ever seen there. Around every corner or turn there was a band, or someone just doing some form of entertaining. That is a good thing.

Our ADR was set for 10:30pm but it’s 9:15pm and we went in to see if we can be sat early. They were able to get us in with no problem (That’s what he said).

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They brought us out some weird crackers and butter. Actual crackers and butter. No white people holding butter…

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Those crackers were pretty weak. Thankfully he brought some actual bread and butter…

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To be continued…
 

blackthidot

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In the Parks
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Day 5 10/15/2013 Continued…

For dinner Colleen ordered The Cioppino aka everything they have into one bowl…

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I had The Filet…

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You could not add anything to it without paying anything extra like you can at Narcoossee’s. This was pretty disappointing as I really wanted to try a Lobster Tail here. For 2 credits that they are charging that is a little silly. Oh well…my steak was actually VERY good. Especially for how “plain” it was. There was obviously seasoning on it but for it to be as tasty as it was with no topping sauce or anything was quite surprising.

As my side I had the Fried Hash Brown…

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For as awesome as a Fried Hash Brown in a skillet sounded…it was not good at all. The only taste it had was spicy. I added salt, then ketchup…nothing. That was a letdown because I was pretty pumped to try that.

For dessert Colleen had The Classic Tollhouse Cookie Sundae…

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Hers was good. I am not a huge fan of eating chocolate chip cookies. I mean, I like them it just depends…

Now it is time for my Crème Brulee!

Oh wait…THEY ARE OUT OF CRÈME BRULEE. Man…

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Anyways…I ordered The Key Lime Pie…

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The food at Fulton’s was all over the place. My steak, as I said was VERY good. One of the better steaks I have had in Disney. But everything else was suspect. If Fulton’s was only 1 credit, I would eat here every trip. However…2 credits is a bit much. Too much.

To be continued…
 

blackthidot

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Original Poster
In the Parks
Yes
Day 7 10/15/2013 Continued…

After Fulton’s we just wanted to get the heck back to the resort and forget this day even happened. First we stopped at The Art of Disney and they had some pretty awesome stuff…

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That is all for this miserable waste of a day. Yes it was still Disney, and yes it was better than being at work. That does not mean I have to like it.

To be continued.
 

blackthidot

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In the Parks
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wow, iv never noticed this feller in the ride at all, where was he?

weird how i missed something like this..

You have to have some weird key thing and when you activate the key he comes up from out of the water and talks a bunch of junk on you.
 

RubyTuesday

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I'm new around these parts & just wanted to say have just read this whole TR in one sitting- loving the pics, especially the food , can't wait for more!
 

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