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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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EvilQueen-T

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Day 6 10/14/2013 Continued…

After Toy Story we headed over to “One Mans Dream”. LOVE this show. It’s so awesome to be able to sit down and hear, and see Walt’s Life Documented. My only problem with this show is that it probably should be in Magic Kingdom. Not hidden at DHS.

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After One Mans Dream we decided Star Tours was next. Here is a shot of Indy though…

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Up now is…Yeah Tower of Terror and there is no wait. Let’s see how many times we can do it before becoming sick…

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I see you…

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To be continued…

LOVE your ride til you puke attitude! We do that on rockin roller coaster, thunder, and space lol.
 

EvilQueen-T

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Day 8 10/16/2013 Continued…

I now had a date with Mexico. I was here a few days ago trying to get pics inside and it was just miserable for me. This one turned out a zillion times better…

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I needed to eat more now. Australia was coming up quick and that was a place on my list to try! I wanted the Grilled Lamb Chop with Mint Pesto and “Potato Crunchies” which were crushed potato chips.

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Wow, that was REALLY good. Oddly those “Crunchies” really added something nice to this. The meat itself was already tender and good. The toppings just helped. I definitely recommend anyone at Food and Wine Fest in 2014 try this if they have it again.

Next stop was Terra. Colleen got some Fresh Watermelon Juice. No pictures. But it was in a clear solo cup and it was pink in color.

Another stop for me now.

Scotland!!! I love salmon so this was on my radar since I saw pictures and the menus.

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It was pretty good. Nothing GREAT but very good. Honestly if you like buttery and REALLY buttery mashed potatoes (which I do) then the potatoes will probably be your favorite part of this. It normally comes with Cauliflower Puree but I was not trying to hear that nonsense and got the MP’s instead. Good job on my part.

We have some time to kill before our Test Track FP’s. So I just took some pictures of good ol Spaceship Earf…

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Fountain…

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This is one of my favorite pictures from the trip. To be honest I was just trying to get a picture of Colleen walking towards me without her really knowing. I definitely succeeded in my goal. I also captured her essence and just how much she can REALLY upset people. I mean…just look at the people to the right, and the hairy dude on the left. They look so angry with her. I obviously had no idea that was going on until I starting editing.

Oh but look…she still has the cup from her watermelon juice in case nobody believed me that it was clear!

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To be continued…

Not gonna lie...REALLY glad hairy guy on left is wearing long and fairly well fitted shorts since his hairy left leg is all propped up. He sure did spread out and make himself comfy...:facepalm:
 

Billy6

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Great report John, as always!


BTW: there was more sauce and pita on the Chicken Gyro than there was chicken gyro????
Disney, what a rip off.....
 

tlev

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I enjoyed your report. The photos were excellent!!! However, you should have called your report "Steak and Strawberries"! Thanks again for sharing!
 

lbrad

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GREAT TR!!! Thanks for sharing.
Your pictures are amazing ... great photography skills esp. Wishes ... my favorite!!! :)
 

blackthidot

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Original Poster
In the Parks
Yes
It is! And I just came back two weeks ago from Princess Half Weekend for a short "racecation" lol looking forward though to getting back to the parks!

This is like your 14th time going since I have been back. I envy you guys. Where are you staying? Is that mentioned in a PTR? I am so bad at reading them!
 

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