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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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PartOfYourWorld

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Thanks pal. Merry Christmas to you and "Eli" as well!!!

hahaha thanks!

Man, you could NEVER have enough pictures of the Tower of Terror...and speaking of the Twilight Zone, I've just gotten into it, Hulu Plus has all the seasons. Only watched the first few episodes so far. but i love it! Not sure I'll be liking that doll episode though.......not a fan of creepy dolls and clowns....:cautious:

Uggs??? In september...that guy is beyond nuts!

Can i ask how you can eat all that food? I think I would explode! But that;s awesome you get to try pretty much everything it seems!
 

blackthidot

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hahaha thanks!

Man, you could NEVER have enough pictures of the Tower of Terror...and speaking of the Twilight Zone, I've just gotten into it, Hulu Plus has all the seasons. Only watched the first few episodes so far. but i love it! Not sure I'll be liking that doll episode though.......not a fan of creepy dolls and clowns....:cautious:

Uggs??? In september...that guy is beyond nuts!

Can i ask how you can eat all that food? I think I would explode! But that;s awesome you get to try pretty much everything it seems!

I really have no clue how we both eat all of the food that we eat. It seems like whoever comes with us, meets up with us eats all of it too. Definitely not a bad thing to be able to do that and still function after. Man, I remember the days when the tip AND appetizer were part of the dining plan meal as well. THAT was tough to do. Sometimes it got done. Most of the time it did not though. Still part of me wishes they still included that.
 

DebDeb

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Day 3 10/11/2013 Continued…

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That is a cool sign. Maybe the placement of it, but I just like it. I don’t know?

Okay so now we go wait for a boat…
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Here are some shots from our boat…
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We arrived at DHS and what do I see?
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Please…if any of you have done this, or know anyone who has done this…FILL ME IN!!! Photographic proof of how awesome it was would really, really help as well. I am going to book this on my next trip and I am super excited about it.

Okay so walking to the gates of DHS…although it was hot the sky was just gorgeous…
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To be continued...
I am "liking" it lots! That's what she said!
What I am not liking is navagating this website! Didnt mean to reply to this post and now I can't figure out how to back out!
I knew you had taking pretty pictures of food down, but you're a really good photog!
And you're cracking me up! A filterless review of Disney! Love it!
 
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DebDeb

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And I really, really, really want to go fishing at Disney too! The hubs is like 'Why? You can fish anytime you want at the ranch!" But it's fishing at Disney World!! Officially on my Disney bucket list!
 

blackthidot

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And I really, really, really want to go fishing at Disney too! The hubs is like 'Why? You can fish anytime you want at the ranch!" But it's fishing at Disney World!! Officially on my Disney bucket list!

Go in September and you guys can join with my group. Saves $$$. I can't WAIT to do it!
 

mousefreak

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Day 6 10/14/2013 Continued…

Just a few more photos to end our night…

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GOOD NIGHT and as always…

To be continued


Hey Blackthidot...I'm taking this lazy Saturday morning getting caught up on trip reports. Your night time picts of the resorts are incredible!!! We stayed a Pop this past October and loved walking around AOA and eating there.
 

blackthidot

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Day 9 10/17/2013

Pretty much another day wasted. We did not do a whole lot of stuff. Just wanted to hang around and be lazy. We got up and went to The Pop Café and got some lunch. Then we headed back to the room and laid in bed and watched SVU for a good portion of the day. We thought it would be a good idea to do this until we HAD to head to Epcot for Coral Reef.

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We got to Coral Reef about 20 minutes before dinner begins which is what time I scheduled our ADR for so that we can get “window” seats. We were seated NEXT to a 2 person table next to the “window”. The table was open. I almost said something since I requested a window seat and agreed to wait for one. 20 minutes later they sat 2 people at that table and that kind of ed me off but I have sat there enough. I can handle it.

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To be continued…
 

blackthidot

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Day 9 10/17/2013 Continued…

We absolutely LOVE the bread and butter at Coral Reef…

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We had been hoping since our 2010 trip that they would have The Grilled Swordfish. They did, which we confirmed a few days ago that I wrote about. After all that waiting and hoping…Colleen got…

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Yes that is NOT swordfish, but it is The Coral Reef lobster Orecchiette Pasta.

I DID order the Swordfish.

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It was served with all kinds of crazy stuff that was NOT served with it last time. Last time it did not have all the junk they put on it so I requested it without all the weird toppings. I took a bite and it was absolutely terrible. Tasted like rubber. You really don’t have to do a whole lot to fish. To me it already has a distinct taste to it to begin with. Not this though. It did not even look anything like it did before. It was super thin. When Colleen got it last time it was like a square hamburger patty. Not sure what changed it but it WAS two years ago since we had it so I am sure it “evolved” into something else.

The waiter came by and asked how it was and I just said “It’s not your fault and I am not mad at you in any way but this is terrible. It tastes like nothing at all. I know I got it plain, but it should still have a taste to it.” He was really cool about it and just asked me if I wanted something else so I went with my familiar dish there…

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Much better. Not too sure about that brown sauce. That is new. It was not that good either but WAY better than the fish. I really did not want to complain about the steak though. I was lucky enough to get the fish switched.

For dessert Colleen had The Baileys and Jack Daniel’s Mousse…

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I had The Chocolate Wave…

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After dinner we just decided to stroll around. We did not have any Fast Passes or anything.

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To be continued…
 

blackthidot

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Day 9 10/17/2013 Continued…

We ended up back over at The Seas so we could check out The Manatees again. I actually adopted one for Colleen for Christmas. Not one from Disney World but through http://www.savethemanatee.org/

If you know anyone who likes them it’s a great idea/surprise. You can get one for $25 or $35 and they give you a Manatee calendar with it. You can also donate more if you would like. You also get to pick the one you want to adopt out of like 30. Colleen’s Manatee is Floyd.

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After we hung with the manatees we decided to just stroll we saw “Red”…

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Moving along…

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We stopped in to see…

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It’s a pretty good show about storms and what the best options are for you house to survive severe storms.

To be continued…
 

blackthidot

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Day 9 10/17/2013 Continued…

Almost time to exit the park but first…

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Then we stopped in The Art of Disney…

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We got a bus back to Art of Animation because our station had a bunch of folks waiting and AoA had NONE.

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Another day over. Next up is Animal Kingdom and close to 150 pictures!

To be continued…
 

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