Trip Report So I guess Disney thinks Canadians do not celebrate Christmas?? A Max Trip Report- COMPLETED

A big hello to all my Disney friends:

As the title suggest this is a trip report regarding our recent Christmas adventure at Walt Disney World

Why the title you ask? I will keep you guessing on that one for a few days at least

Details leading up to the departure can be found here:

https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads...-max-the-girls-and-the-boys-do-disney.951075/

This is my 6th trip report on these boards so hopefully you have read at least one before

The reason I say that is that my style might not suit all - I can probably sum it up as

1) Shoot from the hip
2) Do not pull punches
3) Definitely not PC
4) Not always PG
5) As much Seinfeld references as @Tuvalu can handle
6) Not too heavy or too light on the Pixie dust -keep it real and call it as I see it

Quick introduction will come from:

Day 1 - Travel Day towards the US but not quite beyond the comfort of home:
Friday Dec 21, 2018

The original plan was to drive from our home in Waterloo Ont Canada to Buffalo NY on Sat Dec 22.
With a 10:35 am fight a same day drive could have worked.

We switched it up to a drive on the day before and booked a hotel in Niagara Falls Canada

(our B&B in Buffalo backed out on us - @Doc Disney can try to explain how she let us down!!!)

So here we are at the Embassy Suites on Friday enjoying our homemade Mickey cookies

Me (Max, Andrew, Clarence) and Tricia

My younger daughter Cassie and Shane (BF)

and my older daughter Stephanie and her fiancé Jordan

and this is all of us at the Falls ( selfies are harder with six people!!!)

This report will chronicle Disney trip 28 for me and lucky(?) 13 to WDW.
It is also 13 to WDW for Tricia
The girls celebrate 10 trips to the world
Trip 2 for Shane (though his memory of the first is limited)

And - 1ST TIME FOR JORDAN!!!!!!

More Day 1 to follow and then off to Buffalo the next day!!!

Welcome aboard, ashore and wherever we are!!!

Max

 

[amjt660]

Day 2 contd
We went up the suite and waited for the bellhop
Dropped or stuff and rushed back to the lobby and got a cab over to the GF for our 5:20 ADR

5:04 walking into the resort

5:05 Tree

5:07 G Bread House

5:09 Check in and walk outside while waiting for the table

Max

 

[amjt660]

Dinner at GFC

We were called in after about a 10 min wait
This is our second time at this restaurant - first for the boys

Our first meal together at WDW!!
Happy, happy, happy !!
The round table here was great for our group of 6

Not creeping other people - just a pic of the decorations I swear

As most of you know I am not good at taking meal pictures
I made a real effort this trip to take more pics prior to half eating the food

I had steak and scallops

Tricia and Cassie both had Salmon

Shane had a burger with lobster sauce on top

Stephane had something with tofu

And I do not have a pic of Jordans meal ( 5 for 6 - I rock)

Everyone enjoyed their meal on this night - no dessert for us

Light fixture for @Doc Disney

Max

 

[krause]

5:09 Check in and walk outside while waiting for the table

The lawn here looks about as green as yours did at home

 

[amjt660]

The lawn here looks about as green as yours did at home

 

[DisneyGigi]

I hate you had to deal with the room mixup, not fair, even with a credit- but you got to see the Gingerbread House! We mixed everything so up, with the little fella- I missed it, but did not have the heart to wake him up. :-/ Glad you guys got to see it. (PS, how is you had green grass, in Canada, and we had a ton of snow in N.C.?) Just kidding, but not fair, it took ours, forever to melt!

 

[Rista1313]

and how many funiculars have you had the chance to ride?

Actually Zero, but we have one here in town at our local zoo. Isn't it such a fun word to say though? FUNicular!

 

[Kiwiduck]

Thanks for the food photos, I love them!

 

[wdwfamilynh]

I understand this sentiment
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With you all the way on that one!

 

[wdwfamilynh]

Glad to hear dinner at GFC was good! It’s on our list of possibilities for later this year.

 

[Figment Forever]

Trying to catch up on all my TR reading so I'm a little late, but excited to be following along!

 

[amjt660]

Day 2 cont’d
After dinner we did a few more pics in the lobby then monorailed to Epcot

We had seats on the monorail to Epcot - Jordan and Shane’s first monorail experience

First stop was at the ticket booth
Passports in hand we linked our Canadian resident tickets to our existing and new magic bands
(Jordan had a bb8 and Shane picked up a spider verse one at the dolphin)

And then we entered

We rode SSE as a walk-on

Pics are out of seq- my bad

The end sequence was fun( forgot to capture it)

And of course most of us were from Iceland on the world map- is usually there or somewhere in the south pacific - just to see your face on the big board go somewhere different)

Max

 

[WDisneyW]

Following........ I will ignore the comment about New England

 

[stephmax975]

Dinner at
I had steak and scallops


Tricia and Cassie both had Salmon
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Shane had a burger with lobster sauce on top
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Stephane had something with tofu
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And I do not have a pic of Jordans meal ( 5 for 6 - I rock)

Everyone enjoyed their meal on this night - no dessert for us
@Doc Disney


Max

Hi everyone!
I’m Stephanie (max’s daughter) and I’ll be chiming in throughput some of this trip report and I’ll be taking over the report later on briefly (stay tuned). I’ll talk about food a lot!

At the GFC, I had trouble finding a dairy free vegetarian option but they offered to replace the salmon in the miso glazed salmon with tofu instead of salmon. Jordan got the miso glazed salmon enteee so we didn’t end up taking a picture of his meal because it looked just like mine but with salmon instead of tofu.

 

[Swissmiss]

Hi everyone!
I’m Stephanie (max’s daughter) and I’ll be chiming in throughput some of this trip report and I’ll be taking over the report later on briefly (stay tuned). I’ll talk about food a lot!

At the GFC, I had trouble finding a dairy free vegetarian option but they offered to replace the salmon in the miso glazed salmon with tofu instead of salmon. Jordan got the miso glazed salmon enteee so we didn’t end up taking a picture of his meal because it looked just like mine but with salmon instead of tofu.

Hi Stephanie! Welcome to the Forum.

 

[DisneyGigi]

Hi everyone!
I’m Stephanie (max’s daughter) and I’ll be chiming in throughput some of this trip report and I’ll be taking over the report later on briefly (stay tuned). I’ll talk about food a lot!

At the GFC, I had trouble finding a dairy free vegetarian option but they offered to replace the salmon in the miso glazed salmon with tofu instead of salmon. Jordan got the miso glazed salmon enteee so we didn’t end up taking a picture of his meal because it looked just like mine but with salmon instead of tofu.

Welcome to the forum Stephanie!

 

[MinnieM123]

Hi everyone!
I’m Stephanie (max’s daughter) and I’ll be chiming in throughput some of this trip report and I’ll be taking over the report later on briefly (stay tuned). I’ll talk about food a lot!

At the GFC, I had trouble finding a dairy free vegetarian option but they offered to replace the salmon in the miso glazed salmon with tofu instead of salmon. Jordan got the miso glazed salmon enteee so we didn’t end up taking a picture of his meal because it looked just like mine but with salmon instead of tofu.

Greetings, Stephanie. Looking forward to your trip impressions.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

Hi everyone!
I’m Stephanie (max’s daughter) and I’ll be chiming in throughput some of this trip report and I’ll be taking over the report later on briefly (stay tuned). I’ll talk about food a lot!

At the GFC, I had trouble finding a dairy free vegetarian option but they offered to replace the salmon in the miso glazed salmon with tofu instead of salmon. Jordan got the miso glazed salmon enteee so we didn’t end up taking a picture of his meal because it looked just like mine but with salmon instead of tofu.

Welcome to the forum Stephanie!

 

[LisaBelle]

Hi everyone!
I’m Stephanie (max’s daughter) and I’ll be chiming in throughput some of this trip report and I’ll be taking over the report later on briefly (stay tuned). I’ll talk about food a lot!

At the GFC, I had trouble finding a dairy free vegetarian option but they offered to replace the salmon in the miso glazed salmon with tofu instead of salmon. Jordan got the miso glazed salmon enteee so we didn’t end up taking a picture of his meal because it looked just like mine but with salmon instead of tofu.

Welcome Stephanie! It will be fun to hear your take on things!

 

[Katiekitten]

Hi everyone!
I’m Stephanie (max’s daughter) and I’ll be chiming in throughput some of this trip report and I’ll be taking over the report later on briefly (stay tuned). I’ll talk about food a lot!

At the GFC, I had trouble finding a dairy free vegetarian option but they offered to replace the salmon in the miso glazed salmon with tofu instead of salmon. Jordan got the miso glazed salmon enteee so we didn’t end up taking a picture of his meal because it looked just like mine but with salmon instead of tofu.

Hi Stephanie! Look forward to hearing from you!

 

[littleroo]

Hi everyone!
I’m Stephanie (max’s daughter) and I’ll be chiming in throughput some of this trip report and I’ll be taking over the report later on briefly (stay tuned). I’ll talk about food a lot!

At the GFC, I had trouble finding a dairy free vegetarian option but they offered to replace the salmon in the miso glazed salmon with tofu instead of salmon. Jordan got the miso glazed salmon enteee so we didn’t end up taking a picture of his meal because it looked just like mine but with salmon instead of tofu.

Welcome Stephanie!!