Disney
here we come!
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Having had an early night the day before, we packed up in the
morning, went down to the restaurant and had breakfast. We both had
the freshly made omelette and breakfast potatoes again, followed by
French Toast with hot syrup. Yum, yum!! |
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checked out and loaded everything back into our car, then headed to
the University Mall in Tampa, which is right “next door” to
check out the Disney store there. There are NO Disney stores in
Austria, so whenever we get close to one, we pay a visit. We browsed
the shop, but didn’t buy anything. |
We filled up the car with gas and headed towards Orlando. A very
uneventful trip and within 90 minutes we were at Downtown Disney,
where we exchanged our Annual Pass Vouchers to Annual Passes and
picked up all our party tickets. Pirate and Princess Party on the 21st
and 28th of August and Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas
Party on the 4th and 6th of December! The CM
was VERY surprised we wanted SO many tickets!!We strolled through
the shops again and headed towards the exit, not without agreeing to
take a Disney survey – one of many during this visit. |
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Got back into the car and went over to the Pop Century Resort to check
in. We were so surprised to find our room already ready and waiting
for us, as it was just 12.30. So we stored all our things in the
room, rested for a short while and went over to the food court to
have some lunch. |
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Tom tried the Cheeseburger
and I had the Chicken
Strips.After that we were ready we to conquer the Animal
Kingdom. As it was Evening Extra Magic Hour we picked up our
wristbands and started exploring. Pal Mickey pointed out a lot of
the animals and it took us a while until we reached the Tree of
Life. It was VERY hot, so we wandered through the shops to cool down
and then stopped for a soft drink at Pizzafari. |
We couldn’t do Nemo, as it had just started so we went over to Everest
which was a 45 minute wait and rode it. It was so much fun! |
Don't think Mickey liked it as much as we did! |
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We strolled through Asia and back to the Tree of Life because it was time
to leave. We had a 9pm reservation at the California Grill. |
We arrived at the Contemporary with enough time to spare to study the
drawings of what the new shop is going to look like. Then we went
down to the second floor to check in. We got a table towards the
back of the restaurant and our server Dale was very nice. We started
our meal with some very nice bread
with olive oil for dipping. Our starter was the BLT flatbread - with Heirloom Tomatoes, Nueske's bacon, provolone,
crisp Romaine and lemon aioli. It was more than enough for the two
of us to share. Our maincourses were Buffalo
Strip Steak - with corn pancake, fava beans, wild mushrooms,
bacon and crispy shallots for
Tom and the Wild
Alaskan King Salmon - with
fingerling potatoes, crispy bacon, baby spinach and egg vinaigrette.
Just when we finished the main course the waiter came over and told
us that the fireworks were about to start and we were more than
welcome to go out on the “walkway” to watch them before dessert. |
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What a wonderful view of the fireworks it was. The
music is piped in as well. We really enjoyed it and will definitely
do it again. |
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For dessert we both had the Valrhona Chocolate
and Coffee. Warm chocolate cake with molten center, house-made
white coffee ice cream and cappuccino anglaise. It was just
disneylicious! |
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Before we
left the restaurant we presented our server with a Disneyland Paris
pin. We always bring some to award extra special cast members. He
was really stunned and went over to show the pin to the other cast
members. It was nearly midnight when we returned back to our room at
the Pop Century.
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