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Savor, Sip and Sparkle - part 2
Once they were gone we made our
way back to the Grand Floridian.
There was a lot of packing to
still be done and we needed some more one dollar bills, so we went
to the shop and bought a few things to get some small change. Once
we paid and talked to the cast member, he just laughed and asked how
many ones we needed. We exchanged another 20 dollars and with what
we had at the room we felt that we had enough small bills for the
cruise.
After doing some packing we had
a bit of a break and Tom had some chips and salsa and an adult
beverage, while I had some cupcakes and Diet Coke.
With most of our packing done,
it was soon time to get ready to go to our evening event, Savor, Sip
and Sparkle.
We quickly took showers,
changed into our California Grill clothes and by 7.15pm we were on
our way to the Monorail to ride over to the Contemporary Resort. We
were glad we were pretty early as the Monorail had broken down again
and we had to wait. We made it over to the Contemporary about 20
minutes early for our reservation. So we went straight to the check
in desk and signed in and were taken up to the restaurant right away.
There we joined a couple people who were waiting for the event to
start as well.
Didn’t take long and we were
taken to the two rooms that were set aside for this event. When we
walked in we were handed a glass of bubbly
in a lightup glass and then
were told to pick any table we wanted. We went with the smaller room,
there was a nice table for two right at a window
and we put our glasses on the
table and tried out the light up stars that were on the tables as
well. We were in the room where the food was displayed and the bar
was in the other room. Tom went to get us some drinks, we both had
white wine
and when he came back to guard
the table I went to take some photos of the food. Unfortunately I
was too excited to actually look at the setting of my camera and
most of the photos came out blurry, but at least the food was good.
There were several different
flatbreads, an Heirloom Tomato one and the other one was one with
meat and veggies, which I think were on the California Grill menu at
that time, there were some steamed buns with roast beef and pickled
cucumber, chicken sate in Thai Peanut Sauce, small lobster rolls and
some handmade Sushi. There were small plates with pickled ginger,
wasabi and soy sauce to go with as well. We both filled a plate and
sat down to enjoy our small plates.
I loved the flatbread, which
was really tasty and went back for seconds and thirds from most of
the items offered.
Tom had some of their sushi too
and was very pleased with it.
While we were munching away, a
server came by asking, if we wanted some more drinks and I got
another glass of white wine, while Tom went with a Whisky Sour.
About 5 minutes before the fireworks started our Champagne glasses
were refilled and we all headed outside to enjoy the fireworks.
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