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R. went for a bike ride in the morning. I took both kids into the park. We went to Epcot. We got into Soarin. T. left to do stuff by himself. He rejoined us for the Test Track Fast Pass. A. did something weird and her design didn’t show up for our ride. She got off the ride crying, and a very nice cast member named Adam funneled us through the exit, told us to redo the design out in the exit area, and then walk back in and he’d run us through the ride again. And it worked! Design showed up, kid was happy, we didn’t spend an hour in line. Unbelievably nice.
We did Living with the Land after Soarin. We also did Figment. We had an early lunch at Sunshine Seasons. A. had all sides, and I had the Mongolian Beef. R. showed up and met up with T. Then there was a super complicated discussion about dinner. The original plan had been to have a sitter take the kids to Park Fare, and the adults go to Citricos. However, the sitter never happened. We found out later that was because all the sitters were up at oh dark thirty to babysit kids so their parents could participate in race day. Oh well! Remember that for later years.
Since the Park Fare reservation was early (4ish) and the Citricos later (6ish), I figured just have one parent sit through the buffet, and park the kids in the room. They’d mostly be okay, and we’d be one building over if there was a problem and 3 of the 4 kids have phones at this point. Unfortunately, my nieces hijacked the fancy dinner at Citricos, and I wound up with my kids and my sister (this was actually fairly fun) at Park Fare. I did lean hard on the kids to order their steaks off the kids menu ($19) instead of the adult menu ($51). I had two drinks at Park Fare, a manhattan and a Walk the Plank, which was probably what caused me to wind up needing the Imodium again, but it could have been having Mongolian beef twice in one day.
I also made it abundantly clear that while the nieces could hijack one dinner which had already fallen apart due to babysitter fail, they could NOT hijack the California Grill dinner the following night.
It is clear, however, that I’m going to have to really rethink any future dining reservations, and start assuming that the nieces are probably going to be preferring adult vs. kid options going forward.
We did Living with the Land after Soarin. We also did Figment. We had an early lunch at Sunshine Seasons. A. had all sides, and I had the Mongolian Beef. R. showed up and met up with T. Then there was a super complicated discussion about dinner. The original plan had been to have a sitter take the kids to Park Fare, and the adults go to Citricos. However, the sitter never happened. We found out later that was because all the sitters were up at oh dark thirty to babysit kids so their parents could participate in race day. Oh well! Remember that for later years.
Since the Park Fare reservation was early (4ish) and the Citricos later (6ish), I figured just have one parent sit through the buffet, and park the kids in the room. They’d mostly be okay, and we’d be one building over if there was a problem and 3 of the 4 kids have phones at this point. Unfortunately, my nieces hijacked the fancy dinner at Citricos, and I wound up with my kids and my sister (this was actually fairly fun) at Park Fare. I did lean hard on the kids to order their steaks off the kids menu ($19) instead of the adult menu ($51). I had two drinks at Park Fare, a manhattan and a Walk the Plank, which was probably what caused me to wind up needing the Imodium again, but it could have been having Mongolian beef twice in one day.
I also made it abundantly clear that while the nieces could hijack one dinner which had already fallen apart due to babysitter fail, they could NOT hijack the California Grill dinner the following night.
It is clear, however, that I’m going to have to really rethink any future dining reservations, and start assuming that the nieces are probably going to be preferring adult vs. kid options going forward.