Magic Kingdom, round 2
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walkitoutR. dropped us off at Magic Kingdom. There had been a yoga even at 5:30 but traffic was fine. Normal open was very late — 9! We were there in plenty of time and waited for rope drop. I had purchased Genie for today and lined up Peter Pan and Seven Dwarfs right on top of each other at 1:40 / 1:45. Lunch was at the Skipper Canteen. A. had the Tastes Like Chicken with the glaze on the side, and she had it with fries and raw carrots instead of the rice and stir fried veg. She ate every bit of it. Yay! She had a coke — it helps a lot to give her a coke in the middle of a day touring. I had a ton of iced tea and some of the second coke that arrived unasked for.
I had the dan dan noodles, which was way too salty but it was hot and I was sweaty so it was mostly fine. I also had the falafel, which was fantastic. I would absolutely do that again. The edamame hummus was good, too.
Seven Dwarfs went down for over two hours; we ultimately requested a refund on the way out.
Rides: Space Mountain first, then Big Thunder without much of a wait. Then Pirates. Lunch. I got another LL for Under the Sea, and then Barnstormer had a short line (20 minutes — it was very hot and that line is minimally shaded. The umbrellas really justify their existence in this line). I got a Buzz Lightyear LL for after our Fantasyland ride LLs. We went to Pinocchio Village Haus, ordered a Dasani and got 2 ice waters with it for free, snagged a table and waited for our Peter Pan LL. That was fine, altho the LL line was long. Dwarfs stayed down, so we did Buzz. Buzz stalled in a position at the beginning where I had a shot, so I got 300K points just sitting there pinging it over and over. A. did better during the actual ride, but 300K is a helluva start.
Really great touring day. One of our better ones for recent trips.
We rode the bus back to Saratoga springs, showered, ran laundry, emptied the dishwasher that I had started before leaving in the morning, rested. We’ll be off to Wolfgang Puck’s for a 5:45 reservation.
We had dinner at Wolfgang Puck’s. The drinks were really good. T. liked his pasta, red sauce and meatballs. A. liked her burger and fries. R.’s “chinois chicken salad” was good; I had almost ordered that for myself, with the tuna tartare, which was also excellent. Together, they would have been fine. But I ordered the cauliflower instead, and in the process of removing the garlic butter, they removed _everything_ but the cauliflower. While the “oven roasted” (come on, it’s exactly like it was air fryered) cauliflower was executed competently, it literally had _nothing else on it_. I was like. What. OK. I had said I could order the brussel sprouts, but the server went and checked and said they could leave off the garlic butter, but didn’t mention that _everything_ would also go away with that, leaving ONLY cauliflower. I asked for additional aioli (from the tuna tartare) because that was good, and some tabasco, and then I made a fra diavolo sauce with T.’s red sauce and the tabasco. The fra diavolo was good and the aioli was good — honestly, there is no excuse for serving _just_ the cauliflower. This is exactly the kind of diva princess bullshit that stopped me going to Wolfgang Puck’s after 1997 or thereabouts. Like every Wolfgang Puck’s ever, it was _loud_ — hard surfaces, nothing to absorb sound. And there isn’t any place to sit down while waiting to be seated (I mean, other than the curb around the plantings). Subpar experience. But _especially_ the allergy handling. Anywhere else it would be mediocre but whatever; at Disney Springs it is terrible. I did better at House of Blues. And they had live music.
We were going to order dessert — there were some interesting things, altho absolutely nothing for me — but things had apparently gotten busy, so we paid and left instead.
We had cupcakes at Sprinkles. A. had a black and white. I had a vegan red velvet. I forget what R. had. He had a taste of mine and said the fake cream cheese frosting was convincing. I liked mine a lot.
I had the dan dan noodles, which was way too salty but it was hot and I was sweaty so it was mostly fine. I also had the falafel, which was fantastic. I would absolutely do that again. The edamame hummus was good, too.
Seven Dwarfs went down for over two hours; we ultimately requested a refund on the way out.
Rides: Space Mountain first, then Big Thunder without much of a wait. Then Pirates. Lunch. I got another LL for Under the Sea, and then Barnstormer had a short line (20 minutes — it was very hot and that line is minimally shaded. The umbrellas really justify their existence in this line). I got a Buzz Lightyear LL for after our Fantasyland ride LLs. We went to Pinocchio Village Haus, ordered a Dasani and got 2 ice waters with it for free, snagged a table and waited for our Peter Pan LL. That was fine, altho the LL line was long. Dwarfs stayed down, so we did Buzz. Buzz stalled in a position at the beginning where I had a shot, so I got 300K points just sitting there pinging it over and over. A. did better during the actual ride, but 300K is a helluva start.
Really great touring day. One of our better ones for recent trips.
We rode the bus back to Saratoga springs, showered, ran laundry, emptied the dishwasher that I had started before leaving in the morning, rested. We’ll be off to Wolfgang Puck’s for a 5:45 reservation.
We had dinner at Wolfgang Puck’s. The drinks were really good. T. liked his pasta, red sauce and meatballs. A. liked her burger and fries. R.’s “chinois chicken salad” was good; I had almost ordered that for myself, with the tuna tartare, which was also excellent. Together, they would have been fine. But I ordered the cauliflower instead, and in the process of removing the garlic butter, they removed _everything_ but the cauliflower. While the “oven roasted” (come on, it’s exactly like it was air fryered) cauliflower was executed competently, it literally had _nothing else on it_. I was like. What. OK. I had said I could order the brussel sprouts, but the server went and checked and said they could leave off the garlic butter, but didn’t mention that _everything_ would also go away with that, leaving ONLY cauliflower. I asked for additional aioli (from the tuna tartare) because that was good, and some tabasco, and then I made a fra diavolo sauce with T.’s red sauce and the tabasco. The fra diavolo was good and the aioli was good — honestly, there is no excuse for serving _just_ the cauliflower. This is exactly the kind of diva princess bullshit that stopped me going to Wolfgang Puck’s after 1997 or thereabouts. Like every Wolfgang Puck’s ever, it was _loud_ — hard surfaces, nothing to absorb sound. And there isn’t any place to sit down while waiting to be seated (I mean, other than the curb around the plantings). Subpar experience. But _especially_ the allergy handling. Anywhere else it would be mediocre but whatever; at Disney Springs it is terrible. I did better at House of Blues. And they had live music.
We were going to order dessert — there were some interesting things, altho absolutely nothing for me — but things had apparently gotten busy, so we paid and left instead.
We had cupcakes at Sprinkles. A. had a black and white. I had a vegan red velvet. I forget what R. had. He had a taste of mine and said the fake cream cheese frosting was convincing. I liked mine a lot.