Let's start with the reality. Things have obviously changed so much in the last few weeks that anything I write about will have a touch of Covid...not like contagious touch, but you know what I mean...it will be impossible to write about it without having that really weird, Wow things have changed so much! feeling going the whole time, but I still want to talk about it and what we thought (Or what I thought and what I think the boys thought).
So yeah...we've been home for 2 1/2 weeks. It seems like we were there ages ago already. Disney is so immersive while you are there and then the real world always seems a little disappointing to come back to. This time it was with an added level of surreal. We missed the first build up to panic shopping while were there and the first real wave of "oh this is going to be bad" so we were in crowds constantly and just knew we were going to get sick, but only with colds. Which Christopher and I both did. He got a mild one and I got a pretty nasty one. But just colds so thank goodness. Brent and I had the shock of going grocery shopping on Sunday morning and seeing all the empty spaces. Of course we had no idea that it was only slightly empty that Sunday, it was going to get REALLY empty the next week.
But anyway...while we were there we were fairly out of touch with the news. Completely out of touch with politics. And barely in touch with anything that wasn't ride wait times and food.
It was awesome.
Really it was.
Christopher started planning for this trip about a year before we actually went. He looked at best times to go. Best things to ride. Best food to eat. What we would need to do to make all of that happen. Now there were some things that threw a few wrenches. One being we are not big food planners. We eat two meals a day with a snack basically and so trying to work around reservations wasn't really going to be a thing we wanted to do. We picked one breakfast specialty, one lunch place, one dinner, one snack and called that good.
The breakfast was yummy, but the real sell was the coffee. Kona coffee French press from Hawaii...sigh...after a couple of days of truly mediocre coffee everywhere it was wonderful. The lunch was disappointing. We went to Be Our Guest which is Beast's castle. We did lunch instead of dinner, less expensive and supposed to be less of a hassle. I really wanted to do this one. I love Beauty and the Beast, and the castle was cool to look at. But the meal wasn't great. It was expensive, we waited an hour for counter service food, with a reservation. If it had been faster and a little less expensive it would have been much cooler. I would have liked to have just done a walk through like you can do in Sleeping Beauty's castle in Disneyland.
The line. With reservations. Ugh.
But the castle was cool...
The room we ate in. Ahhh....
This room had the snowy windows. And it is snowing.
SLASH!
The petals fall.
Lovely mosaic
Lovely embroidery
The dinner was probably one of the best meals we've ever had. Honestly. Morimoto Asia. Get reservations, eat there, you won't regret it. Oh my goodness... We tried the Kobe beef as well. That was pretty cool. It's a little fattier than I prefer but Christopher loved it and it was yummy.
The snack was the bar in Galaxy's Edge. It was another one you did reservations to stand in line and so that was a little frustrating. But the line moved fast. You can only stay inside for 45 minutes so they keep the crowd moving.
The DJ droid
The bar (Everything is premade so you get what they have)
Atmosphere for days
Our drinks, that is black salt and a mango puree so it looks "alien"
Snacks. I don't recommend them.
So it was kind of cool, super crowded, REALLY expensive. Unless you are a huge Star Wars fan it's just okay.
Okay, so looking at this and thinking maybe I do another one for the lands themselves and just call this the food blog...
Dinner with the family at Guy's Chicken place.
The food was okay but the company was outstanding
EVERYTHING in Galaxy's Edge is themed.
This actually made me laugh because I think the writing looks
like it's saying 7-Up instead of Sprite.
Christopher and I tried Blue and Green milk.
We had about 5 sips and tossed them. SO sweet.
The restaurant in our hotel. You could get the full menu in the lounge.
This was potato pizza. Interesting. But we got to watch the fireworks from there and it was awesome.
We also did a dessert buffet to get fireworks seats in the Magic Kingdom. The buffet was just okay, too sweet for us, but the view for the fireworks was great.
Okay, so that was just the taste...
HAHAHAHAHA!!!
whew....
I'll talk about the parks themselves next time. Really.
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