a bashful vegan RADP WDW holiday - Day 6
Bashful
years old, and my bashful hubby Rocky, fifty-mumble-mumble years old.
This is our 16th trip to WDW, the first being our honeymoon in 1997.
We�re DVCers and stayed at our home resort, Boardwalk Villas, in a
studio, from Dec. 5th to Dec. 13th. I�m a vegan (I don�t eat meat,
dairy or eggs), but DH is not. We�re both pretty bashful � me being
worse at the one-on-one, and Rocky being worse with crowds. So yes,
we�re going to the most crowded vacation destination on the planet, with
a plan to meet a bunch of axe murderers for the first time. Clearly we
drank the Kool-Aid.
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I was up early today � didn�t sleep all that well for some reason. I
ended up walking around the Boardwalk a bit before we got going for the
day. I love Crescent Lake early in the morning, though I rarely make
the effort to do this.
After breakfast in the room, we walked to DHS, arriving before opening.
First stop, TSMM, where we just decided to do the stand-by, and not
worry about FP�s today. I did better, but of course Rocky still beat
me. Next stop, Great Movie Ride. Rocky doesn�t mind this as long as
there isn�t a long wait. He really hates the preshow room with the
�switchbacks� � just one of those uncomfortable crowd situations. The
preshow room was less than half full, so it wasn�t a bad wait.
Did Star Tours, with virtually no wait. I took the opportunity to take
some pix in the queue. When we got back from our trip to Endor (well,
no, we didn�t actually make it to Endor � we had a rookie pilot), it was
drizzling a bit, so we decided to hit American Idol again. None of the
contestants could really carry a tune, but the last one was an adorable
14yr-old girl, so of course she won.
The rain had gotten worse while we were inside, and the temperature was
dropping, so we finally made a run for the boat, and headed back to BWV.
A quick stop at the Screen Door, a light lunch in our room, and a
little break.
We cleaned up a bit for the evening, and headed to Epcot to check out
the DVC Merry Member Mixer. While really not our thing, I figured we
could stop by for a bit and just get our free Christmas ornament. (Is
that terrible?) Anyway, the line was crazy, but eventually we made it
into the big white tent. We got some hot apple cider and a free holiday
rice krispie treat (well, Rocky got two as I don�t eat them). We
watched some kids do a hoola-hoop contest. They also had a table set up
for kids to make some little decorations. And there was an insanely
long line to buy a special pin (we passed). There were also some
characters on hand for photo ops. But mostly it was just a whole lot of
people we didn�t know, in too small a space. We didn�t last too long.
But we did get our free little Christmas ornament, LOL.
We made the walk through Epcot and took the monorail to the Polynesian.
We had dinner ressies at �Ohana. Yeah, I know� a vegan at �Ohana?
Well, surprise surpise � this was the highlight of my trip! (Well,
besides meeting all you wonderful RADPers.) In fact, the seven course
vegan FEAST that Chef TJ created for me was so amazing that I have
already submitted an entire article on it to AllEars. So I�ll leave out
the details here and just say that hopefully anyone who�s interested
will be able to catch a full report, with pictures, soon.
After this, we were both too full to do much of anything. We managed to
waddle to the monorail, from there to MK, and then a bus back to BWV.
--
Kitty (TDC Bashful)
Lisa Cubbon
That must be amazing. Can't wait to read it and see the photos. Lisa
Rudeney
>
> After breakfast in the room, we walked to DHS, arriving before opening.
> First stop, TSMM, where we just decided to do the stand-by, and not
> worry about FP�s today. I did better, but of course Rocky still beat
> me. Next stop, Great Movie Ride. Rocky doesn�t mind this as long as
> there isn�t a long wait. He really hates the preshow room with the
> �switchbacks� � just one of those uncomfortable crowd situations. The
> preshow room was less than half full, so it wasn�t a bad wait.
I do hate that queue, too! I don't mind it when it's moving, but I've
been through it a few times where it was so slow, we saw some of the
reel repeated three times.
> We cleaned up a bit for the evening, and headed to Epcot to check out
> the DVC Merry Member Mixer. While really not our thing, I figured we
> could stop by for a bit and just get our free Christmas ornament. (Is
> that terrible?) Anyway, the line was crazy, but eventually we made it
> into the big white tent. We got some hot apple cider and a free holiday
> rice krispie treat (well, Rocky got two as I don�t eat them). We
> watched some kids do a hoola-hoop contest. They also had a table set up
> for kids to make some little decorations. And there was an insanely
> long line to buy a special pin (we passed). There were also some
> characters on hand for photo ops. But mostly it was just a whole lot of
> people we didn�t know, in too small a space. We didn�t last too long.
> But we did get our free little Christmas ornament, LOL.
Well, congratulations for at least braving the crowd. Between handling
this and the RADP meets, I think you may need a new title!
> We made the walk through Epcot and took the monorail to the Polynesian.
> We had dinner ressies at �Ohana. Yeah, I know� a vegan at �Ohana?
> Well, surprise surpise � this was the highlight of my trip! (Well,
> besides meeting all you wonderful RADPers.) In fact, the seven course
> vegan FEAST that Chef TJ created for me was so amazing that I have
> already submitted an entire article on it to AllEars.
Cool! That is one of the things that is still good about dining at
Disney - they do seem to go out of their way to accommodate special
dietary needs.
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Bashful
> Bashful wrote:
>> We cleaned up a bit for the evening, and headed to Epcot to check out
>> the DVC Merry Member Mixer. While really not our thing, I figured we
>> could stop by for a bit and just get our free Christmas ornament. (Is
>> that terrible?) Anyway, the line was crazy, but eventually we made it
>> into the big white tent. We got some hot apple cider and a free
>> holiday rice krispie treat (well, Rocky got two as I don�t eat them).
>> We watched some kids do a hoola-hoop contest. They also had a table
>> set up for kids to make some little decorations. And there was an
>> insanely long line to buy a special pin (we passed). There were also
>> some characters on hand for photo ops. But mostly it was just a whole
>> lot of people we didn�t know, in too small a space. We didn�t last
>> too long. But we did get our free little Christmas ornament, LOL.
>
> Well, congratulations for at least braving the crowd. Between handling
> this and the RADP meets, I think you may need a new title!
Nope... I may have braved a couple of crowds, but I was, and am, still
horribly bashful. I'm not giving up the title. (Unless Dreslaine would
like to start posting. Then maybe I'd consider handing it over.) ;-)
>> We made the walk through Epcot and took the monorail to the
>> Polynesian. We had dinner ressies at �Ohana. Yeah, I know� a vegan
>> at �Ohana? Well, surprise surpise � this was the highlight of my
>> trip! (Well, besides meeting all you wonderful RADPers.) In fact,
>> the seven course vegan FEAST that Chef TJ created for me was so
>> amazing that I have already submitted an entire article on it to
>> AllEars.
>
> Cool! That is one of the things that is still good about dining at
> Disney - they do seem to go out of their way to accommodate special
> dietary needs.
Sometimes they really get it right. Chef TJ is amazing. (To date, he's
the only cast member I've ever requested an autograph from - including
characters. I asked him to autograph beside his picture in "Walt Disney
World for Your Special Needs".)
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Kitty (TDC Bashful)