StarWarsMomofGirls!
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- Oct 16, 2015
Hello Everyone!!!!
We are back from our trip. It was great as always. I have been trying to capture all my notes and photos while everything is still fresh in my mind. And I think I have that all set! So, I am back here to finish up this trip.
Andy and I leave in 42 days for a short Adults only trip. And I am super excited to do Food and Wine and have a little get away from my kiddos.
But back to THIS trip!!!
Day Something or another..... The dinner Version....
I believe I left us off headed to dinner at Via Napoli.
We had just enough time for a few photos in Italy before we headed to our reservation.
A&A Italy
I am not sure why this has become the spot that we have the girls take a picture of my and Andy, but that seems to be the case.
M&G Italy
Italy Plaza
And then it was time to head in!
I don't know what it is about this restaurant, but we always come to check in and it seems like we will have to wait forever because there is so many people in there. And then we get called almost immeditely.
We were brought all the way back, to this back room.
Via Napoli Side Room
Which wasn't terrible but def had a different feel than the main area. If you don't like how loud that area is, this is probably a good area to ask to sit in.
We were sat and given menus and water. And while we waited to order, we got a visitor! Casey! They had been able to grab a last minute reservation that started a bit after ours. So, they must have just gotten seated?
Casey visits
Gwen and Morgan showed off there pearls.
Casey Visits
Casey gave the girls the low down on where they were sitting and finally headed back to her parents.
And we finally ordered some drinks and apps. (since we were starving and the waitress TOTALLY upsold us on it)
Limoncello Mule
I ordered the Lemonocello Mule.
grey goose l’orange vodka, limoncello, peach purée, orange juice, pineapple juice, lime juice, ginger beer
I don't have any notes about this, but I think I liked it but it wasn't amazing. Especially for the price. I remember it being $$$$. But I would get it again.
Morgan got Orange Juice
Orange Juice
I know!!! An amazing picture, right?!?!
Gwen got milk and Andy just had a soda.
We also ordered Arancini Balls & Garlic Bread. (that is what the waitress up sold us on)
Arancini
Arancini Balls
fried risotto balls, mozzarella, meat ragù
These did not disapoint! They were so good!!! And Morgan loved them!!! I could have used more sauce, but I almost always use more sauce. And there were 2 but again we were starving and dug in almost immediatly!
Garlic Bread
And here is the garlic bread. It was actually really good.
And this is where things started to go wrong. So, we were sat right at 5:30, and i have the picture of Casey's first visit at 5:50. So, they must have just arrived. We got our drinks at 5:50. A full 20 mintues for drinks! And our apps didn't show up till 6:00.
I am pretty sure we ordered all our food at the same time. But it's hard to remember now. Andy ordered Chicken Parm and me and the girls ordered pizza. The waitress did warn us that the food would come out at different times... but...
Pollo Parmigiana
Andy's food arrived at 6:10. (according to my pictures)
And the girls pizza and my pizza didn't show up till 6:40!!!!! A full half hour later!
In that time, Casey came to visit 2 more times and the girls went to visit her at her table 2 times!
Andy tried to wait for us and I finally said to just eat.
Somewhere along the way, Morgan and Gwen wanted to have a contest to see who's "thing" could get more likes on instagram and facebook... So, we did that while we waited as well.
Mr. Panda Squishy
This was Morgan's entry... The Panda Squishy that she got in China.
Little Ducky for dinner
And then this was Gwen's.
You are probably thinking, well, you must have asked for some really SPECIAL pizza that took extra care or something... Well...
Behold the pizza that took 40 minutes to make!
Margherita 10" Individual
A cheese pizza!
I did order this:
Pepperoni Pizza
Pepperoni & Pruscutto Pizza. I highly recommend!!! It was delicious!!!
I remember asking the waitress at some point where in the world our pizza was, and she barely appoligized and said that she said the food comes out when it is ready. I apparently seemed annoyed because a manager even came over. But then they didn't even appoligize either! They just said the same thing, well the food comes out when it is ready. We tried to explain that a full half hour for the pizza seemed silly. But they didn't seem to really care.
It really was a shame, because no one in my family wants to go back. And the pizza was really good. And I had picked this, cause I figured it would be fairly fast and we could head out and have a night swim. Well, that didn't happen.
Saying Goodbye for now
Kari, Jason, and Casey all came over to say goodbye. It was the last we were seeing of them this trip. They came over at 7:05, as they were done!!!! And if you read Kari's dinning reports, they had a pitcher of beer, an app and a pizza for there meal and showed up 20 minutes after us.
We inhaled our pizza. Asked for to-go boxes and headed out shortly after Kari. As you can see Andy is paying the bill while Gwen hugs Casey.
Maybe we just weren't in the mood for a long dinner, maybe we were too hungry, I don't know. Maybe all the waitress needed to do was say she was sorry for the delay. I don't know. But the meal left us not dyeing to go back.
Ducky in Italy
Gwen wanted a new photo for there "contest".
Ducky and the rest of us headed out the International Gateway and grabbed an uber back to the hotel.
Morgan at Beach Club
Gwen at the Beach CLub
We only got slightly lost trying to find our room from where the uber driver dropped us off. But we found it. And promptly got ready for bed, as the pool was closed at 8:00.
Pull down Bed
With Pj's on, the girls watched some tv and enjoyed our snacks from Germany.
Carmel Marshmellow Swirl
I picked out a marshmellow carmel swirl
Carmel Square
Morgan went for a straight carmel square.
Mickey Rice Krispee Treat w/ Carmel
Gwen went with a rice krispee treat with carmel on it.
Oatmeal Cookie with Carmel
And Andy went with an oatmeal cookie with carmel on it.
And that finishes up Day Seven. Up next Day Eight and our last full day of this trip!!
We are back from our trip. It was great as always. I have been trying to capture all my notes and photos while everything is still fresh in my mind. And I think I have that all set! So, I am back here to finish up this trip.
Andy and I leave in 42 days for a short Adults only trip. And I am super excited to do Food and Wine and have a little get away from my kiddos.
But back to THIS trip!!!
Day Something or another..... The dinner Version....
I believe I left us off headed to dinner at Via Napoli.
We had just enough time for a few photos in Italy before we headed to our reservation.
A&A Italy
I am not sure why this has become the spot that we have the girls take a picture of my and Andy, but that seems to be the case.
M&G Italy
Italy Plaza
And then it was time to head in!
I don't know what it is about this restaurant, but we always come to check in and it seems like we will have to wait forever because there is so many people in there. And then we get called almost immeditely.
We were brought all the way back, to this back room.
Via Napoli Side Room
Which wasn't terrible but def had a different feel than the main area. If you don't like how loud that area is, this is probably a good area to ask to sit in.
We were sat and given menus and water. And while we waited to order, we got a visitor! Casey! They had been able to grab a last minute reservation that started a bit after ours. So, they must have just gotten seated?
Casey visits
Gwen and Morgan showed off there pearls.
Casey Visits
Casey gave the girls the low down on where they were sitting and finally headed back to her parents.
And we finally ordered some drinks and apps. (since we were starving and the waitress TOTALLY upsold us on it)
Limoncello Mule
I ordered the Lemonocello Mule.
grey goose l’orange vodka, limoncello, peach purée, orange juice, pineapple juice, lime juice, ginger beer
I don't have any notes about this, but I think I liked it but it wasn't amazing. Especially for the price. I remember it being $$$$. But I would get it again.
Morgan got Orange Juice
Orange Juice
I know!!! An amazing picture, right?!?!
Gwen got milk and Andy just had a soda.
We also ordered Arancini Balls & Garlic Bread. (that is what the waitress up sold us on)
Arancini
Arancini Balls
fried risotto balls, mozzarella, meat ragù
These did not disapoint! They were so good!!! And Morgan loved them!!! I could have used more sauce, but I almost always use more sauce. And there were 2 but again we were starving and dug in almost immediatly!
Garlic Bread
And here is the garlic bread. It was actually really good.
And this is where things started to go wrong. So, we were sat right at 5:30, and i have the picture of Casey's first visit at 5:50. So, they must have just arrived. We got our drinks at 5:50. A full 20 mintues for drinks! And our apps didn't show up till 6:00.
I am pretty sure we ordered all our food at the same time. But it's hard to remember now. Andy ordered Chicken Parm and me and the girls ordered pizza. The waitress did warn us that the food would come out at different times... but...
Pollo Parmigiana
Andy's food arrived at 6:10. (according to my pictures)
And the girls pizza and my pizza didn't show up till 6:40!!!!! A full half hour later!
In that time, Casey came to visit 2 more times and the girls went to visit her at her table 2 times!
Andy tried to wait for us and I finally said to just eat.
Somewhere along the way, Morgan and Gwen wanted to have a contest to see who's "thing" could get more likes on instagram and facebook... So, we did that while we waited as well.
Mr. Panda Squishy
This was Morgan's entry... The Panda Squishy that she got in China.
Little Ducky for dinner
And then this was Gwen's.
You are probably thinking, well, you must have asked for some really SPECIAL pizza that took extra care or something... Well...
Behold the pizza that took 40 minutes to make!
Margherita 10" Individual
A cheese pizza!
I did order this:
Pepperoni Pizza
Pepperoni & Pruscutto Pizza. I highly recommend!!! It was delicious!!!
I remember asking the waitress at some point where in the world our pizza was, and she barely appoligized and said that she said the food comes out when it is ready. I apparently seemed annoyed because a manager even came over. But then they didn't even appoligize either! They just said the same thing, well the food comes out when it is ready. We tried to explain that a full half hour for the pizza seemed silly. But they didn't seem to really care.
It really was a shame, because no one in my family wants to go back. And the pizza was really good. And I had picked this, cause I figured it would be fairly fast and we could head out and have a night swim. Well, that didn't happen.
Saying Goodbye for now
Kari, Jason, and Casey all came over to say goodbye. It was the last we were seeing of them this trip. They came over at 7:05, as they were done!!!! And if you read Kari's dinning reports, they had a pitcher of beer, an app and a pizza for there meal and showed up 20 minutes after us.
We inhaled our pizza. Asked for to-go boxes and headed out shortly after Kari. As you can see Andy is paying the bill while Gwen hugs Casey.
Maybe we just weren't in the mood for a long dinner, maybe we were too hungry, I don't know. Maybe all the waitress needed to do was say she was sorry for the delay. I don't know. But the meal left us not dyeing to go back.
Ducky in Italy
Gwen wanted a new photo for there "contest".
Ducky and the rest of us headed out the International Gateway and grabbed an uber back to the hotel.
Morgan at Beach Club
Gwen at the Beach CLub
We only got slightly lost trying to find our room from where the uber driver dropped us off. But we found it. And promptly got ready for bed, as the pool was closed at 8:00.
Pull down Bed
With Pj's on, the girls watched some tv and enjoyed our snacks from Germany.
Carmel Marshmellow Swirl
I picked out a marshmellow carmel swirl
Carmel Square
Morgan went for a straight carmel square.
Mickey Rice Krispee Treat w/ Carmel
Gwen went with a rice krispee treat with carmel on it.
Oatmeal Cookie with Carmel
And Andy went with an oatmeal cookie with carmel on it.
And that finishes up Day Seven. Up next Day Eight and our last full day of this trip!!