Eh who wants to work on a Friday night: let's do another update!
DAY 3 PART 2:
LET THERE BE CAKE! AND AT LEAST ONE DECENT DISH AT DINNER???
As I was saying before, it was just about time for our classroom training to be over and we still had some CAKE to devour!
There were 2 types, chocolate and lemon. I obviously went for the chocolate and Mickey was being cut in to:
Verdict: nope. As I said in the last update I don't like the taste of fondant and this wasn't any better than usual. The actual cake part was ok but that jelly looking stuff in the middle was not and we weren't sure what flavor it was supposed to be. We did ask the CM's serving us and they weren't sure either; it kind of tasted chocolatey but there was something else too.
Nicole got the lemon and we shared:
That's a little slice of Goofy right there
I don't usually like lemon but this was better than the chocolate and I liked the strawberry filling but still not anything I'd buy myself and when we walked out later I noticed lots of half-eaten pieces of cake on the tray in the hallway. But the gesture was nice and between this and the meet and great we were certainly treated well by Disney today!
There had been lots of downtime starting when M&M arrived followed by eating our dessert and we didn't end up having any
DCL training as was scheduled but that was ok; 50 of us would be getting some DCL training soon ! We were dismissed at 4 and had some free time until our dinner reservation at 5:15 - yup, today was lunch 1:30, cake at 330 and dinner at 5:15! Let's say I knew I'd be starving by 9..............
We went back to our resort to freshen up and drop our stuff and around 4:45 took an Uber over to the GF. Does that give our dinner location away?
You're welcome for sharing this picture! My facial expressions got worse as Cathy kept snapping. Yes we were all 101 of us eating at 1900 Park Fare and we streamed in right in front of a few befuddled regular guests, not happy that we were basically sitting wherever we wanted. That's what we were told to do, grab a seat!
Was I happy to be here? that's another nope. Steve and I had dinner here in 2018 when we took my younger stepson to meet the girl he'd met online who lived in Orlando
and we HATED it. We thought it was some of the worst food we'd ever had. Good to know some things don't change!
I'll spare you the details and I know some really like this but I did NOT AT ALL. I got a few things:
Cornbread was awesome, the caesar salad was good. The sausage and peppers was a nice change to see on a buffet but it was not good if you're used to Italians making you S&P. That leaves the beef
While this rare piece probably would have been great for my friend Kari
@kastoney I need it a bit more cooked and when I asked for well done was told this was the only option. I ate 4 pieces of cornbread and that helping of salad to balance out the cornbread and 2 rolls I'd had for lunch.
This part of the meal was ok:
The other 5 ladies I was sitting with were also very ready for an adult beverage at this time! I had the Riesling and I know Cathy had the strawberry daiquiri; the taller glass was a sangria and the purple drink is that star punch or something that's on like every menu -too lazy to look it up now.
We saw Lady Tremaine and both Cindy and her prince stopped by but the stepsisters were not in attendance this evening. Instead as we exited Perla was waiting for us in the hallway! This was really the best part (only good part) of the meal for me as I'd never met her or Susie before:
See I try to do that cute thing with my leg/knee that people do in pictures that makes them just look - well -
cute - but I just end up looking like I have gas or something. Lucky for Perla I did not! Cathy met her too and I guess Perla liked Cathy better because she tried copping a little feel:
Hey
@lvcourtneyy reminds me of your recent R-rated picture with Pooh! Maybe the bear and the mouse talked to each other lol. We left and went back to the WL again as we had time before our next required meet up. Speaking of this was a little off-putting for me to be honest and yes, wordy as it will be I'm going to share the details with you.
So at first we were supposed to tour Disney resorts tonight. While most FAM's are planned out by our host this one was planned mostly by our owner and that meant she worked WITH Disney to get all the things we had, did, and saw. That also meant that if Disney decided they couldn't accommodate something it would change. Therefore after they cancelled the night tours our owner added a few hours at Jellyrolls to our itinerary. Yes that's cool! Fun! Here's what I didn't like; it was MANDATORY and while I am 100% fine drinking (you may know that about me) and Cathy and I have had lots of fun hanging out drinking together, remember one agent got offended at HDDR? Well, as I said then there are agents from all sorts of backgrounds in our agency and I didn't think it was right to mandate you go to a bar type situation as part of work. Maybe it's me; other than this I haven't "worked" in 18 years so maybe I'm out of the loop? Either way while I was fine going I just wasn't sure it was the right thing to make mandatory in this situation.
So we got back to WL around 6:30 and didn't have to report to Jellyrolls until 8 - we also had to stay until 10. Cathy, Annie and I met at Territory Lounge around 7:15 and had one glorious drink before leaving. I finally felt relaxed and in my element, in familiar "terry"tory
@Jenny Sanders @kastoney @pepperandchips and all my other May friends who remember our TL buddy! Oh how I wish we could have stayed there! I also really wanted mushroom soup but knew I'd be hungry later and wanted to wait. TL stops serving food at 10 so right then and there I declared out loud that I would be back for my soup before 10, don't care who said what
We took an Uber to Jellrolls and arrived about 8:10; most of the group was already there but we grabbed 3 stools at the bar and were joined by Nicole.
The stage is on the right and we were like straight back so to the left in the picture. There are 2 bars, one on each side, and I got a few of their specialty drinks which I swore I took picture of but can't find. Around 8:30 the guys started playing:
They were fun! The way you do it if you don't know is that you write down your name and the song you want them to sing and bring it up to the piano (see the pile of paper on the piano) along with a little donation. They pick the ones they want and they were picking our agents requests left and right! Again I felt bad for other guests because we took up almost all the seats and they had to play like 20 of our songs in a row. But hey not my problem! They ended up singing "My Ding-a-Ling" by Chuck Berry which was not an agents request but I love that song so I was singing and dancing! If you've never heard it - give it a google
However all the while I'm watching the clock and thinking about my stomach and that delicious warm soup......it had started pouring out and was really cold in Jellyrolls and OMG that soup would have hit the spot! I did notice a few agents leave around 9 and I told Cathy I was out there and getting an Uber at 9:20 but it was still pouring and I did not want to walk to the BW in the rain. On top of that Cathy was afraid we'd get in "trouble" if we left before 10. I will say that if I"d had decent food that day I wouldn't have even thought about leaving because music and alcohol is really usually enough for me, but um, I like my food. Alot. And I do not like being hungry. But what I really don't like is not feeling free to be me lol and do what I want to do - haven't worked for anyone in 18 years, hello?? And right about now it was starting to hit me. I wanted good food and I wanted someone to want good food with me, because whether I'm in Disney with family or friends I'm always with people who also WANT GOOD FOOD!
You see I'm getting cranky now; did I stay or did I go? And if I went where did I go, and was my stomach finally satisfied??? Tune in soon to find out!