After our nice (and HOT) day at Animal Kingdom, we couldn't wait to hit the pool back at POP Century!
Ella and I took a detour through the cafeteria after arriving by bus. Entering from the store, I saw the station I had been looking for the night before but couldn't find...ice cream! One thing I remembered from the last time we stayed at a value resort 8 years ago was making ice cream sandwiches from freshly baked cookies and your choice of ice cream.
I was looking for a snack and couldn't resist. I could have chosen other kinds of cookies, but stuck with chocolate chip and I also stuck with vanilla ice cream. Maybe boring, but good!
The pool was a nice cool relief! I enjoyed the music and the kids enjoyed the activities. I didn't think Marc would do the photo scavenger hunt with them, since it was getting close to dinner time and they would be running all over the place, so they started late. I didn't think they stood a chance of winning either, so I was so surprised that the winners arrived 10 seconds before them! That drove Jacob nuts!
We didn't want to go back to the room or get dressed to eat dinner, so we all dried off and sat outside the cafeteria while Marc went in to get food for everyone. Of course it took a long time having to go to several stations.
Marc had the veggie burger again.
I had the bacon cheddar angus burger.
It was a pretty good burger at least for this type of restaurant. The fries were good too.
You can see Jacob's kids meal in the background of these pictures, A hotdog, grapes, carrots, and water.
Everything was at least as good as you'd expect from a counter service restaurant maybe a little better, until...
Ella and Zoe had macaroni and cheese. I don't know if the menu board indicated it was baked or not since I didn't go in, but it certainly looks less than appetizing. Ella ate a little but overall it was a flop. It was dry and I'm not sure what the crumbly stuff was on top (I assume bread crumbs) but it didn't add anything good to it and made it look burnt in our opinion.
And finally the worst meal of this evening...
What?! No picture? I think Disney may have had their secret agents delete it from my camera for fear of word spreading about the ridiculousness of this entrée! Max asked for the Italian sausage kids meal. He got a very small portion of bun with exactly 2 small
slices of Italian sausage (see the picture of my pasta from the night before) covered in marinara sauce and a few sautéed green pepper and onion pieces which he did not appreciate. There was less than an ounce of meat on this "Italian Sausage Sandwich." Pitiful. He didn't even try it anyway, but it had been so long before Max decided he wouldn't eat it that Marc didn't feel right about going in and asking to have it exchanged for a hotdog or something else.
Here is our dessert tray:
One of the kids had pudding. Two others asked to split the tie die cheesecake. The ice cream sundae was for me and another kids to split. And the cupcake was for Marc.
Again the service was lacking... Marc told them at the register when he went to pay for the other desserts that he wanted to get a sundae but didn't know if he was supposed to pay for it now or at the ice cream counter. They said he could pay there and then take the receipt to the counter and they would make him whatever he wanted. He said he didn't know what he wanted to order yet. She said, that's okay, I'll just charge you for a sundae and even if you order something more expensive that would be okay. So he paid and went to the ice cream counter.
They were also onboard with him ordering whatever he wanted even though he had paid for a slightly less expensive item. He ordered a brownie sundae with 2 scoops of chocolate ice cream and one scoop of vanilla. At first they put all chocolate ice cream on and when they realized it, Marc said it was fine, but they insisted on remaking it. This all sounds strange, but fine so far, right? Well we ended up with a regular sundae (no brownie) with 2 scoops vanilla and 1 scoop chocolate after all of that. Whatever! We didn't bother saying anything.
Marc took the cupcake back to the room and we tried it later. I'm not sure what it was called, Maybe "The King" but it was designed to be the flavors Elvis supposedly liked. The cake was chocolate, it had a peanut butter frosting with candied bacon sprinkles and banana filling.
Neither of us liked it. I knew I wouldn't, but Marc always likes to try strange flavor combinations. (It would have been good without the banana filling and bacon topping!)