Vernie822
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 14, 2014
INTRO
Hey y'all! I have not posted here in FOR-EV-ER so please excuse me as I hopefully catch up with about a year's worth of dining reports.. WHOOPS. Pretty sure I have a 1/2 finished one left behind somewhere. That's embarrassing.
Anyways! I'm Ashley and I have written a couple of dining reports in the past. I am going to keep this one somewhat short but sweet, I tend to ramble and could go on for days. Good thing this trip was 8 months ago, so I've probably forgotten much of what we've eaten by now, hah!
There are 5 kids in my family, I'm the oldest, and my parents took us to Disney a handful of times as kids. I didn't go for a long time (except for one National Honors Society trip in high school), until my now husband and I went in 2014. Since then, we have been going pretty regularly, sneaking in long weekends when we can. My husband Justin was absent on this trip.. well, he wasn't invited actually.
So lets see.. where the heck have I been.. OK so my mom and I went in November. In December, Justin and I had the opportunity to spend a few days in California, so we HAD to go to Disneyland at Christmas.. maybe that's another report in the making. But Disneyland is incredible, especially at Christmas. I am dying to go back already! Part of the reason I have been so delayed in writing any of these reports is that I've been working on finishing up some professional requirements for my Society of Actuaries designations. I had to attend a course in San Diego last December, so that's how we ended up in Disneyland. I became an Associate in January, so I just have 3 long, painful exams to get through before I'm finally done with my Fellowship. Unfortunately they pretty much take over my life from January-April and July-October, so it cuts down my availability to travel dramatically! Alright enough nerd business.. on to the good stuff. I did squeeze in a girls trip with 2 of my college friends in February 2018 for the Princess Half Marathon, which was a great trip, but running a cumulative 13.1 miles in the months leading up to the race didn't help me. Hopefully I can tack on some meals and pictures from that trip, too!
This trip was a LOOONG time coming! Before my wedding in fall 2016, my mom and I were trying to plan a trip that spring. We decided to postpone until November 2016, but Justin and I ended up moving and it got pushed back even farther to November 2017. So by the time we actually got here, our plans had changed a million times.
The first night of our stay, we stayed at All Star Sports. Originally, we were coming in the next morning, but flights were a lot cheaper the night before, so we did that instead. Of course we ended up just booking early morning flights... so we tacked on a whole extra day!
Our last 4 nights were at SSR in a studio.
Mom is pretty easy to please. We have a lot of the same tastes and shared a lot of meals, which was perfect for our wallet and our waistlines! We did go all-out at a few meals though.. like California Grill Brunch, which was to die for. I have been wanting to do this but haven't timed it right until this point, so I figured a girls trip would be the perfect opportunity to try it. We just couldn't tell my dad how much it cost, LOL.
Here we are!
If you're wondering where the rest of the gang is... my dad doesn't like to travel, my oldest (well, younger, but the oldest of the brothers) brother isn't really into Disney, my sister and another brother are/were still in college at the time.. and my youngest brother likes Disney, but can't miss much high school, soo... just the two of us, and we're OK with that!
We were pretty relaxed as far as dining, other than some TS reservations, normally one per day.
Here are all of the places we dined:
Food and Wine Lunch
Baseline Tap House
Food and Wine Dinner
Pecos Bill Lunch
Narcoossee's Dinner
Garden Grill Breakfast
Food and Wine Lunch
Wolfgang Puck Express Dinner
Pandora Snacks / Yak and Yeti Lunch
Homecomin' Dinner
Be Our Guest Lunch
Hollywood Brown Derby Dinner / HS Snacks
Food and Wine Dessert
Cali Grill Brunch
BOG Dinner / MVMCP Snacks
F&W Lunch
Hey y'all! I have not posted here in FOR-EV-ER so please excuse me as I hopefully catch up with about a year's worth of dining reports.. WHOOPS. Pretty sure I have a 1/2 finished one left behind somewhere. That's embarrassing.
Anyways! I'm Ashley and I have written a couple of dining reports in the past. I am going to keep this one somewhat short but sweet, I tend to ramble and could go on for days. Good thing this trip was 8 months ago, so I've probably forgotten much of what we've eaten by now, hah!
There are 5 kids in my family, I'm the oldest, and my parents took us to Disney a handful of times as kids. I didn't go for a long time (except for one National Honors Society trip in high school), until my now husband and I went in 2014. Since then, we have been going pretty regularly, sneaking in long weekends when we can. My husband Justin was absent on this trip.. well, he wasn't invited actually.
So lets see.. where the heck have I been.. OK so my mom and I went in November. In December, Justin and I had the opportunity to spend a few days in California, so we HAD to go to Disneyland at Christmas.. maybe that's another report in the making. But Disneyland is incredible, especially at Christmas. I am dying to go back already! Part of the reason I have been so delayed in writing any of these reports is that I've been working on finishing up some professional requirements for my Society of Actuaries designations. I had to attend a course in San Diego last December, so that's how we ended up in Disneyland. I became an Associate in January, so I just have 3 long, painful exams to get through before I'm finally done with my Fellowship. Unfortunately they pretty much take over my life from January-April and July-October, so it cuts down my availability to travel dramatically! Alright enough nerd business.. on to the good stuff. I did squeeze in a girls trip with 2 of my college friends in February 2018 for the Princess Half Marathon, which was a great trip, but running a cumulative 13.1 miles in the months leading up to the race didn't help me. Hopefully I can tack on some meals and pictures from that trip, too!
This trip was a LOOONG time coming! Before my wedding in fall 2016, my mom and I were trying to plan a trip that spring. We decided to postpone until November 2016, but Justin and I ended up moving and it got pushed back even farther to November 2017. So by the time we actually got here, our plans had changed a million times.
The first night of our stay, we stayed at All Star Sports. Originally, we were coming in the next morning, but flights were a lot cheaper the night before, so we did that instead. Of course we ended up just booking early morning flights... so we tacked on a whole extra day!
Our last 4 nights were at SSR in a studio.
Mom is pretty easy to please. We have a lot of the same tastes and shared a lot of meals, which was perfect for our wallet and our waistlines! We did go all-out at a few meals though.. like California Grill Brunch, which was to die for. I have been wanting to do this but haven't timed it right until this point, so I figured a girls trip would be the perfect opportunity to try it. We just couldn't tell my dad how much it cost, LOL.
Here we are!
If you're wondering where the rest of the gang is... my dad doesn't like to travel, my oldest (well, younger, but the oldest of the brothers) brother isn't really into Disney, my sister and another brother are/were still in college at the time.. and my youngest brother likes Disney, but can't miss much high school, soo... just the two of us, and we're OK with that!
We were pretty relaxed as far as dining, other than some TS reservations, normally one per day.
Here are all of the places we dined:
Food and Wine Lunch
Baseline Tap House
Food and Wine Dinner
Pecos Bill Lunch
Narcoossee's Dinner
Garden Grill Breakfast
Food and Wine Lunch
Wolfgang Puck Express Dinner
Pandora Snacks / Yak and Yeti Lunch
Homecomin' Dinner
Be Our Guest Lunch
Hollywood Brown Derby Dinner / HS Snacks
Food and Wine Dessert
Cali Grill Brunch
BOG Dinner / MVMCP Snacks
F&W Lunch
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