You will be pleased to know there are actually pictures of food in today’s food report!
I had a very restless night so was exhausted today. My bf seemed to have slept fine, he never seems to struggle much with time changes! Breakfast today was at Everything Pop – this was a pretty good food court, I really liked it. So, I had a kids Mickey waffle meal (I had learnt from the giant portion last night!). This was great value as it is two Mickey waffles, some strawberries, a piece of bacon, a sausage, a small drink (water or cartons of juice) and a small bag of fruit (grapes or apple slices), all for $5.32 (including tax). I didn’t have the strawberries today (no clue why…) and I had 2 pieces of bacon instead of sausage (not a fan of the sausage patties they do over there), took a small bottle of water to take to the parks, a bag of apple slices that never got eaten, and filled my mug up with some delicious orange fanta – I love fanta over there and it is almost the same as orange juice for breakfast right?!
He had an adults Mickey waffle meal, which looked huge, and it cost $9.05 (including tax). He would have filled his mug up with lots of coffee to keep him going for the day!
And this was the gorgeous view from our room, looking out across the lake to Art of Animation:
We then caught the bus to Magic Kingdom and I was excited to see it all decked out for Christmas.
At about midday we were peckish and decided to share a QS meal. I had never tried a corn dog and really wanted to so we headed to Caseys for a corn dog nugget meal and 2 cups of ice water, $8.51 (including tax). It is worth mentioning here that we drank a lot of water in the parks and would bring a bottle in with us (which will be purchased at Walmart later today) and would refill it with free cups of ice water from QS locations.
This was really good! I really enjoyed the corn dog nuggets and there were plenty of fries to share! Since we had shared lunch we decided we could definitely fit in dessert again and this had to be a dole whip! We got one of these each, so it cost $8.93 in total.
Yum! We love these so much. Although, sadly this was the only dole whip of this holiday, not really sure how that happened!
After another couple of hours we caught an Alamo shuttle from the Contemporary to Disney Care Care Centre to pick up our rental car. Neither of us has ever driven out of the UK before so we had decided not to collect the car from the airport, when half asleep, and we use the Magical Express and collect on day 2 instead. This worked well for us and Guest Relations had helped us book our shuttle that morning (although it had taken a while to explain to the guy helping us what we wanted.. Me: “I need to book a shuttle to the Disney Car Care Centre to collect my car, are you able to help please?”. Him: “Is that a restaurant?”. Me: …..). Anyway, I digress, once we had the car, I insisted he drive (we were both insured) as I was terrified and off we went! Turns out, I was also terrified with him driving! Somehow, we made it to Walmart without dying on the I4 and we stocked up on goodies! Neither of us have ever been to Walmart before and so we may have gone a bit mad….
We managed to spend $91.28 (including tax) on a load of junk food (and a few presents for friends that weren’t in the photo, as this was posted to Facebook).
After spending a ridiculous amount of money on junk food we headed off to my restaurant of choice, Olive garden! I went here twice in New York earlier this year and absolutely loved it (those breadsticks, mmm). He had never been, so I insisted we must try! We went to the one on Vineland Road, on the way back from Walmart. Now, I didn’t love it here, but it may have been because I was over hungry and over tired by this point and just wanted to sleep. In hindsight we should have probably gone for a quick meal somewhere, but never mind. We both ordered a raspberry lemonade ($2.99 each) and we had the fried mozzarella to start, who doesn’t love fried cheese? Also, it had an alfredo drizzle, and as you may very soon learn, I am slightly obsessed with alfredo! This was very delicious and also free as we had a voucher for joining their email club.
I eagerly awaited the breadsticks and he enjoyed his salad (I don’t like salad and didn’t fancy any soup) so was just planning to eat my weight in breadsticks. I kept waiting…. And waiting…. And then I asked for them…. And then they finally arrived!
I was so excited for these, but I was so disappointed. They had no flavour on them at all and were just a bit doughy and undercooked. Never mind I thought, I still had my main to come, which I had had before and I knew was also delicious! For some reason I did not take pictures of our main courses and I have no idea why (I had been doing so well!). So I had ordered the create your own pasta meal with wholewheat linguine, garlic alfredo sauce, and grilled chicken ($14.28) – this was so good! However, for some reason by this point I just felt really tired and full and barely made a dent in it. He had the tour of Italy ($17.99), which he really liked, but only managed to eat about half of, which is most unlike him! We got boxes to take our food back with us, but never did eat it as there were too many other places we wanted to try! The total bill was $40.74 (including tax) and we left a 15% tip of $7.13, as service hadn’t been great.
After this we drove back to Pop, parked in a car park miles from our room, refilled our mugs and collapsed into bed exhausted after a long day!
Total food spends (including tax and tips):
Walmart shop for goodies: $91.28 (but a lot of this was stuff to take home, so I am not really counting it in my food spends!)
Meals: $65.32