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Take a look through my eyes, day 17. Cali Grill Brunch and Animal Kingdom. 15th September 2019


Woo hoo! Cali Brunch day today but not 'till 11am, we had planned on a lazyish morning but had set the alarm for 7am just in case. We put some washing on as we had some time to spare.

No certificate under our door this morning, maybe tonight when we return? Fingers crossed!



We boarded the bus to MK in plenty of time, we gave ourselves just over an hour and a half just to be safe. We boarded the Monorail to the Contemporary, we did toy with walking but there is no way that I wanted to arrive a hot and sweaty mess! and we arrived in plenty of time with 35 minutes to kill, so we sat out on the deck on the fourth floor near the skyway bridge over to Bay Lake tower and enjoyed the view. They have some fixed metal rocking chairs out here, it's a lovely place to sit for a while, we saw a couple of bald eagles as well.

We checked into Cali grill on the second floor and took the escorted lift up to the 15th floor, there was an awkward conversation with the woman who escorts you up, I wonder how many awkward conversations she has to have every day, poor woman!



I had a Mimosa on arrival, I thought that this was going to be quite sweet but it was too dry for me, I like sweet, I assumed that there would be fruit juice in it but the fruit juice is in the boba balls, so basically, it's a glass of dry champagne. I really wanted to try the boba balls so had to drink all the champagne to get to them as the Cali is far too posh for me to try and dig them out with a spoon as they didn't float to the top.



We were shown to our table and had an amazing view from the window.

Our server was lovely and talked us though the menu and the options available from the buffet. We could have had bloody marys if we wanted them, but I declined. I've never tried a bloody mary and they look really scary from the photos I've seen, especially when they have sticks of celery, rashers of bacon and giant shrimps all sticking out of the top! We both had fresh orange instead 😊

We placed our entree orders with the server who explained that the entrees would be prepared once we had finished our first buffet plates, we could ask for these to be delayed if we wanted to. She also recommended that we don't visit the Rum baba station until after the entrees as these are very sweet and we should wait until we have finished with the savoury.






By this point we were both hungry as we purposely hadn't eaten since 5pm yesterday. We made our way to the buffet, there is so much, if not too much choice and everything is beautifully presented. There is a whole jar of Sweetie drop peppers, I love these and took as many as I could get away with without looking strange! The stand outs for me were the devilled eggs, the shrimp tempura rolls and the roasted peach salad.

I also picked up a selection from the charcuterie board, amongst this was some of the worst tasting cheese ever! That was a bit of a shock.









We ordered the Eggs benedict, coconut pineapple French toast and had the bison to share, we had found out from watching a Tim Tracker video that you can order more than two entrees between you.

I was slowly making my way through the Mimosa getting closer to the boba balls, but our server sneaked up behind me and topped it up whilst I was distracted, probably by shrimp tempura! no! Back to the start again then 😂



We managed to eat everything barring the waffle fries that came with the bison burger.

Our Server then brought over a plate of tiny desserts asking us if we would like to eat them here, or boxed up to go. We decided to eat them here, and we ate the lot! The little jellies are horrible, they reminded me of Newbury fruits that I used to buy for my nan when I was little, everything else was lovely, the Macarons were delicious, omg, obvs the ones we've had in the past have been cheap knockoffs compared to these.



I made it!



After desserts I took a wander out onto the viewing platform to take some photos.

We declined coffee and asked for the cheque, our server explained that we could come to see the MNSSHP fireworks tonight from the viewing platform, but we were going to see the rivers of light show as AK as tonight was the only chance we would get after we failed to see it at the After Hours event. This was a standout meal for us, location, service and food, we both thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.



We caught the Monorail back to MK then bus to AK, it felt really hot and humid today. First up was Nemo, this is a lovely little show, but we both said we struggled to stay awake, if the seats had been comfier, we would have had a 40 minute nap!



When we left the theatre, it was peeing down! I finally got the chance to wear the unflattering poncho!

We wandered around exploring for a little while.






After a couple of hours exploring, we realised that dinner was in an hour at 5:15 at the Rainforest Cafe and we were both still stuffed from brunch, can't cancel it though. The rain stopped but the humidity which usually gets better after the rain seemed to get worse, we took refuge in the Harambe market and sat neat the giant fans, this is a really secluded little spot once the food areas close.

We took a stroll through Pandora and then checked into the rainforest cafe at 5, I'd forgotten how chaotic and noisy it is in here! Again, I booked this for nostalgic reasons rather than the food.









There was a bit of a wait until we were seated, this was ok as we were trying our hardest to work up an appetite. We were seated under a rather rude looking snake! Is it just me that thinks this looks odd?

John had the Caesar salad with shrimp and I asked for the Shrimp platter. Our server didn't understand what I asked for, shrimp platter I repeated, he then asked me to point to the menu item. This, I said pointing to the shrimp platter. A few seconds pause, oh, you mean the shrimp pladder. Because I didn't pronounce my Ts as Ds he didn't have a clue what I was saying! I did giggle.






We still managed to fit in dessert! John had the Mango sorbet and I had the Key lime pie, yup we ate it all. We are fully Florida trained now.



It was raining heavily when we left the restaurant, we waited for ages in the rainforest café shop for the rain to ease up so we could leave, I was starting to worry that Rivers of Light would be cancelled due to the rain. We didn't get to see it in 2016 because of this reason. It finally started to ease so we made our escape.












We took a slow walk over to Asia for Rivers of light and made our way into the theatre, we were sat behind a cute little girl who was bored waiting. Mum was a bit frazzled and was trying to entertain her with you tube videos, we all ended up playing peek a boo for a while, she was so adorable. Poor mum apologised to us after the show and hoped she didn't cause us too much annoyance, we said not to be so silly, she was adorable!

Rivers of Light is a really lovely show, the lights and music is impressive and Disney managed to create a really nice evening experience for AK without fireworks, my only complaint is a sore backside from sitting on an uncomfortable bench for so long.

We both felt that we had a really lovely day today, it also dawned on us that we are in the last few days now so we better stop the dawdling around and get a plan together to make sure we haven't missed anything!

Headed home, I excitedly opened the door thinking that our certificate would be there, but sorry to say there was nothing ☹
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