PrincessInOz
Thanks for my avatar, Mary Jo!
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- Feb 8, 2010
Wow! Wow! Wow!
What a great night.
I have nothing else to say except Wow!!!!!
What a great night.
I have nothing else to say except Wow!!!!!
I love the cruise plans, and the B2B with 2 day to nowhere, sounds really nice, and makes it a great cruise overall. I think dressing up for pirate night and the no airline is really sweet.So I thought I would give you another trip update.
I hate snacks that are all about filling you up and not really providing anything other than fried bread.Back to the 60th Anniversary Celebration report: We finally got notification that our room was ready and headed over there and had the bags brought up by the Bellman. While Fran napped, I responded to some of the posts on my thread on the DIS, checked some other things on the computer and then decided to check out Happy Hour at the lounge. They usually have a hot appetizer, today was sausage calzones and peperoni rolls. I didn’t try the pepperoni item, but I did get a sausage calzone. It was not very good. There was hardly any filling so I only ate the side of the crust that had filling on it. In addition to grabbing a coke for Fran I got myself a glass of wine.
After her nap, Fran was refreshed and ready to go out to eat. Neither of us was ravenous since we had snacked our way through the park and lounge after lunch. We headed over to Tortilla Jo’s and were seated after a brief wait. I sat underneath this wall of Tequila.
And we both ordered margaritas.
Now that looks good enough to eat. I would fill up on that alone.Our Guacamole
Now the next event was among the most strange events for Fran and myself.
Cool!Disney encouraged folks to dress up like 1955 that day. A lot of people gave it the old college try and a lot pulled it off quite well. I took pictures of anyone I saw who was trying.
Thanks! Looks like a neat celebration. I didn't even realize they did that... although, it doesn't really surprise me.But even better is to watch it for yourself.
You can't have an anniversary without cake!!!!Then we were on another mission. Our friends John and Suzie had told us about the cupcakes on the 50th Anniversary, and various CMs had confirmed that they would have cupcakes for the 60th as well. So we went out in search of the cupcakes. We heard that one of the locations was Big Thunder Ranch.
Oh wow... You must have some great connections.For the 60th Anniversary, we were lucky enough to get a reservation at a Wine Maker Dinner/Luncheon with Silverado Winery, the one owned by Diane Disney Miller and her husband Ron Miller.
Dinner alone looked great, but this would be the ultimate... sitting in the same room as Ron Miller and listening to stories about Walt!!!!Then the presentation started. Ron Miller talked about how he and Diane Disney were introduced via Blind Date, and they hit it off immediately. Walt gave him a job, and Ron talked about how difficult it could be working for Walt because his expectations were always so high, and once you did something well, he always expected you to do the next job even better.
This is really just amazing. I'd have been in awe of the entire presentation!They showed lots of family photos with Walt and I don’t remember all the details of each of the photos, but it was fun to listen to him tell various stories about his time with Walt.
I certainly can't argue that point!All in all they agreed that having Walt as a FIL/Grandpa was really pretty cool when it came down to it!
Both of us were having severe heartburn or GERD type feelings and dared not leave the hotel room for fear of creating a public nuisance.
Instead we took some Pepcid Complete and crawled back into bed. I think it was around 7:00 or 7:30 when I came back to consciousness.
Already our spot was beginning to fill up fast. By the time 10:00 arrived the entire space next to us was packed as well as the area in front of us all the way up to the screen.
And then all the characters came out to say, “Happy 60th Birthday!”
Our friends John and Suzie had told us about the cupcakes on the 50th Anniversary, and various CMs had confirmed that they would have cupcakes for the 60th as well. So we went out in search of the cupcakes.
We arrived early, but were led upstairs and immediately served glasses of wine.
According to the Menu it read, Salad of Little Gem Lettuce, Marinated Scallop in Lemon, Pistachio and Silverado EVO and Fennel Dust (at least I think that’s what it said.) But in plain English it was a miniature grilled romaine heart, and a scallop cevice.
For those not familiar, Agnolotti is just a fancy word for a kind of “ravioli”.
Walt gave him a job, and Ron talked about how difficult it could be working for Walt because his expectations were always so high, and once you did something well, he always expected you to do the next job even better.
While the kids may not have appreciated having to be celebrities at ribbon cutting ceremonies, they did agree that Grampa Walt sure had some of the best toys that they got to test out!
And though we couldn't actually see it, Walt’s Apartment was right there.
I was doing the “Happy Food Dance” in my chair, so much so that Fran gave me one of hers!
I think I was up to eight glasses
but I was also pretty full from all the other courses, so that was OK, the cats really liked them.
The meal looks awesome!
Lots of wine - awesome!
Silverado, my favourite - awesome!
And all those great photos - awesome!
Taking a nap afterwards - awesome!
Can you see the trend? Reading your TR and being able to share your experiences - awesome! Absolute best thing to read on a lazy Sunday morning!
Thanks for sharing!
Wow! Wow! Wow!
What a great night.
I have nothing else to say except Wow!!!!!
That event looks awesome! I loved how they gave you such a great presentation! The meal looks like it was put together nicely as well along with some nice wines.
The meal looks delicious and the whole event looks amazing.
Corinna
The meal look so amazing as well as the presentation with Ron Miller. That must have been a fun and exciting time.
Glad it wowed you so much, we haven't even made it to night yet! I think that it was like 3:30 in the afternoon and I was already passing out!