After camping out to find a couple to give our TT FPs to, we walked over to the Boardwalk. It is such a nice stroll, I really would love to stay in one of those hotels some time.
We had dinner reservations for Le Cellier, and I had been really excited about this one, but we didn't feel like hanging around for two hours. Despite all of our snacking, we were kind of ready for dinner now.
We figured we would head to Downtown, since we hadn't yet been there on our wedding trip. Well, Brandon had with his guys, but we hadn't been together. We waited for the bus at Boardwalk, and when it finally arrived, it was standing room only. I mean, people were left at the stop because there was no more room to squeeze anyone in. Brandon held on to the top strap, and I just held onto Brandon. It was a very physically demanding bus ride! We made friends with an older lady and her daughter when I almost fell into their laps. The woman asked if we were married, and we said we'd been married just over a week! She was so excited for us, it was precious. She told us that she and her husband had been married for
50 years! We asked for her advice and she said to be kind to each other. I thought that was lovely. Brandon leaned over and whispered into my ear "That will be us in 49 years and 51 weeks."
At DTD, we went to Raglan Road and got seated pretty quickly. I had never been there before. A band was playing, and maybe it was where we were seated, but I thought it was a little loud for a full-service restaurant. We got some beers, and I ordered the fish & chips. I can't remember what Brandon got. Mine was just ok. I probably won't go back to RR soon. It was just ok. I kind of wish we had stuck it out for Le Cellier, but I remember how frustrated we were with the throngs of people. It was nice at least not to be walked into constantly.
***Here is the embarrassing story I promised a few days ago***
After dinner, we walked over to the art store. I think I've mentioned before how much I love the Disney art stores. If I'm ever rich, I'm going to have a whole bunch of those paintings (or prints, really) around my house! So we were browsing when I spotted a cute picture of the Wedding Pavilion. It was a painting of Mickey and Minnie sitting in chairs on the beach, with the WP in the center, and Cinderella Castle off to the left. It was very sweet and I genuinely liked it.
Well, because Brandon and I have a kind of sarcastic sense of humor, I said, "There's just two things wrong with this painting. One, the Castle would not be visible from this angle. Two, there's no big ugly blue wall across the bridge."
Then the man next to me turned and said, "The wall wasn't there when I painted it."
If I could have vanished on the spot, I would have. I had NO idea the artist was standing next to me. I didn't think Disney had any real artists in the stores. I never, ever would have been rude to someone's face like that. I didn't even mean it seriously, I was just joking with Brandon. I squeaked out a sorry, something about how we had just gotten married and were angry about the wall, and slinked off to the far corner of the store. I have never been so humiliated in my life, plus I felt intensely guilty for hurting that man's feelings. Brandon and I laugh hysterically about it now, but my GAWD it was horrible at the time.
The up side is, in my attempt to hide from the artist, we discovered that Disney has kiosks where you can order simple posters. They happened to have this
Which I thought was a perfect memento of our trip. The posters take a few weeks to ship to your house, but it's nice that you don't have to carry it around. We ordered, paid, and left the store (while the artist was talking to someone else).
After a little more shopping, we caught the bus back to Contemporary and turned in for the night.