Honeymoon Day 8, Part 3
Oh, I forgot to share this picture earlier. We started giggling our butts off at this kid's getup: he just can't decide what character he wants to be.
I am fairly certain we took the monorail to the MK for Cindy's. I just don't think I could have walked it at that point! However, we managed to get to the MK just as the Move It, Shake It, Celebrate It Street Parade was starting, thus blocking us off from the castle. And I will say it here: I
hate that parade. I always manage to get caught at the wrong side of it and it just messes with my schedule. Thankfully, I know my way around the MK so I figured out how to get to the castle, but man! We arrived at the castle with a minute to spare.
We met with Cindy, and she was very sweet. I told her that my wedding dress was inspired by her, and she asked me if it had sleeves. I kind of gave her a Look, but apologized and said no.
Afterwards, we waited to the side for our names to be called. Everyone else around us had their names called, but not us. So we waited. For awhile, it was just us and Cinderella, and poor Cinderella was spacing out. She looked SO tired! Poor girl. Chris and I were being bad and started making jokes, and she told us we were causing trouble. I asked her if we were being sent to the dungeon because we were bad and that's why we hadn't been seated yet, but she said that she even let her evil stepsisters visit the castle.
We were finally seated, and we seemed to have thrown off the flow of the restaurant. Everyone else had their appetizers by the time we sat down, so I am really, truly certain that they forgot about us! Chris had cheese, which was fairly tasty, and I had a "castle salad"--- really, just a salad.
We were at the end of the princess rotation, which we were fine with--- we still had plenty of attention. When we sat down, I looked at the windows overlooking Fantasyland, and I pointed out a couple to Chris and told them they would be engaged by the end of the night. Anddd... I was right! (This is why Chris couldn't propose to me at Cinderella's; I'm way too much of a know-it-all.) An official looking man came out with some cider for the couple, and everyone cheered. I remember feeling jealous because everything was beginning for her, but also NOT jealous because everything was just beginning for her! At that point, I was happy just to be a married lady.
I apparently didn't take pictures of our meals. I had the pork three ways, which was pulled pork, pork belly, and a bacon sauce, and it was pretttty good. It was a little cold, but it was good. Chris had some sort of beef, but he was disappointed because they took the prime rib off of the menu. He had a rather special relationship with that prime rib.
All of these pictures are terrible, by the way. Chris took them while he was sitting down, and it is NOT a flattering angle.
Sleeping Beauty came over.
She congratulated us, and she asked if he had slain dragons for me. I told her he had actually slain two, and she was rather impressed.
(Ugh, this picture is awful!)
Snow White was next, so naturally I asked her if she remembered me from earlier that day. She winked, and said of course. I am not too sure what the wink was about.
Dessert came out, and I have no idea what I ordered. Apparently, I didn't like it because my notebook says "Dessert sucked." I'm glad I didn't eat it then!
Ariel was roaming around then, and she was adorable. She kept waving to everyone and saying "HI HUMANS!!!" When she came to our table, she shrieked "Oh, they got married!!! Everyone!!!" and our side of the restaurant clapped for us.
Belle came over, and we asked her why she wasn't in her yellow gown when everyone else was dressed up.
She told us she was just back from the bookstore--- a great response. She asked Chris if he was growing out his fur, and he said he was. She asked if she could give me a hug before she left, which was just so sweet.
Dinner was just about over then. We got our 20% refund from our TiW card, and we exited to the front of the castle. Main Street was absolutely mobbed, but we pushed our way down a little bit to get s pot for Wishes.
We were still a little too close to the castle for my liking (I like to be about halfway down Main Street), but we weren't going to be able to get any further down.
It's also time for me to voice another unpopular opinion: I don't like the Magic, the Memories, and You. I love the projections that they put onto the castle, but I think the Mandy Moore song is incredibly cheesy. I just don't think the pictures on the castle work because most of them are too tiny to see. Just my opinion! I understand why some people like it, but it's just not my thing.
Wishes was good, as per usual. I didn't take any pictures because fireworks pictures are impossible to get.
After the show, we headed over to do some of our favorites. We went on the Jungle Cruise and had Josh (his real name, not one of our made up ones), who was amazing. He added in a few jokes that you don't hear everyday, like... "I'm going to use this gun to scare off the hippos." "HEY!!! I HAVE A GUN!!!!!!!!" The whole boat cheered for him at the end.
We went on POTC next to say goodbye, and actually had a line! We ended up being a little trapped by the MSEP, but we headed over to the mansion so I could say goodbye.
After, we took a verrrry slow stroll through the Main Street stores. It was time to leave, but I just didn't want to. I stood on the corner of the sidewalk outside of the emporium, looked at the castle, and started crying. This is my usual crying routine, so no big deal. We waved goodbye to the castle, told her we would see her in May, and left.
When we arrived at the hotel, I sent Chris to the room to get our refillable mugs and I wondered through the gift shop. And, surprise surprise, we couldn't get into our room because they had never fixed our broken door!!
We went down to concierge, but the man working the desk seemed much more concerned with the fact that it was 10:00 at night and the desk was closed than he was with the fact that one of his guests had the inability to get into her room. Now, I've worked customer service, so I completely understand what it's like to want to go home: but, I still believe that the customer has to come first! He said "I'm sorry," but he looked distracted. We actually got to meet up with David, our helpful concierge from before, who was surprised to learn they didn't fix our door. He went up with us and let us into our room, but we were told there was pretty much nothing they could do for us that night because we were checking out in the morning. This meant that, yes, for check out one of us
always had to be in the room tomorrow, and it was just going to be a great big PIA.
This incident definitely soured me from wanting to stay at either BLT or the CR for awhile. There is no reason our door shouldn't have been fixed, and we weren't offered any solution or any form of compensation (even a we're-sorry-cookie would have been helpful!) that night. While we have since been given a free room night, which we're using at the Boardwalk in December, the Contemporary just didn't live up to its hype. Back to the Epcot resorts we shall go!
Anyway, Chris and I decided not to let it ruin our night. We had a few more bites of wedding cake, and then off to sleep we went.