Oh the Places We Go, The People We See ...Dream Trip Report

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The pizza was awesome. We loved every bite. I don’t know how I have read some bad reviews of the place because everything was heavenly too me. But I guess if you like a thicker crusted pizza (which I don’t) then this might not be that great for you.

I don’t think we could eat all of our pizzas. It was a lot, but I know I packed away as much as I could in my big ole gut! (no wonder I gained weight this trip).

We made dessert orders and I ran up to take a few pictures of the ovens.

I guess I didn’t take a picture, but they were pulling out a pizza that was HUGE! I couldn’t believe the size of it. It would take up a table. I have since been told it’s called a meter pizza (I am sure it has a fancy Italian name) because it is 1 Meter long. I did the conversion and a meter is over 3 feet long.

I sat back down and told Claire about the huge pizza and soon our desserts arrived.

I believe Claire got the Vanilla Gelato.

I got the Zeppole di Caterina - Ricotta cheese fritters, served with whipped cream and chocolate sauce. YUM!!!!!!!!

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My Dis Friend Karin has had these a time or 2 when she has visited and they always look so yummy and it was on my bucket list to try. They did not disappoint at all. VERY GOOD! I just wish I had more room to eat them all.

We did have a wait for our bill. Our waitress was a little slow and I had a hard time understanding her and I think she had a hard time understanding English. Perhaps she was new. She wasn’t bad, just a little slower than I like.

While waiting to pay the bill the Meter pizza came by and I pointed it out to Claire whose eyes got really big. It was delivered to the table next to us and there were only 3 people sitting there. They had to put it on a stand as it was so big for the table. We couldn’t imagine how they were going to eat it all. Maybe next year when I go with my parents we can order one too.

We finished up and got ready to roll out of the place. We were so stuffed and it was one of our favorite meals of the whole trip. This is now a must do place for me.

We left Via Napoli and back into the beautiful sunshine.

I know I have said it several times, but I am a huge fan of Disney at Christmas time with all the decorations.

I think Claire had to go to the bathroom, so we went in search of one and found one in America, which was the first time we ever used them there. I have to say, we still have not made it into the pavilion yet and I hope to remedy that someday.

I think this next picture is funny. The theatre is closed, but evidently the birds stand guard to be sure no one enters. One looks like he might be a little bored.

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I think we just wandered around a bit till it was time to head up front for our Soarin’ Fastpass time.

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And now it was getting closer to our Fastpass time so we headed that way.

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Continuing our journey to Soarin’.

I think we stopped and had a seat here for a bit.

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And then on to Soarin’.

The line moved quickly and before long we were Soarin’ over California and having a great time.

We then headed over to the Seas with Nemo and Friends.

Claire always loves this ride.

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And after the ride we went and got in line for Turtle Talk with Crush. Another favorite of Claire’s.

Claire kept pointing out fish for me to take pictures of while we waited.

We took Mr. Rays Pop quiz and sent the certificate to my email.

We were then let into Turtle Talk and we enjoyed the show. Claire was slightly disappointed that he didn’t talk to her, but she has had interaction before and I reminded her that you don’t always get chosen every time.

Back out we went for a few more photos.

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Claire wanted to do another Agent P mission, so we headed towards the UK.

I pulled the phone out of my back pack and we found it no longer worked. Some we found a kiosk and they told us that they are only good for about 15 minutes after a mission ends. After that you have to get a new one. Good to know. I guess I thought they would keep working when you clicked on it and would give you a choice of another country.

So we got a new communicator and headed to the UK for our next mission.

Again, I took pictures as we went around, so of the special effects and some just randomly, but I can’t tell which are which in most photos. I will say this mission was much better than the one in Mexico.

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This mission had us going in and out of different buildings.

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The phone booth gave us a golf ball.

I believe later we had to exchange the golf ball in the Tea Shoppe. (Either that or we had to deposit it somewhere else, I no longer remember for sure) They gave us a packet of tea there. We don’t drink tea, so it’s probably still in the pantry somewhere now.

Hmmm……looking at the picture I just posted, that might’ve been where we deposited the golf ball.

This is around the back of the Toy store and the end to the mission. Doesn’t he look creepy?

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And then we took a picture of ourselves in the window.

And we turned around and who do we see? Pooh and Tigger walking by.

After that we deposited the phone as we were done with all the missions we would be doing that day.

This mission was so much better. I liked that we had a bigger area to do things in and we were in and out of several of the buildings. Claire liked that we had to actually handle physical things too. She thought that was so much fun.

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We headed out towards the main drag after our fun mission and caught a glimpse of Characters in Flight up in the distance.

Believe it or not, we kind of felt ready to leave. Yes we really shortchanged Epcot this trip, but we had done all we cared to do. Test Track was still getting refurbished, so we wouldn’t have a chance to ride that.

We stopped for our first photopass pictures of the day.

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Claire asked if we could stop in Club Cool one more time before we left though.

We enjoyed a couple more drinks and Claire tried her favorites once again.

Claire also wanted a snack before we left so we stopped off and got her one. I might’ve gotten a pretzel or Mickey bar at this point too, but I didn’t take a picture.

On our way out we stopped for another photopass picture. This guy was so much fun.

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He said it was so nice to have some normal people as for the last few months he has been taking pictures of drunks from the Food and Wine Festival (which had just ended the day before).

 

 

Then we decided to get silly.

 

 

 

He was totally cracking up.

 

 

 

I have no clue now why we made this face. But we were having a good time with this guy.

 

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And after those pictures we headed out towards the bus stop.

We made it back to AoA in good time.

We were greeted with some water art.

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Claire and I had not been over to the Cars section yet and we planned to remedy that right this very moment.

Claire then realized she should be in some of these pictures.

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Though the area was kind of quiet, there were 2 other families doing the same thing we were, and they were kind of rude about it. One was foreign and played dumb …the other…was just dumb. As you can see in the next picture I tried to get the picture without the kid in it, but it was impossible. They would NOT move from the spot, even though it was obvious I was trying to get a picture of the car.

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I really think this is the best themed area of the resort. They really went all out.

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How cute are these cone cabanas by the pool?

 

 

 

 

 

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This was like a character meet and greet. All these movie characters just right there and you could easily go up and get your picture with them.

 

 

 

 

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I guess we were getting a little silly here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I really think this is the best themed area of the resort. They really went all out.

 

 

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You're going to love Carsland.

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