By Bryn: Fantastic food and not so fantastic Fantasmic

Our last visit to Walt Disney World was last March and we watched my favorite show in Disneyland Fantasmic. Last time we were in the standing section at the top of the theater and had an awful view of the show. This time we watched the second show of the night with the amphitheater being about 1/3 full but we did get a great view of the show. With a better view I can justly say that the WDW version is terrible!

The two pictures above are a substitution for one of my favorite scene in Disneyland, Peter Pan. Pocahantas is featured in WDW and it is nothing in comparison.

Some parts of the show are similar but others are extended for no good reason. But that might be my Disneyland bias coming through but the WDW does not make better on the original!

Battle that dragon with water... show it what to!

Thank goodness that Mickey wins out at the end but he was not on his point on time. Mickey should not be running across stage when he should be in the middle... oops.

We came back our last day to visit the attraction and meet the characters. We found the ever shy Piglet out in the middle of a humid day in Florida.

Going inside we found Frozone! I told him that we would not tell his wife he took a photo with two ladies!

Across the hallway there was a display for the new Pixar movie "Brave." I'm very excited for Pixar to use a female as the protagonist for the film.

The Princesses's mother is featured below. I love seeing figures that helped create the digital characters we see on screen. I love that a variety of different medias will never go away even when computers are creating the end results.

I'll finish today with some more dining experinces that the we had with the dining plan. A restaurant that was suggested to me was Boma at the Animal Kingdom Lodge.

Our experience there was ok. Our server was nice but nothing compared to our Canadian earlier that day at Le Cellier. The food was good with the orange soup on the lower right being the best. I'll have to remember that soup and try to look up what it was because it was fantastic!

Most of the desserts were good but not great. The best were the chocolate dessert on the upper right and of course the zebra domes.

The real hit of the evening was the Zebra domes. It's almost a shame that we knew about them from out last visit becasue they were the highlight of our dinner. I had three but if my stomach could have tolerated it I would have had many many more.

Oh Zebra domes, how much I love thee!

Our last Walt Disney World experience was at the Grand Floridian Hotel. We took a boat from the Magic Kingdom to get there with a rain storm brewing. As soon as we got off the boat the rain started. We ran to to the restaurant and arrived drier than most with the one umbrella between the two of us!

Our Dinner was at the 1900 Park Fare that featured most of the characters from Cinderella including the evil stepsisters and Stepmother. Anastasia was hilarious, the step sister in pink, as she had just been proposed too by a two year old. She was marrying up in the world and was excited about it!

Lady Tremaine, the stepmother, asked what our favorite ways to bother children were. My mom said that it was pinching. The Lady approved as torture was not always discouraged.