Zeno's Bar & Grill

I've been MIA this past week because we've been to the land of a million dreams. Not Nordstrom. Disney! We spent 5 days at the Magic Kingdom which was about 2 days too long for me and 20 days too short for the kids.

We stayed on property and took Disney Express to and from the airport so those 220 hours were completely spent on Disney property. The worst part of that was Mickey food for EVERY MEAL. And for this self-admitted food and coffee snob that was kind of tough. I thought that we would be able to enjoy one decent meal at the California Grill that had been recommended as an adult restaurant. So we put the kids in the Neverland Kids Camp, the $11/hour (per kid!) babysitting service, but when we showed up at the check in desk for our 7pm reservation they gave us one of those giant pagers like you get a Cheesecake Factory and told us it would be a 20-30 minute wait and we could wait in the lounge. I thought it was kind of weird that a. our table wasn't ready and b. someone couldn't just come get us by name when our table was ready. Walking in to the restaurant I understood why. It was packed with people including tons of kids and was louder than going down the big hill on Space Mountain. Ack!!! We decided to cut our losses and grab the kids and enjoy room service with them in our room.

It was a good decision. We stayed at the Contemporary and the view was awesome, overlooking Cinderella's castle and giving us a perfect vantage point to watch the nightly fireworks.

Even though Disney wasn't my choice for a vacation, it was worth it to see the look of pure bliss on the kids faces. They really had a great time. Next year though, I'm pulling to go back to Palm Springs.

--Kelly

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