Get ready to whet your appetite with us, as we take you on a food adventure through Disney World's newest dining experience - Woody's Roundup Rodeo! Remember the thrill of family-style feasting? We're bringing that back - bringing you the sights, tastes, and even the laughs from servers decked out in costumes. We also wrestle with the age-old debate of quantity vs. quality as we discuss the meal portions and food waste.
We'll also take you to Beaches & Cream, where we dive into their delectable, albeit limited, menu options. We'll also spill the beans on their crowd-pleasing kitchen sink dessert and how to get the most out of their walk-up waitlist system. And for those parents out there, we've got some must-know tips when visiting the restaurant with your little ones.
To top it all off, we dish out our overall summer trip, theme park experiences, and the surprising low attendance at Disney World. Ever wondered how Chef Mickey's stacks up against Topolino's Terrace? We put them to the test, and you might be surprised at which comes out on top. Join us on this culinary journey, where the magical world of Disney meets the irresistible world of food!
Get ready to whet your appetite with us, as we take you on a food adventure through Disney World's newest dining experience - Woody's Roundup Rodeo! Remember the thrill of family-style feasting? We're bringing that back - bringing you the sights, tastes, and even the laughs from servers decked out in costumes. We also wrestle with the age-old debate of quantity vs. quality as we discuss the meal portions and food waste.
We'll also take you to Beaches & Cream, where we dive into their delectable, albeit limited, menu options. We'll also spill the beans on their crowd-pleasing kitchen sink dessert and how to get the most out of their walk-up waitlist system. And for those parents out there, we've got some must-know tips when visiting the restaurant with your little ones.
To top it all off, we dish out our overall summer trip, theme park experiences, and the surprising low attendance at Disney World. Ever wondered how Chef Mickey's stacks up against Topolino's Terrace? We put them to the test, and you might be surprised at which comes out on top. Join us on this culinary journey, where the magical world of Disney meets the irresistible world of food!
Hey guys, I'm Sarah, I'm Elizabeth, and welcome to the Tiki Room. Yes, thanks for listening. Today we are continuing Elizabeth's adventure, the saga of my journey, her girl's trip adventure.
Speaker 2:I hope it gets better. It does. It really was a great trip. If you listened to last week episode, you heard about where we stayed, yes, and that experience. But now we're going to talk about where we ate. It was not a Scott Branick approved eating experience.
Speaker 1:That's how you have to do this without Scott. Yes, you got to do all your like corn dogs.
Speaker 2:Yes, which is weird, because he loves that, but he also loves a fine dining experience.
Speaker 1:He wants it in a certain environment. He wants a hot dog, probably at a baseball game. Yes, like he doesn't want it.
Speaker 2:Yes, for dinner on a Tuesday night at Magic Kingdom, whatever. Whatever, scott EB. While Sreed and Scott enjoyed two steak houses in Chicago, loranne and I enjoyed Disney dining. Yes, so the first night we were there, which was a Thursday, we ate at the new Woody's.
Speaker 1:Roundup Rodeo. Yes, thank you, woody's. Roundup Rodeo. I can't wait to hear about this.
Speaker 2:So I am going to play. I recorded, loranne, yes.
Speaker 3:After that.
Speaker 2:So here is our my interview with her. Okay, all right, loranne, we just ate lunch, I mean dinner.
Speaker 3:Where Roundup Rodeo?
Speaker 2:The new Toy Story restaurant and what do you think about it? Awesome, okay, what was so cool about?
Speaker 1:it.
Speaker 3:When Annie was coming and you had to be quiet.
Speaker 2:In freeze. Right, you had to freeze, yes. What did you think about the food? It was good. What did you think about the cheddar biscuit that you didn't want to eat? You tried it, and what do you think afterwards? It was good. Oh, was mommy right? No, what, okay. What did you think about the dessert?
Speaker 3:It was delicious. What did you get for dessert?
Speaker 2:The forky cupcake. And is there? Did you get anything else that was special? No, I got the check. Oh yeah, you did pay for dinner, which was, thank goodness, somebody paid for dinner, right, all right. So what do you give it? A two thumbs up or a one thumbs up, or a two thumbs down, or a one thumbs down, two thumbs up. All right, it was, it was cute. It was a really cute experience. I would not recommend it for lunch.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:Because it is a lot of food.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:It is buff face. I mean not buff face style, it is family style. Okay, so you're paying per person. I think adults was like 45 and kids was 35. I could be wrong. I don't know, but you, so we. First of all, our waiter, christian, was hilarious, like I immediately did a cast review. Number review.
Speaker 2:I know, because his jokes were so corny I couldn't stop. I was like, and it was like straight it was, it was so good, he like got what I was putting down and it was, he was hilarious, that's awesome. So you go in and you get immediately. You get like the. I think it's three appetizers it's a cucumber, cucumber tomato salad, okay, a kale salad, and then I cannot remember.
Speaker 3:Is it like a bread, like corn?
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's a there's a cheddar biscuit. Okay, hold on, I'm going to Woody's lunchbox.
Speaker 1:How are the servers dressed? Are they like toys?
Speaker 2:or are they? No, but do you know what is so funny? Lauren was like what? I wonder what toy they would be.
Speaker 1:Oh, look at you so cute the atmosphere because it's all Woody's.
Speaker 2:Okay, so it is a very. If you have a sensory overloaded child, please be aware that you are walking into Toy Story of Mania's queue threw up on you. Wow, I mean, it is a lot. There is not one area that is not touched by. It is like if you were to walk into my kids playroom. Okay, so it's visually.
Speaker 1:It is a lot Not, maybe not.
Speaker 2:It is like sound it is loud, it is loud. It is loud, but it is it. Let so if you're, if you have a child or an adult, who that is overwhelming. If I mean on the walls, they, they're painting it. It's painted like it is I, like you're in the toy box.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:So it is. I mean, you've got on this wall there's a board game at an angle and then on this, you know, right next to it, you have, you know a scene from a Barbie doll box or whatever. Maybe there's a train up here, there's, you know, cards that are, and I think I took some videos. I'll send those to you, sarah, to post. So it is a lot. There is a lot going on, okay. So what is?
Speaker 1:What is Lunchbox?
Speaker 3:menu. So it is a family style meal.
Speaker 1:Family style meal. It's barbecue, yes, so be prepared for that. Yes, and Elizabeth went in July on a hot day.
Speaker 2:On a hot day, so okay. So I don't know why I can't find the menu. I'm sorry, sarah, and I'm sorry if you're listening. Thank you, sarah.
Speaker 1:I will find it. Let's hear your commentary.
Speaker 2:So you get your first three appetizers, if you will. Mm-hmm, and it is a lot of food. We ordered for two people, because it was just me and her. The table next to us have four and we ordered about the same amount of food. Wow, the same amount of food. So you pick between your. So you get the quote unquote appetizers and then you get to pick between a meat based barbecue option platter or a vegan based or vegetarian based. We obviously picked the meat based. Okay, here she is, here it is. So you get the homemade cheddar biscuits with pepper jelly. Delicious Tomato salad, kale salad, watermelon salad.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:So when I read these, I was like she is not going to like any of this my daughter. She ate the cucumbers out of the cucumber salad and then she ate the watermelon. It was watermelon with mint, okay, but she didn't notice that. So we got the barbecue platter, the meat based, not the plant based, mm-hmm, and that was good. It was ribs, brisket sausage, which was a little spicy barbecue chicken on the bone.
Speaker 1:Okay. Did you go lunch or dinner Dinner? You went dinner, okay, and we went at like.
Speaker 2:I think 5.30. Okay, I would not recommend for lunch.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, carly and Emily went for lunch and, like one of the first weeks that opened up, they happened to be down there.
Speaker 2:When we went for our girls trip.
Speaker 1:Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. They were there a day earlier. They went for lunch. They were like I really want to try this and they said the same thing. They were like we were planning on, like you know, going and doing some stuff afterwards. We were so full we got out. We were like we got to get out of here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I was like it's a lot of. And this is when he was funny. He was like don't tell me that you're not going to eat all this food. And I was like Christian, you're hilarious. I did appreciate the light, the lightness of the the first three items the tomato salad, the kale salad, the watermelon salad. If you are, if your family is like my family, they would have looked at this menu and been like bleh, yeah, my family, including my husband yeah, scott would have eaten all of this, right, so if that says anything to you.
Speaker 2:So I appreciated that, the meat portion of it. I think that I, loranne, had a chicken and I gave her some of the brisket I eat all of the brisket and then I was full, wow, and so we had ribs and sausage left. So then you got to pick four sides Potato salad, loaded potato, it was basically tater tots.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:Veggie slaw, fried pickles, roasted vegetables, mac and cheese, baked beans, corn on the cob. And okay, we got. What did we get? We got the slaw, the fried pickles. No, that's not true. We got the fried pickles, the vegetables, the mac and cheese and the corn on the cob. The fried pickles were fried pickle spears. There were 12 fried pickle spears. Holy moly, that's crazy. I was like you could have put two out there, Right? And I asked Christian. I was like can we just order two sides? And he's like I mean, they're gonna send me out with more anyway, Right, I do wish that I would have pushed on that and just said just bring out two things, Right. And you could tell that the wait staff was like we waste so much food, Right, which is that's where I'm. Like Disney, you have this whole conservation concept, I know, I know. And you, unless you're like taking this over to feed the animals, which I know you're not can you please like find a way to not waste so much food?
Speaker 1:I have read some articles from different bloggers who went and did the review when it first came out and they were talking about how much food was gonna be wasted here, because even if you went with two adults or four adults, it was so much food and you couldn't finish it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I. So we did that. The mac and cheese had a Disney's version of Goldfish crumbled on top of that.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:And of course my daughter was like oh, oh, she'd love it, you're so annoying and it was the slinky looking mac and cheese. So, that was cute. I gave the macaroni and cheese. The pickles were great. I give those 10 out of 10. I love a fried pickle.
Speaker 1:Wish that they would have had ranch.
Speaker 2:They did not have ranch. They didn't give you like a dipping. No, I know Mac and cheese. I give that a two out of 10.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:The vegetables were actually really good. It was squash, zucchini and bell pepper. Huh, okay, I think there was a bell pepper in there, I can't remember. That was pretty good. Okay, it was good, it was great. It was like grilled so or a tasted grilled, I should say Excuse me, it was campfire roasted. Oh wow, the cow poke corn on the cob was grilled street corn and I wish that I would have paid attention to that cause. Lori Ann was like I am not eating this, so it was Mexican street corn.
Speaker 3:Oh okay.
Speaker 1:And there's probably sauce on it and she didn't really like that, yeah, and then there was the cheese and stuff.
Speaker 2:Anyway, it was the mini, the little you know, corn and a cob cut in half. There were six of those.
Speaker 1:Six. This does not make any sense to me. Why would they, for two people, send that out?
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:And it wasn't just us. The table next to us was so. The people to the right of me there were four of us they got the same amount of food. The people to the left of us there were two of them, they got the same amount of food. So you pay per person.
Speaker 1:Yes, Like you're not trying to pick other. I mean it's an adult and a child.
Speaker 2:Wow, I know I'm like Disney. I'm not telling you that I can find ways for you to cut costs, but I'm telling you I can find ways for you to cut costs, and that's one of them.
Speaker 1:Well, unless I mean, obviously, the profit margin for this kind of food. It doesn't cost that much. Well, and so that, and they can charge you. Yeah, how much is?
Speaker 2:it per person $45. $45 plus plus for adult, 25 for kids, and this is the new way, like California Grill, this is how they're doing it, Like a prefixed menu is what they're doing, which is fine. Yes, I just I had. There was a lot of. I was a little annoyed at the waste of food that was there.
Speaker 1:I know like bring it down to $35 per adult and $15 a kid, Whatever Like.
Speaker 2:Keep it at $45 adult, $25 a kid. But don't bring out six years of corn for two people yeah, bring out two. Don't bring out 12 pickle spears yeah, bring out four. So that that was where I was like come on Disney, or give me a. If I again, if I had known that the portion size, if two of us were gonna go back again, I would have told them just bring me brisket and chicken, don't bring me anything else. Yeah, that's what I wish I would have known going into it. If it was the four, if it was my whole family, I think it would have been plenty food. We probably would have eaten it all and it would have been fine, right, but the two of us, no. So then you got to pick a dessert. I said that I did not want a dessert, lori and one of the forky cupcake.
Speaker 1:What was?
Speaker 2:that, okay, a cupcake and it had like a forky spork cookie on top of it. I'm gonna. I took a picture of that. I'll send it to you to post. He brought out two of those because he was like, well, she's got to pick which one. But I think that they have to. They have to bring out that food because they have, I guess, in their system. They have to mark when it goes. It was cute, it was good Bye. If my kids wanted to eat there for dinner, I would easily make a reservation for there again for dinner. If I was going just the two of us, just two people again, I would have Requested less food. I would have done maybe one or two sides and call it a day.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:That's what I would have done. I don't think that they would have allowed that, but I would have tried to press it and maybe, now that it's been open for a long time, maybe they would do it. Definitely for dinner, definitely not for lunch.
Speaker 1:Okay, that makes sense, because it's it's so much food, it leaves you feeling super heavy.
Speaker 2:And we ate. Like I said, we ate it like 5 30. I thought the time was great. You check in ahead of time. You know you make a reservation. We checked in 20 minutes in advance. We got the text that it was ready, it was nice and cold they. I mean it was cute, it was really cute, it was really cute. So we'll post the pictures and stuff from that on there. But I liked it.
Speaker 1:Awesome.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I'm so excited I want to go there, I know so. Then, like having to look to think about this, then we did Okay, that was Thursday. Friday, we did beaches and cream for dinner. Okay and originally we were gonna eat lunch at sci-fi dinner like diner. Yes, lunch at sci-fi diner and then do like we were just gonna do counter service dinner and then dessert at beaches and cream and we ended up not doing that, we ended up just doing beaches and cream.
Speaker 2:for dinner I was able to do a walk-up, a Walk-up wait list. A walk-up wait list, that's great, which got us in at six o'clock and the people at the front, you know, they were like you may have to sit at the countertop and I was like that's fine, that's fine. But they fixed the whole Cancelation thing for me, which was really nice. They got a set of two person table Her and I both got burgers, which was fine, and then we got a milkshake to split. That was a cute restaurant. It was a cute restaurant. Um, I love that whole place.
Speaker 1:It's adorable, it's yeah.
Speaker 2:I will say the menu is not big, there's not a lot of options, so Go in with the intention of like a burger or a chicken club sandwich or something like that. It's not a big restaurant.
Speaker 3:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:So it is small. So they are trying to get you in and out of it. You know they have the jukebox, mm-hmm. So one family ordered two kitchen sinks yes, and I'm pretty sure they sent one back. Oh my gosh. So the kitchen sink is this Bull. I mean it looks like the size of what you would consider like a, like a prep sink. Yes, you know, I'm talking about like the little bar prep sinks that you can have, or a sink that you could have it Like you're a wet bar. Mm-hmm, it is like the size of that and in it it is full of ice cream, cool whip brownies, cookies, everything that you can think of. Laurie and I got the milk shake in the souvenir cup and it was vanilla ice cream with a cupcake on top.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm and then there was sprinkles and icing on it. I Mean, I've had better ice cream at Disney.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm but it was cute, it was cute, it was cute. Yeah, when we were there we saw people get the kitchen sink and they do a mini sink. If you're doing to go, okay, beaches and cream to go, but if you're inside you have the big sink and it's like a presentation, it's a whole thing. So the kitchen sink it serves for it's $36. It scoops of vanilla, chocolate, strawberry cookies and cream and mint chocolate chip also it says it serves for.
Speaker 2:I would easily Say for, and you'd still have half of it left.
Speaker 1:Yes, I have seen people post like pictures of there's five of us, there's six of us. Yeah, we still can't finish. Yeah, it has hot fudge, peanut butter, snickers pieces, brownie, every other topping that you want, and it's ridiculously big. It's huge and even the mini sink that we saw people get outside was big and it is they.
Speaker 2:So they like turn on these siren lights, mm-hmm, and they come out and they there's like a whole presentation. It's so cute. It was really the bathroom situation. So there is no bathroom inside the facility. You have to use the pool bathroom. Yes, for the yeah club beach club pool, which was fine. But when Lorraine had to go to the bathroom, I couldn't send her by herself. I had to walk with her and it was just the two of us, yeah, so keep that in mind. If, if you're a Parent and you're going alone with just your children and you're not comfortable sending them to walk outside the facility to go to a bathroom that's probably a hundred yards away, right, please keep that in mind. That was a. You would need to take your whole, you would need to take the whole crew with you, right, bathroom. So, but it was great. I mean it was great, it was cute. The beach club yacht club was great and cute. So it was I. I loved it. Our food experience in Disney on this trip. So I actually brought Bread, peanut butter and jelly.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm you know, it's like I'm just gonna make sandwiches every morning. I put it in a rubber main container stuck at my backpack and we just kind of nibbled on that and snacks Every day, which was now. I just had it as an option, right, which I was kind of shocked that we ended up doing that. I thought that she would want to eat more Disney food, but she didn't, which was fine. So, like I said, for Thursday night we did the Woody's whatever. Saturday night beaches and cream and we were stuffed.
Speaker 1:Stuffed After Beaches and Cream. Yes, yeah.
Speaker 2:So I mean the burger.
Speaker 1:They were round up rodeo.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we were stuffed. So that was Friday night and then Saturday night, our last night there. We just did the Contempo Cafe, okay and I we did the train around the Magic Kingdom. So we came from the Magic Kingdom and our schedule was very interesting. I'll talk about that in a second. But we took the train around the Magic Kingdom. I ordered when we were at Tron, going under the Tron part of the train, and then by the time we got on the monorail to the Magic Kingdom I could check in.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:And that was. I mean. I think we waited for five or six minutes and we took it to the. We could have sat there and ate at the Contempo Cafe. I got a flat, we both got flatbread pizzas and they were really good.
Speaker 1:I love Contempo Cafe. It's one of my favorite counter service restaurants.
Speaker 2:I was shocked the pizza was. It was really good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I really I will go there on out of my way just to go for their counter service because it's it's a little quieter. There's not a lot of people there. If you want to break and you want to have like a good meal, that's counter service and it's not like the fuss of having a server and everything. Go there. You know, take the monorail, chill out for a little bit. There's a lot of good places in the main tower of the contemporary to just chill out. You can eat there and then just hang out and take a breather. But I really like the Contempo Cafe.
Speaker 2:That's what I was going to say. It is. It is in the main area of the contemporary, which is nice.
Speaker 2:So, if you were to take the monorail over. You're right there when you get off the monorail, it is. It is right there. I was trying to see Okay, cool, thanks, disney, I was trying to see that. So our schedule on this trip was very interesting. Okay, thursday we went. I think we got there around 113012. We went straight to Hollywood Studios. We did all of Hollywood Studios and we let you be shocked to know, you would be shocked to know, that Rise of the Resistance was down, obviously, but after dinner it was back up.
Speaker 3:So we were able to do that.
Speaker 2:So we did pretty much everything. My daughter went to she wanted to go on Tower of Terror and I was like whatever.
Speaker 1:Jerk, I didn't even prep her for that. I didn't even like pay her $5 to do that. No one. She just did it on her own.
Speaker 2:She wanted to do it and I will send you can post the pictures of her. I mean, she was like we're doing it and I was like that's fine, we're fine, so we get that. We had a fast pass for our lightning lane for it. We have a lightning lane for it, we go in. She. And I told her I was like, just so, you know there's a chicken line. And I will say, as a parent, I will like I frequent it. Yes, and I know there's a chicken line, I know where you can get on it. Don't even worry about it. But as a parent, I was like if you want to do this, I'm obviously here to support you. I hate that this is the journey you want to be on, but I'm obviously here to support you.
Speaker 2:She gets in and we we make it through the line. And I told her I was like we're going to get in there and it's going to look, but it's fake spider webs, you know whatever. And she's like this is spooky. And I was like it is. We get in the line to go into the movie room and we are the first people in front of the doors and that if we were the last people, I think she would have made it to the movie room. We were not. We were the first people. A group comes in and they were talking about how scary it was and she was like Mom, can we get the chicken line now? And I was like do you want to make it through the movie? If you want to make it through the movie, like, that's fine. She was like no, and I was like good, done, bye, let's go.
Speaker 1:Great, so we what?
Speaker 2:I prayed for Peace down in there and then we went back to. I think we did a few other things in Hollywood studios and then we went back to the hotel. I think we got to the hotel around eight or nine o'clock, went to bed and then the next day we did animal kingdom that morning. Okay, lunch, Like I said, we just had our PB and J's. We came back to the hotel, went back to the resort and went to the pool and then lightning struck and so we had to take a break from that.
Speaker 2:And then that's when I was like let's just go ahead and go over to the beach yacht club or whatever and let's see if we can get on the menu for earlier or get on the board for earlier. So we took the monorail to take in transportation. Nope, yep, how do we do that? No, we took a bus. We walked over to the Magic Kingdom, took the bus over to Beach Club Yacht Club, was able to get in, do dinner over there, took the bus back, went straight to the Magic Kingdom, did a few rides at night, did the fireworks and then left.
Speaker 1:You did the fireworks in the park In the park. Wow, I'm really impressed with you. I know.
Speaker 2:So we did. Let's see what did we do. I think we got to Magic Kingdom around. Dinner was at. We were done with dinner and on the bus Dinner was at six. We were on the bus ready to go back before seven o'clock.
Speaker 3:Wow.
Speaker 2:So that was nice. But we also got to the Beach Yacht Club at five something so we kind of wandered so we had an hour to kill there. Anyway, went back, went straight to Magic Kingdom and we did Tron, we did Mine Train and we did Dumbo. There was no one there, wow.
Speaker 1:I know I mean, attendance has been super low this summer.
Speaker 2:I am also saying I'm going to tell you, I'm going to tell you the rest of, I'm going to tell you the rest of our schedule, and then I'm going to say something else. So no, so then we did the fireworks. That was great, everything was fine, went back to the hotel, went to bed, whatever. The next day we woke up, we did Epcot and we did Guardians, figment, ratatouille, and we didn't even like we went.
Speaker 2:She wanted to walk through Japan, so we kind of went back that way and then we walked back like we didn't even walk all the way around the world and we ended at Guardians and then we left. That was all she wanted to do. So then we chilled at the hotel for a hot minute and then we went to Magic Kingdom, did the rest of Magic Kingdom, we were done, and then that's when we did pick up dinner at Contempo Cafe and then spent the rest of the day. Then evening at the pool at the contemporary was fine. So what I was gonna say to you is we have always done like Magic Kingdom, full day of Magic Kingdom. I am not opposed to just an afternoon at the Magic Kingdom.
Speaker 2:When I tell you no one was there the wait times. I should have screen shot at that. The wait times for Seven Dwarfs Mind Train was like 25 minutes.
Speaker 1:That's incredible, it was unheard of. I mean, in the Wall Street Journal Bob Iger got interviewed and he said July 4th this year is the lowest attendance they've ever had on July 4th ever. And he kind of blamed. You know he, I mean, Did he blame politics? I know there's a lot of controversy, I guess, or commentary on his thoughts on everything, but he was saying well, after COVID, well, Disney World was one of the only things that were open, one of the only places were open to go.
Speaker 1:So revenge travel kind of happened right after COVID when people could leave their house and do vacations. Well, their options were very limited. And so he's saying they all picked to go to Walt Disney World and now people have done those vacations over the last couple of years. So now that's why it's down. And he blamed the heat. He said you know, it was very hot that day. I mean I will agree that this summer, living in Florida, and especially being, I mean, more inland, like we're a little bit, we live close to the river, close to the beach, Kissimmee, Lake, Buena Vista is in the middle of the state.
Speaker 1:This has been one of the hottest summers I can remember. It is very, very hot.
Speaker 2:This is like the epitome of an El Nino year. I remember I was in fourth grade yes, the last time there were when there was El Nino and we actually were studying whether and I remember vividly remember how hot it was. In learning about why it's hot, it is a normal, it is a natural progression for El Nino, La Nina, but and it goes back to our winners we didn't have a cold winter and so there was nothing to kill, to kill all the stuff off, and so we are in the middle of an El Nino year. I think we're on year like three of El Nino which is typically when it rains up.
Speaker 1:It doesn't rain on any of that.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh. And we also had to pay attention to the weather, significantly, because we had horses and so we had. I mean, we constantly had to pay attention to these things. But all of that to say yes, it has been a very hot year, but I do think people are finding other places to travel.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I mean, nobody knew when they, when they would have been planning a summer vacation at the end of fall last year, beginning of the new year, they didn't know how hot it was gonna be this summer.
Speaker 3:That's not, why? No, it's not.
Speaker 1:Attendance is down. It's not. People plan their summer vacations well in advance, so they just didn't plan to go to Disney this summer for whatever reason.
Speaker 2:I mean, people are traveling to Europe, european travels up, so I do think that it just is what it, but there was no one there in the evening time, which was nice.
Speaker 1:It's nice there's people that I know who they sleep in. Take it easy in the mornings for their vacations at Disney and we'll do the pool, eat lunch and then they go into the parks. I get it because they miss the morning rush they miss the.
Speaker 2:there is a morning rush crowd, that goes, so I. And then Sunday we did Topolina's Terrace, which was so nice. I love Topolina's Terrace.
Speaker 2:I'm so glad that we did it. Laura Ann was like I can't figure out her thing on the characters. She like loved it, but she also was like I'm nine, yes, like I don't know. I feel like if Sydney was there with her she would have loved it, right, right so, but the food was great, okay. So if you have to pick between Chef Mickey's and Topolina's Terrace, 1,000% Topolina's Terrace Wow, no question about it. I think I got the quiche, she got the waffles. I mean, from a parent standpoint, the food is better at Topolina's Terrace, yes, oh, 100%, yeah, yeah, so anyway, that is my food.
Speaker 2:Oh, and Topolina's Terrace is only character breakfast in the morning, it's not a character dinner.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:But you ate at four lunch, so you ate like a late breakfast. Yeah, I think that our I think a reservation was like a 10 o'clock.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's smart.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it was really nice I. The trip was fun, the food was great. Just next time we'll stay at the Riviera. Yeah, scott's staying at the Langham.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Staying at the Riviera.
Speaker 1:Yes, All right, that's it. That's it for this week's episode of the TQ Room Girls Trip this summer. Yeah, next week we're going to talk about I went also around the same time. I did not go to the parks, but we'll give you that review next week. But I love, I think you should do it every summer with Lorian.
Speaker 2:I did. I asked her. I was like, where do you want to go next year when the boys go wherever? And she was probably here. I was like, hi guys.
Speaker 1:I know I love that. I do too. All right, thanks, we'll see you next time. Bye, bye. Slider.