Tag: disneyworld
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Disneyworld…the ultimate Americana experience
We now have a third child (a temporary one, before you all get too excited about the news). Yinan is an exchange student from Beijing going to our kids’ school, and she is staying with us for the school year. She is a lovely person, and my only concern about her is how she could…
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Be Our Guest restaurant (Disneyworld)
One of the newest restaurants in the Magic Kingdom in Disneyworld is the Be Our Guest restaurant, located in the Beast’s castle in the new part of Fantasyland. We were lucky enough to get a dinner reservation due to a cancellation when we were last there in March. Dinner was quite the spectacular evening. To…
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Disney Half-Marathon & 5K
Jim and I have been training to run a half-marathon since June. (I haven’t wanted to mention it because I didn’t want to jinx us.) We chose the Disney Wine and Dine Half-Marathon which was held at Disneyworld this past weekend on the theory that if we were really going to run a half-marathon, what…
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Birthday Dinner at Disneyworld
We celebrated our son’s birthday dinner at Disneyworld at a restaurant called Citrico’s in the Grand Floridian hotel. It’s pretty casual, as most Disney restaurants are, but the food is surprisingly good. With five reasonably sophisticated eaters, there were a lot of fun choices. Dinner started with an amuse bouche from the chef of venison…
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Beijing & Hong Kong 2012
We had a fabulous trip to Beijing and Hong Kong! In Beijing, we finally got a chance to see the renovated National Museum. Jim and I had last seen it in 1987, and the museum now has more than 5,000 square feet of exhibit space. The Chinese government had hoped to have it open in…
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Victoria & Albert’s, Grand Floridian, Disneyworld
As I mentioned in my previous post, there is just something richly amusing about the fact that the highest rated restaurant in Florida is located in Disneyworld. (Perhaps it’s picturing the reaction of all those folks who turn their noses up at the thought of visiting The Happiest Place on Earth. I once had a…
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Disneyworld in March
The kids had a 3 day weekend (with Friday off) this past week, so we hopped on a plane Thursday night to go to <drum roll, please> Disneyworld!! (I know this comes as an immense surprise.) This trip was very different than most of the previous trips that we have made. The kids really wanted…