Tales of a Disneyphile: January 24, 2011

Well, here I am, all settled into the Disney routine. We (my mom and I) are staying at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge - Kidani Village, and it's absolutely beautiful. I'm doing something similar to AJ's Disney Food Blog (which is amazing, by the way. If you don't follow it, you should, and soon), where I take pictures of food and talk about it.

I'm also going to post pictures of the traditional landmarks, and just anything about Disney.

Monday we had a bit of a rough start to the trip, but all was well once we got on the Disney's Magical Express and got to the room. We ate at the Mara in the Jumbo House before heading off to the Magic Kingdom for their late night. We both had the chicken, except I got mine with fries and my mom got hers with couscous.

Half chicken with fries

Half chicken with couscous and tomato sauce with veggies

This was one of the downsides to eating at Disney. Both of our chickens were bland, like it needed some seasoning. The standard fries were of Disney caliber, and, to quote my mom, the couscous and sauce was "decent".

Chicken without the skin, oh my!

For dessert we had Zebra Domes. These are God's gift to mankind, I'm telling you. Amazing, simply amazing. And to make everything better, you get five to a container.

Zebra Domes

Zebra Dome cross section

After watching the Main Street Electrical Parade and doing a couple of things in Tomorrowland, we ate at Cosmic Ray's Starlight Cafe, which happens to be one of my favorite quick-service restaurants in the Magic Kingdom. I had the bacon cheeseburger while my mom had the guacamole and bacon cheeseburger. We were going to get the sugar-free brownies, but when we got our food, we were told that they were out of all the desserts, and we got chocolate chip cookies and apple slices instead. Lesson: never go to eat dinner if you want a good dessert during the late night. Cosmic Ray's runs out of things fast. Also, forgive the fact that my mom can scarf down half of a burger in about the time it took me to dig my camera out of my bag.