Happy Birthday Marilyn!

Today is my sister's birthday. We are celebrating by spending a few days at The Happiest Place on Earth. We started the day at The Magic Kingdom, because on your birthday, you can get in free or get a gift card if you already have a multi-day ticket. Marilyn got the gift card. We were there in time to see Mickey and the gang open the park which was a lot of fun.

After walking around the park and riding nothing because either the ride wasn't open, or being refurbished, or it was too hot for too old women to stand in line, we went back to the hotel and sat by the pool. All of the above activities were time fillers until the real entertainment - dinner at Victoria and Albert's.

Now for those of you who could care less, Victoria and Albert's is the fancy-schmancy restaurant at Disney World. Since our usual meal of choice is a burger at Pecos Bill's, we knew we were over-stretching ourselves. But we like a challenge, so we reserved a table, and off we went for a 5:30 dinner.

We were smart enough to wear our finest stretchy clothes, because this is a seven course meal. We arrived on time, checked in, and soon were escorted and seated at our table. Soon Bill and Beth (our serving team) came and introduced themselves. We were given our personalized menus to pick our choices for each course, and the fun began.

We had decided to drink only water with our meal, and it seemed like as soon as we had a sip, the B's were there to fill-er-up again. Good think we decided against the wine pairing - we would have been drunk before the third course. I would describe each course in detail, but I will give you the basics: each chosen menu item had a really long name and lots of little food items in it. All the little food items were arranged in a pattern or on top of each other or glued together with some other food item. There were purple potatoes and miniature other food items. There was little bites of meat items and a plate of cheeses of the world and then there was dessert. Which I would describe except I was going into a food coma at that point and the coffee still hadn't percolated. Or steamed, or whatever the heck the coffee contraption was supposed to do.

Anyhow, eventually Beth brought the bill, which signaled the end of our culinary experience. It was all very delicious and we took our personalized menus, our long-stemmed roses, and our even larger derrieres back to our room. It was a great experience for two sisters on a vacation.


I'm just hoping I can get Marilyn up for her 5-hour spa appointment tomorrow!