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29. Rating Sit Down Dining at Animal Kingdom · Sisters, Sisters: A Mouselets Podcast

• M1: Welcome back to another episode of Sister Sisters. ⁓ M2: Hello everybody, welcome back. M1: Today is the definition of the sun is shining, the tank is clean. M2: tank is clean. The sun is shining, the tank is clean. The fact that tomorrow is going to be raining and dirty something doesn't suit my fancy, as we say. M1: If you are not from the northeast, we just had like a fall spring where the last two days were like 70 degrees, so sunny, so beautiful. It was like actually amazing. I literally was like, ⁓ right, I forgot that I have like seasonal depression. M2: ⁓ I forgot that like it's aim. was like, ⁓ my god. Wait, this is so like I feel like me again I was like playing music either windows down when I was driving home and I was like my commute's not that bad like this is what life is about I'm tomorrow wake up with the trenches at 5 a.m. Tomorrow pitch black freezing rain is standing at the train station having to have an umbrella like ⁓ my god M1: rain rain yeah Okay, I two things to share today. The first is, for those of you watching on video, can you see all my pins behind me? I have finally embarked on doing my pins. I forget if I talked about it on the main episode or on the Patreon sitting on the ground talking, but I recently realized that I had like three years worth of pins that I'd been throwing into a basket and had never organized. Mouseletune and I love organizing our pins. So I'm laying all my pins out so they can organize them into my like pin boards. M2: I didn't even notice those, but yeah, we can. M1: which we get from our friends, Gopin Pro, if you're looking for one, we use like their binder things, but I'm so excited. So that's my first thing to share. Thoughts? You're muted. M2: What's your second? M1: My second thing is a weird interaction I had today. So Mouselet C and I are at the store with the Miklet and it was, I needed to change the Miklet sniper. This was gonna be my first time using it. M2: I was gonna say, have you changed his paper in public yet? M1: Not in like a public restroom, no, no. So this is gonna be the first time, okay, but I was like, it's fine. This is a store that we go to frequently. I know it well. And they have like a a ⁓ target, yes. M2: That store has a bathroom? ⁓ okay. That's not like a store. That's like a big chonk. M1: Okay, like a store. No. So I needed to... M2: You should have just said target. You're being, I thought it was like a boutique near you. This store has a family bathroom. Target has a bathroom. Okay. All right. I think everyone's on the same page as me. Go. M1: So I wanted to use, I was like walked over and I realized they had a family restroom. So I was like, ⁓ perfect. I was like, I'll just use that. And there is a older woman standing like, happening to stand right there who works at the store. And she does not speak English. She is Hispanic and she seems to only speak Spanish. But she and I, she's like being like, she sees the baby and she's like, ⁓ he's crying. And she's like, ⁓ this one pointing to the family restroom. So I was like, ⁓ yeah, perfect, thank you. So she opens the door for me, right? M2: Restroom. M1: It's just like one room to walk in. So I go in and I go to the change table and she's standing in the door holding it open and I say, thank you. And no, she stands there the whole entire time watching me change the baby, sort of babbling, I guess maybe to the baby, I'm not sure. Again, she did not seem to speak English so I couldn't understand what she was saying, but she literally stood in there with me the whole entire time. And Mouselessy didn't really think that that was weird. And I was like, it was extremely weird. didn't, I mean, she was obviously just trying to be helpful and nice, but like, M2: She in with. M1: Why are you in the bathroom with me? Also, I needed to use the bathroom and I couldn't because she was in the bathroom with me. And it was like my first time changing the... I know a diaper and it was like my first time and I was like a little fumbly and she's like in there with me. M2: That's kind of weird in general, like you're changing like a diaper. Here's something, because I practice my French every single day and I'm like, you know, I'm learning French. I think I'm pretty solid at my French at this point. I'm like, God, I wish I knew Spanish. It's like after I finally get my French down, I'm learning Spanish next. It's actually ridiculous in my industry too. Spanish is such a popular language. Like I should be able to at least have a basic conversation as should you. M1: ⁓ my gosh, wait, so funny. Where was I the other day? ⁓ we were at a Dunkin' Donuts ⁓ and we were getting some coffee and donuts for some people who were working on our house. And the man working at Dunkin' Donuts hands Mouse, see, after giving him all these things, the box of Joe, the donuts, he hands him a little coffee cup, but we hadn't ordered anything else. And he says a word in Spanish. And I was like, I had no idea what this guy had just handed him. So after we left, I was like, M2: Up cut. M1: ⁓ my gosh, so random, like what did that guy give you? And also see was like cream. And I was like, how did you know it was cream? He was like, because he said the word for cream in Spanish. I was like, since when do you know the word for cream in Spanish? And he was like, ⁓ everybody near me, like where I grew up, like, you know, obviously basic words in Spanish. And I was like, I'm sorry, what? The word for cream in Spanish? M2: What is the word for Cree? I don't even know the word for cream in French. I know milk Okay, I accidentally just googled cream French Bulldog M1: Well, is it it creme in French? M2: Crab yeah cream in Spanish crema M1: Okay. What is it in Spanish? No, it wasn't that word. What's milk in Spanish? It started with an L. What's milk? Guys, maybe it was that. Okay, but like, okay, but I mean, this man just like said, I don't know. I don't know what else to was like, obviously. M2: I don't know. Leche? Dolce de leche? mean, I could have probably come. My Spanish is from sixth grade with senior Maraldo. I can say, yeah, hola, como estas? Hola, como estas? M1: Senor Meraldo, yep. Senor Meraldo, are you here? Sound off in the comments. Muy bien, gracias. ⁓ M2: You too? I see, I see. Donde esta el bibliotech? M1: ⁓ I couldn't even do that much anymore. I don't remember. M2: Puedo your albano. I need to use the bathroom. I got some basics. I do really want to learn Spanish. think it's... M1: I should have said, ⁓ my God, should have said, Puedo y Robaño to the woman standing in the bathroom with me to say, I need to use the bathroom. M2: Okay, one more. I'm sorry. One more story guys. And then my promise will drop everything else we're going to talk about and we'll get into it. We'll push Tinkerbell to next week. ⁓ we were me and my mouse today are rewatching Glee and, ⁓ what they say, ⁓ I would have the French subtitles on. And they said on Sant, but they were talking about being pregnant. And I was remembering that like we specifically learned that word because like, you don't know the word pregnant in French because we had to say it multiple times, especially at Disneyland Paris. It's one of those weird words. M1: you Hahaha! Yes, we did. Okay, before we move on, I do think we should quickly talk about you booking dining because it's timely. M2: ⁓ yes. My trip is coming up in two weeks. So today I log on to book dining, obviously. Okay. Not almost nothing I want is available. James. M1: Guys, because it's typically it's well within the 30 day window. Everybody else booked it ages ago. M2: I was like, yes. Well, Mouseladay has been being like, please, give me book dining. And I was like, you can book dining. She's like, I don't know how. was like, honestly, that's probably for the best. don't want her. M1: And she said, and I was on the phone and she did say, ⁓ can you show me how so I can do it? And you said. M2: I'm gonna keep the control. I don't want her booking things like this just it's too much. So I booked us prime time Who I booked us prime time for Thursday. We're on Friday We're doing the festival food Saturday She wants to do a sit-down animal kingdom hence the topic of today's episode But I've been trying to get a Cinderella's table, which I think would be really fun. So you We'll see. Okay, wait one more question. How many days out do you book dining? If we want to book for like if you come on the May trip how many days? M1: 30 maybe? Is it 30? Is it 60? Guys, we don't know because we've never done it. We booked- M2: I thought it was 60 or 180. When can you book Disney dining reservations? It's 60. I was right. You threw me off. M1: Are you kidding? It's 60? Well, we could be booking for the... We already missed the window for the May trip. Literally. Well... Guys. Okay. M2: No, we didn't. ⁓ dang it. We did. Shoot. Shoot. Okay. News, late news week. M1: They're light news week. And so we figured that we would talk a little bit about the Disney Adventure ship, which is a very interesting ship. If you're not familiar with Disney Cruise Line, like you might, you probably don't know this, but the Disney Adventure is a ship that was originally being built by a different cruise line company. I don't know who that cruise line company went bankrupt. And so Disney bought the ship and basically was like, ⁓ my gosh, we can take this ship. you know retrofit it into be to being Disney and will like save money rather than building an entirely new cruise ship. That like didn't end up being the case. They spent like a bill literally a billion dollars or something outrageous. I can't be a billion. Yeah. M2: It was already ordered by Dream Cruises brand in 2016. They were getting construction in 2018. Holy crap. M1: Yes, it can't be a billion dollars, that sounds way too high, but they they spent a lot more than they planned to and so something very interesting though because they did this, all other Disney cruise line ships are set up in a very specific way. You walk into an atrium, there's like these various you know things off of the atrium but it doesn't really look like a traditional cruise ship if you're familiar with like a Royal Caribbean ship. Me too. ⁓ my god it was in the billions and that's actually M2: Which I love, which I love. Okay, the cost was 1.8 billion. That's the same cost as Epcot in 1982. They purchased it for 40 million. M1: That is insane. Okay, I mean, I just at the end of the day, I don't think they saved that much money. But so anyways, as I was saying, because this was a ship originally built for a different traditional cruise line, it's completely different than every other Disney ship. It has a lot more outdoor spaces. It has ⁓ rooms that face the inside like an esplanade. Yeah, it's. M2: Like a big, which I hate. I don't like that. It doesn't feel like, I mean, just be clear. This, this ship is almost exclusively going to be sailing in Asia, ⁓ out of like Singapore and that area. So it's, it wouldn't come over to the United States for a very long time. Everything built on it. They've set the San Francisco area. They've lucky cat cafe. They have a giant like presence of Duffy. Those characters like, which I guess they could swap out, but it's definitely it's geared towards that. ⁓ the like international Asian park. audience. M1: And something that I learned is that ⁓ in Singapore, leaving out of Singapore, you don't stop at any ports. That's like how cruises work out of Singapore. The point is that you're just on the ship. You don't go anywhere. And so this ship has rides on it. Unlike any other Disney ship, it has like a spinner ride. It has a Marvel like roller coaster thing. And I think there's one other alien ride, like a Toy Story ride. But it's cause the point is that you're just on the ship the whole time. You don't actually go anywhere. I don't really see the ship ever coming to the US. I think it's probably always gonna be out of Asia. M2: It like I think if it did, it would be like it would go to California once and go back or something like rare opportunity. It's definitely just like designed for this. And they said about it like Disney shareholder meetings and things that like there is a large pop Singapore specifically like they did all of these studies. There is the desire for experiences like this. just different than something the US would have. But yeah, very, very interesting. That's kind of the only news. Honestly, this has been like a slow news week. There's really like the next good piece of news guys was like that the Mary Poppins fountain in the DVC Villa's lobby at the Grand Floridian is being redone. M1: So hot news for you there, but we're gonna move right on along and get into our main topic, which is rating our favorite animal kingdom sit down meals. M2: And I need to give some context to this because Mouselet1 even asked me like, why are we starting with Animal Kingdom? I did a poll on Instagram and I also asked it on Patreon. And I would say 50 to 75 % of the people have never eaten at a sit down restaurant at Animal Kingdom. And I think that like no one can say that maybe Magic Kingdom also people might say that, like that is kind of rare. Most people have done a sit down meal at every park. And there's also three sit down restaurants at Animal Kingdom Lodge. And so I thought, This is the perfect time to talk about these because honestly, they're really, really good. They're so underrated and people don't know about them. M1: Yeah, and it also made me realize like I'd never thought about the fact that Animal Kingdom only has three sit down restaurants. Obviously Epcot has like I actually cannot even count how many sit down restaurants because of the World Showcase. But Hollywood has probably like five or six and Magic has probably five or six. Three is really, really low. Myelostle 2 is counting and so I'm sort of vamping here, but three is very low. So I will run through what we have. We have Tiffins, which is a signature. ⁓ M2: Like 25, flat up. M1: Tiffins, which is a signature dining restaurant at Animal Kingdom. Tusker House, which is, I know character dining for breakfast. Is it also character dining for, I think it's character dining all day. And then Yak and Yeti, which is like a TGA Fridays, we'll get there. And then at ⁓ Animal Kingdom Lodge, there is Jiko, Sanaa, and Boma, which honestly is actually kind of a lot of sit down restaurants for one resort. Yeah. M2: character dining. Yeah, we did lunch there too. Well, there's like two sides, but so how we're gonna do it is we're gonna give ratings of what like basically we would rate these restaurants on like a scale of one through 10. We'll talk a little bit about them, our experience there, who should go there and everyone listening, next time you go to Disney, give one of these spots a chance because honestly, there are some really good spots. They're so underrated and a lot of these do tend to have decent availability. As someone who just looked at booking Animal Kingdom restaurants, Two weeks out, everything was available. So the monkey wasn't available. Can we add that as a bit? M1: And Animal Kingdom, people always say is more of like, people always say Animal Kingdom is more of a half day park and you know, whatever, you can debate that. But this is like a good thing to do to fill time at Animal Kingdom in a very valuable way because again, these restaurants are for the most part, very, very good. So we are going to start with Tiffins. This is a signature dining restaurant. It is over near the walkway into Pandora. On the right side, if you've ever been to Nomad Lounge, which is kind of like, we're not gonna include that one here, because it's a lounge, it's not a sit down restaurant, but Tiffins is the restaurant attached to Nomad Lounge, and it's that top tier of Disney restaurants. M2: Disney describes it as set off on a culinary expedition of international cuisine at this restaurant inspired by exploration and adventure. It's African Asian and Latin ⁓ food. That's kind of how they describe it. And then there's, it's kind of a cool, a kind of a cool theme because it's all about travelers and traveling. Nomad Lounge is the same way. And so they have things that are inspired from different places across the world. They've all of these touches of basically traveler things. I think the thing they're most famous for is their bread service. It's so good. That's like, that's a must. The bread service is like eight different dips, whatever, six to 10 different dips. And then these different types of bread, they're like small little dishes of the different dips and they are so good. If you go to Tiffin's, you have to get the bread service. It is like a spectacular. M1: It's so good. I think Tiffins has fewer dips actually and Sanaa has more. There's bread service at both Tiffins and Sanaa. I think Tiffins maybe has three dips and three breads. I remember that from last time. And then I think Sanaa, okay. Yeah, Sanaa has more, but it's known for their bread service, which is like an appetizer type thing. But I always get the short rib. It's so, so good. It's like one of my favorite meals at Disney. Again, it's a signature restaurant. M2: That's it. Okay, that kind of makes sense. No, you're right. It does have three. I was just at Sunna, that's why. M1: So you're getting like, you know, chef quality, like menu and food, like very curated, very good. Something that I do like about this restaurant though, despite it being a signature restaurant, which yes, means it's going to have like a higher price tag. It really doesn't have that kind of like stuffy feel where you're like, shoot, I really should be dressed up for this or something. Like I feel totally fine being in there on a park day and just having like a delicious meal, but it's not like you're eating in, I don't know, somewhere at the Grand Floridian and you're like, ⁓ I should kind of eat. M2: Yeah, agreed. Yeah, it does. It like casual. think the wait staff there is spectacular. I feel like that's the like the thing I always feel like our waiters or waitresses there are amazing. I usually get the North African tofu. I'm a vegetarian. ⁓ They tend to sort of change it out, but that's been out there for a while. But honestly, every single thing there is so good, like whatever they had for the vegetarian option I would get. It is good if you're looking for something. Well, one, if you have a little bit more of a diverse palette. I mean, also when you eat there and you don't really, but M1: Yeah. M2: It's probably right on the cusp of some of the things you're interested in, which is probably why some of the Animal Kingdom Lodge restaurants are not your favorite, but it is so, so, so good. It is such elevated food, I think compared to some of the other signature places, it's more affordable. It's still, there's a price tag to it, ⁓ but it's something very, very different. I would say if you have kids, there's probably better things on the list that we'll talk about that might be better. I think kids can absolutely go there, but there's probably places that are a little bit better suited for. for kids. M1: And yeah, a signature restaurant in general often has a more limited menu. You know, it's a menu of like eight very curated dishes or something. It's not like super, super expensive. So it might be a little harder with kits. ⁓ Honestly, mine's like a 10. Mine's a, Tiffins, Tiffins is amazing if we are not making that clear. Tiffins is really, really good. We have eaten there. Again, it's a more expensive restaurant. We've eaten there many times because we like it so much. M2: All right, what's your rating out of 10? Mine's a 10 as well. It's a 10 out 10 for me. I was gonna bring Mouselet A there in this next trip, but she is a little bit of a pickier eater. And so I would have to make sure she liked something on that menu, but she's dying to try one of these spots. And so at the end, we're gonna have a little discussion of where we should go. M1: Wait, before we move on, the waste out there is amazing, but we had a really weird experience and I really think that we should tell the story. M2: Are you gonna tell that on the full pod? M1: Should we? M2: All right, we can. mean, everyone has a bad day. If I was a cast member, I would have bad days too. This was odd. We walk in, there's like a front desk. This is where I see people are gonna feel this is tarnishing Tiven's reputation. There's like a little front desk thing. There's a cast member there and we're kind of like standing by a desk. She's busy, that's totally fine. So we're just kind of standing there waiting. There's a couple of other parties there standing, waiting and we're just waiting for her to say. M1: because we'd already done the like check in with the person outside, get the text that your table's ready. It tells you to go, they tell you to go inside. So we went inside and yeah, we're waiting. M2: They told us to go in. Yeah. We waited there for a bit. were a couple of people. And then finally I like turned to the person next to me said, oh, is your table ready? Because like we wanted to mention it to her. We're like, oh, maybe she doesn't realize. And they were like, oh, yeah, it is. I said, oh, OK. And after a minute, I like, I kind of went up to the to the woman, the cast member, and I said, M1: standing at the hostess stand kind of like organizing menus, just kind of like making herself busy but I don't know, not necessarily doing it M2: Yeah. Like almost like she was and I said, ⁓ hi, sorry, like our tables ready and she's like, then you can go sit on the bench over there and wait. I was like, ⁓ okay, sorry. And so then like the way she says the same thing to the other like party. So we're all sitting on the benches. Okay. Waiting, waiting. Another party comes in. Okay. They're sitting there. She then starts taking menus and holding them up and ripping them in half and crinkling up and throwing them into the like a bin. I don't know, trash bin. M1: Waiting. Waiting. ripping them in half. M2: Just sitting there taking menu, ripping it, taking menu, ripping it, ignoring us. Again, remember our table is ready. Our table is ready. M1: The lobby is filling and Tivens is not like a super busy, this was like lunchtime I think. It's not a super busy restaurant oftentimes as we've sort of said. So it's not like it was like a zoo in there or anything. It was like, why are we not being seated? M2: finally another cast member comes up, there's like five families in there. This family who had just walked in. I mean, it's not his fault. He starts helping them. And I'm like... M1: This other cast member can tell that like the vibe is weird. He's like, like this woman is standing there ripping menus. There's a ton of yeah, there's she's like having a moment or something. There's a ton of people in the lobby. One of the family that we had originally spoken to was getting really upset. And so yeah, this other cast member helps us. He just sort of grabs the closest family to him to start helping someone. It turned into M2: Something's weird. She's clearly like... And then he grabs the pissed off family, which like valid. Then he goes to grab the other one. And I'm like, I had, was like, I'm sorry. Like we've been waiting for like 20 minutes. there are other, there's so many people in there who had just showed up and I'm like, and that woman wasn't doing a thing. ⁓ of course, that woman is the one who walks us into the room. M1: thing. Yeah, like this man is like, okay, okay, like she can do it. And like this woman has to. It was just okay. And I want to be clear, the waist off of Tiffin's is absolutely incredible. This woman was clearly having like something was going on with her. I mean, M2: Something was right. She should have she needed a moment and unfortunately she was sitting in front of the front desk with a bunch of people waiting to eat it was M1: Yeah. and she just couldn't perform her job function for some reason. But it was so crazy. We waited for so long in a restaurant that like is not really very crowded. Our table was supposedly ready and the woman rather than helping us rather than helping us was like ripping menus. M2: And we are trying to like not be rude. tearing menus in front of our face. were like, ⁓ still 10 out of 10. Tiffin's is amazing. Let's do Sanaa next. M1: Wow, you're really jumping out of Animal Kingdom Park. I sort of thought we'd stay within the park. M2: No, I think we should alternate back and forth. I'll give a little, I'll give an overview of Sanaa. Sanaa is at Animal Kingdom Lodge, because I just ate there, at Kadani Village. So it is at one of the kind of two Animal Kingdom Lodge resorts. They're side by side. ⁓ I'll describe it for you from what Disney says. Experience the art of African cooking with Indian flavors as exotic animals roam the sunset savanna before you. M1: Okay, so Suna is at. M2: So it's on the lowest level of Kadani, which we do our right out by the Savannah. You can see animals right outside. The first time we ate there, there was like a bird that was jumping up and down outside the window. When you eat there at nighttime and it's dark, you can't see any animals, but that's okay. It's a very cool vibe in there. ⁓ Sanaa, also famous for their bread service. Start your meal with an Indian style bread with nine accompaniments. Accompaniments. That's what they called it. They said accompaniments. accompaniments from sweet mango chutney to spicy red chili sambal. They have like these different curry dishes. And so basically what you kind of do is you get three little dishes. Usually you get like a rice dish and then these other little like dishes of some sort of curry based meal. You don't have to get that. It's really, really good. This is probably the one for like, that's the toughest for picky eaters just because it is pretty limited, but it's a lot of food and I think it is really good. M1: Okay. Yeah, so I am a, is Sanaa signature? Is it a signature restaurant, do you know? Okay. Sanaa is, this was the toughest one for me to rate, which I'll get to soon, because I recognize that Sanaa is really good food. Like the quality is really good. I can tell that it's, you know, good, but it is, this one is a menu that is too, I don't know what the proper word is, but. M2: No, no, it's not. ⁓ M1: too much for my more like limited palette. I just don't love a lot of the flavors that they have on the menu. And so it's harder for me to find something. When I ate there, there was something that I would eat, but it wasn't my favorite meal. M2: mean, Moussa A was able to eat there, but yeah, it wasn't her favorite meal, but she was able to eat there. definitely you have to honestly, you have to kind of like Indian food. It's like South Asian slash Indian with some African flair. It's like kind of a mix, but you do have to like Indian spices and things. Okay, so what's your rating? M1: Yeah, I gave it a seven. I gave it like a six or a seven. M2: Okay, I kind of went back and forth. gave it an 8.25. M1: Okay, yeah, I mean, you like the things on that menu more. And I think if you like those flavors, it's a really good option. Again, you're on the Savannah, that's really cool. The bread service is like what they're famous, famous for. Also, they now do quick service for what? Lunch? For breakfast and lunch. ⁓ you can do to go then. I was just talking to someone about this. You can do basically you can get the bread service to go is my point. And so if you're not going to eat there, you should at least try the bread service. It's very, very good. But M2: breakfast. I regular lunch. No lunches just sit down I think. $23 to do the bread service to go or just to sit there, I guess. I don't know. M1: Okay, but yeah, it's just, if you don't sort of love those types of flavors, this one really doesn't have like a particularly blander option. And so it's tough. I also think if you're going with kids, I'm sure they probably have a kid's menu, but like, it's, it's going to be flavors that maybe wouldn't really appeal to kids so much. M2: That being said, a lot of people do have, ⁓ yeah, kid entrees, fish of the day, butter chicken, cheese pizza, grilled cheese. So they have kids menu. ⁓ I really like Sanaa. I think last time I was there, I liked two of the three things. got one of the dishes I wasn't like as crazy about. It's a lot of food. I think it is really, really good. but it's no Tiffin. So that's why I was like, I knocked it down a little bit. It's, it's knocked down a little cause the Tiffin's food is better. Some of these other restaurants have better food and also M1: Okay, so they have like a standard kids menu, yeah. M2: The theming and like the vibe in there is fun, but maybe there's ones I like more than Suna. I don't love Kodani Village as much as Jumbo House. Those are the two again resorts to Animal Kingdom Lodge. Jumbo House is easier to get to. I really hate that parking garage at Kodani. It's like kind of weird. Like we had a hard time finding the restaurant and I've been there a million times. I remember we had the same, we've been there once before and we had the same thing. So overall I really like it. ⁓ I would say give it a try. If you like Indian food, absolutely go. But. Take a look at the menu because this one is gonna be one of the most like refined, you need a refined palette to eat here. All right, let's switch to one where you don't need a refined palette to eat there, Tusker House. M1: Yes. So, Tusker House is the restaurant over by Festival of the Lion King, and this is a buffet style with characters, like Mickey and friends in safari outfits. And they do breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I would say they're particularly famous for their breakfast. I feel like people are always talking about Tusker House breakfast. ⁓ But they do all the meals. We have gone there for breakfast, and then one time we thought we were going for breakfast. Oops, turns out we made a reservation. M2: ⁓ I feel like I've never heard that. M1: That was for lunchtime and so we also had a lunch there once. M2: I think we actually like got there right at the end of breakfast and it was like a transition. Yeah. M1: It was like 1050. Yeah, it was like 1050. And so lunch starts at 11. And so we did not get to eat any breakfast. What are your M2: It was actually 730 to 1030 is breakfast, 11 to 330 is lunch. ⁓ Tusker House, yeah, so it's Donald and friends. So it's Donald, Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Daisy might be there. ⁓ I love Tusker House. In fact, I wanna do an episode where we rank character dining. I think this is one of probably top three right now. M1: My gosh, wow, we feel differently about this restaurant. M2: Wow, I'm a huge Tusker House fan. think the food is great. I think the vibe is fun. I've always had great character experiences there. I love it. M1: I do think we've had really good character experiences there that's been really fun. I remember we went with Mama Mouselet and Mouselet 3 and we got like a really fun selfie with one of the characters. Like they were just very engaged with our table in a way that was super fun. You get to see them in Safari outfits. I think it's always fun when you get to see the characters in like a different, I don't know, a different look than their normal classic outfits. ⁓ The before- M2: If I was going there, I would eat. I would do a like a 10 o'clock brunch. I think that'd be my ideal time to go. I would do a brunch. M1: Yeah, the the buffet is like a combo of like classic, especially for breakfast, like classic American food. But then they also have some I'm curious what the website specifically says. But they also definitely do have some like African inspired dishes. It's in Africa in animal kingdom. M2: Munch on Mickey and Simba waffles, Bobo Thai, South African French toast Bulkas, cooked to order omelets. Lunch and dinner includes spit roasted Tandoori chicken, Berber marinated pork, green curry shrimp, Dora Watt and braised beef tahini. Tashin? Yeah, I think breakfast, we've been there for breakfast. I like the lunch too. I would personally go for breakfast. I thought that was like a hot take, but apparently everyone thinks that. M1: I would go for breakfast as well. The lunch, ⁓ the lunch was a little, I think perhaps the options were like a little again out of my flavor palette. And I just remember, I don't remember it super well, but I remember not being like obsessed with the lunch options. M2: I think for me, the lunch, was just like, yeah, I know that there's way better African food around here, basically all of these other restaurants. So I'd rather have the African delicacy type foods for lunch elsewhere, but I really liked breakfast. I really liked this for character dining. Don't go here if you wanna have the most amazing food, go here because you wanna do the character dining and then also the food is good, right? So like it's character dining. The food is never gonna be as exquisite as the other locations, but I do really like this character dining. M1: My one thing about the atmosphere is I remember it being a little chaotic, it being a little like loud and cramped. Do you remember that? No? M2: So we went there in December of 2023 with Mom and Mouselet 3, and we were sitting in that back room, and it was a little bit chaotic. Yeah, it was a little chaotic when me and you went, we were seated right by the buffet. So, but I think we had really good character experiences. ⁓ Again, go here because you want to do character dining, and the breakfast food's great. Lunch and dinner, I would go to some of the other places potentially. M1: Yes, it was that room that I'm thinking of, yeah. Yes, yeah. M2: I rated this an 8.75 as far as character dining goes. It's not about the food, right? Like, let's be clear, this is a scale. This is no Tiffins in terms of the food, but I really liked the experience so much that I considered bringing Mouse today here. M1: ⁓ my gosh, wow, you love it. I rated this as 7.5. Again, I think it's really good characters too. I find the atmosphere to be a little bit chaotic and some of the food is like not my ultimate favorite, but it's good. It's a solid character dining option, especially for breakfast. I recommend it for breakfast. M2: I do. Okay, next up we have Boma, speaking of breakfasts. Boma is my favorite restaurant at Disney property, guys. Okay, everything about Boma is perfect. Let me read you a Disney's description. It's Boma Flavors of Africa. Resembling a live African marketplace, this restaurant features all you can eat, a phase at breakfast and at dinner. So it's not open for lunch, FYI. Boma is located in Jumbo House at Animal Kingdom Lodge. Again, Jumbo House is where I like to be. It's easier to get to. We've only been there for breakfast. It is the best breakfast on property. It is literally amazing. Even dad and mom love it. And like, I don't know if this would normally be the type of food that dad would eat. ⁓ my God, it's so good. They have a mix of African delicacies, which are the best things ever. Seriously, I'm obsessed. You know I am. And then there's the tomato, there's asparagus. They also have like omelets and know, bread pudding and sticky buns. It's so good. You have to admit you love it. M1: You are, you're tomato. I love Boma. have the bread pudding and sticky buns like are really standout items that a lot of other buffets do not have. The African delicacies are very different and very good. ⁓ They're not really like a super crazy flavor palette. They're just like really good food. Basically they have a ton, a ton, a ton of options. People say that when you go to Boma, you leave in a Boma coma and it is true because like it's not a lot of breakfast. I know that people struggle to want to pay the money for because you're just kind of paying a lot of money for like eggs and bacon and like tater tots or whatever. This is worth the money because the food is so incredible. There's so many unique options. It's really, really good. We have never been for dinner. So to be clear, we're only speaking about our breakfast experience, but it is, we will make a trip all. M2: And breakfast is $39 per adult, which, sorry, I wanna say which for Disney, you just mentioned the cost, which for Disney is actually pretty affordable. Like it's worth the cost, but for Disney as a breakfast sit down, $39 is fairly affordable, honestly. M1: We'll make it. We love it so much that we will make a special trip to Animal Kingdom Lodge, which is like the most out of the way resort that there basically is, just to go to Boma for breakfast, even if it's at like seven in the morning, because it's so good. I would say I can probably guess both of our ratings. I would assume we're gonna rate both of us a 10 out of 10. Okay. It's incredible. If you wanna do a breakfast anywhere on property, as long as you don't want character dining, I would 100 % recommend Boma. M2: Mine's at a thousand out of 10, so. Yeah, it's so good. It's so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so good. And they have like the Pog juice, which they have a lot of places on property, so good. All right, final two, Yak and Yeti. Travelers can relax and replenish with a Pan-Asian feast in this beautiful Nepalese style restaurant. M1: Yakin Yeri is a It is located in Asia, like right over the bridge into Asia and you're the Feathered Friends in Flight show. ⁓ M2: It's owned by Landry's. I just like need to say that off the bat. This is one of those ones like they have an Epcot and things that's not owned by Disney. It's owned by a different by like a restaurant group that has a bunch of different restaurants and they happen to operate this restaurant in Disney. M1: And in my opinion, so there are other restaurants within Disney parks that are operated by non-Disney. Chuto Italia is one of them that I can think of off the top of my head at Epcot. But I think that for the most part, you don't really know that at other restaurants, which is good in my opinion. Like I don't really want to be knowing that it's not run by Disney. Like it doesn't really matter to me. I think that Yakin Yeti is the most egregious example of anywhere at Disney other than like Springs. M2: They own Rainforest Cafe, T-Rex Cafe, those, it's Rainforest Cafe vibes, they own Bubblegum Shrimp Co. Like, they could functionally own TGI Fridays. M1: Wow. Mousetou and I say, yeah, we say it feels like eating at a TGI Fridays. It's one of those, first of all, the menu like doesn't look like a Disney menu. It looks like a TGI Fridays menu. They, in a bad way, they have a ton, a ton, a ton, ton of options. It's again, because it's not really a Disney menu. It's like a chain menu. They have so many options, which I think is a good thing. I think that's a positive that they have like a lot, a lot, a lot of options. And it's gonna be, this is not gonna be your like incredible M2: in the worst way. Yeah. M1: chef-inspired African dishes. This is kind of like generic Asian style food. Yeah, P.F. Chang's type thing. was, the food itself was good. It was fine. I don't think we had any complaints about the food. M2: PF Change. It felt like a big heavy like Applebee's meal to me it felt like I was eating an Applebee's M1: Yeah, unfortunately for us, the vibe because literally like partially because of the menus, which sounds so stupid, but like you, but you do just feel like you're eating at a chain. You're eating at a T.J. Fridays. You're eating at an Applebee's. It does not feel like any other Disney restaurant within a Disney park to me in a way that I really don't love. M2: That sounds so dumb. at all in a bad way. It doesn't even feel like a Springs restaurant to me. It feels like you're eating at, yeah, like a TJ Fried's and Applebee's. The food was, oh, you fine for me. just like, it's just like, you know what it tastes like? It tastes like one of those restaurants that like, have you seen that stuff that like a lot of restaurants get like all, they get their mozzarella sticks from the same food chain. They like get all this stuff from the same, it feels like that. M1: It was mid, it was the definition of mid. M2: feels like there's a million places that serve this. It's just like so mass produced. I give this a four out of 10. I'm not a yet. What'd get? M1: Yeah, I also gave it a four. It's very interesting because Yakin Yeti has a big cult following of people who like love it and there's like a hack that you can do because Yakin Yeti does it not take reservations or something? No, it does. M2: cult following. You can like make it through that weird open table something, cause it's Landry's diners club or something. M1: And if you have a Landry's card, there's some like skip the line hack. So I think people really like that as like a walk-up option where you can like always get a table if you have this Landry's card. And again, like it's not bad food. You know exactly what you're gonna get when you go in. It has a very extensive menu. I can see a time and a place for it, but it just doesn't feel like a Disney restaurant. And so we were very sort of surprised by that. We did not know that going in ⁓ and clearly didn't. M2: like, here's the thing, we don't include Rainforest Cafe on this list of Animal Kingdom restaurants because it's really not. have it, you it's like, we all know what Rainforest Cafe is. I love Rainforest Cafe. If I want to go to a place owned by Landry's, I'll go to Rainforest Cafe. Like 100%. If I want to go to a place like that, I'm not going to Yakin Yeti. I'm going to Rainforest Cafe outside the park. which, you know what? That could be fun. Maybe, maybe, I'll still go there. Yeah, I, this is gonna be such a hot take. I know people love Yakin Yeti, but it really is a true four out of 10 for me. I would, and I wouldn't go back. M1: Yeah. And also we never went to Yakin Yeti growing up, so like we have no nostalgia there. I'm sure some people, like we went to Chef Mickey every year growing up. I know some people think the food at Chef Mickey is bad. I went to Chef Mickey every year growing up. Chef Mickey to me is like my favorite place ever. So I'm sure if you went to Yakin Yeti growing up, like there's nostalgia and stuff there, we'd never step foot in it. And we were just kind of surprised by, yeah, the chain feel. M2: It's just a it's a one and done. It's a one and done for me. If I never go back, I'd be fine with it. M1: And there's so many other amazing restaurants as we have outlined that it's kind of like, this one is like, ⁓ M2: Now that Mama Melrose has closed, this is my worst restaurant on property. What's yours? Yeah. We're Mama Melrose haters. Okay, our last restaurant is GECO, the cooking place, also located at Jumbo House. Vibrant spices, crackling wood-burning ovens and boutique South African wines transport you to the heart of Africa. This is a fine signature dining restaurant at, again, Disney's Jumbo House. It is true signature dining feel. ⁓ M1: Yeah, might be my, probably that. All right, our last restaurant. M2: It really feels signature dining, would you agree? M1: Yeah like this is, I think that when we went we like kind of weren't super dressed up and I think we were sort of like, ooh we're... M2: Guests are expected to dress accordingly, attire that respects the restaurant's sophisticated and upscale aesthetic. That's what it says on Disney's website. M1: Okay, obviously we were dressed appropriately within that, but I remember feeling like, ⁓ I think we went there like when we arrived or something. I don't remember. M2: It was the night before our cruise and we had dresses and stuff for the cruise, I remember being like, ⁓ I think it was like my shoes. Whereas just for reference, Tiffin's, which is also Signature Dining, doesn't have a dress code. Gico, yeah, and Gico is famous for their wines. We actually all got wine while we were there just because it's famous for it. We got an $18 glass. They have $500 glasses of wine, right? It's that type of place. ⁓ M1: No, because it's in a park. It's their thing. M2: I thought the food was absolutely spectacular. M1: Yeah, think Gico was so good. It's definitely like it's a nice, very relaxed vibe in there. They have like the wines on display. The Somalia will come around and recommend. I think even on the menu, actually, they have wines recommended based on like what you're ordering. ⁓ It's very much over their wine. I remember my food being incredible. This is again, it's at Animal Kingdom Lodge, so it's going to have that flavor palette that doesn't always super work for me. But in this case, I don't remember what I got. I want to say with some sort of beef, like a steak or something like that. M2: I'm sure you got a steak. I can't imagine you getting anything else that's not a steak. M1: But But was there a steak on the menu? I didn't look at the menu before. M2: You know what there was on the menu? Amalva pudding. M1: ⁓ your favorite. But I just remember being like this. ⁓ my God. M2: I had the best Malva pudding of my entire life at Animal Kingdom, so anything I M1: Not a pudding, a cake. You ordered Malva cake. People probably don't even know what Malva is. And you know what? Neither do I. M2: ⁓ yeah, Malva cake. They have a bone marrow crusted filet mignon or a bray New York strip served with macaroni seasonal vegetables and a chocolate red wine demi glaze. M1: Okay, I'm sorry. I'm sure I had one of those. It was delicious. It was cooked to perfection. Again, it's like, it's a chef curated restaurant. It's a really nice vibe. Like Tiffin's is so good, but you're inside of a park. And so like, you know, it feels like it. M2: traded. I feel like Tiffins is a little more like pop in, have an amazing meal, pop out. Jiko feels like come in and have an experience. It's another, it's an extra elevated level. It's like a date night, a special type of thing. You really wanna do this kind of elevated relaxing experience. You're gonna be there longer, make the most of your time there kind of vibe. M1: Yeah, like sip on a glass of wine or two, talk to the sommelier. It was very relaxed. I really enjoyed the atmosphere there. And again, the food was like so, so, so good. Definitely worth it. And I think that Gico is, I would say of these, the least talked about. People talk about bone because of the breakfast. People talk about Sanaa because of the bread service. Restaurants in the parks are always talked about more than restaurants at the resorts. M2: You grade. M1: I think Chico really flies under the radar. It was the last of all of these that we personally tried and yes, but it is really good and it is really worth it. If you're looking for something a little bit more off the beaten path, you don't want to go to like California Grill or something like that, but you want like a really delicious high end meal. M2: and it opened up late with COVID like post-COVID. Elevated meal I rated Gico at 9.5 out of 10. What'd you write? I Think it's excellent I Tiffin's for me again. It's a different vibe, right? Maybe if we're if we're talking like vibes only and you want an upscale vibe This would be a yak and yeti would be like a zero but ⁓ No, but Tiffin's for me the food wins out and just like we've we've been there more it is a little bit more affordable M1: I rated GECO a nine out of 10. M2: but Jiko is so good. And I feel like there's like a time where I would definitely go back to Jiko with like the right group. The right group was like me, you and Mouselet C because Mouselet, even Mouselet A, I don't know if I would bring her there just cause there's many other places she would like more. So. M1: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, again, you just have to really be wanting that like sit down high end experience, which I would say is very rare for us personally at Disney, which is why Tiffin's feels more, I don't know, up our alley, I guess. M2: Now here's the thing guys, and Mouseladay, Mouseladay really wants to eat somewhere at Animal Kingdom, sit down. I feel like the Lodge is like potentially fair game, but we did already eat at Sanaa. So I think we're gonna be picking between Tiffin's, Tusker House and Suck, Sucker, Yak and Yeti. I won't be eating at Yak and Yeti, unfortunately. It's just like a waste for me. I don't even wanna eat there to be honest. So between Tusker House and Tiffin's or nowhere, and I just tell her like, these might not be the right fit. This whole episode is trying to encourage you every single person all of you who's going to Disney I want you to book one of these reservations except no, I'm just kidding. Yes, you might like there's a lot of people who like Yakin Yati, but I Don't know it will Tiffins. Will she appreciate Tiffins? She's a very very very picky eater M1: What do they have in, yeah, do they have like a chicken on the menu? I know that they have, she doesn't eat fish, because I know they're also known for their fish at Tiffin's. They have like a whole fish. Okay, no, no, they have like a whole fish on a plate type thing. The short rib at Tiffin's is amazing, but she's not really a beef gal. ⁓ M2: She eats shrimp, but she doesn't eat. I wouldn't even, I mean, I don't really eat fish. ⁓ It's short rib. Isn't that pork? M1: Nope, short rib is beef. Definitely, let's see if anyone knows this restaurant, this reference. Definitely beef. Does anyone know that reference? Leave it in the comments if you do. ⁓ that's probably good. That's probably good. M2: They have a grilled definitely beef. They have shrimp and grits. Wow, that's new. That's very, that's definitely new. Wait, they took, ⁓ my God, they changed it out. The North African tofu is gone. actually this is the dinner menu. M1: What else? ⁓ what do they... Okay, well, is it different for lunch? Yeah, I was gonna say I'd be surprised. M2: Nope. Okay. North African tofu is gone. Now they have for vegetarian. Here's something interesting. Vegetarians, you guys get me. I never, I have something where like, I don't ever have to decide what I want to eat at a restaurant ever. I never have to make a decision because almost every restaurant I ever go to at Disney especially has one vegetarian option. So I say, perfect. I'm having that. I can't even imagine if I had six things I might want to eat to pick from. I would be lost. I like truly can't imagine looking at this and I'm like, there's six things here. If I had six things to choose from, I don't even know what I would do. It's just hasn't... It's a regional curry tasting. It's a tasting of South... Did I like it? Yeah. I mean, I like a curry, like... M1: What do they have now for vegetarians? Wait, you had that last time. The curry, you did, yeah, I remember. Because I, yeah, I remember because I don't like curry. And so I was like, hmm, curry. M2: It's just for me, like I go somewhere, there's one thing and I eat it. I think she would eat the shrimp and grits, so maybe I will bring her here. It's $42 and it's only 38 for the curry tasting, which is pretty affordable. M1: For a signature, for a signature restaurant, yeah. If she would eat the sherbet gets, would go there. However, because she's not a character dining gal, so she wouldn't super appreciate Tusker. M2: That's why I was like, character dining, like, and if we're gonna do Tusker House, I would rather do it like with the family, with the baby, with something like that would care. She's just not a huge character dining person, but if she liked that menu, like I wouldn't be against bringing her there, but. M1: Guys, leave your thoughts in the comments. Where should Mouselet 2 take Mouselet A? You could go to the, she go on to Boma. I feel like she hasn't. M2: Yeah. She definitely has. M1: Mmm when? I don't think she has. M2: No, we did. stayed at Animal Kingdom Lodge and we all did. We were wearing those blue Lost Bro Jumbo shirts. M1: She was not there. M2: Yeah, we were. Yes, she was. M1: Okay, ask her. I don't know, Mel Cede, you're listening right now. And I'm curious what your thought is. Okay, anyways, leave your thoughts on that in the comments. I hope that this was helpful to you. If you have any questions on any of these restaurants, message us, because we're happy to answer them. But I just, I hope that this episode implored you to consider trying one of these restaurants, because I think they're super, super underrated. like, people just don't think to eat at Sit Down at Animal Kingdom. Also, cause the tulikantine is so good. I feel like a lot of people just go there instead. Yeah, but it really is worth it. And these restaurants are better than so many other restaurants, particularly ones in the parks. Yeah. M2: Flametree, yeah. better than every single other restaurant at Magic Kingdom. Melside has eaten at Boma also confirmed for breakfast once. So, all right, next up guys, we have our special segment. So as we're getting ready to wrap it up, we have a game. And I saw this game on TikTok and it's like a game from a game show though. And it seems really fun. We did a practice round and I think it's gonna work. But if it bombs and it sucks, we'll never play it again and I'm sorry. Okay, I'm gonna have to explain. I'm gonna have to explain how to do it. So what we're gonna do, I'm gonna choose a non- a non Disney word, okay? We should just do the example that I did. Here's the example, I was gonna say the word. The word is plain, but only I would know that word. Mousel1 would not know that. I say a word, so I say if, and she says the next word of the sentence. If, are, on, vacation, you, to, M1: U going A. then. Need. take. M2: A. M1: Okay, so basically guys, where one of us doesn't know the word, we're going to take off our headphones and close our eyes when the other person tells you the word. And we are, we're having to together create this sentence that leads the person who doesn't know the word to the word. Okay, like you're going to see how it works, but should I take my headphones off first? M2: Okay, and I just need, I think some of mine are gonna be really hard and they're gonna be really long run on sentences. So take your headphones off, close your eyes. M1: Okay, I'm actually, I'm just gonna, I'm just muting. I'm muting my computer for a sec. I'm closing my eyes. I'm gonna count, I'm gonna do five, four, three, two, one. M2: Okay. I'm gonna say, can you hear me when you mute and then you shake your head yes or no. M1: Well, I won't be able to hear you. Muting! M2: Can you hear me? Okay. The word is Everest. M1: I'm returned. Okay, I'm nervous. M2: I didn't prepare a sentence, ⁓ When? M1: You. M2: Go. M1: too. M2: this. M1: Please? M2: You. M1: Need. Use. M2: to. Caution! M1: ⁓ when you go to this place you need to use caution. Okay, I'm attempting to and. M2: Keep it going. You. M1: Need. Bring. I hope she didn't like that one guys. Oh. M2: Dear? M1: with M2: you. When you go to this place, yes, I was trying to get to Yeti. I was trying to get to say you need to use caution because of the Yeti. When you go to this place, you need to use caution and use gear. M1: Everest? ⁓ Okay. ⁓ wow, interestingly, we're trying to say caution because the Eddie, was thinking railroads to me. Caution means like railroad. So it was like the railroad that I was thinking like Rafiki's. Yeah, you have to use caution on railroad tracks. No, that's what came to mind for me and luckily it led me to Everest. OK, headphones off, close your eyes. Yep. All right guys, my word is Riviera as in the Riviera resort, but the word is Riviera. OK, here she comes. M2: to be caution railroad? Why does it mean railroad? I mean, amongst many other things that you need to use caution about. Okay, I'm gonna do the same thing Ready? Okay. M1: Here she comes! Okay, ⁓ this... M2: is. M1: A, shoot, we're on the wrong. We're not synced in the way I would like us to be for the sentence. M2: Thing. M1: Poof. Okay. Wow. This is a thing. That. M2: You. M1: Stay. and M2: Also. M1: and also has. M2: some. M1: Theming. M2: like. M1: Okay, ⁓ need to think of the proper word for this, hang on. ⁓ M2: This is a place and also has some theming like. M1: Like, can't think of the word. cannot think of the word. cannot think of the word. No, no, no, I got it. Has theming. Wait, what is it? Has? M2: Let's do something else. This is a place that you stay at and also has some theming like... M1: Everyone in the car is like screaming the perfect word. know it. ⁓ France. M2: I don't think anyone is. The Riviera. Wow. Why? I feel like I was on the total right page. OK. ⁓ M1: Yes. Okay, should I mute? I'm muting and closing my eyes. M2: ⁓ yeah. Baymax. Did you hear me? ⁓ M1: I've re- no, did I hear you? What? Okay. M2: back. M1: in day could M2: The U C M1: this in M2: character. AppCard? M1: and M2: You. M1: Could. ⁓ didn't like that one? didn't like that one? I feel like we're on a roll. What? And you give... And you could give it... M2: Give we were you kind of give and you could give a M1: HUG! M2: Do you know it do we have to keep going? M1: Back in the day, you could see this character in Upquiet and you could give it a hug. I mean, nondescript. M2: All right, because. M1: it. We're really off on the cycles. I have to fill in the word now because it is a a M2: is Now put an adjective. Inflatable. M1: Back in the day, Baymax? ⁓ my God. I was thinking like back in the day, like the eighties. ⁓ M2: Yeah. ⁓ You said something weird. I was trying to say and you I said you mouse lit one love him That's what I wanted to say and you screwed it all up M1: I'm, I miss Baymax. Remember when you could meet Baymax? But we've also met him at Disneyland, yes. All right, ⁓ if you, if you do say so yourself. Okay, take them off, yep. Guys, I'm going for a hard one, okay? This is Tropical Americas, the new land coming to Animal Kingdom. M2: We only met him once, well, twice, including Disneyland. All right, that was a good one. Thank you. All right, ready? M1: Okay, she's back. This. M2: would. M1: ⁓ God, she's trying to be jazzy, guys. She's trying to be jazzy. Open. M2: No! No I'm not. This would open up. M1: this would open up. new. M2: opportunities. M1: Four. M2: Yes. M1: writing. M2: This this did open new opportunities for guests writing this M1: lands. M2: this land's attraction. M1: There you go, do you get it? Do you know? M2: This would open up opportunities for guests riding this lands attraction. Living with the land. Then why would I get it if it's not that? This would open up opportunities for guests riding this lands attraction. M1: ⁓ wait, what was the sentence? and M2: IT M1: Springs. M2: joy. I thought I had. M1: ⁓ my God. You thought you ate with that one. It brings joy to... M2: A. M1: Lover. ⁓ M2: This, what was it, this ride was, opens up new opportunities from this land's attraction and brings joy to this lover. The lovers who. M1: It brings joy to lovers. That was not the right word. That was not the right word. We're going to start a new sentence, I ⁓ brings you to lovers who M2: No lovers. It's making me think like haunted mansion. M1: Okay, but no, because you didn't understand the word lover, so now it's like a disaster. We just, no, but like in this context, you didn't pick up what I was putting down. Nope. And you're like veering off track. We need to start a new sentence. Okay. ⁓ M2: I know what the word lovers means. It's obviously a dark ride. If, M1: ⁓ you're starting the sentence. M2: Yeah, I think I started. M1: Okay, if you M2: Go to this land's attraction and open up new opportunities for lovers! M1: Hehehehehe What did you say? If you go... M2: If you go. M1: here. M2: You. M1: Well... M2: See? M1: New? haha M2: things. M1: Such? M2: as M1: and Kanto. M2: tropical Americas. This land opens up opportunities for new lovers. M1: Yes. No, that wasn't the sentence. It was, this land opens opportunities for new attract, for, for like this lands. And I wanted you to say attractions, but you said attraction. No, I was trying to say for lovers of like inconto, but you say you just cut it off at lovers and it wasn't anything to do with lovers. All right. Ready? I'm muting. M2: Who's the lover? Alright. M1: Here we go. M2: The monorail. Do I say please stand clear of the doors, guys? I don't know. M1: I've returned. M2: Start it up. M1: this. M2: is. M1: something. You. M2: that. Use. M1: Use two. M2: get. M1: A. You This is something that used to get a... M2: Ride. M1: On. M2: If M1: A ride on if you. ⁓ M2: Park. M1: This is something you use to get a ride a tram. This is something you use to get ride at. M2: No. The. M1: TTC? Monorail or ferry? Monorail? Wow. That was M2: Yes Yeah, monorail I Was gonna say I asked them before I said should I say please stand and see if you guys see if you would say stand M1: I'm Okay. I think this is gonna be hard too. This is a main street vehicle. Mouseletoe just peaked. Mouseletoe just peaked. Yeah, you forgot to count, you're just sort of lollygagging with your head back and you peaked. Okay. M2: I forgot to count. forgot to like. on. M1: Main, U. M2: Street S. M1: What? ⁓ USA ⁓ M2: Really? We're gonna go... We're gonna say USA separately? There. M1: is M2: A. M1: car. M2: The Main Street trolleys? The Main Street vehicles? All right. M1: Yeah, mainstream vehicles. To be clear, I was trying to say you as in Y-O-U, not you as in USA. M2: I have one right now that I'm changing because I was too similar to one of yours. So I am just now I have to think of a new one. OK, yeah. M1: ⁓ she's calling an audible. Okay, should I mute? Oh, too late, okay. All right, I made it. M2: Gertie. I'm proud. M1: back. this. bad when there's silence because whenever there's silence in a podcast I listen to, I think my audio cut out. M2: ⁓ you're like booing. I'm thinking it's my brain. This, I don't want to be too obvious. It's like I could give it away right now, but that's not the point, you know? M1: You could give it away in one word, after the word this. A. M2: Yep. Is. Location. M1: in M2: A M1: Park, let's hope. You. M2: Where? can. M1: me film the brain playing. See? Maybe something you can see in this location. M2: Water. M1: and M2: Ice cream. M1: Two words. Water and ice cream. A location in a park where can see water and ice cream. Gerties? Wow. Were you gonna say this dinosaur? M2: Yeah. I was gonna this dinosaur. Yep. All right. The final two, right? M1: I have two left on my list. M2: I've won. ⁓ yeah. M1: ⁓ right, because you went first. Okay. Guys, my award is Olaf. Mass to love safe. Good. M2: once. M1: ⁓ God, you love to have just these crazy starting words. It is once upon. M2: Yeah, the ones are so crazy M1: time. M2: there. M1: was. M2: Hey. M1: Snowman. M2: Near. M1: near near potato pia. Guys, Potatopia is what Mousetoo and I call the Mickey's potato land show at Hollywood Studios. Was it actually? M2: in Okay, that was my last word. Yep, potato land. M1: Wait, I said near Pochatopia and then you said what? M2: in M1: A? Yeah Olaf. No, the second I said snowman I figured you'd get it. Look who's behind me. Your favorite character, Olaf. M2: ⁓ Olaf? I was thinking the snowman over by the Christmas store near Mama Melrose. Okay, now I need to think of a new one. M1: Do you me to do my other one? Will you think of a new one? Okay, Mousselet too is going to just think of one off the top of her head because I stole Potatopia, AKA potato land. Potatopia was actually the name of a stall that sold baked potatoes in the mall near my old job. Are you ready? Muting. M2: Okay. All right, yep. Wait, I'm not ready. I changed my mind. Go back, I'm not ready. I changed my mind. M1: ⁓ my God, ⁓ my God, okay, goodbye. M2: Okay, guys, I'm gonna do something niche. The fantasy fair stage. Did you hear me? Did you hear me? M1: I'm back. I feel like I saw you say stitch at the end. M2: Okay, you're wrong, I didn't say such. M1: ⁓ it looks like you had Stitch. Okay, let me think of just a crazy starting word. ⁓ there. M2: was staged. M1: A. In. M2: Fantasyland. M1: Is this Otis M2: It's not the Otis elevators, it might be on the right track. was. M1: Is it that like scat cat stage thing? M2: Okay, yeah, that was. M1: once. M2: and M1: The. and the scat played it. M2: at was... Yeah, what's it called? M1: Am I... what? don't know, the Fantasyland stage or something? Why would I know that? No, you just sort of talk about the Otis Elevator thing all the time. Okay, my last one, mute. M2: No, the fantasy fair! I've talked about it all the time. No. M1: It is Gran Fiesta Tour. She forgot to count again. She forgot to count. Don't think that I didn't see you once again forgetting to count. I did. Okay, go ahead. M2: The. M1: boat. M2: to. M1: See, I could give it away right now, should I? M2: That's how I felt about Gertie. No. M1: the boat to. M2: There's a point of the game to get as many as fast as possible. M1: So I could, give it away right now. You know what? It's been a long episode. Mexico. M2: The boat to Mexico? The boat in Mexico? The boat to, well, right, you have to make it work, is... ⁓ M1: You're the one who said two. Looking? Yes, of course. No, no, M2: Is it a grand fiesta tour? I don't know if it was like a friendship boat and you were confused. Yeah, the actual goal of the game is to be as fast as possible, so one day we'll play it trying to get as many as possible in like two minutes. That would probably be better. M1: I feel like this went pretty well though. Other than the lovers, we really should have veered off track with the lovers. M2: I actually agree. I agree. Yeah, because you made it creepy. All right, guys, we're going to end with a pit and a peach and a fact of the day. Let's go with pits. I have one pit and one pit only, but you can start. M1: Um, well I was actually going to say that my pit was that, um, woman. That was one of my peaches. Well the class was one of my peaches. Well I was going to say that my pit was that woman coming into the bathroom with me. Because that was just like very uncomfortable. Um, I had another pit though. What's yours? I need to think of mine. I had one. What? You're not allowed to say that. You're not allowed to say that. M2: You accidentally brought Mouseless C to a female mommy and me class. Might as work out of a week. M1: So think of a new pet. We're both having to think of new pets. M2: My pit is that the gas prices went up. How's that? M1: Wow, you know we haven't used a lot of sound effects this show. M2: We're booing that pet? M1: Gas prices went up by how much? M2: Like there's like 350 here now. M1: Wow, I don't really like to get gas. ⁓ I'm really annoyed that I can't think of what my pit was. I'm like frustrated. Okay, my other pit is that it doesn't make any sense to turn on the air conditioning in my house, obviously, because it's be freezing tomorrow, but my house is like 74 degrees and that's way too hot. M2: Okay, whatever peach Open your windows. M1: They're old and hard to open. M2: but you could open some of them. Okay, what's your pitch? M1: My peach, I had an amazing day. The weather was absolutely amazing. I went to my first of this little, depends on the weather. I went to my first of this new mommy and me class. It was so, I loved it. It was so fun. Did I make Mouselet's see go? Yes. Was he the only male there? Yes. Was he like so sad about it and said he would never go back? Yes. But it was a great time. We went and got coffees after we ran some errands, we got lunch. It was just like a very nice relaxing day. And it sort of reminded me that M2: It all depends on the weather. you M1: ⁓ I love to be alive and I just hate when it's freezing and snowy. M2: Yeah, I had I had sort of that thing that was like ⁓ like yeah life is good ⁓ My peach I had two peaches today one. I had a presentation to the client. I went very well. They were very happy ⁓ To I ordered a coffee this morning and the barista told me you ordered that coffee perfectly because I've learned No, because here's the thing and I was thinking about it as I was sort of like ruminating in that praise If you order a coffee, and you're like I want with milk oat milk, please a latte M1: That's so random. M2: Decaf and then hot Yeah, so I said I'm gonna can I have a small hot half decaf latte with oat milk? And she said you ordered that perfectly I said, thank you. You know what I gave her a $1 tip and I I don't always tip when I order coffee I'll be honest ⁓ Take I take I did I was like, thank you Queen. So it's probably why she said it. She probably says is everyone All right. My fact of the day is about Disney's M1: ⁓ you mean like the ordering of what you... Wow, you said, thanks queen. Thanks queen. Yep. Okay, what's your fact of the day? M2: Automated vacuum collection system their a vac system. I'm gonna keep it quick I did a whole YouTube video on this guys if you haven't seen it go watch it It's very cool underneath your feet at the Magic Kingdom are the utility doors inside of you till it or is it Magic Kingdom is a giant set of tubes that sucks trash around the park at 60 miles per hour It is a very cool. I did a huge deep dive and all the engineering behind it I had to read an entire 1973 issue of the executive housekeeper to learn more about it. I promise it's really cool So that's my fact very very cool M1: That's a fun fact. I'm trying to think. I'm feeling inspired to do a fact about Fantasyland. I'm trying to decide exactly which one to do. M2: Thank you. ⁓ perhaps an odyssey elevator. M1: No, yeah, not in notice elevator, but I'm sure that that is what sort of planted the idea into my head. M2: Yeah, you're inspired by. M1: Well, I think I might have said this one before, but guys, Melsitu and I were saying, we can't remember anymore what we've said and what we haven't. Although I, well, I did realize we've been doing the podcast for over six months now, because this is episode 29, and if a year is 52 weeks long, 29 is more than half the year. Isn't that crazy? M2: I'll tell you if you said it. We started in August to September is once, September, October, November, November, December, December, January, January, February, February, March. M1: February, March. Isn't that crazy? I know. M2: What was our ready quiz? What was our fourth or fifth episode? M1: have no idea. M2: tips for maximizing your park day. We need to re-record it. Oh yeah, what's your fact? M1: ⁓ okay, wait, my fact, my fact is that originally on the Peter Pan ride, Peter Pan, our dad used to say that to our dog and it made her howl. my God, we forgot another little piece of news. Remember the first like, Angkor cattle calf was born and she's named Wink. M2: Peter Pan! ⁓ yeah for the first in 20 years and she's in Winnie M1: Winnie, which is the same name as our dog. Okay guys, this fact, I know you guys are so excited to hear this fact, it's coming, which is that when Peter Pan was first created, ride, Peter Pan himself was not present because you were supposed to be Peter Pan, like through Peter Pan's eyes. Well, you're supposed to be seeing the ride through Peter Pan's eyes. People were kind of like, why is there no Peter Pan? And so they added Peter Pan after the fact. M2: Yeah, we've definitely told that before. If you guys liked this episode, please be sure to give us a five star rating on Apple and Spotify. It helps us get seen by more people, more people listening. If you are watching on YouTube, give us a thumbs up, subscribe to our channel. post deep dives. If you're not following us on Instagram or TikTok, go follow us there too. Also let us know how you found the podcast. It'd be really cool if it was reaching beyond our, you know, social media. But thank you for listening. Next week we'll be talking about my upcoming trip and things we have planned. Is that right? No, nope, it's a week after. M1: Yeah. ⁓ well you told me it was next week. I guess we'll be thinking of a topic. Guys, any requests for next week? Because we apparently don't have a topic. So let us know. Bye. M2: Stay tuned and thank you for listening!