blabbermouth
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jun 16, 2008
Day 2, evening - Disney Springs/Summer House on the Lake
My grumpiness seemed to continue a bit all day! DH wanted to go to Disney Springs to check out the Pele Soccer shop. I wanted him to have some sort of plan for where to eat or at least have him know where the store was. He decided on Polite Pig which I was ok with, but after Satu'li feeling a bit hectic at lunch I wasn't super keen on a QS for dinner. We got to the bus stop around 5:15, and had to wait 20 minutes for a bus, we must have just missed one.
HOWEVER, once we got to the soccer store I saw it was right across from Summer House on the Lake and thought I'd just ask if they might have a table for us. It turns out they do keep some for walk ups, so once DH bought his jersey we were sat right away at a pretty good table in the front room next to the front patio. Only complaint is the AC was on high and blowing right at us. We rearranged our seats a bit and it was better.
Once I had this in front of me, all was well. Summer House Rose.
I really liked the decor in here, the little lamps were adorable and the napkins, salt and pepper shakers and everything just looked really nice and fresh. It was full, but still pretty quiet and relaxing.
DD really liked the kids menu, it had a ton of choices and a lot of good activities too. She needed the down time to just do some colouring and activities again. She was not feeling "it" when we got to DS, but this and a Shirley Temple turned it around. I wasn't expecting a full on kids activity menu like this here, so it was a welcome surprise.
She chose Mason's Breakfast for Dinner: silver dollar pancakes, sausage and fruit with maple syrup. She was super happy with this and ate nearly all of it.
It seems like dinner was really her fave meal on this trip, not eating a lot throughout the day, and then making up for it at dinner. So maybe the calmer setting of TS restaurants helped her as well.
I had the "famous" herbed chicken breast palliard with arugula salad, lemon and calabrian chili. It looked super plain, but was so delish! Everything was well salted, the lemon juice made everything fresh tasting, and the calabrian chili was just a subtle heat at the end of every bite. Would definitely recommend this for a lighter tasting meal.
DH had a beer, I think it was the 'daytime'. And the picnic fried chicken basket: boneless white meat, slaw, hickory barbecue sauce, french fries. He was surprised by the huge pieces of chicken, and loved the BBQ sauce, but the chicken was a tad dry. But it was otherwise exactly what he wanted, some fried chicken that was not too heavy or greasy!
Sadly again we were too full for dessert, and the cookie area was pretty busy so we didn't even look. We really need to work on our dessert snacking before our next trip, hah.
We all thoroughly enjoyed this meal and would go back again! It came to approx $120 with the 3 meals and 3 drinks (DH had two beer).
We wandered around a little bit and went into a few stores, including quite a bit of time in the Coca-Cola store, DH wanted to bring back something for his coke-obsessed coworker.
I loved the Luca movie!!
We had the intention of going to the Lego store, but as we were walking by the bus path we decided to just head back to the hotel! DD was hoping she'd still have time to swim. Unfortunately we had two detours for me and DD to use the washroom (she had to go right when we were at the front of the bus line!) and we had to wait quite a while for the bus (talked to a lovely mother and daughter though where the daughter had ran the race that day), so by the time we made it back to the hotel it was after 9 and we all just tucked into bed and put on Ratatouille for a bit to fall asleep to. I was glad the night turned around in the end, a good meal always helps!
Next installment will be our morning at Epcot! I hope to get that written tomorrow.
My grumpiness seemed to continue a bit all day! DH wanted to go to Disney Springs to check out the Pele Soccer shop. I wanted him to have some sort of plan for where to eat or at least have him know where the store was. He decided on Polite Pig which I was ok with, but after Satu'li feeling a bit hectic at lunch I wasn't super keen on a QS for dinner. We got to the bus stop around 5:15, and had to wait 20 minutes for a bus, we must have just missed one.
HOWEVER, once we got to the soccer store I saw it was right across from Summer House on the Lake and thought I'd just ask if they might have a table for us. It turns out they do keep some for walk ups, so once DH bought his jersey we were sat right away at a pretty good table in the front room next to the front patio. Only complaint is the AC was on high and blowing right at us. We rearranged our seats a bit and it was better.
Once I had this in front of me, all was well. Summer House Rose.
I really liked the decor in here, the little lamps were adorable and the napkins, salt and pepper shakers and everything just looked really nice and fresh. It was full, but still pretty quiet and relaxing.
DD really liked the kids menu, it had a ton of choices and a lot of good activities too. She needed the down time to just do some colouring and activities again. She was not feeling "it" when we got to DS, but this and a Shirley Temple turned it around. I wasn't expecting a full on kids activity menu like this here, so it was a welcome surprise.
She chose Mason's Breakfast for Dinner: silver dollar pancakes, sausage and fruit with maple syrup. She was super happy with this and ate nearly all of it.
It seems like dinner was really her fave meal on this trip, not eating a lot throughout the day, and then making up for it at dinner. So maybe the calmer setting of TS restaurants helped her as well.
I had the "famous" herbed chicken breast palliard with arugula salad, lemon and calabrian chili. It looked super plain, but was so delish! Everything was well salted, the lemon juice made everything fresh tasting, and the calabrian chili was just a subtle heat at the end of every bite. Would definitely recommend this for a lighter tasting meal.
DH had a beer, I think it was the 'daytime'. And the picnic fried chicken basket: boneless white meat, slaw, hickory barbecue sauce, french fries. He was surprised by the huge pieces of chicken, and loved the BBQ sauce, but the chicken was a tad dry. But it was otherwise exactly what he wanted, some fried chicken that was not too heavy or greasy!
Sadly again we were too full for dessert, and the cookie area was pretty busy so we didn't even look. We really need to work on our dessert snacking before our next trip, hah.
We all thoroughly enjoyed this meal and would go back again! It came to approx $120 with the 3 meals and 3 drinks (DH had two beer).
We wandered around a little bit and went into a few stores, including quite a bit of time in the Coca-Cola store, DH wanted to bring back something for his coke-obsessed coworker.
I loved the Luca movie!!
We had the intention of going to the Lego store, but as we were walking by the bus path we decided to just head back to the hotel! DD was hoping she'd still have time to swim. Unfortunately we had two detours for me and DD to use the washroom (she had to go right when we were at the front of the bus line!) and we had to wait quite a while for the bus (talked to a lovely mother and daughter though where the daughter had ran the race that day), so by the time we made it back to the hotel it was after 9 and we all just tucked into bed and put on Ratatouille for a bit to fall asleep to. I was glad the night turned around in the end, a good meal always helps!
Next installment will be our morning at Epcot! I hope to get that written tomorrow.