Day 7: Tuesday 3/7 - MK Sleep Hollow, Storybook Treats, Gaston's Tavern, Pop Century Everything Pop dinner
Our order of business for the day revolved primarily around Fantasyland at MK. We arrived at rope drop to go to the Princess Fairytale Hall where we planned to immediately get in line to meet Cinderella and Elena of Avalor at rope drop, then use our first three fast passes for the Princess Tiana and Rapunzel meet and greet, the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, and Peter Pan.
Our favorite princess meet and greet of the trip
Since we had a jam packed morning, we were ready to eat well before what was a typical time for us to have lunch. We initially walked over to Pinocchio Village Haus; but it wasn't yet open for lunch. So we decided to head over to Sleepy Hollow. We each had their sweet and spicy chicken waffle sandwich which comes with a drink and counts as a quick service meal credit. Even though it within itself isn't a full meal, the chicken and waffle complement each other well and the sandwich was rather filling. The chicken is marinated in a sauce that is the perfect blend of spicy and sweet and it didn't have the tough dryness that is common with fast food fried chicken breast sandwiches. The photo of my sandwich looks kinda boring (sorry, lol!) because the sandwich is **supposed** to be topped with coleslaw; and as you may remember from earlier in the report, I don't do coleslaw under any circumstances
. But I promise you it was pretty good.
After finishing up at Sleepy Hollow, we were able to successfully get additional fast passes for other Fantasyland attractions as well as the Tomorrowland Speedway. DS8 and DD10 were scheduled to do the Pirates League in the afternoon but we ended up having to *eat* $20 in fees for cancelling this beyond the 24 hour window because they insisted they wanted to hit the pool later in the afternoon and not commit to keeping their makeover intact since we weren't staying at MK all day.
This reminded me of how flexibility is a must with my crew and I can't imagine having $70 in fees ($10 per person X 7) if we had to cancel an ADR on the same day. I understand the credit card guarantee and cancellation fees were put in place because of the problem of people hoarding popular ADRs and no shows; but a lot can happen in 23 hours, 18 hours, 10 hours....and I think we would have did a couple more TS meals if the thought of having to *swallow* $70 in fees wasn't looming in the back of my head
. I think maybe a 5 or 6 hour cancellation window would be more practical for my crew and get us to commit to more TS dining.
It's all good though...as they say, everything isn't meant for everybody
Time to use up some snack credits....
Ice cream and root beer floats at Storybook Treats
We stopped over to meet our Hundred Acre Woods friends nearby
We decided we couldn't leave MK without getting cinnamon rolls and Lefou's Brew at Gaston's Tavern. The cinnamon rolls are absolutely divine and can easily be shared; but we are greedy and (with the exception of DS15) each got one
. LeFou's Brew is delicious and a treat within itself. It's reminiscent of a frothy apple cider, but very much a unique and tasty beverage.
DS15 can't tolerate many sweets and didn't get a cinnamon roll. He requested popcorn, so with the bucket in hand I escorted my oldest pirate to the nearest popcorn cart. We ran into a photopass photographer on the way; and DS15, the popcorn bucket, and I got a nice pic together
We soon made our way out of MK
Ended up in the Main Street Confectionary
Yes, I went into a candy store to get more popcorn....
. Got my hands on the last bag of this (my toothbrush and I had some quality time together later on)
One more fill up for the road because MK popcorn is the BEST (we probably like popcorn a little too much)
Got back to Pop and these greeted us when we walked into our rooms
The two that wanted pool time over Pirates League makeovers
After spending some time at the bowling pin pool, we rested up a bit and eventually headed down to Everything Pop to enjoy our last food court dinner. I had the very tasty pot roast dinner with mashed potatoes, gravy, and green beans. Although it had some fatty parts to it; it was prepared well and I enjoyed it nonetheless. Again, since we had our refillable mugs, we were able to substitute desserts for drinks and got fruit cups, muffins, and more tie dye cheesecake. Everything Pop is really a great food court. I think having a good food court definitely made our primarily counter service dining experience worthwhile. After dinner I took some pics of the shadow boxes in the Pop lobby that brought back memories of my childhood
. The Pop Century lobby also has this lovely fragrant, citrus like smell that I knew I would also miss
.
We spent the remainder of the evening getting all of our stuff packed up and ready for checkout in the morning and our final day. We caught some more fireworks views from in front of our rooms before calling it a night.
Up next: Epcot Electric Umbrella lunch, Starbucks, "free" drinks the kids won't ever forget, and my final thoughts
. As you can see I am a rather amateur dining report writer 
Happy Easter
That's how I feel whenever I eat a Butterfinger! 
