Catching up? Part 1 has our Epcot morning and the first booth crawl, and Part 2 covers the steak bowls, pin trading, and our Guardians, Test Track, and Soarin' run. Here's how Tax Day wrapped up.
Hollywood Studios, Then Pin Trading Instead of Magic Kingdom
After this we headed over to Hollywood Studios, where we had a Slinky Dog Dash Lightning Lane. I love that ride so much, it's just so fun and adorable. After that we raced around using up all of our Lightning Lanes. It wasn't busy, so we hit all of the good rides:
- Toy Story Mania
- Millennium Falcon
- Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway
- Star Tours
It was the best Star Tours ride we've had. I love that ride! We had BB8 on our transmission, haha, and our ship landed sideways and stayed that way. It was so unexpected and fun.
Our friends were going to Disney Springs for the evening and DD didn't want to go, so even though we had some Lightning Lanes lined up for Magic Kingdom, we decided to just do the monorail loop and do some pin trading instead. It was really fun, and we found some great pins. We always find great pins at the resorts, we think it's the best place for pin trading. Maybe they aren't picked over as much? Not sure, but it was good pickings.
Dinner at Contempo Cafe and Heading Back
We got hungry around 7:00 and stopped at Contempo Cafe for a quick bite. We weren't looking forward to eating there, but it was convenient, and we were so shocked. DD ordered the bacon cheeseburger, and I ordered the Buffalo pizza and superfoods salad.
The surprise hit was the cheeseburger. It was a fresh ground beef patty that looked like a smash burger, huge and going well over the bun, with fresh bacon and real cheddar cheese. It was actually so good.
In my head I was thinking BBQ pizza, not Buffalo, and I didn't realize my mistake until we opened the box at the table. Oops, Buffalo is spicy! Lucky for us, it was Disney spicy, so not all that spicy, but also a little too spicy. If you like Buffalo, you would love this pizza. The only sauce on it was hot sauce, with ample chicken and cheese and soft, yummy bread. It was good, and we ate a little of it, but it really was too spicy for us to eat as a full meal.
We also had the superfoods salad, which was delicious, with a nice vinaigrette and loads of, well, superfoods: dried fruit, kale, and all sorts of seeds and nuts. I have been impressed with all of the salads at Disney, Connections Cafe, Sci-Fi Diner, and Capt. Cook's to name a few, and this one was no exception.
We also split the chocolate filled cronut. It was okay, the mix of dark chocolate icing was weird with the cinnamon sugar it was coated in, but it was still a lovely sweet dessert.
We finished up by walking around the Contemporary, hitting all of the pin boards on the lobby level and the monorail level, then walked over to Bay Lake Tower. We've had the best luck pin trading at the Contemporary.
We took the monorail back to Magic Kingdom, then walked over to grab a bus back to Coronado Springs. It was about 9:30 by then, so we went in for another order of the garlic knots. Thankfully, this evening we were in bed asleep by 10:30. We got some much needed rest!
And that's Tax Day in the books: three parts, way too many snacks, and one pizza that fought back.
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