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Plaza Inn: Minnie and Friends Breakfast
I'd read pretty great reviews for this Disneyland restaurant, so it was a lock for our second character meal on the kids' first trip to West coast Disney. It was such a sweet-looking restaurant, and I'd read about the large amount of characters that make their way...
Mama Melrose’s Ristorante Italiano
Mama Melrose's Ristorante Italiano, an adorable table servie tucked away behind the Muppets, is hardly noticeable if you weren't looking for it. We ended up there on the kids' first pilgrimage to WDW back in 2008. When I was making dining reservations, it was the...
Goofy’s Kitchen
Although I spent my early years wandering the Happiest Place on Earth, it had been over a decade since I'd been to Disneyland when I started planning the kids' first trip. It was the finale to our great American road trip from Oklahoma to California. We only had three...
Be Our Guest
We had the pleasure of enjoying our first dinner at Be Our Guest during the first few days after the New Fantasyland grand opening in December 2012 thanks to my lightning fast dialing finger. 😂 Years later, reservations had still been pretty tough to secure even with...
Ode to Our Favorite PhotoPass Photographer
In October 2011, we were making our way around the World Showcase during the Food and Wine Fest and stumbled on a photographer on the platform in the middle of "St. Mark's Square" in Italy. Since we'd never run into anyone there before, we decided to get some pictures...
California Grill
After a few trips of trying to get the perfect California Grill reservation (typically the only reservation the Itinerary Planning Office ever had issues with), we finally got it for our December 2012 vacation!! We were often able to get late reservations, but half of...