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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Disney Parks Blog: California Grill Meet-up

I had the opportunity to attend my first Disney Parks Blog meet-up on Sunday, September 8 at the California Grill. When the Disney Parks Blog first announced this meet-up, I immediately sent in my information. Unfortunately, my name was not on the list of people that had gotten in. Well, I received an e-mail on Wednesday letting me know that I had gotten in.

On Sunday afternoon, I printed out my release forms, signed them and headed over to the Contemporary. I took my mother with me as my guest. We got there a little early so we sat outside on the fourth floor and enjoyed the view. Around 6:45, we headed to the second floor where we had to check in. We had to hand in our signed release forms and show a picture id. That's when I realized that I left my license in the car. I put it down after I showed it to security to park and never picked it back up. I told the CM that I left it in the car and she told me not to worry about it. After she checked us in, she gave me a token that I would exchange at the end of the night for a prize.

We stood in the hallway until around 7:15 when they started taking people up the California Grill. We were on the third elevator. We walked out and were greeted with CM's holding trays of champagne and various other drinks. Then we stepped into the next room and CM's were in there handing out some food samples. Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of the drinks or any of the restaurant.

I decided to try a three meat meatball. I wasn't going to try it because I'm not really a fan of meatballs and there was lamb in it and I don't like lamb. I decided to just go ahead and try it and I'm glad that I did. It was very good; probably the best thing I had all night. However, it was a little spicy.


I decided that I had to go outside to check out the view of Magic Kingdom before sunset.