100 Days of Wonder – #43

As we are pretty much in the run-eat-sleep-eat-repeat phase of Dopey Challenge Training, let’s stick with the restaurant and food theme from yesterday. As I said, it was Disney Dining reservation day for us yesterday. The only restaurant we had on our list that was tricky to get was Chef Mickey’s. Chef Mickey’s a a character restaurant in the Contemporary Resort. I think it is popular for 3 main reasons: 1. It is where people can meet Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy and Pluto – quintessential Disney. 2. It’s easy to get to and from the Magic Kingdom and 3. It is one of the few restaurants that opens really early for breakfast. Every time we have been we have had our first meal there – breakfast at Chef Mickey’s on Day 1 has become something of a tradition.

So Chef Mickey’s is where I first met characters in 2006. Remember, I wasn’t ‘fun’. It took me a minute to embrace humans in costumes as part of the magic. But I just decided I was all in. I bought an autograph book, I had fun with the photos. But anyway food. Chef Mickey’s is great because it is a buffet that has everything (probably including gadgets and gizmos a-plenty, whozits and whatzits galore…You want thingamabobs? [They’ve] got twenty!) which means yummy food, at our pace and the odd sweet treat or banana in the bag for later. Getting a cuddle with Minnie is just a bonus really.

This time though we are breaking with tradition. We were thinking about this anyway as on Day 1 it is sort of nice not to have to work with a rigid time frame and we will have to go to the Expo to pick up our running stuff. But then we couldn’t get a reservation for breakfast on Day 1 anyway nor for any of the days we had originally thought might be good. We did get a reservation – the day after marathon day which is great because we won’t have to walk far!