When we arrived at EPCOT, we hightailed it over to the Food & Wine Festival! This was the first time at Food & Wine for both of us and we LOVED it! We started with Australia and then Brazil. A guest in line told us that we could get passports at the festival center so we went there and got our free passports! I highly suggest this for anyone at Food & Wine because the menus aren't always visibly accessible from the line. After that we got dessert, champagne, and beer while we were at it! Too bad I didn't take any pictures, everything was amazing! Oh well there's always next year!
I had been tweeting with people all morning about meeting up and my WDW Magic forum friend, Jess, was on her way to EPCOT for Food & Wine too. We waited for her and her Mom, Diana, by the benches across from the Desserts & Champagne kiosk. I love connecting with other Disney fans and I was so excited to meet Jess because she had followed my entire Wedding Planning Journal on WDW Magic.com. I couldn't wait to tell her all about the wedding! It was so lovely to meet them! We definitely made new friends for life :)
We parted ways with our new friends and made plans to meet up later in our trip. Jason and I headed over to where we left off on the Mexico side of the World Showcase. Our next kiosk was Argentina! This was my #1 favorite, but I don't know if that's saying much since we hit less than half of the kiosks on our trip. I really need an entire month to sample everything. I get full (and drunk) too quickly!
We had the Beef Empanda (my favorite!!) and the Grilled Beef Skewer with Chimichurri Sauce and Boniato Puree
MMMMMM FOOD PORN!!!!!!
It was really hot and sunny that day and for some reason I decided not to wear sunscreen. NOT a good idea. Since I didn't want to pay a 500% markup on sunscreen, we went to find some shade by the old Odyssey building. Another WDW Magic friend and Disney Castmember, Karen, texted me to meet up. She is also a future Disney Bride! It was great meeting her too! I am so happy that I got to meet my online friends! It really added more magic to our trip :)
Jason and I still weren't tired so we continued having fun at Food & Wine. We hung out for a bit in Mexico and found more shade. Mexico had really good food at the kiosk and I'm sad I wasn't more hungry. Jason ate most of the food!
Super yummy shrimp tacos, the sauce really complimented it well
The beef taco and margarita were also great! I think it's funny how the food is small portions but they give you a regular sized alcoholic beverage. We definitely saw people staggering around ;)
Jason got a reprieve from wearing his Groom ears because he wanted to wear his awesome Indiana Jones hat!
By the middle of the afternoon, we were both pretty zonked and needed naps. We got fastpasses for Soarin and then left for much needed naps.
When we got back to the resort we had to find an ATM (Food & Wine is a bit pricey...) and I took some pictures around the lobby of the different Disney horses. I LOVE horses and I can't believe I had missed these when we checked in!
When we got back to the room, this was on our bed! What a nice surprise!
After our nap, we went back to EPCOT in time to ride Soarin and went to watch Illuminations in France so we could enjoy some grey goose lemon slushes :) After Illuminations, we chatted up a group of girls who were in the Disney College Program. We got to talking about the wedding and one girl, Dawn, wanted to add me on Facebook!! Ah, I love technology. I added her right from my phone. 15 years ago we would have had to exchange phone numbers and/or addresses. It was just more difficult to keep in touch back then! It was a wonderful end to a magical day!
Oh boy WDW's 40th Anniversary is up next!
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