Who Said Work isn't Fun - a mini TR to the World Completed 3/24 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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I am destined to finish this TR - I just feel like I never get a chance to update and even worse catch up on everyone else's TR - but I will...slowly but surely.
I will also tell you I hardly took pictures on this day, I guess I only had one thing on my mind. Eating at the F&WF.
October 28th
So today we were up early as we had a breakfast at the conference before the Key Note Speech. Now we took advantage of a little extra sleep but there was still a nice variety of food when we got there. It was early so I grabbed a bagel and we relaxed for a bit before we headed in.
They had a lot of great Key Note Speakers that really got everyone motivated and soon we were breaking out for our individual sessions. Now I went to a number of them but I had my favorites. We went to a session regarding blogging, about how so much of what we do is sharing our story, about why we do what we do, why we enjoy it...and the speaker was Chef Katrina who happened to be a Chef at Disney for a good 12 years, she worked at a number of resorts but she was just great. I think if I did not sit through another session I would have felt like I took something away from the conference.
We took a break for lunch, I had to run back to the room because I had a submittal that needed to be done for the "day job" - again why does that keep getting in the way of my trip....LOL, finished up there, grabbed I think a pretzel for lunch and we headed back for or afternoon sessions.
Now as part of the conference everyone got a ticket to Disney for today , so where were we headed, well for a second chance at the F&WF, no headache, no crowds....so worth it and I was not even disappointed that we gave up our California Grill reservation for this.
Now we added FPs quickly that day once they gave us our tickets, so we got to enjoy a retry for Soarin since our first shot at this ride on our first day was a wash. What else did we ride...Spaceship Earth I think, but we were not concerned about riding anything as all we wanted was to eat I mean we did starve ourselves today with the only nourishment being a pretzel and a bagel....but first food.
So we headed back towards the World Showcase and what did we find....an empty World Showcase, I was in my glory. I just wish I had more hours because I had such a long list of things I wanted to try, and I could just not eat it all in a few hours.
We started in Argentina where I could not decide what I wanted so I had two things, the empanada and the Grilled Beef Skewer.
I really enjoyed both of these...now I am an empanada snob so I will say I like my sister-in-laws better but these were pretty good. The Grilled Steak was so tender...I could have had another one of these but I had to save myself.
We just wandered around...I could have stopped at so many booths but I tried to go down my favorite list first.
Next stop....Italy where I needed to try the sausage and peppers. These were good....we were eating and walking, kind of reminded me of eating sausage and peppers at the San Gennero Feast.
Now I will say I was already full and I was disappointed that I would not get to try more...but just a reason to get back here again.
Now we headed back to the Future World as our Soarin Fast Pass window had opened. Now I am not sure what we did the rest of the evening, I know I stopped for a picture or two.
We did wander back to the World Showcase, I did try the filet in Canada but I don't know where the picture is...now I was sure I could eat nothing else but there was one more thing I really wanted to try.
The Pork Sliders from Hawaii and this one out as my favorite food of the festival...I know, did not try much but this ended up being what I wish I had a bundle of to bring home. I will tell you that later as we watched Illuminations I snuck in another one so I guess either I was more hungry than I thought or I could not bear to leave without having one more bit
We watched Illuminations and then headed for the buses...another early day tomorrow as we had sessions in the morning, a catered lunch and then the exhibition hall was opening in the afternoon.
When we got back to the resort I relaxed outside for a bit to make a call, then we took our showers, laid out our clothes for the next day and just enjoyed having a conversation sans kids
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, so where were we headed, well for a second chance at the F&WF, no headache, no crowds....so worth it and I was not even disappointed that we gave up our California Grill reservation for this.
I mean we did starve ourselves today with the only nourishment being a pretzel and a bagel....but first food.
and I was disappointed that I would not get to try more...but just a reason to get back here again.
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