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Seeing your Flower & Garden Festival food booth choices makes me want to back right now. You should try the Fruishi at Hanami, despite what it sound like it is actually very good. I would love to have some right now.
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I can't wait to hear about the Poly Villas. You're so lucky to get to,stay there!!!
I've put many of the same F&GF goodies on my "must try" list. I'll be sampling them in 15 days, so I'll let you know what I think.
We have similar trips this year - a spring WDW F&GF trip (but mine will be much shorter) and a First Trip to Disneyland! We'll be there at the end of July and I'm so excited that I don't know what to do with myself.
Cam, you plans sound wonderful. I haven't had more than a few minutes since I got back in February to even post here, let alone a trip report. I will say though, that when I returned, I found out that work is sending me to Disneyland Hotel for a conference at the end of June.
Some yummy treats there! Good luck with getting your dad's house squared away. I know everyone will be relieved when that task is done.
Laurie, I know you are quite the early bird, but even 2:06 am is quite early for you! Perhaps, you made it a late night. I hope I don't sound overly concerned!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
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Laurie, I know you are quite the early bird, but even 2:06 am is quite early for you! Perhaps, you made it a late night. I hope I don't sound overly concerned!
Thanks for worrying, Dave! I had a hard time sleeping last night because of back pain from over-doing packing. I'm moving next week. It's hard to stop going sometimes, even when you know you should! Thank goodness for PP in the middle of the night!
Sorry, Cam-- back to your report now. Don't do what I did with packing boxes at your Dad's house!
Some nice offerings at the booths. Some of them I'd definitely dive into. Unfortunately, I didn't have much chance to experience these on my Spring trip last year as the one day I had a lot of time in Epcot was when I had dinner at Victoria & Albert's, which was an early dinner and being a big tag and meal, even with the pace. I had to save my stomach for that! Hopefully, my next trip to WDW, I can experience some of this as so many of the booths seem so appetizing! Good luck with everything the rest of the week and hope all goes well!
With a V&A ADR later in the day, I wouldn't have been snacking at the food booths either.
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Wonder if the pineapple chutney and siracha mayo is the same as on the pork sliders at F&WF? And sparkling key lime wine?! Yum!! The non-sparkling key lime made my top 10 list if I'm remembering right!
Good luck with packing up this weekend.
The regular Key lime has been one of my favorites the last two F&WFs, so I was excited to see a sparkling version.
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Sparkling Key Lime Wine sounds like a winner! I'm sure I can get that in Key West on my first Port stop in under two weeks time!
There is a definitely a place in Key West that has it. :toast
Nice choices from the booths - I loved the fruishi (I think was the name of it) from Hanami, but it's definitely an acquired taste, so I can understand if that doesn't appeal....
If Luke wants to try the fruishi, I would try a taste to see, but it just didn't sound like one for me.
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Some yummy treats there! Good luck with getting your dad's house squared away. I know everyone will be relieved when that task is done.
We got so much accomplished yesterday, and almost everything is now boxed up. Some men from his church came to mow the lawn, trim the trees that were too close to the house, and to haul some shelves from Dad's to June's house. So we'll go back later to do a final cleaning. I think June will feel she has her life back once the sale is over.
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Great list of food! Good luck with the boxing up!
We amazed ourselves by how much we got boxed up yesterday.
What a great selection from each booth. Hope you have a safe trip and good luck helping your dad to finish boxing!!!!
We had a great work day yesterday, and even got to come home last night though it was quite late.
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Oh my! I probably should not have read that before lunch!
My 2 faves are Fleur de Lys and Lotus House...for now anyway
I'm thinking I'll make a top ten list of foods and drinks once we've actually gotten to sample them.
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Yum! I'm looking forward to finding out in your TR if they taste as good as their descriptions sound!
So far Disney Food Blogs recommendations of what is really good have corresponded for the most part with what we really liked. We'll see how this goes this trip.
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