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Glad to hear you enjoyed the wine seminar!
I love your photos of the fountain show!
We don't always time it right to get to see the full show, so I truly enjoyed stopping for it on this day.
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That was a great wine seminar as you enjoyed all of them. You supplied some great info on all of these wines as you enjoyed them so much. I love SA wines and you can't beat Jiko for this as they have the largest SA wine offering in any USA eatery. I'm pretty sure about this.
Too bad the seminar was a bit empty as fuller makes it better. I've never done a wine seminar and have done four food oriented ones including the Italian lunch. I need to do a wine one on my next trip as not expensive. Nice with the fountains as one of my favorite things in all of Epcot! Especially at night when lit up for sure!
I'm pretty sure Luke O' mentioned that all three wines were available at Jiko's.
An Irishman making WINE! Sacreligious ! The Irish know how to make Whiskey Beer and Stout, but wine, That is like asking an Eskimo to grow sod. JMHO take it for what you paid for it
The wine seminar sounded good - and even better that all three wines were a hit for both you and Luke! I’ll have to see if I can find any of those at my local wine shop.
Wonder if it was empty because of the early start? I was surprised to hear it, as we never had luck booking a semi as - they were all sold out before I thought about it.
It sounds like Luke O' really was an informative presenter and well worth the money for this seminar! Sorry you table mates weren't all that talkative.
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Glad you enjoyed the wine seminar. DH and I both hate any kind of wine. We were once given what we were told was a nice bottle of Merlot. We both took a sip, spit it out and poured it down the drain. I hate coffee too. Guess my taste buds never grew up.
An Irishman making WINE! Sacreligious ! The Irish know how to make Whiskey Beer and Stout, but wine, That is like asking an Eskimo to grow sod. JMHO take it for what you paid for it
This Irishman seemed to know his wines, but who knows.
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The wine seminar sounded good - and even better that all three wines were a hit for both you and Luke! I’ll have to see if I can find any of those at my local wine shop.
Wonder if it was empty because of the early start? I was surprised to hear it, as we never had luck booking a semi as - they were all sold out before I thought about it.
I was surprised when I looked up the beverage seminars this year as all the ones in our time frame were for 11:15 while the culinary seminars were in the afternoon. The Festival Center only had one seminar area set up this year so beverages and culinary were sharing the same space. Our next beverage seminar will be sold out, so no idea what happened with this one.
It sounds like Luke O' really was an informative presenter and well worth the money for this seminar! Sorry you table mates weren't all that talkative.
He was very interesting and made getting a little wine education nice. I am usually shy, but I figured if I spoke first it might spark a conversation. It will later in the trip, but no today.
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Glad you enjoyed the wine seminar. DH and I both hate any kind of wine. We were once given what we were told was a nice bottle of Merlot. We both took a sip, spit it out and poured it down the drain. I hate coffee too. Guess my taste buds never grew up.
Luke and I don't like red wines, though we have drunk a few samples at these seminars. Today was the first red that we enjoyed. I hate coffee and tea of any kind. My taste buds think it's dirt.
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When the water’s dance ended, we were back on track toward The Land. On our way, Luke pointed out a tree to me, saying look it has pink flowers. He was loving those new Oakley Prizm sunglasses.
Our goal at The Land was Soarin’. The FastPass queue was somewhat short with us not stopping until we reached the podium where guests are sent to the A, B, and C theaters. Follow along as we walk all the way through the queue with not a single sole in front of us. Cool!
In a few minutes we were lead to one of the theater lines and sent to Row 1. WooHoo! As we watched the pre-show, I did something I’ve never done before, took photos of every screen. With the new film, Luke and I still haven’t become accustomed to all the locations. I won’t bore you all with every single photo, but it was amazing how much we remembered after the ride this time. As we entered the theaters we were on one the sides, but we were all the way over to center, so a really nice view of the screen.
FastPass #2 was open as we finished our flight over the world, so we headed out of The Land and turned left, making our way to The Sea with Nemo & Friends. Once there we realized that there was absolutely no line. We walked right onto our clam mobile. Way to go!
Once we made our way out of the big blue, it was 1:00 and we were both hungry. Time to partake of the Food & Wine Festival. On our way Luke alerted me that a monorail was coming through, and with a quick turn, point and shoot, I captured it.
Our first stop was the Flavored from Fire food booth where we bought a Charred Chimichurri Skirt Steak which was served on a smoked corn cake with pickled vegetable slaw and cilantro aioli. Delicious! Then we followed that up with the Chocolate Picante, a dark chocolate mousse with cayenne pepper, paprika, and mango. We had tried this little dessert treat last year, and I had been pleasantly surprised that is was not too hot for me. We totally enjoyed it again.
Luke noticed the sign for the Light Lab that would be our next food booth. A nice bonus was that it was inside out of the heat. Nothing here appealed to me, but Luke got the 3 Daughters Brewing Blueberry Peppercorn Hard Cider and enjoyed it. We wandered into the Light Lab itself, but it’s not somewhere that we found entertaining. But we can now say, “been there, done that.”
I knew what I wanted next and the lead us to The Chocolate Studio for a glass of Banfi Rosa Regale Sparkling Red. So sweet!
Moving into the World Showcase properly, we found our way to the Canada food booth. Luke opted for the Canadian Cheddar Cheese and Bacon Soup served with a pretzel roll, a favorite of his. I also picked my favorite, the Le Cellier Wild Mushroom Beef Filet Mignon with a truffle butter sauce. We found a high top table in the shade and enjoyed our tapas. Before further explorations, we stopped at Refreshment Port for a couple of large cokes on ice. It was proving to be another hot day and we needed a nice quenching drink.
As we started to make a circuit of the World Showcase from the right, Luke asked if we could explore a little further in Canada, browsing the shops and spending a bit of time in the air conditioning. I usually like this shop, but I have never bought much, at least before today. I had forgotten to bring a jacket along today and was a bit concerned that I would be too chilly inside the restaurant during our dinner. But I hadn’t thought I’d buy a new one until I saw the cutest little jacket here. Then I found a pair of lounge pants with bears all over, and I love bears. And right beside the lounge pants were matching cozy socks with bears and another pair with mouse and a third pair of casual socks with mouse. A few steps and I found a pair of Muk Luk slippers with a bear design. Now seriously, we need to get out of this shop. I explain to the cast member at the registered that I really wanted to ship everything except the jacket to our resort, but I wasn’t sure if I could do that. She told me I most certainly could. Yeah! Now I could quit thinking about what to do if I got cold during dinner.
We moved on to the United Kingdom, browsing the shops here while we finished off our Cokes. As we came out of the first sets of shops, I noticed Mary Poppins, but I also realized that the line was already closed. Not too disappointing as I had seen in earlier in the trip at the Magic Kingdom. Somewhere in these wandering, Luke pointed out to me the “pink” flowers.
From the UK, Luke wanted to check out the construction on the Disney Skyliner and Ratatouille attraction. So, we made our way into the International Gateway area. I took several photos as I love looking over from the IG to see France. It does appear too that quite a bit of construction is going on back here.
Nice ride on Soarin' and I love the updated version so much more! I can't believe it was an easy walk in the FP+ line as I've never experienced that and unheard of! Some nice eats and experiences at the Festival. I had the filet in Canada a couple of years ago and was certainly one of my favorites! Just so much flavor!
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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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You sure lucked out with your lines! I am so jealous of all the shopping you've been able to do on your trip. That's something that I've never been able to do much of cause it's just not in the budget. Anymore I just feel guilty spending money on myself for anything, not just at WDW, so we just get our 3 granddaughters something and that's it. Looking forward to more!
What a wonderful idea to photograph the locations in the Soarin' pre-show. I don't think I've ever had a spot in line to allow me to do that. Normally we seem to be at the back of the line, although now I think about it, with my camera zoom, it should be possible...
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You supplied some great info on all of these wines as you enjoyed them so much. I love SA wines and you can't beat Jiko for this as they have the largest SA wine offering in any USA eatery. I'm pretty sure about this. 
Some nice eats and experiences at the Festival. I had the filet in Canada a couple of years ago and was certainly one of my favorites! 
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