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Oh I'm sorry about the rain, but it sounds like a great event! I think I'm going to have to plan our next F&WF trip to include it!
it is a definite must do!
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Originally Posted by chezp
Sorry about the rain, but the event sounds wonderful - I think this is the first review I've read of it, so I found it fascinating.
I wish I had more to report but rain happens...
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Originally Posted by Colexis Mom
Glad you had a great time, despite the rain!
it was a great way to kick off the F&FW festivities!
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Originally Posted by KMB733
Sounds like a wonderful time at the Food and Wine Classic!
I enjoyed it as much as the F&WF despite the crazy weather!
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Originally Posted by cubfancolleen
First, love Capt. Jack's face in the picture oof the two of you!
The description of the food event sounded amazing, and well worth the ticket price!
I love me some Capt. Jack! Yes, we definitely got our money's worth even before it was cut short.
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Originally Posted by WeRDisneyFanatics
Wow- the food and wine classic food looks delish! I'm sorry we didn't have time to go. Cool that you met Todd English! Sorry about the rain - we were heading down for our anniversary dinner at FF just as that rain was coming down - it was nuts!
The weather will definitely make the event (and the next day as well) very memorable. I was channel surfing the other night and Chef English was on TSN selling his new cookware - I was like "I met him!!" Hope you folks weren't too drenched for your dinner!
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Originally Posted by Dlandmom2
Yeah, they should've had it indoors all along. Glad you were still able to enjoy most of it. I really like Todd English's food in his Vegas restaurant. bluezoo is on my list of things I want to try at WDW.
hopefully next year the weather will cooperate
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Originally Posted by PrincessSharon
Sorry about the rain, but it sounds like a really fun event. I may have to plan my trip next year to attend!
Put it on your to do list!
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Originally Posted by OhToodles!
Wow! Sounds like a great event! Even with the rain. And 4am! I want to hear what time you woke up the next day.
Um, that would be 8:30AM!!!
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Originally Posted by MikeL
Love the look on Jacks face Must Have been about the Time You said you were Jennie Sparrow
Description of food at the festival is making me HUNGRY
food was delish!!! all little water logged at the end.
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Originally Posted by goofyboysmama
Just started, now all caught up! WOW what fun you're having. These are some events that I probably won't be able to do for a long time so I appreciate all the details! (That young whipper snapper with you is hanging in there... or is it the other way around? lol)
trust me, she hung in with me!!!!
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Originally Posted by lazanya
Sounds like you still had a good time despite the rain.
a little (or in this case a whole lot) of rain never hurt anybody at disney!
Despite our late, late night I woke up at 8:30am. I opened the curtain a wee bit to confirm that indeed it was still raining cats and dogs. I then realized I was on vacation and promptly went back to sleep for another hour. Gee Whiz, I love those beds!!!
So at 9:30 we finally got up, dressed and headed to the bus for AK. At this point I was texting unewillow regarding our meeting somewhere in the park. she was over in Camp Minnie Mickey so we planned to head straight there. Good thing I wore my water shoes and poncho because the rain was CRAZEEEE! We were splashing thru puddles and clutching our hoods under our chins to keep the water out. One last text from unewillow let us know she was in a red poncho over by the character meet and greet area. Fresh off her WAT, she was as drenched as we were but it didn't stop us from grabbing a couple of photopass pics with Chip n Dale.
BTW, they make you remove your ponchos for pictures so you don't drench the characters. Makes for a nicer pic too! After a few more moments of chillin' in the rain, we parted ways. It was so awesome to finally meet someone from the boards!! Thanks Chica!
After several attempts to see the FOTLK that day we eventually gave up and hoped to catch it another day. We never did. We swung into ITTBAB for some laughs and headed over to Africa for a two week safari. As Milli Vanilli said, "blame it on the rain" but in a good way because we walked right on the truck!! Well I never! It was great, all the animals were out and about (wont bore you with pics we all have from each and every trip RIGHT!) Except maybe one
I finally saw more than his rump! I was in heaven. We were also on the look out for the new baby elephant but alas, all we saw was his rump - sorry, no pic! hee hee
After the Safari we did the most logical thing and walked the Pangani Trail. We saw Lily chilling with Mom and Dad was lounging around in front of the big window. For some strange reason, all the meerkats were out and about and looking up at something. Usually they are sitting on the rocks doing lookout duty so this was odd.
Afterwards, we hopped on the train over to Rafiki's Planet Watch to meet Jiminy Cricket and Rafiki himself. See below for a pose he chose for us.
Once we had listened to the sounds of the rainforest and explore the rest of CS, we took the train back just in time for the rain to really start coming down again. It was around 3pm and we were starving since we skipped breakfast. I told Em we needed a couple of Yak Attacks and some grub!
There was no wait for a table and we quickly ordered our FABs and some Wok Fried Green Beans with Chili Sauce. Wowie! Extra sauce please and thank you. We also enjoyed a wonton soup each and shared the Maple Tamarind Chicken which was ok and definitely a large enough portion to split! We polished off our Yak Attacks and went back out into the rain and made a bee line for the busses. As we waded towards the exit, my buddy Fred who lives by Tampa text us to say he would be on his way in an hour or two.
Just before we left AK, we decided to pick up a couple of umbrellas because if the rain was going to continue, we would need some protection while enjoying the F&WF. I truly expected the price to astronomical but they were only $10! Bargain!
I don't think we were in the room 5 minutes before we were under the covers in those dreamy beds watching Big Fish on tv. I know I got about two thirds thru before I was out like a light. Em said she was out before that!
We got in a good hour nap before rising and taking showers. I got a call from Fred that he was downstairs by valet and I ran down (in my pjs) to help unload the car. Let's see, remember the care package he had mentioned? It contained Pinnacle vodka, Pinnacle Gummi vodka, a bottle of champagne, four bottles of red wine, a bottle of spiced rum and a gallon of homemade Apple Pie shots! I love Fred. We polished off the French red from the night before and had a couple of Apple Pie shots and a Gummi bear shot (Fred was impressed that we had gummi bears from MNSSHP) as we got ready for the night's festivities. Fred and Em were going to Epcot and explore while I attended the Party for the Senses.
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Sorry for all the rain. I'm glad you had a good day anyway.
I loved Milli Vanilli. Many many moons ago my room mate and I would get home around 2:30 a.m. after work and play "Girl You Know It's True" until the sun came up. Too bad they weren't for real.
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Just found your report, and I must say, I wanna go to WDW with you! Sounds like a blast. I am always up for staying up late and partying, but with 2 kids it never happens, lol.
My DH and I were at AK once when it poured and took the safari. It was the best one we ever went on, the animals were super active.
Please keep writing, I am living vicariously through you!!
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OMG, the rain that day was nuts!!! We were supposed to be in AK - bummer, we could've met up - but we opted out of it. Missed our lunch at Y&Y too so I enjoyed hearing about yours!
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