Party Mode at Epcot’s Food & Wine

 

UPDATE: This draft was written at a more appropriate time but never posted. so you can and will enjoy it now.

Of course, if we didn’t talk about Epcot’s International Food & Wine Festival are we even a blog? This year’s Food & Wine Festival featured many delectable items new and old from around the world. While we tried to get pictures of everything we tried… for some reason all of our pictures from the food seemed to be missing bite sized pieces. But luckily we were still able to get plenty of pictures of our, mostly unconsumed, Wines and other Party Mode style drinks.

Of course these drinks were not all consumed in one day of Food and Wining. We did though have to make back to back to back trips to Epcot the fist three days of Food & Wine to ensure we would get our pass holder commemorative port wine glass! (mission accomplished)

After trekking around the countries time after time again, we are going to find a few favorites among the long list of event alcohols available. Kaitie’s favorite was the beer flights from the craft beer stand. She really likes beer and I really like her so it works. We couldn’t just settle for one or the other though, so we got both of them and tried them all! Kaitie also likes the snack mix.

 We couldn’t go to food & WINE without trying a selection of their available wines. The picture at the top of the article features the festival Chardonnay and Cabernet. The picture below features a white and red wine from the Artistry of Cheese and Wine stand. also featured is the cheese platter from the same stand.

Kaitie also likes her cheese… are you seeing a trend here?

Of course, what meal is complete without dessert? Or even better, Dessert flavored alcohol!

While Kaitie was not present, I did enjoy some awesome beer from the Germany stand!

The Chew-Tini, and Sangria from the Sustainable Chew stand were also delectable choices! Not to mention the Chew-Tini was great to help cool off in the Florida heat! Overall, we definitely got our fill at this years Food and Wine!

February 25, 2016February 25, 2016 by Lake Alexander Categories: epcot, food & wine, Walt Disney WorldTags: beer, Disney, Epcot, food, food and wine, liquor, Walt Disney World, wdw, wine Leave a comment

As Time Goes By

So here we are still alive and kicking. But the real question is, where have we been? Well of course the answer is Disney… you know on weekends and in between here and there. So here is as much as you have missed… Or as much as I can remember by pulling up my Tumblr…

Kaitie ran what is known to the general mass as “Whine” and Dine and the only picture I got was this rotated blurry photo of the info guide.  On the bright side it did get me excited to “RunDisney” myself (more to come on that). 

There is a pretty cool article about all the fun Food and Wine shenanigans on my draft! I’ll update and post that so we can all drool and count down until W&D 2016!

For Halloween, we went as Ash and Pikachu! It was pretty cool…. I think.

Valentines day,

A little more of a story here. Back in the days when Lake and Kaitie were just brewing and crushes were ensuing, We had (what we now call) our official first date. Unfortunately neither of us were sure it was a date back then. On top of that, When we went to see the princesses and Rapunzel asked me if Kaitie was my princess… I said no… yeah, I will perpetually feel terrible about it don’t worry. BUT, to make it up to her  (or start to), this year we went and saw the princesses again so I could inform them of Kaitie’s princess status!

We also ate at Skipper’s Cantina on Valentines Day! I was a little worried because it had gotten mixed reviews but those were swayed quickly. While the experience is not quite as ‘in your face’ as whispering canyon, you do get to sit back and enjoy the marvelously corny jokes and puns made by the servers. The atmosphere inside is very cool and fun while also being elegant and unique. While the atmosphere and jokes are fun and all, the food is the real show. I got the Skips Mac and Cheese with Ground Beef and it was probably one of the best bowls of Mac and Cheese I have ever consumed. Kaitie got the Rice Bowl with Tofu and also enjoyed it very much!

Well I believe that about covers most of the important things you missed! There were a few other fun trips in there somewhere but no pictures so it didn’t happen.

February 25, 2016February 25, 2016 by Lake Alexander Categories: food & wine, runDisney, Uncategorized, Walt Disney WorldTags: As time goes by, Ash, cantina, Cinderella, dine, food, food and wine, Ketchum, Pikachu, princess, Rapunzel, skippers, valentines day, wine Leave a comment