Lee and I are back at Walt Disney World. It’s a short trip for us – arrive Thursday night and leave Monday afternoon – so we’ll be concentrating on the Food and Wine Festival. We are staying at Boardwalk Villas, so that makes it easier since we can walk to Epcot! In fact we didn’t even rent a car this time – we are using Disney’s Magical Express instead.

We’d planned to spend several hours at Epcot this evening enjoying Round 1 of “Eating Around the World”, but a two-and-a-half hour delay in our connecting flight kinda ruined that plan when we didn’t even arrive at the Orlando airport until almost 7:00. But we have to give Disney’s Magical Express credit – we were on a bus just a few minutes after checking in with them, and the bus was on the road within 10 minutes after that. We were the first stop, and arrived at the Boardwalk about 8:05. By 8:15 we were in our room, where we dropped our bags and headed off to Epcot. I had to renew my annual pass, but there was no line, and that only took a few minutes, so we were actually in the park by 8:25!

It was a warm night, and we hadn’t changed out of the long pants we’d worn on the plane so we were a little warm…but we were hungry!

Our first stop was the Ireland booth, where Lee had the Fisherman’s Pie that had come so highly recommended. And it did not disappoint – he really enjoyed it – especially with a Guiness to go with it!

I had the Cheese Plate, which included three kinds of cheese: Aged Irish Cheddar, Dubliner and Ivernia, some brown bread and apple chutney. The cheeses were very good – one especially had a really nice bite to it – I assume that was the Aged Irish Cheddar.

Next it was off to New Zealand where we each got the Lamb Slider with Tomato Relish. This was different than it had been in past years – it was a ground lamb patty (more like a large meatball) instead of slices of lamb. It was good, but I prefer the slices of lamb.

We still had a little time before the food booths closed, so our last stop was Canada. Where we ordered one of everything. 🙂 First was the Cheddar Cheese Soup – Lee really likes this but it’s a little too rich for me.

We also had the Maple Glazed Salmon with Lentils. The lentils were cold, which I found surprising, but I liked them.

The Spicy Chicken Sausage and Polenta was another selection from Canada. I thought the sausage was a little too spicy, but I enjoyed the polenta.

The Maple Candy was two pieces of maple-leaf-shaped maple sugar candy. I’ve always like this, but it’s very sweet. This didn’t have a particularly strong maple flavor, though.

I also had glass of the Riesling, which was fine, but not my favorite.

Illuminations was just starting as we finished eating. We watched it from Canada, since that’s where we were, and we remembered why we don’t usually watch it from there, because the smoke mostly blows that direction.

By 9:20 we were walking out of Epcot. So in an hour we’d renewed an annual pass, eaten at three food booths and watched Illuminations – not bad, huh?

We still wanted something else to eat so we stopped at Seashore Sweets and got a couple of chocolate milkshakes.

I think this had to be our shortest park day ever, but we still managed to do quite a bit in a short time!

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