Food and Wine Festival in Epcot

Last Thursday I had the day off and so did a couple of my friends. So, we went to the cast preview of the Food and Wine festival over in Epcot. Anybody, including guests, could go to the festival, but we could use our main entrance passes to get up to 3 people into the park without having it count towards our 6 days and 3 people pass. Sounds confusing, but basically we could have gotten 3 people in for free to Epcot, which included the Food and Wine Festival.

The world showcase has the countries that are year round like Mexico, Norway, United Kingdom, China, Japan, Morocco, Germany, Italy, and France, but for the Food and Wine Festival there are about 50 (I think) other countries that are brought in. There are little booths where they have sample portions of food from that country and then a few drink options (wine, beer or liquor depending on the country). It is really fun because they have Puerto Rico, Brazil, Ireland, Poland, Australia and a lot more. It is kind of pricey so my friends and I didn't go to crazy. I tried a tangerine mimosa and falafel from Morocco (which is funny because Morocco is always there, but they don't always have the tangerine mimosas!) and I got a lava cake from actually I can't remember which country haha. My friend got Godiva liqueur coffee and I tried some of hers and it was delicious.

The festival runs from October 1 through the middle of November, so I think attendance will start picking up again.

Funny story: while we were in Epcot we stopped and said hi to Princess Aurora over in France. We stopped to take a picture and she asked us if the 4 of us girls have princes. All of us, but my friend Sarah answered yes. So Princess Aurora proceeded to tell Sarah how to find a prince. You go into the woods and just start singing, but you have to be barefoot! then your prince will come and you will live happily ever after. It was super sweet and pretty funny actually.

Overall we just had a lot of fun hanging out and these girls are my best friends down here! We have had a ton of fun together and we are planning more adventures to the opera, Savannah, and more!

I am excited for my parents to visit next weekend and then my boyfriend Ryan will be here the weekend after that! October is a busy month for me!