It’s another friend filled day - Part 2
We stood and
chatted for a few minutes and then made our way over to Test Track
to meet up with Michelle, Angelina and Vito.
We waited at
the exit for them and it did not take long and they were walking
towards us.
All of us had
Fastpasses for Living With The Land and we slowly strolled over to
The Land Pavillion, and down to the ride.
The regular
line was pretty long, so, thank god for Fastpass.
We needed to
wait a boat or two until we could get on one that could accommodate
Angie’s wheelchair, but then we were off. All of us love this ride,
it never gets old.
Once we got off
the idea of going to the DVC lounge was thrown in, but they were to
close in a few minutes, so, after Michelle’s son and her daughter in
law, Hannah, had said their goodbyes the rest of us walked over to
Journey into Imagination to spend some time with Figment.
But when we got
off it was time for Pamela and us to head towards France as we had
a reservation at Chef de France, while Michelle and Vito wanted to
stroll around World Showcase with Angie and then find a spot to
watch Illuminations and we would find them to watch it with them.
But there was still time to have a few Photopass Photos taken along
the way!
When we arrived
at the restaurant they had a long line of people waiting, so we
found a bench and sat down.
We were
surprised when after about 5 minutes a castmember asked us to follow
her.
And follow her
we did.
We went all
through the restaurant to the very back, where she looked around,
shook her head and motioned us to follow her again.
We went right
back to where we had come from.
The castmember
talked to the greeter, then came back, told us to stay put and
walked through the restaurant again in search of a table for us. She
finally found one and we walked through the restaurant again.
We were seated
towards the back of the restaurant, handed a menu and we were on our
own.
Even though we
all had studied the menu beforehand, it still took us a while to
decide on what we wanted to order. Pamela had asked for an allergy
menu and since she does not eat meat either, the server had to go
back and ask the chef if what she wanted to order was okay for her.
When he came
back he finally took our order and soon after he brought our drinks,
water for all of us and two glasses of
Pinot Blanc for
Tom and myself and some freshly baked
baguette and
some butter. Tom and I weren’t overly hungry so we just tasted the
baguette, but didn’t eat too much of it.
It took a
little while for our main courses to be served, but we had so much
to catch up on that time just flew by.
And then our
food was served.
Tom had ordered
the
Canard a
l'orange, duck breast and leg confit, sweet potato puree, zucchini
and sauce a l'orange. I had wanted to try the
Filet de boeuf
grille, Grilled tenderloin of beef with green peppercorn sauce
potato au gratin and green beans.
It didn’t quite
look like what I had expected, but it was really nice, so no
complaints.
Since we were
on the Disney Dining Plan we were treated to some dessert as well
and there was something that looked interesting, the
Gateau au
chocolat, chocolate layer cake with chocolate mousse, chocolate
sauce and vanilla ice cream. It was chocolate overload and I was not
able to finish it. Tom had ordered the
Creme Brulee,
which he really enjoyed.
It took a while
until we received our bill, but once it was paid we got in touch
with Michelle and started walking towards them. They had found an
empty bench between Japan and Morocco, so it was just a short walk.
Tom and I were
stuffed and after sitting on the bench for a while I started to
become pretty sleepy.
And while we
still waited for the fireworks to go off, Su-Lynn (chunkymonkey),
who was at WDW for the Annual Passholder Preview of Star Wars
Galaxy’s Edge, came by and we chatted for a short while until she
had to leave to meet up with her husband again.
A short while
later Illuminations started and we all enjoyed the show.
Little did we
know then, that it would be the last time we saw the complete show.
We very slowly
followed the masses to the exit and when we got there we said
goodbye to Michelle and Vito and Pamela showed us a nice little
shortcut to our car as she was parked just two rows away from us.
Instead of
going to the right, then left and along the parking lot and then all
the way down to our car, she showed us a path that went straight
ahead to the right, then a sharp left and we were at the back end of
the parking lot.
We marched all
the way down to our cars and when we had gotten to our row we said
goodbye to Pamela and walked to our car.
And then we
tried to leave the parking lot.
It was a
madhouse and it took us about 20 minutes to finally leave Epcot, and
it had taken us more than an hour from where we had watched the
fireworks to our resort.
Needless to say
that all the parking spots close to the resort was full and we
needed to park further away.
When we got
back to the room Tom pulled down his bed and soon we were ready for
bed.
Another
beautiful day at Walt Disney World had come to an end.
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