August 17, 2019

 

 

 

 

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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