Food & Wine

So the day after that was more than slightly insane. We had a bunch of huge parties come in for dinner, so we got a little crowded and backed up, plus prep for the Food & Wine Festival was going on in the kitchen so THAT was crowded, too. But we survived, and yesterday I had a day off! Yay!

The bummer part of this was that I had the day off so that I could go on the trip to get a social security number. Joys. This meant that I was on a bus into Orlando at 6:15 AM. That was more than a little painful. I was mostly asleep the whole way there and the whole way back. The only reason I wasn't asleep during the actual process was because the building was Antarctic. And I was wearing a tank top and shorts. Anyway, so I came home, clicked around on the internet until early afternoon, and then I was meeting up with Rob and Rachel to go preview the Food & Wine Festival at EPCOT. This is where all the countries in World Showcase, plus a bunch of countries that aren't normally found in World Showcase, have a little booth where you can get a few different appetizers and beverages from that country. So that was a fun time. Before we hit the countries, though, we had to do a couple of rides. First stop was Soarin', since neither Rob nor I had ever done it before. It was a blast! It's like being in a hang-glider over California, and you get to see everything! I think my favourite part is when you're flying over an orange orchard and you can smell the oranges. Then we had to do Test Track, because Rob had never done that before. We put him on the wrong side of the car, though, so the ride didn't have quite the impact Rachel and I wanted... On to World Showcase! Our first stop was Greece for spinach puffs, which were amazing (sorry Ros, but theirs are better than yours), and then once we were in Canada (which is right next to Greece, didn't you know?) we met up with Rhonda and Deanna to head the rest of the way around the world. We stopped in Japan, Germany, Poland (Perogies!!!! Mom, yours are way better, and Rachel and I would both like some if you are indeed coming to visit me in March).... Deanna and Rhonda stopped in China, and Deanna stopped in Italy..... I don't quite remember where all else we stopped. And then when we were done and back in Canada, we felt all patriotic and decided to see the CircleVision movie. And we sang. Because we could. Then I made everyone traipse back to the UK because we'd passed the Ireland booth earlier and I seriously wanted the lava cake with Bailey's they had there. I was good with my drinks, though! I was jonesing for a margarita, so that was the only time I bought a drink from a booth, in Mexico.

After that we headed back home so that a bunch of them could watch Grey's Anatomy (and I was going to watch Supernatural, but one of my roommates was already using the living room, so I have to look up the episode online later tonight), and get ready for the Throw In to welcome the newest members of our group. That's right, I'm not one of the new people anymore! Yay! So that was a lot of fun, and merchandise is happy that they finally have a guy, because it is currently staffed entirely by females. Then it was 1:00 AM, I was dead tired, so everyone dispersed and I came home and crashed.

Today we're heading to a waterpark. Yay waterpark! I'll let you know how that goes.