We had the luxury of sleeping in a little this morning; although I don’t do that too well. Around 7:30 or so I got up and got things going. We wanted to be at World Showcase when it opened at 11 or close to it. We bussed to Epcot and casually made our way back to the entrance near Canada. It’s nice to not rush off to get fast passes for a change. We even stopped in Club Cool to have some Coke from China; love the watermelon flavor!
We started out in Canada walking through the shops and up the steps and down to the movie, Oh Canada. We had just missed one and the next one is in 14 minutes; again no hurry, so we waited. This movie has Martin Short and it’s kind of funny. It was close to our seating time in France for lunch so we bypassed looking around in the United Kingdom for now and headed across the bridge to France. Only in Disney can you go from Canada through United Kingdom to France! Chefs De France had just opened and we were called shortly after the doors opened. We were seated in the room with all the windows that you see as you walk up to the bakery. I can’t believe we have never eaten here before; I always wanted to and just never bothered. At first we had a female waitress but she came over and introduced us to Johann, who would be our waiter. Works for me, Johann is very cute! I have to really listen when they talk as it is a little hard to understand with their thick French accent. First they brought us some French baguette bread and butter and it was warm and sooo good! Jake and I had the ham and cheese sandwich and Joe had a mahi mahi sandwich. Ours had a small salad that came with it and it was also very good. As we were eating, Remy came around! What a hoot this rat is! He stopped at our table second ; I taped a little bit of him, very cute and very clever how they do this. Joe and I decided to have some crème brulee’; what better place than France! It was a large portion and unbelievably good.
We headed over to The American Adventure since it was about 1:30 and I thought there would be a show about then. We heard Voices of Liberty finishing up as we walked in. We walked upstairs to the theatre entrance and sat down in front. Some little girl was sitting in our row and every time Jake moved, she moved, lol. Finally her sister came and got her and made her stay near them. She had the cutest little laugh, that it made me laugh. Once the show started, you never knew she was there. It was a great show as usual. We looked around in the store afterwards and I bought Jake a Boston Red Sox shirt that he wanted. As I was paying, my phone rang and it was Pat! She was back at her room and was ready to go to the Cast Connection Store.
We all walked back over to Boardwalk and Pat was already pulling up front with the car. Once Jake figured out how to fold the seat back up, we took Joe and Jake back to The Fort and Pat and I headed off backstage to the cast member store. First we stopped at Disney University in the Company D store; lots of cute things in here; then we went over to Cast Connection. First thing we noticed is, they are selling food in here now! Apples were only .25, OJ was $2.50 (compared to $4.99 in the resorts stores) and water was only .60 ! Pat bought a few things, I only bought some OJ and pretzels. There was really nothing there this time around. Pat drove me back to the Fort and I showed her how to get back out again. I know it can be confusing when you’re not used to it and this resort is literally a mile from one end to the other.
We chilled out awhile back here at the RV; some new neighbors had moved in around us and they were just loving the dogs. I gave the one lady Kenny’s number for the carts. They were renting two from Disney at $63 a day each!
We had no plans for dinner and Joe had been wanting to get nachos so we headed down to Crocketts Tavern. The settlement area was just hopping with activity. A Hoop Dee Doo show was lining up, people were playing (plastic) horseshoes, the playground was full of giggling kids, carts were whizzing by left and right and a horse was pulling a carriage. I asked about getting a table for wings and nachos and she said it would be awhile unless we could find an empty high top table, which we did. We sat there and sat there and no one came over to us. Finally, after about 15 minutes, Joe went up to the bar and ordered some drinks and the food for us. There was a girl named Barb working there. I did not think she was that friendly a Cm as they usually are at the Fort. She sort of made us feel like we were bothering her. When she came to bring the food over to our table, she practically slammed it down; she said it was hot. Jake went to take it from her and she said “I SAID IT WAS HOT!” Yikes! It finally slowed down in there but we never got our drinks refilled by anyone. I had to take my empty glass all the way up to the buffet area and ask for a refill at the register. He said our server would take care of us; I said, we do not have a server, lol. Everything was really good but the service was lacking. If it were up to me, I would not have left a tip but Joe did anyways.
We were talking about what to do for the rest of the evening and decided to take the dogs over to the dog park while it was still light and not so hot. We walked them over there and again, the Fort was just hopping with activity everywhere you went. You could smell food on the grills, bike riders going back and forth, people everywhere! When we got to the dog park, a few dogs were just leaving and our dogs had a stare down with them, lol. We stayed a little longer since the dogs had a lot of energy to burn off and it was a nice evening, not hot at all. Again, Cassie insists on carrying her Frisbee herself. Jake had decided to play basketball for a little while while we were at the dog park.
Another fun day; I wish time would slow down!
