Day 1, Part 5: Back to Epcot

We last left off taking an afternoon break back at the Boardwalk to finish unpacking and to rest a bit.

After a nice long break in the room we were ready to head back to Epcot around 5:30.

At this point the weather had gotten worse than earlier, it had become a more steady rain and there were some strong gusty winds making it feel even colder, so it was pretty miserable out. The good news is, Epcot was pretty much empty due to this gross weather, which was actually really nice since we were usually the only people in the art booths while browsing so we could actually see everything and really spend time admiring all the art. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

Once we got into Epcot, our first stop was over to ride Remy with a DAS we had booked earlier in the day. I’m glad we got on this evening since this ride would go down a lot the remainder of our trip. Actually a lot of the rides seemed to struggle this week, Spaceship Earth was closed almost the entire time we were there and other rides were down a lot more frequently than we’re used to seeing. Maybe the cold was impacting them somehow?

Anyways, Remy was super fun as always!

After the ride we decided to browse some of the art booths. I ended up getting a large print of the festival poster with the characters in the 1980s costumes in front of SE, I also got some smaller prints as well, one of the Orange Bird, one with Remy, and a set of postcards of prints I loved but couldn’t justify buying all four of the large prints, they were the ones with the monorail in Epcot, Pirates, Jungle Cruise, and the Main Street Electrical Parade. And bonus, the artist was there that evening and signed them for me!

The weather just kept getting worse as the night went on, by the time we were done browsing a bunch of the art booths it had turned into a torrential downpour and the winds had gotten even stronger. We decided we needed to go indoors somewhere to get a break, so opted to head over to Morocco since the food booth there is indoors and they have some indoor seating.

On the way my mom kept trying to open her umbrella, but was having trouble since the button needs to be pressed fairly hard to get it to open. Well, at one point I look over to see her trying to open it, but for some reason she had the umbrella aiming right at her face, so if it opened it would have hit her right in the eye! I quickly grabbed it from her to avoid her from giving herself a black eye!

We eventually got to Morocco, and not surprising, we were the only ones there. We quickly ordered the chicken kabob and the avocado-coconut custard tart. We grabbed a table inside and settled in to enjoy our food.

At this point my stomach was being a bit grumpy (think I was still feeling the food poisoning from the previous night) and all that sounded appealing was very light food like veggies and some lean meat, so the kabob fit the bill nicely. I did try a bit of the tart, and my goodness that thing is good! If my stomach was feeling better I would have gotten my own!

While eating we discussed what we wanted to do the rest of the evening. I was still a bit hungry, but really didn’t want anything too heavy. The weather was also getting worse by the minute, so we decided to start making our way out, and we would stop at any food booth that had food that appealed to me. We also decided we wanted to pick up some chocolate to enjoy with the wine we had picked up earlier.

So our first stop after Morocco was Japan to browse the store there. I ended up picking up some new chopsticks since my dog keeps eating mine, we got the orange KitKats (so ridiculously good), these chocolate covered pretzel sticks, and mom got some green tea.

Goodies in hand we continued towards the exit. We checked out the various food booths we passed, but they all had super heavy items that didn’t really appeal to me that evening. We eventually made it to the IG an no luck with the food, but we figured we could swing by the Boardwalk Deli on the way to the room to see if they had a salad I could grab.

Before leaving the park, we popped into Les Halles to pick up some chocolate croissants for breakfast the following morning.

It was about 7:30 when we left the park, so earlier than we originally planned, but we were frozen and wet and frankly tired of being out in the rain and super gusty winds!

On the way back we stopped at the deli and thankfully they had salads, so we each got the mixed berry salad with chicken. We then swung by the front desk to request more towels since our room only had two bath towels and no hand towels. We also requested wine glasses.

Requests made, we made our way back to our room. A few minutes later the towels and wine glasses were dropped off. We had a nice relaxing evening in the room enjoying the salads, wine, and of course some of the chocolate we bought in Japan. Most important, we were dry!

Next up: Another Rainy Epcot Morning!