Kimmers127
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Dec 1, 2008
8/28 SNACKS, DINNER
After Trails End we went to spend some time in Epcot - technically our first park of the trip except for a quick ride on HM in MK the night before! We tried Ellen before she leaves, rode FEA for the first time with a very short SB wait, and shopped/watched some entertainment in WS. It wasn't long though before we were both quite parched, being August and all........there's only one thing to do in WS when you're parched!
Steve wanted to go with our France staple, but we were so very far from there and I couldn't wait. I decided to try something new (excuse my hair in this picture, I know it's scary. But it was HOT!)
White sangria from Morocco
I love sangria and while I've had it at Restaurant Marrakesh, I had no idea they served it outside at the juice bar . It was really, really good. Steve thought it tasted like apple juice but he doesn't know anything-didn't taste like any apple juice I've ever had! It was pretty fruity though for not having any fruit in it. I haven't had the Marrakesh sangria since Nov. so I may be wrong, but this tasted different. Not better or worse, just different. We continued or trek making a couple stops and eventually got Steve his Grey Goose slush
If you've never had one before, I like to describe it as "sunshine in a glass"-or plastic martini cup. It really tastes like lemonade and to be honest with you, even as a non-huge vodka drinker I don't taste the vodka much! So it's obviously Grey Goose vodka and......something lemony which I know but can't think of right now and am too lazy to look up
By the time we got to the UK and stopped to watch British Invasion I needed something else, so we got a Bass Ale and drank it while listening to the band. I'd tried Bass before and I'm glad it was what Steve wanted, because I loved it. I don't have a picture of that but I'm sure you all know what beer looks like! However I do have a picture of the Practically Perfect Mary Poppins meeting somewhere I'd never seen her meeting before
Weird? Or am I out of the loop with character location moves?? Last trip we saw her over on the edge of the UK gardens near where Alice meets; this is back where the band plays outside of a store on the sidewalk
We were all over WS in no particular order this day, and eventually our breakfast wore off and we needed something other than adult beverages. We weren't quite ready for a meal though so we opted for something else in France
Ice cream from L'Artisan des Glaces
I got a scoop of coconut white chocolate and one of cinnamon, caramelized apple & crumble crunch, (that's mine with the spoon in it) while Steve got the apple crumble crunch and a scoop of banana-lime. As good as the apple is, the coconut white chocolate, IMO, is way better. I've also had the chocolate mint from there which normally I love, but the cwc is my favorite of all. Steve thought the banana lime was alright but I liked it, I thought the flavors worked well together.
After the ice cream we were done at Epcot for the day and went back to Wilderness Lodge for a bit. We didn't have an ADR that night but we were going to AK for some nighttime entertainment and my plan was to eat at Harambe Market. I'd wanted to eat there last Nov. but nobody else did.........
We arrived 6, 6:15ish. We had a 7:25 FP for the safari so headed right to Harambe Market because we were hungry! I knew what I was going to order:
Beef and Pork Sausage:
Fried in curried corn batter, served with black-eyed pea, corn, & tomato salad.
I know ladies, that's a BIG sausage!!!And it was one of the better sausages I've had. I love corn dogs and figured I'd love the batter, which wasn't as sweet as your every day corn dog but still extremely good, moist, and corn-y. The sausage itself was flavorful if not a tad dry, so a little mustard helped out. I also enjoyed the salad which was refreshing.
Steve got the Tikka Masala chicken
Served with rice, green papaya slaw and black eyed pea, corn & tomato salad
Steve enjoyed this and I LOVED it. I also just realized they have a tikka masala chicken dish at Yak & Yeti, so I think we're definitely going there in Nov. It was spicy but not on-fire spicy.
Steve had water to drink and I got another sangria, but red this time
Red sangria with Van der Hum tangerine liquer
Normally I prefer white but this was very tasty, and more fruity than my earlier sangria from Morocco.
We rode the safari at dusk and then made our way over to the theater for the first Jungle Book show. We went over to the Thirsty Bar across from the theater, and look what I found!
That's a Kari, or @kastoney as any of you avid dining report readers know. We watched the JB show together with our drinks - beer for Steve and I, a lemonade for Kari's daughter Casey and some very fancy pink drink from the Bar for Kari and her husband Jason.
Before going back to our room I ran into Roaring Forks for the 2nd of my 3 Magic Bars - and my night was complete!
Coming up next is Skipper's Canteen and our BESTEST meal of the trip
This is so off topic but I love your Jungle Book tank top!
Just kidding! 
That Platinum Package sounds awesome! 
My younger son saw the pictures and insisted I book it lol. I hope we both get the same stuff and I really hope you enjoy it as much as Steve and I did!
Lots of it. Same deal for DS which we hadn't visited at all. We ended up going back and forth between Whispering Canyon Cafe and Artists Point, and eventually settled on WCC. We ate here for dinner a few years ago with the boys and while we didn't love it, we liked it enough. And did I say it was dark, thundering, lightning and POURING??? Sounded like staying in was our best option. I made an ADR for 6:45.
not that I would indulge in that or anything (...anywhere but at wdw.... lol).
I tried to figure out if I could somehow have it next month but, just don't think it'll happen. But whenever my next trip is? Oh, I'm gettin' me some!
I did feel bad about blowing off our WCC ADR but hey, we were without kids, enjoying ourselves, and it just FELT RIGHT to eat there! And lucky for us it totally ended up being the right choice.
For me I really had nothing bad; I'll go with least fancy meal and say my sandwich at Roaring Forks, but it was still very good.
