food IS a theme park
Today’s THE DAY! The 2024 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival has opened and we’re in the park all day — eating and drinking everything, checking out the new merchandise, and MORE!
2024 Food and Wine Festival
We wait all year long for this festival and it has a LOT to offer. There are plenty of food booths with tasty items, merchandise items to grab (of course), and even concerts to watch. And if you’re curious about it all, you’ve come to the right place because we’re bringing you with us as we eat, see, and do everything at the 2024 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival!
We’re jumping for joy friends, because EPCOT’s Food and Wine Festival FINALLY starts tomorrow!
EPCOT Food & Wine Festival
Words can’t express how excited we are to finally try out what these 25+ food booths and EPCOT spots have to offer us for this year. Menus for this year’s festival were released a few weeks ago, and we’ve been planning out our pathways around the first day of the festival ever since. Just today, we were in the parks checking out if menus were finally up around the different booths (many of them were!) and we noticed an area we’ve never seen before!
Breaking snack news!
McDonald’s at Disney World
McDonald’s has recently released a lot of new menu items, and season menu items have started to make their return, like the Pumpkin and Creme Pie! Well, the CEO of McDonald’s recently spilled that a popular international McDonald’s item will be making its way onto U.S. menus soon!
As we get closer and closer to Halloween, we are keeping our eyes peeled for fun spooky season items.
Magic Kingdom
We thought it would be fun to put together a few different baskets for your kids this Halloween. They’re like Easter baskets but filled with cute Halloween items. From books to pajamas, you can add all these items for only $30 to one of the fun baskets. Check out the three boo-basket ideas to pick up your kiddos for a fun, not-so-spooky surprise!
This is not a drill, people! EPCOT’s Food and Wine Festival starts THIS Friday!
EPCOT Food and Wine Festival (2023)
We can’t wait to try out all of this year’s offerings at the 25+ food booths (plus the offerings at the year-round EPCOT locations!) AND tell you about each and every one of them so you know what to expect when you visit. We’re big fans of making sure we’re dressed for the occasion when a new festival begins, and if you feel the same, we have a shameless self-plug — we think our Food and Wine Festival shirts are PERFECT for this year’s event!
Hollywood Studios is SUCH a fun park to visit. It’s a great way to step into the movies, including some of your favorite movies, like Toy Story and Star Wars.
Tower of Terror
But we also like to visit The Twilight Zone there and visit a hotel that has a very sketchy elevator or ride to an Aerosmith concert on Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster. We also love seeing the Muppets (and we really hope they’ll be sticking around for a while) and just the whole general vibe of the park. But what makes a good Hollywood Studios souvenir? Well, we’re going to tell you.
There is one ride at Disney World that always has rumors looming about a potential re-theme.
Hollywood Studios
Disney World has been updating attractions lately. For example, Splash Mountain turned into Tiana’s Bayou Adventure. The Country Bear Jamboree closed and re-opened with a new show of the Bears singing covers of Disney songs. We also got the unfortunate news that we would be losing the Rivers of America and Tom Sawyer’s Island to make way for a brand new Cars Land. The difference with these announcements is that we got notice of the changes way before they closed.Â
We got to experience a very special event recently!
Moonlight Magic
We went to Disney Vacation Club’s exclusive event for members, Moonlight Magic, at Hollywood Studios. Moonlight Magic events are complimentary for members and take place at different parks throughout the year. Members can sign up and reserve their spots on the Disney Vacation Club Website. We are so grateful that we got to check out this event that gives Disney Vacation Club members and their families a chance to enjoy attractions, special character interactions, entertainment, and snacks after hours!
It’s been less than a month since Hurricane Debby turned Tropical Storm Debby hit Florida.
Tropical Storm Debby at Magic Kingdom
The worst of the storm mostly hit Northern Florida while its bands swept across Disney World and Orlando causing lots of rain and storms. The parks never closed, but many flights were delayed and canceled at the Orlando International Airport. The National Hurricane Center continuously monitors the tropical areas for developing storms and hurricanes as Florida continues to be in hurricane season. Now, the NHC has been following two tropical disturbances in the Atlantic for possible development — here’s what you need to know.
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