Well it looks great! I put some low lights in mine during the late Spring and Summer. If I do it in the winter, I look cheap and easy.
Hi Chesty LaRue!
Those experts just don't want you as competition. Have you read some of the garbage out there? Hell, if Oprah can have a magazine and Rachel Ray can have a cooking show, so can you!
You are far more entertaining.
Was your New Year's resolution to be too nice to other people? You're making me blush, but I appreciate the kind words.
I'm entertaining? Wow ... I never thought of it that way - I'm just trying to have fun and let everyone else share in it.
Brenda!
I know I have fallen off the update wagon .. The holidays ran us over so bad I felt like a cast member waiting to give out glasses at PFTS when the doors open!
At this point I was living off the Jay and Brenda reviews .. It's hard being so good at what you do.. It lets some of us (ME) get LAZY!
The holidays hit us hard, too ... you'll notice I didn't update much either. But I would really like to read about the rest of your trip so I do hope that you jump back on the wagon and start posting your reviews again!
Why did I read that before eating my lunch
Now I really don't want my sandwich, jax and pepsi
I want some wine and cheese!!!!!
Shrooms, why do they have to ruin food with them
It was yummy! And I'm right there with ya on the 'shrooms, but as long as I can fish them out and give them away I'm happy enough.
You weren't spaced out, well maybe you were, but you didn't miss anything.
I had a new camera on this trip that took some getting used to so without porn I decided why bother? I can say we were very impressed with Fulton's Crab House this past trip, ate there twice. Raglan Road was another very impressive meal and the BOMA breakfast rocked!
Lorie - I DID console myself by reading your review.....
Trust me ... I was spaced out to the extreme.
Glad to hear Raglan Road and Boma didn't disappoint, especially since they were places you tried based on other people's experiences.
Thanks Hedy!
"Stinktonian" = funny! LOL
It's amazing how different experiences can be. BriarRosie's was not so good, but yours sounded nice. I think I'd even eat those options! LOL
Thanks for the update!
Thanks for reading!
And it is amazing how different an experience can be even at the same event - she and I both had very different perspectives from the Kitchen Conversation we attended the following week.
I'm a lurker and was just catching up and was wondering what the ages of your kids are? We don't do any of the events like Bendy, but we have been taking our kids since 2005 to F&W and they love trying the different kinds of food at the stands. They were 9 and 12 then. But they will now try all types of foods that they wouldn't have before we took them to F&W Fest. They really enjoy it too! So sad
that we won't be able to attend this year.
So, just a thought, take the kids and expose them to all the fun of the different food booths that are around. And if you use the Disney transportation and don't have to drive, the parents can enjoy the wines that are offered and no worries about driving!
Welcome de-lurked lurker!!
I'm very sorry you won't make it to F&W 2009 (I like that it rhymes) ... there will be plenty of us headed down in October and the more the merrier!
Yum. If I were there, you could have handed all of that mushroom stuffing to me.
Your lunch sounded wonderful.
We might have to break down and try one or two next year, especially since we've decided that we're done with PFTS for awhile. I hope the 'powers that be' working on Food & Wine Fest 2009 have listened to and taken into consideration all of the feedback that they've gotten from the 2008 festival.
I'm ready for more foodie goodness!
Hiya Michelle! Happy anniversary a wee bit early!
We're done with PFTS for a while, too. Even though I'd love to attend on my birthday, Jay and I have both decided that for the $$$ being charged we can do something else that will be more enjoyable. I do hope there are more regional lunches or signature lunches offered this fall - we'd do those in a heartbeat.
One of my favourite comedy authors is Bill Bryson and I think laugh as much at your writing - maybe more - because some of his books are really not that funny. I think a humerous book on food and travel to some interesting place would have a very good shot of being published because people can't seem to get enough of food and travel books.
Oh ... that's the nicest thing you could say to a dork like me.
I've had that discussion with Jay before but then I usually second-guess myself ... mostly with the question: why would anyone out in the real world pick up a book written by a no-name about her and her hubby's food travels?
I been a-waitin' and a-waitin' to hear about the parking lot smackdown ever since you teased it way back at the beginning of part one! Well, to be honest, I guess I actually forgot that I was a-waitin' in the interim, but I was a-waitin' nonethless. 
I also really liked the look of that nekkid pie. Mmmmmmmmm.
Hi Chesty LaRue! 
for us to take them to F&W but that's not happening for several reasons. DD15 plays varsity tennis, and fall is tennis season; it's too hard to pull them out of school now that they're in middle & high school; and then there's the fact that I want to do F&W sans children 
