Your dinner looks good. The room is very nice. Get some good rest so you are raring to go tomorrow!
Thank you Usnuz. The Vietnam food was nice yesterday, but some of my relatives didn't think that it was that great. They wanted to eat Vietnamese food that day and it was nice. I got to go to EPCOT this morning and it was really busy today. I will tell you what happen later on this post. At least it didn't rain today, but it was really cloudy all day today.
The Pho soup looks like it could have tasted fantastic. And is that a deep fried fish? WOW!
Your room at the SV looks fantastic. Looks like you're in for a very comfortable stay.
Stay dry and I hope that Frankenstorm Sandy keeps clear of you.
The Pho soup was good last night. My DB mention that I should try this soup last night with beef in it. That was a deep fried fish from last night. I believed they told us that was a tilapia.
The Sheraton Vistana room was really nice. The one that I stayed in last year was different. But the one that I stayed in 2010 look the same. They were different buildings.
I did stayed dried all day today which it was only cloudy.
I finnally made it over here! The Pho looked spectacular and the room looks great! I hope you all have great time! I look forward to hearing about your trip and especially PFTS! Have a great time!
Nice to see you here Alison. The Pho was very nice last night. It was a bummer at first when it rained, but since than it is just cloudy. I will be heading on back to EPCOT for the Party for the Senses event tonight and I will get as much pictures as I can.
I can see why you and your DA like staying at the SV - it looks very welcoming, spacious and comfortable. The kitchen is a good size. There's tons of floor space. It's really like a little apartment or house, from what I can tell. That's better than being cramped in a small hotel room. You have everything you need right there in the room.
As much as people say that staying onsite is almost necessary when visiting WDW, more often these days I am hearing about people who rented houses or stayed offsite and got much more space for a much better price than what they would have gotten by staying at a WDW hotel. One person just mentioned renting a 4-bedroom house with a pool for a WDW trip, and ended up saving money on it (compared to WDW hotel prices).
I love the "Just arriving in Orlando" photo - the sun peeking through the clouds is very dramatic!
Don't forget my DB who is also with us during this trip. He decided at the last second to come so he wouldn't waste the airline ticket. These last few trips of staying at the Sheraton Vistana Resort is great where there is a lot of space where you don't have too much with a single room. We also been spending some time coming back from the parks and resting after a long morning/afternoon. Right now I am resting up until we head on back to EPCOT for the Party for the Senses event during the Food and Wine Festival.
It has been a long time since I have stayed on-site at WDW since 2001 at the Contemporary. I do miss staying at the Contemporary, but with these rented houses for the week, it does make a lot of sense so you can save money and more space to go around a rented house over a hotel room. My family and I will be staying at timeshares if we come back to WDW. There are benefits of staying on-site, but I would rather save that money and come back in the future just like I do with my DL trips of where I stay off-site instead on staying at the DLR hotels.
Glad you like the arriving from Orlando photo. Mostly I have my camera in my traveling bag, but I do like using my new iPhone 5 where I can upload the pictures fast instead of uploading them from the iPad or computer.
For a quick recap of today at EPCOT. All of us went to EPCOT when the park opened at 9am today at Future World. While I had elders with me, we got a
ECV and a wheelchair for my uncle and aunt since it will be difficult for them to walk around EPCOT. Also we got them a GAC for them. We haven't used it yet since all the rides in the morning were walk-on and we might need it for them if they have some problems going on the rides. We got to go on a lot of rides today which was Mission Space, Seas with Nemo and Friends, Soarin, Living with the Land and Journey into Imagination. Most of my group like Soarin the most as well as Living with the Land.
When World Showcase opened at 11am, we went around World Showcase to try the food stands during the Food and Wine Festival. But to my surprise that most of the lines at the food stands were quite long. Some of those lines were at least 10 to 20 minute wait time.The only stand we went was at the Canada stand. We had the Canadian Cheddar Cheese Soup and Chicken Chipotle Sausage. I had the soup and it was just like the one that I had at Le Cellier restaurant last year. It was worth the $4 that I have spend which was a small sample.
Later that day, my uncle surprised us with reservation at the Rose and Crown restaurant at the United Kingdom Pavilion. So we had lunch that day at the Rose and Crown which had great Fish and Chips.
We just roamed around World Showcase looking at all the different stands of what to eat. But just like all the stands around World Showcase which had long lines. I didn't thought the queues for the F&WF stands would be this crowded. But we will plan on going to some of these stands later on during the trip.
Now we are back at the room resting up until my party leaves to EPCOT for the Party for the Senses.
Here are some pics from today
There is me and my DB at Leave a Legacy at EPCOT which we have done in 2001.
Some pumpkins at The Land building
EPCOT Food and Wine Festival Center
Merchandise from the F&WF
Pictures from The Seas with Nemo & Friends. Here are some pics of TSwN&F PiO with my DSLR. What do you think of them?
That's it for now and I will get back to you later tonight after EPCOT.
