Trip Report Food, Flowers & FARTS… Festival Fun In 2025

I’m taking a page from @Tuvalu 's playbook and combining our 2025 adventures together. Perhaps I’ll even keep it (mostly) updated?? Lol

Thank you all in advance for joining along on our adventures! I have so much fun sharing with all of you!

Let the festival fun begin…

 

[Tuvalu]

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Wait until you read about our funny lounge story….

 

[Figment Forever]

Good morning!!

 

[Figment Forever]

Wait until you read about our funny lounge story….

Can’t wait to read all about it!

 

[Figment Forever]

Maybe you'll get to see SOME WI PEEPS since we're not back until next April... I hope so!

Haven’t seen anyone yet. I hope we do run into a couple of people.

I’m really gonna have to push for an April trip next year. lol

 

[Swissmiss]

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Oh I am so looking forward to tater tots (they are nowhere to be found where I live )

 

[Figment Forever]

Oh I am so looking forward to tater tots (they are nowhere to be found where I live )

We didn’t want sausage, so they gave us extra taters.

 

[Figment Forever]

Where should we go?

 

[littleroo]

Where should we go?

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That's a tough one when there is no wrong choice!!!

 

[luvinthemajik]

That's a tough one when there is no wrong choice!!!

Perfect response. There's a winning choice no matter what you do in "The World"

 

[Figment Forever]

 

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Unfortunately,lightning in the area has cleared the pool again…

 

[lindawdw]

Hope you're having fun!

 

[Figment Forever]

It took 3 tries…lol

 

[Figment Forever]

Hope you're having fun!

We are!!! Thank you!!

 

[Figment Forever]

Last night before heading home.

 

[Figment Forever]

Got the goods…

 

[Songbird76]

Yes!!

Was it Goonies? I wasn't allowed to watch that as a kid so I didn't recognize it. I did watch it a couple of years ago, but I think it's one of those nostalgia things and since I didn't see it back when it was popular, it didn't really resonate. On a side note, I love Hope's tink hoodie!

I have to sadly admit, we usually skip Italy, but Hope wanted the ravioli, so I was happy to get it for her. Sometimes trying new foods is a challenge for her, so I was glad she wanted to try it. Bonus: she now likes Pesto sauce!

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Julia wanted the Mozzarella cheese Patty? It was odd, and while it was yummy, for the price, there needed to be at least 2 of them. And yes - it was a beautiful presentation, but there was enough sauce for at least 3 hunks of cheese.

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We tried a couple of treats from China before visiting Olaf and friends.

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How old is Hope now? I keep hoping A will get better about trying new foods, but he's 17 now and still not usually willing to try new stuff. That ravioli looked really good!

We had a fun time shopping. Of course, we managed to but a few things! lol

One thing we wanted to get was a pair of Mike Wazoski Crocs. Let's face it, I can NOT escape the Crocs!! Unfortunately, the CM told us they were sent to the Character Warehouse a few weeks earlier and sold out!! Hope was so sad. However, the CM also shared that there was a Crocs store in the outlets and she knew they had them there. Obviously, that was our next stop! The result??

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A VERY HAPPY Hope!! She also talked me into buying 2 pairs of Monsters Inc socks and the little gizmos that go into the Crocs.


Julia was next... She just wanted a treat.

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Not my cup of tea, but she likes it.

I settled for ....

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Then we called for a Lyft back to our hotel. Sadly, we couldn't find the pick up location. We went to where we thought it was, but we could not find the driver. Let me just say, this driver went above and beyond. He stayed on the phone with me and drove all around until he found us and did not charge us extra! I was very grateful and gave him a nice tip.

Why is it so hard to find the ride share pick up there!? We wandered all over the place and had to ask directions three times! I was using Google maps and still had trouble! Same with the other Disney outlet. We did luck out with what we got so it was worth it, but it was a challenge!

We got a Lyft back to The Residence Inn. On the ride, Our driver almost crashed into a car in front of us. He was following too fast and the car in front stopped short and we almost hit it. Julia who was in the middle in the back seat and not buckled, went flying into the front and hit her head on the seat. It was very scary.. Needless to say, I did not give a glowing review for our driver. I made a note that of we ever got him again to cancel it. I would not get back into a car with him.

Once we got back and knew Julia was okay, we went right to bed. I had an awesome day, (with the exception of our Lyft ride). I'm not sure if my family enjoyed it as much as I did, but it was a memory I will cherish forever. As nerdy as that sounds!

Can you report it in the Lyft app? I know you can with Uber. We had a driver who spent the entire drive texting on his phone. He had the phone mounted to the dash and we could see everything he was texting though he was trying to be really quiet so we wouldn't notice. Traffic was really slow and stopping a lot, but it's still unsafe, so when we got out and it asked for a review, I checkmarked the unsafe driving box. I'm assuming Lyft would have to have something like that too?

Oh I am so looking forward to tater tots (they are nowhere to be found where I live )

Do you have Lid'l there? They do different countries every week and this year in the American week they started carrying tater tots. I just bought a bag today. I hadn't had them since our last trip to the US! I was so excited to find them because we can't get them here either. But they only have them this one week.

 

[Swissmiss]

Do you have Lid'l there? They do different countries every week and this year in the American week they started carrying tater tots. I just bought a bag today. I hadn't had them since our last trip to the US! I was so excited to find them because we can't get them here either. But they only have them this one week

I think so (though at the moment I can’t think of what neighborhood). I’ll check it out but if not I can get some one month from today

 

[Songbird76]

I think so (though at the moment I can’t think of what neighborhood). I’ll check it out but if not I can get some one month from today

Oooooh!! Are you headed stateside? Good luck finding them where you are, though! I'm being stingy with mine because I know I can't get any more for a while, until they have the next American week. But they are delicious.

 

[Swissmiss]

Oooooh!! Are you headed stateside? Good luck finding them where you are, though! I'm being stingy with mine because I know I can't get any more for a while, until they have the next American week. But they are delicious.

Yes. At the very least I know I can get them at the end of our trip at WDW.

And I looked yesterday at Lidl … the American days had ended yesterday and by the time I looked the stores had been closed for a couple hours. But thanks for the tip - I’ll keep an eye on this.