Thursday February 2nd 2023

There was a low ceiling this morning, but it wasn’t low enough to call it fog. By 9AM it had burned off and the sun was in full force. The temperature peaked in the mid eighties. The cold front is due pass through mid day tomorrow.

I spent the afternoon at Disney’s EPCOT. The International Festival of the Arts is in full force. Is park is filled with Art. There are displays and for sale items all over the park. Artists are actively creating chalk art on walkways and the sides of buildings. Kiosks are selling paintings, sculptures and other forms of creative art. The food stands are selling forms of culinary art as well. This is one of my favorite EPCOT festivals.

Here are some of the chalk art.

Most of the art has a Disney flair, but there are some more classical pieces of too. Even the art with Disney content runs the full spectrum from in your face carton characters with bold colors to very subtle homage to Disney elements. One set of paintings had hidden mickeys incorporated in the art. I can just see people gazing at it for hours trying to find them all. It took me several minutes before I even found one.

I didn’t do a lot today other than wander around the park looking at all the art. It wasn’t very crowded during the afternoon. As I was leaving at the dinner hour many people were arriving for the evening. I’m reserving my night time visits to the middle of the month when I’m staying on property at Fort Wilderness. It is so much easier.

Other than walking the pathways and shops, I rode the Living with the Land boat ride, Space Ship earth and toured the aquarium at the Living Seas. While I was in the World Showcase, I also listened to one performance of the Voices of Liberty. All of this was around at late lunch of Fish and Chips in the UK pavilion.