Sunday June 1st 2025

On Friday afternoon into the evening I made my last visit for this year to the Flower and Garden Festival at Disney’s EPCOT. The festival ends on Monday. It is nice to see all of the brightly colored flower blossoms and topiaries in the park as I get my exercise in by walking around the park pausing periodically to take pictures of all the interesting stuff. The Flower and Garden Festival is my favorite EPCOT festival. The bright colors make the park very pretty. Once again this year, Disney is taking the summer off from festivals at EPCOT. The Food and Wine Festival begins around Labor Day.

My mission at the park on Friday was also to get some Fish & Chips for supper. The meal at the Yorkshire County Fish Shop in the UK pavilion is pretty good and not too expensive. On this visit I got a free cold shower that I could have done without. I sat at a table with and umbrella to eat my meal, but it wasn’t sufficient coverage when a random thunderstorm arrived shortly after I sat down. I was able to pull up to the table and bend forward sufficiently that my food didn’t get wet. The only thing that really got wet was my back. Blowing rain and water dripping off the umbrella soaked the back of my shirt. The storm ended as I finished my meal. Great timing all around! After the storm the heat of the day returned to dry me off.

It took longer for the park to dry out. Dodging puddles was part of the routine during the rest of my walk around the park. I saw an interesting Disney touch to the post rain activity. The custodial cast members were using squeegees to remove the water from the seat benches around the park. They didn’t want random guests to wet their pants on the benches.