Anna here, to talk about the amazing end to my birthday celebrations. Last Sunday, my mom, Matt, and I went to Epcot to end my birthday week with a bang. Once again, I wore my Happy Birthday Anna button. I had made reservations at Les Chefs de France in Epcot about a month ago thinking my dad would be in town, but it ended up being just the three of us. We had planned to go to Magic Kingdom before going to dinner for Matt to play The Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom, but he had forgotten his cards at home, so we decided to just explore Epcot. We first fast passed Soarin’, got a Mickey ice cream, and then sought after a new adventure.
Innoventions
While at a theme park, air conditioned buildings are always very attractive when you’re just trying to wait out a storm or a heat wave. One of the first buildings you encounter in Epcot are the innoventions buildings. They are called innoventions east and innoventions west. We explored innoventions west and immediately came upon the Video Playground. The playground is a wall full of seven game consuls with the newest Disney Interactive video games ready for anyone to play. I’m not into video games, but I was willing to give it a try. The new video game from Brave caught my eye (as all things princess does) and I started playing around with it while Matt played a WALL-E inspired game. I got so into the game that I didn’t realize that Matt was beside me until I heard him laughing at the faces I was making while trying to jump Merida across a river. After playing a little bit longer, I could tell Matt was itching to play so I handed over the controller. After finishing up there, we decided to explore the countries.
World Showcase
The first country we made a stop at was Norway. We looked in the little shop and I got some Swedish jelly as a house warming gift for my friend, Michael. We then went on the ride, Maelstrom – A High Seas Norwegian Adventure. The ride was really cute, but by no means a high seas Norwegian adventure. After getting off our “boat” from “Norway”, I noticed that the main restaurant in Norway is Akershus Royal Banquet Hall. The restaurant advertises “Disney Princesses Storybook Dining inside a medieval castle with soaring archways and cathedral ceilings”. I’m defiantly going to have to go back to that one with my girlfriends!
After just perusing through some of the other countries, we finally made it to France. As we were waiting for it to come closer to our dinner reservation time, we saw Belle from Beauty and the Beast (my favorite princess) skipping along the fountain as she does in the movie. The seen got me really excited for dinner.
Les Chefs de France
The interior of the restaurant was beautiful and reminded me of the actual France. Although, our waiter, Harry from Paris, France, was very nice and did not give me dirty looks for my lack of French speaking skills and everything was rushed in American fashion which brought me back to reality that I was indeed still in the US. This restaurant had the option so do a set price three course meal, which my mom and I took advantage of. I had their house salad, beef short ribs with pasta, and the puff choux with vanilla ice cream, all of which was very delicious. Since I was wearing my birthday button, the waiter knew we were celebrating my birthday and brought out my dessert with the rest of the waiting staff singing what I can only assume was the birthday song in French. All in all, a great experience. The only let down was that I had heard a rumor that Chef Remy from Disney’s Ratatouille made appearances in the restaurant, but he was nowhere to be seen.
