 Hey friends, today I am hanging out at the opening day for Flower and Garden Festival 2021. I'm excited to try all the unique drinks and eat some amazing food, look at some pretty flowers and possibly play with butterflies. So let's go do this. I've got my trusty Flower and Garden 2021 passport to lead the way and I think we're going to head right on over to the butterfly exhibit. It's one of my favorite things of the Flower and Garden and I don't know how they're doing it this year but we're going to find out. Every year I try to make it a tradition to either have a butterfly land on me because I hear it's good luck or actually have a butterfly touch the camera. So that's where we're going to go into the butterfly garden and see if we can get some luck. The Goodness Garden butterfly house. I love walking through here too, you gotta zoop. And let's see if we can get a little butterfly, oh look at that. As soon as I walked in one flew up to me. It didn't take long at all. I got a butterfly under my nose. Hey, oh it's gone. It is so pretty in here, it's just one of those things you have to stop at when you're at the Flower and Garden Festival. Look at all the butterflies that will be hatching soon. I just love being in here. The best way to get a butterfly to land on you is just stand very still because usually if they bump into something they tend to just stick and stand. So if your hand is out and you just hold it still and the butterfly just bumps into it they'll actually land on it. So it's a little tip, it might take a little while but if you're dedicated you might get a little luck. I think we're gonna proceed right into Epcot's World Showcase and get to some of the festival kiosk. I definitely need a drink and something to eat and they've got tons of it in there. Luckily I'm joined with a friend today on this adventure, Jackie, super enthused, honey oh you're good you, oh you are good. So we're gonna get something to eat at the honey bistro, are you excited? Oh my gosh I'm hungry. I think my first stop is gonna be at the honey bistro and we're gonna try the honey peach freeze served with blueberry vodka. That sounds amazing peach and honey and blueberry and then we're also gonna get the sweet corn spoon bread with jalapenos, bacon and house made whipped honey butter. These are some good combinations. So here it is, the honey peach freeze with blueberry vodka and then the honey bread. This looks good because it's got jalapenos, bacon, I just can't wait to dive in. I don't know how the combination of mixing both of these together. It's an interesting combo. It's an interesting combo, isn't it? I wasn't expecting this to actually be like this color because you think honey peach and blueberry but I mean here we go, oh that's good, oh wow that is really good. That is much too good, much too good for children, I love this. This is the first drink of the night or the day, oh it's gonna be a long day. Now I'm gonna cut into the cake, I'm gonna make sure to get a little bit of everything. Need a little bacon, need a little jalapeno, definitely the honey, this is good. Now that the drink is good we're gonna try the cake. It's really funny because this actually is kind of a milky beverage and this is like such a honey taste so it is like a breakfast food, it's like a honeycombs breakfast cereal, a combination, so you get this and this it's like you're eating a bowl of honeycombs. So I guess that was a good way to start the day off with a little breakfast, honeycomb and blueberry vodka, very good. Now we're gonna keep moving along and we're gonna stop at northern bloom. This one I've had a lot of people actually say that I should try the maple syrup beer. Well they have the apricot maple syrup, I think I've had it in the past before but also they have an amazing beef tenderloin tips with mushroom bolognese sauce and whipped potatoes. So we might be getting something maple-y and something bolognese-y, is that a thing? Yeah it sounds good. It is opening day for this festival so I've seen an increase in long lines and wait times just because an opening day attraction usually brings in much more crowds but overall it hasn't been really horrible I mean it's not like you can just walk up to a kiosk and be like I'll take this you have to at least wait five ten minutes. Beer flight? Thank you. I thought I was just going for the apricot maple stout but when they have a beer flight you go all in you get all of them so that way you could try them and figure out which one you like so that's what I did I got the beer flight so now we have tons of beers to try and they all look like they're pretty pretty fancy. Here are the different beers that we got we've got the 81 Bay brewing apricot with maple syrup and then the collective arts blackberry fruit beer and then the goose island hazy IPA with mango and cinnamon I'm guessing that the maple syrup actually starts on this side and then it makes its way left to right I believe they said so we're just gonna try them all and also we got the beef tips. Since we both got the maple syrup beer might as well just take it as it is yeah a little sip. Gosh that's really good you get the whole thing. I liked it. I liked it too. I liked it a lot. Wow. I'm gonna dive into these tips though so I want to grab a little carrot a little potato a little bit of the steak. I feel like these are gonna be my favorite thing only because I'm a big meat and potato kind of guy but who knows there might be some other amazing like different snacks on the way so we're gonna try this first. That is very good right yeah the tips are like a perfect kind of like temperature I mean they're cooked pretty much medium yeah but they're tender yeah the mashed potatoes are great but the bolognese is my favorite I love it. Now I'm gonna try the blackberry fruit beer I feel like it's gonna be like more of a cider it already looks like it even though it does say beer though it's a fruit beer not too bad not too bad I mean it's definitely more cider than it is beer but yeah it's kind of refreshing I like it. Now I'm gonna try the IPA it's kind of crazy how you're gonna jump from fruit to IPA. This one is mingle and cinnamon oh boy that's a tough I think the maple syrup one is my favorite this is second the fruit beer is third. I'm loving the atmosphere today I know it's a little bit busy like I said but the weather is perfect the flowers just make everything better when you see bright beautiful flowers and happy people the music over here in Canada your mango cinnamon IPA just kind of makes everything perfect and makes you think wow life is great now I think we're gonna move along and go in and get some AC I know the world show place is open and it's one of my favorite spots to just kind of cool down especially during any festival they have three different festival kiosk or stands in here we've got the farmers feast the cider house and then the festival favorites and I'm super excited for the festival favorites because they have the beef brisket burnt ends and smoked pork belly slider but also the three daughters brewing maple bacon stout this is the maple bacon start that I thought I was getting in Canada I like that one but I heard this one is phenomenal oh boy there it is and here is the meeple stout I don't know how many carry this I got one for Jackie I do have a way I think I'm gonna go like this oh wait I need another hand nothing like eating a brisket slider while listening to twinkle twinkle little star that's it folks right there favorite thing in the festival wow that is so good the sausage the brisket this is just the perfect combination right here now Van Morrison moon dance Carol pulling out all the stops we go from twinkle twinkle little star to and now we have the maple stout and this is the one I thought we were getting a Canada so I think this is gonna be really good oh yeah that's good okay the stout is pretty good but I had to go back up and get the key lime tart because I remember liking the pistachio dessert here so I do like key lime pie so I'm pretty sure I'm gonna enjoy this and I couldn't resist even though it looks like there's a stick of gum on the top of it doesn't it look like you say a stick of gum I thought about just forking it but then I picked it up and I'm just gonna take a bite hmm that is really really good I really like it and I think as it comes to desserts this was better than the bread with a cornbread I haven't had any other desserts to compare it to but this is actually up there for me I like it well I can tell you that the duck confit's really good you had the duck confit yeah oh fancy it's really good and I hear there's beats inside there yeah there's a bunch of beats at that bunch of beats it's a beat booth bears beats Battlestar Galactica birthdays oh I like it luckily this festival is going on until July 5th so we're gonna be able to come back and try all the things we haven't tried yet you know what I mean because there was a lot to take in inside the show place itself they have probably another six or seven different types of drinks so I'm happy with just getting my beautiful slider that I loved and now the key lime tart and the maple stout and just bouncing from here and moving on to the next kiosk or the next pavilion and seeing what they got it's so hard to come back out into the Sun after hanging out in the show place for so long it was so nice in there but there's so much more to explore many more boots and tons of food that's another thing you don't want to get full in there because then you're not gonna want to eat anything else or drink I believe our next kiosk is actually gonna be in France and I'm excited because somebody showed me that they actually had like a beignet that kind of was made like a crème brûlée and I think it's gonna be amazing so I'm definitely going for that Alice's water in the flowers it's proper fitting for flowering garden so I know it's ridiculous and flowers can't talk but they can't sing you can learn a lot especially on a golden afternoon like today you did it oh all day oh have a perfectly wonderful day thank you so good to see you you've been waiting all day to say that haven't you wear this shirt just to see Alice I've always had an issue with the France because it always seems like a super long line so right now we're gonna see what it's like but if it is a long line we'll skip it and come back even though I really want to try the beignet it's actually not looking bad at all so we're gonna have to hop to this hop to the line hop to the line I don't know which way to enter the line maybe here I think this is it this is it here is a look at the menu you can see they have the beignet that's the one I was excited for and it comes with cream vanilla and then down here you have to get the rose frozen slushie I mean the frozen slushies are always popular in the France area so this year's flower one you have to get it seems like it's getting hard to find tables as it gets later in the afternoon we couldn't find any tables or even garbage cans ever open so we pop in a squatting Indian style underneath the gazebo in France I like that we got a little spot right over here isn't it very nice in the gazebo yeah Bell actually meet meet and greets here Aurora sometimes too yeah and we got the beignets look at these these are like crème brûlée almost because they blow towards the top of the beignet and then we've got the rose slushies which melts very quickly so you have to drink that post-haste post-haste I should have grabbed the straw but I'm gonna just sip on it that's refreshing so good right oh yeah very refreshing I like this a lot I'm gonna try to eat this like a donut I guess I mean it's kind of like a donut form anyway yeah let's say it's very fancy rose slushies with caramelized beignets underneath the gazebo with princess music in the background cheers the beignet is basically a donut I mean it's very delicious but wow the the number one thing here I think it's a rose slushie like it is every year this is like an iconic thing for flowering garden you gotta get the rose slushie and I'm so happy we did now that we've cooled off and drank our slushie and ate our beignet I think we're gonna move along this is such a nice area to come hang out by the fountain not only does it have Beauty and the Beast topiaries but it also has the Remi topiary so also it's a good place to come get all your flowering garden fixings now we're gonna actually head to another kiosk that I was actually eyeing up from the get-go and we passed it on the way in but they had some amazing beverage offerings and one of them even had like an Italian sausage poutine and I thought that was pretty fancy so I'm gonna backtrack a little bit and head back out to the front of world showcase and explore all the different kiosk there one of the things I was super excited about is right here at the refreshment port a lot of people pass by these not thinking they actually have anything to do with the festival but they have some of the best items at like the refreshment port and then the African outpost so we're gonna see what they have here and I think you're gonna like it oh boy and here they are look at them they're so cute these are the popsicles I think they might melt quickly so we might as well find somewhere and just sit down and enjoy them these actually look very exciting and colorful and I didn't know what the flavors were I just seen the picture of them and I was like I got to get those but they actually their honeydew raspberry mint and coconut lime the picture looks a little bit better than what they are but they're so beautiful you can see right here this is the honeydew that must be the raspberry mint and then the coconut lime and we're just gonna dive in because they are melting Jackie's struggling you're not struggling you're not even waiting they're gone trying to wait but they're good though the best one so creamy and good I'm trying the raspberry now but look it's completely melted oh how is mine still intact I'm going honeydew first hmm honeydew or honeydew that's a honeydew that is a honeydew now I'm gonna grab the this is the pineapple or coconut mint or coconut lime okay I like the coconut one that's good now raspberry mint for the win yeah for me I feel like this is like a pistachio and a rum kind of mixture I don't know but you got to make sure you get a lot on there so I'm gonna go with this one the popsicles were good but I think we're gonna hop in line at the pineapple promodon I'm happy to sell the popsicles here because then it would be the popsicle pineapple promodon and that could be a tongue twister they actually have a flight here and it's a pineapple beer flight they have tons of different drinks here they have a violent lemonade ale they have a half a weed ale they have a mango pineapple guava ale so I think we're gonna get the pineapple beer flight and then I think the half a weed ale on top of that because it probably doesn't come with it not only do they have amazing beers here in spicy hot dogs but they got dole whips too and they got dole whips or rum in them so you can come here and get your dole whip get your pineapple fix and a spicy hot dog fix you've got the dole whip I knew it yep I was wrong actually the pineapple flight does come with the half a weed ale the only thing the pineapple flight does not come with is the violent lemonade ale so I got the flight and the violent lemonade ale I had to because I had to try it so now we got four little sample beers to try and a nice little cozy spot to relax and enjoy them here is the flight and we're your once again just sit an Indian style right just chilling you know Jackie got the dole whip with rum see it's zoning in the back and she also got a pineapple flight I got the flight too but I also got the violent lemonade and I'm excited because like I said we're just gonna sit here and enjoy them and I think I'm gonna try the violent lemonade first because this is what I've been excited about once again I thought this was a cider but it's not this is a beer but it's not my favorite thing about you trying the violent lemonade is the fact that you keep calling it so I've been saying violent the whole time just said my favorite thing about you trying the violent lemonade is because you're saying violent and it's violet violet violet lemonade but this is the violent lemonade ale well that's strange it is like a bear though yeah because like all these like drinks and like these fruity beers they look like cider but then when you taste them they're not like cider-ish like there's no sourness so it's very refreshing it's very good no bitterness just kind of like you can definitely taste the violent now I'm gonna dive right into the flight I've already had the heffa weed ale I had a little bit of it and I like it a lot I'm gonna try the rest of them real quick but the violent lemonade is violent is probably gonna be my favorite who knows though because there is a mango pineapple IPA in here that I'm probably gonna like so this is the mango pineapple lava we do it together we're gonna do it together I can smell it yeah I can all right you're ready oh my gosh yeah it's really strong let's try it it is so delicious that's my favorite my favorite hey but why are you there while you're there yeah grab grab the other one oh hello hop that was a little bit yeah that was good oh I think the mango yeah the wicked we the mango pineapple guava wow really just how's those beers I did you didn't house them you you didn't house them I house them after a couple of those delicious beers we're gonna move along but I have to appreciate world showcase right now the music look how beautiful those skies are this is a great day this is a great flower and garden festival like the kickoff the flower and garden season like I said this is running till July 5th that's like four months so we're gonna be here plenty of times and we're gonna be able to get all the things we haven't tried and yeah be prepared a lot more flower and garden videos to come other than the Winnie the Pooh topi eras I have to say three colonnaros is probably next as my favorite look at these it's so nice and I love the flowers everything blends perfectly together I want to keep moving to the front of the park as you can hear we're near test track and something that has actually been closed for a while is being repurposed for a festival stand and it kind of makes me happy to see this actually being used because I always admired it oh wow look at that Sun right now this is beautiful oh yes it's good the donut box is now repurposed as the sunshine griddle brunch bites and beverages and take a look at all the amazing things they have here fried cinnamon roll bites fruit loop shake and they even have a joffrey's cold brew cocktail which I'm definitely getting but wow there's a lot of good things happening here and good flower and garden festival isn't complete without running into a bunch of friends look at this we got out of the world of Michael Danny 702 theme park obsession best life and beyond super through so many good people so we're gonna have to take a gig a big group pic we need a big group pic we ran into a bunch of friends so I think we're gonna all go do like a group ride on test track this is what's fun about coming to opening day events is you get to meet so many people and I'll put everyone's YouTube channels in the description below because there were so many great content creators here just enjoying Epcot on a beautiful flower and garden day we're all heading in technically it is down at the moment but they are test running so we might as well just give it a wait because there is no line it's crazy because now it's like a walk on is that your walk-on walk the walk-on walk I like it I'm walking on sunshine we've got three car loads so one's about to take off this one right here and then in here we got my guy who we're ready to go check your seatbelts to see how your vehicle designs perform under challenging weather and service conditions so much fun look at the group of people these are all of our cars right here so good right now we're gonna head to one of my favorite places Epcot to kind of finish off the night and it's a good spot to finish off the night this is it my favorite spot at Epcot isn't it so beautiful in here and we're actually gonna go into Lecava grab a drink and just hang out by the fountain and just enjoy ourselves for the end of the night cheers everybody oh yes cheers cheers cheers so I will eat two of these to encourage you guys to try one and one bite so they do take these and usually you want to pair these up with a certain type of tequila and each tequila actually gets paired with something different there's five different types of tequila so I'm just gonna eat these for the fun and eat it with my blood orange margaritas there's a delicacy it's not really done it's like a smokiness so like sunflower seeds honestly okay 100% sunflower seeds okay it's really not that bad you guys are gonna feel so silly like sunflower seeds right yep very earthy yep just do it it's not bad told you you're gonna do it you do it here the pressures the pressure is on now okay he's going in for seconds no sunflower seeds happening I knew it yeah nothing yep it's very dry and powdery there's like an earthy note yep Jackie we did it you did it many times I've been here at La Cava with everybody else eating these and me like now you did it and with that margarita I think I'm gonna call it a night here I hope you guys enjoyed all of the food and drinks for the flower and garden festival and I hope you enjoyed the video I enjoyed making it we are gonna end the night in a true fashion with some fireworks so we'll see you next time and just like I promised fireworks to end the night as we were walking out you can see the new lighting effect around the entranceway to Epcot this is beautiful they added the flags and the music this is good this is really good look it's actually going right through you see the the line changing it chases it