Back closer to Halloween, Jason and I went to the Palm Beach Zoo for an awesome sounding event - beer and food at the zoo with live music. While the event itself was basically us as the only adults, a few canned beer, and store-bought hamburgers, we ended up having a fun time perusing the little zoo and seeing all the animals. It's been years since we've been to a zoo together - and I've never experienced walking around one with a cider in hand for sure!

My dress is a new favorite from Anthropologie that's Plenty by Tracy Reese - it has pockets! And my favorite Marc by Marc Jacobs mouse flats were perfect wandering around with animals.

A FEW QUICK SNAPS

Jason and I went to the EPCOT Food and Wine Half Marathon Finish Line Party with my sister-in-law and her fiancee (who ran the race) this past weekend. While I planned on taking many more photos, it began raining around 6PM (we got there at 5PM) and never stopped. My camera is not all that waterproof, so I wasn't able to get any photos from the actual event, but I did get a few shots!

Since I've left Cincinnati, I've consistently referred to it as 'home' and not the place I'm living. I haven't been back since I've lived in Florida, and it's weird as it's definitely where I'm from, but it's not my home any more. I'm surprised by how many things changed. Here are some photos from the weekend - visiting my favorite beer store's new brewery Ei8ht Ball, getting cookies and pretzels at Servatii, and beers with friends in OTR.

I had been excited for months for the fall Dapper Day at Disney World to roll around. I was so excited to get dressed up (and get Jason dressed up) to go to Hollywood Studios. An amazing photo opportunity with lots of like-minded people who love style. It was a blast - and I loved wearing a petticoat. I was Disney-bounding (dressing up as inspired by a Disney character, whether it be the color of their outfits or try to match the colors of their fur) as Stitch. Do you see my inspiration?

Trying to go through Jason's closet to do Disneybounding, especially for Dapper Day, was impossible, so he just matched my colors in his fancy-boy bow tie.

Due to construction at Jason's parents in Orlando plus the fact we wanted to make this a little celebratory (this weekend was right after Jason's first week at his new job) we stayed one night at the Animal Kingdom Lodge. I'm sad to say, I didn't love it. Even this photo, it totally doesn't even look all that great, right? Definitely more of a Polynesian girl. Anyhow, we had an awesome time dressing up and seeing all the stellar outfits people showed up in. We even met some really sweet people. We will definitely be back!

We even got the strangest Vinyl ever!

I think Disney bounding is going to come up a lot on this blog. So I think it's pretty important I offer you up an explanation as to what in the world it is that I can refer back to often. So... Disney bounding is for people who love fashion and also Disney - like me. You look into your own closet (or basically normal-ish clothing) and create looks inspired by Disney characters. There is an awesome blog, Disney Bound, that explains all of this. And there are TONS of Disney inspired looks there.  Here are looks I've done in the past:

Stitch!

Minnie Mouse

Snow White (reversed)

Belle (Beauty and the Beast)

We've been dying to go to EPCOT's Food and Wine festival for years. Our birthday, which falls around Thanksgiving, is always within a few days of the festivals ending, so over the past few years, we have gone to Disney near our birthday and missed the amazing festival. Not this year! We went to one of the first weekends for the event during Dapper Day weekend. We are lucky - while we live about 3 hours from Orlando, my in-laws have a lovely home near Disney. Since this was a celebration trip (both of Jason getting a job and our 'unanniversary', a random, fun celebration of our anniversary we hold in September every year), we decided to get a hotel room and have me take a half day so we could do our Friday outing in EPCOT.



Jason and I have become big beer drinkers over the years. What started as liking a few certain beers at a brewery in Hawaii opened us up to trying more things and expanding our palettes. While I hate some of them still (I can't do porters or stouts at all), I really love some. For instance - the Shiner Wild Hare Pale Ale in this flight was my favorite of the night. They even had Kona on draft at the Hawaii stand - a beer from that special place in Hawaii I was talking about.



After our initial beers to get us started, we started to get hungry. That's when we started going 'around the world' to sample both the food and drink. I honestly believe this should be deemed the 'Food, Beer, and Wine' festival. Because it all pairs so amazingly.

Pulled pork with pineapple chutney and spicy mayo paired with pineapple wine and Kona Brewing Golden Wave from Hawaii. Jason's fave from the night.

A yummy filet mignon with mushroom and truffle sauce and a Moosehead lager from Canada. (Not as good at the one inside, but for 7 bucks, I'll take it)

My favorite stand of the night? By and far Brazil. These little cheese breads (pao de queijo) were the perfect drinking food, and the frozen caipirinha was delicious and surprisingly strong for a frozen drink at Disney. And not sweet - I don't do overly sweet frozen drinks, and this was exactly how a frozen cocktail should be. Plus, how AMAZING does this stand look, even on a fairly raining evening?



We're going back to the food and wine festival in early November, so look out for more photos from the event then!