DW and I went to lunch today at Ale & Compass Restaurant over at Yacht Club near the Epcot International Gateway. We were looking for some place at an Epcot resort to go eat a table service lunch. One alternative over there, Beaches & Cream, we've been to several times. Across the way at Boardwalk, the Big River Grille closed last week so that was no longer an option.
So we went to Ale & Compass and ran into Ken, the long time server from Trails End (as in decades). He was working as a host and I told him that we missed him over at Trails End. He said he missed the people there too but that they were treating him well in this new assignment. Ken was always very kind, positive, gentle, friendly, and hard-working for his guests.
I asked if I could take his picture and he said he felt like a celebrity - to which I replied he was to us.
He said his daughter encouraged him to move away from serving because it was stressful so he agreed to work as a host at Ale & Compass.
The menu there is not broad but it is varied.
DW chose the "Blackened Sustainable Fish Tacos" (using mahi mahi).
I had a fine serving of Fish & Chips.
They were both delicious.
The Yacht Club has as its perhaps most distinctive feather a short lighthouse on the waterway at the pier that provides boat service to Epcot and DHS.
I just went through a phase of visiting all the historical lighthouses I could around the coast of Florida over about the past 2 years. I collected refrigerator magnets of many (if available) as souvenirs of those visits. Although not historical, I counted this as a visit to another Florida lighthouse so you know what that means.
Since it is NOT historical, I'll put this one on the side of the fridge whereas the others (13 of them IIRC) are on the front.
This afternoon I started work on the puzzle - this one is a train picture of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad. It runs back and forth along the Colorado-New Mexico border and DW & me rode it in 2021 and 2023.
Of course the first step is to separate edge pieces from non-edge. And I also piled up the logo section and the steam locomotive pieces as best I could while sorting things out.
I got this far before stopping for the night.
Two contractors in yellow vests came through the 1500 loop on foot checking the site number posts. One wanted to talk about my Aliner. I asked him back what they were doing and the plan is to replace the wooden number posts with square metal ones about the same color with reflective tape numbers. So be on the lookout for those coming soon.
That's all for today.
Tomorrow we will repeat a family tradition and have lunch over at Disney Springs. You know pics will follow. And also my first grocery run of this trip.
Bama Ed
