Chapter 2 - Continued
After stuffing ourselves with chocolate, creme and champagne we headed to Morocco. I wanted to get a henna tattoo but there was no one at the little stand to do it. That was okay because I knew I'd seen two last time we were here so I scouted out the other lady and I got a symbol for "Love" on my hand. At the end I got a little sprinkle of pixie dust on it. Steevin decided to get one as well and he got the symbol for "Strong". He did not get any pixie dust however.
Steev's favorite face to make when I kiss him.
Love Strong
We headed to the Japan Pavilion. We were really interested in their exhibit about ancient Japanese mythological creatures and their crossover into Anime. It was a really interesting exhibit, especially for Steevin because that is certainly his brand of nerdome. And then we spent time in the shop and bought some candy and sodas. But then we put them in the backpack to save for later because we found... Sake Cocktails! These things were SO yummy. I wish we had time/room in our stomachs to come back for more later. I will be putting these on my "Must Do" list for future trips. Steevin got pineapple flavor which tastes almost like drinking straight pineapple juice (which he loved) and I got the green tea which was not overly sweet but so refreshing! We took them over to the stone benches in front of the Torii and people watched for a while. We were sitting right in the middle so our happy faces are probably in at least 50 peoples photos. YAY!
I highly recommend these!
Bookend photos 
After our sit-down we decided to check out Germany. Their Christmas tree was still up! I was pretty excited. Actually there were a lot of random Christmas decorations up still while we were there. Made me really want to make a trip during Christmas season one time. After Germany we went to China and explored their exhibit about tombs. It was very interesting. I love getting to learn new things about countries. China is where we also saw the most... ornate? gaudy? just... wow... cell phone cases ever!
Tannenbaum!
Need a little bling?
We also saw this lady do this in China. Best waitress ever?
We headed to our dinner reservations in Morocco at Restaurant Marakesh. I have always wanted to try this place and I knew the cusine (and belly dancer) would be right up Steevin's alley. Its really beautiful inside and the food was great! I had the Roast Lamb Meshoui which was a lamb shank with roasted eggplant puree and a zucchini, caper and lemon confit which was so good! I wanted more of the confit! Steevin chose the Cous Cous with Lamb. The lamb shanks were huge! And so tender. And we had some tasty drinks as well with Steev having the Marakesh Express and I had the Casablanca Sunset. Steevin was too shy to take photo's of the belly dancer so he left that up to me. For dessert I had the assorted baklava which was delicious and Steevin tried the bastilla which is like layers of flaky, crunchy pastry with cinnamon, powdered sugar, almonds and a vanilla sauce. I'm not sure if he ended up liking it or not. It was hard to tell. He said it tasted like cereal. You'll notice there are no pictures of our desserts. I remembered after I'd eaten half my baklava. There was no going back after that.
My tasty meal... the lamb shank looks like its straight out of the Flinstones!
Steev's meal.... his photos are often blurry because he was annoyed with me asking him to take pictures of his food before he ate it.
Nice abs. I need to take up belly dancing!
After we rolled ourselves out of Morocco we decided we'd start heading back to the hotel. It was only about 730pm but we were still feeling tired from our travel and lack of sleep the day before. As we were heading out we passed the UK Pavilion and heard music. We went and checked out the cover band. I thought the guy in the middle looked like Leonard from The Big Bang Theory and the guy on the far right looked like Dwight from The Office. They were good fun anyways but this just added to my enjoyment. We watched the rest of their set and then headed out to the International Gateway to make the quick trek back to the hotel. On our way we ran into Pooh and Tigger!
The Leonard and Dwight (and two other dudes) Experience
Check out Pooh's air guitar. He wants to be in the band too!
In the City of Love
We got back to the hotel and Steevin debated on and off if he wanted to go check out Jellyrolls, which is the dueling piano bar that was (again) just steps away from our room. We were tired, but we were on vacation! We should go, but maybe another night. Yes...no... yes... no. I told him to make up his mind because once I got into my PJ's and touched the Worlds Most Comfortable Bed with pillows like the wings of angels, I was not going to change my mind. "No" was his final answer and he went to the restroom and I got into my PJ's. Just as I was pulling back the sheets and about to slip into their silky softness, Steevin bursts out of the bathroom shouting "Wait! I changed my mind!". Real clothes back on, make up touch-up and we were strolling out our door, down the elevator, and down the boardwalk arm in arm.
Jellyrolls is a lot of fun. We got there about 9 and it was still pretty empty. They have drink specials every night and they are $10 for 32oz giant red cups. I mean giant! We got our drinks and sat towards the back but then decided to grab a seat at the front. I'm glad we did because it filled up quickly. We also had a shot called Nuts and Nipples which was tasty, and a gin and tonic for me and a malibu and coke for Steev. We did not even feel the slightest bit tipsy. We stayed for 3 hours and had a grand old time singing along, making requests and chatting with the piano players. When we did finally make it back to our hotel room, we finally felt tipsy but by then we were more than exhausted and fell right asleep.
Great fun!
