Aw, thanks guys! Yeah, I don't usually go in for M&G's but that Ariel was seriously so fun, she did an amazing job.
It was so funny, I was in a production of Once Upon A Mattress a couple of months ago and when Aurora came over, she had us all do the little hands touching pose thing that she does, and I had such a vivid flashback, because I hit that exact same pose in the show I had just done!
Anyway, so next up on the schedule was Epcot. My family was so beat from our MK day that we slept in for a loooooong time. Also, there are turkeys at Shades of Green, just in case you were wondering.
Because of this, we didn't really get to spend any time at Future World, which was definitely a bit disappointing. But my family definitely enjoys World Showcase more (at this point in time) anyway, so we still made the best of it.
I also was doing a Disneybound of Stitch that day, just 'cause so keep a look out for that I guess.
Anyway, we head over to Epcot via Monorail. We waited pretty late to actually get to the park just to see if it would cool down a little bit before we were out and about, and we were dead wrong. This and the next day were easily the hottest of the trip, made worse by the fact that Epcot has very little shade.
But I love Epcot, so it's never a bad place to be.
We get into the park and pretty much headed straight for Club Cool, because I had to take part in the time honored tradition of drinking lots of free soda. Also air conditioning. Also, I'd never had the Beverly, and that's on my list of Disney things to eat before you die list (I'll post that later).
The Beverly did not disappoint in that it was completely disgusting. Not knowing this, Keiran downed a cup and we weren't sure if she was going to be sticking around for the rest of the day.
We had to meet up with my GS troop in Mexico because we had to give my leader her tablet, so we headed in that general direction. Mexico is the best pavilion because it's indoors, and it was still intensely hot at this point in the day. Also, it's just a cool place to be. We took a ride on the Gran Fiesta Tour, and then looked around all the shops and such. I love love love the interior of Mexico, it's so gorgeous.
With that, we started our journey across the world! It was my goal to do snack around the world that day, which I partially accomplished.
Next up, Norway! I was really interested to see how this was going to be partically under construction. The Norway pavillion is one of my family's favorites, so we're definitely a little miffed that it's being frozen over.
I'll tell you this, it was CRAZY crowded. Walls were blocking off a lot of it, but luckily we were still able to make our way over to Kringla to get some Schoolbread! My family had never tried this, and it was on my list, so in we went!
First of all, it was really tempting to add about three or four more treats to that order of Schoolbread, everything looked so delicious. We all decided to split it, since we weren't sure if we were going to like it. This was not an issue. I'm pretty sure everyone agreed it was the best thing we ate on the entire trip. I love how it's really tasty but it's not super sweet, so you don't feel like you're not going to make it to China, lol.
Anyway, we hung out at the bakery for a little bit. I took a peek around just checking out the construction work.
It was at this point in the trip that we were really missing my older brother, who believe it or not didn't want to come with us, 'cause he's not really a theme park kind of guy. But he's got crazy long hair and a beard, so the statue in Norway definitely reminded us of him. I don't remember if we called him or not, but we did at some point that day.
And then we were on to China! We caught a small bit of the acrobat show, which was pretty neat. Our snack for this pavilion was a mango green tea slush at Joy of Tea, and it was really refreshing. We didn't spend a lot of time in China simply because it was really crowded with the show going on, so we made our way to Germany.
We definitely have a soft spot for Germany. My dad was stationed there for a few years in the military prior to meeting my mom, and the very first time we went to Disney, we ate at the Biergarden, and apparently six year old me really really loved the band. I think we stayed for something like three or four hours just for the music according to my mom. We weren't stopping in today, but we were on a mission for some caramel.
We got some of the caramel corn, and a sliced caramel apple (good idea guys). It smelled so good in there, oh my gosh. We wandered all the shops here, checking out everything. I noticed that the cuckoo clock in the pavilion features one Dr. Doofensmirtz being chased around by his mother, which I thought was pretty fantastic. Phineas and co. were one of my favorites when I was younger.
So then we went over to Italy, (I literally had to pull up a map to get all of these straight). The shops in Italy are some of my favorites, I love the Venetian masks, they're so gorgeous. The architecture there is also awesome, so we took quite a few pictures.
I don't believe we snacked on anything here, but rather found a table in the shade and started on some of the caramel stuff because it was starting to melt (Like I said, hottest day ever). As we were sitting down, the Flag corps guys were coming out to do their show, so that was perfect timing. That was pretty neat.
Anyway, after eating a good chunk of our stuff from Karmell Kuche, we stopped briefly at The American Adventure for a break and to check out their Journey cover band. They were pretty okay. We couldn't quite work in a showing of the American Adventure, so we had to skip it.
I'm a huge musical theatre dork, and it was at about this point in the evening that the Tony awards started! I was checking my phone pretty regularly at this point to get the updates on who was winning and such.
After that, it was about time for some dinner in Japan!
We ate at Katsura cafe', which in an exceptionally tiny building, but does have some pretty good food.
Since we'd been eating all day, we shared a big plate between us, and some edamame seeds. For dessert, we got both of their ice cream flavors, green tea and azuki strawberry to share between all of us, Both were super delicious. It was some pretty good food.
Japan has some of the best shopping at World Showcase, so we spent a lot of time there.
Morocco was our next stop. I don't remember much about this pavilion from previous trips, but it turned out to be one of my favorites on this one! I got to wander by myself for a little bit while my family picked up some food and it was truly awesome. The shops and everything are so well done and the staff were all exceptionally nice. I joke that I have about three Moroccan boyfriends after going back there.
We got some snacks at Tangerine Cafe'. We had the Tangerine roll, baklava, and a Tangerine slush that thankfully wasn't too sweet.
There's a patch of grace between Morocco and France where my troop was chilling out. That became our spot for Illuminations. We sat with them for a little bit before going off to the last few pavilions to look around fairly quickly before the show started.
We took a quick spin through France, which was beautiful, but we didn't stop in to eat anything. I was kind of on a mission to get some Fish and Chips in the U.K. pavilion. My dad and Keiran graciously stood in line to get me some while my mom and I took a peak at the shops.
We looked around Canada fairly quickly but we really had to get back to the troop for our spot for the fireworks, so we rushed back that way.
Those Fish and chips were seriously so good though. I had to fight my family off to be able to eat it.
Anyway, Illuminations was about to start, so we talked about our day and what all we'd done. My troop had done all of the Kidcot stops, so that was neat (I'd completely forgotten about it). They'd also gotten to do all of the Future World stuff because they'd rolled out of bed.
Illuminations was gorgeous as always, even the drunk guy who knew the song by heart, who was extremely funny in a terrible way. It was the perfect way to top off a super food filled day.
I've never been on Spaceship Earth for some reason or another, so I was definitely a little disappointed I didn't get to do it, but otherwise there wasn't a whole in Future World that I really had to do, so all things considered we had a really amazing time in the World Showcase.
We'd also snagged a sombrero for my stuffed pig, Coulson. Coulson is kind of a weird story. He keeps my anxiety level calm, so naturally he's always in my bag for things like Disney World. It's been ajoke looking over all of our family pictures to find the hidden Coulson, so hey, maybe keep an eye on that through the TR, I guess.
Up next: Our last day at the World
Hollywood Studios and a last evening at Magic Kingdom!
