Part Two
A little pre-trip report continuing pseudo-rant (mostly joking): Can no one say "Elle" correctly? It's the name of a magazine for goodness sakes! I have to admit that "Elle" is a nickname that I only go by for Disney-related things, but in Disney I tend to use it at Starbucks for my drinks because it's less common. I first noticed in
Disneyland that when we went to Starbucks and I gave the name "Elle" the CMs at the counter would spell it right but the baristas would often say "Ellie". The same thing happened so often during this trip (or, in Epcot, the CM wrote "Belle") that I ended up stopping and just getting my real name on my cups.
Anyway, mini-rant complete, let's get back to the trip report!
World Showcase!
We had a lunch ADR at 12:30 so we started in Mexico.
Also we always start in Mexico, I don't know why I said that like it was a thing.
Mexico was a lot brighter than I remembered it being - either that or coming in the spring means the sun is just that much less bright. Or both. I'll go with both.
We walked around and looked at things. Jey found some Dia de los Muertos statues that she absolutely fell in love with (they were beautiful and handmade) but didn't end up buying. I think she took pictures so that she could try and find them later on.
We went on the Gran Fiesta Tour, which is one of our favorites. We both love the Three Caballeros so it's always a must do.
Also, now they've got these cuties so how can you not go on?
We wandered over to Norway and poked around there for a bit too.
We'll be back for you later, Kringla. I promise.
And then we headed over to China.
By this point it was getting close to our lunch time so we meandered over to our lunch location:
We were eating here for the food, not for the princesses, but if it's the only way we can go there then that's it. We were called in about five minutes after our ADR time.
We were waited on by a sweet CM named Maria (seriously, this name just keeps popping up in this TR!) and were quickly up to the cold buffet!
That's medwurt (the salami-type slices), goat cheese (what Jey calls "peanut butter cheese"), three types of salmon, asparagus, yarlsburg, and bread. Everything but the asparagus was good! The asparagus wasn't bad, it just wasn't a taste palette that went well with the other food I had piled my plate with.
Before long the princesses came out and they were all out by the time our lunches came. I just compiled my pictures with the princesses into a collage:
After they were all out our meals came. Jey and I got the same thing:
Traditional meatballs with mash and lingonberries. <3 Be still my heart. Not as good as my mother makes but still so yummy.
Jey's went cold because she was trying to creep princess pictures while they were interacting with other guests. She finally had to eat because our dessert was going to come out.
Speaking of our desserts, they were:
This is the trio: rice pudding, apple bread, and chocolate mousse. We both like the mousse. Jey does not like the texture of rice pudding so she wasn't all that enthused about that, but she really liked the apple bread. I thought the apple bread was a bit dense but I liked the rice pudding, so by the end of the meal we had eaten our fill nicely.
We rolled ourselves out of the restaurant and headed back to the wilds of World Showcase, which was getting pretty busy. We still managed to hear "I knew today would be the day we ran into them!" as we were walking towards Germany - my parents' friends Rob and Jo were walking towards us! We stopped and chatted a little bit, took a picture that Rob sent to my mother and I've never seen (lol) and continued on our trips.
At this point we were hot from our walk around the world and decided it was time to try our first taste of the Flower and Garden Festival:
Violet lemonade! So good! It was definitely needed.
We were ready to leave for a short break but before we left we had to make one final stop:
Jey was bound and determined to try Beverly again because she's crazy lol. I was in it for the Fanta pineapple and the Guarana Kuot - which is not as good as Antartica Guarana but it's still pretty tasty (one of my closest friends/former college roommates used to stock our fridge with Antartica Guarana and it's become a staple. Pineapple Fanta's just my favorite next to Orange Fanta).
Sufficiently satisfied and our stomachs sloshing with lots of liquid we headed back to the hotel to change.