Vernie822
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WEDNESDAY 9/17 - EPCOT: Drinks Around the World
Our original plan to ‘Drink Around the World’ included drinks at every country. We would share, we decided, because I’m a lightweight and Justin is not a big drinker. He likes to taste mine, but will rarely order for himself. He enjoys wine and beer, sometimes rum and coke, but nothing too fancy. His favorite is Angry Orchard cider. I enjoy fancy drinks, like frozen girly margaritas. I do love wine and beer, too. I don’t really drink liquor that often.
We high tailed it over to Mexico to begin our drinking shenanigans.
I knew I wanted a margarita of some kind, I just wasn’t sure if I wanted to go down into La Cava, or if I wanted a frozen one. Well, the line to meet Fiesta Donald (I have no idea if that’s his real name or not..) was somewhat short, so we decided to grab a margarita and hop in line. The margarita line was somewhat long, but I could see those frozen margaritas and I knew it would be worth it. Justin saw the line and said “Geeze, is there a fastpass for the margarita line!?” hahaha. We had an option of mango, strawberry, and lime. I chose strawberry. I thought about swirling them, but strawberry is my go-to marg flavor so I knew I could do no wrong.
We hopped in line for Fiesta Donald as we shared our margarita. It was delicious. Everything a $9.95 frozen margarita should be.
Tip: We purchased a few Disney gift cards at Giant Eagle (our local grocery store) for the trip. They offer fuel perks (.10 off per gallon of gas) for every $50 you spend in the store. For every $50 in gift cards, they offer you 20 cents off per gallon. Score! We grabbed our gift cards when the fuel perks discount was going on. That .20 off each gallon added up and I probably saved about $10 on my gas! We used our gift cards to pay for the drinks so we wouldn’t have to worry about cards or cash.
We enjoyed looking around Mexico. Part of me wishes we would have spent more time discovering the countries. A lot of the stuff we just glanced at and didn’t really get to experience fully, because we wanted to make it the whole way around WS.
Norway was kind of a dud as far as the alcohol offerings, haha! We wandered around a bit and really enjoyed the shop there. I wanted to ride Maelstrom but the wait was 40 MINUTES!! We had not seen waits that long all week! We weren’t hungry enough to get anything from the bakery, and we still had some margarita to drink. I WILL get to that bakery next time though!
Justin's "I'm unimpressed with Norway's alcoholic beverage offerings" face..
China was next, and we knew Joy of Tea would be our stop. I had maybeeeeee gone online and picked my drinks from the menus before even leaving Pennsylvania, so I had an idea of what I would like. Usually when Justin and I are deciding on something, we each say our ‘Top 2’ and then if one of them is the same for both of us that’s the one we get. Or I’ll pick my top few and he’ll choose what he would like to try since he’s pretty picky. Here, I was between the Canteloopy and the Peach Snap. Peach Snap won. This was $7.50.
This was another frozen concoction (it was hot), but it was SO GOOD! I loved this. It was again a sweet drink, but it was still really good.
We explored the China pavilion for a bit.
Justin wasn't as amused with my constant picture taking as I was.. so he gave me his best "Sheldon Cooper" smile. If you ever watch Big Bang you'll get it, haha.
My home country of Germany was calling my name. I could not wait! I am probably about 60% German, both of my parents are at least half, so I couldn’t wait to see what this country would be like.
I have experienced the WS before, but usually it was with my family and we were young kids. I think the last time I was here with my family I was 11, so we did not do much in the way of the WS back then as my siblings were all between 1 and 9. I was also there in high school with National Honor Society, but we did not spend much time in each country either.
Germany was amazing! I loved it. I can’t wait to go back and eat in Biergarten sometime. First stop was the Bier stand for a… Schofferhofer Grapefruit. I had read about them in other people’s TRs, but I wasn’t sure what bier I would get. I am a sucker for any light beer with a fruit flavor, so this was right up my alley. I love a good hefeweizen too. I ordered one and it was $7.50.
Oh my … I could drink this again and again! You’ll see that later this week, I did just that. It was AMAZING! I know it’s more juice tasting than it is beer, but I loved it.
We went into Karamell Kuche as well because I just knew we both would love it. I’m a huge sucker for anything chocolate, and it’s even better when caramel is involved. We waited for about 10-15 minutes and returned back to the WS with our bag of caramel popcorn. It smelled SO amazing in there. If I wasn’t already pretty full, I would have got a few more items as well.
We didn’t drink anything in Italy. I would’ve got a glass of wine, but I was feeling a little tipsy! We sat down on a bench and enjoyed our popcorn.
It was about 8 PM when we entered America. Justin was hungry as per usual. We had found some restrooms in the America pavilion, these ended up being our favorite restrooms! They were big and spacious and clean! I didn’t get anything to drink here because I knew I would want something in Japan.
I really hate to be a complainer, but here it goes. Justin went to a cart in the American pavilion, right before Japan, to order a Mickey pretzel. Our second day, he had ordered a Mickey pretzel in the Magic Kingdom and used a snack credit. The girl at the cart told him 1 snack credit would get him a pretzel and a cheese cup. So we assumed the same here. We ordered the pretzel and cheese cup. First, a John the CM asked ‘are you sure you want cheese? We’re all out so I have to open a new box..’ ‘Yes, I do want cheese.’ ‘Ok, well do you want me to heat it up, that might take awhile.’ ‘No, if it takes too long, don’t worry’… So we’d get a fresh pretzel but no hot cheese. Not a huge deal. ‘How do you want to pay for this, with a snack credit?’ ‘Yes, please,’ and we paid for it using magic bands. Our receipt printed, with 2 credits charged to our account. ‘Excuse me,’ Justin said. ‘Are you sure this is 2 credits? The other day we bought the same thing in Magic Kingdom and it was 1 credit for both. If it’s 2 credits that’s fine, but we would rather pay the $1 than have a credit be used.’ ‘Oh,’ John said. ‘Sorry about that. If you want me to fix it I’m gonna need to call someone over here and that might take awhile..’ Oh.. ok! So we just said have a nice night, and left. We were kind of salty because, although we had free dining, we thought it would be consistent. Or at least he would tell us that the $1 cheese cup would be used as its own snack credit. In that case we would have just paid the $1!
Off to Japan we went.. We weren’t going to let one salty cast member ruin our day!
Our original plan to ‘Drink Around the World’ included drinks at every country. We would share, we decided, because I’m a lightweight and Justin is not a big drinker. He likes to taste mine, but will rarely order for himself. He enjoys wine and beer, sometimes rum and coke, but nothing too fancy. His favorite is Angry Orchard cider. I enjoy fancy drinks, like frozen girly margaritas. I do love wine and beer, too. I don’t really drink liquor that often.
We high tailed it over to Mexico to begin our drinking shenanigans.
I knew I wanted a margarita of some kind, I just wasn’t sure if I wanted to go down into La Cava, or if I wanted a frozen one. Well, the line to meet Fiesta Donald (I have no idea if that’s his real name or not..) was somewhat short, so we decided to grab a margarita and hop in line. The margarita line was somewhat long, but I could see those frozen margaritas and I knew it would be worth it. Justin saw the line and said “Geeze, is there a fastpass for the margarita line!?” hahaha. We had an option of mango, strawberry, and lime. I chose strawberry. I thought about swirling them, but strawberry is my go-to marg flavor so I knew I could do no wrong.
We hopped in line for Fiesta Donald as we shared our margarita. It was delicious. Everything a $9.95 frozen margarita should be.
Tip: We purchased a few Disney gift cards at Giant Eagle (our local grocery store) for the trip. They offer fuel perks (.10 off per gallon of gas) for every $50 you spend in the store. For every $50 in gift cards, they offer you 20 cents off per gallon. Score! We grabbed our gift cards when the fuel perks discount was going on. That .20 off each gallon added up and I probably saved about $10 on my gas! We used our gift cards to pay for the drinks so we wouldn’t have to worry about cards or cash.
We enjoyed looking around Mexico. Part of me wishes we would have spent more time discovering the countries. A lot of the stuff we just glanced at and didn’t really get to experience fully, because we wanted to make it the whole way around WS.
Norway was kind of a dud as far as the alcohol offerings, haha! We wandered around a bit and really enjoyed the shop there. I wanted to ride Maelstrom but the wait was 40 MINUTES!! We had not seen waits that long all week! We weren’t hungry enough to get anything from the bakery, and we still had some margarita to drink. I WILL get to that bakery next time though!
Justin's "I'm unimpressed with Norway's alcoholic beverage offerings" face..
China was next, and we knew Joy of Tea would be our stop. I had maybeeeeee gone online and picked my drinks from the menus before even leaving Pennsylvania, so I had an idea of what I would like. Usually when Justin and I are deciding on something, we each say our ‘Top 2’ and then if one of them is the same for both of us that’s the one we get. Or I’ll pick my top few and he’ll choose what he would like to try since he’s pretty picky. Here, I was between the Canteloopy and the Peach Snap. Peach Snap won. This was $7.50.
This was another frozen concoction (it was hot), but it was SO GOOD! I loved this. It was again a sweet drink, but it was still really good.
We explored the China pavilion for a bit.
Justin wasn't as amused with my constant picture taking as I was.. so he gave me his best "Sheldon Cooper" smile. If you ever watch Big Bang you'll get it, haha.
My home country of Germany was calling my name. I could not wait! I am probably about 60% German, both of my parents are at least half, so I couldn’t wait to see what this country would be like.
I have experienced the WS before, but usually it was with my family and we were young kids. I think the last time I was here with my family I was 11, so we did not do much in the way of the WS back then as my siblings were all between 1 and 9. I was also there in high school with National Honor Society, but we did not spend much time in each country either.
Germany was amazing! I loved it. I can’t wait to go back and eat in Biergarten sometime. First stop was the Bier stand for a… Schofferhofer Grapefruit. I had read about them in other people’s TRs, but I wasn’t sure what bier I would get. I am a sucker for any light beer with a fruit flavor, so this was right up my alley. I love a good hefeweizen too. I ordered one and it was $7.50.
Oh my … I could drink this again and again! You’ll see that later this week, I did just that. It was AMAZING! I know it’s more juice tasting than it is beer, but I loved it.
We went into Karamell Kuche as well because I just knew we both would love it. I’m a huge sucker for anything chocolate, and it’s even better when caramel is involved. We waited for about 10-15 minutes and returned back to the WS with our bag of caramel popcorn. It smelled SO amazing in there. If I wasn’t already pretty full, I would have got a few more items as well.
We didn’t drink anything in Italy. I would’ve got a glass of wine, but I was feeling a little tipsy! We sat down on a bench and enjoyed our popcorn.
It was about 8 PM when we entered America. Justin was hungry as per usual. We had found some restrooms in the America pavilion, these ended up being our favorite restrooms! They were big and spacious and clean! I didn’t get anything to drink here because I knew I would want something in Japan.
I really hate to be a complainer, but here it goes. Justin went to a cart in the American pavilion, right before Japan, to order a Mickey pretzel. Our second day, he had ordered a Mickey pretzel in the Magic Kingdom and used a snack credit. The girl at the cart told him 1 snack credit would get him a pretzel and a cheese cup. So we assumed the same here. We ordered the pretzel and cheese cup. First, a John the CM asked ‘are you sure you want cheese? We’re all out so I have to open a new box..’ ‘Yes, I do want cheese.’ ‘Ok, well do you want me to heat it up, that might take awhile.’ ‘No, if it takes too long, don’t worry’… So we’d get a fresh pretzel but no hot cheese. Not a huge deal. ‘How do you want to pay for this, with a snack credit?’ ‘Yes, please,’ and we paid for it using magic bands. Our receipt printed, with 2 credits charged to our account. ‘Excuse me,’ Justin said. ‘Are you sure this is 2 credits? The other day we bought the same thing in Magic Kingdom and it was 1 credit for both. If it’s 2 credits that’s fine, but we would rather pay the $1 than have a credit be used.’ ‘Oh,’ John said. ‘Sorry about that. If you want me to fix it I’m gonna need to call someone over here and that might take awhile..’ Oh.. ok! So we just said have a nice night, and left. We were kind of salty because, although we had free dining, we thought it would be consistent. Or at least he would tell us that the $1 cheese cup would be used as its own snack credit. In that case we would have just paid the $1!
Off to Japan we went.. We weren’t going to let one salty cast member ruin our day!
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One of these days I hope.
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I'm sure of it.
