katt789
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- Mar 14, 2010
Our adventure joining in with the Dark Side had temporarily come to a halt for now as we headed over to venture through far off worlds, and most importantly
.get some food in our bellies. We zipped through the store at the entrance to the International Gateway to pick up a few bottles of water and take in the air conditioning, when I started to look at the Vera Bradley bags! I knew I needed a new cross body bag for the parks (the old Tinkerbell one I had had been sewed back together a few times already). Id thought about a Dooney, but those are even more pricey, and a little too small for me, eventually between Jenna & I we had me convinced, I mean, it could count as a birthday present for me, right?! We stopped briefly outside the shop so I could re arrange everything and throw out the stained, dirty and sewed together bag, and then it was off to France!
The bakery back there was our target for food, I knew they had some good stuff, and some vegetarian choices, so it was a good place for us to hit being the starving folk that we were! And this, is where the moment kinda hit me I was standing there, waiting to pay beside Jenna inside the bakery when it really hit me that I had gotten the cultural rep job that in a mere 4 months (at the time) I would be living in and working for Disney, doing what the people who were currently serving me were doing, and I MAY have had the tiniest little emotional freak out inside! Lol. It was a weird moment.
Lunch though, was clearly the more important part of the day .we both got sandwiches, I got the ham & swiss with a chocolate mousse for dessert while Jenna opted for the brie, apple slices and cranberry with an éclair for dessert! I also took the opportunity to get a mimosa, because after the stress and grumpiness of the morning, we both needed it (and yes, I shared )
Lunch was super good, and just what we both needed, some food in our bellies, a little booze to blow off the steam, and some great desserts! Jenna wasnt the hugest fan of her sandwich, it was kinda weird, but LOVED the éclair, and I loved everything lol! We did end up both wrapping up our sandwiches to take with us as we explored, I ate some pieces of mine later, but I think Jenna just threw hers out. Lol.
Our first stop was Morocco, where we found some awesome lamps we both wanted.
Only to find out the next day they were made from sheep skin or like stomach or something kinda weird like that something that made Jenna not like them anymore, bahah!
We spent a VERY decent chunk of time in Morrocco, and it really made Jenna want to travel, explore, and fall in love with it! I definitely have a love for this pavilion, its probably the prettiest, and has a lot of stuff to explore and look at, which made us both happy!
We wandered through the stores in Japan, and of course, had to make sure we got a selfie in there!
Before we moved on to Murica, where we stopped for a bathroom break.
The journey through Italy was brief, but we did enough to check out as many of the cute cast members as we could (bahaha) before moving onto Germany.
Jenna asked where we were and when I told her it went something like this: awe man, Germany! A beer would be so good from here! I laughed and told her that that was why I had held off on another drink, I knew shed want to share a beer from here! Lol. We jumped in line for the kiosk more inside the pavilion and lucked out to be in front of a douchey group of young adult guys yay (can you feel the sarcasm?) Theyd clearly been drinking, and were commenting on the looks of the girls that were serving in Germany, and some of the comments were not the nicest, leading to Jenna & I having an eye rolling conversation. We also heard them be all
ew grapefruit beer that cant be good. What did we get? The grapefruit beer please & thanks! Hilariously, as we walked away, we heard one of the guys loudly order the grapefruit beer. Thanks bub, just because you saw two cute blondes order a certain kind of beer and then you order it doesnt mean were gonna like you youre a poop head.
Sometime after that I clearly needed 2 hands so I passed the beer off to Jenna and this happened:
And we left Germany behind
We did see Mulan out and about, and the Chinese acrobats, but didnt stop long for either, it was HOT still, and air conditioning was nice!
It was nice to see Norway not nearly as crowded with Anna & Elsa down, but the wait for Maelstorm was still OVER half an hour! YIKES!
Im pretty sure we stopped inside the pavilion to take a look around, and then we circled through over to the Future World side of the park for some lovely pictures!
The black & white one is another favorite from the day! We continued our adventure through Canada & the UK where I grabbed a Welsh Dragon from the Rose & Crown, Jenna and I commented on HOW SUPER ATTRACTIVE EVERYONE WAS, and we grabbed a seat in the little gardens behind the tea shoppe! It was just after 4:30 now, and we had had a lovely afternoon through Epcot, and Quintin (who was in FoF earlier in the week!) was just getting off work and came over to hang out for a bit. Hed been up at the front of the park hanging with Pluto all day and was relieved to be relaxing now!
The three of us just sat on that bench hanging out, talking and relaxing for probably another half hour. Honestly, and you guys know this, Im one for go-go-go-go-go-ing on Disney trips, rushing from one place to another, but this year, there has been a lot of differences in that way. January I slept in and went to the gym, April Suzie & I slept in and took a relaxing trip around the world, and with Jenna, it was such a nice relief to be able to slowly go through everything and really explore. Shed voice her opinion if she wanted to go on a ride again or do something different, but especially with Epcot, she was MORE than okay just wandering or relaxing. The time we spent together on this trip truly was amazing and wonderful, and this half hour on that bench in the UK was just as fantastic as the rest of it.
Eventually, Quintin decided he had to go, and Jenna and I decided we should probably get a move on as well! We walked back through the International Gateway and through the Boardwalk in search of some dinner. We eventually ended up over at the Yacht Club where the counter service place had no good choices, and Beaches & Cream was full. I also searched aimlessly through the gift shop to try and find some decongestant. See, another reason I hadnt been doing too well that day, I was definitely getting sick. Jennad been fighting off something before we left, and had probably kicked its butt, but after 2 nights of sharing a bed, and water bottles, itd passed along to me! SAD DAYS! I also couldnt find any decongestants in packages and had to buy them one by one .EVEN SADDER DAYS.
Finally, we found our way out to the little counter service place by the pool bar, and ended up both getting some kids grilled cheese sandwiches that came in sand pails! We had a lot of a mix up with the sides, Jenna just wanted double fries, and that came out wrong, and then mine came with fries even though I just wanted grapes & apple slices. *sigh * We promptly then took our sand pail meals over to the bar to sit down and eat, bahhaha!
Doing his job the bartender greeted us and we had a nice little chat with him before he asked if we needed any drinks, and of course when I ordered one, he asked for ID, half apologizing for it. I told him there was no need, I was eating a grilled cheese out of a sand pail, Id ID me too! Lol.
As we ate, it started to rain, which then turned into a DOWNPOUR of a HUGE thunder & lightning storm, so we were super glad to be under cover for it! We also noticed the families beside us, two of them, and once the kids were done eating, the wifes took them upstairs for a nap or something or other, and the Dads promptly starting half leering over at us. They didnt say anything, but the vibe was there, and the eyeing was there clearly I was of age because I had a drink, but lets be real, Jenna looks about 17, and with no drink, there was no proof of age and thats REAL AWKWARD.
Luckily for us the rain storm soon ended, and food and drink fueled us to walk all the way back to Hollywood Studios, because, why not?! It was a really nice walk, that we both definitely did barefoot, and enjoyed each others company the entire way!
The bakery back there was our target for food, I knew they had some good stuff, and some vegetarian choices, so it was a good place for us to hit being the starving folk that we were! And this, is where the moment kinda hit me I was standing there, waiting to pay beside Jenna inside the bakery when it really hit me that I had gotten the cultural rep job that in a mere 4 months (at the time) I would be living in and working for Disney, doing what the people who were currently serving me were doing, and I MAY have had the tiniest little emotional freak out inside! Lol. It was a weird moment.
Lunch though, was clearly the more important part of the day .we both got sandwiches, I got the ham & swiss with a chocolate mousse for dessert while Jenna opted for the brie, apple slices and cranberry with an éclair for dessert! I also took the opportunity to get a mimosa, because after the stress and grumpiness of the morning, we both needed it (and yes, I shared )
Lunch was super good, and just what we both needed, some food in our bellies, a little booze to blow off the steam, and some great desserts! Jenna wasnt the hugest fan of her sandwich, it was kinda weird, but LOVED the éclair, and I loved everything lol! We did end up both wrapping up our sandwiches to take with us as we explored, I ate some pieces of mine later, but I think Jenna just threw hers out. Lol.
Our first stop was Morocco, where we found some awesome lamps we both wanted.
Only to find out the next day they were made from sheep skin or like stomach or something kinda weird like that something that made Jenna not like them anymore, bahah!
We spent a VERY decent chunk of time in Morrocco, and it really made Jenna want to travel, explore, and fall in love with it! I definitely have a love for this pavilion, its probably the prettiest, and has a lot of stuff to explore and look at, which made us both happy!
We wandered through the stores in Japan, and of course, had to make sure we got a selfie in there!
Before we moved on to Murica, where we stopped for a bathroom break.
The journey through Italy was brief, but we did enough to check out as many of the cute cast members as we could (bahaha) before moving onto Germany.
Jenna asked where we were and when I told her it went something like this: awe man, Germany! A beer would be so good from here! I laughed and told her that that was why I had held off on another drink, I knew shed want to share a beer from here! Lol. We jumped in line for the kiosk more inside the pavilion and lucked out to be in front of a douchey group of young adult guys yay (can you feel the sarcasm?) Theyd clearly been drinking, and were commenting on the looks of the girls that were serving in Germany, and some of the comments were not the nicest, leading to Jenna & I having an eye rolling conversation. We also heard them be all
ew grapefruit beer that cant be good. What did we get? The grapefruit beer please & thanks! Hilariously, as we walked away, we heard one of the guys loudly order the grapefruit beer. Thanks bub, just because you saw two cute blondes order a certain kind of beer and then you order it doesnt mean were gonna like you youre a poop head.
Sometime after that I clearly needed 2 hands so I passed the beer off to Jenna and this happened:
And we left Germany behind
We did see Mulan out and about, and the Chinese acrobats, but didnt stop long for either, it was HOT still, and air conditioning was nice!
It was nice to see Norway not nearly as crowded with Anna & Elsa down, but the wait for Maelstorm was still OVER half an hour! YIKES!
Im pretty sure we stopped inside the pavilion to take a look around, and then we circled through over to the Future World side of the park for some lovely pictures!
The black & white one is another favorite from the day! We continued our adventure through Canada & the UK where I grabbed a Welsh Dragon from the Rose & Crown, Jenna and I commented on HOW SUPER ATTRACTIVE EVERYONE WAS, and we grabbed a seat in the little gardens behind the tea shoppe! It was just after 4:30 now, and we had had a lovely afternoon through Epcot, and Quintin (who was in FoF earlier in the week!) was just getting off work and came over to hang out for a bit. Hed been up at the front of the park hanging with Pluto all day and was relieved to be relaxing now!
The three of us just sat on that bench hanging out, talking and relaxing for probably another half hour. Honestly, and you guys know this, Im one for go-go-go-go-go-ing on Disney trips, rushing from one place to another, but this year, there has been a lot of differences in that way. January I slept in and went to the gym, April Suzie & I slept in and took a relaxing trip around the world, and with Jenna, it was such a nice relief to be able to slowly go through everything and really explore. Shed voice her opinion if she wanted to go on a ride again or do something different, but especially with Epcot, she was MORE than okay just wandering or relaxing. The time we spent together on this trip truly was amazing and wonderful, and this half hour on that bench in the UK was just as fantastic as the rest of it.
Eventually, Quintin decided he had to go, and Jenna and I decided we should probably get a move on as well! We walked back through the International Gateway and through the Boardwalk in search of some dinner. We eventually ended up over at the Yacht Club where the counter service place had no good choices, and Beaches & Cream was full. I also searched aimlessly through the gift shop to try and find some decongestant. See, another reason I hadnt been doing too well that day, I was definitely getting sick. Jennad been fighting off something before we left, and had probably kicked its butt, but after 2 nights of sharing a bed, and water bottles, itd passed along to me! SAD DAYS! I also couldnt find any decongestants in packages and had to buy them one by one .EVEN SADDER DAYS.
Finally, we found our way out to the little counter service place by the pool bar, and ended up both getting some kids grilled cheese sandwiches that came in sand pails! We had a lot of a mix up with the sides, Jenna just wanted double fries, and that came out wrong, and then mine came with fries even though I just wanted grapes & apple slices. *sigh * We promptly then took our sand pail meals over to the bar to sit down and eat, bahhaha!
Doing his job the bartender greeted us and we had a nice little chat with him before he asked if we needed any drinks, and of course when I ordered one, he asked for ID, half apologizing for it. I told him there was no need, I was eating a grilled cheese out of a sand pail, Id ID me too! Lol.
As we ate, it started to rain, which then turned into a DOWNPOUR of a HUGE thunder & lightning storm, so we were super glad to be under cover for it! We also noticed the families beside us, two of them, and once the kids were done eating, the wifes took them upstairs for a nap or something or other, and the Dads promptly starting half leering over at us. They didnt say anything, but the vibe was there, and the eyeing was there clearly I was of age because I had a drink, but lets be real, Jenna looks about 17, and with no drink, there was no proof of age and thats REAL AWKWARD.
Luckily for us the rain storm soon ended, and food and drink fueled us to walk all the way back to Hollywood Studios, because, why not?! It was a really nice walk, that we both definitely did barefoot, and enjoyed each others company the entire way!
But meals out of sand pails are fun. Even if they are grilled cheese. 
I am a pretty hardcore dark craft beer person, but on a hot day, that Grapefruit Beer is pretty darn refreshing!
They are my FOTLK, lol.
