DECEMBER 6, 2011
Day 2, Part 5 In Which I Am Covered In Tequila
Hey everyone! This is probably the shortest time in between updates ever... but I have just been in one of those crazy Disney moods where you miss it so much you are almost hysterical, so yay! An update!
Just a funny story... I was REALLY obsessing over Disney today, like even more than usual, I even cried over it... TWICE. That's just me. So later on my mom and I went to Ikea. In the parking lot I noticed something Disneyish sitting in an abandoned shopping cart right near where we parked our car:
It looks like something that maybe you'd put on a table at a kid's party or something?? I don't know! The characters are attached to thin wooden rods, so I think I'm going to stick them in soil once I get some pots to plant flowers on my windowsill for the spring. Ahh! It made me so happy!
Anyway... let's get on with it!
When I last left you, my mom and I were waiting in Hollywood for the boat to to the United Kingdom.
We obsessed over the ducks:
As you may remember, our April 2010 was PACKED with duck sightings. And not just sightings, full on incidents. Baby ducklings ate my popcorn, a massive duck family stopped traffic at the World Showcase, Mr. and Mrs. Duck were quacking at us outside our door at Pop, on and on and on. Well, it's a spring thing I guess because we saw almost no ducks on this trip and no ducklings at all!
Though the boat takes a long time, I enjoy the ride as long as we're not in a hurry to go somewhere. It's a very relaxing break in between park touring, and we definitely needed to allow some digesting time after stuffing ourselves silly at Sci-Fi.
After stops at the Swan & Dolphin, Boardwalk, and Beach Club, we disembarked at the International Gateway and headed into the World Showcase. I prefer going into Epcot this way because it's closer to the hot foreign men, and that is always where I want to be.
We found ourselves in the land of the best bands...
The United Kingdom! And whoa, I don't remember it being as crowded as it looks here!
Of course, we stopped into the pub immediately. My mom wanted to enjoy a drink and I wanted to enjoy the view and the accents.
This was the first time I had ever been in here, and WOW it's awesome. I don't know what I was expecting, but it just feels like a normal bar somewhere, not a Disney bar. People were doing shots of whiskey and stuff which was so hilarious to me. I would never dare drink whiskey at Walt Disney World. It would cause me to do some really UN-Disneyish things that will remain nameless. My mom wanted to try one of their special beers so she asked what the best one they had was. I paid no attention because not only am I not into beer, but I was looking around for a Paul McCartney lookalike.
Unfortunately, I did not find my Macca doppleganger on this or any other night of the trip! Not even a good Townshend or Richards look alike. To be honest, this didn't matter much because of the accents. I chatted with both bartenders about what is good there and what people order the most. My mom did end up with a special beer she said was quite good, but I have no idea what kind it was or what the boys told me, I was too distracted by the hot accents.
A+ Trip Reporting right here, folks. Look no further!
Next, we hit up Canada. I saw Le Cellier and my soul cried. Then, we headed up the stairs and into the store to check out some meese and beavers and stuff.
This is a fine store. They had a lot of moose merchandise, many of which featured them wearing very little clothing.
Every store should have things like this. Get on the ball, Disney.
They also had more disgusting soaps!!! You may remember me featuring Beaver Breath and some others in my last TR. They have added these two:
Obviously, this is the classiest shop in all of the World Showcase. Take that, France! Who wants a beret when you can have soap that has a photo of big foot with a rose in his mouth on the wrapper? Seriously.
ALSO: Notice that on the Dog Team Drool one, it says that it doesn't actually contain any dogs or drool, but on the Sasquatch one it doesn't say that it doesn't actually include Sasquatch sweat!! YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST: BIG FOOT IS REAL AND SWEATS TO MAKE THIS PRODUCT!
They also had something I haven't seen before in here, a Canada Quiz! I did not know the answer to any of these questions because none of the answers were Ryan Gosling.
I wanted a margarita, so off to Mexico we went, stopping to ooooh and ahhh at the pretty tree:
We went to La Hacienda and I ordered a frozen margarita:
It was alright. Like, for a margarita, it was good. I'm a bad judge of it because though I enjoy drinking and very much appreciate its effects, I hate the taste of 90% of alcohol. The only alcohol I really enjoy the taste of is wine. I wanted to try a variety of things at WDW, though, so I tried to branch out a little. It took me a long time to drink this, you can't really tell here but it comes in a BIG cup, much bigger than any normal bar would serve. It didn't get me drunk at all though, so it's not like it's that much tequila. I wasn't thrilled by it. To be honest, it just turned into a burden because carrying around an ice cold glass of something you aren't even that into is annoying. Also, you can't go on rides while holding a drink, and I think everyone knows how important it is that I ride Maelstrom at least five times a day. So my review of this drink is: Get it if you can bare to skip Maelstrom.
We went into the pavilion where gazed lovingly at the wood carvings I obsess over but never buy:
These were my two favorite wood carvings this year. I wish they were less expensive, even the small ones are like $50! One day, I'm sure I'll get one though.
I feel like we were in here for a long time, but I have no more pictures! I remember us looking at EVERYTHING though, and trying to get on the ride, but because of my giant marg, we couldn't. God, this margarita was keeping me from Disney's best rides!!!!!
We were mostly just wandering around, enjoying the atmosphere. I hardly have any pics cause I was holding my massive drink. Do you see what I mean?
I love this shirt I saw at one of the outposts! That alligator sure looks hungry.
In Italy, we stopped to sit for awhile. And by that, I mean I wanted to spy on the Tutto waiters and choose which one of them I was to marry.
My mom said she wanted to check out the drink menu at one of the stands and so we walked over there.
To my absolute delight, a cute Italian CM approached us and engaged us in a conversation immediately. He was from Milan and said that he didn't want to go back to Italy because he loves it in the US and at Disney. He started trying to convince me that Italian men were extremely more respectful toward women than American men. He said to me that he hopes he can marry an American girl one day and live here. He then told me I was very beautiful.
OH. What an interesting combination of thoughts that was!
You can't just say stuff like that to me when you are hot and Italian. It just doesn't work that way. So of course I had a reaction that would be more appropriate in the screenplay of a comedy film than in real life, but what else is new?
So you know how if you are drinking something with a straw and you blow into the straw, it makes bubbles and if you do that too hard, the drink will splash up and hit you in the face?
I was taking a sip of my margarita at the time of him saying this and I did exactly that.
I don't even know HOW I DID IT? I think I was trying to giggle at his American wife comment but I forgot to remove my mouth from the straw.
It was typical.
And you know what, it would have been bad enough if it was a normal drink but it was a yellow/orange slushie.
LIKE, COME ON.
This is why I will probably never have a hot Italian husband. Someone who isn't covered in yellow alcohol will get one of those.
He was nice about it, turning around and handing me a napkin, but it was over at that point. There is no way to gracefully wipe a margarita off of your face and shirt. You just have to do it awkwardly and hope you don't die of embarrassment.
I survived. Barely.
My mom talked to him mostly after that, since I was too busy blacking out. She actually had a frumpy moment too where she forgot Milan is all about fashion and started talking about it like it was Rome, and the cute Italian was pretty confused. He probably thought we were dorks or idiots. Or both. Then he started listing all these places that we'd never heard of and I just felt like a moron. But then he brought up Marcianise, which is where my grandfather was born and where I have distant relatives! So I was able to save face a little bit, but like I said, I blew a yellow margarita slushie onto my own face. There is just no recovering from that point.
Up next: A visit with a dear friend.
I really hate how I've never seen that show down there. I love the movie and yet I haven't had a chance to see it. But it sounds really cool, I mean when it rains at the beginning oh that must be really cool when seeing it for the first time. Hopefully it will still be there when I go back since a lot of forgotten shows in DHS are being shut down just like that 
And I think it's awesome you have an obsession with the Cat Who Hates People, I'm surprised I don't remember him from the reel, but I'll have to make sure to catch him in his act 
but seriously. 
I fell ya on this! Every time we are trying to go out to eat at home, i want to go to Disney. Like why can't there be character meals in Georgia. I cannot even get a good cupcake without thinking about starring rolls! I would have a season pass just to go eat if i lived in orlando!
arty: And umm... I have been in a super crazy disney mood this whole WEEK. Because like, when I'm at college it dies down a little. And now I'm on break and I went SLDIUFDHJKSAKDILCJKBSDFLZIKAJDKHSDHFJAJLHFDJ DISNEY! So basically... we're Disney twins.
Omg I would have been like... oh yeah, let's get married right now. PERFECT! You're italian, you work at Disney, and you're hot. You're a winner. 
LOL @ your infatuation with the accents, so funny. 
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