Let me just say Milo and I don't do much together without our kids. So we had been excited to have the chance to trade date nights with Donald and Perla. We talked and talked about what to do. I debated about having a nice dinner at Flying Fish or doing something in Orlando not Disney. But when it comes down to it Milo and I are very frugal when it comes to ourselves. We were at Disney, we had tickets that were already paid for and Milo LOVES Epcot World Showcase. So I had the idea that we could "eat around the world" and he wanted to peruse the shops around the world without little fingers touching all the breakables.
So that's what we decided to do. I got home from my day at MK to find Milo ready to go. Believe it or not even though he had been vomiting less than 24 hours before he still was ready to eat. So I left Jack Jack and Buzz with Perla(McQueen and Charming were at Epcot with Donald) and we took off.
We just walked straight to Mexico and got started. We went into the Pyramid and explored. I discovered that there is a fancier store in an actual room in there aside from the market carts. They sell silver, leather, and other nice stuff from Mexico. I have been into Mexico many times and had never noticed this place so that was a good start to our "grown up trip around the world."
Then we stopped and got a Fiesta Margarita from Joe at the margarita stand.
This was disappointing. It is a layered margarita with green apple, mango, strawberry, and traditional. I had two problems with this, one was I didn't really like all the flavors, the strawberry was good but I would have passed on the other three. Secondly, it was freezing this night. It got to a record low late that night of 39 degrees to give you an idea. A frozen drink may not have been the best choice.
On the top right is the margarita (obviously) then we stopped at the Norway bakery and got school bread (bottom) and Lefse Bread (top left). This was my first school bread experience and I fell in love. It was so good and I'm not a pastry or donut person normally but this was delicious. The lefse bread did not get finished as it was pretty bland and I had no interest in it.
We then walked through the shops in Norway, past the perfume lady and into the back where for a moment I imagined how fun it would be to wear all those cool clothes and go skiing and dog sledding and snow shoeing across Norway until I stepped back outside where it was 40 degrees and I quickly decided a tropical island would be more my speed.
Next we went to China and had Pot Stickers and Plum Wine. Our CM was Yuet Sheung. (I took note of all our servers' names because it made me feel more authentic in our trek.)
I like pot stickers so I was happy with this. Then we walked through all the fancy chinese furniture and oohed and awed.
On to Germany. Here we went to the counter service (which I didn't even know existed) and ordered a Bratwurst with Sauerkraut from Markus.
Oh, and two little Mozart chocolates from the store. This was a decent brat but we're from Ohio and we eat brats a lot in the summer so it was no big deal.
Off to Italy where there is no counter service but there is La Bottega Italiana where we ordered a glass of Spumante from Eleanor.
Then we walked around the square and watched the players for a while. But it was too cold to stay for long. ( I want to add that I was wearing a long sleeve shirt, a courderoy jacket and my wool winter coat
)
Then we went to Yakatori House in Japan and had Hot Sake and California rolls. We were served by Nga.
This was one of my favorites. I'm not an expert of Sushi but for me it was really good. And we were able to sit inside the restaurant where it was warm and just took our time.
Morrocco was next. We love Morrocco. The theming is so nice. You really feel like you're in another world. We walked around and then ordered the Combo Chicken and Lamb platter with a glass of red wine. Our CM was Hajiba EL AKFI
This came with bread, chicken and lamb in some yogurt sauce, hummus, and tabbouleh. We both enjoyed this tremendously.
Then we stopped and watched the American Adventure. We had never seen this before and I've always wanted to. I really enjoyed it. (and it was warm
)
Then off to finish up in the France Bakery. We were served by Ornella and ordered a lemon tart and Chocolate eclair.
Out of the two I liked the lemon tart better even though I am a huge chocolate person. The eclair just wasn't as fresh as I would prefer.
We then got our picture taken in front of the fountain.
Can you tell it's been a long day for me? I was tired. I had been up early that morning listening to Milo being sick, took the boys solo to MK, and then took my DH on a walk around the world
. And did I mention it was COLD!?!
Anyway, we had ADR for the Rose and Crown later in the week and Milo wanted to buy a bottle of Norwegian whiskey that he had spotted earlier, so we went back the way we came and headed to the exit.
As we were leaving, there was no line for Spaceship Earth and I wanted to see the new version so we ran in there. I loved it. We emailed ourselves our crazy pictures (if you've ridden you know what I'm talking about) and headed home.
When we got back into the van the thermometer read 44 degress. In Orlando. In early December. Bummer!
All in all we had a good time. We spent less then $80 on our dinner and were kidless. So that was a success. Unfortunately, it was not the casual stroll hand in hand stopping and looking over the lagoon on a bench that I had hoped for simply because it was too cold for that. I would like to go back and do something similar on a date night and get another chance, maybe next time.
We were home by 10:00pm where I found everyone in bed except Charming who was on the couch dozing with a sleeping Jack Jack. Sweet, mothering Charming.....Perla was sick and Jack Jack had woken up around 9:00 crying so Charming had taken care of him.
I took Jack Jack and sent Charming to bed and that was the end of another monster day.
Whew, will we ever take it easy?
We're the couple that you're not sure where one's ideas or sentences starts and the other's ends, if you know what I mean. The only downside is we can be a lot to handle in real life. Which is why when we travel together we have to be extra careful not to overwhelm our DHs with our "oneness of mind." They don't like that very much
It's been fun but I think both Suzy and I would have loved at least one of the other sex, ya know? So we just live vicariously through each other.
I type mostly in Word and copy but I also just type on here for the smaller reports. I'll have to go through at the end and copy those & Suzy's into Word so I'll have the whole thing permanently on my hard drive.
After the first night and Jack Jack had squirted about 5 half empty packages all over the floors I banned Perla from buying any more of these. Note to self - a 12 mo old must have sippy cups with no spill valves!
When they all came out, Milo ran off and the boys and I went to hop in line and ride The Land. Jack Jack loved all the boat rides so this was enjoyed by all and something safe for me to do by myself with them.
When asked what happened he said that the children's platter was only for kids 10 and under.
Thank you, Perla!! I had been so busy the previous days I had let it go a bit so I was very happy.
