World Showcase & Kringla Bakeri
Our rope drop plan was to rope drop Remy and then see if we could make it to FEA before early entry was over. I read a few blogs where people did this successfully but knew we would be cutting it close if we weren’t at the very front of the rope drop line, and it was also risky because of the Spring Break crowds. Disboarders convinced me in my pre-trip report to go for the FEA LL just in case, and that ended up being great advice (THANK YOU
@SimplyGoofy,
@Ann-CA and everyone else who chimed in!).
We were heading toward Norway by 8:43am. We walked quickly, but also stopped for a few pictures along the way. The topiaries and international gardens for Flower & Garden Festival were beautiful! It might have been quicker to have walked "underneath" the World Showcase, but we had a quiet walk right through it without many people on the path.
We stopped for restrooms in Morocco. This might have been our downfall, but with a group our size, we needed a lot of bathroom breaks.
We agreed the Japanese garden was our favorite, and noted we wanted to come back to it later. But it was really peaceful without many other people around this time of day! There was water flowing through the sticks, and they were lightly banging surfaces like the water pail to make very soothing noises.
As you can see, we had much of the World Showcase to ourselves on this walk, which is a rare sight for us!
I think the Snow White topiaries were in Germany.
There were a couple of workers tidying up the dwarves, so I snapped a picture given the empty view, but decided to get the girls with the dwarves later on.
It was 9:02 before we made it to Norway, so the walk and stops along the way took us 19 minutes. In hindsight, maybe we should have hustled more. When we arrived, the posted wait for FEA was already 50 minutes. I wasn’t sure if that was going to be accurate, but the line was outside and wrapped around pretty far, so I thought it would be at least 30 minutes if not longer. We decided to bail since we had the LL. This was a good call; TouringPlans posted an actual wait time of 50 minutes at 9:10am, so the posted time was fairly accurate.
We all needed coffee, so we stopped at Kringla Bakeri. The girls had already eaten pop tarts for breakfast, and we had brought our first coffees from the hotel room while we waited in the morning, so I ordered 1 lefse, 1 bottle of juice for the girls and 1 coffee for me and Pat to share ($12.32 total).
I can’t remember if the other adults ordered any food, but I think we all got coffee (except for my mom, who doesn’t drink coffee). The lefse has always been my favorite treat in Norway and was just as good as I remembered. The girls were skeptical about it, but they both seemed to like it. We sat in the shade while I scanned the app to figure out our next step. It was too early to book another LL so I was looking for short lines, and landed on Spaceship Earth, which had a 5-minute wait posted. I suggested we take our coffees to go before the line got much longer.
After your early wake up the prior morning I hope you weren’t too tired later in the day!
Thank you for reading along!
I was already mapping out plan B to go there on our rest day if our travel day didn’t work out.
