sissyfromcab
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Our last day started off with a simple plan - go to AK and ride the safari and anything else we missed, then go to Epcot for the F&W Festival. However, my determination to have more cupcakes from Starring Rolls to use up my snack credits led to going to all 4 parks in 1 day!
We started the day by going to EMH at AK to ride the safari. We had done this on our last trip and saw SO many animals, but this time the animals wanted to sleep in and not many were out.
As we left AK, we got to see the opening ceremony truck from the inside of the park and escaped through RFC as the masses surged into the park.
We then made our way to Epcot. Since we got there at 9:30 and we wanted to go to the F&W booths, we wandered around Future World for a bit. We did the piggy game again and won! Finally it was time for the F&W booths to open, so we made our lunch out of snack credits. (see previous post for reviews)
I really wanted to get some more cupcakes from Starring Rolls, so we made our way out of Epcot by the International Gateway. I was tryng to steer Travis toward the boat, but he didn't really believe me that there was a boat, so he kept looking around for a way to get to Hollywood Studios from there... so we missed the boat by about a minute.
I didn't want to wait 20 mins for another boat, so we got directions to walk to Hollywood Studios. It was really nice to see th Epcot resort area and we ended up beating the boat to Hollywood Studios by a couple minutes! I went off to Starring Rolls and Travis went off to ride TOT. He rode it twice with less than a 10 minuted wait! I thought about riding Rock 'n Roller Coaster, but didn't want to deal with holding all of my cupcakes while riding it, so I just sat and waited for him.
At this point we were both ready for a break, so we took a bus back to the resort for some swimming and nap time. We had an ADR at Le Cellier (review coming soon), so we went back to Epcot for dinner. Travis didn't want to stay and see Illuminations again, and I thought we should go to MK, since we had been to the other 3 parks and make it all 4 in one day! So after dinner, we headed to MK, which was super crowded when we got there. People were all over Main Street getting ready for the parade, so we made our way through the stores and ended up at the entrance to Adventureland. We ended up riding PotC with a short wait and heading back to our resort, since it had been a long day and we had a 10 hour drive to look forward to the next day!
And now to review the reason for the 4 parks in 1 day!
I could have sworn that I had 3 snack credits left, so I ordered three different cupcakes. The white chocolate cupcake had looked really good when I ate here earlier in the week, so I was a little bummed that they were out of those, but I ended up with the marble cupcake, the Butterfinger cupcake, and the chocolate peanut butter cupcake. All of them got squashed into a box that was too short, stuffed in a fridge over night, packed into a not so cold cooler for a 10 hour drive, and put in the fridge again until they were eaten over the next few days and they were all still yummy, though not so beautiful looking!
I tried the marble cupcake first. The cupcake itself was not really marbled, since it was 3/4 chocolate cupcake surrounded by a bit of white cupcake - it was swirled together like you normally see for a marble cake. The white frosting was the same yummy frosting as the Butterfinger cupcake with a blob of heavier chocolate frosting in the middle. The frosting was also covered with small chocolate shavings. Overall this was a really good cupcake and I would gladly eat one again, but it was not nearly as good as the Butterfinger cupcake.
I tried the chocolate peanut butter next. It was a plain chocolate cupcake with a blob of frosting in the middle. On the top was a large mound of chocolate peanut butter frosting covered with large chocolate shavings. The frosting was a really heavy consistency and tasted mostly of chocolate with just a hint of peanut butter. I like a lighter frosting, so although it was a good cupcake, it was my least favorite of the three. I would eat it again, but I would order several Butterfinger ones first.
The Butterfinger cupcake was amazing - even after sitting in the fridge for almost a week!
I could have eaten about a dozen of these! I would almost be willing to make the 10 hour drive each way just to get more!
Overall, these were a great use of a snack credit, since they are huge and could be easily split (if you are willing to split one...). I would even be willing to buy several of these out of pocket, since they are so yummy and at $4 are pretty reasonably priced for Disney!
We started the day by going to EMH at AK to ride the safari. We had done this on our last trip and saw SO many animals, but this time the animals wanted to sleep in and not many were out.
As we left AK, we got to see the opening ceremony truck from the inside of the park and escaped through RFC as the masses surged into the park. We then made our way to Epcot. Since we got there at 9:30 and we wanted to go to the F&W booths, we wandered around Future World for a bit. We did the piggy game again and won! Finally it was time for the F&W booths to open, so we made our lunch out of snack credits. (see previous post for reviews)
I really wanted to get some more cupcakes from Starring Rolls, so we made our way out of Epcot by the International Gateway. I was tryng to steer Travis toward the boat, but he didn't really believe me that there was a boat, so he kept looking around for a way to get to Hollywood Studios from there... so we missed the boat by about a minute.
I didn't want to wait 20 mins for another boat, so we got directions to walk to Hollywood Studios. It was really nice to see th Epcot resort area and we ended up beating the boat to Hollywood Studios by a couple minutes! I went off to Starring Rolls and Travis went off to ride TOT. He rode it twice with less than a 10 minuted wait! I thought about riding Rock 'n Roller Coaster, but didn't want to deal with holding all of my cupcakes while riding it, so I just sat and waited for him. At this point we were both ready for a break, so we took a bus back to the resort for some swimming and nap time. We had an ADR at Le Cellier (review coming soon), so we went back to Epcot for dinner. Travis didn't want to stay and see Illuminations again, and I thought we should go to MK, since we had been to the other 3 parks and make it all 4 in one day! So after dinner, we headed to MK, which was super crowded when we got there. People were all over Main Street getting ready for the parade, so we made our way through the stores and ended up at the entrance to Adventureland. We ended up riding PotC with a short wait and heading back to our resort, since it had been a long day and we had a 10 hour drive to look forward to the next day!
And now to review the reason for the 4 parks in 1 day!
I could have sworn that I had 3 snack credits left, so I ordered three different cupcakes. The white chocolate cupcake had looked really good when I ate here earlier in the week, so I was a little bummed that they were out of those, but I ended up with the marble cupcake, the Butterfinger cupcake, and the chocolate peanut butter cupcake. All of them got squashed into a box that was too short, stuffed in a fridge over night, packed into a not so cold cooler for a 10 hour drive, and put in the fridge again until they were eaten over the next few days and they were all still yummy, though not so beautiful looking!
I tried the marble cupcake first. The cupcake itself was not really marbled, since it was 3/4 chocolate cupcake surrounded by a bit of white cupcake - it was swirled together like you normally see for a marble cake. The white frosting was the same yummy frosting as the Butterfinger cupcake with a blob of heavier chocolate frosting in the middle. The frosting was also covered with small chocolate shavings. Overall this was a really good cupcake and I would gladly eat one again, but it was not nearly as good as the Butterfinger cupcake.
I tried the chocolate peanut butter next. It was a plain chocolate cupcake with a blob of frosting in the middle. On the top was a large mound of chocolate peanut butter frosting covered with large chocolate shavings. The frosting was a really heavy consistency and tasted mostly of chocolate with just a hint of peanut butter. I like a lighter frosting, so although it was a good cupcake, it was my least favorite of the three. I would eat it again, but I would order several Butterfinger ones first.
The Butterfinger cupcake was amazing - even after sitting in the fridge for almost a week!
I could have eaten about a dozen of these! I would almost be willing to make the 10 hour drive each way just to get more! Overall, these were a great use of a snack credit, since they are huge and could be easily split (if you are willing to split one...). I would even be willing to buy several of these out of pocket, since they are so yummy and at $4 are pretty reasonably priced for Disney!
Initially I said that I would not have paid $2.50 for each, but they were totally worth it! Travis was paying so much attention to eating his while he was driving that he almost crashed the car! 
