Monday September 6th, continued.
I left off with me feeling pretty miserable after attempting to eat lunch at Rose & Crown. I will be honest with you, I almost skipped over all of my eating problems in the Trip Report. I talked about it with Marc and he encouraged me to be honest and talk about it. I hate being Debbie Downer but I much prefer to be honest about all aspects of our trip.
We left Rose & Crown, our original plan had been to explore World Showcase and try to stay for Illuminations. It was probably around 1PM at this point and there was no way that I would be staying at Epcot until 9PM. I was exhausted, cranky and hungry. We decided to use our Test Track fastpasses and then assess how I was feeling afterwards. I slowly drank my pomegranate lemonade the nice R&C CM gave to me, just getting some fluid into me made me perk up a little bit.
We had a wonderful ride on Test Track. We were in the front row with another man and one man in the back. It was a weird configuration but it worked. All three of the guys laughed at me when I made my squealing noises though Marc pointed out to me the noise I make are more like chirps. I guess when I get scared, I chirp. Go figure. We were both in much better moods but the heat was still getting to us. We decided to stop in Mousegears because I wanted to show Marc something...I can't tell you what it is but we didn't buy it. It must not have been that exciting. I was also looking for a Daisy Duck hat for Megs, Megansmom, I forgot to text you but I looked all over and they don't even have the Donald ones anymore, just these hats with Donalds legs. Sorry!
We did take these two hat pictures.
After perusing Mousegears, we headed towards the exit with a stop at one of our favorite rides, Spaceship Earth. I'm ashamed to admit this but it was our ONE and ONLY ride on Spaceship Earth on our 11 day trip!!
I still can't believe it!
Even though it was hot, there was a beautiful sky.
We made our way to the bus, we waited probably about 10 minutes or so for one to arrive and we made our way to Pop Century. I did have a very nice lady comment on my glasses and how much she liked them. That made me feel good.
When we got back to our room, I had a Birthday card and towel animal waiting. Marc was kind enough to take these next pictures, I collapsed on the bed.
On our way out of World Showcase, I stopped at the pin cart in the UK pavilion and found a Mary Poppins pin! I was very excited.
And these are the pins I had traded for that day.
I bought this at Mousegears when I had bought the bags. It's in my cubicle at work now.
After we rested for a few minutes we got our bathing suits on and went for a swim. It was nice to swim and listen to the songs that are in that section, I love that they were decade appropriate to the 80's and 90's section. We swam for a bit and watched the big gray clouds roll in. While we were swimming we decided instead of heading back to Epcot or to a park that we would go to Downtown Disney for dinner.
It started to rain as soon as we got on the Bus. POURING. I had my umbrella, I told Marc we should buy him an umbrella at Downtown Disney. Before we left he had insisted he didn't want one. So our first stop at DTD was World Of Disney. Marc wanted to see if they had a rain jacket. We found a great blue Disney jacket, it was $50! Really expensive which made me hesistant but I knew we'd get my AP discount plus Marc promised once we got home I could have it. Score! I knew it would make a great jacket for January. We bought his jacket and headed to Wolfgang Puck Express.
The menu has been cut WAY back. I was sad. There had been so many great things on it in January that I had wanted to try. No more mushu pocket, no more bbq chicken quesadilla, and lots of other things were missing too. We ordered the bbq chicken pizza and ate there to get out of the rain. The pizza was good but not as good at the bbq chicken quesadilla that I had in January.
I forgot to take a picture until we had taken slices.
I ate very very slowly. I also took our itinerary with park hours to distract myself. This became my meal time trick, distract myself with something so I'd eat slower. A lot of the time at home, I'm either watching tv while I eat or reading and it works for me because it makes me eat slower. We both had one slice and boxed the rest up to take back to the room.
On the way to the pin store, we talked to one of the DVC guys. Silly me wanted to trade pins with him and then of course we got the whole DVC spiel. Marc took the paperwork and decided to put our names in the system for a tour later on. Have I created a monster?
Then we went to the pin store and I bought a wonderful Casey at the Bat pin. One of my very favorite cartoons. They had a bunch of pins from the older cartoons. I was searching for a Ferninand the Bull pin as that was my other favorite but no luck.
It was still raining and we were tired so we didn't stay long. Just long enough to head over to Ghiradellhi. We both ordered ice cream.
Marc ordered the peanut butter one in a waffle bowl.
I ordered the Haight Ashberry one.
Mine was already melting all over the place when they placed it on the table. I started to eat, it was really delicious BUT I got stuck again. On ice cream! I honestly think it was the whipped cream, it was so thick and there was a lot of it. I had tears in my eyes. I didn't think Ghiradellhi had a bathroom so I went outside to find one, left Marc at the table.
I can't even remember where I went for the bathroom but it was really far away and it was pouring and I had forgotten my umbrella. The whole time I'm power walking to the bathroom I am telling myself not to be sick before I get there.
After taking care of business, I went back to ghiradellhi and didn't attempt to eat any more of my ice cream. I asked them to take it back, which killed me since we had spent $20 on two ice creams. The manager came over and asked if I was okay. I told her I was just not feeling well. She offered to give me my money back, I told her it wasn't necessary but she insisted...it was super nice of her but it just made me feel worse.
I was done. Let's recap shall we...for the entire day, I had eaten two bites of yorkshire pudding, a few bites of fish and mashed potatoes, one slice of pizza (didn't eat the crust) and whipped cream.
I was hungry. Especially since I only really digested the pizza, everything else had made me sick!
Marc felt so bad for me because he knows how it feels. We decided to leave.
There was a crazy crowd for the bus going back to Pop and it was just a mass of people, no line. Finally one of the CMs came over and organized people into one line. I rode back in complete silence, I was starting to worry that eating would be a struggle the entire trip. Once we got back to Pop, I told Marc I had to eat something, my hands had started to shake since I was so hungry. We went to food court, I looked around. I knew I had eaten chicken nuggets last night. Marc told me to try them. I knew I needed protein which is why I didn't want to eat the pizza. I asked them if they could give me just chicken nuggets and they did, it was about $3 cheaper than the meal with fries.
When we got back to the room, I ate them so super slowly and just tried to stay calm. I was able to eat them, no problem! Which led me to believe that half of my problem was the pressure of eating in the resturant setting. I was determined to have a better eating day the next day.
Coming up...
Leslie is a winner!
I'm so sorry you are having such a miserable morning! How awful to have to hear that young girl say you are being rude!! Heat and sickness...sounds like it's time for a break already!
I sure hope the day improves!
to Marc and his shortcut!!! He got the job done and wasn't even aware that he could have had a short stint in Disney jail!! 
My friend had to leave the table 3x at The Wave and I knew she felt uncomfortable and needed to. I hope the day got better from there 
to me...the little girl butting in like that. 
over Marc. How was he supposed to know, right? 
I forgot to add that on this night, I believe I called Jen to have her look at WDW menus for me to help figure out the places that I could order soup from. 
I am sure it was extra frustrating because we all spend so much time obsessing over our ADR's and where we are going to eat 
