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It was finally time for us to enter World Showcase! We entered Canada first, where we stopped to watch the slightly outdated 14 minute film celebrating the beauty of our home country. I loved the look of the main building (where Le Cellier is located), which was designed to look like a hotel in Ottawa, but it was a little strange that it was nestled amongst the Rocky Mountains – which are not even remotely close to Ontario. And then the gardens are designed to look like Victoria… But I understand, Canada is a huge country and it’s just a fake representation to show how pretty our country is.

Luke stopped at the beer cart to buy a La Fin du Monde. It’s not a very common beer in Alberta, so he had never tried it before, but he really enjoyed it! He actually picked up a few when we were in New Brunswick this past June, where they were super cheap. He’s also found it here in Alberta, and buys it every once in awhile.

We took our time and looked around the Canadian store – so much maple syrup! I didn’t buy anything, since obviously we can get all of that stuff here at home. Way back in the day, when I was in Girl Guides we actually went to see maple syrup being made once. Fresh, hot maple syrup poured directly onto fresh snow is incredible – try it if you ever have the chance! The store also had lots of NHL hockey stuff (it is true, us Canadians really do love our hockey), but not all of the Canadian teams were represented – I couldn’t find anything with the Oilers logo? I wouldn’t have bought it from there anyways, but still. I did find this tshirt though, which made me laugh – but it’s actually true in a lot of ways, us Canadians do love maple syrup, beer and hockey…:

Our next stop was England. We looked around the shops a bit – they were full of Doctor Who merch – a show I’ve never watched a single episode of. The British Invasion band was playing, so we stopped to watch them for a few minutes.

We then crossed the International Gateway over to France. We looked around a bit, and then stumbled across L’Artisan des Glaces – which made me so excited! I don’t eat ice cream very often (dairy isn’t always my best friend), but I had to try one of the flavours from here. I went for the cinnamon apple crumble, and Luke chose the salted caramel. We used a snack credit each on a single scoop (cost = $4.69). We started eating our ice cream, and then realized what time it was – it was almost time for our supper reservation! We set off walking, eating our amazingly delicious ice cream along the way. It was so good! I loved the flavours of both, but I think I’d give the slight edge to mine. Sorry for no pictures!

After scanning our Magicbands to use up a table service credit each for our supper at Garden Grill (review can be found here) we headed out of the restaurant and headed over to the character spot and hopped in line to meet Baymax. We had a bit of a wait, but it wasn’t too bad (maybe 10-15 minutes). It was a really cute character meet, but I wish the costume was designed a little bit differently. It was inflatable, so it didn’t give him very much for range of motion – he couldn’t even fist bump (bah la la la la)! Yes, I tried.

I guess I did eat a lot at Garden Grill, I look like I put on about 10 pounds from the Photopass pictures we had taken earlier in the day…

After this we entered the World Showcase – again through Canada. We stopped and jumped in line so Luke could get another La Fin du Monde.

While we were standing in line, a VERY intoxicated girl came and got in line behind us with her friends. We started talking to them, and found out it was her 21st birthday so she was finally legal drinking age in the US and wanted to enjoy it by drinking around the world. Canada was the last stop for her, so she was 10 drinks deep at that point and feeling pretty good haha. She mentioned she was going to order a Moosehead because the name made her laugh, but I made a disgusted face (it’s made in NB, so it was very common among my friends when we were 19-20). Luke told her to go for a Kokanee instead (a British Columbia beer) since it was cheaper and tastes slightly better. I then told her to end her night with a bang, and order the shot of Crown Royale . For anyone who doesn’t know, it’s whiskey, so the poor girl! That’s what she ended up ordering, and she took it like a champ! (I went through a stage where Crown on the rocks was my drink of choice, but now the thought of that makes me gag haha). After she had her shot of whiskey, we stood around talking to her and her friends for another few minutes. Her friends were fairly sober, but were all clearly being entertained by birthday girl. At some point, Justin Bieber came up because we’re Canadian and he’s Canadian and we were standing in the Canadian pavilion. Birthday girl’s friends informed her that the ducks currently roaming around our feet were actually presents from Bieber to Disney World, and they had traveled down with Luke and I…the girl just stared at them in shock. After this, we said our goodbyes – I hope she had fun on her birthday and wasn’t in too much pain the next day!

We had spent time looking around the UK pavilion earlier in the day, so we just skipped over it this time. We did have to stop in France though, I had a very important purchase to make!

Grey goose slushie! It was a little expensive – I think it was $12 which is over $15 Canadian – but so worth it! It was so good, and it was one of the few alcoholic drinks I had on the entire vacation. I will not even hesitate about buying one on our next trip – seriously. That thing was amazing. Here’s another picture of it looking beautiful…

We spent a bit of time looking around the Morocco pavilion, but I guess I didn’t feel the need to take any pictures… Same for Japan. We looked around a bit, then stopped to use the bathrooms at the American Adventure pavilion. And that’s all we saw of that one haha, but for what it’s worth the bathrooms were very large! We were quickly running out of time, so we only spent a few minutes at the Italy pavilion so I could get to the Germany pavilion quicker. I spent 2 weeks in Germany back in 2005 when I was 17, and I fell in love with Haribo gummy candies while there. I can buy them here in Canada, but they can sometimes be hard to find. After loading up on candy in Germany (I also had to buy some chocolate there, so good). We spent a few minutes in the China pavilion and then realized it was almost time for Illuminations. We just walked past Norway and Mexico, but never actually made it in to look around either I did snap this picture though…

I also took these pictures at some point in the night, but I have no idea where…

We found a spot to watch Illuminations and I sat on the ground to wait. I was so tired! We were outside the Mexico pavilion, closer to the main walkway to get back to Future World – not the best spot, but we were able to see some of the show. I was so exhausted all of a sudden that I didn’t even care. I did get these pictures though:

Once the show ended we started making our way to the front of the park to catch a bus. We did stop for a few Photopass pictures along the way:

Once we got back to our room, we both fell asleep almost instantly – and we had a very early morning planned for the next day!

Also worth mentioning – at some point during this day we went on Mission Space (green). Neither one of us were fans, I can’t even imagine what the orange side is like… We also went to Club Cool to sample some various Coca-Cola products from around the world at one point. I loved this! I knew about it, but I still had to try the Beverly – I’m not into bitter at all. My favourite was the bubblegum tasting one . My note taking wasn’t the greatest on this day, so I have no idea when either of these things happened (and my picture taking was lackluster this day as well…)

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