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That's it. After that cinnamon roll picture, the oatmeal is not going to cut it for me tomorrow morning! I'm going to stop at the local bakery after the gym and get me a TREAT! Hah Hah!! Feel free to join in on the boring breakfast revolution! (We now return to your regularly scheduled trip report)
Yum! Let me know what you get at the bakery!
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Holy breakfast sugar overload! That's awesome (and makes up for the soggy cupcake!).
I know, right?
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Originally Posted by disneymom57
Just catching up. Love the Dooney bags. I think I'm in trouble. Early Christmas present maybe? I'll be walking down the left side of Main Street, so that I won't be tempted by the luscious looking cinnamon buns.
Haha, yes, if you stay to the left of the street you'll avoid both cinnamon bun and Dooney temptation!
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All caught up! I really enjoying your TR! But I have to remember to eat before reading your updates, with so many food pictures it's not a great idea to have an empty stomach.
Thanks for following along!
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I'm in awe of how much you got done in such a sort time! I don't like getting wet, so I'd have been poncho-clad, too!
Glad I'm not the only one who does the poncho thing! If it was later in the day I might've winged it but I didn't want to be damp when we still had so much ahead of us!
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You did get a lot done there!
I was pleased with how much we accomplished. I'm going to share the results of our "to do" lists at the end of the TR but I think we got all but two things done on our MK list.
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Finally all caught up!!! I'm loving all the pictures from F&WF! It's a good thing I ate lunch before I read this report. Looks like a great day at MK. Can't wait for more!!!
Oh man! I was waiting for DGD to finish up her nap so that we can go get some food and decided to jump on Passporter. Saw this trip report that I hadn't read yet so........Looks like ya'll are having a great time and the food...yummy! But since I am very hungry all these food photos are killing me. Oooooh, DGD woke up so I am off to eat. Looking forward to reading more.
What a great day at MK! Love the pictures! That cinnamon roll looks so good!
Thanks!
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I ended up getting a fresh from the oven baked cinnamon sugar donut. And some hot coffee (with cream) for my "naughty" breakfast. Yummy yummy yummy!
Yum, that sounds really good!
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Great day!
It was! I was glad we pushed ourselves to get there early and make the most of the monring.
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Good list of things done at MK!
Thanks!
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Finally all caught up!!! I'm loving all the pictures from F&WF! It's a good thing I ate lunch before I read this report. Looks like a great day at MK. Can't wait for more!!!
More comin' up soon.
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Oh man! I was waiting for DGD to finish up her nap so that we can go get some food and decided to jump on Passporter. Saw this trip report that I hadn't read yet so........Looks like ya'll are having a great time and the food...yummy! But since I am very hungry all these food photos are killing me. Oooooh, DGD woke up so I am off to eat. Looking forward to reading more.
When we arrived at Epcot, DH once again sent me ahead through the “guests with no bags” entrance so I could take pictures.
We decided to start working our way through WS starting at Mexico again so we could stop at the booths we’d missed yesterday.
Our first stop was the new Scandinavia booth. Isn’t it cute?
We ordered Swedish meatballs with lingonberries and rice pudding with Driscoll’s berries.
The meatballs were very, very good! I’m not a big fan of rice pudding (I find it kind of bland) so I just had a taste. DH said it was good though.
Our next stop was the South Africa booth for seared filet of beet with smashed sweet potatoes and braii sauce. We also got a glass of sauvignon blanc to go with it.
WOW! This dish was so good, definitely one of my favorites. I thought we should go get another but DH thought we should preserve our stomach capacity. I’m sure he was right, but I sure could’ve gone for another.
We were able to get a nice table across from the African Outpost so we sat and relaxed for a little bit before moving on to the cheese booth where we sampled the cheese fondue with sourdough bread.
The fondue was just as good as last year and I thought the switch to a mini loaf of sourdough bread was a definite improvement over last year’s dippers - three small cubes of bread and a few fingerling potatoes.
I don’t seem to have gotten a picture of it, but the cheese booth had touch screens for ordering (similar to the touch screens at some CS locations) in addition to the CMs at the registers. I really liked this system and assuming this was a test pilot, hopefully others felt the same and they will roll it out to more booths in the future.
At this point I was ready for something sweet and we were conveniently just around the corner from Karamell Kuche so we stopped in for a treat. We picked a dark chocolate covered sea salt caramel.
Oh my, if you are a caramel fan I may have to insist you try this. Soooooo good! It was more than enough for sharing and the salty/sweet combo was just great.
Here’s a shot of the picnic tables set up across from the Germany pavilion, which is where we enjoyed our delicious treat.
The next stop on our agenda was the Spirited Beasts exhibit in Japan but along the way we got sidetracked by the Singapore booth. This wasn’t on our original “to try” list but the shrimp cake on a sugarcane skewer with Singapore noodles looked so good we couldn’t resist.
I’m really glad we tried this because it was so tasty!
We continued on to Japan and saw some construction walls – I think they are refurbing the CS location.
We headed back to the Spirited Beasts exhibit, which we had passed the previous evening but didn’t have time to stop for.
This was a very interesting exhibit – I’m really glad we took the time for it. I never realized there was mythology behind some of the Japanese cartoons and anime. I think we’ll definitely be back here with DD as she’d be interested to see it as well.
On the way out I took a couple more shots around the pavilion – I never took the time to notice all the pretty details before.
Up next: More food, more exploring
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I purposely ate lunch just before checking this thread, and I'm really glad I did! Everything looks really yummy (specially that salty chocolate caramel!)
Yippee! More food photos! Mike would have liked the swedish meatballs since he loves lingonberries. The African filet of beef looks really good. I totally wish they had given us the sourdough bread last year, so much better than the cubes and potatoes. We did not stop at the Singapore booth last year but if they had that dish I wish we had it looks so yummy! I will have to that dark chocolate caramel on our next trip, sounds divine.
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I don't like getting wet, so I'd have been poncho-clad, too! 
That cinnamon roll looks so good! 
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Mary - not enough trips!
. Soooooo good!
The African filet of beef looks really good. I totally wish they had given us the sourdough bread last year, so much better than the cubes and potatoes. 
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