Cruise to Cuba (Pt. 1 Epcot Center)

I recently went on a cruise to Cuba with my BFF Cindy. I couldn't blog because I didn't have internet access on this ship. So, to the best of my ability, here's what happened.

We had decided that we would spend one day at Walt Disney World because it's our favourite place in the whole wide world and the ship was leaving from the Cape. Cindy lives in Jupiter Florida so it's not a long drive up from her house to Orlando. I was so excited to see her. We have been friends since we met at Palm Beach Elementary school in grade 6. We were both outcasts so we stuck together. Although, because of her I got a horrid nickname that year. See, we had the same name, but she is a blonde and I'm a brunette...her last name was Whitehead. So you can guess the nickname. Not my favourite year in school but Cindy made it better.

We decided that we would do Epcot Center instead of the Magic Kingdom. We love Epcot. Some don't because there are no rides, instead you visit different countries that are arranged in a circle around a lake. But you can drink!! And you can walk from country to country and sample their foods and DRINKS! We had sake in Japan, beer in England, liquor coffee in France, Margaritas in Mexico... you get the drift.

I almost ruined the whole day though. I did go on the simulation ride Mission to Space that made me terribly sick. I kept thinking please let this ride end before I lose my cookies. After, I kept having to sit down, I was breaking out in a cold sweat and was wolfing down Tums for indigestion. I tried everything to get rid of the vertigo feeling. And then all of a sudden I was doing that fast walk to the washroom. Thank God everyone was continuously flushing the toilets because I had the loudest and profound projectile vomiting going on, and on, and on. How did I have that much fluid in my body at 9 in the morning?? But that was the ticket, I felt so much better and the drinking commenced! No more simulation rides for me.

We went on this one ride that took our photos an put them in different scenes. We were laughing so hard because we had holes in our faces, damn near peed our pants.

As usual it started raining and we were "conveniently" near the British pub so we had a few pints. It was vaguely familiar to the time I was there during Navy AT school and we were caught in the rain in white uniforms. Luckily we were "conveniently" in front of the pub...again (I know my way around Epcot). After not having any alcohol for 8 weeks we got a little toasted on beer that we didn't pay for (handy being in uniform) and I vaguely remember flirting with a guy in tights who was playing a lute.

Being a little silly. 

Mary herself.

While we were doing a little shopping in the British shops I turned around the corner and gave such a fan-girl squeal. There right in front of me was my childhood hero Mary Poppins in the flesh! I may have made a spectacle of myself. She was practically perfect in every way. Other girls had Barbie, I had a Mary Poppins doll. I remember dressing her in the blue stripe dress with the white apron then adding a homemade nurse's hat and pin. I left her outside my door on a table so my mum could see it when she got home from the hospital late at night on Mother's Day.

A little surprise was seeing a concert with Don Felder of the Eagles. It was pretty good actually. Then we watched a French Canadian band in the Canada pavilion. I was recording them on my phone and they nodded and smiled at my Canadian flag case LOL.

Later we had an amazing dinner in Morocco and I have to say I spent a *little* bit of money in Morocco. I found this beautiful lamp that would look fantastic in my living room. It was $300 with $100 in shipping but it was so worth it. So that was our day at Epcot.