Disney 2011, Day 9

Exciting Things That Happened In Between the Last Report And Now
We ate the gingerbread shingle. I liked it; Gingerbread is normally pretty nasty, but this was about as good as gingerbread gets. And it had chocolate on the back, which is probably cheating.

Katie Hammer & The Residual Muscle Ache

Katie was still achin', so we decided to take it easy today and just go to Epcot for lunch. And maybe another ride on Spaceship Earth. This time we picked the options where our clip art faces were pasted on stick figures that had passive-aggressive doctors who called on wrist-mounted videophones to tell us to eat salads. Then we did the conga.
One weird thing I noticed about Spaceship Earth is that when you get to the top of the dome (18 stories!), there's a big Earth as Judi Dench is like "Look, it's Earth," except if you look in the right spot (far, far, far to the left, or to your right after the vehicle has spun around), there's a second full-sized Earth. I assume this has nothing to do with the 1994 series "Earth 2", and is probably just a backup Earth in case the one we're on right now gets blown up or something.

Then it was lunch time.

An important correction

Earlier trip reports referred to the huge stepped structure the Mexican world showcase is in as a pyramid; It is actually a ziggurat, or stepped pyramid. We ate inside this, which was really nice. Inside it's done up like a marketplace at night, complete with stars and lanterns, and right outside the plaza where we ate is the river you can ride the boat down if you go on the boat ride. There's also a smaller ziggurat in here for ambiance. It's a great atmosphere, and the only downside is that gringo tourists keep coming by to take photographs of it and you while you're eating.

Dad Eat Food

So what did we have at the San Angel? I almost got the tortilla soup, but it has cheese in it, so instead I got the Not Appearing On Any Online Menu I Can Find, which was I think a corn cake with pulled chicken on it? Whatever it it was, it was very tasty. Katie got... hmm.

Nick Hammer & The Curse of the Inaccurate Online Menus

Normally I can look up what we ate, but for some reason all the online versions of the San Angel Inn don't match up with what we actually had. Well, this is going to be interesting. Um, Katie had a uh, rolled-up pulled chicken thing, which was OK. For the entree we both got the chicken enchiladas. These were a little spicy - that's because I'm a spice wimp, not because they were over-spiced - and frankly I liked the appetizer better. This is a common problem I have; I'll want, say, a triple order of an appetizer I really like instead of an entree. Just look at the grilled chicken wonton tacos at Applebee's. Actually, don't - I'm gonna eat those.

For desert Katie got ginger ice cream, and I got Bavarian cream (I didn't ask why Bavarian cream is being served in Mexico). It's good - very, um, creamy. There was another flavor in there I couldn't identify (probably Bavaria), but I ate it all. Katie's caramel ice cream, however, has to take home the prize, as it's probably without hyperbole the best ice cream I've ever had. It kind of seemed like some kind of crazy creme brulee ice cream what with the caramel deposits inside. Here, I'm going to let Katie explain, in the recap version of pushing your wife up to the microphone:

There is Creme Brulee ice cream...Ben and Jerry's makes it.  The caramel ice cream had veins of caramel drizzly stuff in it.  I would remind more but Rachel Maddow is charming me away.

Caramel drizzly stuff, there you have it. Katie's muscle ache was acting up, so we headed back to the hotel. Hopefully, tomorrow she'll be up to a full day at one of the parks.

Tomorrow: General Zod escapes the Phantom Zone and comes to Earth, gaining the same powers as the son of Jor-El from the yellow rays of our sun.