Day 464: Across the River

Today was a much needed day off on our campus: Advisement Day. Basically, two days each semester we don't have classes and instead meet with our advisers to choose classes for next semester. They help us make sure we have all the requirements for our major and our overall process for signing up for classes move a lot faster. In other words, I really do love advisement day.

Although I spent most of the day laying on our futon watching New Girl, because sadly I am still sick (I have been all week), and that just sounded like a lot more fun that doing any sort of other work, I did go off on an adventure. Does my lack of work the rest of the day make for more work later? Yeah it does, but that's alright. At least I got a much needed break. And why shouldn't I take a break? It's a day off of school!

Anyways, late in the morning a couple of friends and I went on a journey across the bridge. As I've said before, St. Norbert sits alongside the river, and we're lucky enough to have plenty of businesses on both sides of it that we can access. It's only about a ten minute walk to the other side, where there's a trail you can bike or walk or run on, a shopko, chocolate shop and plenty of restaurants as well.

And that's exactly where we headed this fine morning. There's a European Bakery across the bridge that my friend Emily wanted us to try. So we went there for lunch. There were cases of food and a menu that you could order from and everything, and if you haven't figured out where I'm going with this, you will be very soon.

I ended up ordering soup and some bread and it was indeed very good. The problem with my life?

It's not Disney.

This little bakery reminded me EXACTLY of the French Bakery at Epcot, which ranks among my absolute favorite places to eat at all of Walt Disney World. Once you've had bread from that place, you never go back, unless you eat bread from somewhere like France for real, then you probably are even MORE impressed with the bread from there than at Disney and never go back from that.

Either way, the bread from the France Pavilion at Epcot is delicious. And there's nothing I've found elseware that can compare. Ask me again someday, maybe I'll have a different answer because obviously I haven't eaten at every bakery in the US or the world. But then again, is there really anything better than Disney food to begin with?

Gosh I really have a food theme going on around here recently.

Have a magical day!

Day 458: This Isn't Disney Food!

It seems that after coming back from Florida, a lot of us have a bit of a problem. Actually, it happens no matter what Disney Park you go to. It can happen with Disneyland too. The issue here? Food.

I'm pretty sure that if we didn't force ourselves to eat, we would actually starve, because the food outside of Disney World is just no where near the same as the food inside Disney World. Like I am so deprived right now that I was discouraged from eating last night.

I guess it's kind of interesting though, since here at my college there ARE various foods that I can compare and contrast with Disney foods. It's kind of scary actually, the things I eat here compared to the things I eat there. And these are just three of them. I could go off on a whole list of foods that I've had in both places...but that are also just significantly better at Disney, because everything is.

The Butterfinger Cupcake

I know, I know. I've talked about this before. In fact I had a whole blog post on it back in September. But that doesn't mean it's stopping me from making another comparison right now, especially since I literally had the two different cupcakes a week apart from one another. Less than actually.

In general, I do love the butterfinger cupcake I make here. It's small enough for me to eat, and it's just kind of fun to make your own in the dessert line here at college. But it only comes around once every month or so, making it kind of depressing when we DON'T have frost your own cupcake bar. On the other hand, it's kind of funny though, because I have obviously converted Shovell to my side already, and she hasn't been to Disney yet! The Butterfinger Cupcake is one of the things she's specifically asked to try when we go in June, and who would I be to deny her the deliciousness that is the butterfinger cupcake?

House Made Chips

Yesterday for lunch we had like a chicken sandwich and then these house made chips. So I'm just sitting there eating my chips and my sandwich and my strawberries when it occurs to me that...these...these remind me of Disney (to which my friends always respond: "Everything reminds you of Disney"). It's true, everything DOES remind me of Disney, especially in these stages of Disney Depression that I'm trying to counteract with Once (OH MY GOSH HOOK'S COAT...Ok, freakout done) and the fact that I'll be back at Disney in 80 some days with my best friends. But still, it doesn't mean I don't think about it all the time. Because I do. I very much do.

The chips here at school were ok. Good even, but certainly not the stuff they have at Disney...specifically like the ones I ate a couple weeks ago at the Grand Floridian. Like seriously, I'm pretty sure I could live forever just eating those chips. Ok, maybe not...but they are delicious.

Bread

Yes...just bread. And no, I don't really have a picture for this one from college because I was really lazy last night and wasn't thinking about how I would write a blog post about this today. Either way, last night it was like a dairy fest in our caf, and guess who forgot her lactade? THIS GIRL. So I may have stolen a few Mozzarella Sticks to eat when I got back to my dorm and mostly ate a sandwich and then some baguette with butter. Only I'm sitting there eating it and like halfway through doing so I realize that this bread is not Disney bread, and it tasted nothing like the amazingness that comes out of the France Pavilion.

It was super, super depressing. So instead I just have a picture of said amazing bread from a couple weeks ago. I literally just want to sit and eat bread there all day. ALL. DAY.

Can we just go back to World Showcase for lunch?

Have a magical day!