 Hey friends tonight. We are hanging out at Epcot, and we have dining reservations at Akrishush Royal Banquet Hall This is the character dining restaurant in the Norway Pavilion And it just recently reopened and I've never eaten here before they have no region style cuisine The princesses come around to the tables, and I'm so excited after that We're gonna hang out at Epcot ride some rides and just have a beautiful world showcase kind of night Anywho's let's go do this It is a beautiful December day the temperatures in the 70s And it's also festival of the holidays, and I haven't been here since opening day So we might do some of the cool festive things for the festival. I Am very excited to try some Norwegian style food at Akrishush Which I'm not even sure if I was pronouncing the name of the restaurant, right? But I did some research and I asked some cast members and it looks like I'm saying it right But there are different ways that you can say it and once I be in here There's only two more restaurants left and I could officially say I've been at every single restaurant I want Disney World only two more restaurants to go Kristen from right down Main Street is actually gonna be joining me tonight And how do you pronounce Akrishush? I did a lot of research on this topic beforehand. I came prepared I think it is Akrishush Akrishush Akrishush Yeah, Akrishush, and I want to show you guys this text that Nate sent me. We were trying to yeah I'm gonna need you to send me a voice clip on how to pronounce this restaurant We're going well because I want to pronounce it right and it is a little bit challenging and I had to do it I already looked all over TikTok for how to pronounce it and there was actually a video of The cast members that work there pronouncing it correctly that are actually from Norway So that helped me a lot that we're going back and forth, but I think it is Akrishush Akrishush Also in recent news you might have seen the picture of Te Fiti now in Epcot for the new Moana water exhibit So I wanted to show you guys that because it looks really cool and interesting Here is our first look at Te Fiti and he can see just the top of her head right there And I could see some of the flowers and it looks really beautiful I'm sure from that angle with like spaceship earth in the background It's gonna look better and honestly the pictures that I've seen make it look a lot better than it actually is What do you guys think about the new Moana exhibit? I'm excited. I'm a big Moana fan But I'm not too sure how it's gonna tie in but I mean it's gonna tie in good because of world nature and Also, I noticed that the park is very busy today And I figured out why Josh Gad the voice of Olaf is the Celebrity narrator for the candlelight processional tonight So we might try to do that But I'm sure we're not gonna be able to though because the line is already backed up all around world showcase And the first show hasn't even started We're gonna start making our way back to the Norway Pavilion now so we can check in for our reservation But I wonder if we are gonna be able to catch the barn Santa. Just for a quick, you know second since we're going over to Norway Oh my lord, there he is the barn Santa to listen Who you would you mind a photo? Oh, I'll take one yet. Yeah pictures of you I know I will give you a picture of me, but I would love a picture of you. Oh, really? Yeah Oh, okay All right, we'll do a photo My lord, we were just in the presence of greatness the barn Santa himself graced me with a selfie and a little video And I feel honored. He is my favorite thing about festival of the holidays I wish I was able to catch the show for you guys a little bit But we just got the tail end of it and it is so amazing I highly recommend that you guys check it out if you come and now we're gonna make our way over to the restaurant's time and it's time to eat And here it is restaurant ochre shoes royal banquet hall princess storybook dining and They have a little bit of the menu right over here. I want to show you guys. I'm so excited. We got field greens We've got left us off I think I said that right but I had this before and it was really good and then it's also family style So it comes with meatballs mashed potato chicken and dumplings Pan-seared salmon green beans cabbage macaroni and cheese and Then desserts you get all of this and I'm pretty sure it's all you can eat like it's a family style platter and We're gonna head in. Oh, Liam Berry cream. That's gonna be fun The restaurant pricing is 63 dollars for adults and 41 dollars for kids But it's like a character dining so it's gonna have the high price tag And it is all you care to enjoy I Also feel like it's a little bit more than just a character dining as you can read here it's a princess Storybook dining and ochre shoes banquet hall opens its doors for a feast in honor of the world's best loved storybook Princesses and you're invited and dine in a medieval castle. Will your encounter royal pomegran pomegran? Princesses friends who can't wait to meet you As I mentioned before this food is inspired by Norway And one of the cool things that they told me is they don't have fryers here because they don't fry much food in Norway And they have like chicken in dumplings and stuff like that and I'm excited It used to be a buffet like it used to actually be a line buffet But now it's family style kind of just like how all the other restaurants phased reopening They have a good selection of different Alcohol beverages including one called the bifrost you guys watch Thor It's kind of cool. I mean because they do have a Thor exhibit here But I feel like I might need to summon the bifrost They also have the northern lights the blue Viking and a couple of other wines and beers from Norway itself. They even have us pronounced ous see right here beer They had to put the pronunciation in there pronounced ous We have made it to our table and it's so pretty in here Like I said, I have been in here before but seeing the princesses all walk around. It's kind of really cool Here is a look at the restaurant itself, or should I say castle and look how awesome is the princesses are just walking around Oh, there's Belle look at that This is really nifty in here. There's a roar over there Here comes the royal princess promodan. I called it a pomegranate earlier I was reading out loud and I'm like a pomegranate of princesses. Oh, there's Jasmine. I Have Have already ordered the bifrost, which I'm excited to see it come I'm gonna assume that it's probably different colors But they start you off with some salad and leppa sauce a leppa leppa Left sauce, and I've had this before over at the bakery. It's really good And we can eat as much as we want especially the cinnamon butter Here are the greens and the left sauce and there's the cinnamon butter I was talking about usually they have it inside there. I would assume that's how they used to do it But I don't know if it's still there or not. Oh, yeah, that's how it comes at the bakery So we're gonna have to do it ourselves. I'm gonna set this right here I'm gonna make myself a little Little pastry here a little roll up. Oh, here comes the drinks Northern lights right there I'm summoning the bifrost Kristen don't look now, but Bell's behind you Cheers to the body cross Mine's really good orange cream in here Oh Look at this young picture of Kristen right here with Bell which right here acre shoes Look at that Yeah, now she's in her nice little dress She's in the gown. Oh Hello. Hello. Oh Fantastic This bifrost is amazing. I love it so much and I'm not a big fan of frozen Drinks, but this is a great blend right now This is what I was meaning we're just gonna do this Probably a lot easier It has been a long time since I've tried this so I'm kind of excited to see how much I really do like it Very good Reminds me of Texas Roadhouse dinner rolls, but the butter that they use That is what oh wow. I might eat a lot of this I Started off with just a little bit on the inside and on the edge now I'm covering it in the butter. It is that good like it has to be like fully like submerged in butter. I Can dine on the left side all day long because I love Texas Roadhouse rolls But I'm gonna save some room that say some room for the main event And Ariel has arrived look at that It's very nice to see you very very nice Yes, oh Thank you. You like my hat. I might go sailing later Yeah, I might actually use the fork as a dingle hopper right a dingle hopper Yeah, we don't need no cinnamon butter in our hair especially in my hair Yeah, we don't need that, but thank you Kristen how's that salad good Lindenberry wow the snozzberries tastes like snozzberries Snozzberries too and they're good Something I just realized we are in the Norway pavilion and we're at a princess restaurant, but there's no other Elsa Is that crazy? I mean well technically Elsa is the queen But what about Anna? She's a princess princess Anna I mean yeah, they have their own meet and greet and their own attraction, but not here And here it is the main event we got the mac and cheese The are they like Swedish meatballs or they're Norwegian meatballs comes with some mashed potatoes salmon Green beans cabbage and then this right here is probably the thing. I'm gonna love most It's a chicken in dumpling like stew, but look at that. Oh Actually all of the food looks amazing here, and it looks like well prepped So I'm excited to dive in make myself a little plate here. Maybe just one meatball though I'm a little bit nervous about the sauce that's on the meatballs So I'm just gonna take a little bit right here with a little bit of mashed potatoes just to give it a test Just a little taste test We like it They're like a little sweet Yeah, like I think that's limb and berry on top like a little jelly I think The table next to me was just telling me they have A frozen restaurant on the wish like an Arundel and they serve these meatballs there And they said that these ones are better. So I'm gonna roll the meatball right down over on my plate Look at this rolling meatball I don't know why that was so funny, so we're gonna break in half. Oh nice I like the cut on those and now we're going in I Have been known to eat a meatball or two in my day So I think I can say I'm a meatball connoisseur, and I might be able to give you a good ranking now These aren't gonna be your traditional Italian meatballs, but We'll see what it's like here That's a good meatball Absolutely love the meatballs. I'm not the biggest fan of salmon, but Kristen ate the salmon. What do you guys what do you think? Solid salmon Yeah, it's really cool it's cooked and it's prepped really well and true to no reason no reason style I like it Now it's time to dive into the chicken and dumplings and I think that's what I was excited for most I got a little dumpling on there. It's more like a stew though to be honest, and they come out like a little tiny bowls So here we go Okay That's good too. Oh, yeah, that's actually really good the flavor is amazing The dumpling part is a little bit like runny like the sauce itself, but I like it It's so funny because me and Kristen like they bring out the the whole platter and you can get more But we all got our own little bowl of stew cheers Cheers to dumplings I do suggest if you do get the dumpling soup You should definitely add some pepper to it a little salt and pepper and also kudos to them for having probably the nicest looking song pepper shakers I've seen that ever sit down restaurant around here like they're not just like generic ones I don't know what they're supposed to represent Are is that what they are their mountains? I thought they were rabbit ears Honestly, I think I'm throwing in the towel I ate a lot of meatballs and chicken and dumpling soup the mashed potatoes were really good now It's time for dessert and I'm excited to try some Authentic rice cream, but you know no region rice cream kind of like rice pudding, but a little bit thinner And I don't think I've ever had it before And here it is that is the rice cream with some strawberry sauce and this is the chocolate log I think that's what he called it right Lingdenberry it looks really cool. It's got the Norwegian flag on there. We're gonna dive in after you There we go. I like rice pudding a lot, so I feel like I'm gonna like this. I Don't know. I think I might like it more without the strawberry. I Feel like if I would say anything that wasn't my like favorite, it would probably be the desserts I mean they're okay, but it's not like something. I'll be hey that rice pudding or that rice cream was amazing Or the chocolate log, so yeah, I think this is like kind of where they're lacking But I can eat that all day as my dessert. Oh, you know what? I just thought of something Yeah, and with the cinnamon butter because that's how you would make rice pudding. Oh My lord, I think I just stumbled upon something There we go, I've combined the rice cream with the cinnamon butter and now I'm making myself a little wrap I'm gonna roll it right up and See if we can turn the dessert into something desirable I was in the middle of a burp there, and I was holding it. I'm like desirable, but here we go That ain't it nope Nope. Nope. Nope. Not I did but I did it Looks like we're all finished with dinner, but on my way out I noticed the restrooms over here, and they're like old vintage Epcot restrooms or like old Disney restrooms And I love that see how they like have the logos on the doors But the little area inside has like this wallpaper and the flooring. This is like vintage Like Disney stuff. Look how old this is. I love it. I get excited about these things This is just like the little pre-roam, but you see like the just a wear and tear on all the walls I don't know why this stuff fascinates me, but it does And now we are finished with dinner and it was delicious. I liked a lot of that meal I love the dumpling soup the meatballs the mashed potatoes the Lepus, Lepus, I can't I always have an issue saying that last stop. Thank you, Kristen but it was really good and the characters were awesome they come around they have this special little parade that they do and Yeah, like I said one more restaurant off my bucket list and Being able to have the title of eating at every Walt Disney World restaurant We're gonna make our way back through the Odyssey. This is where Santa is actually doing meet and greets. I think he's done for the day though We miss Santa because he was here from five to five forty Oh, it's such a nice little setup that they have here too. Look it. Oh, it smells like pine in here Like they actually put oh, maybe it's because of the trees. I thought they were pumping out some scents in here But I think it is just the trees Well, we miss Santa Claus here, but we did get to see you listen the barn Santa, so I'm okay now I think we're gonna check the wait time see if we can hop on a ride. There's no way We're gonna catch the candlelight processional everybody. I've run into today so far He's just talked about how long the sandbine line is someone told me it was all the way back to Africa So that means it's literally stretching from the American Pavilion all the way past Italy in Germany and to the bridge. That is a long long line Weed a second as I was sitting out there. I heard a ho ho ho and look at that. He is back. He is here Hi Santa Merry Christmas I was literally just standing out here before probably the clip before you saw this and it was and I heard ho ho ho And then I see Santa Claus walking by and I was just like no that can't be Santa That's supposed to be here and then I was like wait a second Why would there be a random Santa walking around Epcot and then I look inside there and he is back There is a long line, but it does say the last uh meet and greet is at 5 40 and it's 6 30 now So I guess he's putting in some overtime And now I think we're going to make our way over to living with the land They have a holiday overlay and I don't think I showed you guys that yet this year It's really cool. They actually added a lot to it little Christmas lights and right now they're doing the holiday projection show on uh spaceship earth there. Look at that That actually looks so cool and I've never seen it before Wow, oh and then the monorails going by things are just popping off here at Epcot standing behind uh in between two great shows I don't know what to watch Holy moly just like I said before it is busy here today and you can actually see oh hi guys Hi friends. Oh hi mark. Hi mark Thank you But as I was saying it is busy here today Josh Gad can really bring in the crowds because wait till I show you guys the line for living with the land There definitely seems to be a lot of people wanting to live with the land right now Holy moly I have never Why I have never Hi friends. Wow Oh, I almost tripped 30 minutes. That's a that's a lot of people I mean this is the living with the land the greatest attraction in Epcot Yeah I love living with the land, but I feel like that line might be longer than 30 minutes Could be possibly Longer than 30 minutes. So I think we're gonna have to pass on it today, but I'll be back I'm coming back for you, baby I'm coming back for you We need to stop and appreciate this beautiful moment that's about to happen Magical isn't she a bute clark? Since living with the land was very very backed up I think we might head to the seas because looks like that's still a solid five minute wait Kind of like how it always is Look at that five minutes Can always count on the living seas or the seas with Nemo and friends mine I always want to sit here and wait to see if this actually goes off. I'm looking at you seagulls Mine after we get done riding the seas we get to actually see the gentle sea cows the manatees Pick a shell any shell Who's riding with papa Okay now Look at the shark in there I don't know who wouldn't love that ride. I think it's so much fun Now we got to come see hi to our favorite little gentle sea cows. Oh, look at there He is sitting right on the right on the bottom of the uh tank Oh, and there's one up top too Look at that The majestic gentle sea cow He's taking a nap And this guy's up there kind of sleeping They're so awesome. I love it. I've actually swam with these before have you ever christen Actually, I swam with one in the wild. Did you? Yeah me too. Oh, no, that's scary Well, I was just in the ocean Swimming in siesta key in the beach siesta key. I just see this giant like black mask swimming towards me And I was like, what is this? I had no clue what it was. I didn't even know manatees could go in salt water It was terrifying until I realized what it was. Yeah, I thought it was like a shark or a whale No, I've touched them and everything like that just you know them They'll come up and bump up right against you. Oh this one. I think we just woke him up He's like floating You raise me up So I can climb the mountains Look at that. That was cool. That was really fun actually So weird Well, I can say we had a fun day here at Epcot. We got to ride the seas I wanted to ride more rides and even catch the candlelight processional, but wasn't in our cards Things like that happen, but something else that wasn't in our cards Is maybe a quick trip to fort wilderness and I think we might make that happen We have some friends staying over there and uh gotta be fun to stop in and check out some of the Christmas decorations Also wanted to point out this is the first I've seen this I mentioned how busy it was They're actually parking people in the grass. Look at that Holy moly It's like a super busy day here And we have made it to fort wilderness. It smells like horses here But I'm excited to see a little Christmas decorations hang out with some friends And since we didn't get to do a lot at Epcot, I figured I'd just bring it along You know carry the vlog over I switched over to my uh Donald duck hat and uh my little flannel. So I feel festive Whenever you come to fort wilderness You have to park over here and then take bus transportation to the campsites and to the tricycle d ranch Unless you have a friend who has a golf cart and then that case you just got to hitch a ride with them And that's what we're gonna do. So I'm looking for our friends who's Scooting around on a golf cart. They're gonna come pick us up Found them. Look at this He found us. We thought we were gonna get hit by a bus We came here to the golf cart parking the safe spot Who's who's driving? Oh boy Oh boy This is always so scary And ashlyn tips us over and we just like come blown out We're going out on the main roads We're going out on the main roads Yes, there we go, we're making a break for it doggies Good job Here are the cabins this is called cabin ben We're just driving around checking out all of the christmas decorations. This is something awesome that actually Me and maria we've been doing this for five years now Years how crazy right five years we've done this for always around your birthday. Yep craziness All the golf carts in front of us Like so everybody Look at how pretty this is All of these are just so beautiful Radiator springs right here I could never do this This is too cool Merry Christmas Oh, I think santa's up here with his reindeer too. Look at this Oh, look at these little reindeer Look at the little santa claws right here I love this so much Huh It's beginning to look a lot like christmas All right, take a look at this cabin and how festive it is maria Did so good. I'm a decent father Look at this. It's like a winter wonderland I love it Oh, yes This is pretty. This is very very nice. You know, we fit it all in one box except the tree. Yeah, what about the toaster? How are you gonna get that home? Put it in your purse And with that, I think we are done here tonight Just a little tease or a little bit of uh fort wilderness I do plan on coming back a little bit closer to uh christmas time and doing a whole video And I think you guys are gonna enjoy that a lot I recently came here with my mom and sister when they were down here. We went to hooptie do And uh, I didn't video it. I just spent time with them and enjoyed and it was their first time going to do that And uh, I was planning on coming out and doing a video But maria was here and she had a cabin So I was nice to come see her and hang out for a bit and just show you guys a little bit But I'll be back. So I hope you guys enjoyed the video I enjoyed making it. We'll see you next time. Bye