After riding Soarin', Mario began to look at the park map to decide where to go next.

"Let's see... How about the Imagination Pavilion?" Mario suggested.

"No way!" Wario protested, "Purple dragons scare me!"

"Ok... How about The Living Seas?"

"Oh, boy! A giant fish tank! I so want to see that!... Not."

"Well, then..." Mario concluded, folding the map back up, "I guess we'll have to move on to the second half of the park, then: World Showcase!"

"Eh? What's that?" Waluigi asked.

"It's eleven pavilions that represent eleven different countries around the world, all located around a lagoon." Mario explained

"It's sorta like Around the World in Eighty Minutes." Luigi concluded.

"Sounds good to me!" Peach agreed, "Where do we begin?"

"South of the border!" Mario exclaimed.

"Uh... What's that? The Beanbean Kingdom?" Wario mumbled.

"I think he means Mexico." Daisy replied.

"Oh, I knew that... Really..."

Proceeding to the Mexican pavilion, the group saw a quaint little Mexican restaurant situated on the lagoon, and a giant Aztec temple across from it.

"Hey, that looks like the temple I found all that treasure in a little while back!" Wario commented, "I wonder if there's any loot in that one I can plunder! Ha ha!"

"I doubt it," Mario retorted, "the entire pavilion, save the restaurant out on the lagoon, is in there!"

"Oh, I knew that... Really..."

"Didn't you say that about two seconds ago?" Luigi observed.

"Well, I know a lot! So there!"

"Uh, huh..."

The gang entered the pavilion, and was greeted with what looked like a Mexican marketplace under a night sky, but it was indoors!

"Hey, guys!" Peach began, "Did you know that the Cast Members that work the World Showcase Pavilions have to come from or had their parents come from the country that is represented?"

"Interesting..." Mario thought out loud, "So, for example, Disney hired Cast Members from Mexico to work here at the Mexico pavilion?"

"Yep!" Peach replied.

"So... Does that mean that the guys outside know how to make a really good taco?" Wairo asked.

"Is food the only thing you ever think about?" Daisy shouted.

"No... I think about money an awful lot, too."

"Sigh... Forget I asked..."

As they walked around the indoor marketplace, they approached the entrance to an attraction that was inside the pavilion. Wario tried to read the name of it without much success.

"El... Uh... El Reeoh... Grr... El Reho del Tyam... ARGH! What's wrong with this blasted sign? It's all gibberish! What's this stupid thing supposed to say, anyway?"

"El Rio del Tiempo," Mario quickly and fluently read, "that translates from Spanish to 'The River of Time'."

"Spanish? How am I supposed to know how to read Spanish, anyway? Everyone should just speak English!"

Mario leaned over to Peach and whispered in her ear.

"Heh... Wario no habla o lee español."

"Si, si," Peach agreed, "El es muy bruto...¡y feo!"

"HEY!" Wario yelled, "I HEARD MY NAME IN THERE! ARE YOU INSULTING ME?"

"Uh... No..." Mario replied, "Just brushing up on my Spanish..."

"Well, that better be all you're doing, or else I'll... Punch-o your el face-o... in... o," Wario warned, pitifully attempting to use Spanish.

Eventually, the group entered the attraction. After climbing into the boat and casting off, they went by the marketplace and entered a cave in the nearby "jungle". Inside, video clips of Indians doing traditional dances were displayed on the walls.

"Hmm..." Luigi mused, "Hey, Mario, their moves are a tad different than the ones you used during that Music Key fiasco, huh?"

"Let's not bring that up..." Waluigi mumbled.

As they continued onward, the boat entered a room that made Mario groan: It was full of child puppets singing.

"Momma-mia..." Mario moaned, "It's like Small World all over again..."

Mario dug his head between his legs and covered his ears until the boat left the room. The next room showed video clips of people vacationing in Mexico, doing all sorts of things like swimming, cliff-diving, and hangliding.

"Peach, maybe we should consider going to Mexico on our next trip!" Daisy suggested, "It looks like there's a bunch of cool stuff we could do there!"

"That does sound like a good idea..." Peach answered, "But don't expect me to go cliff-diving or anything like that! I'll just lie on the beach and work on my tan!"

In the next room, a video clip showed a semi-crazy looking Mexican man who was trying to sell goods to the people in the boat, which would have been Mario and the gang. Of course, the boat continued to move, despite the man's protests. Instead of giving up, however, he ran from one screen to the next one, and continued to try and sell his wears.

"What the?..." Wario grunted, "Get away from me you freak! I don't want any of your junk! Gosh, it's rides like these where they really should give you two or three softballs before you get on!"

The ride went through one more room that looked like Mexico City during Cinco de Mayo before coming to an end.

"So, Wario..." Mario asked as they walked towards the exit, "Did you think that ride was muy divertido?"

"What? Speak English! Didn't I tell you I don't speak Spanish?"

"Or did you think it was aburrido pico?"

"Are you deaf? I don't understand stupid Spanish!"

"Well, maybe if you are paciente y trabajador, you can learn it."

"STOP IT!"

"You really should take a clase de español..."

"ARGH! SHUT UP!"

Wario began chasing after Mario, flinging his fists around everywhere. Mario knew this wasn't too good, and immediately began to run away. While Mario and Wario were running around, the rest of the group just stood there, shaking their heads.

"Sigh... Wario no es inteligente..." Luigi muttered, "¡Pero el es muy fuerte!"