After finally dragging the Doctor away from Club Cool, (they literally had to drag him...) they started off for the Mexico pavilion on the left side of the World Showcase. River liked the fact that the main building was modeled after the Great Pyramid at Chitzen Itza, which is one of the largest archaeological sites in Mexico. Upon walking inside, they passed an exhibit on Mexican folk art before passing into the main pavilion. Oddly enough, the inside of the building was made to look like they were outside in a Mexican marketplace at night. Of course the first thing that caught the Doctor's eye was a cart full of gigantic sombreros. His eyes lit up as he ran towards the piles of hats, some of which were elaborately decorated felt with embroidery while others were made of straw with brims that were five feet in diameter. It was one of these huge ones that the Doctor put on.

The other three Ponds walked among the other carts looking at the other wares. River and Amy liked the embroidered dresses and shirts. Rory was just trying to get the Doctor away from the sombreros.

While he was doing that, Amy and River noticed that there was a restaurant where the dining room over looked the pavilion's boat ride, a few other shops, and a small bar in addition to the carts. Amy and River looked over at their respective husbands only to see that rather than getting the Doctor away from the hats, the Doctor had succeeded in getting Rory to wear one too. Both women shook their heads.

"I don't know about you, but if they're going to be like this for the rest of the day, then I think I want a drink to help me deal with them..." River said softly to Amy who nodded in reply. They walked over to the bar and ordered a shot of tequila each.

While Amy and River were gone, the Doctor finally noticed that there was in fact a ride in the pavilion. He turned around to point this out to the women and Rory when he saw that Amy and River were gone. Upon turning around again, he saw that Rory was also gone. After looking around the carts and inside all the shops quickly, he spotted the three of them in the bar. He ran over to them.

"What are you doing? We don't have time for the three of you to be just sitting here drinking! There's a ride in here! There's still eleven other pavilions to visit before the end of the day! Come along Ponds!" he said as he grabbed River's and Amy's hands and pulled them towards the ride while Rory paid for their drinks.

The ride was The Three Caballero's Grand Fiesta Tour, and it took them through various Mexican towns while Jose Carioca and Panchito from The Three Caballeros movie searched for Donald Duck. While they were riding through Rory remarked, "Why haven't we ever actually been to Mexico? "

Amy agreed, saying, "Yeah, Doctor, why haven't you ever taken us to Mexico?"

"I have no idea why not, it's a beautiful country in any era... although personally, I do like it best after the Mayans left, and for the record that was not my fault! They chose to go with the Itxaca warships... It's not my fault that they followed me there..." he babbled the second part of this response to River who was looking at him bemusedly, knowing all the theories about the disappearance of the Mayan people herself. Of course no one on Earth would ever believe that it actually was the result of aliens...

She gently placed her hand over the Doctor's mouth. "It's alright Sweetie, you don't have to tell us, and other people are staring..."

He turned around and saw that sure enough, the people in the boat behind them were giving them strange looks. The Doctor stared back at them for a moment before grinning hugely and waving to them while yelling "HELLO!" at them.

Amy put her face in her hands and muffledly said, "Oh my god, Doctor, you are four..."

River just rolled her eyes and pulled the Doctor back to a forward facing, seated position.

After getting off the ride, the Doctor wanted to move right on to the next pavilion (thankfully River had talked him out of buying one of the sombreros), but Amy and Rory told him and River to go on without them; they'd catch up.

The Doctor shrugged and took River's hand before bounding out of the building. River looked back to see her parents walking back into the bar.

"Lucky..." she muttered under her breath.

They went on to the next pavilion, which was Norway. After riding the ride there,(which was full of trolls that the Doctor thought were creepy) and going through the gift shop afterwards... ("No, Sweetie, you may not buy the Viking helmet with the blonde braids." "BUT RIVER, IT'S SO COOL..."), they continued through the rest of the World Showcase. Fortunately for the Doctor, every pavilion had a store that sold hats. ("River, look! It's like "around the world with hats"!)

Unfortunately for River, every pavilion had a store that sold hats. ("NO.")

In China: "River, look at these hats! THESE are cool! They're all reed-y and woven and slightly conical but not really... more like if you squished a cone down so it was very wide at the bottom and fairly flat... OH AND THEY HAVE PUPPETS!"

It took River quite a while to get the Doctor out of China, but it did take a little longer because he finally convinced her to play with one of the marionette puppets for a short while.

In Germany: "Woah, River, look at this! Not only do they have these hats with feathers, they have lederhosen! Could I..."

"NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT."

After that store they walked across the plaza of the pavilion to another store, this one selling crystal and glass wares.

"Sweetie, I'm not so sure if this is the best idea..." River broke off as she noticed the Doctor was no longer by her side. "Doctor...?"

She suddenly felt something being placed on her head. She went to pull it off, but the Doctor caught her hand. When River turned to face him, she saw that he was wearing something on his head too...

"That's an even worse idea than the lederhosen were."

The Doctor was wearing a tiara.

"But River, it is a kind of hat! I mean, sort of... really I guess it's just headwear, but they look so good! Yours looks good!"

River raised an eyebrow and turned to look at her reflection in a mirror behind her. The Doctor had picked a fairly simple one that had red crystals and golden metalwork. She had to admit to herself it was pretty...

"If I wear this, do you promise to not get the one you're wearing and not wear this one if I take it off?"

The Doctor pouted. "But why?"

"Sweetie, tiaras just don't look as good on a man... or a cosmic nine-year-old in your case."

He pouted some more but finally agreed. And River continued wearing the one he bought for her.

In Italy: "River, I can't find any hats here, but look at these REALLY cool masks!"

"Sweetie... be careful with those. They're- *CRASH* ...fragile."

After paying for three broken Venetian masks, they moved on.

In America: "Ooh! They have tri-cornered hats! They're like pirate hats, but not really! And they have bonnets! River, do you think you would-"

"No. I'm wearing the tiara. I'm not wearing a bonnet. Absolutely not."

In Japan: "OH MY GOSH, RIVER LOOK AT ALL OF THE CUTE ANIMAL STUFF, AND THESE HATS... THEY LOOK LIKE PANDA BEARS."

River actually didn't hear him, and if she did, she just ignored him, hoping that he would let it go. Meanwhile, she was watching a strange ritual that was taking place at the other end of the store. There was a large counter with water tanks on its sides which were filled with oysters. Someone would pay, then pick an oyster from the tank, and then one of the two or three young Japanese girls at the counter would bow to the person and the oyster before cutting it open to get out its pearl, which the person then got to keep.

I think Mum might like that... she thought absent-mindedly. She wasn't sure why, but she just felt like Amy would really enjoy it. She would need to mention it to both of her parents later.

And River did just manage to get the Doctor out of the store without buying any hats. The woman making candy shaped like animals outside was interesting enough to make him temporarily forget about them, and before he could remember, River was pulling him towards the next pavilion.

In Morocco: The instant they walked into the Morocco pavilion, River decided it was her favorite. The bright colors and exotic sounds and smells just appealed to her immensely: much more so than those of the other pavilions. However, there was one downfall of the pavilion...

They sold fezzes.

They had an entire section of market place for fezzes.

There was a sign on the side of one building that read "Fez Room".

...

To say the Doctor was elated would have been the understatement of the history of the Universe.

" , ,LOOKATTHEFEZROOM, , ,BUTIAMNEVERLEAVINGHERE...WAIT,COULDIPUTTHISWHOLEPAVILIONINTHETARDIS?!ISTHATPOSSIBLE? 'LLDOTHAT..."

This went on for at least a half hour. River thought she was going to lose her mind... that is, until she had an idea to distract the Doctor from all those fezzes...

He was talking to one of the Cast members about the fezzes when he turned to gesture to River, and he noticed she was no longer anywhere in sight.

"River? River...!" He frowned. He was just getting to telling the Cast member about River shooting his first fez, but now he would have to find her instead.

Just then he heard some music: drumming, and some other Moroccan instruments playing some traditional melody. He walked to the centre of the Marketplace to see three men playing these instruments, and he was about to turn away to look for River when someone stepped out from a doorway behind the three men.

Well, at least the Doctor wasn't going to have to look for her now.

Of course it was River, but she was now dressed in a red, two piece belly dancer costume with silver beading and wearing quite a bit of silver Moroccan jewelry, as well as a beaded headdress. And she was dancing.

She had only been outside for a few seconds, but there was already quite a crowd gathered around the square, watching her and the musicians. After a few minutes, she finally made direct eye contact with the Doctor and sauntered/danced over to him with a playful smirk on her face. She only stopped advancing when she was directly in front of him, invading his personal space quite a bit, while she continued to dance.

The Doctor just smiled and blushed eleven shades of bright red, enough to match River's dress. After a moment, she danced back to the middle of the square, and a few people nudged the Doctor with their elbows and smiled at him, especially quite a few of the men watching. One of them asked, "Is she with you?", and the Doctor just grinned and nodded.

After three songs, River stopped dancing and bowed to the crowd, who clapped and cheered profusely. She smiled to everyone and stepped back through the doorway, only to emerge a few minutes later in her normal clothing after the crowd had dispersed. The Doctor was leaning against a wall, wearing a fez and grinning at her.

"So you still bought on then," River said with a sigh and a roll of her eyes.

"Please don't shoot it. Please don't."

River shook her head. "Just this once, I won't. ...Mostly because I can't shoot it while we're here inside the park, anyway..."

She wouldn't have been able to shoot it anyway after seeing the look of joy on his face at her willingness to let the fez live.

"You should try one River! Although... I don't think it would fit over that glorious hair of yours..."

She gave him an amused look. "Sweetie, there is nothing in on this world or on any other that could convince me to wear one of those."

The Doctor merely shrugged and smiled. Just then, he noticed she was holding a bag, and when he leaned over a bit to see what was inside it, all he could make out was a pile of red cloth.

"...So you bought that then, did you?"

"Luckily for you, I did," she replied through a smirk and a suggestive eyebrow raise. "You seemed to like it on me, so I figured why not?"

The Doctor turned a bit red again but smiled. "I'm not so sure I liked all those other people seeing you in it though..." he remarked as they began to walk out of the pavilion.

"Oh, now who's being jealous...?" she teased back.

Once they were at the front of the pavilion, they looked over towards the direction from which they'd come only to see Amy and Rory walking towards them and waving. Well, Rory was walking, but Amy was leaning on him quite a bit though she was smiling.

The Doctor looked at Amy confusedly and then at Rory questioningly.

"Well, after having one drink in Mexico, Amy decided that we should have one drink at each pavilion... I stopped once we reached Germany, but she's had a few more..." Rory responded while gesturing to Amy. "That has been our day. What about you two...?" he asked as he looked at the Doctor's fez and the bag in River's hand.

River and the Doctor looked at each other and smiled, then looked back at Rory and said at the same time, "Oh... the usual."

This isn't the end. It may seem like the end, but it's not quite yet... I didn't have the heart to leave all of you readers with a cliff-hanger or anything like that this time, especially after all that fluff. :)

I don't know if it will happen, but I'd like to have another chapter of this up tomorrow or Sunday, so keep watching for those updates!