Elena of Avalor S3 E9

## Plot

With Esteban gone, all of his duties have been given to Elena, which makes her so busy with work that she doesn't have any time left over to relax or see her family, which upsets Luisa, who tells her that no matter how busy she is, she should always make time for family. Elena, you already taught Migs this lesson earlier in the season. All of the work also stresses her out and makes her really anxious, which brings a painting to life, but it stops when she takes a deep breath. It's revealed that Farsight cannot only show her people, but also places. Avalor has a foot traffic problem, and she and Isabel want to try and fix it by building a hydro-powered gondola, but they still need to tweak some things, so they invited King Joaquín to Avalor so he could show them how he made Cariza's gondola system. At dinner that night, Elena and Isabel are still trying to find the best location for it instead of listening to Luisa, who tells them about her family's chocolate shop, La Vida Dulce, The Sweet Life. She wasn't born into royalty, but her family was rich in love. They worked, played, and ate together. She decides to reopen the chocolate shop to spend some quality time with Elena and Isabel. She tells them that it takes time to do things right. She has a family portrait of herself, her parents, and her grandparents. Whenever her family closed the shop for the day, they would go to the park and feed the leftover nuts to the squirrels. She realizes that she forgot the hazelnuts for the honey hazelnut clusters. Elena offers to go pick some up, but Luisa does it herself to make sure they're just the right kind. She tells Elena and Isabel to make another batch of chocolate while she's gone. However, Armando comes in and tells them that King Joaquín and Princess Caterina arrived early. Elena tells Armando to show them the model they made on the terrace and tell them that they'll be there soon. They want to leave right away, but Luisa can't open the store without chocolate, and it took them all morning just to make one batch. Elena uses her scepter and Isabel uses her inventions to pick up the pace and make enough batches for the whole day. Things get messy though, and because they're wearing aprons, Elena doesn't see that her dress turns purple and affects the chocolate. When Luisa gets back, the kitchen is a mess, and Elena tells her that Joaquín and Caterina showed up early for a meeting and are waiting for them at the palace, so they have to leave. When they see how sad she is, Elena tells Isabel to stay with her. She decides to bring a box of chocolate to Joaquín and Caterina as a gift. However, one of them falls out, and when Flo eats it, she gains super speed. Elena meets Joaquín and Caterina, but the only one there who knows anything about hydro-gondolas is Cat. While trying to figure it out, Elena's dress turns purple again, and she wants to hide her new magic powers from them, so she moves into the bushes. Her anxiousness breaks the gondola though. She leaves to get Isabel and gives the chocolate to Joaquín. Whoever eats it gets uncontrollable super speed though. Luisa lets Isabel leave with Elena to help her with the gondola stuff for the good of the kingdom, but it still makes her sad. When they get back to the palace though, they see everyone who ate the chocolate talking, moving, and working super fast on the gondola, which also goes incredibly fast, to the point where it's probably super dangerous. Elena tells them to stop, and her anxiety brings two statues to life, one of which can shoot giant stone arrows to try and break the gondola and make it stop, and the other throws a giant stone javelin at it. They're about to continue even after it stops though, which could seriously injure or even kill someone. Elena is able to calm down and stop the statues in place when she thinks of baby jaquins. She calls Zuzo to ask him why Joaquín and Cat are still acting weird. He sees the chocolate she made for them, and finds out that she was in a hurry to get back when she made them. If she was feeling frantic while she was baking, her new magic could've gotten into the chocolate, and then into anyone who ate them. She and Isabel rush back to The Sweet Life to stop Luisa from selling any more batches. When they get there, the store is closed, but Luisa isn't there, and everything is packed up. They see the family portrait and realize that they hurt their abuela's feelings by leaving her alone when all she wanted to do was spend time with them. Elena blames herself for forgetting that her family is more important than any royal business. They see hazelnuts on the floor, and realize that Luisa went to the park to feed nuts to the squirrels. She tells them that when she was little, all they had was the chocolate shop, so there was nowhere else to be but together. She understands that Elena has a kingdom to run though, especially now that Esteban is gone. After everything that's happened with him, the shop was her way of keeping the rest of them together, because she didn't want to lose them too. She was foolish to try and relive the old days though. Elena assures her that she'll never lose them, and tells her that she was the fool for not making more time for her family, which is more important than anything, especially now. She and Isabel tell Luisa about the magic chocolate. They have no idea how to fix it. Luisa suggests that if they make a new batch slowly and calmly, Elena's magic will create chocolate that returns everyone to normal. Elena's dress does turn light blue and affect the chocolate, but they have to try it out on someone to see if it's the right kind of magic. They give one to Flo, who returns to normal. They hand out the chocolate for free to everyone who was affected. They head back to the palace to give the last ones to Joaquín, Cat, and their guards. Elena thinks that Luisa and Isabel should do it without her. She doesn't want to tell them why this all happened because it's too embarrassing. She always needs to be in control, or at least people need to think that. Luisa tells her that no one is perfect, even royalty, and Joaquín will understand. They give them the chocolate, and they finally return to normal. They wonder how it happened, and Elena explains that a little while back, she fell into a well of magic crystals, and now her dress lights up and something magical happens whenever she feels strong emotions. It affected the chocolate, and she's still trying to get a handle on it. She apologizes, and Joaquín says he understands, because he doesn't actually know anything about gondolas. Cat is the expert, but he thought he had to be too because he's the king. Elena delegates the project to Isa and Cat, and finally plays her weekly card game of conquian with Luisa when the gondola is finished. It's supposed to go much faster, but Elena tells Isabel that then people would miss out on the beautiful view, and the company.