We started our morning at Chef Mickey's in the Contemporary Resort with the most expensive breakfast I think we have ever eaten. But, hey, we saw and visited with Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Pluto, AND Goofy... and we got a really good breakfast to boot. So, it was worth it. You only live once, right? I think we got a lot of really good pictures. I'll let you know when we get back. :-)
From there, we drove to Epcot. And then left Epcot because the gate attendant neglected to tell us we had to follow the GREEN line today to get to the super duper AAA Diamond parking lot. Silly us. We followed the BLUE line because that's the color we had to follow yesterday at Animal Kingdom. So we had to exit the park and loop back around. This was easier said than done, but we made it. We have discovered that the signage is more than adequate when you're going INTO any area of Disney; however, once you're leaving, you're kind of on your own unless you're looking for one of the highways in the area. So anyway, we got back in, followed the GREEN line, and parked right up close. Woo hoo! We oohed and aahed over the big silver golf ball that is Spaceship Earth as we walked in and went straight there to ride it. It was closed. Try back this afternoon... it should be open then. Great start.
So we proceeded to Innoventions. This was very cool and we spent quite a while in there. We did a game where we were split into teams and had to go through "the world's most dangerous house" looking for fire hazards and identifying them before they actually started fires. J-Mav and I were on the winning team. :-) Then the boys were able to take a picture of themselves in front of a firetruck and put some "stickers" on it and email it to the grandparents. The next thing allowed the boys to put themselves into a video game. Also very cool. They were recorded running, jumping, and doing a "victory dance" and then they went to a kiosk to play a game in which they were the stars. Very cool. We were able to email ourselves the link so they can play at home. Then Hubby and I got to take a spin on a Segway. It was very fun, and surprisingly easy.
We moved on to The Seas with Nemo and Friends. J-Mav whined through the entire thing because it was mostly dark. That made it scary. Sigh. After that ride, we went to Turtle Talk with Crush. This was Hubby's and my favorite thing of the day. It was really amazing they way they did it. Crush (the turtle from Finding Nemo) was on a big screen (like a movie). All the kids were in the front of the theatre sitting on the floor. All the adults were in the back on benches. Crush interacted with the kids. He asked them questions and then they could ask him questions. And he had facial expressions. Somehow there was a human hooked up to the image, and the turtle was taking on the real-time expressions. It was a live show and Crush would respond real-time to things going on in the audience. It was very well done.
From there we went to another amazing ride called The Land. We all enjoyed it. We rode through amazing greenhouses and fish farms. I'm not sure if they use the stuff they grow in the parks, but I know some of it was being grown for research purposes. We also saw pumpkins being shaped into Mickey heads as they were growing, and a Jackfruit tree!We saw a few more things that J-Mav declared scary because they were partially or totally in the dark. We dragged him on anyway. We got shrunk in Honey, I Shrunk the Audience... another 3-D adventure that neither of the kids wore the glasses for. And we tried to go on the Test Track. Not really sure what this is because it was closed when we tried to go on it. Bummer.
We headed back to Spaceship Earth, but it was, once again (still?) closed. We were told it'd be opening in about a half hour. So we checked out the other half of the Innoventions area, where we played a game around recycling that was actually quite fun. When we got back to Spaceship Earth, it was actually open. We basically walked right on. It's been completely refurbished since the last time I rode it (which was 1989, so that's not surprising). Completely different cars. No Walter Kronkike narrating. And when you come down the long decline backwards at the end, you actually view a personalized future on a TV screen in your car, rather than looking at things on the walls outside your car. We all enjoyed it, though. Keeper Boy said that was one of his favorite things.
By this time, it was about 7pm and Future World was closing. The World Showcase, however, stays open until 9pm, so we headed over there. We discovered there aren't any of the street performers or anything out at night... or there weren't tonight. So we basically just walked around and went into each country's shop(s) if we needed to warm up. We rode the rides in Norway and Mexico, and when we came out of Mexico it was about time for the IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth show. So we watched an amazing fireworks/laser/water show. This was Keeper Boy's other favorite part of the day. After it was done, we made our way out to the car and headed back to the condo (stopping first at the McDonald's drive-through... nothing like eating a bunch of grease at 10pm!).
I think we'd like to go back to Epcot and do the World Showcase in the daytime. So we will keep that on our to-do list. Because of the lack of wanting to RIDE anything on the boys' parts, we may not need an entire day at Hollywood Studios. So maybe we'll go back to Epcot tomorrow morning and then to Hollywood Studios. Or maybe we'll just sleep in a little tomorrow and then go to Hollywood Studios and hit World Showcase at Epcot another day before we go. I think we'll play it by ear.
Whatever we do tomorrow, we're hoping to be a little warmer...
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