Today was our first day at Epcot; we headed out quite early and took the monorail from the hotel. We arrived at about 9.30 and headed straight for Soarin’ we rode the standby line and got fast passes for later. Then we grabbed some breakfast in Sunshine Seasons before walking onto Living with the Land.
Time for Soarin’ again with our fast passes before heading over to Test Track. We grabbed fast passes and then Rob went to look at the cars. We popped over to Club Cool to try out some Coke products before our fast pass window opened. After our ride on Test Track we decided to take a stroll around the world showcase.
As we were just entering the world showcase we saw a character greet getting ready to open. It turned out to be Duffy Bear and as there was no queue I decided to go meet him. I got a hug and Rob took my picture – which I will eventually upload when I have faster internet!
We did the obligatory boat rides in Mexico and Norway and then took some time to explore the other countries. It is amazing that despite the number of times we have been here there are still loads of things that we haven’t seen or done!
We stopped for a drink in China and then carried on around. We spotted Marie in France and I was going to meet her but the queue got real long really fast so we took a quick picture from afar and moved on. There is a new band in the UK pavilion and they are quite good. Rob stopped to watch while I went in one of the shops. I found Tigger and Pooh doing a character meet at the back and took a quick picture of them.
We then headed back to our hotel and got to the monorail station just as it started to rain. It was a pretty impressive storm and we got a little wet when we changed to the resort loop but not too bad. We were going to head back to Epcot for Illuminations but the storm kept going for most of the evening so we stayed at the resort and watched Wishes from the balcony instead!
27th September
This morning I had to set an alarm as we had a breakfast reservation which couldn’t be missed – at Chef Mickey’s!
We walked across to the Contemporary and checked in at the desk. We were quickly shown to our table and then our server took our drinks order. We headed over to the buffet and got some food. We started eating and then along came Goofy! We both had photos and shook hands with him. We started eating again and then along came the main man – Mickey! More piccys with Rob and I. A little while later and Minnie appeared, she posed for a picture with me but disappeared before Rob could get one…. While we were eating we pondered how difficult it must be to get children to eat breakfast with all the characters wandering around!
Donald was the next character to visit with us, we both got pictures again which was good. We were almost done with our food at this point but were waiting for the last of the Fab Five – Pluto. We then heard that Pluto is always last so got some fruit whilst we waited for him.
Finally Pluto appeared and I got a photo with him, but again he ran off before Rob could get a photo. Then just before we left the characters did the napkin dance – which is fun for the kids and great to watch as an adult!
So, breakfast over (and at $72 not a cheap experience – but well worth it) we went back to the resort to do some laundry and explore a little bit. We weren’t going to a park until later as we had tickets for Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party.
We lazed around at the resort and just chilled for a while before heading over to the Magic Kingdom just after 4pm.
The nice thing about the party nights is that the lines for rides are really short. We rode the following rides during the party with little or no wait:
· Splash Mountain x 2 · Big Thunder Mountain
· Jungle Cruise· Haunted Mansion
· It’s a small world
· Space Mountain
I was originally planning on trying to meet the seven dwarfs during the party but the line to meet them was really long all night so I gave up on that idea and decided instead to focus on the fireworks, the parade and gathering lots of candy to take home with me!
The party seemed more crowded than last year but we still had a great evening and got lots of candy!
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