Monday, July 14th, 2008—EPCOT, part 4
(Did I mention that when I said weekend, I meant a few days AFTER the weekend???)
Hey there guys! Show’s done and good-riddance! It was fun and we did excellent, don’t get me wrong. But the problem with high school is that there is TOO much DRAMA in drama. Ok. Vent done. Anyway… The show is over and I’m basically free until December when we start
Pirates of Penzance, which I’ve been looking forward to doing for over two years. Yay!
ANYWAY… (again)
When I last left you, we had just been all through Future World and were just about to ride Soarin’ for the second time when we were faced with four of the Brazilian Tour Groups from Hell that, until this point in the day, we’d managed to avoid. As soon as we saw them, we tried pushing our way farther up the FastPass line. We were in luck. The line was pretty short and, thank goodness, they went into the 120 minute Stand-By line. Whew.
When we reached that little podium where they combine the Stand-By and FastPass line, we got engaged into a conversation with a family from Mexico and an elderly CM about the Tour Groups. We were discussing the best times to visit the World without having a hundred thousand singing teenagers following around every day. Grumpy also tried to get the CM to break his Disney-face to see how long he had been working at the World.
He looked at his watch and said “Well, I clocked in at eight. Now if you’ll please go down that aisle and turn, you’ll find your hand-glider waiting for you.”
Access-denied.
We rode Soarin’ and then headed down to the center of Future World for the ride we’d all been anxiously waiting for—Spaceship Earth. The line was only five minutes (and totally Brazilian free) so we basically hopped right on. Actually, most of the lines we encountered while on the Unofficial Guide touring plan were like that. And UG isn’t paying me to say this, I swear (though, if they were, I wouldn’t complain
).
The ride was so cool. To tell the truth, it was one of my favorites during the entire trip. The scenes were really quite interesting. But, Sleepy’s absolute favorite part of the ride was the ending video. When they took the picture at the beginning, I just knew what I had to do. I contorted my face, rolled my eyes, and stuck out my tongue. Sleepy saw nothing.
I swear, I’ve never heard anyone laugh as much as Sleepy did as we descended the hill. I’m pretty sure they could hear her all the way back in the 60’s. Crazy. Unfortunately, I did not get to record it.
This time.
As we got off the ride, Grumpy was actually smiling. “My future’s looking bright,” he said. “Soon enough, we’ll be able to fly right over the Great Wall in a hover-car then fall right into the ocean.”
Lovely.
We watched the pictures pop up across the globe at the end for a few minutes. I showed up in the right place, but Sleepy showed up in Canada while Grumpy was in Japan. Odd.
As we left the building, Sleepy noted the First Time buttons a bunch of people had been wearing and said that she wanted one. Being the Disney wise one like I am, I pointed the way towards Guest Services. Of course, she had to go to the bathroom, so Grumpy and I went inside and picked them up.
Now, if you paid attention at the beginning of this report, you will know that Sleepy and Grumpy had been to the World before on a
Disney Cruise Land/Sea adventure. Yet she still wanted a First- Time button. That woman confuses me at times.
I snapped a couple pictures while we waited for Sleepy to come back from the restroom. (I’m sure you noticed the lack of picture so far)
Ah. There she is.
Grumpy, Sleepy, and I decided it was finally time to go explore the World within the World. We stopped and picked up some FastPasses for Test Track first, of course.
So, as we entered the World Showcase, I took a picture of this.
I turned around, only to see this.
So, here’s Sleepy’s picture of the same thing for good measure. In case you can’t tell where we’re going.
And here’s what she took about ten seconds later.
Peeved? Who me? Never.
Continued in next post
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I love the boatrides in Mexico and Norway...they're probably some of my favorite rides in all of EPCOT. Foo Dogs??? I have yet to learn what those are... Haha! There's always a "Made in China" tag on stuff until you expect it! That's funny. But I'm easily amused. I deplore the sideways pictures, but that's all that the photographer took. Poo. 
