Day 3, Sunday, October 7, 2012
First Epcot day! I know Epcot is probably going to be crazy because of food and wine, but Ry and I are Magic Kingdom people, so we are saving our lower crowd days for that and HS. We are also less than thrilled about the current Epcot ride offerings. I rode Test Track right around when it first opened, and was totally under whelmed. I know this is a favorite ride but it just didnt do it for me. For that reason, Ry and I were not disappointed at all to find out that it is scheduled to still be under renovations when we are there. Combine that with significant motion sickness issues for me, and that means that Mission Space is also out (yes, even the green side. If I am going to risk getting nauseated on our trip it is going to be for something worth it, like Soarin).
We are not planning to ride Ellens Energy or seeing Captain EO or Honey I Shrunk the Audience, whichever ends up being played while we are there. So whats left? Well, the previously mentioned Soarin which Ry has ridden at DL and is totally excited to do again, as well as Journey into Your Imagination (but probably just once), Circle of Life (maybe), Living with the Land, Maelstrom, Seas with Nemo, Spaceship Earth, Sum of all Thrills, and the Grand Fiesta Tour. We will probably also check out some of the films in the different World Showcase countries.
The goal for Epcot day is to have the majority of our riding done before the World Showcase opens. If my count is correct we have approximately 7 Future World rides, and we are eliminating two of the longer lines. We might grab fastpasses to do Soarin again, but most of the Epcot rides are not repeaters for us. Seven rides in two hours is probably a pipe dream, but if we can get over to the World Showcase anytime before one oclock we should have plenty of time to hang out before we have to leave for our dinner reservations.
After we conquer Future World we will head over to the World Showcase to
eat! (And drink of course!) We plan on wandering around grabbing food and drinks and then just taking in the World Showcase sights and some of those movies. We are not even planning on eating a real lunch, just grabbing food and drinks from as many different F&W vendors as we can.
We have ADR this night at Boma at the Animal Kingdom Lodge, which I am SO excited about. This food seems to be right up Rys and my alley, so I am really hoping it lives up to my expectations.
After dinner we will hop over to
the Magic Kingdom for EMH! Because we are going in October there arent many EMH, but this Sunday night the MK is open until midnight and we plan on taking advantage of it. This will be our first glimpse of the castle of our trip, though we will hopefully be back the next morning for rope drop.
Day 4, Sunday, October 8, 2012
Hopefully we will be able to drag our behinds out of bed early after taking advantage of EMH at the MK the night before, because I want to get to MK for rope drop! I am expecting the Columbus Day crowds to be pretty significant, so I want to try to get as much as we can in before the crowds become unbearable and we head back to the room to rest. As I stated before we are BIG MK people, and love all the rides from the most thrilling to the cheesiest. Ry isnt a huge roller coaster person (but he LOVES ToT, explain that one to me?) but he tolerates all of the Disney coasters well, mostly because compared to the ones at Cedar Point, OH they really are pretty tame (with the possible exceptions of RnR and EE).
Our MK favorites? Well, I love all of the mountains, Peter Pan, PotC, and the Haunted Mansion. Honestly in this park I am not sure of Rys favorites, I just know what he doesnt want to go on. The skips for this park are the Tiki Room, Country Bears, Stitchs Escape and possibly Tom Sawyer Island and the Liberty Riverboat. Everything else is going to depend on wait times. I definitely want to see Mickeys Philharmagic, because Ive never seen it before.
We probably wont get to do everything in MK this day because of the crowds, and the fact that we will probably want to leave for lunch or just after because I know we will be tired from the EMH the night before and we want to be well rested for
our dinner reservations at Victoria and Alberts! Thats right, tonight is the night that we will be heading over to the Grand Floridian for our 8:30 dinner reservation for Vicky and Als. We will be sitting in the main dining room and probably not do the wine pairings, but I am soooo looking forward to this food. They have told us to plan on 2 ½ hours or more for this meal, so we will be dragging our tired (but full) bodies back to POFQ after 11:00 p.m. Gotta get some sleep though, because there is more MK coming up!
Next up: Itinerary for Days 5 and 6