Day 1, Part 2: I guess we'll just sleep on the couches in the lobby.
So DH and I were off to Epcot.
Upon arrival, the wait for SSE was pretty short so we did that first, even though that goes against every fiber of my being. (I had to remind myself that we were not there for rope drop and so it made sense to do SSE.) I tried to take a picture of our little animated guys at the end of the ride, but it just didn't work out. Afterwards, we went into Chris's favorite store, The Art of Disney, so we could ogle at the works and hopefully find a new art book for Chris--- but, alas, he had them all!
Then we had to run into Mouse Gears so I could stare at the Dooneys.
Then we headed into Club Cool so we could take our standard Beverly pictures.
Chris was really weird this time though. He HATES soda, but he drank two little cups of Beverly! "It just tastes so bad, I HAVE to have more." I am going to blame his irratic behavior on the tired-ness. Or something.
I am sorry for all of the huge pictures. I am entirely too lazy to resize. I washed my Beverly down with the Chinese watermelon soda. That stuff is like
crack to me.
We headed over to The Seas, which has recently become one of my new obsessions. My favorite part is when the nerdy fish yells "NEMO IS SWIMMING OUT TO SEAAAA!!!" I like to say this often and then laugh at myself. I am pretty much the world's best person to live with. Uh huh.
The Land was next, but Soarin was a 90 minute wait, so we just went on Living with the Land. This is also one of my favorite rides.
It's my fruit! (Get it? Because my name is Jackie?)
I love the cute little alligators! Those huge catfish are MUCH scarier than these gators, IMO.
However, this ended up being a very sad day on Living with the Land because....
The Nine Pound Lemon was missing!!
Afterwards, we headed over to JIIwF (I love my abbrevs), mostly so I could sing "Imagination" and whine about the Dreamfinder. We did play around in the gift shop a bit though.
We decided to cross the park yet again and go on Ellen's Energy Adventure, as we had missed it on our honeymoon. The wait time boards were down throughout the park that day though...
We actually did see people getting very confused about the boards. A bunch of people thought the large one by the pin station was a touch screen, so they would touch it and then just wait. I shouldn't laugh, but...
We
might have laid our heads down in Ellen's Energy Adventure. And Chris
might have fallen asleep for a few minutes. He woke up when we were underneath the brontosaurus and just said "Woah! Dinosaurs!" in a sleepy-surprised voice. That's what you get for falling asleep during Ellen's dream, Chris.
We had pretty much done all of the little rides in Future World (I don't do Mission: Space. I don't think it's fun and it makes me a little queasy), so we decided to walk around World Showcase a bit before dinner. We grabbed some alcoholic beverages in China. I wanted to take a cute picture, but Chris was more interested in drinking--- it was very hot and he was very thirsty, and he hasn't yet learned that alcohol is not a good thirst quencher.
We walked around slowly and ended up checking in for dinner at Via Napoli rather early--- and we were seated pretty early too! We looked over the drink menu and wanted to order something new, and so we got the special strawberry-something-or-other. A woman at a few tables over from us had a strawberry thing, and it looked delicious.
However, she must have had the strawberry Italian soda. I can assure you that this little strawberry drink is one of the most disgusting things I have ever had. I would rather drink two liters of Beverly than ever have that thing again! UGH!
Perhaps even more unfortunately, our waiter was less than fabulous. He never came over to check on us, and so we were unable to order something a bit tastier (like, say, that strawberry soda!) to wash it down. Thankfully, Andrea the Water Guy kept noticing our water was low and refilled them.
Our pizzas arrived, however, and they were just as delicious as we remembered.
I am seriously in
love with this pizza. Chris and I are really picky, but it's some of the best we've ever had. Even though our service wasn't great at Via Napoli this time around, I will forever return for the pizza. I think one of our problems might have been that we told our server we had Tables, so he knew he was guaranteed an 18% tip. He spent a long time talking to both of the tables next to us, but he didn't talk to us at all in between giving us our drinks and giving us the check.
Before we left, they DID come over and sing happy birthday to Chris... which he absolutely hated.
Chris is shy and he doesn't like being the center of attention. He mostly wore the birthday button just to humor me. But, here's a good picture of Embarrassed Chris.
I didn't get a picture of it apparently, but they gave him a cookie with some whipped cream on top. It was tasty, but we were both just entirely too full for dessert.
We headed over to the Japan Pavilion to go to Chris's other favorite store. He didn't find anything he needed, but I did snap a picture of the World's Most Racist Tote Bag.
By then, it was just about time to head over to Downtown Disney to meet up with some of my DisBrides! I was also on the hunt for a new Disney Dooney Buttons bag and wanted to make a pit stop at Trend-D. Instead of walking to the front of the park, Chris and I exited through the International Gateway and took the quick walk over to the Beach Club. We stayed at the Beach Club for four nights during our twelve night Weddingmoon stay, and it quickly became our favorite hotel. Of course, one of my favorite things about it is it's so close to where we were married.
But I also just generally love this hotel. It reminds me of New England, my home, and it's also really important to me now because it's the first (and only) Disney hotel my dad ever stayed at. I love the relaxing sitting areas, and I can't wait to try out the pool one of these days. We're currently in the process of buying a resale Beach Club DVC contract, so keep your fingers crossed that everything works out!
We walked over to the bus stop, and as we were waiting I asked Chris if he had ever heard from the manager about our room number. He checked his phone and--- nope! Still nothing! (I don't bring my phone to WDW with me, so they only would have called him.) It was after 7 and we
still didn't have a room number. While we didn't necessarily need it right then (though, it would have been helpful had we wanted to send a purchase to the resort's gift shop!), it would have been nice to know it all the same. Ho hum.
The DTD bus arrived, and our trip was relatively uneventful. We got off at the Marketplace stop, and Chris headed towards The Art of Disney, and I headed towards Trend-D. I wandered around for awhile and I found a Belle t-shirt I absolutely
needed, and I made Chris help me choose a buttons bag. I wound up with this one.
I chose it because Belle is front and center. I was iffy on this bag when I first saw pictures, but now I am in love.
(I remember reading your update last night, but can't seem to figure out why I didn't reply then 
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I think I always get noob CMs; it's why I never call the dining number. 
*Tries to grab it though the computer* 
It looked fun!! Next time I'll be there!! Lol--I can see Jennifer appearing like a ninja!
is the 9 lb lemon?? I would have made them stop the ride and explain.
(or it wasn't exciting enough to comment on lol).
