emmysmommy
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 30, 2010
Sunday August 25, 2013: Day 10, Part 1
This was day 10 of 15 so you would think that those late nights would lend themselves to sleeping in at this point. Nope! My internal alarm clock went off before 7am. However, the advantage to waking up at 6:53am meant that I could watch the sunrise from the balcony. And a beautiful one it was. I think by now anyone reading my TRs know that my mornings usually start off with some time on the balcony and a sunrise.
Considering this was our first morning at Bay Lake Tower, it was a nice start to our stay to be able to view the quiet of the morning and the sun rising.
We had an early breakfast ADR at 8:15am. We were up and on the monorail by 8am. Our destination, Grand Floridian Café.
Apparently no one decided to join us in our train car. I love empty monorail cars since it is usually an excuse for me to act a little sillier than normal. I may have busted out singing 'It's a great big beautiful tomorrow...'
Grand Flo in her morning glory!
Since this is segueing into a dining review you can click here to see photos with our favorite GFC server and what new and less than exciting breakfast item Em ordered when she wished she would have stuck with an old favorite like me.
We were headed to Epcot for the day so we took the monorail to the TTC where we transferred to the Epcot-o-rail.
How often do you see a boat sailing over the road? I am fascinated with the man-made part of the lake and how they have the bridge for the boats to go over the roadway.
MBs worked. All's well!
We posed with our Disney princess tees in front of Earth.
We headed to the fast and exciting rides to the left. Securing FPs for Mission Space, which was a 30 minute stand-by wait, we then went to Ellens Universe of Energy.
A relic of days gone by. You're not going to see these any longer at WDW
We made it through the pre-show and saw that Judy was still a know it all, Einstein was still mute, and Ellen still had no clue how energy was formed in the universe. We entered the auditorium and followed everyone in front of us making a left turn right back out the doors. What? The ride had just gone down. Darn!
We were watching this.....
And next thing you know we were headed here....
We still had FP for Mission Space so that worked out ok. I was the Engineer and clearly had been trained well enough to put us into hyper sleep and extended the wings on cue. Who needs years of astronaut training when you have Gary Sinise telling you how to do it? And speaking of being the Engineer....I think I've been assigned the engineer position more than any other job. When can I be the commander??
Does anyone else randomly press different buttons and flip the switches during the mission? I make it a point to say 'firing torpedoes now! ' at least once during the mission. When Gary implores us to use the manual controls and shift left or right to navigate our out of control space ship for a successful landing I go the opposite. It's the rebel in me for sure!
My control station.
Em was Ms. Commander
Not sure I understood all the schematics. I must have missed that part of the instructions.
The spinny thingy
Someone please tell me what freeze-dried ice-cream tastes like. I just can't imagine. I should try it next time so I can report back.
Another curious food item that I may have to explore.
We decided to then go to WS and check out the Gran Fiesta Tour or better known as the small world of Mexico.
That was followed by a casual stroll over to Canada. We arrived early but those Canadians are so nice that they seated us nearly an hour early for our ADR. You can read my dining review here and see the hilarious but embarrassing moment when Em tumbled out of her chair because I was telling her to move out of the way of my photo. Mother of the year step forward! Not so fast Brenda! Em is still talking to me so I believe all is forgiven.
Continued next post....