Thanks for the compliments on the pancakes
They were really fun!
Here's the next installment of my honeymoon trip report!
Sunday - September 30
September 30 was our first wedding anniversary. So, I wanted us to do something special/romantic that day.
We orginally were going to see the Cirque show, La Nouba, but they don't do performances on Sunday. So, we opted to go to Epcot.
Even though it is the "Year of a Million Dreams", I didn't expect to win anything, but I was proved to be wrong on this day.
We got up and got moving fairly early and we got there maybe a half hour after the park had opened. We had looked at a map the night before and came up with a very loose game plan. The first ride we headed to was Soarin', though we stopped to take some pictures along the way.
Soarin was an awesome ride, and we were heading over to where Test Track and Mission:Space were. We had looked at a map and were going to cut through one of the Innovations buildings on our way. When we got closer to the Innovations building, we saw and heard a group of people yelling 'Yay'. Since we were heading that way anyway, we continued to go toward them.
When we got closer, I saw who they were and what they had. They were the Dream Team and they had Dream Fast Passes! I was so excited!
So, we headed to Test Track (which DH loved) and Mission:Space and used our Dream Fastpasses on those rides. I made DH ride the chicken version of Mission:Space, because I didn't want to get a migraine... but the chicken version was really dull.
We got stopped by a family at one point, who said that they would take our picture if we took their's.
Then, since we had the fastpass for it, we went back over to Soarin and we also did the Living with the Land boat ride, and got some pictures on there.
When we were coming back, we were passing by the place were we got our Dream Fastpasses, and the Dream Team was there again! This time they were passing out dream lanyards that had two special dream pins on them! They remembered us, and teased us that we were going to keep coming by for stuff. DH made jokes that we were stalking the Dream Team the rest of the day, even though we didn't see them again.
After we finished with the rides in Future World, we headed over to World Showcase. We did a lot of shopping in World Showcase, especially in Japan.
But first, we got another Dream in the American Adventure show. We were a little early for the show, but decided to go inside because it was very hot out. There was a cast member inside the lobby who came over to us and asked if we had gotten a call from Disney today. We looked at each other, confused like, and said no.
So, he brings us over to this phone and tells us to call this 3 digit number. I dial it, and listen - on the other end, is Mickey and Minnie congratulations us on our wedding
It was a funny little thing (Mickey is very interesting in the wedding cake), and I had DH listen to it after I was done.
While DH was listening to it, the cast member came over and gave us a Dream Certificate in honor of our honeymoon!!
He then led us to a special elevator that took us up to the balony where we got to be the First Family for the show. We also got to sit down, and watch the Liberty Singers do a little show before we went inside... and they did a little song for us in honor of our honeymoon too
Here's a picture of DH as we listened to the music:
From there, mostly we shopped, watched some movies in the different countries, and just walked around.
As we were wandering around, I saw Mushu from 'Mulan' - most of the characters we had seen were mobbed by people but Mushu was alone, so I asked for a picture.
Since the Disney Photopass photographer was there, DH got in the picture too
Our dinner reservations that night were at "The Rose and The Crown". We didn't eat here because we wanted English food, per say, but because it has a great place to see Illumnations, Epcot's fireworks show, from.
They have tables on a patio that you can see Illumnations from, which is what I had wanted, but it didn't happen. But we were able to go outside and stand on the patio when it was time.
Our waitress was really great - she gave us crowns in honor of our honeymoon, a Dream certificate, and a light up Tinkerbell and Captain Hook!
We had finished all of our dinner except for dessert when it was time for Illumnations. We told our waitress what we wanted for dessert and she took us outside to were we could watch the fireworks from. We were one of the first people out there, so we got to be right by the rail and had a wonderful view!
It was a beautiful fireworks show, and I got a little teary-eyed because it was a really wonderful way to end our really Dream-filled 1st anniversary.
We went in after it was done, had our dessert, and then headed out. My batteries were dying in my camera, but I wanted to get a picture of Spaceship Earth at night.
We made it out, and found our bus stop with no problem (this was our first day using the bus system from our resort), and got back, and fell into bed. It was really a very lovely first anniversary!
Next Time: Universal Studios!