(Happy Rainy Bank Holiday All! Hope this will cheer everyone up!
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I woke up at 6am today, but being the nice friendly chap I am, let my brother keep on snoring all the way to 7.45
Showered and on over to the Food Court for The Breakfast of Kings © - more French Toast!
We were on the bus to Epcot by 8.50 so we arrived just after opening.
After reading all about Soarin', I dragged my brother over to it first. There was a 20min wait time posted (why they don't display this information/have fast passes outside the land flummoxes me), but that was just the walk to the "departure gate"! We walked straight on. Completely blown away by the ride, what a fantastic addition to Epcot.
My brother wanted to do Mission Space next.
I've got to admit I was quite apprehensive about this after reading about the people made ill (or worse) on this, but we dove right in at the deep end and got tickets for the Orange team. The CM at the entrance told us "Go on Orange, come out green!" - just what I needed to settle my nerves! Another walk on. Seeing the airplane style sickbags made me feel so much better. Not. (The 1990's called just after I wrote that, they wanted their joke back).
Was a touch jittery throughout the ride not knowing what to expect, but we were both fine getting off until we were halfway down the exit when a familiar smell hit our nostrils...
The fresh air perked us both back up so it was onto Test Track next. Now I really don't like the way Disney is putting pre-shows on almost every new ride, but this one is done really well and sets the scene fantastically. Especially when Bill McKim and his assistant Sherry pick a "surprise" test and the video shows a car crashing into a wall. Kids scream and adults laugh.
It was the longest wait of the day at massive 10mins, however I'm really unsure if I'd wait through the long queues in the summer to experience it.
We realised we hadn't gotten a map or ridden SSE yet which was a lot clunkier than I remembered it to be.
Silly I know, but the sleeping monk always makes me giggle like a small girl.
It was just after 11am now and we were both getting hungry so we took a slow stroll through the middle of Innoventions, through Canada and the UK;
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Into my favourite place in the whole of Epcot
No not France; - The Boulangerie Patisserie!
Following our snack break, we talk a walk around the rest of World Showcase, just looking and wandering, stopping in Norway to ride Maelstrom (another walk on) - didn't stop for the post-ride video though!
We realised we hadn't done Figment yet, so enjoyed the sunshine as we walked that way. What a great time to go do Figment - as we walked in through the doors, we were greeted by a whole team of smiling Cast Members (was only a
little freaky!) and told we were Year of A Million Dreams winners! We had won;
Hats!
(I'd like to take a moment here to say IN YOUR FACE! to everyone who has been and won diddly squat
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Not a fan of the new (since I was last there anyway) Figment ride compared to the old, but it was enjoyable all the same.
Honey I Shrunk... next, which was ruined by a tour of about 120 Argentinian teens making fun of the CM's and shouting all the way throughout the show. As we exited, we followed them until they all pealed off into The Land. We both wanted to do Soarin' again, but the thought of queuing up and riding with all of them was too much, so we walked on down to The Seas with Nemo & Friends. Not much I can say about this, as it obviously isn't aimed at my age group and I have a confession - I've never seen Finding Nemo. But it was fun to do it just the once none-the-less.
Found ourselves with empty tummies once again, so found ourselves in The Electric Umbrella with a tray full of Chicken Strips and yet more Chocolate Milk.
After milling around in the CBR shop last night and being horrified to find they no longer sell Jelly Bellys, it was a huge relief to find them in MouseGear. Bought a HUGE bag full. Popped into Club Cool to find out exactly how disgusting
Beverly really is. The answer? Very. I tried to convince my brother that it was infact so good it could only have been made from crushed angel wings, telling him the look on my face was because I wasn't expecting it to be fizzy, but he wasn't having any of it. Wuss.
Walking out we found two new Hidden Mickeys on the pavement;
Jumped on the next coach back "home" to the CBR. We were in the pool by 3pm. A quick 8" pizza each about 5.30ish and back to Epcot for ROE!
I wanted to ride The Land, but as we got there at 7.05pm it had closed just a few minutes previously. Jumped on Soarin' then took a walk around WS to find the best place to watch ROE. We ended up grabbing some railing right infront of Debi's spiritual home - the Margarita stall in Mexico!
The show was fantastic, as I'm sure you'll all agree, so I'll let the pictures and videos do the talking. I'm so pleased these came out well.
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We powerwalked through all the crowds and got to the bus stop so early, the first CBR bus was just us on it... We thought it was quite odd the driver didn't sit there for 5/10mins to let the crowds descend, but as we exited, another 4 CBR buses were pulling up. Super organised!
We were back in our room by 9.20 with more lemonades and ESPN to swat up on American "Football".
Weather - As you can see from the pictures and video, clear skies, but windy.
Lemonade Count - 4 each.
Next time - 27th January, OMGwhoinvitedallthesepeopletoMGM