After a little bit of swimming, Emily went back to the room, and I went on a quest to find a decent snack that wasn't just dough loaded with sugar. I would even accept some sort of meat-in-dough product. No such luck. Rix Express certainly had its share of doughnuts, muffins, cookies, and salty snacks covered with chocolate, but no such luck on the even marginally healthy front. So off to the Pepper Market I go.
The have fruit, but that's about the extent of it. I love fruit, but I'm not about to waste a snack credit on a banana. So it's back to the room I go, for yet another protein bar. I'm really pleased with the decision to bring 36 of these on the trip this year, since they're stepping up in a pinch. It probably won't be the last time.
Emily was now done getting changed, I got my snack, and Dylan and Kristin were finally done being lazy losers. Then, this happened:
If you can't tell from the picture, what's happening is the rain is coming down, down, down, in rushing, rising riv'lets. Which isn't surprising, since the forecast was calling for scattered or isolated thunderstorms for the majority of our trip. I guess "scattered or isolated" translates to "over without a trace in 20 minutes", because that's what happened here. Let's hope that luck continues, because I can deal with a 20-minute downpour over a complete washout.
It actually looked like it could storm at any time when we were in the pool, but held off. It was odd, since there were black clouds above us, and beautiful, clear skies to any side beyond that. I guess that's Florida.
I selected and resized the photos to upload to Photobucket (which is a pretty significant task, considering the quantity of photos we took), while the others got ready to go back to Epcot.
We got back to Epcot around 7:00, and once again, are powerless to resist the draw of the Epcot Ball (tm) Photo Spot:
Our ADRs for Teppan Edo are for 7:40, which means we should probably head right back there. Along the way, we grab some pictures of trees...
Lakes...
And areas of Scandinavia that will probably descend into chaos in the next few days:
I'm not sure what this building on the front end of the Germany pavilion is for (Snow White M&Gs happen elsewhere, I think), but we like it.
So much that we want our photo WITH the building:
Emily likes flowers, bushes, and Epcot. And Duffy.
We also like bridges.
But not enough to be photographed with it.
We eventually reach Japan.
I check in at the outside kiosk, and quickly figure out that "thank you very much" is Japanese for "I have no idea what you're saying." We finally bridge the language gap, and we get our bleeper. Absolutely Fabulous reference there, if you didn't catch it. Can't wait to see the new movie!
Now that I'm done bringing up completely unrelated films, it's off to kill the wait time in Mitsukoshi. Why not? Emily tries on a hat:
She said some random, adult male fixed the hat for her unsolicited, and without warning, but whatever. The bleeper's going off, and it's time to go!