Right then.... Day 2. Obviously day one had to be the Magic Kingdom. Me and James decided that day two would be Epcot. I was looking forward to taking my Dad on Test Track.
We all met in Pop's food court at 9am - People even turned up early/on time!!
Through out the trip when ever we entered one of the parks be it a Disney park or a Universal park someone always had trouble getting through the barriers. It was usually FIL and at Epcot he did not disapoint.
After we had all got through we stopped to gawp at Spaceship Earth and to also take photos. I really wanted a family pic because we are never going to be in Epcot as a family ever again. My Mum on the other hand had other ideas, she doesn't like being in front of the camera so she took my camera for me and went to take a photo of me, Dad and Sarah.
Mum: It won't work!
Me: Just press the big button...
Mum: Nope! It will won't work. (I take the camera off her...)
Me: Mum, you're filming us.
No idea how she got it on to video. lol. Eventually after a little pursuasion she had her photo taken with us.
My Dad, Me, Mum & Sarah. If you can make it out my Dads wearing a Sam the Eagle t-shirt that we brought him from our Feb 2010 trip.
After photos it was time to go on Spaceship Earth. This ride was a hit with everybody. Whenever we mention Spaceship Earth infront of FIL we end up teasing him. Apparently many years ago when they visited Epcot they went on Spaceship Earth and when they go past the view of Earth FIL had his hand to his chest and said 'It's get's you right there doesn't it'.
As we lined up to get on the ride the phrases 'It gets you right there' or 'it's so inspirational' would work their way into conversation.
If I can remember correctly the seating arrangement went like this, Me & James, Dad and Sarah, MIL and SIL, Mum and FIL (meeting of minds this pairing
).
After SE me & James had a dinner reservation at Nine Dragons. As we headed in that direction we made a swift detour to Club Cool. It was Beverly time!
Suprisingly my Dad and Sarah seemed to like Beverley. Everyone else not so much. Sadly I don't have any good Beverley facephotos, so here's a smiley
Anyhoo, we left the rabble behind and headed over to Nine Dragons. We got there 5 minutes before our ressie and were asked to take a seat. We were sat close enough to the CM on the door that we could hear more or less everything he said. It had gone 10 minutes past our reservation time and a couple walked in. The CM asked if they had a reservation and they said no, to which the CM said OK and led them to a table. Pfft! We were hungry lol. Eventually we were seated. The food was good, we always enjoy Nine Dragons and the service was ok. The only thing that happened (and is would have to happen to me.....) was that a female CM came over to refill our coke and somehow managed to chuck coke on my leg/foot. It was cold because of the ice and I swear my foot went temporarily numb
The CM gave a half hearted apolgy and wandered off leaving us to clear the coke.
After Nine Dragons we went to meet up with everyone else at Test Track. Before we got to TT we had a play around with my new camera...
We continued our walk to TT and along the way bumped into a friend...
Mary was lovely, she said she liked my dress and complimented my on finding James, she even likened him to Bert.
In the time it took us to eat, photograph and meet Mary, our group had been on Ellens Engery, Test Track and Mission Space. No one wanted to go on Test Track again so we headed off towards Mission Space because when the others went on it they did the green version and some wanted to do the orange version. We were a bit evil to FIL. Me, James and SIL convinced him that it went upside down.
Me and James sat in one compartment with 2 nice gentlemen whilst FIL, MIL and SIL sat in the one next to use. We could see them as the doors closed, FIL looked a bit green.
After MS we headed over to the Seas to do Nemo. Everyone enjoyed that ride, then it was time for Soarin. I sat Soarin out because I hate it and I had no plans to make an idiot out of myself as I panic on it. My Mum and Dad didn't go on either, apparently if it's something I wont like the chances are they wont like it either lol.
It was nice in a way because the three of us sat on a wall outside the entrance to the Land. we had time to chat about the up coming wedding.
Apparently on Soarin because Sarah had flat shoes on she left them off on the ride, when the ride lifted her up she left the shoes behind and when she came back down she was placed back into her shoes perfectly much to the amusement of everyone else.
Time was ticking on and it was nearly time to leave Epcot so the ones going to
MNSSHP could get changed. We had time to fit in one more ride and me and James wanted to do Test Track, so thats more or less what we did. However on the way to TT a CM spotted my Mums Derby County tattoos and tried talking to her, turns out he is from Stoke which isn't far from us so they started trading football insults we had to drag my Mum away, thinking about it we could have left her with him as she didn't want to go on TT. In the end she was the designated Bag Lady!
We came off TT found my Mum and got our bags back. Me, James, Sarah & Verity (SIL) headed off back to our hotel rooms to get ready for MNSSHP.
It didn't take long to get ready, especially for James. Presenting to you..
The Corpse Bride (Sarah), Snow White (Me) and Red Riding Hood (Verity)
Not forgetting Tony Stark (James)
My only regret with MNSSHP is that we didn't get there early enough, lesson learnt.
As soon as we got there we headed over towards Spash Mountain and along the way we met a furry friend. I had my piccy taken with him. We then joined the long queue to meet the 7 dwarves which was hilarious!
As soon as we walked up Dopey grabbed me and pushed me onot the stool. As the photos were being taken all I could hear was a kissing noise. When I turned round Bashful was trying to Kiss Sarah and kept pulling her away from us. It was so funny, no one could stop laughing - it's coming to the cinemas near you "Bashful & the Corpse Bride"
It was dark by time we'd done that so we went on Big Thunder Mountain. When we got off the ride we walked past a CM.
CM: Ah Snow White!
Me: Hi!
CM: Oh and Red Riding Hood!
CM: and who are you?
Sarah: The Corpse Bride.
CM: Oh...
He didn't seem overly thrilled to see the Corpse Bride and it was funny how his enthusiasm changed.
Next we headed over to Haunted Mansion, which looked fab under the coloured lighting. As we queued my costume did not go unnoticed by Madame Carlotta who was sat near the haunted coach. She was already talking to another Snow White and when she saw me she started shrieking about how I'd stole the other girls costume and that there were alot of Snow Whites
After HM we went to Cosmic Rays, we sat outside and had a pretty good view of Hallowishes. We followed that with Space Mountain. Also though out the night we hit nearly every candy person possible. We were getting pretty tired by this point so we decided to go back to POP.
...or well we were! As we walked home I spied Jack Sparrow. We'd seen him earlier but James wouldn't let me Queue up for him. Well... actually I just told a little lie. Jack wasn't there but the queue was. I made everyone wait for him, I was getting my Jack.
When he arrived he was great. I walked up to him and he spied the tattoo on my chest.
Jack: Ah! I see Norringtons branded you too!
Me: Ha ha he has yes.
Jack: Has he had you in his *chains* yet?
and the conversation went from there
Here are some pics from MNSSHP.
Can't remember when we did this but we stood infront of the carriage
Candy Candy Candy!
And I leave you with a nice pic of the Castle
Up Next: Animal Kingdom with a message from the Mouse himself.