Day 2 Part 1 -- Getting Embarrassingly Starstruck
We began the day with meeting Kyle at Sassagoula Float Works for breakfast. With the use of 1 snack credit, Jacob and I ordered 6 beignets. Kyle, well, he did the same. And he didn't have any trouble eating all of his by himself!
He still had powdered sugar on himself by the time we got on the bus. Let's be honestly, he probably had some kind of sugar residue on him all day, but c'est la vie at Disney. After breakfast, we were on the bus to Epcot to make it to Rope Drop. We made a bit of a mistake and decided to change our Frozen fast pass to an earlier available fast pass for. . . Soarin', I think. We thought if we changed to an earlier fast pass, then we could get a rolling fourth fast pass later. This was a mistake because Soarin' didn't ever really have that long of a standby line and we had to wait a while for Frozen in the morning. (But honestly, nothing mattered because we did everything we planned to do that day and more).
Anyway, we walked into Epcot at roughly 8:53. And here's my first picture of Spaceship Earth.
We hoofed it as fast as we could to Norway and we were out pacing many of the slower walkers, but nevertheless, we still had to wait like 20 minutes or more. I didn't much care, because I like the queue a lot. Here's Jacob getting excited about Northern Europe.
And me, being wary of the Duke of Weselton! Watch out!
I only took one photo on Frozen Ever After. It was this picture of Olaf.
I don't even really like Olaf that much.
My favorite part, I'm embarrassed to admit, is when you ride into the area where Elsa is up on the balcony singing her most famous tune. I got chills and a little misty eyed. Her animatronic was staggering. It was like she really was there. And I knew Maelstrom had a part where you get sent backward, but for some reason it didn't really register with me that the actual
ride would be the same. So for some dumb reason I was surprised when she sent us down backward. It was a #amazingexperience. It's sad that you can only have a first experience with something once. . .
Anyway, after this ride, Jacob had to go
somewhere so Kyle and I went in the Norway shop and got a pic of me and this handsome devil.
And when Jacob rejoined us, we decided to get some second breakfast at the Norwegian bakery. Jacob was entranced by the lefsa, but I had a mission to get the school bread, because of the people on this website's very mixed opinion of it.
My review? Good.
What was better, though, was the cup of water they gave us. I suppose they were still trying to get rid of Halloween cups so we got a HUGE free water. I am easy to please.
So, we headed to our first fast pass, which was Spaceship Earth. I believe we made it fairly close to the pass's expiration at 10:30.
As soon as we wrapped up looking at our future, we zipped over to Mission Space for our next fast pass. Here I am appreciating various moon landing sites.
We elected to undergo the more intense mission. They
REALLY want you to know how violently sick, disoriented, and dead it may potentially make you. But I ain't no wimp, so we were briefed and ready for our mission.
We wanted Kyle to be the engineer, since he's the engineer irl, but Jacob wound up as the engineer and we all made it out okay. One of my favorite parts were all of the switches everywhere. Before we got started on our actual tasks, we all enjoyed hitting buttons and flipping switches. Kyle especially enjoyed this since he was next to the empty seats. He had twice as many buttons to touch.
After a successful landing on Mars, we briefly looked in Mousegears.
(For the sake of this report, you can just about assume any time we're in a store like this, someone is in the bathroom).
Then, we prepared for the moment of truth: meeting the Mouse himself. The legend, our Rodent God, Mickey Mouse.
I was so starstruck, I just stood there like an idiot with my stupid mouth gaping open. What can I say?
I managed to compose myself a little but before meeting Goofy and we actually had a nice chat with him.
The boys let us girls get a picture together. She's such a fashion icon.
My brother was skeptical about doing character meets, but after this experience, we were all on a kind of weird high. And as such, we had the munchies and decided it was a good time to make our way to lunch. Of course, we stopped for a picture on the way.
We ate lunch at Tangerine Cafe.
Please pardon me, lady in the background, I honestly wasn't trying to get a picture of your bottom, just a picture of the cool table! (I didn't even notice her until just now. . .)
I held down the table while Jacob and Kyle ordered the food. I got the platter with chicken and lamb. In fact, I think we all did. And it was amazing.
I highly, highly recommend this QS place. It's a great value for Dining Plan or out of pocket, because there's definitely enough to share, especially if you're a normal person who doesn't view a WDW vacation as an excuse to eat like some kind of wild animal just discovering food for the first time. . .
Yup! I always care to eat a lot, but I SUPER care to eat a lot when we're in Disney 
