Ah Epcot! The park we all hated when we were younger but have grown to love every step of it as we grow older. We got out of bed a little later than I'd hoped but it was much needed after we spend the previous night at the ESPN club watching the Red Sox. Sadly we lost the game but it was a good time as we met a lot of Sox fans from New England.
Ok where was I? Epcot, right...Our plan for epcot was to get to sorin ASAP to get fastpasses as we knew standby would be pushing 90mins this late in the morning. We were right and settled on FP's with a return time of early afternoon. Before leaving The Land Pavilion we decided to wait for living with the land as we didn't get around to it the previous trip. This was Jess's first time on the ride and probably my first in 5+ years. I have to say its a highly underrated and is a unique informative experience. Here's a few pictures I snapped on the ride:
After Living with the Land we figured we should have lunch at the land...I cant seem to find the pictures but I would recommend it to anyone looking for a solid counter service option at Epcot. They allow you to choose any size for your fountain beverage (on the
DDP) and for your desert they let you pick anything from their bakery. Even if your not on the DDP I would highly suggest stopping by the bakery as they had many different options.
After lunch we figured we would walk around and hit a few more of the big rides. We walked over to test track and noticed the standby line wasn't very long so we grabbed a fastpass and stood in the standby line to make it a double wamie. We liked this ride a lot as it mixes Disney's traditional theming with alittle speed and thrill.
Here's a couple pictures from the standby line:
Here's our picture on the ride (so scared):
We walked over to mission space but didn't feel like we needed to go on it again as we went on it last year. For anyone wondering if it was cause of motion sickness, it wasn't. We went on the Green side last year just to be safe and didn't feel sick in the slightest. We simply didn't feel like going on it and figured we could check out other rides we missed in our past trip.
One of these rides was nemo and friends. The ride itself is actually pretty poor, though I'm sure a lot of kids love it. Its basically a slow moving ride that goes through the aquarium tanks with projections of nemo and friends in the water. Its a cool concept I guess but it definitely didn't live up to the hype for me at least.
The next ride we went on was Honey I shrunk the Audience! This is a classic that I can remember loving as a kid. The snake gets me every time! We just missed the previous show so we waiting a good amount of time here but it was worth it as this was another ride we didn't get to go on during last years trip.
At this point we had made our way back to Soarin and enjoyed it as always. I wanted to make it a point to get over to innovations went and take advantage of the Free Disney Visa Card Meet and Great. This was another long line and took up a good chunk of time but IMO worth it. Here's a picture:
We had an early dinner ADR at Le Cellier and we didn't want to be late. Last year we tried to get in here but were out of luck for the duration of our stay. This year I booked all our ADR's at the 180 day mark to make sure we got all of the times and places we wanted. We liked this place a lot but thought the service was just ok. The restaurant is small and pack you in there pretty tightly. I think the larger the party you have the more room you will get as we were a party of two and were stuck literally 2 feet from another party. Here are the pictures:
Pre dinner Bread...soo good!:
My New York Strip:
Jess's prime rib:
Jess's Smore Dessert:
My Creme Brulee:
After dinner we just walked about the World Showcase and enjoyed a few of the lovely beer selections from “around the world”.
My Guinness:
Jess's Stella
Cheers to Sam Adams:
Night Cap;
Bonus Pictures:
I love this location and I got lucky with the monorail perfectly placed:
Aw LoL this was the new thing this year as many photo pass guys had us kiss:
Spaceship Earth at night from the world showcase!
Can anyone guess where this is?
Ok so thats it another day done! I hope you all liked. Ive been very busy the last couple of days but it looks like a big snowstorm tomorrow so I should be able to bang out DHS! After DHS we take the trip to DTD for a dinner at Raglan Road....Will an Italian and a French Canadian like Irish food? Find out tomorrow!!!!
Isn't it ironic how your park favorites shift as you get older? Epcot and specfically World Showcase is now my favorite but certainly didn't use to be! 
Glad you enjoyed Le Cellier. That's one of my favorites too!
