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Kat4disney, it was probably a long shot to run into each other; but stranger things have happened! A lot of the rides you list we haven't even done yet. We've got two full days left, tomorrow will probably be MK all day to finish up the still-undone things, then maybe DHS in the morning then Epcot then Downtown. The real world is starting to loom large for us... but not yet! And I don't blame you about the cinnamon roll - my first one, I bought close to 1am that first night, ate half there, and half when I got to my hotel room. With the last three I bought, they finished off a plate and the woman serving scooped big piles of the frosting/glaze and dumped it on ours. The single one was swimming in about 1/4" deep glaze! It was unreal! Tomorrow morning, we have a tiny bit of leftover apple turnover, a little bit of coffee cake, and a huge apple danish that I bought from a cart in Epcot - different than most other places that sell danishes. I love danishes; I remember when I was in my teens, WDW had the best danishes ever, totally unlike what you get today. Now they're OK but nothing like before.
We had a good day today... ate some more Main St Bakery stuff in our room then had a late start at Epcot - didn't get there until almost 11. The marathoners were out, in fact some were done and hopping on buses to leave. They had the World Showcase torches lit and the Illuminations globe was out and spinning and occasionally showing a generic type of light show on its LCD screens.
We stopped briefly into Club Cool and I gave Leila a glass of Beverly. She made a puss but she did drink some more!]
We picked up a Kim Possible game, then stopped into Mexico so Jack could ride Gran Fiesta Tour again, which has strangely become one of his favorite rides. There was no wait, and we were on to Norway to pick up the Kimmunicator. After all this time, there are still bugs with it, with the phone occasionally locking up and rebooting, losing audio, demanded to be returned, and so on. Kind of frustrating. Also, if you leave it for a little while, it will start vibrating and playing the KP "doo, doo, doo-doo!" song - a bit distracting when you watching a show that asks cell phones to be silenced! All that, and Kim Possible, last I checked, isn't even being broadcast any longer! DHS stopped like KP appearances at least a year ago, I think. I would not be surprised to see it rebranded as a Phineas and Ferb "Agent P" game before long.
Anyway, we did that for a bit and ate lunch at Biergarten. Now, last time we were there (2-3 years ago), it was a pretty gruesome day all around - Jack managed to get his hand stuck inside the slats of his chair, necessitating using butter to grease it back out, and shortly afterwards, I picked up the virus that Mrs and Jack had had a few days early, and spent all night emptying my stomach.
Yet, I had remembered that the food was pretty good, so we gave it another shot. I'm very glad we did - there's lots of very yummy stuff there, and by the time we were finished, I could barely walk, since I was so full of good food. The stage show is a lot of fun, too. The only problem was that we were charged for a dinner meal. I thought it seemed a bit high, and checking the sign when we left, I saw that we were charged the dinner rate instead of the lunch rate. Turns out it was our server's first day out of training and she was very apologetic. It ended up saving us $30 (after DVC discount, no less), so I'm glad I checked!
While we were in Germany, Leila was in the stroller and managed to grab a plush (or "fluffy toy" as Jack calls them) cat and fell totally in love with it instantly, hugging it and patting its head and so on. She was so cute (and so resistant to us putting it back!) that we decided that it was her present for this trip - and it more than wiped out the $30 I saved at Biergarten!
We walked through the new Wurthers store there (I'm too lazy to look up the exact spelling right now!) - I don't care for caramel but still, it sure did smell yummy in there!
After doing the KP game in Germany, we went back to Mexico to do that pavilion's game. On the way, we managed to catch the Chinese acrobats, just a couple minutes before the show began - another exactly of the good timing we've been having most of this trip.
Outside the Mexico pavilion, there were a couple cast members hanging out near the entrance, and my wife mentioned something to them about this being his favorite ride. Next thing you know, we're getting whisked away, given the usual bunch of Mickey stickers, and a "Magical Moment" postcard with his name and the signatures of "big six" characters on the back. We're taken to the front of the line (yes, there actually was a decent-length line at this point) and given our own boat. Now, it would be churlish to mention that when we rode it that morning, we had our own boat then, too, so I won't mention that.
It was a cute "moment" and Jack appreciated it, even though I think he was more interested in continuing on with the KP game.
Back to China, watched the 360' movie there, on to Italy then American Adventure and caught the amazing show there. One last KP game in Japan, then found a pretty decent spot for Illuminations, did a few tripod shots on the way out, and back to the hotel.
At the hotel, we had a good lineup of animals... three ankole cattle resting (they are there a lot), a very near giraffe, and a zebra. I grabbed the tripod and did some long-exposure shots. Here's one with very minor post-processing... 100 second exposure. You can see the cattle, two zebra, and possibly some giraffe in the background.
Kat4disney, it was probably a long shot to run into each other; but stranger things have happened! A lot of the rides you list we haven't even done yet. We've got two full days left, tomorrow will probably be MK all day to finish up the still-undone things, then maybe DHS in the morning then Epcot then Downtown. The real world is starting to loom large for us... but not yet! And I don't blame you about the cinnamon roll - my first one, I bought close to 1am that first night, ate half there, and half when I got to my hotel room. With the last three I bought, they finished off a plate and the woman serving scooped big piles of the frosting/glaze and dumped it on ours. The single one was swimming in about 1/4" deep glaze! It was unreal! Tomorrow morning, we have a tiny bit of leftover apple turnover, a little bit of coffee cake, and a huge apple danish that I bought from a cart in Epcot - different than most other places that sell danishes. I love danishes; I remember when I was in my teens, WDW had the best danishes ever, totally unlike what you get today. Now they're OK but nothing like before.
We had a good day today... ate some more Main St Bakery stuff in our room then had a late start at Epcot - didn't get there until almost 11. The marathoners were out, in fact some were done and hopping on buses to leave. They had the World Showcase torches lit and the Illuminations globe was out and spinning and occasionally showing a generic type of light show on its LCD screens.
We stopped briefly into Club Cool and I gave Leila a glass of Beverly. She made a puss but she did drink some more!]
We picked up a Kim Possible game, then stopped into Mexico so Jack could ride Gran Fiesta Tour again, which has strangely become one of his favorite rides. There was no wait, and we were on to Norway to pick up the Kimmunicator. After all this time, there are still bugs with it, with the phone occasionally locking up and rebooting, losing audio, demanded to be returned, and so on. Kind of frustrating. Also, if you leave it for a little while, it will start vibrating and playing the KP "doo, doo, doo-doo!" song - a bit distracting when you watching a show that asks cell phones to be silenced! All that, and Kim Possible, last I checked, isn't even being broadcast any longer! DHS stopped like KP appearances at least a year ago, I think. I would not be surprised to see it rebranded as a Phineas and Ferb "Agent P" game before long.
Anyway, we did that for a bit and ate lunch at Biergarten. Now, last time we were there (2-3 years ago), it was a pretty gruesome day all around - Jack managed to get his hand stuck inside the slats of his chair, necessitating using butter to grease it back out, and shortly afterwards, I picked up the virus that Mrs and Jack had had a few days early, and spent all night emptying my stomach.
Yet, I had remembered that the food was pretty good, so we gave it another shot. I'm very glad we did - there's lots of very yummy stuff there, and by the time we were finished, I could barely walk, since I was so full of good food. The stage show is a lot of fun, too. The only problem was that we were charged for a dinner meal. I thought it seemed a bit high, and checking the sign when we left, I saw that we were charged the dinner rate instead of the lunch rate. Turns out it was our server's first day out of training and she was very apologetic. It ended up saving us $30 (after DVC discount, no less), so I'm glad I checked!While we were in Germany, Leila was in the stroller and managed to grab a plush (or "fluffy toy" as Jack calls them) cat and fell totally in love with it instantly, hugging it and patting its head and so on. She was so cute (and so resistant to us putting it back!) that we decided that it was her present for this trip - and it more than wiped out the $30 I saved at Biergarten!
We walked through the new Wurthers store there (I'm too lazy to look up the exact spelling right now!) - I don't care for caramel but still, it sure did smell yummy in there!
After doing the KP game in Germany, we went back to Mexico to do that pavilion's game. On the way, we managed to catch the Chinese acrobats, just a couple minutes before the show began - another exactly of the good timing we've been having most of this trip.
Outside the Mexico pavilion, there were a couple cast members hanging out near the entrance, and my wife mentioned something to them about this being his favorite ride. Next thing you know, we're getting whisked away, given the usual bunch of Mickey stickers, and a "Magical Moment" postcard with his name and the signatures of "big six" characters on the back. We're taken to the front of the line (yes, there actually was a decent-length line at this point) and given our own boat. Now, it would be churlish to mention that when we rode it that morning, we had our own boat then, too, so I won't mention that.
It was a cute "moment" and Jack appreciated it, even though I think he was more interested in continuing on with the KP game.Back to China, watched the 360' movie there, on to Italy then American Adventure and caught the amazing show there. One last KP game in Japan, then found a pretty decent spot for Illuminations, did a few tripod shots on the way out, and back to the hotel.
At the hotel, we had a good lineup of animals... three ankole cattle resting (they are there a lot), a very near giraffe, and a zebra. I grabbed the tripod and did some long-exposure shots. Here's one with very minor post-processing... 100 second exposure. You can see the cattle, two zebra, and possibly some giraffe in the background.
