Bellis Belle
Mouseketeer
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Weds, Nov 2nd, Day 12
Well all the best laid plans and all that. We wanted to be at Epcot for opening. OOOps, its 8.30 already and only jusy got up. Oh well, we decide to go to 1st national Bank where we opened up an account in 2003, with a view to possibly buying a property. We have decided to postpone this for a while as we want to do more home improvements this side of the atlantic. So we drive down to Haines County and 10 mins later we are $650 better off. Good thing as we had already gone massively over budget. Anyway enough waffle. We make are way to Epcot and get there for about 10am. Straight onto Spaceship earth as no line. It felt like this had changed a bit, but can't be sure. We then went to the land and got a FP for Soarin. I was really looking forward to this. Next was a trip over to Test Track. The line was 20mins so we decided to do it then, rather than wait til later and get another FP. We all love this ride and the line went quite quickly. We nipped into electric umbrella for some late breakfast and then made our way back to Soarin. This is a great ride and the smell of the oranges was fabulous, however It did not match The Mummy IMHO!! We decided to do Ellen and the universe later and quickly popped in to do Figment.
Now its time for the World showcase. Usually we start in Mexico but this time we decided to go anti-clockwise so Canada was first. As the food and wine festival was on, there were about 19 new countires splattered around with small offerings of food and drink from that country. I was disappointed yet again to not be able to have a beavers tail from Canada. They were not doing them. I do not even know what they are, had just read lots of good things about them. We worked our way round and John tried various offerings from Singapore to Scandinavia. It is now 2pm by the time we get back to Mission Space. We were quite qucik round the world as we wanted to hop to MK for EMH tonight. John and the girls to MS and I sit it out as this was the ony ride in the whole of Disney and Universal that makes me feel sick. Luckily they were straight on.
We decide to get the monorail over to MK and leave the car at Epcot. We have not done that for a long time, and we thought that the carpark at MK would be heaving at this time of day. We get to Mk for about 3pm. Just catch a glance of the castle for the 1st time and my stomach does a little flip. Once insdie we do the usual and start clockwise. The girls wanted to do the treehouse. We had not done this for a good few years and it was nice to do it again. Once off of that we all decided to have a pineapple dole whip. Just what we needed. John had a coca cola vanilla icecream float. Suitably refreshed we made our way to the Jungle Cruise. The girls did not fancy queuing for Aladdins carpets so we headed over to Frontierland. We got to Splash and were really disappointed to find out it was shut for tech difficulties. What a bummer!!!
So we nip next door to BTM. Oh you must be having a laugh. This is also closed for tech difficulties. Soooo we get a FP for BTM and head over to Haunted Mansion. 10 mins wait and we are in. When we come out Splash is up and running again. 
We walk back over and are on within 10 mins. We just make it down the flume when "oh dear" tech difficulties. We are then stuck there for 20mins. Luckily we were not that wet. We are then over to BTM. This was closed for rehab in 03 and so we really looked forward to this. Great as ever. Next over to Fantasyland and onto Its a small world. I was trying to look for the reab bits but could not tell really. We then ent over to Philharmagic. This was brilliant timing. The doors had just opend so in we went. I love this and we all thinks its the best 3D show now. When we get out its 6pm and we are all hungary. The park closes at 8pm and then its open for another 3 hours to disney guests. We pop to get our white bands and then go to Cosmic Rays for some supper. The park is staring to thin out a little. We go to the Indy speedway and Alex goes with John and Georgia with me. After about 10 mins of georgia bashing us from side to side, its then over to Space Mountain. Just as we are about to get in line WISHES starts. We had a great view and they are as beautiful as ever. There is no line for Space M and we walk straight on.
Enjoy it so much we do it another 2 times before the lines start to build again.
My feet are really aching now and I am not sure how much longer I can hold out, anyway onwards and upwards. We walk onto Buzz and do extremely badly. Back to Frontierland and do Splash and BTM once more. Ok its now 10pm and I am really ready to go. We get the monorail back to Epcot and back at our hotel by 10.45pm. The girls want to go swimming. Yeah "WHATEVER", I don't think so!!!!!
Tomorrow is back to IOA and evening meal at Boma
Well all the best laid plans and all that. We wanted to be at Epcot for opening. OOOps, its 8.30 already and only jusy got up. Oh well, we decide to go to 1st national Bank where we opened up an account in 2003, with a view to possibly buying a property. We have decided to postpone this for a while as we want to do more home improvements this side of the atlantic. So we drive down to Haines County and 10 mins later we are $650 better off. Good thing as we had already gone massively over budget. Anyway enough waffle. We make are way to Epcot and get there for about 10am. Straight onto Spaceship earth as no line. It felt like this had changed a bit, but can't be sure. We then went to the land and got a FP for Soarin. I was really looking forward to this. Next was a trip over to Test Track. The line was 20mins so we decided to do it then, rather than wait til later and get another FP. We all love this ride and the line went quite quickly. We nipped into electric umbrella for some late breakfast and then made our way back to Soarin. This is a great ride and the smell of the oranges was fabulous, however It did not match The Mummy IMHO!! We decided to do Ellen and the universe later and quickly popped in to do Figment.
Now its time for the World showcase. Usually we start in Mexico but this time we decided to go anti-clockwise so Canada was first. As the food and wine festival was on, there were about 19 new countires splattered around with small offerings of food and drink from that country. I was disappointed yet again to not be able to have a beavers tail from Canada. They were not doing them. I do not even know what they are, had just read lots of good things about them. We worked our way round and John tried various offerings from Singapore to Scandinavia. It is now 2pm by the time we get back to Mission Space. We were quite qucik round the world as we wanted to hop to MK for EMH tonight. John and the girls to MS and I sit it out as this was the ony ride in the whole of Disney and Universal that makes me feel sick. Luckily they were straight on.
We decide to get the monorail over to MK and leave the car at Epcot. We have not done that for a long time, and we thought that the carpark at MK would be heaving at this time of day. We get to Mk for about 3pm. Just catch a glance of the castle for the 1st time and my stomach does a little flip. Once insdie we do the usual and start clockwise. The girls wanted to do the treehouse. We had not done this for a good few years and it was nice to do it again. Once off of that we all decided to have a pineapple dole whip. Just what we needed. John had a coca cola vanilla icecream float. Suitably refreshed we made our way to the Jungle Cruise. The girls did not fancy queuing for Aladdins carpets so we headed over to Frontierland. We got to Splash and were really disappointed to find out it was shut for tech difficulties. What a bummer!!!
So we nip next door to BTM. Oh you must be having a laugh. This is also closed for tech difficulties. Soooo we get a FP for BTM and head over to Haunted Mansion. 10 mins wait and we are in. When we come out Splash is up and running again. We walk back over and are on within 10 mins. We just make it down the flume when "oh dear" tech difficulties. We are then stuck there for 20mins. Luckily we were not that wet. We are then over to BTM. This was closed for rehab in 03 and so we really looked forward to this. Great as ever. Next over to Fantasyland and onto Its a small world. I was trying to look for the reab bits but could not tell really. We then ent over to Philharmagic. This was brilliant timing. The doors had just opend so in we went. I love this and we all thinks its the best 3D show now. When we get out its 6pm and we are all hungary. The park closes at 8pm and then its open for another 3 hours to disney guests. We pop to get our white bands and then go to Cosmic Rays for some supper. The park is staring to thin out a little. We go to the Indy speedway and Alex goes with John and Georgia with me. After about 10 mins of georgia bashing us from side to side, its then over to Space Mountain. Just as we are about to get in line WISHES starts. We had a great view and they are as beautiful as ever. There is no line for Space M and we walk straight on.Enjoy it so much we do it another 2 times before the lines start to build again.
My feet are really aching now and I am not sure how much longer I can hold out, anyway onwards and upwards. We walk onto Buzz and do extremely badly. Back to Frontierland and do Splash and BTM once more. Ok its now 10pm and I am really ready to go. We get the monorail back to Epcot and back at our hotel by 10.45pm. The girls want to go swimming. Yeah "WHATEVER", I don't think so!!!!!
Tomorrow is back to IOA and evening meal at Boma
sorry to hear about the rides being down tho 
