Day 4 Part II
We arrived at the gates into MGM at around eleven, after walking from the bus stop and me going through bag check. No sooner had I gone through the turnstile than I found BF (who had, bagless, gone ahead through earlier) on the phone. GRRR! This was a phoneless trip! Someone had better be dying…. (okay, not that I wanted that to happen, but those of you who live with anyone who looks as though they have a growth shaped like a phone attached to them at all times know what I mean.) I gave him the look, but I don’t think he caught it, so engrossed was he in his “business” conversation (friend of his; never does any business with us, just talks…a lot). Time for plan B: walk VERY fast. Luckily the crowds were non existent, so I could do this, feigning far more excitement than I truly felt. Of course I wanted to do all of the things we had simply run out of energy for yesterday, but I didn’t REALLY need to power walk to them.
Hoping that BF would be unable to keep up while talking and have to cease his banned conversation (he’s one of “the loud ones” too, you know, the kind who think no one can hear them unless they shout…) I pumped my legs furiously. People coming the other way moved to the side as I stormed my way towards the back lot tour. Boy, this pre end of trip depression had sure boiled over into full-blown rage. One of the street performers bellowed out for BF to “say hello to his mother” and I laughed wickedly. I hope his “business associate” heard that.
At last he flipped the phone shut, and the anger that had moments ago been boiling inside of me melted away. “You never walk fast,” he gasped, clutching at his side (at least it wasn’t his chest).
“I was just trying to get through the crowd,” I said innocently.
“What crowd?”
“There’s the entrance,” I said, heading towards it at a more leisurely pace. I feel that here I should note that I am not being entirely mean-spirited. Part of this little tantrum that I threw has to do with a year previous, when I broke three bones in my foot, two of them badly. We were in Wal-Mart, and my foot was still strapped into one of those hideous boot thingies. BF is a speed shopper, and I can barely keep up with him under normal circumstances, so I begged him to slow down. He turned to me and said “one speed only,” and just kept walking. Any way, back to our regularly scheduled trip reporting…
The Back lot tour was a walk on. I thought this was really interesting and informative, and was truly impressed by the costume section that you drive through. All of the little bits of trivia were really cool, and it was neat to learn how some of the movie things were done. We gave this a 3 ½ of 5.
Next we wandered towards the Narnia exhibit, but just missed getting into the fifteen or so minute show. We headed over to One Man’s Dream to kill time (there were no lines for anything that day. I thought this was really cool also, and would have loved to spend more time exploring the exhibit and actually getting to read all of the little signs. The small models of the castles were truly impressive, and the one for
Disneyland Paris looks absolutely breathtaking. BF spent most of the time looking at his watch and tapping his foot, and insisted that we return to the Narnia entrance rather than watching the movie in OMD. Even so, we gave this a 3 of 5.
We walked into the Narnia show just in time. BF liked it, but I thought it was like a big movie trailer. The scenery was neat though. We could not figure out if the queen was an animatronics or not (Feel free to laugh here). (BTW, we still aren’t 100% sure…if anyone knows the answer…) We gave this a 2 ½ of 5.
Next we stopped by the animation tour. I loved this. I so wish that they would bring back the animated movies like those of old, but I am certain that those days are gone forever. They were so beautiful. I really wanted to see if we could do the drawing, but BF was getting impatient to head over to Epcot, so we headed towards the door. He had to stop, however, to see which Disney characters we would be (Captain Hook and Cinderella). He meanly told me that for girls it must have only one choice… 4 ½ of 5
We head out the gates of MGM and towards the Friendship boats that head over to the Epcot area. I was a little leery of doing this, as my dad and I rode one of the ferries from GF to MK on our last trip and I was actually green by the time we got off. The ride was really great, though. The copilot kept everyone entertained by feeding a pair of ducks that had taken up residence of the boat’s bow, and I was so engrossed in this that I forgot to be ill.
In no time at all, we had arrived at the International Gateway into Epcot. No lines to get in the park again! We arrived at LeCellier at about 1:00 for our 1:10 reservation and were seated within five minutes at a nice secluded four top. I loved that we had never had to sit at a small table at all during our trip (this being our final ADR meal) as I noticed that a lot of the two person tables at the restaurants were very crowded and had you sitting so close to others that it looked as though you were about to be sharing a table. This is not my idea of relaxing so I am relieved that we were able to avoid the situation, especially as the restaurants we were in were usually very crowded, and LeCellier was no exception.
Alright, I will admit it; I am not a LeCellier fan. This was my first time trying it out, and though I did not hate it, I didn’t really love it either. The pretzel breadsticks were really yummy, as was the cheese soup, but I have to say that my impression ended there. Our fillets were small and bland, especially when served a top massive mountains of mashed potatoes. The steak BF had at Kona previously was far superior in all respects. Our service was good, and nothing was overly bad, but I do not think that we will be back here, at least for lunch. We felt that even by Disney standards Le Cellier was overpriced. 2 ½ of 5.
We decided to walk off our lunch by taking a quick stroll through the rest of world showcase. The Canada Gardens are breathtakingly beautiful. We journeyed through France, Great Britain, and Morocco, seeing tons of characters out and about in nearly every country. BF was growing less impressed by the minute (he didn’t like all of the shopping opportunities, and found the whole thing very commercialized). I LOVE Epcot, so I continued through, wandering through the Japanese gardens, stopping to watch the drum players and staring for a moment at the koi, which I think are majestically beautiful, strangely enough, as they are fish. All the same, I find watching them peaceful, and love to feed them at our botanical gardens in St. Louis, though there was no feeder machine at Disney.
Moving on, we stopped by the miniature train set at Germany and spent a while pouring over the details. We passed by some of the countries we had done the night before on our way to the monorail, and BF was very interested by the architectural detailing.
Making our way through a lightly crowded Future World, we made one last Epcot stop at Leave a Legacy where we looked over some of the pictures, trying idly to find the one me and my dad had had taken but not succeeding. I’m sure there is some sort of computer guide somewhere, but we were too lazy to take advantage of it. We headed up the ramp and onto a nearly empty monorail, ready for one last visit to the Magic Kingdom!
Can't wait to read more!
for the next installment, too. 
We did the Sunrise Safari in 2004 and it was awesome! (Once you get past having to wake up so early! LOL!) It sounds like you had a really great day! 
Sorry you didn't get the bounce-back deal. We had considered looking into it, but decided against it by the end of our trip. I hope you have a good time in WDW with your dad later this year! I want to hear all about your V&A dinner! 
