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Day 6, part 2, Hitting a wall at Epcot!
Hello Everyone
I hope everyone is having a wonderful week. I have a day off and it is misting and yucky outside so on with the show! I can't believe it is the middle of October and our Thanksgiving trip to WDW is coming up quickly,yikes! Writing this TR, is making the time fly and keeping me in the Disney mood for our next trip!
When I left off, Andi and I went back up to our room for a little air conditioning and changed our clothes for Epcot! We didn't make the same mistake as our first Epcot trip, we walked to the TTC and went through security and got on the monorail. Did I mention it was hot? Well I will again, lol, today was the hottest day of our trip. This was the feel like temp as we got in line AGAIN for security at Epcot.
We headed in to Epcot through the AP line, every time we used this line, people were in it and had no idea it was for AP holders
the big AP sign didn't give them a clue, oh well!
Our first stop was the Visa meet and greet, we got right in, really only one group was in front of us and they were already in with the characters. We met Goofy and Mickey, this was a fun meet, they were really excited to meet us and gave great hugs.
We switched our character Spot FP again since we just met two of the characters from there to the Pixar shorts, we really didn't need a FP for this, we walked right in after the pre show and enjoyed the shorts in the wonderful cool theater. We had never done this before so another first for us!
We decided to try some F&W treats, we were closest to the Flavors from Fire booth so I ordered the Smoked corned beef with warm crispy potatoes, pickled onions, and Blonde ale beer fondue. I had read some reviews on this from the F&W preview here on the dining board. I thought this was tasty, however, sitting out for awhile does this item no favors! The cheese was clumped all together with the corned beef, it was a big ball so it was hard to eat and lost some points for this. Andi did not like it at all so she really only had one taste.
We went into the Light lab, this was a cool little area, however we didn't try anything so we went out and headed into Club Cool! We enjoy the Inca kola, Bibo, and Sparletta so thirsts quenched it was on to the Festival Center to pick up our AP pins for F&W.
It was fun looking around the center, I could not find an AP t-shirt for F&W anywhere. I don't know if I just missed it somewhere but I would have liked one with Figment on it with AP as well. We looked at the chocolate sculptures and had samples of the Ghiradelli chocolates. We found our pins, the pins had Remy with the Eiffel Tower. Here is where we became very bad F&W goers. The heat was getting to us and we just were not feeling walking around the booths and trying to eat in the scorching, surface of the sun heat so we didn't. F&W was a bust for us, we only tried the one item lol!
We did get some fun pictures and continued on to do our other FP, we had SE and TT.
I love SE, it is an all time fave attraction of mine in all of WDW. The smell of Rome burning can't be beat.
A little here but the scene with the African-American woman in the big IBM computer room has a whole new meaning to us now. We had recently watched Hidden Figures. This is a great movie, I highly recommend it. The movie is based on the NASA program in the early 1960's and three African-American women who were brilliant with numbers and worked for NASA and were actually called colored computers back then. These women were amazing and this scene in SE could be right out of the movie! Disney knew more than I did how these women were a big part of communication! So this fun area on SE has some legitimate history attached to it, at least to us it does
anyways, back to enjoying one of my favorite rides.
Mission: Space green was next, we wanted to try the newly redesigned scenes. I will not ride orange and never will after we did the Future World tour and learned more about the Gforce on this ride
No Thanks! We were the only two people in the green area, it was okay but I like the old version better. You circle over the world and it is a little boring in my opinion.
Next up was our last FP for TT, it was actually running
so this was great, this ride is down a lot so you never now. We had a fun ride on TT and we were so ready to head out of the heat. We definitely hit a wall, we never even made it into WS, ugh!
We took the monorail over to GF to check out the QS area here, we didn't end up getting any dinner here, I did get a famous cream cheese danish to enjoy with my coffee in the morning. The Poly didn't have them boo! We walked back to the Poly and we were super boring I got the all beef hot dog meal and Andi had the kids chicken nugget meal, what a far cry from the exotic treats at F&W, oh well, I really enjoyed my hot dog meal and Andi loves Disney nuggets so all was good.
I ate my Sprinkles cupcake for dessert, it was very good but not earth shattering. Andi snacked on Halloween candy for her dessert.
It started to storm around 9:00pm and it was so fierce, I have never heard thunder like that, I though for sure the power would go out, it didn't but guess who started screeching again after the storm, oh yes the frogs! I was glad we were tucked in our room when that storm came through!
We fell asleep to frogs, rain, and thunder! Day 6 was now in the books!
Stay tuned for Day 7, EMH at MK, a wonderful Dis meet, and AK in the afternoon!
Hello Everyone
I hope everyone is having a wonderful week. I have a day off and it is misting and yucky outside so on with the show! I can't believe it is the middle of October and our Thanksgiving trip to WDW is coming up quickly,yikes! Writing this TR, is making the time fly and keeping me in the Disney mood for our next trip!
When I left off, Andi and I went back up to our room for a little air conditioning and changed our clothes for Epcot! We didn't make the same mistake as our first Epcot trip, we walked to the TTC and went through security and got on the monorail. Did I mention it was hot? Well I will again, lol, today was the hottest day of our trip. This was the feel like temp as we got in line AGAIN for security at Epcot.
We headed in to Epcot through the AP line, every time we used this line, people were in it and had no idea it was for AP holders
the big AP sign didn't give them a clue, oh well!Our first stop was the Visa meet and greet, we got right in, really only one group was in front of us and they were already in with the characters. We met Goofy and Mickey, this was a fun meet, they were really excited to meet us and gave great hugs.
We switched our character Spot FP again since we just met two of the characters from there to the Pixar shorts, we really didn't need a FP for this, we walked right in after the pre show and enjoyed the shorts in the wonderful cool theater. We had never done this before so another first for us!
We decided to try some F&W treats, we were closest to the Flavors from Fire booth so I ordered the Smoked corned beef with warm crispy potatoes, pickled onions, and Blonde ale beer fondue. I had read some reviews on this from the F&W preview here on the dining board. I thought this was tasty, however, sitting out for awhile does this item no favors! The cheese was clumped all together with the corned beef, it was a big ball so it was hard to eat and lost some points for this. Andi did not like it at all so she really only had one taste.
We went into the Light lab, this was a cool little area, however we didn't try anything so we went out and headed into Club Cool! We enjoy the Inca kola, Bibo, and Sparletta so thirsts quenched it was on to the Festival Center to pick up our AP pins for F&W.
It was fun looking around the center, I could not find an AP t-shirt for F&W anywhere. I don't know if I just missed it somewhere but I would have liked one with Figment on it with AP as well. We looked at the chocolate sculptures and had samples of the Ghiradelli chocolates. We found our pins, the pins had Remy with the Eiffel Tower. Here is where we became very bad F&W goers. The heat was getting to us and we just were not feeling walking around the booths and trying to eat in the scorching, surface of the sun heat so we didn't. F&W was a bust for us, we only tried the one item lol!
We did get some fun pictures and continued on to do our other FP, we had SE and TT.
I love SE, it is an all time fave attraction of mine in all of WDW. The smell of Rome burning can't be beat.
A little here but the scene with the African-American woman in the big IBM computer room has a whole new meaning to us now. We had recently watched Hidden Figures. This is a great movie, I highly recommend it. The movie is based on the NASA program in the early 1960's and three African-American women who were brilliant with numbers and worked for NASA and were actually called colored computers back then. These women were amazing and this scene in SE could be right out of the movie! Disney knew more than I did how these women were a big part of communication! So this fun area on SE has some legitimate history attached to it, at least to us it does anyways, back to enjoying one of my favorite rides. Mission: Space green was next, we wanted to try the newly redesigned scenes. I will not ride orange and never will after we did the Future World tour and learned more about the Gforce on this ride
No Thanks! We were the only two people in the green area, it was okay but I like the old version better. You circle over the world and it is a little boring in my opinion. Next up was our last FP for TT, it was actually running
so this was great, this ride is down a lot so you never now. We had a fun ride on TT and we were so ready to head out of the heat. We definitely hit a wall, we never even made it into WS, ugh! We took the monorail over to GF to check out the QS area here, we didn't end up getting any dinner here, I did get a famous cream cheese danish to enjoy with my coffee in the morning. The Poly didn't have them boo! We walked back to the Poly and we were super boring I got the all beef hot dog meal and Andi had the kids chicken nugget meal, what a far cry from the exotic treats at F&W, oh well, I really enjoyed my hot dog meal and Andi loves Disney nuggets so all was good.
I ate my Sprinkles cupcake for dessert, it was very good but not earth shattering. Andi snacked on Halloween candy for her dessert.
It started to storm around 9:00pm and it was so fierce, I have never heard thunder like that, I though for sure the power would go out, it didn't but guess who started screeching again after the storm, oh yes the frogs! I was glad we were tucked in our room when that storm came through!
We fell asleep to frogs, rain, and thunder! Day 6 was now in the books!
Stay tuned for Day 7, EMH at MK, a wonderful Dis meet, and AK in the afternoon!
I'm praying that it's cooler for us in a couple weeks…I really want to try some of those snacks!
Always next time though 
I had the Tonga Toast as well, at the Poly---soooo good. I had it at the Kona cafe, love that strawberry compote! Again, this is so fun to read, you two are so nice and it was great seeing you live and in person. You are so lucky to be making another fairly soon trip!!!!!
