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FIl - Poppi with Poppins
K attacking Wendy
K sharing our family secrets with Snow White
Day Three (Nov. 3):
We meet the rents at 10:15 in the lobby. I just love going in the off-season: alarm clocks? we dont need no stinkin alarm clocks! We get coffee and meander to Epcot and The Land, where we have enough time to go to Soarin before breakfast. What are all those cool posters that we run past? Who the heck cares? Three minutes later were on the ride. Wow! We all love the ride and were in a low enough row that many of us (I wont say who, but it wasnt me and it wasnt the littlest Minnie) picked our feet up a bit when we glided over the trees. There was a little girl sitting next to me who was crying before the ride and was asked to leave. I was relieved, she may be cute, but I was dreading listening to her cry through the whole ride. I think it was the only ride during the trip where that happened. I saw plenty of crying kids (fortunately no outwardly irritated parents but lots of stubborn ones even if youre only 3, you WILL like the ToT, I just know it!) forced on rides. A CM later told me that they are not allowed to start Soarin with a crying kid, because if she struggles to get out, the whole ride has to be shut down. And thats not true on other rides? Hmmmm.
After Soarin we went to breakfast at the Garden Grill. The characters came around a number of times and we got great photos with all of them (all of which got destroyed by the X-ray machine at the airport). K kept telling Mickey that he needed to get his dog under control. Mickey was probably thinking that about us and our child but hey, who here is paid to wear the giant plastic head? The food at the GG is all you can eat, brought out in platters. But its not what I expected. Its all brought out on a smaller platter than you would think, and if your party doesnt like beef strips, turkey and potatoes and fried vegetables, youre pretty much out of luck there. Oh, and fried catfish. I didnt love it, but boy, my FIL did (a few years ago he did the carb-free part of Atkins for a bit longer than he was supposed to this is a diet? Its like Thanksgiving every day! Pass the cream. I mean pass the cow. I mean pass the cheese. Heck, pass it all but I digress). Then we asked for sugar-free ice cream for him, and what was brought out was NOT sugar free even though our server swore it was. So my hypoglycemic FIL was a bit high after lunch.
On to Test Track (a big favorite of all, especially when it goes 65 MPH), The Circle of Life (in the middle of it, K loudly announces, when is this going to be OVER?), Living with the Land (what do they do with all those Mickey shaped pumpkins?), Spaceship Earth (where I chatted up the CM and found out that during the high season, guests can wait in line for more than an hour), Maelstrom, and then the rents and my husband went to the Living Seas to go SCUBA diving.
K and I shopped for a bit, then headed over to the Coral Reef to watch the rest of the family. There were a number of other families there watching family members dive, so we were a bit annoying to the other patrons, but K made it on the video of the dive more than once, as she was so excited to see everyone under water. My MIL did a handstand underwater and I got all sentimental about how great she is, too.
hubby diving
Amma saying hello from tank
Poppi saying hello from tank
After spending $4 on a glowing ice cube that never really worked after that night, K and I waited around for the rest of the party to finish their post Diving activities and meet up with us. Good thing she had blown her entire savings on a $20 balloon ball earlier in the day, as we played basketball, soccer, handball, wall-ball, catch, and dodgeball with that thing before we gave it up and went to balance on the garden fencing while pretending not to notice CMs frowning at us. The rest of our party shows up before we get an official Mickey reprimand and we are off to enjoy the rest of the evening.
We tried to snack at Epcots Food and Wine samplings, but even during really slow times at the parks, dinner time at Epcot is a bit of a crunch (meaning, its really hard to eat a meal made out of a snack every 20 minutes). So we decided to move on and met our boat at the BC harbor, for the Illuminations Cruise. Thank you, Jo, and Small World Vacations! Not easy to get, but we got one. Captain Scott was very knowledgeable about WDW and has me almost talked into going back for next years Halloween party. The cost for the boat is now $250 and the ride comes with snacks. Id say its only worth it if you have like 10 people paying $25 each to take the boat (and for those of you reading on the Dis boards, I now realize I should have invited some of my virtual friends just didnt realize that in time). As it was, the Illuminations show was pretty, but we couldnt really see the Earth so couldnt follow about half of the plot line and the snacks were chips in bags and soda and water. Im glad we did it, wouldnt do it again. Dinner was room service. I wouldnt recommend it. I also turned up the fridge too high before we left the room in the morning and the sodas froze and burst. I wouldnt recommend that, either.
Thanks to all you dis members who say hello after reading these.
