ahh so I'm watching the Holiday special on the travel channel about disney world so I got a little motivated to continue on with my report!! Side note though....does anyone else REALLY want Samantha Brown's job?! She's got the best job everrrr!
First... I want to say thank you to everyone for reading!!! I just quickly checked and there's a LOT of new faces over here! HIIIIII EVERYONEEEEEEEE! hehe... ok...so let me stop babbling.. oh...and there will be LOTTTS of pics for today, which means a lot of pieces of the report! My friends Sarah and Holly are crazy picture people too and they came along with us for the day.
I'm also realllly far behind on reading everyone elses reports! It's been crazy at work and that's usually when I catch up! I will soon! (i hope!)
So lets see... we already did 1 day at the MK, 1 day at Epcot, 1 day at MGM, and omg... we're already on our 2nd and final day at Epcot! Boooo!
Since I had a brain fart on the first adventure to Epcot and told my mom that we'd go back to take pics with the characters when the line is less than a half hour (FYI.... IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN! HAHA), that was the first thing we did since we wanted pics with MICKEY!!! Luckily, we got there right at 9am and walked right to the character spot and omg! 5 minute wait! WOOHOOO! Happy dance! First up? The Big Cheese! I was a dork and wanted one with him by myself...and then mom jumped in later for a group shot.
Next in line? Pluto!
and Ms. Mouse
our favorite chipmunks..
and then goofy tried to knock me over... haha
As we were finishing up, Sarah called to say she just came into the park so we met up and decided to get Mission Space and Test Track over with! There was no line for Mission Space so we headed over to Test Track to get fast passes. For some reason it was shut down but they were still handing out passes for when it was fixed/opened. We plopped mom down (well I think she might have went on a mission to find her Mickey ice cream...did I mention she was addicted?! I think we used all our snack credits on those things!) and headed over to Mission: Space.
And again....please remember that Sarah and I are space/NASA DORKS! Seriously. Oh! Today was the day that the space shuttle was supposed to launch but of course when I woke up I already had a text message from Sarah that it had been scrubbed until the next day. OK..back to Mission Space....
Oh...and Sarah has a slight obsession with Apollo 12....this is where it landed on the moon..haha
All strapped in and ready to go!
oh...and I know I've mentioned we're dorks before... lol
So after a little shopping for a cute space shirt (you'll see it on our last day at the MK! haha) we headed over to find mom and see if test track was open. Found mom and saw that the ride was back in business so we left mom again (no, I dont think she went to go get another ice cream..haha) and jumped on Test Track with nooo line! YAYYY!! This is another one of those rides where I don't think it's worth waiting on a long line for so this was perfect!
Since we were on that side of the park, we decided to start making our way through the countries and get some passports!!! First on today's world tour? Mexico!
and we tried on some merchandise..
Sarah with the mini one..
and mom joined in on the dorkiness..
we jumped on Rio del Tiempo and while it's better than the old version...this one was still a little dull...
After the ride we had our passports signed and then headed outside and I smelled churros!! I have been addicted to Disney's churros ever since I was kid. They're SOOOO GOOD and I honestly haven't found ones that I like as much. So I ran over to buy one and Sarah's friend Holly called her saying she had just gotten into the park as well and was heading over by us. We've both heard so much about each other so we finally get to meet! yayyy!
Holly appeared almost instantly after Sarah hung up the phone and as we walked past the margarita stand, it was instantly agreed that the drinking around the world must begin!!! I bought the rainbow, Sarah the original (I think), and Holly got the green apple...mmmm!!
We then headed into Norway so we can all smell the perfume Laila (I have a bottle from a previous trip...love it!), play with the viking stuff, pick up some of my favorite ginger snaps, and ride Maelstrom! Oh...and get our passports signed! (Holly picked one up in Norway)
what...you've never seen a girl with viking horns drink a margarita?!
possibly my favorite picture of the day...
I hate to ask...but do people actually buy any of the hats and stuff for sale at the countries?! After awhile we felt bad just putting them on for pictures! haha!
After all riding Maelstrom, we continued on our journey. Oh...no drinks in Norway...I think we were still working on the margaritas.
Next on the tour? China...
and we stopped to listen to some of the Chinese holiday traditions..
since we finished the margaritas we just had to try some plum wine! I thought it was a tad too sweet but it wasn't a big glass so it was tasty..
as we headed into the 360 movie, we saw Mulan hanging out by herself so we grabbed a few shots..
we walked around inside for a bit admiring the terracotta warriors, etc and then headed into to watch the movie. wandering around the store was fun too
After getting our passports signed and learning what animal we are according to the year we were born (I'm the year of the monkey), we wandered around a little more.
Ooops! I'm also out of picture room.... continuing on to the next part!