Day 3 Update:
Being on the monorail is so awesome. Did I mention that yet?
Today was Epcot for the morning. We left the hotel around 9:30, hopped the monorail and got to the line for Soarin' at about 10:00. Park had been open an hour so far. Standby for Soarin was 10 minutes, and the fast past return time was 30 minutes.
We grabbed some fast passes and got in the standby line. We walked right through the line, and pretty much walked right on. We got the "front" row which goes all the way to the top right near the center. It was awesome.
After Soarin we ate some breakfast at the pavilion there. Then used our fast passes for Soarin again. Afterwards we went to Test track. Waited about 10 minutes for that. We decide to walk around the World Showcase and decided to watch the World Showcase players. They were doing a live improv showing of Sir Lancelot. I got picked to be Sir Galahad, Sir Lancelot's trusty sidekick. Got to do some improv acting, got a special button and have lots of fun. Here's a You Tube video of me galloping a fake horse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7O2vNLERK0
I've got the big G on my chest. The other guy with the L on his chest was Lancelot and one of the World Showcase Players. Lots of fun!
We also rode Maelstrom while in Norway to waste some time. Then we headed to China for Dinner at 2:00. Dinner at China was good.
After China it was back to the room to rest up before Mickey's Halloween Party! I decided that no one had taken any pictures of the stuff included in the BLT kitchen, so I opened up all the cupboards and took pictures:
http://gallery.me.com/youreverydayadam/100134
We relaxed in the room until about 5:30, then headed over to the MK and got there around 6.
The party was pretty crowded tonight, I thought. However, we were able to walk on all the rides. I got TONS of pictures. Too many to go through right now, BUT there was an AWESOME highlight that I WILL post pictures of. For all your Space Mountain fans, the Tomorrowland Transit Authority reopened today. We rode it. And got photos of the inside of Space Mountain during the refurb. With the lights on! I just set my camera to rapid fire and had it take multiple pictures per second. So some of them are blurry, but you can see what space mountain looks like with the lights on! You can clearly see the track.
http://gallery.me.com/youreverydayadam/100141
I will post more pictures of the Halloween Party tomorrow, I have to go through them all. I took 800+ in all. I need to sort through them. They are all of the parades and some character shots.
One of the other highlights of the Halloween Party was that they had some characters on the lawn of the Haunted Mansion. They had microphones so they could talk, and they would chat with you and do improv comedy.
My overall impression of the halloween party is: It is definitely worth doing! I don't think I would do it more than once every 3 years. I like regular wishes better than hallowishes. I also like spectro MUCH more than I liked Boo to You. It was definitely nice for a change of pace, but the various shows didn't seem all that magical. It's definitely worth doing, but it didn't feel "Disney" to me.
It was cool seeing the haunted mansion kind of take over the magic kingdom, see the ghosts out and about on main street, and there was lots of characters to interact with.
Anyway it's past my bedtime and my feets hurt. I'm gonna go try out that jacuzzi tub and hit the sack.
So we grabbed fast passes and headed towards ToT and RnR. Walked right on to the elevator for ToT and waited only 10 mins for RnR. We rode both, several times.
Thanks for sharing.
Resort looks great! Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful rest of your vacation.
- it seems peaceful & secluded too. Great photos too, hope you'll be posting more. Thanks for taking the time to report and have a great trip 
