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<font color=deeppink>I need a cup of tea and a big
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me 33 compulsive planner
dh 41 lets me get on with compulsive planning and just turns up
dd 7 princess mad
ds 4 just mad
Thursday 29th September
After a VERY slow start we arrive at Epcot at 11.30am! My heart sinks when we walk past the ticket entrance and there is a huge school party going in.
We head straight for the land to try soarin (I say straight there but we actually get very lost) the standby wait is 40 minutes so we get a fastpass and go on the living with the land ride 1st, this has a 15 minute wait and sure enough that whole school group seem to be in front of us.
We get of the ride and our fastpass time has not yet arrived and we are hungry (no breakfast today) so we stop at sunshine seasons for lunch we only have sandwiches but they are very tasty and defiantly fill the gap. The kids have a dessert called worms in dirt and proceed to make a huge mess eating it, how chocolate can get that far is beyond me.
Its now time for our go on soarin, even the fastpass has a line and im pleased to see the standby time has increased to 50 minutes! I have to say it felt great walking past that huge line and I vow not to attempt soarin without a fastpass, we are seated in the 2nd row for boarding. Well this ride is amazing it’s easily the best ride I went on. We did it again later on in the day and got lucky and were seated on the front row and that’s an even better experience.
We had 2 goes on test track, yet another ride we had missed last year and we really enjoyed this one. We then headed towards the front of the park for Spaceship Earth, the line was huge when we came into the park but I figured most people would have moved on to World Showcase by now. I was obviously right as we walked on to this one! From Spaceship Earth we headed to Ellen’s universe of energy (I thought this was quite good and I like Ellen anyway, it was also nice to sit in the cool theatre for a while)
We take a very slow walk over to the world showcase and head anti-clockwise to Canada. I take a look at the menu at Le Cellier as we have an ADR here next week. Off Kilter was playing soon so we took the chance for another rest and sat and watched them they were very good although ds was more impressed with a lizard running along the wall
We walked straight through the UK and stopped in France to watch a very good street entertainer standing on chairs.
Its now after 6pm so we head to the rose and crown, dh buys a drink at the bar and I sweet talk the staff at the podium by explaining that I am checking iN at 6.40pm for our 7pm ADR in order to get a seat on the patio. The cm tells me that she can’t guarantee it but they will do their best and I say I don’t mind waiting
We are then seated at 7.15pm ON THE PATIO.
We order our appetizers, DH has the garlic mushrooms and I have the prawn cocktail. Dh has the steak for his entrée and I have the fish and chips (it was okay but not sensational) we have just ordered desserts (can’t remember what we had) when the heavens open! I really thought we would have to move inside-rain was dropping into DH’s beer at one point
Although the rain was really heavy it stopped after a short while and we got our desserts shortly before illuminations started.
I have never seen illuminations before and to see it while eating desserts on the patio of the rose and crown was a highlight of the trip.
Typhoon Lagoon and the Grand Floridian tomorrow
me 33 compulsive planner
dh 41 lets me get on with compulsive planning and just turns up
dd 7 princess mad
ds 4 just mad
Thursday 29th September
After a VERY slow start we arrive at Epcot at 11.30am! My heart sinks when we walk past the ticket entrance and there is a huge school party going in.
We head straight for the land to try soarin (I say straight there but we actually get very lost) the standby wait is 40 minutes so we get a fastpass and go on the living with the land ride 1st, this has a 15 minute wait and sure enough that whole school group seem to be in front of us.
We get of the ride and our fastpass time has not yet arrived and we are hungry (no breakfast today) so we stop at sunshine seasons for lunch we only have sandwiches but they are very tasty and defiantly fill the gap. The kids have a dessert called worms in dirt and proceed to make a huge mess eating it, how chocolate can get that far is beyond me.
Its now time for our go on soarin, even the fastpass has a line and im pleased to see the standby time has increased to 50 minutes! I have to say it felt great walking past that huge line and I vow not to attempt soarin without a fastpass, we are seated in the 2nd row for boarding. Well this ride is amazing it’s easily the best ride I went on. We did it again later on in the day and got lucky and were seated on the front row and that’s an even better experience.
We had 2 goes on test track, yet another ride we had missed last year and we really enjoyed this one. We then headed towards the front of the park for Spaceship Earth, the line was huge when we came into the park but I figured most people would have moved on to World Showcase by now. I was obviously right as we walked on to this one! From Spaceship Earth we headed to Ellen’s universe of energy (I thought this was quite good and I like Ellen anyway, it was also nice to sit in the cool theatre for a while)
We take a very slow walk over to the world showcase and head anti-clockwise to Canada. I take a look at the menu at Le Cellier as we have an ADR here next week. Off Kilter was playing soon so we took the chance for another rest and sat and watched them they were very good although ds was more impressed with a lizard running along the wall
We walked straight through the UK and stopped in France to watch a very good street entertainer standing on chairs.
Its now after 6pm so we head to the rose and crown, dh buys a drink at the bar and I sweet talk the staff at the podium by explaining that I am checking iN at 6.40pm for our 7pm ADR in order to get a seat on the patio. The cm tells me that she can’t guarantee it but they will do their best and I say I don’t mind waiting
We are then seated at 7.15pm ON THE PATIO.
We order our appetizers, DH has the garlic mushrooms and I have the prawn cocktail. Dh has the steak for his entrée and I have the fish and chips (it was okay but not sensational) we have just ordered desserts (can’t remember what we had) when the heavens open! I really thought we would have to move inside-rain was dropping into DH’s beer at one point
Although the rain was really heavy it stopped after a short while and we got our desserts shortly before illuminations started.
I have never seen illuminations before and to see it while eating desserts on the patio of the rose and crown was a highlight of the trip.
Typhoon Lagoon and the Grand Floridian tomorrow
. enjoying the report,
It must've been lovely to see IllumiNations from the Rose and Crown. 
