I'm back! Let's see, the next day was our first full one at Epcot. I've really grown to love this park over the years. When I was a kid I thought it was sooo boring but now its probably my second favorite, behind MK.
We slept in a bit that morning, I think til 9 or so because we were all so wiped from the busy days we'd been having. We ate breakfast and took the pretty walk to Epcot. First we wandered around the UK. I wanted to show DBF the stores and the hedge maze...all the little things that make Disney so special but you miss if you'd only been with your high school band trip, like he had. Did I mention what dorks we are?
While we were wandering, my brother made a run for Soarin' to get FPs. We met him over at TT, which was at a 90 minute wait so we said heck no and decided to check out Mission Space. That had only about a 20 min wait, but it kept breaking down (scary, i know) so it made it about a 30 min wait. I was the only girl brave enough to do the intense side. The other girls and my parents did the "chicken" side as I call it hee hee. After that we did Ellen's Energy Adventure, which always cracks me up. DBF loves Bill Nye, so he throughly enjoyed this one.
After that we decided to do the whole look of WS. It was nice because the weather was gorgeous, it had finally made it to the 70s and we took our time enjoying the weather and the countries. Mexico is my favorite, so we took our time in there and of course did El Rio del Tiempo again. Even mom rode this time, and she HATEs that one haha. Here are some pics from the pavilion:
We road Maelstrom and poked around that pavilion for awhile too because we are Norwegian so its nice to see the "homeland" as dad calls it. Then we spent awhile in Germany and Italy. There was a street performer in Italy doing all kinds of funny mime type tricks who entertained us for awhile. We took lots of pictures around the lagoon, too. Notice DBF's crabby but loveable shirt in all of them!
Dopey was hanging out by Germany. We just missed Snow White.
We stopped for lunch at the American Pavilion. Everyone got the cheesburger I think, and the strawberry shortcake for dessert which was very yummy.This is the giant gingerbread house inside there that I love:
I made everyone sit through the movie in France (I won't even attempt to spell the name of that one!) even though I'm the only one who likes it. I think its a nice rest for the feet at least. I love the music and it is a very pretty video, even if it's a little old. DBF and I wanted to do the Canada one too but I got overruled. Oh well, we did get to see the pretty but fake Niagra falls. Very nice, but not as impressive since we went to the real one last summer!
We headed back to finish up future world. We did the entire Imagination Pavilion. I love Figment so we had to do the ride! And HISTA is still funny no matter how old that gets. After playing in the Image Works for a few minutes,we headed over to the Land pavilion. There was still time before our FPs for Soarin', so we rode Living with the Land which had zero wait. Everyone really liked it a lot, which surprised me. The guys usually love the thrill rides, but they all thought this was very cool. However, they sat all 8 of us in the front two rows, then didn't load the rest of the boat! Let's just say the boat was very front heavy and we spent the whole trip tipped forward. We all got a good laugh out of that one!!
I wish I had a picture of the Mickey pumpkins that were growing, but they are on DBFs camera.
After that, our FPs were finally up and it was time to show DBF what all the raving was about. We got front row, and he loved it! He thought it was so cool and especially loved flying over the orange groves. Ahh I wish I was back there right now...
We "land", and realize that our 6pm ADR for Biergarten in Germany is in exactly 3 minutes and we are at the opposite end of the park. So our veteran runner, my brother, takes off to go check us in and we all hustle behind him, praying that we don't miss our seating. We get there and the line is huge, so no one was checking in on time, but we only had to wait for about 10 minutes for a table. I must say, I love the food here and I never thought I would. I hadn't been since I was young enough to eat off the kid's menu, and it did not disappointing. The pretzel bread was amazing and so was the potato and leek soup. Dessert was so good too, I loved the cheesecake. Here is DBF and I with the beer he had been longing for all trip haha:
After we were sufficiently stuffed, we checked the line for TT again but it was still so long and FPs were out. We decided to try Club Cool, which was also closed again (grrr, we never did make it there this trip) but we did stumble upon the 25th Anniversary display about Epcot, and that was very cool to see. We poked around there for a few, and went outside to watch the fountain for awhile. My dad loves that thing so we relaxed there for awhile.
Before we knew it, it was closing time. We walked back out toward International Gateway, and our timing was perfect because a boat happened to be there, just about to leave for BW. We hopped on and our feet enjoyed a quick rest. It was only 930 so we decided to check out the Boardwalk for awhile. Dad, DBF, and I went to the bar at Big River Grill and Brewing Works. The boys didn't care much for their beer, but I got the best Margarita. After a few drinks, dad headed back to hang out with mom by the hot tub and DBF and I wandered the BW some more. We played a couple of midway games with no luck, but it was very fun. The CMs were very funny and you felt like you were at an old fashioned carnival. We split a piece of pizza from the window and sat by the water and talked and just enjoyed some alone time. It was very romantic. One side note: I don't recommend wearing flip-flops on the Boardwalk after it has rained or they have hosed it down! I almost fell three times because it was so slippery! DBF and I were cracking up, he kept saying the drinks went to my head, but those boards were just so slippery!
After me embarrassing myself, we decided to head to the hot tub because it was still so warm. I love hot tubs, so we relaxed there for awhile and then decided to call it a night. I fell asleep very happy after our amazing day!
Coming up next...Day 5 at Animal Kingdom!
Well at least you didn't say you are a Yankees fan! I hope you'll keep reading despite our baseball rivalry 
You are making me so hungry reading about your meals - we ate a Prime Time last year and had cousin Mark - he was all over my hubby about eating his veggies (which hubby hates) - i was litteraly eating them off of his plate everytime cousin Mark would have his back to us!! Yummm on the smores dessert!!! 
(my kids wanted all these on here - lol) can't wait for more!!
I am likin' your TR!
