Thursday - Continued
The girls were finally ready and wanted to have lunch at the Dolphin. We disembarked from the bus at the Swan and waited for them by the bridge to the Boardwalk. There's a small retaining wall by the canal and Alex was tuckered out so he was kind of lying down upon it. Then he asked me for the camera because he thought the bottom side of palm trees were really cool and kinda weird looking. I thought maybe he'd popped some cold medicine when I wasn't looking but no--he was sober.
Just weird.
So--you decide. Are palm trees strange when you look at them from directly below?
Two palm trees--two different kinds of strange which justifies two pictures.
The girls decided they would like to go to the Fountain. Alex had a yummy chocolate raspberry torte shake and a BLT. Jen had a BLT, I had a hot dog with sauerkraut and Cait had chili cheese fries. Both the girls had a dessert, as well.
We had some great conversations--Caitlin asked out of the blue, "Mom, why don't you and Alex ever fight?"
Then later, she informed me that when she went to college, she'd be getting an apartment and she was going to take Sunny.
I calmly said, "No, you can't have her. I love her."
She told me that Sunny was her dog and I said, "Yes, she is and you can visit her whenever you want but I have an empty nest and you cannot take Sunny." She also told me that Sunny was way better behaved than any of her dad's dogs which cracks me up because her dad is a K9 cop.
Sunny is safe--she's too young to go to college. Plus she won't have an apartment anyway; I have no idea what that kid thinks college will be like.
It was around 2:00 by the time we finished and I just knew that our reservation for the Biergarten at 5:00 wasn't going to happen. The girls said they'd go but I knew that no one would be hungry in 3 hours and I didn't want to pay a fortune for a meal that no one really ate. Alex promised me a German beer.
The girls then left for AK and Alex and I headed off to Epcot. We had not managed to do Soarin yet so we went to get a fast pass. We picked one up for 7:25 pm. The sign said a 60 minute wait and Alex decided he wanted to wait.
I thought he was crazy, but what the heck--it wasn't like I had some big plan. By the time we were done, he remembered why we dont like to wait in a 60 minute line.
I've never actually waited in that stand by line so I was surprised and tickled by the interactive games. That was fun.
We were both exhausted by the time we got out but we didn't want to leave yet.
I was so glad to see the sun again!
We took a little ride under the sea with Nemo. No line for that!
I just love these little things. They really say "Epcot" to me.
We picked up a few charms for the little girls at Mouse Gears and then went on the Three Caballeros ride in Mexico. Much better than the old ride.
We stopped in Norway and Alex got a book celebrating his Viking heritage. There was a Norway CM girl wearing a huge winter coat. It seemed a bit wimpy for someone from the frozen north. Even Id taken off my cardigan by that point.
Peaceful China:
Germany--hmm...beer. I wanted to wait a bit though.
We then did something wed never caught beforeThe American Adventure. I liked itit was dark and we could sit down for 40 minutes. The girls were calling while we were in the moviethey were on their way back from AK.
I was starving by the time we got out. We got me a beer in Germany although the CM thought my choice of a pils was kind of wimpy. He made me try the other beerI downed the sample and told him Id lived in Germany for a year and I still preferred the pils. He shook his head sadly and told me that there is no accounting for taste!
I do like the other kind but it gives me a headache.
We then walked back to Mexico for some tacos al carbon for me. A woman kind of cut in front of me and then I spent the whole wait in line trying to get the rest of her family to stop cutting in front of me. Honestly, if the other 5 members of your party are back behind me, perhaps you should join them. These were all adults, btw, even though she jumped in front of me, I'd have let kids go in front of me!
The tacos were yummy and so was the guacamole. We heard a little boy who was a duck alarm. He made the most dreadful screech every time a duck came near him. I was more afraid of that bird with the long pointy beak. I told Alex he could poke your eye out but Alex was of the opinion that being bitten by a duck would be worse. We have the most intellectual conversations, don't we?
No wonder we never fight--we're too goofy.
That was itwe were done! We headed back to the Boardwalk and met the girls outside Epcot to pass off the Soarin fast passes. We cracked up my sister by calling to sing Happy Birthday to her over the phone. All of us--standing outside the International Gateway and standing in a circle around my cell phone, singing. Loudly. Yeah, people stopped to look.
I hadn't bought a lot of souvenirs on this trip but I had had my eye on a Boardwalk sweatshirt and after thinking about it for a whole week, I finally stopped at Dundy's Sundries and bought it. Oh, yeah, turns out Caitlin bought the same sweatshirt! We had a mother/daughter outfit without me even trying!
She was thrilled.
I had tried to buy the sweatshirt with our $200 gift card and had a panic attack when I couldn't find it in my purse. I checked everywhere. My whole purse, all my pants pockets, I checked with Caitlin and by then I was freaking out. Several hours later, I hopped out of bed because I'd finally thought to check the safe and found it. Whew!
I was cracking up reading about how you skipped Primevil Whirl cause of the spinning and then I read that you were headed to Dinosaur and I said to myself "oh yeah that's much better" before I saw what you wrote!
I'm so glad you're here and that you've enjoyed it! And you've certainly proven that you have stamina if you read all that in one sitting. 
