TotallyAngelic
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Most of the photos with me in are the photopass ones which I will post at a later date once we have sorted out the CD.
Our WDW adventures & Magical Happy Halloween Cruise: Day 14 completed - 01/2010 pg 19
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Most of the photos with me in are the photopass ones which I will post at a later date once we have sorted out the CD.
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Goody!!! Thanks for that!
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Sarah what a great day at Animal Kingdom. It isn't my DH's favorite park, but I happen to love all the theming there, which I think the Imagineers did a wonderful job with. Wonder what is up with Primeval Whirl.
Awesome giraffe picture & I love the silly hat photo as well.
6 servings of beans???????????
I would never ever ever let my DH do that.
Ready to Soar with ya............
Awesome giraffe picture & I love the silly hat photo as well.
6 servings of beans???????????
I would never ever ever let my DH do that.Ready to Soar with ya............
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Here are the two pictures I promised...
This is when I spotted you in the crowd on deck 3...
This is the pic I took when I saw your two daughters...
Sorry they didn't come out better..... I wish I had a better spot on the railing!!!
I am glad you had a good time at AK... in all the times I have been to WDW, I have never made it into that park! Terrible of me, I know! But we are hoping to plan two weeks late June, early July 09 and I will make it then!
This is when I spotted you in the crowd on deck 3...
This is the pic I took when I saw your two daughters...
Sorry they didn't come out better..... I wish I had a better spot on the railing!!!
I am glad you had a good time at AK... in all the times I have been to WDW, I have never made it into that park! Terrible of me, I know! But we are hoping to plan two weeks late June, early July 09 and I will make it then!
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great trip report so far, loving it
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Day 3 - Epcot!
I woke up at 7am and immediately rattled the sleeping kids' cages - after all, we were in Orlando, time was valuable, and this was not the time to be wasting it by sleeping in. After a great deal of poking, prodding and ultimately violent threatening we managed to be out of the apartment by 8am and on our way to Epcot. On the way we stopped at our local Dunkin Donuts for breakfast, where we grabbed a selection of donuts, muffins, coffees and soft drinks for a very reasonable $20. I can highly recommend the maple frosted donut - delicious! By 08:45 we were parking up in the Amaze parking lot at Epcot, and we walked straight in to the park. Once again it was fairly quiet in comparison to our previous trips. We went first to Test Track, and walked on with no wait – I love it when that happens! We really enjoyed it, and we were able to scan our photopass card for the ride photograph – the only ride we were able to do this on, which was a shame, as it's a really good idea. I forgot to mention that we had pre-purchased a photopass CD for this holiday, which we were sharing with our friends the Balster family, and so we spent a lot of time harrassing the poor photopass photographers around the various parks – we were also on a mission to get at least one photograph where Stephen – eldest DS - was actually smiling, and if any of my readers can spot one, well done!
After Test Track we headed for Mission Space, which is always a favourite, and being seasoned space travellers we headed straight for the intense training! This was great fun as always, and not really that extreme for us die-hards! We then spent some time in the space lab area attempting to send emails – and I must remember that next time I actually need take a list of email addresses along with me ....the whole process takes a lot longer when you spend 15 minutes or so trying to remember everyone's email addresses, and it generally isn't appreciated by the other 5 million or so people waiting to use the terminals.
Time for a quick photo of the family enjoying Epcot:
It was now time to head over to the Land Pavilion for our very first ever ride on Soarin – but don't get excited just yet – there was a 40 minute wait and we all know what that means – FASTPASS!
So fastpasses duly acquired we decided to have a look at Living with the Land, which was interesting, informative and pleasantly relaxing. After all the extreme excitement and white knuckle thrills of Living with the Land, the kids decided they needed some more action and headed back to Test Track, while Tony and I decided to have a look at The Seas – with Nemo! This was very cute and while obviously aimed at the younger guests, it was very clever and I loved the bit where the animated fish were projected into the aquariums with the real fish. I would love to see something like “Crush's Coaster” from Disneyland Paris in this area, as having a more extreme ride in keeping with the Nemo theme would really be the icing on the cake! We then wandered around the aquariums and said hello to the dolphins, and this was a really relaxing way to spend half an hour. Looking back I didn't appear to take many photographs today, but I was obsessed with getting a decent shot of spaceship earth and the monorail, and these are 3 of my attempts, although I must apologise for the angle on the third shot – my attempt to be “arty”:
Before long it was time to meet up with the kids at our designated meeting place “Club Cool” - previously known as “ Ice Station Cool”, and as the kids were nowhere to be seen, we decided to taste some of the weird and wonderful offerings, and the only one which was remotely pleasant was the watermelon based drink, which I think was from China. The rest of them were horrible! The kids then turned up and wanted to try the drinks,
while I wandered outside and for the first time ever noticed the fountain was doing a display to music. This was really impressive, and I can't believe I have never seen this before, in all of my trips to Epcot. Sometimes I must walk around with my eyes shut! It was now time for our fastpasses for Soarin, so we went back to the Land and got in line. We waited about 20 minutes, even with fastpasses, and the waiting area was particularly uninspiring, but once we got on the ride it was so worth the wait. It was amazing, and so relaxing and peaceful – I could have stayed on there all day. I thought this ride would have been even better if they had splashed water at you when you drop down into the sea where the people are surfing and again on the river. I felt as though my feet were going to get wet, and it would have enhanced the whole experience if they actually did.
By now a certain member of our party started to mention lunch, and there are no prizes for guessing who, so we decided to have a wander into the World Showcase and see if our tastebuds would be tempted by anything on offer in the Food and Wine Festival. We wandering slowly around, passing through Canada, and the UK, before stopping in France to watch the street entertainment. This was really amazing, escpecially as there were probably 3 more chairs which you can't see on the photo:
In Japan we managed to see the sweet-maker in action, and once again this was really impressive. I have always wanted to wander slowly around World Showcase, taking in all the entertainment along the way, but for some reason the kids and Tony always seem to want to hurry, especially when on a mission to find food. As we weren't tempted by any of the Food and Wine stalls, it was no surprise that we ended up eating at the Liberty Inn in USA, as always! It was fairly quiet in this area, and it was quite relaxing sitting outside enjoying our meal, watching the world (literally) go by! After lunch I persuaded everyone to watch American Adventure, which is something we had never seen before – it was very cleverly presented, and although obviously a sugar-coated version of American
history, it was interesting and I suppose qualified as an educational experience, which helped to relieve the guilt I was feeling for taking the kids out of school for a few days.
We wandered, or rather whizzed around the rest of the World Showcase and back into FutureWorld, where we wandered around Innoventions and went to Spaceship Earth. I enjoyed the new ending, as I love anything interactive, but nearly came to blows with DH as we were fighting over who was controlling the buttons to determine our future. We then sent some emails home again, although these never actually made it across cyberspace, probably due to incorrect email addresses being entered. It was now getting on for 5pm and everyone was feeling a bit the worse for tiredness, so we decided to head on home, stopping for a photopass photograph or two on the way out.
We were hoping to visit Walmart on the way home, but I had no idea where the nearest one was in this locality, so we popped back to Cypress Pointe and asked at the reception. Needless to say it was back in the direction we had come from, but easy to find and about 15 minutes drive away. We spent about 2 hours in Walmart, most of which was spent trying to find each other, as the shop was so enormous and so disorganised. We bought lots of stuff, including some very additive-laded halloween cookies with bright, almost illuminous orange cream in them, and I managed to find a pair of coffee coloured sandals which matched my cruise semi-formal dress perfectly, and at less than $10 – result! There were also some black sandals which would have been adequate for my formal dress, but I decided to wait until we had been to the Premium Outlets, as I was holding out for something a little more dressy.
After sending out several search parties and one St Bernard rescue dog, complete with brandy, we eventually reunited our party and headed home, stopping off briefly at the Disney outlet at Buena Vista Factory Outlets on the search for discounted pins, but our mission was unsuccessful – not a pin in sight! We finally arrived home at about 8pm, but were far too tired to go out for dinner. We were definitely lacking on the stamina front. The kids and DH decided to go for a swim on the pool and then bought pizza from the resort shop, while I headed straight for my bed and fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.
Tomorrow – we are off to Hollywood!
I woke up at 7am and immediately rattled the sleeping kids' cages - after all, we were in Orlando, time was valuable, and this was not the time to be wasting it by sleeping in. After a great deal of poking, prodding and ultimately violent threatening we managed to be out of the apartment by 8am and on our way to Epcot. On the way we stopped at our local Dunkin Donuts for breakfast, where we grabbed a selection of donuts, muffins, coffees and soft drinks for a very reasonable $20. I can highly recommend the maple frosted donut - delicious! By 08:45 we were parking up in the Amaze parking lot at Epcot, and we walked straight in to the park. Once again it was fairly quiet in comparison to our previous trips. We went first to Test Track, and walked on with no wait – I love it when that happens! We really enjoyed it, and we were able to scan our photopass card for the ride photograph – the only ride we were able to do this on, which was a shame, as it's a really good idea. I forgot to mention that we had pre-purchased a photopass CD for this holiday, which we were sharing with our friends the Balster family, and so we spent a lot of time harrassing the poor photopass photographers around the various parks – we were also on a mission to get at least one photograph where Stephen – eldest DS - was actually smiling, and if any of my readers can spot one, well done!
After Test Track we headed for Mission Space, which is always a favourite, and being seasoned space travellers we headed straight for the intense training! This was great fun as always, and not really that extreme for us die-hards! We then spent some time in the space lab area attempting to send emails – and I must remember that next time I actually need take a list of email addresses along with me ....the whole process takes a lot longer when you spend 15 minutes or so trying to remember everyone's email addresses, and it generally isn't appreciated by the other 5 million or so people waiting to use the terminals.
Time for a quick photo of the family enjoying Epcot:
It was now time to head over to the Land Pavilion for our very first ever ride on Soarin – but don't get excited just yet – there was a 40 minute wait and we all know what that means – FASTPASS!
So fastpasses duly acquired we decided to have a look at Living with the Land, which was interesting, informative and pleasantly relaxing. After all the extreme excitement and white knuckle thrills of Living with the Land, the kids decided they needed some more action and headed back to Test Track, while Tony and I decided to have a look at The Seas – with Nemo! This was very cute and while obviously aimed at the younger guests, it was very clever and I loved the bit where the animated fish were projected into the aquariums with the real fish. I would love to see something like “Crush's Coaster” from Disneyland Paris in this area, as having a more extreme ride in keeping with the Nemo theme would really be the icing on the cake! We then wandered around the aquariums and said hello to the dolphins, and this was a really relaxing way to spend half an hour. Looking back I didn't appear to take many photographs today, but I was obsessed with getting a decent shot of spaceship earth and the monorail, and these are 3 of my attempts, although I must apologise for the angle on the third shot – my attempt to be “arty”:
Before long it was time to meet up with the kids at our designated meeting place “Club Cool” - previously known as “ Ice Station Cool”, and as the kids were nowhere to be seen, we decided to taste some of the weird and wonderful offerings, and the only one which was remotely pleasant was the watermelon based drink, which I think was from China. The rest of them were horrible! The kids then turned up and wanted to try the drinks,
while I wandered outside and for the first time ever noticed the fountain was doing a display to music. This was really impressive, and I can't believe I have never seen this before, in all of my trips to Epcot. Sometimes I must walk around with my eyes shut! It was now time for our fastpasses for Soarin, so we went back to the Land and got in line. We waited about 20 minutes, even with fastpasses, and the waiting area was particularly uninspiring, but once we got on the ride it was so worth the wait. It was amazing, and so relaxing and peaceful – I could have stayed on there all day. I thought this ride would have been even better if they had splashed water at you when you drop down into the sea where the people are surfing and again on the river. I felt as though my feet were going to get wet, and it would have enhanced the whole experience if they actually did.
By now a certain member of our party started to mention lunch, and there are no prizes for guessing who, so we decided to have a wander into the World Showcase and see if our tastebuds would be tempted by anything on offer in the Food and Wine Festival. We wandering slowly around, passing through Canada, and the UK, before stopping in France to watch the street entertainment. This was really amazing, escpecially as there were probably 3 more chairs which you can't see on the photo:
In Japan we managed to see the sweet-maker in action, and once again this was really impressive. I have always wanted to wander slowly around World Showcase, taking in all the entertainment along the way, but for some reason the kids and Tony always seem to want to hurry, especially when on a mission to find food. As we weren't tempted by any of the Food and Wine stalls, it was no surprise that we ended up eating at the Liberty Inn in USA, as always! It was fairly quiet in this area, and it was quite relaxing sitting outside enjoying our meal, watching the world (literally) go by! After lunch I persuaded everyone to watch American Adventure, which is something we had never seen before – it was very cleverly presented, and although obviously a sugar-coated version of American
history, it was interesting and I suppose qualified as an educational experience, which helped to relieve the guilt I was feeling for taking the kids out of school for a few days.
We wandered, or rather whizzed around the rest of the World Showcase and back into FutureWorld, where we wandered around Innoventions and went to Spaceship Earth. I enjoyed the new ending, as I love anything interactive, but nearly came to blows with DH as we were fighting over who was controlling the buttons to determine our future. We then sent some emails home again, although these never actually made it across cyberspace, probably due to incorrect email addresses being entered. It was now getting on for 5pm and everyone was feeling a bit the worse for tiredness, so we decided to head on home, stopping for a photopass photograph or two on the way out.
We were hoping to visit Walmart on the way home, but I had no idea where the nearest one was in this locality, so we popped back to Cypress Pointe and asked at the reception. Needless to say it was back in the direction we had come from, but easy to find and about 15 minutes drive away. We spent about 2 hours in Walmart, most of which was spent trying to find each other, as the shop was so enormous and so disorganised. We bought lots of stuff, including some very additive-laded halloween cookies with bright, almost illuminous orange cream in them, and I managed to find a pair of coffee coloured sandals which matched my cruise semi-formal dress perfectly, and at less than $10 – result! There were also some black sandals which would have been adequate for my formal dress, but I decided to wait until we had been to the Premium Outlets, as I was holding out for something a little more dressy.
After sending out several search parties and one St Bernard rescue dog, complete with brandy, we eventually reunited our party and headed home, stopping off briefly at the Disney outlet at Buena Vista Factory Outlets on the search for discounted pins, but our mission was unsuccessful – not a pin in sight! We finally arrived home at about 8pm, but were far too tired to go out for dinner. We were definitely lacking on the stamina front. The kids and DH decided to go for a swim on the pool and then bought pizza from the resort shop, while I headed straight for my bed and fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.
Tomorrow – we are off to Hollywood!
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A great day at Epcot Sarah - love that arty shot of SE and the monorail, very impressive 
Your DS sounds like mine - the only shots from our last trip in which he smiled were mainly when he was pulling silly faces
He would be posing in front of some landmark or other, then as soon as the camera came out, he would immediately walk away or pull a stupid face - he is 5 though so I forgave him 
Your DS sounds like mine - the only shots from our last trip in which he smiled were mainly when he was pulling silly faces
He would be posing in front of some landmark or other, then as soon as the camera came out, he would immediately walk away or pull a stupid face - he is 5 though so I forgave him
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A great day at Epcot Sarah - love that arty shot of SE and the monorail, very impressive
Your DS sounds like mine - the only shots from our last trip in which he smiled were mainly when he was pulling silly faces
I can't even blame it on a tender age - my step-son is 19 and seems to be at a very funny age where it isn't cool to get enthusiastic or excited about anything - he comes across as very miserable on most of our photos, in a direct contrast to the other 3, who love to pose and are nearly always smiling. When asked why he doesn't smile - he just replied "I don't like smiling" which is quite sad really. His attitude made me quite disappointed at times, as this was probably his last holiday with us and I really wanted him to have a good time, and on most of the photos he looks thoroughly miserable.
He did say that he enjoyed the holiday and had a good time though - which I suppose is something. I imagine at 19 he is ready to move away from family holidays.
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I loved Soarin... we managed to do it twice (the second time I took video - shhhh... don't tell)....
Glad you had a good time in Epcot.... It is my favorite park!
Glad you had a good time in Epcot.... It is my favorite park!
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Jenn - did you spot the Hidden Mickey on Soarin? A lady sat next to me on Soarin the second time we visited Epcot ( Day 6 - to follow later) and told me to look out for it!
My favourite park is Magic Kingdom, without a doubt. I just
it there!
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No! Where is it? I will have to see if it made it into my video... I didnt move the camera around, just held it on my lap.... came out ok....
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Another great chapter Sarah!
BTW Stephen has a half-smile on the photo where he and Daniel are soaking wet after Kali! Aren't you glad to have reached an age where you can be as silly as you like and not give a hoot about looking "kewl"!!
I'm sure he had a wonderful holiday secretly!!
I thoroughly enjoyed reading all about your day at Epcot - it brought back a lot of happy memories. Glad you had such a great day. BTW "Living with the Land" is about as exciting as our rides ever get!
Looking forward to DHS!
BTW Stephen has a half-smile on the photo where he and Daniel are soaking wet after Kali! Aren't you glad to have reached an age where you can be as silly as you like and not give a hoot about looking "kewl"!!
I'm sure he had a wonderful holiday secretly!!I thoroughly enjoyed reading all about your day at Epcot - it brought back a lot of happy memories. Glad you had such a great day. BTW "Living with the Land" is about as exciting as our rides ever get!
Looking forward to DHS!
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This is the pic I took when I saw your two daughters...
Thanks Jenn
I love this photo - it's really interesting to see if from a totally different perspective. The girls really enjoyed having photos with lots of characters on the last night - you would think they were 7 and not 17!
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Great day at EPCOT. I find it funny that with all those food choices in World Showcase you guys ended up at the American place. 
Why do 19 year olds not want to look happy????????? A smiling face is always more attractive than a blank/sad one.
I'm with diberry on this one. I am glad I am way too old to care what I look like period to other people let alone whether I look cool.
I think I have been to that Walmart you refer to once.......it is HUGE:scared1
:Good job finding shoes.
Ready for more.
Why do 19 year olds not want to look happy????????? A smiling face is always more attractive than a blank/sad one.
I'm with diberry on this one. I am glad I am way too old to care what I look like period to other people let alone whether I look cool.
I think I have been to that Walmart you refer to once.......it is HUGE:scared1
:Good job finding shoes.
Ready for more.
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I'm with diberry on this one. I am glad I am way too old to care what I look like period to other people let alone whether I look cool.
and I completely agree with you both!
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