CherieFran
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Day 2 – Saturday, November 5 – Wine & Dine 10K, Continued
Not long after the 5K point, we finally made our way into Epcot! We passed a bit of backstage area before entering World Showcase between Norway and China. All the buildings around World Showcase were lit up and lovely. I stopped to take a picture, but my phone couldn’t quite do it justice.
I appreciated that there were cast members from each country standing in front of their country and cheering as we ran by. Reaching Germany, there was another character stop – Pinocchio and Geppetto.
I always feel sort of awkward in the character photos. I never know what to do with my hands, so I automatically default to this hands-on-my-hips pose. It seems like a lot of characters see it and then pose the same way, which is kind of funny. It’s not a great pose, though, because then my elbows are kind of in the way of the characters trying to get close. This time, I accidently elbowed Pinocchio! The character attendant took a series of shots on my phone that turned out pretty hilarious, because the expression on Pinocchio’s face makes him look a bit annoyed with me. Sorry, Pinocchio!
The Mile 4 marker was just before Japan.
There were a fair number of PhotoPass photographers in Epcot taking action shots. I appreciated that they were generally either in or near these small, lime green tents, so you could spot them in the dark. In addition to being awkward at character stops, I also couldn’t figure out what to do with my hands when I saw a photographer on course. I ended up raising them up, but when I looked at the photos later in the day, I decided I looked goofy and vowed not to do that again for the half the next day.
Vacation Genie was hanging out outside Morocco and did the silly elbow pose with me. Hey, Genie, I had that same hat from my only trip to Disney as a child!
The course then ran past France, over the bridge and then took a left out of World Showcase via International Gateway.
The course ran counterclockwise around the Boardwalk resort area. The boardwalk itself was wet, and I was worried that it would be slippery, but I didn’t have a problem. There was a bit of crowd support outside each of the hotels, which was nice, since other than the World Showcase cast members, it was been crowd-support free since the start line.
Shortly after entering the Boardwalk area, I came upon the next character meet – Chip and Dale in the sports apparel outside the ESPN club. They looked so cute!
Overall, the lengths of the character lines were not too bad for me during the 10K. I don’t think I spent more than a few minutes in any of the lines and don’t think I got in a line that was longer than 8 or 10 people.
Not long after the 5K point, we finally made our way into Epcot! We passed a bit of backstage area before entering World Showcase between Norway and China. All the buildings around World Showcase were lit up and lovely. I stopped to take a picture, but my phone couldn’t quite do it justice.
I appreciated that there were cast members from each country standing in front of their country and cheering as we ran by. Reaching Germany, there was another character stop – Pinocchio and Geppetto.
I always feel sort of awkward in the character photos. I never know what to do with my hands, so I automatically default to this hands-on-my-hips pose. It seems like a lot of characters see it and then pose the same way, which is kind of funny. It’s not a great pose, though, because then my elbows are kind of in the way of the characters trying to get close. This time, I accidently elbowed Pinocchio! The character attendant took a series of shots on my phone that turned out pretty hilarious, because the expression on Pinocchio’s face makes him look a bit annoyed with me. Sorry, Pinocchio!
The Mile 4 marker was just before Japan.
There were a fair number of PhotoPass photographers in Epcot taking action shots. I appreciated that they were generally either in or near these small, lime green tents, so you could spot them in the dark. In addition to being awkward at character stops, I also couldn’t figure out what to do with my hands when I saw a photographer on course. I ended up raising them up, but when I looked at the photos later in the day, I decided I looked goofy and vowed not to do that again for the half the next day.
Vacation Genie was hanging out outside Morocco and did the silly elbow pose with me. Hey, Genie, I had that same hat from my only trip to Disney as a child!
The course then ran past France, over the bridge and then took a left out of World Showcase via International Gateway.
The course ran counterclockwise around the Boardwalk resort area. The boardwalk itself was wet, and I was worried that it would be slippery, but I didn’t have a problem. There was a bit of crowd support outside each of the hotels, which was nice, since other than the World Showcase cast members, it was been crowd-support free since the start line.
Shortly after entering the Boardwalk area, I came upon the next character meet – Chip and Dale in the sports apparel outside the ESPN club. They looked so cute!
Overall, the lengths of the character lines were not too bad for me during the 10K. I don’t think I spent more than a few minutes in any of the lines and don’t think I got in a line that was longer than 8 or 10 people.