HEY! I'M BAAAAAACCCCKKKK! It took a little longer to post than I thought it would. Waaay long story and I won't bore you with it, but will get right into the tantalizing details of Friday, June 1, 2007 - Another Epcot Day.
If you remember, our first try at Epcot on this trip didn't turn out very well. It was crowded. I mean CROWDED! So we were really hoping for a better day this time. There were a couple of things working for us. First off, it was June 1st, which is "Gay Day" at Magic Kingdom. That means a lot of people would be heading to MK rather than the other parks. Second, it was forecasting rain for the day, which keeps some people away. But not us!
We woke up a little later than usual and headed to Epcot around 8:30am. We arrived at the park just a little after nine and walked right in and headed over to Test Track, which we walked right on. We walked over and right on to Mission Space - no waiting.
Tragedy had struck us while we were at Epcot. The backpack I had owned for nearly 20 years....
...had finally given up on me. Both straps had broken:-( I've never had trouble with the bag, not one iota! All of a sudden both straps give out on the same day. Game over.
I headed over to Club Station Cool and found another bag. Here is the sad parting of one bag and the happy bonding of another....
I still think DW may have had something to do with the original bag's demise. She always hated and ridiculed that bag. I should have checked to see if the straps were cut! But now we will never know.......
Anywhoo, Angie and Nicolas rode the Nemo ride, while I transfered all of my stuff (they walked on too). We headed over to Soarin' for FPs. The return time on the FPs was the same time as our lunch ADR so we decided to try the Stand By line which said 55 minutes. We walked all the way to the concourse loading with no wait. From there we waited about 15 minutes to board. We headed over to Spaceship Earth which on the other hand, had the longest line we have ever encountered on that ride. It still was not a long wait though. We then hopped on the monorail for a ride to the TTC to pick up another monorail to MK where we hopped on the boat to the Wilderness Lodge where we had ADRs to eat at the Whispering Canyon Cafe.
Plus, getting ready for next year a little bit early!
I couldn't talk him into getting the hat. I could barely talk him into trying it on!
As many times as we have been to WDW we had never eaten at the WCC and we were really looking forward to it! We had the skillets to eat and Nicolas had the Mac and Cheese. Has anyone else been through this?
and finished like this?
I won't tell you the number of restroom stops it took to rectify drinking that much tea! My system felt cleaner though!
We hopped on a bus back to Epcot (which we waited what seemed like forever for, but probably was only 45 minutes). There was one of those kids at the bus stop whose parents don't really try to control them. Oh, they will say something to them, but they never really do anything and the child knows that so they behave however they want. This kid was whacking people on the head, screaming at the top of his lungs, and generally being a nuisance. There was a brief scare when I though they were getting on the same bus as we were (which the child actually DID get on the bus, and all the screaming in the world from his parents wouldn't get him off, they actually had to come in and get him and then bribed him with candy instead of lightin up his backside and telling him "NO". I think about 50 people would have cheered had that child received a spanking and that is just a shame!)
We DID get to do the Hokey Pokey at the WCC and that was a lot of fun. There was one family sitting in the middle of the restaurant whose father wouldn't let any of the kids get up and get invovled. They tried two or three times and he made them sit down. To this day, I wonder what that was about? Kind of odd. I forgot to wear my, "What if the Hokey Pokey IS what it's all about?" shirt.
We got back to Epcot after what seemed like forever and caught the Jamitors performing. Nicolas became an official Jr. Jamitor! We headed over to Ellen (which we had missed before) and then after that we headed across the park to catch the ferry so we could get Ice Cream at Beaches and Cream. Having never been there we assumed it was on the Boardwalk - NOPE! Someone told us to take a bus to the Beach Club, but the bus drivers told us they wouldn't be stopping there.
Marched all the way back over to the ferry and finally made it to the Beach Club! We had to wait a little bit to be seated because we were going for THE KITCHEN SINK!
Thank Goodness, we had actually done all that walking, because after the meal we had at WCC, I didn't think I was ever going to eat again! We gave it our best shot! And then came the sickness.....
I actually thought we did a pretty good job on it considering my DS eats like a bird most of the time. Couldn't hardly walk though!
We walked outside to catch a ride on the Ferry and here came the rain! We rode it back to Epcot and then trekked all the way through Epcot (sick as dogs from the Ice Cream) and finally to the bus station and back to CBR. We stayed inside and ordered pizza and watched cartoons!
One more day left folks. Our Departure date. In it we will give you a little inside on the Magical Express and see if you think it is worth the price! I swear to you the next update will come faster than this one!
Thanks for reading!
