MamaMouse0920
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After lunch we headed toward Millenium Falcon Smugglers Run (I'm guessing that was the LL I booked after scanning in to Slinky Dog).


Another new one for my mom and she enjoyed it! It was about 1:30pm by the time we got off.

It being 1 billion degrees I think we were all ready for our afternoon rest back at the hotel... some of us more than others, since the kids had zonked out in the stroller before even leaving the park!
When we got back to the hotel we all passed out for a couple hours, when we woke it had started storming and after checking the weather it didn't seem like it was going to pass any time soon.. so that of course threw a wrench in things. This was my moms last park day!! We hemmed & hawed a bit (it was around 4:45pm by this point - again, Mother Nature can you be a bit more convenient please and stick to those 1-2pm downpours?!) and ultimately decided to stall even longer and go grab a large pizza & a couple pastas from Landscape of Flavors (Matt being the one to take one for the team and run through the torrential downpour) while we figured out what we should do.

It's funny, as much as the kids LOVE Disney World, they are happy as clams to be in their jammies and eating a pizza while watching Old Mickeys- not at all feeling like their time is wasted or that they'd rather be in the parks. Just happy to be in the bubble at all, I guess! And yes, I sanitized the dickens out of those couch cushions before using them as a mini table for the kids
Even so, seeing the picture now makes me shiver a bit out of grossness, LOL.
It wasn't until after 7pm that the thunderstorm finally stopped and we ventured back outdoors, heading back to the Skyliner to this time make our way to Epcot.

Spot the double rainbow?!



We wandered around World Showcase after grandma got her ECV for this park, stopping here and there to show grandma all the cool things Epcot has to offer.

We eventually made our way to Soarin', since we had a LL.

I hadn't told my mom at all what to expect with this one and I saw her white knuckling the handrails on either side of her seat, ha!! I love this ride. Did you see the new 'Soarin over America' or whatever??? I'm wondering if it is a temporary overlay (similar to how they've done the California bit for a short period of time here & there) or if it's permanent??! The fact that they had Patrick Warburton film a new intro kind of tells me it's permanent but I haven't heard confirmation one way or the other. If it IS permanent, I will be so sad!! No more yummy Fiji smells?? Or the grass smell in Africa?! No Eiffel tower?!?!??!?!??! USA is cool & all but Matt and I often joke that Soarin' feels like the closest we'll ever get to some of those places - don't take that away from us!!
Anyway, white knuckles aside for those first few moments we all had a blast!!! We were off the ride by 8:17, with our Remy's LL scheduled for 8:20 so we scurried our way back over to France to ride that before the park closed at 9pm. On our way, I stopped at the Beer Cart in Germany and ordered the grapefruit Hefeweizen (I order this every time thinking I like it, then take that first sip and only then remember that I DON'T like it. Seriously, I do this every trip- next trip I vow to remember!!!) The three of us choked it down despite none of us enjoying it (waste not!) as we power-walked to France. As we wove through the queue you'll never guess who was behind us..... the Destructo-Fam from AK a few days before (again looking like super models). What are the odds?! I pointed them out quietly to Matt and we both were so surprised to be in line next to them again, ha!
Soon enough it was our turn to ride, and as soon as we were seated in our rat and ready to go the ride suddenly went down, booo!! We waited for maybe 10-15 minutes until eventually the CMs alerted us that the ride would be coming back up soon (I think one of them confirmed it was from a pair of ears that had fallen off and onto the track), so we were off through Gusteau's in no time.


Another new one for my mom and she enjoyed it! It was about 1:30pm by the time we got off.

It being 1 billion degrees I think we were all ready for our afternoon rest back at the hotel... some of us more than others, since the kids had zonked out in the stroller before even leaving the park!
When we got back to the hotel we all passed out for a couple hours, when we woke it had started storming and after checking the weather it didn't seem like it was going to pass any time soon.. so that of course threw a wrench in things. This was my moms last park day!! We hemmed & hawed a bit (it was around 4:45pm by this point - again, Mother Nature can you be a bit more convenient please and stick to those 1-2pm downpours?!) and ultimately decided to stall even longer and go grab a large pizza & a couple pastas from Landscape of Flavors (Matt being the one to take one for the team and run through the torrential downpour) while we figured out what we should do.

It's funny, as much as the kids LOVE Disney World, they are happy as clams to be in their jammies and eating a pizza while watching Old Mickeys- not at all feeling like their time is wasted or that they'd rather be in the parks. Just happy to be in the bubble at all, I guess! And yes, I sanitized the dickens out of those couch cushions before using them as a mini table for the kids

It wasn't until after 7pm that the thunderstorm finally stopped and we ventured back outdoors, heading back to the Skyliner to this time make our way to Epcot.

Spot the double rainbow?!



We wandered around World Showcase after grandma got her ECV for this park, stopping here and there to show grandma all the cool things Epcot has to offer.

We eventually made our way to Soarin', since we had a LL.

I hadn't told my mom at all what to expect with this one and I saw her white knuckling the handrails on either side of her seat, ha!! I love this ride. Did you see the new 'Soarin over America' or whatever??? I'm wondering if it is a temporary overlay (similar to how they've done the California bit for a short period of time here & there) or if it's permanent??! The fact that they had Patrick Warburton film a new intro kind of tells me it's permanent but I haven't heard confirmation one way or the other. If it IS permanent, I will be so sad!! No more yummy Fiji smells?? Or the grass smell in Africa?! No Eiffel tower?!?!??!?!??! USA is cool & all but Matt and I often joke that Soarin' feels like the closest we'll ever get to some of those places - don't take that away from us!!
Anyway, white knuckles aside for those first few moments we all had a blast!!! We were off the ride by 8:17, with our Remy's LL scheduled for 8:20 so we scurried our way back over to France to ride that before the park closed at 9pm. On our way, I stopped at the Beer Cart in Germany and ordered the grapefruit Hefeweizen (I order this every time thinking I like it, then take that first sip and only then remember that I DON'T like it. Seriously, I do this every trip- next trip I vow to remember!!!) The three of us choked it down despite none of us enjoying it (waste not!) as we power-walked to France. As we wove through the queue you'll never guess who was behind us..... the Destructo-Fam from AK a few days before (again looking like super models). What are the odds?! I pointed them out quietly to Matt and we both were so surprised to be in line next to them again, ha!
Soon enough it was our turn to ride, and as soon as we were seated in our rat and ready to go the ride suddenly went down, booo!! We waited for maybe 10-15 minutes until eventually the CMs alerted us that the ride would be coming back up soon (I think one of them confirmed it was from a pair of ears that had fallen off and onto the track), so we were off through Gusteau's in no time.
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