The "We Can't Afford To GO" (Until The Next Time) Tour-Day 3

[wee-haggis]

The Cast
DH-Rick-51 (Always On The Run - King)
DW-Julia-44 (Walkway From The Photo - Queen)
DS-Matt-16 (Not Camera Shy - Prince)
DD-Nicole-15 (Future Animator - Princess)

6 Nights In POP Century and 8 mights In Bahama Bay Resort

Day 3- 15th Dec/07

Once again we are up early having a nice breakfast at the POP food court. Board bus to Epcot in time for rope drop.

Park is quite quiet and we walk onto Test Track,
(notice the three amigos in the back row,,,,DS,DD and DH pretending to sleep and being goofy)

Mission Space,Soarin,The Land,Nemo,Talking With Crush.Great ,because of no line-ups. We then proceeded at 11am to go to the World Showcase starting with Canada. This is the first time us seeing the new 360 movie with is a vast improvement over the old one. We get a chuckle out of the CM who welcomes you to the movie theatre asking the questions about Canada (which of course are quite easy for us).
We continued walking around the world through all of the shops stopping at Maelstrom in Norway and the Boat ride in Mexico (which we had differening opinions on),DH,DS and DD all liked the new "cartoonized" version but DW liked the old one better.
On our way out 1-30pm we noticed that Spaceship Earth had a "soft opening" (the first of 3 soft openings we witnessed).

Video
http://s14.photobucket.com/albums/a321/wee-haggis/?action=view&current=softopening.flv

Everybody enjoyed the new animatronics and although they have a few bugs to work through,it is still scheduled for a February opening.
Lunch back at POP,then swimming for the kids. DW discovers some pretty large blisters on her feet so we head up to Walmart on 535 to purchase bandaids for her blisters and DD gets a Eyore super,soft bathrobe. After getting back to POP its dinner time,then some TV and off to bed for an early night.

Day 4 - Studios

 

[Richard Bruvofetc]

How lucky to get into the softopening. Hope the blisters weren't too bad.

 

[KayleeUK]

Hope your DW feet get better

 

[florida sun]

Great that you got to go to the soft opening, great video

 

[natalielongstaff]

great day

 

[Cyrano]

Great timing for Spaceship Earth

 

[DisneyJo]

How great to have no queues

 

[Minniespal]

Another great day

 

[tennisfan]

Great that you had no queues, lovely photos

 

[Lisash]

well done on getting a sneak preview of Spaceship Earth

 

[mark&sue]

sounds like a great day at Epcot



Susan

 

[arieljasmine]

Wow, you are so lucky getting to go on Spaceship Earth! That is my favourite ride in Epcot and I can't wait to see the changes, they sound really good. Hope your wife's blisters got better soon, it is miserable having sore feet at Disney.

Laur's