Love the Frontierland Donald!
Yeah, that was a total surprise to me, hadn't even heard of donald looking like this.
Great TR can't wait to read more!!! We were at DHS that afternoon and by the time the afternoon rolled around and we got in that 'big storm' and I had forgotten the ponchos at the room, yeah we were soaked. Gotta love that sideways rain! haha Look forward to more pics!
Thanks, more report and pics are defintely on the way this weekend!
We started out with our favorite, the orange grand mariner slushie in France and moved onto the lemon slushie in Italy, which we liked, but not as much as our favorite. Here are a couple pics from france:
, so we just watched it as we walked through world showcase and out of Epcot.
A lot of the rest of the morning was just walking around and taking pictures. I wanted to get pics of the stormtroopers on top of the entrance way, but never caught them there. Also, because there was a special american idol special event that day (the recent winner Kris Allen was there to help promote the AI experience), Mickey and Minnie would not be in their SW costumes until well after I left the park in the afternoon, so that was a bummer. I ended up waiting in like a 15 minute line right before 9am for chewbacca and got in a brief line for stormtrooper donald duck, but that was about it in terms of getting in line (for example the line for Vader was just way too long for me to care). Here are some of my SWW pics:
Thankfully, this time, there was no thunder or lighting, so we actually stayed in the pool while it rained a bit. After we were done at the pool, we came back to the room and took a nap to rest up for another long MK evening. I met up with Melissa and we had dinner at crystal palace, which we both really liked. Our ressie was for 7:20 and we didnt get in until around 7:40, so by the time we got out of CP, we just sat down bear the Tomorrowland bridge to watch the Wishes fireworks at 9 pm. Once the fireworks were over with, we walked over to try to finally ride jungle cruise, but the line simply didnt move for like 5 minutes, so we left that and did pirates with no wait and then big thunder, using our fast passes. From there we did haunted mansion and philharmagic before heading back over to do splash twice, where we got drenched but the water shoots coming off the main drop. N ot much of an EMH night, but we didnt push trying to ride everything for a change.
For the past few vacations that I can recall, this usually took place at MGM, as they would have their EMH mornings on a Saturday. This trip however found us going to AK for its EMH morning.
We next went over to do the Safari ride and had a really good trip couple highlights there was (1) we were delayed b/c giraffes stopped in the road and (2) we saw the lion yawning loudly (our safari driver said he had never seen/heard that before). After that, I ran through the Exploration Trail while Melissa waited and didnt see all that much. Here are some pics:
After breakfast, we left AK and came back to beach club to go to the Stormalong Bay pool one more time and a nap.
On this night, we went to Epcots Le Cellar restaurant, where we hadnt eaten for years. While I wasnt a big fan of the much-hyped cheese soup, overall we both really liked it a lot and we go back much sooner on future trips. (I got the steak and potatoes and Melissa got chicken and the baked mac and cheese.) After that, we headed across the lagoon to try to catch the American Adventure, which we just missed. I ended up getting a funnel cake and we just hung out until the next showing which we went to. (One brief aside - that night tony orlando was packing them into the concert stage and we debated whether Melissas father looked like him or not) From there, we found that the patio area between england and france was open that night, so we dropped down and sat on the steps and had a really good view of illuminations.
I went and filed a complaint at guest relations about how the ropelines were unfair to epcot resort guests and was told they were aware of the issue. After I got done venting, we did test track twice and headed back over to soarin for two more rides before we had to leave. We rushed back to our room, changed clothes, and had a 11am brunch at cape may café. Because of the time, as our meal went on , the room really thinned out and we had the characters coming by over and over. 
