SO our first day we can sleep in a bit!
WooHoo!
And guess what, we all woke by 6:30
anyway!
We had breakfast in POP food court, it
was very good! I had the chocolate chip pancake platter: chocolate
chip pancakes, turkey bacon, sausage and strawberries. Rebekah got
the kids breakfast platter: eggs, turkey bacon, sausage, hash browns.
John got the french toast platter: french toast, turkey bacon,
sausage and strawberries.
Rebekah's Children's Breakfast Platter
My Chocolate Chip Pancake Platter
John's French Toast Platter
Off to EPCOT!
The park was EMPTY. We got Right on
Spaceship Earth. We were the only ones on the ride for a few cars
either way so I was able to take pictures. Love this ride.
Spaceship Earth - Greeks teaching Math
Spaceship Earth - Romans creating the first "world wide web"
Spaceship Earth - "But then we hit a road block: Rome falls, and the great Library of
Alexandria in Egypt is burned. Much of our learning is destroyed... lost
forever... or so we think."
Spaceship Earth - "It turns out there were copies of some of these books in the libraries
of the Middle East, being watched over by Arab and Jewish scholars."
Spaceship Earth - "Call it, the first back-up system."
Spaceship Earth - "Call it, the first back-up system."
Spaceship Earth - "In the meantime, here in Europe monks toil endlessly recording these books by hand, but that is about to change."
Spaceship Earth - sleeping monk
Spaceship Earth - "In 1450, Gutenberg invents the movable type printing press. Now
knowledge can travel as fast as these new books, and travel they do."
Spaceship Earth - "Books make it easier to invent the future in every field, and the result
is an incredible explosion of innovation that we call the Renaissance."
Spaceship Earth
Spaceship Earth
Spaceship Earth - "Extra, Extra!"
Spaceship Earth - "To send a man to the moon, we had to invent a new language, spoken not
by man, but by computers. At first very large, very expensive computers,
but we see the potential."
Spaceship Earth - "After 30,000 years of time travel, here we are, a truly global
community, poised to shape the future of this, our Spaceship Earth."
Then we headed over to The Seas with
Nemo and Friends. Walked right on and the tank area was empty (of
people). They have a HUGE Ray there, she was 5 years old and over 5
foot from wing tip to wing tip. She was awesome to see swim right
next to the tank glass!
Spaceship Earth behind Living Seas with Nemo
Living Seas
The Huge ray in Living Seas
Living Seas - hidden Mickey's are everywhere
Then we headed over to Rebekah's newest
favorite ride, Journey into the Imagination. Figment has been my
favorite since I first rode it in 1988, and now he is her favorite,
too!
One of the play areas outside of Imagination
Jumping fountains outside of Imagination
Next we went over to the Pixar Short Film Festival. They played The Pixar shorts “Get a Horse”, “La Luna” and “For the Birds” all in 3-D. I loved La Luna before, but in 3-D it is amazing!
Once World Showcase opened up at 11, he
zoomed right over to Japan to do Pick a Pearl. We got 2 OK pearls
and a very fun show!
Pick a Pearl
Pick a Pearl
Pick a Pearl
After wandering around in Japan, we
browsed through Morocco (I love all the nooks and crannies here),
France, England.
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
France
France
Morocco
China
China
China
Japan
Morocco
Morocco
Morocco
Morocco
Morocco
We did try the The Croque Glaces a Brioche Pressed Ice Cream Sandwich at L'artisan des Glaces in France. We chose a lemon ice cream and raspberry sauce. It was VERY good, will get one again!
Putting the roll, ice cream and sauce on the press
Pressing it!
Final product
Yummy, yummy final product
We decided it was time to head back to
the resort to drop off all our stuff and then head to Disney Springs
because Rebekah was NON STOP asking to get some more TsumTsums. Unfortunately, they pretty much had no new ones for her to get (only
Duffy and Thor), so she decided to get a big Figment PillowPet
instead. On our way back to the bus we stopped at Goofy Candy and
made some personalized Rice Krispy treats. Then back to our room to
drop off purchases before supper.
Our plan was to take the bus to Magic
Kingdom then take a boat to Wilderness Lodge. However, the Animal
Kingdom bus came first and we were running late, so we took it!
Animal Kingdom to Wilderness Lodge bus and we had perfect timing once
again!
Inside Wilderness Lodge lobby
Supper was at Whispering Canyon!
Rebekah was HANGRY! Our server Nikki was awesome and got Rebekah
(and John and I) laughing. We had a really great time! One of the
ways to have fun there is ask for ketchup...we were the first to ask
and we got an unwrapped shipping box of 16 bottles of ketchup. They
also did stick-horse races with the kids, Rebekah had fun!
We got the
All-You-Care-to-Enjoy-Skillet
which starting with Mixed Greens tossed in an Apple Vinaigrette
dressing and fresh-baked cornbread then featured Slow-Smoked Pork
Ribs, Barbecued Pulled Pork, Roasted Chicken, Oak-roasted Beef and
Western-style Sausage, served with Seasonal Farm Fresh Vegetables,
Mashed Yukon Potatoes, Cowboy-style Baked Beans, and Corn on the Cob.
Ribs were great, Chicken was amazing,
sausage good, pulled pork good, beans great, potatoes great and the
corn was 'eh'!
Corn Bread
Salad
My plate...a little try of everything
The platter after us attacking it
She asked for ketchup!
Our server Nikki she was great!
We too the Wilderness Lodge bus back to
Epcot. Rebekah and I did test track (64.8 mph) and then we all went
and did Figment again. Wandered around a bit then headed out and
back home all dying of thirst! Love the refillable mugs!
Steps walked: 24,471 (12.03 miles)
Goof Ball in front of the Big Ball
One of the many lit pathways around Spaceship Earth
Awesome at night!
Rapunzel was holding court when we got home!
