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Published On: Aug 05, 2007 08:38 AM
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Published On: Aug 05, 2007 08:38 AM
Vacation, Day 2
Epcot Center
I woke up at 8:50 AM, the rest of the family woke
up about half an hour later. I made a quick trip to the gift shop and found
that they had no lens cleaning kits. Passed by the Sugar Loaf lounge for
breakfast on the way back to the
room.
We took the monorail to Epcot Center, arriving around 11 AM or so, in time for us to get a family picture and then pass by the camera supply store, finding that they had lens cloths but not lens cleaning tissues or cleaning fluid. Got a cleaning cloth, but I didn't use it. I'll just wait until we get home, I guess.
On the monorail to Epcot.
Meanwhile, Willim perused the Epcot Center map and discovered that there were Kidcot Fun Center locations spread throughout the park for kid activities. This makes sense since Epcot is the most adult-oriented of the parks, and the Kidcot activities formed the bulk of our pursuits for the day.
Since we had a reservation for 11:45 AM, we went straight to the San Angel Inn restaurant in the Mexico section of the World Showcase. We paused briefly to visit the Kidcot location nearby before lunch. The World Showcase Kidcot centers involved collecting attachments to a mask plus stamps in a World Showcase passport. In Futureworld, the Kidcot activities were attachments to some sort of badge. We mistakenly thought we'd get a prize when we collected all the Futureworld attachments. Instead, we were to get a prize for the World Showcase mask. More on that later.)
At the Mexico Kidcot center, William made a mask.
The San Angel Inn is our favorite restaurant at Epcot and perhaps in Disney World entirely. It was so good I even ordered a frozen Margarita, rather earlier in the day than usual for such a strongly alcoholic drink.
During lunch, William shocked us by misinterpreting a statement by Hsuan as allowing him to go off to the Kidcot area again to get a spare mask, and he immediately left the restaurant on his own, with me chasing him through the crowd before catching him outside of the restaurant.
After lunch, we went back to Futureworld. While Hsuan went to change James' diaper, William and I went to get fast passes at the Test Track, which William seemed afraid of but for which he's tall enough. We went into the Inner Track and did the Kidcot when Hsuan joined us. We then passed by Mission Space, but William still isn't tall enough. I rode while they went off to Innoventions.
At the Test Track Kidcot center.
James decided to organize the markers.
After I rejoined them -- not a long line -- we went to the Innoventions Kidcots (2 of them), then we played the Great American Pizza game: A Concentration-style game involving guessing two states with the same pizza ingredients. Our family was thin crust, the other team was deep dish. We lost, 6 to 3, but it was fun.
Went to the Living Seas for another Kidcot, and we spent a lot of time looking at the fish, which enthralled James. Then we went to Turtle Talk with Crush. Hilarious.
James loved the fish.
We had a quick family photo in front of Nemo, and William was unsociable to the photographer, which upset me. I got mad at him in a calm, whispery way. 'Nuff said. We passed by the Land for the last Futureworld Kidcot, found out that we wouldn't get prize, and then headed off to the Test Track. William and I rode for the first time ever, while James and Hsuan waited. Cool ride. William was scared at first, but he later said he had fun. I bought the picture of us in the ride.
We headed off to the Les Chefs of France restaurant where we had a 5:40 PM reservation for dinner. Hsuan had the French Menu, I had the lobster bisque and a roasted flounder. The boys had kids items. It was nice, but the real star for me as the wine I had. An Alsatian Pinot Blanc. Absolutely stellar, medium dry, almost like a French Champagne without the bubbles.
What's French for ketchup? That's all James has in his mouth.
Apart from some bathroom breaks afterward, we spent the time after dinner and before Illuminations getting a few World Showcase Kidcot stamps and mask attachments. We also picked up our Extra Hours pass bracelets. Around 8:30 PM, we found a place in the Italy section to wait for Illuminations, which we watched at 9 PM. A grandfather was kind enough to let William sit next to him for a front-row view.
We spent the rest of our Extra Hours time chasing down the rest of the World Showcase Kidcot countries. Our last country was Canada, and it started raining. We mistakenly thought that the park was closing as well, around 10:30 PM, so we raced to Canada. Rushing up a wrong area, we mistakenly thought that Canada was closed, but I asked a vendor who told me that the Canadian Kidcot center was located in a different part of the Canada section than I thought, so we ran there and found the lone Canadian girl there waiting. She gave the boys their mask parts and passport stamps, and as a reward for collecting all the countries' stamps, they got Disney posters as a prize.
We caught the monorail back to the hotel, arriving after 11 PM, for baths and bed.
We took the monorail to Epcot Center, arriving around 11 AM or so, in time for us to get a family picture and then pass by the camera supply store, finding that they had lens cloths but not lens cleaning tissues or cleaning fluid. Got a cleaning cloth, but I didn't use it. I'll just wait until we get home, I guess.
On the monorail to Epcot.
Meanwhile, Willim perused the Epcot Center map and discovered that there were Kidcot Fun Center locations spread throughout the park for kid activities. This makes sense since Epcot is the most adult-oriented of the parks, and the Kidcot activities formed the bulk of our pursuits for the day.
Since we had a reservation for 11:45 AM, we went straight to the San Angel Inn restaurant in the Mexico section of the World Showcase. We paused briefly to visit the Kidcot location nearby before lunch. The World Showcase Kidcot centers involved collecting attachments to a mask plus stamps in a World Showcase passport. In Futureworld, the Kidcot activities were attachments to some sort of badge. We mistakenly thought we'd get a prize when we collected all the Futureworld attachments. Instead, we were to get a prize for the World Showcase mask. More on that later.)
At the Mexico Kidcot center, William made a mask.
The San Angel Inn is our favorite restaurant at Epcot and perhaps in Disney World entirely. It was so good I even ordered a frozen Margarita, rather earlier in the day than usual for such a strongly alcoholic drink.
During lunch, William shocked us by misinterpreting a statement by Hsuan as allowing him to go off to the Kidcot area again to get a spare mask, and he immediately left the restaurant on his own, with me chasing him through the crowd before catching him outside of the restaurant.
After lunch, we went back to Futureworld. While Hsuan went to change James' diaper, William and I went to get fast passes at the Test Track, which William seemed afraid of but for which he's tall enough. We went into the Inner Track and did the Kidcot when Hsuan joined us. We then passed by Mission Space, but William still isn't tall enough. I rode while they went off to Innoventions.
At the Test Track Kidcot center.
James decided to organize the markers.
After I rejoined them -- not a long line -- we went to the Innoventions Kidcots (2 of them), then we played the Great American Pizza game: A Concentration-style game involving guessing two states with the same pizza ingredients. Our family was thin crust, the other team was deep dish. We lost, 6 to 3, but it was fun.
Went to the Living Seas for another Kidcot, and we spent a lot of time looking at the fish, which enthralled James. Then we went to Turtle Talk with Crush. Hilarious.
James loved the fish.
We had a quick family photo in front of Nemo, and William was unsociable to the photographer, which upset me. I got mad at him in a calm, whispery way. 'Nuff said. We passed by the Land for the last Futureworld Kidcot, found out that we wouldn't get prize, and then headed off to the Test Track. William and I rode for the first time ever, while James and Hsuan waited. Cool ride. William was scared at first, but he later said he had fun. I bought the picture of us in the ride.
We headed off to the Les Chefs of France restaurant where we had a 5:40 PM reservation for dinner. Hsuan had the French Menu, I had the lobster bisque and a roasted flounder. The boys had kids items. It was nice, but the real star for me as the wine I had. An Alsatian Pinot Blanc. Absolutely stellar, medium dry, almost like a French Champagne without the bubbles.
What's French for ketchup? That's all James has in his mouth.
Apart from some bathroom breaks afterward, we spent the time after dinner and before Illuminations getting a few World Showcase Kidcot stamps and mask attachments. We also picked up our Extra Hours pass bracelets. Around 8:30 PM, we found a place in the Italy section to wait for Illuminations, which we watched at 9 PM. A grandfather was kind enough to let William sit next to him for a front-row view.
We spent the rest of our Extra Hours time chasing down the rest of the World Showcase Kidcot countries. Our last country was Canada, and it started raining. We mistakenly thought that the park was closing as well, around 10:30 PM, so we raced to Canada. Rushing up a wrong area, we mistakenly thought that Canada was closed, but I asked a vendor who told me that the Canadian Kidcot center was located in a different part of the Canada section than I thought, so we ran there and found the lone Canadian girl there waiting. She gave the boys their mask parts and passport stamps, and as a reward for collecting all the countries' stamps, they got Disney posters as a prize.
We caught the monorail back to the hotel, arriving after 11 PM, for baths and bed.
Posted: Thu - May 24, 2007 at 10:30 PM