We decided we would try driving to the parks more this
trip. We got up on Saturday morning, ate
a quick breakfast in the room, and then headed to Epcot. We arrived at Epcot about 45 minutes before
rope drop. This wasn’t the greatest idea
with an 8yo anxious to get into the park.
He wasn’t happy about it, but we made it!
We headed straight for Mission: Space at park opening. Jon and Dakota headed for orange while I sat
back with Sarah. We did not use rider swap because I wasn’t sure I could handle
the orange side. Jon and Dakota
basically walked right now and loved the ride.
Dakota and I returned to the Green side.
I liked the green side. Dakota
liked it but said orange was better.
We briefly sopped in Innoventions East. We did the color challenge and it was pretty
fun, but Jon was disappointed that Innoventions was so much smaller than he
remembered from before. We had a FPP for
Character Spot next. We headed in and
once Sarah saw the characters, she started getting excited. That is, until it was time to get close to
them. She freaked out. Our pictures are
mostly of me holding her as far away from the characters as possible. By the time we got to Minnie, she did blow her
a kiss, but was still scared.
Our next stop was Club Cool.
I had one main goal and I succeeded.
I convinced Jon and Dakota to try the Beverly. I should’ve had my camera out to catch their
expressions. We did all try the melon
flavored coke from Thailand and decided that was a much better option than
Italy.
Our touring plan had Soarin’ next but we found ourselves
significantly ahead of schedule. Instead, we went on to the Land pavilion and
had a delicious lunch at Sunshine Seasons.
Once we were finished with lunch, we headed to Soarin’ and used the
rider swap. I love this ride and
possibly love the newer version even more than the older version. It was wonderful.
We wanted to do Living with the Land next, but the wait time
was very long, so we decided not to wait for it. We had another FPP for Spaceship Earth at
12:10. This isn’t the greatest ride in
the park, to me; however, it is a nice educational experience for Dakota and is
something that Sarah could ride with us.
Our original plans had us leaving to head back for a midday
break at this point. However, we’d
decided that because Illuminations was so late and our preferred viewing was
all the way in Italy, we would finish our Future World plans before going back
to the room, so we headed back over towards The Seas. We got in the line for
the Seas with Nemo and Friends – it’s a cute ride, especially for Sarah. Dakota didn’t really want to do Turtle Talk
with Crush, but we convinced him to try by telling him he could sit with us if
he wanted. We still sat on the front
row. I had almost forgotten how
hilarious that show is. I love Turtle
Talk.
At this point, we considered going back to the room because
Sarah was getting cranky and didn’t want to go to sleep. Her wonderful mom had forgotten to get her
sippy out of the car that morning. We
tried with a cup from the gift shop but that didn’t satisfy her. Finally, on the way back, the boys went in to
get (more) Starbucks and while we were waiting, she fell asleep. Since she was asleep, we decided to let
Dakota go back and ride Mission: Space again, since he’d loved it before. Sarah slept while they rode but woke up
before they got back. She wasn’t in a
great mood, it was extremely hot, and we were tired so we decided to call it a
day and head back to the room. We had a
nice nap in the room before getting up for supper at the resort.
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