Epcot Day at Disney (Disney Day 3ish)
Today started earlier than yesterday because we booked a “Princess Breakfast” for our daughter (of course, the boys were just THRILLED at being at a breakfast buffet with only princess characters). Our daughter loved it, though, from my point of view, it was a little disappointing that of the 4 princesses, we had seen 2 last night; I mean, if you are going to go to pay a premium for princesses, they should be ones you haven’t seen. We did, however, get new autographs from Princess Jasmine and Mulan. In the end, I think Disney should program their breakfasts around me and my family. What’s so unreasonable about that?
Breakfast was over by 9:30 or so, and the World of Nations does not open up until 11a, so we went to Tomorrow Land and did Test Track and Mission: Space. Test Track was COOOL! For those of you who don’t know, it’s sponsored by GM and you basically sit in a “test car” and go through some obstacles, finishing up with a high speed lap around the builiding. It was fun to go fast. My oldest son pretty much summed it up when he said, “Me likey!” Afterward, we spent some time looking at (sitting in / playing with) various GM cars. Mission: Space is a flight simulator which was okay, but not great. They did work in some interactivity to this simulator, which is nice, but I don’t have any desire to do again.
My friend Seann and his family joined us and we went into the World of Nations. Now, the various nations are Disney-fied representations of different countries of the world. It’s a nice touch that all the cast members in a given nation is from that country. However, by and large, the nations are more an adult thing. Disney is trying to get kids involved by having the “Team Possible” challenge. Essentially, kids can sign up and get a cell phone and get clues to a secret something in each nation. The problem with the program, though, is that kids have to go to a particular location and find out which country to go to. As far as I know, there’s no way to get the challenge for the country you are in or want to go to…you are at the mercy of the game.
Two sets of kids from our group did the first challenge. My boys enjoyed the searching thing in Mexico, but the ending was underwhelming and they opted not to do another challenge. Seann’s girls loved it and would have done it more, but we had to get together for lunch. Your mileage may vary.
After lunch, we hit the Seas (with Nemo), Spaceship Earth, and the Epcot Character Spot (where my daughter got together again with Mickey, Minnie, and Pluto (no need for duplicate autographs), but also got new autographs from Donald Duck and Goofy. Beyond that, the only other new autograph was Aladdin’s.
In general, today was a good day, but I had the sense that we just didn’t do all that much. It seemed less productive than yesterday. Perhaps it’s just we’re all tired. Tomorrow morning is a sleep in morning, so perhaps we’ll get rested by then.
In the meantime, please take a look at the embedded slide show from Disney Day 3 or you can view the slideshow (a little larger) in a new window.
Enjoy (what’s left of) the evening.
Merle