Disney Day 2 (5-27-15)

Wednesday's agenda was Epcot Center.  On our visit in 1982 (August, I think), Epcot Center was still being built, scheduled to open in October.  We have always wanted to come back and see it, so today was the day.  We had breakfast at the Food Court in our hotel circle, then drove over to Epcot.  This "Kingdom" is really spread out, and we did a whole lot of walking today.  We took in several shows here, and a few rides:  The grown ups went on Test Track first thing, while I entertained Andrew.  We saw Ellen's Energy Adventure, the Circle of Life, Turtle Talk, and Journey into Imagination.

 

We spent a lot of time in the Future World West which has "The Seas with Nemo & Friends" and Turtle Talk.  We didn't get to do "Soarin" which is like California's "Soaring Over California" and I really liked that one at Disneyland but the wait times were always too long.  This area had a wonderful aquarium as well.

From here, we got something to eat, then headed over to the different countries.  Mexico is one of the best ones, it was first, and we spent way too much time in it.

Maybe Andrew needs a pinata!!

 Andrew was trying out a pillow here.  Looks like it fits.

 Kaylee checks out all the soccer balls.

Andrew likes the peacocks and can say that word really well.  We finally left Mexico and ventured through China.

We walked quickly through or past a few other countries, but it was getting time for the fireworks here and we didn't want to miss them, so we found a place to sit on the ground and settled in.  Joe finally got his funnel cake so we shared that while we waited for the excitement.  These fireworks were really different than last nights, had a globe that they did a lot of different scenes with.  Very amazing!

Kaylee borrowed Andrew's stroller for a seat for these fireworks.

By the time the fireworks were over, everything else closed so we just had the long trek back to the cars!  And it was a long way!  But we finally found our way back to the room and called it another full day.

 It was a long way back up off the ground.

I figured the problem here.  Our tour guide (Bridgette) is back to training for marathons and is running every chance she gets.  She's up to 5 miles now.  Believe me, you do not want to tour Disney World with a marathon-runner as your tour guide.  Poor Joe, still recovering with his broken foot, and me -- I'm just old.  So we GOT TIRED!