Most Magical Anniversary Trip - Day Three - 5/1/08
5/1/08 - Day Three
After getting around in good time for once, we were off and ready to go to Epcot. We have special memories with Epcot since it was the first park that Matt ever visited and the first that we ever experienced together. There were new things we wanted to try and see in Epcot this year and we were so excited to get there early enough to get them all done quickly.
Yeah, I built that up too much, huh? Well, I think we’ve officially jinxed ourselves with the busses. The first day we said that the busses were going so quickly and efficiently. We kept talking them up. Then we hit the downhill slope. It took 25 minutes for an Epcot bus to arrive and our goal of getting there early to hit up Soarin’ first thing just wasn’t in the cards. Crowds up the whazoo! We zipped our little room keys into the machine on the far right side. Yes, it’s important to mention this because far too many people go to the turnstile right in the middle. There are ones way on the left and way on the right as well people! I wish I could help hoard them away from the center because it causes such crowds.
DH and I actually JOGGED up to the right rope drop, closest to The Land Pavilion. We were maybe 3 rows behind the rope which was pretty good considering how late we got there. Once the rope dropped and we were able to walk forward with the CMs to The Land Pavilion, Matt and I weaseled our way up to being right behind the row of CM’s. The key is to zig zag. If you see an empty space, put your body in it. Keep filling in the crowd and always be one step ahead of everyone else’s moves. It also helps to know where you can get cut off by the crowd and just avoid those places. Another tip… once you’re headed around the corner on the second floor of The Land, you have to chose, stairs or escalator. Always choose stairs because you can move faster and move around people because the steps are wider. If you get behind slower folks that don’t walk down the escalator there is no way that you can get around them so you’ll just end up having to go at their pace. Anyways… enough of that. We were the second guests admitted through the Soarin’ turnstiles which felt really good after running so late. The ride was AWESOME as usual…. No matter how much I don’t want to hold on… I have to. I just think about “what if” my seat fell. I’d want to be holding on – wouldn’t you?
Once out of there we were on our way over to Test Track when we walked by Character Connection and it seemed to **** us in. We got lots of shots pretty quickly and then we were out. Off to Test Track but with a 30 minute wait we decided to Fastpass it and hit Ellen’s Energy Adventure in the mean time. This was a first for Matt but he liked it because it involved Dinosaurs. Does anyone else remember the days when you could sit on the floor in the pre-show room and not get yelled at? Well, judging by a CM’s reaction to me plopping down on the floor… I’m guessing those days are over. We were kindly asked to plop down on an empty bench instead. Test track time came and we got on pretty quickly once in line. After that we waited for the World Showcase to open at 11. We were really hungry already and wanted to try some food that we hadn’t had before. After searching through most of the countries and reading the counter-service menus…. We settled on trying Tangerine Café. I was nervous about trying vegetarian food that I’m not familiar with but I was shocked at how awesome the Tabulah Wrap was. I could eat that for every meal! Matt and I both shared this and it was plenty. They must have known I was coming because they also gave me a cup of olives. I LOVE OLIVES. We walked back the same way we just came through the World Showcase and wanted to try something else since we only bought one meal technically. It would cost us the same in the long run and we’d get to try more food. We hit up Cantina De San Angel. Or should I call it … yummy Mexican food for us? We got a vegetarian wet burrito. When ordering that we learned that that is considered a bean burrito and is only about 4 dollars. Sweet! It was awesome and we were really stuffed at that point. On our way out of Epcot we did what I had been waiting months and months to do – Spaceship Earth. Matt’s first ride ever at Walt Disney World. All in all, the updates weren’t as bad as I had heard. I think Dame Judi Dench did a great job and that’s what I was most worried about, honestly. I didn’t think anyone else could make me feel all warm and tingly when seeing our “Spaceship Earth” as our cars rotated. The end was very funny with the pictures deal. We loved our house we built. I will say that they are lucky it was so entertaining because there was nothing else to look at. They took it all away. Even my favorite part of where the music gets all futuristic and you travel through that tunnel of lights. I will always miss that.
Matt and I were going to just head straight to Downtown Disney from Epcot but we couldn’t find a bus that went straight there!! Oh no! We ended up having to take a bus to a resort and transferring from there. We went to Coronado Springs since we thought about staying there on our next vacation and we wanted to check it out. Getting a bus to come to Epcot for Coronado Springs was a pain in itself. Once we were on I swear we had the slowest driver in history. Once at Coronado we got off at El Centro and waited for a DTD bus to show up. Yeah…. That took about 25 minutes. Crazy! DH and I had ressies for Fulton’s at 3:10 p.m. but after walking around for a bit and me talking about Earl of Sandwich non-stop… we cancelled our ADR’s at Fulton’s and hit up Earl of Sandwich for an early dinner. We both loved it and can’t wait to go back.
DH and I wanted to swim since it was pretty hot that day. The Pop pool really did the trick. After our dip, we headed to MK where we got a FP for BTMR. While waiting we went on Pirates again but this time… it was a terrible experience. We had people in front and people in back of us that were taking flash photos. That really ruins the ride. About ¼ of the way through, DH said out loud, “I don’t think there’s flash photography on this ride.” That didn’t stop them. After about ¾ of the way through, the man in front of me turned around, put his shoulder over the back of the seat, hit me in the knee with his huge elbow, and then snapped photos right in my husband’s face. Yeah!! !!! Matt, again, said loudly “thanks!” I nudged him so he would keep his mouth shut. I didn’t want to see him brawl with anyone let alone in front of Jack Sparrow. BTMR was great and it really is the wildest ride in the wilderness!! Matt said he was hungry again (yes, that’s Matt) so I told him where he could find the best veggie burger. Pecos Bills! We liked the new quick service machines a lot and it made things go much quicker. I wanted to walk over to Tomorrowland to try the noodle station. I got the tofu noodle bowl. I thought the tofu was good and so was the broth but the noodles were dry and Matt ate the mushrooms and said they were dry as well. Oh well… I got about half of that in my tummy before I was done and we decided to leave MK. It was quite busy and since the sun was going down, more people came in to see the nighttime shows.
Our day ended with me writing out postcards in bed while Matt fell asleep. We ate a lot of food and told ourselves that we couldn’t keep spending money like that on food. Since we cancelled our Fulton’s ressie we talked ourselves into booking Kona Café for the following morning. Oh oh! Tonga toast, here I come!!!
Link to Day Three Pictures
http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x...008/May%201st/
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