After a light breakfast of bagels and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in our room, we headed out early to Epcot. We had been told at check-in that the transport to the parks started at 7.30am, but after waiting 15 minutes without any sign of any boats we guessed that that was only for the buses and decided to walk instead. Alex detoured into The Swan to get us some coffee while the kids and I started walking to the International Gateway. It was only a short walk and we were passing through the gates at 8am.
First stop was the Kim Possible Recruitment Center where we signed up for the first mission at 11am. World Showcase wasn't open yet, so we walked through the United Kingdom
and past Canada
into Future World. First stop was The Seas with Nemo & Friends.
There wasn't anybody in line, so we boarded a clamobile and rode it straight away then we checked out the rest of the pavilion.
We found Nemo
and Dory
Turtle Talk with Crush wasn't operating yet, so we headed over to Spaceship Earth. I left the others in line while I ran over to get Test Track fastpasses. When I got back I called to find out how far up the line they were, but they were already on the ride so I waited for them at the exit. When they finally appeared, we checked out Innoventions and then walked back to World Showcase to start our Kim Possible mission.
We picked up our kimmunicator in the UK and had a lot of fun with it. We did the UK mission first and then walked towards Germany as we had a lunch reservation at the Biergarten.
We walked through France
Japan
and Italy
Sammy didn't want to do another mission, so he and I checked out the shops and met Snow White again while the others did the Germany mission. Then it was on to the Biergarten for lunch
We loved the Biergarten! Alex's family are German so this was one place he really wanted to eat. It was his kind of food and definitely his kind of beer. He got to speak German with the waiters which was fun for all of them and very amusing for our kids. We were seated with a family from Tennessee who were driving past on their way to visit family in southern Florida and decided to stop at Epcot for the day. Such a different experience from ours where every minute of every day was planned! Our reservation was at 12pm but the first show wasn't until 1.30pm so we had to hang around after we finished eating but that was okay because it was relaxing and we were enjoying chatting to our table mates.
The show was corny but fun
After lunch we walked around the World Showcase, stopping at the Outpost for some bongo playing
and picking up fastpasses for Maelstrom in Norway. Then it was on to Mexico and the Gran Fiesta Tour
before heading back to Norway for Maelstrom.
After that we walked back over to Future World to use our Test Track fastpasses. I was a little worried about Alex on Test Track after all the beer he drank at lunch! But it wasn't too wild a ride and a lot of fun. We were all ready for an afternoon break after that, so we walked back to The Dolphin and spent the afternoon at the pool before going back to Epcot for dinner and Illuminations. We didn't have reservations anywhere so we got fish & chips at the Yorkshire County Fish Shop and sat on the wall overlooking the lake to watch the show.
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