After our bus experience on our first day, I was already at the point of swearing off the bus system and just driving to the parks. I always seem to get to that point, but this trip it happened sooner than usual.
We don't really ever have this option unless we want to spend OOP and rent a car, which we usually don't want to do.....
The kids and I were ready. That’s all I can say here. Moving on...
In the rush to finish getting ready and leave, she left her phone in the room!
I asked her if she really needed it.
Well... I guess not.
Then don’t worry about it!
I would have jumped off that bus and said, "See you at Epcot!" At least with my phone I can call and find out where you are!
As I completely expected when I had to decide a few months ago which Group A FP attraction to ride Standby at Rope Drop, TT would not be opening at Rope Drop.
We didn’t want to cross the park, as we had FP for the whole morning on this side of the park, so we just chose to stand around waiting.
Awesome.
Glad we got up and rushed to get to EPCOT early.
Of course. Also one of the reasons we don't try and rope drop. We are not early morning people and it always backfires on us when we try.
we decided to meet Anna and Elsa.
R was having none of it.
Quite the bummer.....
I have to say Anna and Elsa were on their A game. They both spent what seemed like a few minutes chatting and interacting with the kids. Even though R obviously didn’t want to go see them, both of them acknowledged him and tried to get him to interact.
That was really sweet of them to try
Anybody else feel that way about that ride or am I just nuts?
Ok, don’t answer that last part.
Well not that I think you're nuts, but I just didn't know that ride well enough to know where the troll was or anything else.
Normally, I love the long, relaxing ride through the history of communication on our fine planet.
But this time, it was long and painful.
Not only that, but the ride stopped long enough for them to really hammer into our heads how awesome Jesse Owens was in the 1936 Olympics. I couldn’t even tell you how many times we saw that film loop.
R eventually calmed down a little bit after the initial shock, but the whole ride we’d still hear the occasional scream of “My shoe! My shoe!”
R was reunited with his Croc and was once again happy.
Well at least you have that going for you.....
We had kind of an awkward interaction with a CM in front of the Land Pavilion. I paused with the stroller to get R out and then was going to go park it. A CM approaches us and offered to take the stroller and park it for us. I told her thanks, but I’d just go do it. She gave me kind of a funny look like she wondered what my problem was.
Maybe I'm the weird one, but there was a chance of rain so I just wanted to go park it, make sure the rain cover was on and stash the bag that we leave with the stroller so that it would stay dry.
I'm sure they think that they are helping you out by parking your stroller, when in all honesty they are trying to maintain order in the stroller parking lot and don't give a darned about your stroller, other than it is parked in line with all the others, taking up the least amount of space and making it easy to fill a large area as efficiently as possible. You both had your own goals and they weren't really in sync.
Bob was very adamant that since we were on the dining plan, we needed to take advantage of the fact that we’d get drinks with our meal and an additional specialty drink or alcoholic beverage. I forget what DW got, but I ordered a Yuengling. I typically don’t really want beer when it is really hot like that... it just makes me feel dehydrated. And we were planning to enjoy a few speciatly beverages around WS later so I really just wanted to hydrate myself up at this point, but when he made me feel like I was being wasteful by not getting one...
Well you know, he does have a point.....
I’m going to just say it now, we did 4 character meals this trip. Hands down, this one was the best. From the food, to the service, to the character interaction, this one checked all the boxes.
That's great to hear, we did this one 20 years ago and really liked it, but it hasn't been on our radar since. Not sure if it will go back on the list, but good to know it's a solid character meal. I always like the "buffet at your table meals."
While we were at lunch, I was able to grab a 2pm FP for Test Track. DW had decided she spent long enough without a phone though and was going back to CBR. She said that she’d take R back and try to get him to nap and I could stay at EPCOT with the 2 older kids.
Nice on the TT snag of FP. I don't know how she waited that long without a phone. I would have been dying. Then again, I am the lifeline of our world when it comes to the phone and while I don't always want to be in touch, I "need" to be, because I am the lifeline for our tenants and it could be the difference between a blown flexline getting fixed or who knows what if the tenant doesn't know what to do....