I left off with us heading to the room after our delicious Beaches and Cream lunch.
We stopped and looked at the turtles and alligator. Someone had thrown a cracker that landed right on the alligators back. A turtle quickly scrambled right on his back to grab that cracker! No fear.
We watched the animals for a bit more and then headed up to the room.
I’ve heard talk of the super long hallways at BWV but we encountered quite a long hallway
at BCV.
After that first day we always walked outside, our room was at the very end of the building so we walked up and down the exit stairs.
Our bags had arrived when we got to the room so we spent a few minutes unpacking. I had brought some foodstuffs in coolers so got all that in the fridge. Gluten free bagels and bread, cream cheese, butter, peanut butter, and honey to make bagels and sandwiches, and all sorts of snacks as well. It was very helpful to have ‘safe’ things with us.
After unpacking we headed down to the quiet pool for a couple hours. I failed to take any pictures while down there, but mom took a little nap and I caught up in my journal. It was nice and toasty so after finishing in the journal I went in the pool. Despite the heat mom went in the hot tub. We had a FP for Soarin at 7:30 so at 6:00 we left the pool. First stop before going up to the room was to go to the Marketplace to get a movie for later. We decided on The Rocketeer. Then up to the room to get ready. At 6:50 we headed to Epcot.
I had to stop at the IG and activate my new PAP. That took no time at all and then we were off to Soarin.
At exactly 7:30 we scanned our MBs and were in!
Mom commented on the walk in that she’d love to have the first row. Well who wouldn’t love to have the first row. Well wouldn’t you know we got the first row!!! Perfect first ride of the trip.
We almost stopped at LWTL but when we estimated how long it might take to walk to Italy we headed out.
We wandered in the Germany toy shop for a bit but found nothing that we couldn’t live without, that is always helpful to the wallet. We also stopped in Karamel Kuche but the line wasn’t moving at all so we headed out.
We checked in for our ADR at 8:27 and waited about ten minutes.
Now each time we’ve eaten here, 3 times I think, we’ve sat in the exact same area. I said to mom that I hoped we’d be seeing a different part of the restaurant. We were not so lucky, back to the exact same area as before…
A few from our side area
This was a meal I was very excited about, until I noticed there are very few gluten free options. I decided not to note it on the reservation because I’ve read they take intolerances as serious as allergies. I wanted the option to maybe have an offending item and suffer the consequences.
Mom started with the Tiramisu which she said was AMAZING!
I had a salad, not as exciting but the cheese was very good.
We shared the fried vegetables, which I knew weren’t safe for me but I wanted to eat them. And they were fantastic as usual
And we ordered a small white pizza with artichokes pizza for mom. This pizza is out of this world delicious! I decided to just have some cheese off one slice, and we took half the pizza home with us.
It was a fabulous meal as always and we were happy we hadn’t cancelled even though we were not as hungry as usual. Even though it was EMH until 11:00 we headed back to the resort.
I thought of MEK when I saw this lighting
Epcot is so pretty at night
And on the bridge in France we saw some fireworks that had to be happening over at HS. Not a great view but it was fun to watch.
We took the little walkway under the bridge, this is much easier than the hill after a long day!
And back up to the room where we got ready for bed and fell asleep watching Rocketeer. It was a great first day of vacation.