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I'll fly for this Mickey Mouse outfit!
- Joined
- Mar 23, 2013
Okay... Crazy day today. Last day too. Breakfast at the Garden Grill at Epcot. Early arrival (8:15) before park opens. Never ate there before, it was definitely a new experience. Good food, and character interactions. (Chip-n-Dale, Pluto and Mickey). Couldn't finish the food (Par for the course I think). We got done in time to get on Soarin' right away. It's the new version too (on all of them). We were in row 1 (which ends up on top) but on concourse C on the last 2 seats (Closest to the outside edge). It was truly awesome and I loved it. My only real complaint was that being on the "Edge" the screen is concave and any tall structures were "Bent". Sitting on the FAR right, the Eiffel tower looked more like the leaning tower of Pisa (or rather the curved over and bent tower of Pisa). None-the-less, it was still pretty awesome.
We then did a few of the other attractions on that side of the park. Worked our way back to spaceship earth, some shops and eventually over to our Fast Pass of Frozen. Let me say this about the Frozen attraction. It was nice. The animatronics were great and overall it was nice attraction. I will say, though, that it was in NO way worth a 70 minute or even a 45 minute wait. That is, however, my opinion and others may disagree. I just didn't think it was all that stellar. They basically did a face lift on Norway to make it Frozen themed.
So we came back... took a break, then went to MK for 5 PM reservations at Tony's Town Square.
We decided not to spend the evening in the park like we had planned which upset our DD. We only had one fastpass left and it was for Space mountain at 9PM. I was just beat and wanted to get the camper ready to go for tomorrow morning's long drive after breakfast. Well, you know... best laid plans. Tinkerbell was right next to Tony's We were going to do the Character photo, but the wait went from 15 minutes before our meal to 35 minutes after. Oh well... we went in anyway. Well turns out after waiting another 10 - 15 minutes, Tink was ill (or something) and she wasn't coming out. So they gave us a fast pass to return ANY TIME WE WANTED up until 8/31/16. Great... We leave tomorrow. DW had the great idea to see if Guest relations would give us another one instead. After a 15 minute wait there... everyone in our group got one more "Any time" experience Fast Pass. So we ended up going to the 7DMT. Left there to do the requisite Small World..... Worked our way past the Ice Cream joint on main street, back to the boat, the bus, and the campsite....... DW and DD went swimming and I hooked up the camper and did as much as I could to get ready to go.
Long night.... Got my shower... spent some time here now I am going to bed. I'll check back in later.
Safe journey to you too...came down 95 after joining DC loop via 70/270, but going home western route (26, 77, etc)...I'll wave if I see you!