Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Disney Day 3: Epcot

As the title implies, we spent our 3rd day at Epcot. While going through my photos, I noticed we didn't have many shots of all of us together. Epcot was an exception in that we have a whopping two photos of all of us in one frame. The first one is in front of Epcot's iconic geodesic dome, which also houses the Spaceship Earth ride.


We got to Epcot early so the first thing we did was head over to Test Track, one of the more thrilling rides there. If you haven't been to Epcot, I should probably explain that it isn't really known for exciting rides so you take when you can get.

What made Test Track a truly memorable experience for us on that day is that we got stuck on it! Yep, for the first time in my life, I was on a broken down amusement park ride. It's hard to tell in the photo below, but we stopped on a turn, which was at a really high angle. I actually had to hold myself up so as not to slide into Lucas. That was a fun thing to do for the 10 minutes or so that it took them to "rescue" us.




A park employee finally came by, opened up the car, and then we walked on the track until we reached some stairs that led to the ground. We got to see "behind the scenes" a bit before being escorted out to the main area. We got another set of Fast Passes for our trouble so all was well that ended well.

One of my favorite memories as a kid of Disney World was the Imagination ride at Epcot. It wasn't particularly thrilling, but I guess I liked the music and most importantly, Figment the dragon. Below, I've got a picture of Lucas playing with the leaping water display that is just outside the Imagination ride...


...and here, I got to meet and take a picture with Figment. Yet another highlight of the day for me.


These next several photos are from our travel around the world at Epcot. Germany!


Italy! We had lunch at the yellow building in the far back. It was quite good.


Japan!


Japan again!


France! Only appropriate I pose with our French speaker.


My dad and Lucas hung out by a French fountain while Marilu and I went on a spy hunt based on Perry the Platypus from the Disney show Phineas and Ferb.


An English street!


And here's Lucas waiting for the bus. The reason I included this photo is the weather. Up until that point, the weather had been pretty good. There was a light rainfall the previous day at Animal Kingdom but our ponchos (from the Dollar Store) kept us nice and dry. However, mere minutes after this photo was taken, the skies opened up. For the next several hours, it was a torrential downpour with some lovely Florida lightning thrown in for good measure.

When it first started, I told a visiting tourist from England that storms like this happen every day in Florida during the summer and that it'll probably be clear and blue skies within 45 minutes. Oh, how I was wrong on that.


Upon our return to the resort, we decided to rest our soaked bodies with a beer or two at the pub.



All in all, a pretty good 3rd day!

1 comment:

Grammy said...

Great post. You managed to get some really good shots of everyone. How did your post at 1:59 PM? No work today? Looking forward to more of the adventure.