Epcot Day!

I think I normally start out any post about Epcot pointing out it isn’t my favorite park.  BUT – I was very excited about visiting this year because they have a new Guardians of the Galaxy Ride AND a new Remy ride. 

We were up around 6:00AM and got ready quickly.  At 7:00AM on the nose we got our Boarding Group for Guardians and our LL for Remy.  I also bought an Individual Lightning Lane for Guardians because we knew we’d wanted to ride it twice and our Fairy Godmother sent us money to do that.  ♥

7:23AM.

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They let us in and held us at the rope on the side with Guardians, Mission Space and Test Track.  We rope dropped to Test Track.  We fondly remembered the time we were allowed in the upstairs lounge when John was a GM employee.

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We made our car by 8:02AM.

We got off.  Found a bathroom, and then went for our first ride on Guardians.

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It absolutely blew our minds.  WOW. WOW. WOW!!

Then we did Mission Space: Orange, which almost made me lose my breakfast.
Then we did Soarin’ standby, and had a 50th Anniversary snack.

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We saw Winnie the Pooh, “in the wild.”

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Did Figment.

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Saw Pooh once more.

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Grabbed an LL for Frozen Ever After later, and went to ride Nemo and visit the aquariums which is something I’ve never done!

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Grabbed some photos.
10:58AM

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And took our second ride on Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind.

We did some photos afterward.

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Tried some Coke products from around the world at Club Cool, which was closed on our last visit.

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We headed over to World Showcase.
12:00PM

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Rode Gran Fiesta in Mexico.

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And waited  LONG time to meet Caballero Donald.
12:44PM

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Got some treats in Norway.
12:55PM

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And we visited in and out of all the countries. This fish reminded us of Tabitha bc she draws beautiful fish.
1:20PM

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1:51PM

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Beauty and the Beast Sing Along was NOT on our plans, but it was cute.  And had AC and seats. My feet were really starting to get tired.
Then we went to see American Experience.

And then continued our trek around the countries.

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We got to Remy’s early and the wait said it was only 25 minutes, so we decided to ride it before our LL time, because we figured we’d want to ride it twice. 

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So..
We did ride it twice… but we would have been satisfied with once.  It was precious, but not amazing.
4:06PM

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We were kind of very hungry.  We really hadn’t eaten much all day.
We went to the Patisserie in France and got bread bowls.  There wasn’t much seating, but we got a table for our food.  But when Marie went back to get our desserts and I got up to refill our ice waters, someone took our spot.  Just then, it started to pour and pour and pour.  We had to eat our desserts on a ledge.

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All day we had hoped to see Mickey Mouse with our VISA card.  This would mean we got to meet Mickey at all the parks.
We waited a silly-long amount of time in a weird little building and lo and behold, we were NOT in line for Mickey.

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We bolted to his building (another weird building next door not at all marked for his Meet and Greet) and, he was done for the day.

Ugh.  Marie wanted another ride on Figment.

We walked all the way back to use our LL for Frozen.

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Took another spin on Gran Fiesta.

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Then did another ride on Test Track; I’d picked up a LL during the day.

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I had to cry uncle…

I had sore, wet feet.  I wanted to watch Harmonious.  But I wanted dry feet more. 

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