After somewhat of a restful day, we headed back to the parks for more fun! Today was the day we take the kids to Epcot for the first time!
They were stoked!
We got a picture as soon as we walked in the entrance. The photographer took off to go to another location as soon as he took our picture. I'm glad he captured ours. This turned out to be a great one! Definitely one of my favorites!
We headed in and went straight to The Seas. The kids sat up front for Turtle Talk with Crush. You may remember this being one of my favorites from 2009. The kids really enjoyed it. They weren't brave enough to ask any questions of Crush but they still watched in amazement.
Then we explored the "seas" and looked at all the undersea creatures.
Did I mention we also took selfies??
We ate lunch in Future World. It was delicious. Then we waited a few minutes for our next FastPass for Spaceship Earth. While we were waiting, we looked around and saw that Pluto was taking pictures with people...
We had to get one of our own! Adorable!
Don't forget the family pose! The kids were getting much better at smiling (or at least not scowling) for pictures.
I had to take a picture of this moment. Take the kids to Disney and they have fun playing with their own reflections!
Hey look! It's Charlotte and me in our Space Adventure!
After we walked out of Spaceship Earth, Tommy HAD to play the games.
This is a sweet picture that my mom took as we were walking around Epcot. Awwww!
We had reservations at the Biergarten Restaurant but wanted to get a quick Chase Freedom Disney card picture that I read about (more info here). The two surprise guests did not disappoint! Although Goofy was very disappointed when both kids immediately ran to...
THE MOUSE HIMSELF!! Goofy pretended to cry and that's when Tommy hugged him. Charlotte was not going to go near him. :)
Tommy really enjoyed meeting Mickey. Look at that smile!!
Plus we got a family picture too! Nice! Uh oh, Tommy has the I'm-trying-really-hard-smile again. Haha!
It was time for our Biergarten reservation. When we arrived, we had a few minutes before our table was ready. We ran into (pretty much literally) a few ladies in motorized carts who had been enjoying the biergarten themselves. Sheesh!! One woman ran her cart into 3 different tables before she told us Charlotte had beautiful eyes and that Andrew needed to buy a gun. She also went on to say that she might be arrested for saying something like that nowadays and then she motored off. It was hilarious. It made it quite excited for our reservation. Haha!
The restaurant was really cool! The chef came out again and as it turns out, Tommy can have more German food than he could have African food. Crazy right? He had quite a few German hot dogs (actually sausages but we weren't going to tell him). He really enjoyed his meal, as we all did. But we mostly enjoyed the beer. I had a Hefeweizen. It was awesome.
We also had to deal with our waiter who did NOT have a sense of humor. He was from Germany and very serious. But he smirked once I think after we warmed up to him a bit.
Charlotte loved this restaurant most of all, I believe. She really enjoyed the live entertainment and she got to dance on the dance floor. The alpenhorns were super cool (aka RIIIICCCOOOOLLAAAA instruments). It was a really awesome place to dine. Very happy with our choice.
We got our picture taken in front of Germany after dinner. They came out a little light but still fun.
Everyone's happy after a full meal (and beer)!
We walked just a couple countries over to discover that HANSON was playing the Eat to the Beat Concert Series. I can't find any reference to it from the 2009 posts but I know we saw Earth, Wind and Fire back then. But this time, HANSON???? Are you kidding me??? Hello, 1997!!!!
Yes I took a video. You saw it here first, folks. I'm jamming out and Andrew is dancing to Hanson... with his 2 year old daughter. Can you imagine what 1997 Andrew would say about that? I think he would say BAD, DUDE!! haha.
We checked the time (no, it wasn't time to get ill), it was time to meet Charlotte's favorite, Princess Aurora! We got in line a few minutes early but Charlotte is not really into standing still so she climbed this light pole.
Then she refused to stand so she laid on the sidewalk. Crazy kiddo.
But then it was TIME! Princess Aurora was here! She held Charlotte's hand!
This is as close to a smile as Charlotte got all vacation. Tongue out happy little lady!
I got in on the action too! She was a really great Aurora. She loved Charlotte, of course. Probably because she is her biggest fan.
We ended the night with rides and character meet n greets. Mickey again!! Yay!!! Mickey always brings the smiles!
This time, Goofy was less scary.
Then it was time for Minnie Mouse... The photog capture us waiting our turn.
Haha! Yay Minnie!
We watched the Illuminations firework show on the water at the end of the night which Charlotte HATED. Way too loud. But as long as I kept her ears covered, she was okay. We also ate pastries from France while watching the show. YUM! Andrew got the biggest iced donut I've ever seen and I ate a lot of eclairs. Delish.
The next day, Thursday, was going to be a rest day and it was a good thing. Another full day and late night. Lots of fun was had at Epcot!
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