Guess its time I get on this eh? I can't forget to write about the trip as we came back TWO weeks ago!!! I can't believe its already been two weeks, time goes by so incredibly fast.
We packed SO much into that trip, and thankfully I had the foresight to bring a pedometer with me. A couple of the days we walked 10 miles. yes. 10 miles. I had sore feet most days, and put the kids to work giving me foot massages.
Day two was October 8th, so E's 8th birthday!! That day we went to Epcot, and walked. walked. walked. and walked some more. It wasn't quite the traditional birthday for her, but seeing as we're going with that trend the last two years, we may as well keep up with it I guess.
Now, if you haven't been to Epcot, you don't know how big it is. It's massive, like bigger than all the lands in Magic Kingdom massive. There are two "worlds", Future World and the World Showcase. We started off in Future world where we did a character meet and greet with Mickey, Minnie, Daisy, Donald and Goofy. That took up quite a bit of time, as we had autographs and what not to get as well.
After that, it was time to haul ass over to Epcot's "Norway", as we had lunch reservations at Akershus to have lunch with the Disney Princesses as a special treat for E's birthday. We were early, so we did a bit of poking around Norway, rode Malestrom (really lame boat ride), and found a cute little gift shop. I was in heaven here, because they had my IKEA COOKIES!!!! haha. I stock up on those cookies every time the kids and I head to Ikea (an hour north of us), and we hadn't had them in awhile, so I forked over a few bucks for that.
Lunch with the Princesses was a lot of fun, albeit very expensive. We got a ton of food, and I had mentioned to them before hand when were being seated, that it was E's birthday. After lunch, they gave her a special birthday cupcake and we all sang Happy Birthday to her. The food at Akershus wasn't too bad I suppose, I enjoyed it, but the kids didn't love it too much. We were there more to meet the Princesses anyway, and we did! Part of the package is getting photos taken, so when we were ushered in, we had personal photos taken with Belle. They treated us well there, as we got a family photo package (8x10, 4 4x6), AND E got a photo pkg with just her and Belle (same amount of photos as I just mentioned). During the lunch, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Snow White and Ariel came around to the tables (they staggered the princesses, so each princess went to each table), and did autographs and pictures with the kids. I have a ton of pictures. I really enjoyed this part, as seeing the kids' face light up with each new princess was priceless. They got to actually talk to and personally interact with them, not like normal meet and greets. The princesses interact with the kids, talk to them, take pictures....that alone is worth the cost of the lunch.
After lunch, I'm pretty sure we went all the way around World Showcase. For some reason my memory of that part of the day is foggy, I should ask the kids. Honestly, Epcot World Showcase was pretty boring for the most part. We didn't see any of the "shows" inside the countries, but just looked around, took pictures etc etc. My favorite was Germany, as was the kids' I think, because they got their Giant Gummy Bears. Which are disgusting by the way. Now, normally I love gummy bears, but these tasted like pure crap. I liked Canada, but I was very disappointed how my home country was represented. Tres Boring! The shop had smarties and wunderbars, and I so wanted to, but I wasnt about to spend $3+ dollars for a box of smarties. We went to the UK section and met Pooh and Tigger!! That was really fun, as they're pretty much our favorite characters. We also saw "The British Invasion" perform a few Beatles songs, and they were pretty awesome!
Sugar Ray was supposed to be performing at Epcot that day, but we didn't stay because it was packed due to it being the Food and Wine expo. After seeing all the countries, we did some of the other stuff in Future World. We did LOVE Spaceship Earth, we rode that a couple times. It was awesome. We missed Soarin' and Test Track (more on that another day) though, but did most of everything else. We did NOT stay for the fireworks. I was bummed out about that, but at Epcot you NEED to get a good seat, and I was not in the position with four kids by myself, to sit and hold our spot for almost two hours. So we left after dinner and went back to the hotel.
That was a long tiring day, one of our most tiring actually, and I can't remember the little details about it. My feet were positively aching by the time I sat down on my bed in the hotel. Next ReCap, I'll cover October 9th (Animal Kingdom), the 10th, and the 11th. I don't think I could possibly write about all that now, there is just so much to say and remember.
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