Disney: Day 6

Disney World had already been a dream come true, and we still had not even toured EPCOT. Most people told us before we went that kids usually don't like EPCOT as much so Mom and Dad were surprised at how very much I enjoyed it. It was certainly different than the other parks, but different can be good. We intended on taking a mid day break on Saturday to return to the room to swim, but ended up spending about 12 straight hours there! Here are some of the adventures we had:

- Slept in until 7:00 as this was the only morning we did not have a scheduled early breakfast
- Dad and Mom both rode Test Track, a fast test driving simulator

- Visited the Land Pavilion where we rode the Living With the Land attraction.........Saw Disney's ag research center which uses lots of unique growing techniques

- Headed to the Imagination! Pavilion to see yet another 3-D movie, Honey I Shrunk the Audience

- Went to The Seas With Nemo and Friends Pavilion......Rode in a clamobile under the sea to Find Nemo; he's a fish.......Saw a great interactive show called Turtle Talk With Crush; he's a funny surfer turtle who loves to say "dude"

- Had lunch at the Coral Reef Restaurant........One entire wall of the restaurant looked into a huge aquarium......I had a giant sea turtle right next to me the whole time

- Picked up a "Passport" before touring the World Showcase part of the park........Mom highly recommends the passport for the preschool/early grade school set........Different countries are represented throughout this part of the park, and at each one a person from that country stamps your passport and rights a message in the country's official language......There are also stickers to put in it

- Rode the Three Caballeros ride featuring Donald Duck in Mexico, then ran into the duck himself

- Skipped Norway since we had already seen it a few days before, and continued to China

- Came upon Snow White's Prince in Germany

- Window shopped in Italy on our way to America

- Pretty tired by the time we reached our home country, so we decided to cool off at the American Adventures Pavilion......While waiting to see a show about American history we were picked as the "first family", just one of those fun little Disney touches.........We had special seats in the balcony by ourselves to watch a singing performance, got to choose our seats first in the theatre, and had our name and home state announced to the audience

-Paused the world tour to try sodas from different countries at Club Cool........We were unanimous........Costa Rica was the best, Italy was the worst

- Ate supper at Restaurant Marrakesh in Morocco.......Live music and belly dancing was cool, Dad had couscous for the first time........Moroccan food is yummy (at least Disney's version is)

- Hung out under a covered arch in Japan as we encountered our first big rain of the trip
- Saw the Eiffel Tower in France

- Bumped into Tigger, Pooh, and Eeyore in the UK
- Felt almost at home as we passed through Canada
- Got soaked on our way to what many refer to as "the big ball" which is actually the Spaceship Earth Pavilion....Rode Spaceship Earth ride.....Took us from the dawn of civilization all the way into the future..........Part of it makes you feel like you are flying in outer space backwards, and when we got done I kept saying, "We left the earth. Can you believe it?"

..............and much, much more!

Abby and Donald in his sombrero in MexicoPutting stickers in my passport in NorwayI liked these pandas in ChinaDaddy and I in front of a statue in Italy......Each time Mom would take a picture I would ask what country we were in and open my book to the page of that country to pose.........This cracked Mom and Dad up every timeSnow White's Prince Trying the Italian soda.......Bitter! Terrible!.......Couldn't believe Mom did this to me
Daddy and me after riding Spaceship Earth.......Wet, but still smiling big!