Epcot

Epcot was up for our Saturday adventure. Grampy decided he'd had enough of Disney for a while but Gagi was interested in coming along so she met us at our resort that morning. We had late(r) dinner reservations so we decided we didn't need to be there before opening - we'd just get there when we got there. We got to the park about 30 minutes after opening and it was a madhouse to get through bag search. Luckily Paul didn't have a bag and he took a few of the kids, got a stroller and headed to the Land to get Fastpasses for Soarin'. We finally met up over there and decided to the boat ride thing since there was no line before we had breakfast in their food court. The Living the Land was a cute ride - very interesting to see what Disney is doing with some of the crops. We then ate some breakfast in the food court..yummy cinnamon rolls!

We headed over to the Seas and did the Nemo ride and Turtle Talk with Crush - oh that's soo cute! We got a surprise after that when Tom & Erin decided to join us for the day! We had lunch reservations at Coral Reef and it was already lunchtime so we headed over. Luckily they were able to accommodate all of us. While we didn't get a great table we could still see the large aquarium. The food was good (the service..eh) but overall a good lunch. After lunch it was time for Soarin..one of our favorites. Emma decided to sit that one out so it was Paul, Lily, Julia and I. The girls loved it! After Soarin' Paul and Lily got to do Test Track (notice that Lily is first in line for all the thrill rides!). We then hit the World Showcase!

Unfortunately we only made it to Norway when a storm came up. We waited in the covered seating by the Norway bakery for a bit but it was so windy that we were still getting wet. So we holed up in the bakery for another bit..which was really fun with 4 kids. The rain let up a bit so we quickly walked to China where we walked through the shops for a while. Thankfully I had my trusty ponchos (Paul and Erin continually mock me for always bringing ponchos in my park bag but we finally needed them!) and we got them out and headed to Germany when the rain let up some more. We ate some snacks in Germany (darn you Werther's store and your caramel heaven) and waited some more for the rain to go away. Gagi decided she'd had enough of this and bailed on us. Thankfully the rain did finally let up and the sun came out. It ended being beautiful (and much cooler vs hot the day before) but it did take about 2 hours out of our day..boo. We continued around the World Showcase and got our Kim Possible Communicuffs. The girls LOVED doing this. All the action was in England but it was really cute and they were thrilled to solve the mystery. Tom & Erin left us at this point to go get some dinner. We still had some time to kill before our reservations at Le Cellier so we wandered back to Imagination and did Captian EO (mostly so we could sit down for a few minutes) and the Journey into Imagination. It was close to dinner time and we found a little playground so the kids could run for a bit (seriously not sure how they still had energy to run but whatever).

Our dinner was at Le Cellier and we were pretty excited to eat there after all I've heard about it. It did not disappoint. The food was so, so good! We had this delicious pretzel bread to start. Yummy goodness! The steak was just fabulous. Honestly, I thought the service was not spectacular but all in all a great, great meal. I had hoped to stay for Illuminations after dinner but Paul was exhausted and really ready to head back so we did. It was actually pretty smart since the buses get crowded after the fireworks. Unfortunately there was an accident and we had to wait a while on the bus but we finally made it back. Another great day!