Friday, December 27, 2013

Disney Vacation - Downtown Disney

On our last day there, we didn't want to buy park tickets since we would only be there half a day so scheduled breakfast at Chef Mickey's and then headed to downtown Disney for shopping and lunch. 

We got to ride the Monorail to the restaurant. 

We had an amazing breakfast - the food was incredible and the girls had fun posing with the characters. 











Katie loved the Lego store





After our late, big breakfast, it was poor planning to schedule lunch, but we were already booked for it so we enjoyed a light lunch at Planet Hollywood. 





We took the boat back to the hotel, and headed to the airport to go home. 



Disney Vacation - Epcot

We finally got around to visiting Epcot on Wednesday and again on Saturday. On Wednesday, we stayed in the futureworld area. On Saturday, we went to the countries but did a few Future world rides as well. 





Tinkerbell stopped by for a visit!





Soarin' was Theo's favorite ride at Disney and we got to ride it twice. 


We went through their plants area and we saw Theo's favorite fruit - the Jackfruit. We have a sapling growing in our kitchen so now we know what it will look like someday.











One of the kids' favorites was Turtle Talk with Crush. It was pretty cool.





When we first planned to go to Disney World, we asked the kids what they wanted to do. Their most important item was to eat by the big aquarium like they showed in Full House. 








We headed back to the center of the park and rode the ride inside the giant golf ball. Can't remember what it was called but it showed the history of the world. We rode it twice and got stuck for 10 minutes the second time so I got at least one good shot of Egypt.









We enjoyed the Illuminations show but we liked the shows at Hollywood Studios and Magic Kingdom better. 


On Saturday, we mostly did the Around the world part of Epcot. 




Meeting Mulan



We got to ride the boats in Mexico and Norway and watch movies in France and Canada. Now I want to go to France even more. We had dinner at Napoli's in Italy and enjoyed the veal parmesan.