Day Six

Was educational! We spent our day in Epcot. There is just no way you can do all of Epcot in less than 2 full days!!! We didn't get to do everything we wanted, but we still had fun.


We first got fast passes for "Mission: Space" for everyone but me. It is a simulator and I knew I'd get sick. Then we went shopping while we waited. The first thing we learned was that Ryan sweats ALOT when he feels very ill and is about to throw up! But we also learned that when he took deep breaths and didn't really look at the screen, he managed not to "lose it". Acadia decided at the last minute not to ride this one so she got to play in the play area while we waited.

The next thing we learned was that "Test Track" runs out of fast passes as fast as it's ride goes! We got fast passes in the morning that weren't good until after 6 in the evening! (Most fast passes are about an hour or sometimes a couple hours later.) Turns out that when we returned in the evening, the ride was down so we ended up not getting to ride it at all.

Another thing we learned was that dolphins at Epcot's The Living Seas eat squid so that their trainers can monitor how much water they are getting everyday. Kind of like how we are supposed to drink 8 glasses a day, they give the dolphins so much squid a day because it is a good source of water for them. In the same exhibit, we learned that dolphins on the East coast respond to combs on glass the same way that dolphins on the West coast do. Very cool to have them come right up to us and give us all their attention!

As we had ice cream with Mickey Mouse in the Garden Grill, we learned that once Ryan gets queasy, he is pretty sensitive for the rest of the day. The restaurant rotates very slowly as you eat. Every now and then even that slight movement made his stomach uneasy. We also learned that Chip (of Chip and Dale) is a prankster! He caught Pluto and tied his tail in a knot!!! Poor Pluto! But later Tom told Chip that he liked that trick and it got Chip to spend extra time with us instead of going in to a break room when he was going to. Oh, and one more thing we learned...it does you no good to get all the characters to sign your souvenir cup if you leave it at the restaurant when you leave! Oops.

In Japan we learned that "tree" is (key) in Japanese. (I don't know the spelling, but this is how it sounds.) And fire is (he... as in "he and she"). We watched some drummers in Japan, they were cool. We did alot of shopping too...mostly window shopping because their prices were quite high!

When we had dinner in a castle in Norway, we learned that to say hello in Norwegian, you say "Hello". Again, I don't know if that's spelled right, but that's how it sounded. We also learned that thankyou is "Takk". We had a delicious all-you-can-eat dinner. We learned that all the people in the countries were "imported":lol:. Disney went to all these countries and interviewed lots of people, chose the ones they wanted, got them a work visa, and brought them here for one year to work in that country at Epcot. In Norway, they estimated there were 100 Norwegians hired.

We stayed for "Illuminations", the firework and laser show. That was cool. It wasn't nearly as spectacular as Fantasmic or even the fireworks at Magic Kingdom, but it was nice.

It was a fun day! Now I am tired and want to go to bed.

Oh, one more thing learned...Mom and Debi's e-mail addresses end in .com, not .org. :sad: And when you send a free 10 second e-postcard to the wrong e-mail address, the recipients don't receive it! :cry:

Here are all of the Florida Pictures.