CaptSmee
01-20-2011, 11:09 PM
Me & my sister arrived in Orlando early this morning for her annual birthday celebration. After taking Magical Express to the Wilderness Lodge we promptly used on-line check in (which saved us no time) & headed over to our lunch ADR at Whispering Canyon. We had a nice meal to start the day with a lively server who brought me a half gallon jug of soda after I quickly polished off my first Diet Coke. Our room was ready at check in so we went to it to freshen up and then headed to Epcot for the day. The second we hit the bus station sn Epcot bus pulled up a sure good omen.
We ended up making it to Epcot around 1:30. We rode Spaceship Earth, walked right on. We then perused the pin station a bit to see what's come out new before we decided to try our luck on Soarin'. Much to our surprise there were fastpasses available for about an hour later so we got our tix & went on our merry way riding Figment, seeing Captain EO before going back & riding Soarin'. Afterwards we then rode Living With the Land & The Seas. We were able to catch the end of a dolphin training session while we were in the aquarium. We them decided to crossover to the other side of Future World hitting Club Cool & Mousegear on our way to ride Mission Space. After that we rode Ellen & grabbed ourselves a snack to gather our thoughts because it was blowing our minds that the longest we waited for anything was 5 minutes. We had an ADR for 8:00 & almost 2 hrs to kill. We decided to spend some time in Innoventions & saw Stormstruck. We then decided to just start working our way to World Showcase walking past Test Track & looked at the standby sign stunned with a standby wait posted of 5 minutes, so we decided to ride it & ended up walking right on.
After Test Track we walked up to Nirway & rode Maelstrom then hit the Mexico Pavilion & rode Gran Fiesta Tour. Like the rest of the day when we exited the ride it was exactly time to walk across the street to La Hacienda de San Angel for a perfectly timed 8:00 ADR to catch Illuminations from the restaurant. It was our first time eating at this fantastic new restaurant that is now one of my favorites around. The food was incredible. The margarita was incredible. The empanada fir desert was incredible. The view for Illuminations was incredible.
Hopefully the rest of our trips as great as today was. I'll let you know after we hit Magic Kingdom tomorrow with rain in the forecast.
We ended up making it to Epcot around 1:30. We rode Spaceship Earth, walked right on. We then perused the pin station a bit to see what's come out new before we decided to try our luck on Soarin'. Much to our surprise there were fastpasses available for about an hour later so we got our tix & went on our merry way riding Figment, seeing Captain EO before going back & riding Soarin'. Afterwards we then rode Living With the Land & The Seas. We were able to catch the end of a dolphin training session while we were in the aquarium. We them decided to crossover to the other side of Future World hitting Club Cool & Mousegear on our way to ride Mission Space. After that we rode Ellen & grabbed ourselves a snack to gather our thoughts because it was blowing our minds that the longest we waited for anything was 5 minutes. We had an ADR for 8:00 & almost 2 hrs to kill. We decided to spend some time in Innoventions & saw Stormstruck. We then decided to just start working our way to World Showcase walking past Test Track & looked at the standby sign stunned with a standby wait posted of 5 minutes, so we decided to ride it & ended up walking right on.
After Test Track we walked up to Nirway & rode Maelstrom then hit the Mexico Pavilion & rode Gran Fiesta Tour. Like the rest of the day when we exited the ride it was exactly time to walk across the street to La Hacienda de San Angel for a perfectly timed 8:00 ADR to catch Illuminations from the restaurant. It was our first time eating at this fantastic new restaurant that is now one of my favorites around. The food was incredible. The margarita was incredible. The empanada fir desert was incredible. The view for Illuminations was incredible.
Hopefully the rest of our trips as great as today was. I'll let you know after we hit Magic Kingdom tomorrow with rain in the forecast.