Monday, February 23, 2009

February 11th - Epcot

Today we went to Epcot. We first went to Spaceship Earth, which is the ride inside the iconic Epcot geodesic sphere. We rode in a car together as Dame Judy Dench narrated the past, present, and future of technology on earth. At the end, we ended up under the stars staring back at Earth. Then the cars turned backwards for our “descent back to Earth” (the PA system announced). Jack got upset, saying, “I want to go home! I want to go back to Earth!” Ronny had to explain that we really never left Earth.

The next stop was a Finding Nemo ride, followed up by “Turtle Talk with Crush”. Crush is the surfer-dude-talking turtle from Finding Nemo. Jack was very brave and sat in front with all of the kids, while Charlie sat on my lap. It was a cute interactive cartoon Crush, who actually asks the kids questions.

Ronny had told Jack that “Crush might talk to you”. When the show was over and everyone got up to leave, Jack was crushed. “Was he going to talk to me? Crush didn’t talk to me.” Jack was so sad. He recovered pretty quickly, though, as we checked out the different exhibits – especially the one with Bruce the shark – Jack’s favorite character from Nemo.

Naxt we saw “Circle of Life” which is a movie about how the bad humans are destroying the earth and better stop it right now. After a quick lunch, we went on the Living with the Land ride, a neat show about the past, present, and future of agriculture. The best part was going through some really neat greenhouses, where things are grown hydroponically.

After naptime back at the cabin, we went back to Epcot to go to the Biergarten for an early dinner. We had a fun time watching the Oom-Pah band while we ate. On our way out, Jack pulled us down to the dance floor as they were starting the chicken dance. Funny kid.

After dinner, we went on Maelstrom, which is a ride on Viking ships in the Norway pavilion. It was a little intense and Jack was scared of the trolls. He said, “I didn’t like those trolls. They made me feel a little bit sick.”

The next stop was on to Mexico for another boat ride. This time it was with the three amigos – one of which was Donald Duck. This cute, funny boat ride was the perfect thing to follow up the “scary” boat ride so we left the evening on a happy note.






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