DisneyWorld

It’s always a bit quieter at DisneyWorld before a hurricane comes – some tourists cancel their plans, and some locals are busy prepping … we often head down for a quieter day in the parks, and today we went to Epcot. We got to ride Soarin’ and Ratatouille (when it wasn’t broken) and Spaceship Earth, and met a couple Anna and Elsa; we couldn’t do Nemo because it was broken …

We also had lunch for the first time at Spaceship 220; it’s expensive but we had great service and the theming is interesting …

Yesterday afternoon Margaret & I drove to Epcot with friends Linda & Berch, to enjoy the location and have dinner at the Moroccan restaurant.

When we arrived the park seemed happily quiet and we did a “walk on” to Spaceship Earth! After dinner we rode Ratatouille (which did have a long wait), and both Living With The Land and Soarin’ (where were both near walk-on). We also got VERY wet with a heavy ten minute storm! By the time we’d done Soarin’ it was almost 9pm so we stayed for the fireworks. Photos of course:

While visiting Epcot yesterday we also took the monorail over to the Magic Kingdom resort area and checked out the annual chocolate easter egg display at the Grand Floridian resort – the first one we saw was Alice In Wonderland, and was definitely the favorite! The last two photos are of an “in progress” design …

We then took the monorail to the Contemporary resort where there were a few more Easter Eggs to see: