Monday, September 15, 2008

Eleven More Months Until WDW

The countdown continues—eleven months until our trip to Walt Disney World to celebrate my 40th. I’m also continuing posting layouts and memories from our 2006 trip. Click here for the first installment.

10/19/06-After finally checking into our room, we headed to Epcot. Our first stop was Spaceship Earth. I was a little worried about how Nik would handle it since parts of the ride are dark. He was fine until we got to the top and started going backwards. This is the area with stars and the Earth pictured on the ceiling. Nikolas said, “Mommy, I want to come back to Earth now.”

Next, we headed to The Seas with Nemo and Friends. Nikolas loved the pelicans outside (“Mine, mine, mine”). It was surprising to see that there was no line for this brand new attraction that had just officially opened that Monday. I wasn’t that impressed with the ride. The Nemo part of the story was fast and choppy.

We also saw the Turtle Talk with Crush show. Nikolas wasn’t comfortable sitting on the floor with the other kids, but that was OK. After that, we looked around the rest of The Seas including Bruce’s Sub House.After The Seas, our next stop was The Land Pavilion. We grabbed Fast Passes for Soarin' to use after dinner. We saw the Circle of Life show and the Living with the Land ride, which Nikolas loved because of all the animals in the first part. Nik was hungry so we stopped for some fruit at Sunshine Seasons, then road Living with the Land again. We did some shopping and beverage sampling at Club Cool before our dinner reservations.

The food at the Garden Grill was great. Nikolas was a little shy with the characters at first, but he warmed up pretty quickly...and we forgot about autographs and only got Pluto's that night.
After dinner we road Soarin' which we all enjoyed. We left The Land around 7pm and strolled around World Showcase until IllumiNations started at 9pm. Nikolas fell asleep in his stroller before it started (not surprising, since he had been up since 4:30am) and woke up during the show. We started toward the exit before the show was over and was in bed by 10:30.

1 comment:

Rachel said...

I love Disney...you will have so much fun again!! I would love to go back again someday.