Arriving at the park, late as usual.
Our first ride - The Universe of Energy. This is a slow-moving ride that shows the history and future of energy, featuring Ellen Degeneres. As the ride announced multiple times, it was 37 minutes long. We all enjoyed it.
Next up - our first Fast Pass, for Spaceship Earth! You ride inside the giant ball and learn about the history and future of knowledge.
Designing an ideal future.
We headed over to The Seas area next.
The first ride is a theme on Finding Nemo, where you ride on a giant clamshell.
At the end, there is an aquarium with all kinds of animals - sharks, fish, and this cool eel below.
We then headed over to "Journey Into Imagination," another peaceful ride, this time featuring the dragon Figment and the five senses.
At the end, there were all kinds of displays to play on, including making music by waving your hands.
Our final Fast Pass was for the awesome ride Soarin', which is just like the ride in California Adventures. It truly feels like you are flying over the California countryside. This was the favorite ride for 3 out of 4 of us (Annika loved Test Track, which we did at the end of the night).
Next year - The Land!
We watched the movie "Circle of Life," which is a conservation movie featuring the characters from The Lion King.
Living with the Land was a really cool boat ride that featured a tour through greenhouses and showing all kinds of vegetables and flowers growing.
The greenhouse!
We then got ready to head into the World Showcase area and discovered something really cool - a Phineas and Ferb Scavenger Hunt!! We received a phone that gave us interactive clues. We did this for Mexico and China and it was so much fun!!
We used lots of our snack credits in the World Showcase area - churros from Mexico.
Mexico.
One of the most awesome parts of the scavenger hunt - we found this skeleton in the Mexico area, and he came to life with singing and dancing after we activated our scavenger hunt phone! We totally were not expecting that and the kids were delighted.
Boat ride in Mexico, featuring both videos and animatronic dolls.
Norway! Home of absolutely delicious pastries.
China! We did another awesome scavenger hunt here, including saying a code word to one of the workers and receiving a fortune cookie with a clue in return. ;)
Germany.
We stopped for a (non-alcoholic) drink break.
Italy.
America. Our non-adventurous kids opted to eat here for their dinner. ;)
Japan!
Morocco!
France! Will and I had a delicious dinner here and we all enjoyed the delicious pastries for a snack/dessert.
The U.K.
It's almost impossible to tell, but below is Canada. ;)
Epcot had Extra Magic Hours from 9-11 p.m. last night for guests staying on Disney property, and we decided to go for it and stay the extra two hours, because why not? We went on Spaceship Earth again, this time with only a 5-minute wait. We also had a blast playing some of the games at the end of the ride, including a cooperative game involving trying to power a city.
Artwork from within the ride. Will and Annika are showing off that they are the only ones in our family who can roll their tongues. ;)
Test Track!! We could either receive a Fast Pass for Soarin' or Test Track and had decided on Soarin', but at the end of the night decided to see if we could go on Test Track. Daniel opted to skip it so Will stayed with him, but Annika and I hopped in the single rider line. This is a super cool ride where you design a car, and then ride through on a track with all kinds of twists and turns and see how your car does. The best part was when we went outside in our open-air car at 65 mph and took the turn on the side of the car. Really cool and Annika's favorite ride!
Finally, since there was time and "only" a 30-minute wait, we opted to ride Soarin' again. It did not disappoint and I think was even better the second time.
What a wonderful day!! We would highly recommend Epcot and hope to come back sometime. We are heading back to Kansas this afternoon and are so grateful for this magical week to all just hang out together.
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