My dad, sister, and I, have gone somewhere special the last few trips and this time we decided to go to EPCOT.
It was a lot of walking. We got there about 9 AM and didn't leave the park until 10 PM. Everything hurts, haha. For the first time, we toured every country and rode every ride. The highlight of my trip besides spending time with my sister and dad, was...well now that I think about it. Everything. The rides were amazing, the food was amazing... I even got lots of fun little gifts.
We started out hitting the rides in the front of the park and stopped for some free sodas courtesy of Coca-Cola's cooling zone, where you can sample different Coca-Cola products from around the world. My favorite was Vegitabeta! I think my dad's favorite was some ginger-cola from Mozambique.
After hitting that, we made our way over to The Land where we got s
ome fantastic sandwiches. Although delicious, they were pricey as hell, but then again everything in Disney is. We then made our way to Canada to see if we could get reservations to Le Cellier, but it was booked so we had to settle on our reservations for Teppanaki in Japan. To be honest, there's not much to do in the World Pavillion besides shop. France was beautiful and has tasty strawberry tarts. The UK was OK. What we really came to see was Japan. It has the most wonderful shop ever, I think, especially if you're a kid at heart. Before entering, we listened to this woman tell us a story about a magical sea turtle for about 5 minutes. I shopped around for awhile and after playing with a kitty necklace that meows, I found Pickles the Frog (featured to the left). I know I'm 20, and this makes me way too old to love stuffed animals, but he is just so cute I had to have him. I bought my sister a hairpin. After shopping for an hour or so we looked for dad and walked around a bit more to Italy and Germany before going to our reserved hibachi-style dinner. Italy had this gorgeous mask I fell absolutely in love with. It was white and gold and the top extended to show off a painting. However, it was $4
99 so I felt the walls of my home could do without it. Dinner was okay. My dad makes much better hibachi dinners.
ome fantastic sandwiches. Although delicious, they were pricey as hell, but then again everything in Disney is. We then made our way to Canada to see if we could get reservations to Le Cellier, but it was booked so we had to settle on our reservations for Teppanaki in Japan. To be honest, there's not much to do in the World Pavillion besides shop. France was beautiful and has tasty strawberry tarts. The UK was OK. What we really came to see was Japan. It has the most wonderful shop ever, I think, especially if you're a kid at heart. Before entering, we listened to this woman tell us a story about a magical sea turtle for about 5 minutes. I shopped around for awhile and after playing with a kitty necklace that meows, I found Pickles the Frog (featured to the left). I know I'm 20, and this makes me way too old to love stuffed animals, but he is just so cute I had to have him. I bought my sister a hairpin. After shopping for an hour or so we looked for dad and walked around a bit more to Italy and Germany before going to our reserved hibachi-style dinner. Italy had this gorgeous mask I fell absolutely in love with. It was white and gold and the top extended to show off a painting. However, it was $4
99 so I felt the walls of my home could do without it. Dinner was okay. My dad makes much better hibachi dinners.Besides Pickles, there was a beautiful koi pond that probably had over $50,000 worth of fish in it.
Other than the nachos in Mexico, nothing else really interested us. America world did have a nice presentation, but the singing put me to sleep. We headed over to the Coca-Cola cooling station because right next to it is delicious icecream at a GREAT price.
How delicious?
Sooo goood!!! And finally, to end our trip, you cannot leave Epcot without seeing Illuminations by Sylvannia. It is the absolute most amazing fireworks show I have ever seen. EVER. And is it corny to say that it made me get choked up? Cause I did. The whole, "For centuries people all over the world have gathered around the fire as one. Today we gather from different parts of the world to celebrate," or something like that. Ahhh... so beautiful.afterwards we picked up some souvenirs. I got some Disney pins and a mug for Noah. OH! and an Ariel ornament. Because she's my favorite princess of all time. Of all time.
It took everything we had to climb into the truck to make our way back to the hotel.
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