Graduation/ Disney Trip: Sunday – “Well, what we could do…” or “Stalking the Beast”
Sunday, we had to get up at the butt crack of dawn again, because we had breakfast scheduled with the Princesses in EPCOT. We got to EPCOT before you had to pay for parking and trudged up to the gate, at which we were instructed to go through and head around to the back side of the park, where we would go to the second country on the left, Norway. Along with one other family, we headed that direction and located Akershus Royal Palace, where our breakfast would be. We ended up being the first group in, and were greeted by Belle herself, who talked to us for a minute before taking a picture with us. We ate at a buffet and had barely finished our plates when Aurora, from Sleeping Beauty, popped out of a room next to us to circulate around the room. Each princess took a moment to talk to us and take a picture before moving on. Cinderella was next, who is my FAVORITE, and I got a picture taken with her by myself, which was nice, and then Ariel, who was also very nice. We rode the big ball, which was updated from the last time we were there. Allie also wanted a drawn picture of Wendy, which we looked for there. After that, we trekked back across the park to the exit and drove to Hollywood Studios (formerly MGM).
Once there, we went in and rode the Toy Story shooter ride, which was amazing, but had a really long line. We were sleepy and, inside, there was a box with a cow drawn on it, to make it look like a kid’s toy. Hence began the cow jokes. Lots of cow jokes. Bad cow jokes, such as “Did you know that cow was Russian? It was from MosCOW,” “Udderly amazing,” “Moolan Rouge,” etc. (2 days later, Dad’s still coming up with bad cow jokes.) Imagine that for between 30 and 40 minutes. Yup. We were tired. It was the exhaustion talking. So, Allie beat me in the game, which, ya know, sucked, but it was fun. From there, we went to meet Prince Caspian, which was slightly awkward, but nice. Then we went to meet the cast of “Up,” the animated movie, because I wanted to meet Doug, the talking dog, who is my favorite. Allie and I also got our picture taken with the Incredibles and Mom and Dad got their picture taken with Mickey. We managed to miss a rain storm and headed to see the Beauty and the Beast show, our favorite. We got ice cream and went to see the Indiana Jones show. We checked out some shops there for the illusive Wendy picture. Allie wasn’t feeling so good, so we left the park and got lunch at IHOP and got medicine for everyone. By then, Allie had figured she wasn’t going to find the picture, so she wanted a box with Beauty and the Beast on it that she’d seen at Magic Kingdom. We were going back to EPCOT, so we decided to look for it there.
When we arrived back at EPCOT, we hiked across the park, to the back side, where the countries are, because I wanted to meet the Beast. We passed Britain, where we saw Mary Poppins and Alice along the way, whom we got pictures with. When we arrived in France, where Belle and the Beast were, they were getting ready to take a break. We found out what time they were coming back, the Beast specifically (because we’d already got a picture with another Belle), and walked on to Morocco, where we found Jasmine and Aladdin (of the cute dimples… well, they were!). We went back to France, where we proceeded to form our own line, with a couple other people, who were waiting for the Beast. Belle came out about 10 minutes before the Beast, so we were waiting in one line, letting other people and kids in front of us until the Beast showed up. It was so funny, because those of us who began the Beast line were us, of course, one other chick about my age, and a dad who was there holding a place for his two daughters. We’re pretty sure we made Belle feel bad because we kept telling people, “Oh, you can go ahead of us… We’re waiting for the Beast.” Anyway, we went on around to Italy, where I bought earrings, and on around to Germany, where we stumbled upon Snow White, who was very nice and a lot cuter up close than in the picture. From there, we took a monorail back to the Magic Kingdom ticket center, and from there, to the Magic Kingdom itself, because, apparently, we have learned that not every park has exactly the same merchandise.
There, we found Allie’s box and I was going to get her a Beauty and the Beast snowglobe, that, no great surprise, could not be found at the Magic Kingdom. We decided to walk over to Peter Pan, which we hadn’t ridden the day before because of the wait. The wait was still ridiculous (35 minutes for a continuously moving ride… don’t ask us, we don’t understand either). So, we’re standing, tired, hot, icky, trying to figure out what we’re going to do and Mom makes a statement she’d made when we were trying to figure out the plan several times the earlier in the day, “Well, what we could do…” and it was just too much. We all burst into laughter. We ended up going to get ice cream and left the park, taking a monorail back to the ticket center and back to EPCOT. We drove back to Downtown Disney, which is where I had also seen the snowglobe. The parents dropped Allie and I off to run into the Disney Store and get it. No great surprise with this next comment – they only had one which they couldn’t sell because it was broken. The chick there sent us across the area to the Art of Disney Store to see if they had one there, which they didn’t, but we found something Allie would like as much and just got it instead. Then Allie and I got lost trying to find the parking lot and Mom and Dad had to keep circling the parking lot until we found them. By the time we made it back to the hotel, we were exhausted.
We didn’t do anything except come home on Monday. The only remotely funny thing that happened was that we had the back of the car so filled up that you couldn’t see out the back window. It was a mess. Allie also managed to ask Dad “Are we there yet?” all the way from Walterboro, about a 45 minute trip, poking him every ten seconds.
Overall, though, we had a fantastically fun and entertaining trip. Certainly one of the most interesting we’ve taken in a while. Hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as we did!
Later!
Whitney (and the family)
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