WDW Part THREE!

Day Three = EPCOT!!

 

We had 8am reservations to meet The Princesses in Norway.

These were not easy to come by, so by hook or by crook, we had to get up at the crack of dawn and get ourselves to Epcot on time.

 

 

 

Epcot was so beautiful in the quiet of the morning light!

 

 

The park hadn't even opened yet, so it was like we had the whole place to ourselves!

 

 

 

This baby crane is for my cousin Melissa  :)  There were cranes EVERYWHERE, but this little one was too cute to pass up!

 

 

Finally we arrived!

 

 

 

The main buffet was cold, and filled with Norwegian specialties.

In other words, it's a good thing there was other food, or Marc and the kids would have starved!

(for the record, I was stoked about the smoked salmon and capers - yum!)
But the scrambled eggs, bacon and cheesy potatoes that came to our table family-style were much appreciated by the less adventurous palates at the table.

 

 

The royal guests of honor were kind enough to visit with us and pose for pictures.

Molly was in heaven!

Jack mostly rolled his eyes.

Ben hid under the table.

 

AURORA

(Sleeping Beauty)

 

 

SNOW WHITE

 

 

ARIEL

 

 

 

The child hiding under the table was coaxed out by the friendly redhead.  He took a shine to her and followed her around like a puppy after that. 

So Ben, if you grow up to marry a redhead...it all started here!

 

 

CINDERELLA

 

 

There were two grand processions around the restaurant where all the princes and princesses in training were invited to join the real princesses.

 

The second time around, Snow White chose Molly to carry her basket of flowers.

She was just a little excited!

 

 

And then it was time to go. 
Epcot's Norway was so beautiful, we loved our morning there.

 

 

 

 

And we even got our Viking spirit on in the gift shop!

(this picture below might be my favorite of the entire day - Jack clearly has an inner Viking just itching to get out!)

 

 

And Ben is a total goofball!

 

 

 

In fact, he spent most of our days at the parks trying to climb things, or hide under things.

 

 

 

Next on the agenda was Mission Space and later on, we'd head to lunch at the famous Food and Wine Festival.

 

 

 

 

Except for one small problem.

Our little goofball was a HAIR too short to ride it.

We're talking 1/8" or less.

And they were not being generous that day.

So he couldn't ride.

 

And that was when it all blew up.

 

 

For an hour I tried to console him,

but nothing would work.

 

We had no choice but to pull the plug on our Epcot adventure

and hope to come back another day

(which of course never happened, boo hoo!)

 

We did manage to say hello to Chip and Dale on the way out

 

 

 

And snuck through the Nemo ride that miraculously had no line

 

 

 

 

 

I think the kids loved the real fish at the end of the ride the best!

 

 

 

 

 

But the Nemo-themed playground was a close second!

 

 

 

 

And that was all she wrote about Epcot.

 

But the day was only half over, so we headed back to the Polynesian to relax.

 

 

Ben got to indulge in his favorite form of therapy - the Zen of sand!

 

 

 

Nana and Papa joined us too!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And then the kids got to play at the Polynesian's kids club - the Neverland Club,

while Marc and I snuck off to the California Grille at the Contemporary Resort.

 

 

 

 

Dinner was delicious,

the hawks put on an aerial show that rivaled the Blue Angels, and the sunset was

maginificent over the Magic Kindom.

 

 

 Maybe not the day we had planned,

but an excellent day nonetheless!