Brianne and LJ going through the gates for the first time.
Mexico Pavilion:
It had been
a long day and we were getting hungry again. The guys walked ahead
to get in line for ESPN for dinner since they don’t take ADR’s.
Brianne and I took a more leisurely pace and noticed a roped off area
beside the bridge leading to the France pavilion. Nosy women that we
are we had to find out what they were giving away.
Turns out
it was Extra Magic Hour bracelets. We tried our best to sweet talk
the CM into giving us bracelets for our husbands, but no dice. I was
afraid that with such a long day the guys wouldn’t want to stay for
EMH.
Once we
made it to the ESPN club the guys were being shown to our table.
Nice! I felt like we hadn’t eaten in days. Plus, we hadn’t
eaten any snacks all day.
All of the
times that we have stayed at the Boardwalk this is the first time
that I have actually been inside the ESPN club. I’m sorry Jordan-
I know this is one of your favorite spots.
The food at
the ESPN club was either some of the best ever or we were just
extremely hungry. We will try it again on our next trip and I will
let you know.
You would
think that we would have been too full to eat another bite, but the
Boardwalk Bakery was calling our names. We snagged some yummy
desserts and coffee and ate it with our CM friends.
The
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake was the only dessert I managed to snag a
picture of. Everything else was gone pretty quickly.
It was
approaching 8:45 and we were all itching to see Illuminations. When
we walked towards Epcot we had the intentions of just watching from
the bridge and then heading back to ASM. But what we ended up doing
was going into the parks, picking up EMH bracelets for the guys, and
staying until close. Yikes!
Again in
retrospect we should have called it a day, but smarter thinking did
not prevail. We had so much fun, but our bodies paid for it later.
I had been
talking to Brianne about Soarin so much that she was as eager as me
to ride. When the board showed a stand-by time of 45 minutes it was
unanimous that we would have to come back another time. Spaceship
earth had little to no line. We walked almost right up to the door
and waited about 5 minutes to be ushered into the ride.
My randy
husband just had to have a kiss once we were seated in the ride. We
didn’t know that this would mess up the ending for us and we know
better for next time. I won’t give away what happens at the end of
the ride, but I will say that I enjoyed Spaceship Earth. I know that
there has been some debate about the changes to the ride and I have
to respectfully disagree. Taken on its on merits and not comparing
it to what it “use” to be meant that we had no expectations and
was not disappointed.
Next we got
to ride Test Track. For the first time in a while we actually got to
get in line, ride this ride, and there were no mechanical
malfunctions.
Brianne and
LJ decided to be brave and ride Mission Space while Sonny and I
elected to just wait for them. We scooted through gift shop and
entered the game area. I took a moment to jot down some notes for my
trip report and Sonny played Space Race. His team got skunk both
times! Its okay baby, you’ll get them next time.
Pretty soon
we were headed back to ASM for the night.
This day
was too perfect! Something has got to go wrong tomorrow.
Up
next: Starting the day from the wrong side of the bed.
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