World of the Mouse - Day 3 - EPCOT

EPCOT Food and Wine Festival was great!  Fun photo ops everywhere though not too many of the photographers out today....maybe too hot or just not as many families in this area of EPCOT.

We walked out of the hotel about 15 minutes before the park opened and still had to wait a few minutes until the gates opened.  Besides being such a beautiful property, Beach Club is a great location for today's plans.

We made a semi-mad dash to the other side of the park so we could ride Frozen before the line was crazy.  We just walked right on then rode it again with a big 5 minute wait.  

So many different booths and great food to try.  We had scoped out the offerings on the night we arrived so we'd made our plan of action for our big festival day.  We opted to divide and conquer:  sharing the tastes along the way then going back for seconds as needed.  I should have kept a log of the food but I'm sure YouTubers will do justice to the entire festival much better than I can.  

We managed to be in the Soarin' area when the wait was only about 15 mins so we rode that again.  We finished at the perfect time to head over to Test Track for our FastPass.

Yes.  I do have my eyes closed yet again.  I seriously liked this ride though.  

Test Track is why FastPasses were invented. 












Food, drinks and a few rides then back to the hotel for nap, pool time and laundry - ugh.  We didn't imagine that we'd need to do laundry but the humidity has caused us to go thru clothes a bit faster than we planned.  Gross but good info if you think it'll be warm and humid in Florida when you go.

I think that's about 364 days a year - so plan accordingly.

"Spitting fountains" like Stardust (RIP) Las Vegas

                                                                                

Once it cooled off, we walked back over to EPCOT to visit more festival booths.  After dinner, we ran into Aladdin, sans Jasmine and Abu but we posed with him anyway.

We stayed to see IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth and, I'm sad to say, that I wasn't that impressed.  Maybe I'd had too much sun or maybe it was that the fireworks the night before were just so great, but this seemed long to me.  Still a great day eating our way through EPCOT.