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Day 5, Chef Mickey's and Epcot

It was a bit cooler outside this morning. We decided that we would take the bus to the Magic Kingdom and then take the Monorail over to Chef Mickey's and our ADR was pretty early (all of the details escape me at this point). The girls hung out in the lobby watching a little Playhouse Disney while I was packing our day bag.



When we reached Magic Kingdom to catch the monorail over it just so happened to be opening. Even though we hadn't planned it we got to see the rope drop ceremony (this was a first for all of us) It was pretty awesome and the girls were very excited.

Now onto Chef Mickey's.

Avery's first ride on the monorail

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The ride over to Chef Mickey's was fun and it really wasn't a big deal to bus it over to MK and monorail over to Epcot.

Avery was excited as soon as we walked in because she could see all of the characters mingling.

We had a great table and thought the character interaction was incredible. This ended up being my favorite character meal (outside of CRT).

Avery loved dancing with ther characters. Here she is with Minnie


Lillian loved them too

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Mickey

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By the way, I thought Chef Mickey's breakfast was GREAT. It had lot's of option for all of our eaters and was quite tasty.

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The other family decided to go to Magic Kingdom (as this was thier last day ) and we went to Epcot.

Let me just start by saying that Epcot is my FAVORITE park. The first part of the day I had my kids convinced that it was thier favorite park too.






Sorry...I have to bail.....kids are awake I'll try to finish this sucker up in the next couple of days. Thanks for hanging in with me buzzers.

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Alright folks....I am pretty sure that I have lost most of you by now, but I am going to finish anyway Better late than never, right? Ok....we last were at Epcot.

The girls LOVED the Nemo attraction. The que was VERY long (and I couldn't help but imagine what it would be like if we had to wait through the entire que during PEAK times... scary thought). We basically walked through the entire thing (which was fun for stroller weary children). I thought that the scenery was really fun (and very realistic). This looks like something straight off of our backyard beach (Folly Beach).

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Avery tried to get a shot in Bruce's mouth, but she kept getting pushed away by other MUCH OLDER (and unsupervised children) That's ok....she liked this guy (I think his name is CHUM).

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I love this shot...I just wish Lillian was in it too (she was off sleeping)

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Turtle talk with crush was a HUGE hit with Avery. Lillian could care less about this attraction, but did enjoy waiting in the que and looking at all of the little fish tanks. This is one of my favorite shots:

Stingray, Avery and Lillian



Unfortunately, my little bruiser (Lillian) put an end to this sweet moment by shoving her big sister off the bench to have a closer look. I LOVE this shot though (sorry Avery ).

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Next up we decided to go on this attraction



MIL and Lillian stayed outside (Lillian was still napping) and Avery, DH and I decided to check it out (we have never done this on past visits).



I ended up falling asleep on the ride....excellent nap opportunity for mom Avery enjoyed the Dinosaur part and John was bored to tears.

All in all, I was happy we did it just to have a little shut eye

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John went and grabbed fast passes for Soarin. I waited with Lillian outside (no strollers allowed inside) and John, MIL and Avery went to go on Soarin'. About 30 minutes later they came out and I could see that Avery was crying. They wouldn't let her on. The first guy let her through, but the guys at the top of the ride turned her away saying that she was too short. I totally understand that it is for safety, but she really was just as tall as some of the kids going on.

After a bit of sweet talk she got over it (but brought it up several times). John went on it alone while we took the girls to watch the Lion King show. John met us and said that he would be fine with both of the girls while Diane and I went on Soarin. We met up and MIL and I decided to go ahead and do Soarin.

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Here is the 2nd sob story of our Soarin experience. John was SOOOOOO excited about Soarin and told me that I HAD to go that it was his favorite (this was all of our first time for this ride). Diane and I had FP so we went right up. After about a 15 minute wait we were on our yellow arrows about to board.

A loud speaker came on and announced that they had an emergency and that we needed to be on standby to do an EMERGENCY EVACUATION OF THE BUILDING We waited for about 30 minutes and they came on again saying standby for our instructions. They took everyone that was in the que out a back door of the building. Walked us around to somewhere (it was such a wierd sight) and didn't say another word No new FP, no come back in 15 minutes and we will put you right on....NOTHING. We never got to do it I got over it quickly. I never did find out what happened, but it sure was strange.

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We met up with John who was feeding the kiddies and off to World Showcase....my favorite part of Epcot

We started at a Kidcot station (because John wanted to run and do Mission Space...he had FP and I was ok to skip it). Avery wasn't really into doing the masks....I was. I could really get into that....even if I was on an all adult trip. I am SOOO into Krafts though.

Anyhoo....we ran into a few friends

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Lillian doing her own thing again