All Caught Up in Epcot

Fort Wildnerss Campground...still!

We managed to spend another 12 hours or so at a theme park. How is that possible? Today it was all about Epcot. Even tho we put in another 10 miles walking, the pace felt much slower than yesterday. It was really hot today, partly because of the heat radiating off the wide open concrete. There were less crowds too...thank goodness!

 

 

We started out visiting the World Showcase. It was so fun to see how each country represented itself. Now, I want to travel everywhere!

England had a fun village that seemed pretty realistic. (Based on my travels there).

I LOVED visiting France. Their film was amazing, and the French personnel were so sweet and adorable. There was a quote from a poet cited during the movie and it really resonated with me. I wanted to know who the author was and to get the quote correct. Before we left Epcot this evening we walked all the way back (in the rain) to the French exhibit. Everyone was so sweet helping us figure it out. "Et, sans savoir pourquoi, Disent toujours: Allons!" by Charles Baudelaire. Translated: They leave for the sake of leaving, And without knowing why, they always say "we must go".

Oops, caught shopping in Morocco.

Mexico had a great exhibit, one of the best. Even better were their mango margaritas. One was Ned's, really!

We spent most of the late afternoon and early evening in Future World. I think we saw almost every exhibit here as well.

Ned got caught up in the shark exhibit...

 

 

 

 

 

 

When we rode the Spaceship Earth they asked us several questions about how we'd like to spend the future.

This is what they came up with - We would be traveling under the sea...

And driving our own spaceship. I think they nailed it.

We also really enjoyed watching the manatees getting fed lettuce. They wolf down an entire head of romaine lettuce in a single gulp.

There were two interesting connections to our chocolate world. The first was in visiting the Mexican Exhibit. There was a display on the first team sport in history, 3500 years ago played by the Mayans. It was somewhat similar to our present day basketball.

A couple of years ago while on a cacao trip to Belize we visited some Mayan ruins and saw one of the "courts" where the game was played.

The second connection was when we visited the exhibit called "Living with the Land." It featured a massive green house where extensive research is being done. One of the plants featured was cacao, although the pods looked different than any we've seen.

 

 

 

 

Ned scheduled a late night romantic dinner at Nine Dragons in the China Pavilion at the World Showcase. While walking there the temperature dropped dramatically and it started to rain. We ducked inside a gift shop and as luck would have it the perfect little rain jacket was calling out to me.

We had a delicious dinner! Afterwards, it was also really fun to walk along the lakeside promenade while a light rain fell. There were torches blazing and lightening flashed far in the distance. Great way to end our Disney Experience.

 

 

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