It’s Wednesday morning here and the wind has really begun to get up. It’s still very warm though and Paul has had a swim. All weather reports are saying that we are heading for a tornado tonight with torrential rain. It should all happen overnight though and be clear for tomorrow morning so fingers crossed! We’ve been here for these severe weather conditions before so we’re not at all worried.
Yesterday we went into Epcot. It was definitely the hottest day so far and getting more humid. We got to the park at about lunchtime and immediately walked onto Spaceship Earth. No words were exchanged, no question to the other of “shall we ride this?” we just both instinctively walked up the ramp without question!! Are we getting stuck in a rut here?? The ride was the usual – what can I say? My fave bit, the sleeping monk was still asleep and the burning smell was still cleverly contained in the correct area! We did spot a hidden Mickey in the Renaissance area on the artists pallet though Paul knew where to look from his hidden Mickey book. We compiled our video at the end and Paul has emailed it to himself to forward to those who want to see it.
After this we went into Innovations where Paul rode a Segway. He had done it before a couple of weeks ago and reckoned that it was easier second time. He certainly didn’t kangaroo it at all. I took some pics which one day Paul will post I am sure!! We also went to see the Raytheon ride. We tried out the seats but both found them way too clostrophobic. I understand that Dave actually rode this a few weeks ago so way to go Dave – you’re way braver then me! Both from the ride itself aspect and also from working for Raytheon; seeing them in action at work I’m not sure I’d trust anything they engineer. It’s so comforting to know these people are writing our border control software – NOT! Anyway, I digress. Just before exiting Innovations we picked up our Kim Possible ticket and headed straight over to the World showcase. We got the boat over to Germany as we had decided to have lunch in China. Reading that back the geography sounds bizarre – only in Disney huh?! At China we had orange chicken and steamed rice. It was not overly hot (like all the food here) and was pretty medeocre. We managed to sit outside though and saw lots of people completing the China Kim Possible mission. After lunch we headed to Norway to begin our Kim Possible mission. We could choose Norway or Mexico and decided to stick to Norway as we were there already. (for anyone reading this who is now lost I shall explain – Kim Possible is a cartoon secret agent character. You are given a mobile phone which interacts with various objects around the country of your mission and you are agents helping Kim solve a crime. The phone gives you step by step instructions and clues that you have to solve to move onto the next place where it interacts – almost like a treasure hunt I guess. At various points things happen – signs change to give you information, smoke signals from chimneys, and even a picture is taken and put on the front of a magazine and uploaded to the phone. It’s all pretty simple as its designed for kids but the technology is superb). So, back to the plot. We helped Kim stop an art theft in Norway. There were a lot of people doing the mission – way more then I had seen before. We completed it pretty quickly in about 30 mins and decided not to do another that day. Whilst in Norway we wanted to ride Maelstrom but it had a 30 minute queue so we gave it a miss. We walked around the World Showcase, stopping a France to get a free sample of the new Guerlain perfume and onto the UK where we knew we could get a decent cuppa. Father Christmas was in the UK (Santa was in the US and Pierre Noel in France etc) and it was the old traditional Father Christmas wearing green before Coke got hold of him! We sat on a bench and drank our tea as he sang and entertained the crowd with stories of english traditions – for example, did you know that we invented the christmas card? The first one was sent in the UK in the 1800’s. The time was getting to about half 4 and we didn’t want a late one as we were heading out to La Nouba later. Being the second consecutive park day we needed to take to easy as well as we’re not as young as we used to be. We decided to ride the Land as it had no wait time at all. I spotted a hidden mickey in the first fish tank on the left – this time with no book or prompting! After this we decide to head for home.
We came straight home and got in about 6. Paul was going to have a swim but ended up not doing! We did some research online about laptops and macbooks as I have decided to buy my own (today we are heading to Best Buy to check them out) and watched some TV before getting ready to go out. We left about 8ish which got us to La Nouba at about 8:40 – just right. We took our seats which had an excellent view. The Grand Chappiteau was quite empty with lots of spare seating. Paul found the seats a bit uncomfortable he said but the show was still very good. It’s one of the best Cirque shows as it goes from act to act with no fillers and also has no interval like European shows. There were a couple of errors in it (we know it so well they are easy to spot!). One girl dropped her diablo and amazingly the strong man missed his window in the bit where they trampoline up the side of the building. He was ok though and I bet no one else really spotted it as he recovered well with another bounce! We came out of La Nouba and headed straight home – getting here for about half 11. We were shattered and headed straight for bed.