It’s Wednesday morning here and the wind has really begun to get up.\u00a0 It’s still very warm though and Paul has had a swim.\u00a0 All weather reports are saying that we are heading for a tornado tonight with torrential rain.\u00a0 It should all happen overnight though and be clear for tomorrow morning so fingers crossed!\u00a0 We’ve been here for these severe weather conditions before so we’re not at all worried.<\/p>\n
Yesterday we went into Epcot.\u00a0 It was definitely the hottest day so far and getting more humid.\u00a0 We got to the park at about lunchtime and immediately walked onto Spaceship Earth.\u00a0 No words were exchanged, no question to the other of “shall we ride this?” we just both instinctively walked up the ramp without question!!\u00a0 Are we getting stuck in a rut here??\u00a0 The ride was the usual – what can I say?\u00a0 My fave bit, the sleeping monk was still asleep and the burning smell was still cleverly contained in the correct area!\u00a0 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.\u00a0 We compiled our video at the end and Paul has emailed it to himself to forward to those who want to see it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After this we went into Innovations where Paul rode a Segway.\u00a0 He had done it before a couple of weeks ago and reckoned that it was easier second time.\u00a0 He certainly didn’t kangaroo it at all.\u00a0 I took some pics which one day Paul will post I am sure!!\u00a0 We also went to see the Raytheon ride.\u00a0 We tried out the seats but both found them way too clostrophobic.\u00a0 I understand that Dave actually rode this a few weeks ago so way to go Dave – you’re way braver then me!\u00a0 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.\u00a0 It’s so comforting to know these people are writing our border control software – NOT!\u00a0\u00a0 Anyway, I digress.\u00a0\u00a0Just before\u00a0exiting Innovations we picked up our Kim Possible ticket and headed straight over to the World showcase.\u00a0 We got the boat over to Germany as we had decided to have lunch in China.\u00a0 Reading that back the geography sounds bizarre – only in Disney huh?!\u00a0 At China we had orange chicken and steamed rice.\u00a0 It was not overly hot (like all the food here) and was pretty medeocre.\u00a0 We managed to sit outside though and saw lots of people completing the China Kim Possible mission.\u00a0 After lunch we headed to Norway to begin our Kim Possible mission.\u00a0 We could choose Norway or Mexico and decided to stick to Norway as we were there already.\u00a0 (for anyone reading this who is now lost I shall explain – Kim Possible is a cartoon secret agent character.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 It’s all pretty simple as its designed for kids but the technology is superb).\u00a0 So, back to the plot.\u00a0 We helped Kim stop an art theft in Norway.\u00a0 There were a lot of people doing the mission – way more then I had seen before.\u00a0 We completed it pretty quickly in about 30 mins and decided not to do another that day.\u00a0 Whilst in Norway we wanted to ride Maelstrom but it had a 30 minute queue so we gave it a miss.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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!\u00a0 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?\u00a0 The first one was sent in the UK in the 1800’s.\u00a0 The time was getting to about\u00a0half 4\u00a0and we didn’t want a late one as we were heading out to La Nouba later.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 We decided to ride the Land as it had no wait time at all.\u00a0 I spotted a hidden mickey in the first fish tank on the left – this time with no book or prompting!\u00a0 After this we decide to head for home.<\/p>\n
We came straight home and got in about 6.\u00a0 Paul was going to have a swim but ended up not doing!\u00a0 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.\u00a0 We left about 8ish which got us to La Nouba at about 8:40 – just right.\u00a0 We took our seats which had an excellent view.\u00a0 The Grand Chappiteau was quite empty with lots of spare seating.\u00a0 Paul found the seats a bit uncomfortable he said but the show was still very good.\u00a0 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.\u00a0\u00a0 There were a couple of errors in it (we know it so well they are easy to spot!).\u00a0 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.\u00a0 He was ok though and I bet no one else really spotted it as he recovered well with another bounce!\u00a0 We came out of La Nouba and headed straight home – getting here for about half 11.\u00a0 We were shattered and headed straight for bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s Wednesday morning here and the wind has really begun to get up.\u00a0 It’s still very warm though and Paul has had a swim.\u00a0 All weather reports are saying that we are heading for a tornado tonight with torrential rain.\u00a0 It should all happen overnight though and be clear for tomorrow morning so fingers crossed!\u00a0 … <\/p>\n