Saturday, October 18, 2008

Animal Kingdom/Epcot

Today went much smoother than yesterday despite not obeying rule number one. In fact, not obeying it may have been the only problem as Joe got grumpy as dinner time approached. Extremely grumpy! However, once we got some food in him and the various princesses came around for photos, he got rather happy:)

At Animal Kingdom, Ellie found her favorite ride: essentially a white water rapid ride similar to Thunder River at Six Flags. She went on it twice, once with me and once with Julie. We also went on a fairly cool Safari adventure attraction where you ride among many African animals in an open air vehicle. Ellie once again surprised me by riding the Expedition Everest roller coaster and enjoying it, but "not as much as Space Mountain." Joe once again surprised me by being afraid of anything and everything loud, dark, or having sharp teeth.

At Epcot, one of the coolest attractions (even though designed mainly for kids) is the Turtle Talk(?) with Crush from Finding Nemo. It uses a fairly new technology that recognizes speech so that the animals on the large computer screen can actually interact with the audience. It does so flawlessly, and is designed with a decent amount of humor. Joe almost enjoyed it, if it wasn't for the whale that comes on at the end of the show. Oh well.

Tomorrow, will be a far less busy day. We have an early dinner at the Coral Reef in Epcot. We may stay there late to see the show at the end of the day or go over to Hollywood Studios to see its nightly show.

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