Day 3...12-23-08

Day 3 found us venturing to Epcot...all 6 of us since Ashley made it in safely the night before.

The morning started out pretty...laid back. Keegan decided he'd like to watch cartoons while we were getting dressed. :D

I'm not sure what time we got out of the room...but I have in my notes that we made it to Epcot for Rope Drop. Crazy, I know.

 The picture below is one my all time favourites!

We ended up getting a locker for coats because the stoarge under the stroller wasn't big enough for everything. After that, we headed over to Test Track. Now, this is where communication would have been key for all of us. We needed to use baby swap...and I was pretty sure that all we had to do was walk up to the FP entrance and tell them that, get the BS pass for those staying off with the baby and the rest of the crew went on to ride. Well, the CM (who I am blaming for part of the mini drama to follow) told us that the people riding the ride now needed to be in line. Well, they were. Mom, dad, and Ash were going for the 1st round on TT, and Ken and I were staying out with the baby. And we kept telling him that. But he seemed to be too into organizing the timer lanyards (you know the ones, with the red car attached that ya hand to the CM at the start of the line when you get there?) than to pay attention to where the other people in our party were. Heck, they were practically IN THE BUIDLING before he gave us the baby swap pass. Mom had a mini-melt down in line...but once they had ridden, she was over it and Ken, Ash, and I got our go around on TT. After we got off, we all shopped a bit while waiting for World Showcase to open. Our first purchase here was a passport for Keegan. Yeah, he was too young to have it filled out for himself, but it's fun to have that as a souvie (not to mention he plays with it all the time now).

Our first stop in World Showcase was Canada. Normally, we would have gone left, into Mexico. But this time we decided to change it up and head right. Mostly because going right got us to France faster. For what? Oh, you'll see.  :D

I love how blue the sky in this picture is. The camera I had at the time took crappy pictures for the most part...so to get this one was awesome! Anywho! We played around in Canada for a bit...

In the first picture, my mom is on the other side of the phone booth, my sister is inside the phone booth, and you can see me taking the picture of the two of them. You can also see my husband on the right. Now, the second picture. How do I begin to explain it? My mom works in a high school library. And she's got a student whose like another daughter to her. Well, they happen to have an imaginary giraffe...named Fred. And he was sent with us on this trip. So, we had to make sure he got into some of the pictures. There are more to follow...trust me. He was an onrey giraffe.

After leaving Canada, we stopped for a bathroom break in the UK. As well as a little sight seeing and shopping. We pretty much just strolled our way around World Showcase (with my husband in charge of finding the KidCot stations for the passport). Finally though, we hit the international gateway...and thus knew we were just steps away from the glorious Grand Marnier  & Grey Goose Slushies!

My parents watch Samantha Brown specials...but are particualry fond of her Disney Specials. Upon seeing one episode about 6 months before this trip, my mom put "having a grand marnier slushie" on her top 5 list of things to do while we were there. lol :D She enjoyed it! After getting slushie's it was time for a smoke break (for my sister) so we found the smoking area in the France pavillion and hung out. Well, one of us slept. :D

After our break in France, we pretty much strolled around World Showcase and enjoyed ourselves.

Another great picture from my not so great camera. lol

I think my sister is texting her boyfriend...and my mom is most likely saying "Just take the picture already!" :D

More Fred craziness! He wanted to try on a fez, but I snapped the picture before he had a chance to put it on. Then he wanted to take a bath or play in the fountain...so mom is pulling him out.

This is the best family picutre we have of all of us. (Finally, you can see me, the girl behind all the photos! lol) And Keegan was still crashed out in the stroller.

We hit up Japan, where my "money" shot was ruined by this family. And found a hidden Mickey! I also got to pick a pearl (7mm and a green-white color, very pretty). Which I didn't get set into anything...it's in my jewlery box...possibly waiting for another pair for earrings maybe.

I have pictures of the others "worlds" we meandered through...but this post is already overloaded with pictures. I believe we had lunch in the American pavillion. And then just perused our way out of World Showcase through the rest of the pavillions.

We meandered our way out of the world. And I'm sure we stopped for shopping in Mouse Gears.

We headed back to the resort, did a little laundry, had a bite to eat and then headed to DTD for the evening. Not many pictures from that aside from my son being awake one minute when I looked back at him in between my mom and sister and crashed out sleeping the next. :D

Up next...Christmas Eve...character breakfast...did my son enjoy the characters...and how did our day go?