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Day 5 was Epcot World Showcase day! I won’t bore you with too many photos from today…you can only see Meghan with so many Princesses before you get bored!!

We were going to sleep in and head to World Showcase when it opened at 11am but the kids were up and rearin’ to go so we headed over to Epcot about 9am.

Jake was really pumped to try Mission Space so Kevin took him on while I hung out with Meghan and Ian. He LOVED it! This was hands down Jacob’s favorite ride ad he bragged to anyone who would listen that he did the advanced version! He also got to be the pilot!

We headed to Inovations to check out some of the exhibits and did the Waste Management game. the kids liked that one because we could all participate and they got to push around a little trash truck! We played a little there then picked up our Kim Possible ticket. We were told to report to Italy for our “Kimmunicator” which worked perfectly in our plans because we planned to start in Canada and work our way counter clockwise to trough the countries.

The kids brought their ”Guide to the Magic” with them this day so they could get their passport stamps and autographs. It’s a great book but I wish it were a little smaller, they got very cumbersome into the day, especially carrying two of them!

Our tour was uneventful in Canada and UK, just looked around and enjoyed the scenery! When we got to France Jacob spotted Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) coming out for pictures so Meg jumped in line! She was so excited to meet her first princess! As we started towards Morrocco we ran into Belle by the Lagoon so she headed over to meet here (The boys had NO DESIRE to be in these pictures or meet the princesses!!) As you can see, even Belle was a little hot and asked Meg to cool her off with her mister fan!


Everyone was getting hungry so we actually walked past Morocco and Japan to the US for lunch. (I know,, I know…we should have tried something new, but it was hot and kids were cranky and hungry, we went with what we knew!!) After eating and refreshing, we back tracked to Morocco to get stamps and autographs. Both times we were there we missed Jasmine and Alladin by minutes, they had cut off the line as we got there! We headed to Japan for Mommy’s special treat. I wanted Jacob to pick me a pearl in Japan because it is his birthstone and I can use it to make the Mother’s ring I want. He picked a nice 7mm pinkish pearl, and was very proud of himself. (Although he was a little mad when I told him I got the pearl not him!)

About this point Ian fell asleep in his carriage. the Voices of Liberty were starting so I took Meg and Jake to see them and then to see The American Adventure! They really enjoyed the show! It’s one of my favorites in World Showcase (always makes me cry!). After the show we came out to find a recently wakened Ian and also a bunch of characters out in the walkway just past the American Pavilion so we went to catch some of them. I we saw Goofy and his son Max, and Donald.

Onto Italy where the kids couldn’t wait to pick up the “Kimmunicator” for the Kim Possible mission! We were dispatched to Germany. The Kim Possible Adventure is really great, they enjoyed doing it, although they had a bit of trouble sharing the one “Kimmunicator”. We watched the trains in Germany for a little bit and took a rest and a water break (it was really hot!!)
It was getting to be time for dinner so we headed over to Norway and decided to go on Malstrom. After the ride, Kevin went to check us in for the Princess Dinner and I took Meg to the rest room to change into all her Princess finery!!


When we came out Kevin let me know I had my times mixed up! Oopps!! I thought our dinner was at 6pm..it was at 6:45pm!! So, we headed down to Mexico to do the ride there. On our way back we stopped into China and Meg ran into Mulan. (Bad Disney Mommy moment when after waiting in line and having her picture taken she looked at me and said “Who is that???” Oh my goodness…had she never seen the movie Mulan???? Don’t worry, she watched it when we came home and loved it!!)

Now, back to Akershus where we checked in and waited about 10 minutes then were shown into the restaurant. We took pictures with Belle then headed to our table. We saw Snow White, Aurora, Ariel…and the crowning moment (for me)…Cinderella!! I had no expectations of seeing her, I knew it was rare for her to do the Princess Storybook Dinner. I was all excited when I saw her enter the dining room and Jacob looked at me and said “Breathe Mom!”

Meghan had a wonderful time! She was the Bell of the Ball!


After dinner we went out to stake out a place for Illuminations. We had looked at our trusty Passporter map and decided that the area right in front of Norway would be good. As we stood surveying the area a wonderful family from said “Come join us and the kids can get right up front”. They were from Massachusetts and did Disney every other year so they had a prime location! They were so wonderful and we sat and chatted with them for the wait and through the show! Ian found a new friend in their 11 year old daughter, he sat on her lap for the entire show!! Meghan came over and asked if she could give the 3 women who had invited us to sit there some Thank You cards, so she handed them some of the little Thank yous she had made…they were thrilled! About 1/2 way through the show it started to rain, we didn’t mind and it helped to move people out of the park because people started to leave! We took our time getting out after the show, hanging on a bench in Future Word until a great bit of the crowd dispersed! back to the Carribbean Beach for another night’s rest!

UP NEXT....Our day at the Studios...did anyone brave Tower of Terror ordid we all chicken out???