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We all slept in a little again today! Yippee! My favorite way to start the day! (I am not a morning person at all!) The girls went swimming with Grampa and the cousins after breakfast. It was the first day that it was actually warm enough to swim! Kind of sad, huh? The locals probably still thought we were nuts!
Mat and I headed to Epcot - gasp! - ALONE!!!! We left the girls with my parents to meet up with later and headed out!
I have secretly been looking forward to this day for weeks! I called ahead and made reservations for lunch at the restaurant in "Italy" at Epcot. So it was my chance to leave the girls at home and go eat some good Italian food! I also knew before the trip that by this point in the week we would need a little break from the girls!
It was so relaxing to be by ourselves. We wandered around 'the world' until it was time to check in at the restaurant. The food was yummy! And all of the staff was Italian!! It was very cool.
Epcot was interesting to walk around; not as crazy as the other parks. It wasn't very crowded either, so it was nice!
Our 'little Italy'.
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After a while at Epcot we met up with the fam at Disney's Hollywood for a few shows and the main event, 'Fantasmic'.
We got in line and waited 'til they opened the doors for us to sit. We had to wait about an hour and a half for the show to start! But, we did have awesome seats, so I guess it makes up for it. Oh, wait, not really! Sitting for that long with a bunch of kids is not worth it!! Oh well!
All of us waiting! (Seems to be a lot of pictures of us waiting around, huh?)
Emma was freaked out before the show even started! She does not like loud sounds; when she figured out there were fireworks, she was not happy!
When the show actually started, Emma began to scream & scream. Poor Mat; he took her up away from most people, but Emma kept screaming. He ended up taking her all the way out and missing the whole show! I didn't know this until afterwards. I figured that once the show started she would be ok. She usually is alright once she sees that it is pretty and fun. But, not this time. I felt really bad that Mat missed the whole thing, but he is a trooper and I love him for it!
The show was really cool. Mickey came out at first and started the show with some fireworks, and then scenes from movies played on water spraying in front of the stage. The story is of Mickey's Dream and fighting Evil with our own Hopes and Dreams. It showed scenes from most of the princess movies and that was really neat.
There were scenes from some movies actually played out on the stage. Most of those were about the villains from movies. I didn't realize just how scary it would be to put all of the bad together! Disney movies have a lot of evil to them!
Of course, it ends with Mickey defeating the bad guys and all is well in the land of Disney!
Of course, it ends with Mickey defeating the bad guys and all is well in the land of Disney!
It was a good show - not really worth sitting for so long and especially when I found out Mat and Em had missed the whole thing! Oh well, you live and you learn!
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It was a fun day, kind of relaxing 'cause we didn't do a whole lot of rides and stuff. Tomorrow is our last day here; we fly home on Sat. I think we will take the girls to Epcot tomorrow so they can see some of that stuff...
