Monday, July 6, 2009

The next chapter...




After seeing the princesses and Mickey/Minnie Mouse', we then explored the park and rode some rides. There is a little area in the back of the Magic Kingdom where your kids can play on slides, and explore a play house. The kids really enjoyed it. The kids really enjoyed Pirates of the Caribbean (of course who wouldn't), Peter Pan's flight, Its a Small World (not my favorite, but great for kids, especially young ones). I can't say enough about Disney parks as they are very family friendly that even kids as young as newborn can ride many of the rides. The cast members are so helpful to the guests.


We are not even fans of parades, but their "Celebrate a Dream Come True parade" was great. It really captured our kids, especially the 2 year old. She just loved it.


The evening of our first day there, we enjoyed the "extra magic hours" at EPCOT --those are hours that only guests of Disney Resorts can enjoy, so the lines are much shorter and the characters that come out are hilarious. One of the evenings had Goofy chasing Donald and Donald hiding from Goofy.


Our second day we joined my parents and went back to EPCOT. That is where the more technological advanced rides are. This was considered the park of the future at its inception. There are a couple of space themed rides there. One of those is Mission:Space which gives you the sensation of lift off in a rocket. The G forces are quite amazing. Go orange!!


Another one is Spaceship:Earth. It is a slow moving ride that takes you through the technology of the past 2oo years to present/future. It is an interactive ride. Brookelyn fell asleep on it.


There is also a ride there called Test Track where you ride a car through a testing ground like landscape with it ending with a 70 mph curve (it broke down while we were on the ride the first time--so they gave us another ride).


There is another one about the movie: Finding Nemo. Mykids just LOVED that one as Nemo is one of their favorite characters.


Finally, the ride that my kids and husband keep mentioning is SOARIN'. It is a simulation ride of a hang glider that flies over California and it almost feels like the real thing as you can feel wind in your face, turbulance from airplanes, etc... . I won't tell all as I don't want to give it away.


EPCOT also has the best fireworks and we could see those from our hotel balcony.




more to come.......


3 comments:

Ann-Marie said...

Oh, how fun! I can totally understand why you'd want to go back!

grace said...

Kurt and I are going with his family the last week of September. It will be my first time there so I'm really excited.

Heidi said...

That will be fun.