Disney - Epcot

Disney day 2 started with a larger bang! The Giraffes once again met us in the morning sunshine to say hello as well as the Zebra's (which were pretty lazy), after a quick brekky we headed out to Epcot.
If you are an adult at Disney I highly suggest heading to Epcot for some drinking and roller coasters but a warning be prepared for lines and drunk people.

We started on the easy stuff, 15 minute wait for "Mission: MARS - extra intense, when we got into our 4 person pod of extra intense-ness we found that our "crew" was a couple that was about 65 and looked like they were going to break into a fight in the hallway, the 'shuttle' closed and our 7 minutes of INTENSE SPACE FLIGHT took off... not so intense though still extremely fun it was a little more hype then performance, recommended all the same.

We made our way through a few little attractions and rides then headed to 'drink around the world', which basically is a big loop around a lake with stations and areas that are designated to countries that have booze, booze, food and oh ya booze... Starting off in Mexico might have been a bad choice, or a great one on the other hand due to frozen margarita's LOADED with tequila, after the best sandwich I think I've ever eaten from Norway, we watched the stage and light boats make there way under the bridge into the center of the lake for the nightly light show (that we did not stay for), we headed over and passed through Germany, grabbing an Oktoberfest brew on the way passed good old America which we bi-passed so that D could fulfill a dream - a photo with Belle - even though she was not in her fancy yellow dress like he had hoped, her maid outfit was just as characteristic and he stood very... manly I suppose as the Disney princess held onto his arm for a quick picture.

France didn't serve much other then Belle and pretty music so we headed across the bridge on the other side and circled around to Canada! Which seemed a little pointless (haha) but it was all the same very well done. Finishing the walk off with a virtual roller coaster that we designed and then heading for the gate we took one last look at the Epcot sphere and hoped a bus back for a shower and another night out.

This time it was Cap'm Jack's on the Disney Downtown river, great seafood, beautiful wine and happy servers gave us a nice easy dinner before walking around the Pleasure Island to get a few drinks. We ended up at an old Irish pub listening to two blokes that had a guitar & fiddle/banjo and rocked out with everything from old Irish folk songs to Nirvana and Nickelback - some of which they had never played before, they took requests from a packed outdoor balcony of viewers and then looked them up on an iphone and played right off the chords, from a fellow guitar player and general musician I commend them on that great outcome especially since they played great! - we didn't leave without buying the boys a beer each and getting a handshake, which seemed to buy a few more songs and we stayed a little longer. Even with the cold I recommend the little pub (which I have intelligently forgotten the name of but its huge and right inside Pleasure Island front entrance) they provided nice blankets and big space heaters everywhere so we took full advantage pulling 2 chairs close together, cuddled together with a blanket over our legs, brews in our hands and a heater on our backs with great entertainment. Best night of the whole trip in my opinion.






-A.G