Sunday - EPCOT

Ok, bit behind with updates now, been busy!!!!!  Yesterday we had breakfast at the Golden Corral (or the Golden Carrot as Grandad calls it!, but then Grandad thought Cracker Barrell was Chuckit Buckit! :) )  Anyway we were a bit later than usual for breakfast so they were also serving lunch as well.  Made for an interesting breakfast/lunch buffet meal combined, pancakes and eggs with chicken, roast beef and roast ham!

After a good fill up we headed to EPCOT at approx 12.  We had a photo sesseion with Stitch

and then made our way to our first ride which was in the EPCOT ball, Spaceship Earth, where it shows you all about communication from early man all the way through to current day and into the future.  Had some cool effects where it took our photo and superimposed them onto a cartoon about our future!

Then it was more photos this time with Chip and Dale (while Keith and Dad went to get fast passes for Test Track).

More rides - Journey into Imagination with Figment and The Seas with Nemo and friends.  Then we went on a boat ride on "Living with the land" where you go through greenhouses showing experimental ways to grow fruit and veg and fish farming.  The we watch a film featuring the Lion King called the Circle of Life about humans polluting the earth.

We stopped at the EPCOT character spot to meet with Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, Goofy and Donald while Keith and Stewart went to get more fast passes, this time for Soarin'.

After meeting all the characters we decided to ride Ellen's Energy Adventure which takes you back to the dinosaur age to learn where the energy we use today originated.  All very educational stuff! (fun as well tho).

Next stop was Mission Space for Keith and the kids. Queue lines were really quiet so they decided to try the non-spin version first (Stephen wouldn't ride the other one!) then Keith, Sarah and Chloe went on the really intense spinny one and loved it!

By now it was time for our fastpasses so we headed for Soarin' where you are "seated" in a hangglider and fly over oceans, ski resorts, golf courses, orange groves, Golden Gate bridge etc..  We followed this with Test Track, the kids love this ride as it takes you through some car test conditions, bumpy roads, skidding, temperature extremes and ends with a high speed run around the test track!

We decided not to stop for the fireworks tonight and instead headed home, stopping at the Ponderosa for dinner.  Then it was home to bed as we were all exhausted.