day two, part two

So I left you all with us eating lunch on day two. We had a monster huge 'fancy' deli sandwich in the land pavilion. Some of the produce sold in meals in that building is grown on the property we saw during our 'The Land' tour. I thought that was kinda cool.

After lunch, we went to Honey I Shrunk the Audience. It was bad. Just thinking of a way to use 3D...and scare kids half to death with scary things shooting out at their faces. Way ta go Disney! And then we rode Test Track again. Yay! And then an oldie but a goodie, Spaceship Earth. That's the ride inside the big Epcot 'ball'. It surprised me that these rides that could be called 'boring' were some of Boo's favorite since they were interesting and there were things to look at and notice. And then on the way back down after the ride, there was a small touch screen and by answering a few questions, they made up a little mock up community based on your likes and put your/our heads on the tops of the people. So we got a good laugh at the pic they took of us on the ride and watched our little person doing things on the screen. Good for a silly laugh. We rode this again at some point later in the day.. it was an entertaining way to get off our feet!

Then we toured the world showcase... that's what it's called, isn't it?! I forget. We just called it 'the countries'. We saw a little street show of a couple of 'french bakery fellows' and they did an acrobatic thing with balancing chairs and standing on top. Pretty incredible and a little dangerous with no wires etc. But it was comical and fun to watch. The one fellow on the ground made all his wishes known by blowing a whistle.. gently..loudly..with feeling etc. Interesting all he could invoke with just gesturing and a whistle. We walked around and browsed and took plenty of pics of the buildings etc. At one point we rode a boat around in the waters in the middle of the showcase area.. just for fun. It was nice to see things from the water.

We watched part of the America video thing in the USA area. It was kinda boring and we were hungry. So we bugged out and went to dinner. We had a reservation at a hibachi place in the Asian section. We were seated right away. The meal was wonderful. Probably the best meal we had while we were there. And of course, the table entertainment was fun too. Our cooker guy chef was interesting and since he talks to people everyday, he could talk to any guest about wherever they happened to live. He was an interesting person. This meal was late.

Some side notes... one thing we were all looking forward to was the Hall of Presidents. It's closed... until JULY of 2009! Is that crazy, or what?! We were bummed as it's one of those things people go to Disney wanting to see. And we didn't get to. : ( Another thing, we purchased tshirts in the world area. We thought they were cute and we'd been seeing a lot of the same stuff, so we just went on and bought one for Boo and I that day.

Well, by the time our late hibachi dinner was over, so were the fireworks! I was totally bummed. I knew we would be cutting it very close... but it's a very short show and it was over by the time we stepped out after dinner. It was a disappointment at the time, and as the week wore on, I became more upset that we missed it.. just to eat. (oh well, there's a 'better' show coming at Disney Hollywood Studios, right?!)