T-Giving: Day 3

EPCOT.  Not your most exciting place for kids, but we had a good time.  As usual, we rode the monorail, which Bode loved.

We arrived early and headed over to the Test Track.  This is a really cool ride, which is also sponsored by Chevy.  Note the nice Vette we passed while in line.

The test track is probably the best ride at EPCOT.  I took the following movie towards the end.  It's dark until the one minute point, and then the car is outside doing a circle at tremendous speed.

After the test track, we went and met a bunch of characters to include Mickey (a mute this time),

Minnie,

and Goofy.

We also got a family shot with Chip and Dale (again, which one is which?)

We then tried to meet up with Teddy and Charlie.  We did the Seas ride and saw Crush the Turtle (really cool).  Some rode Soaring, which is a very fun ride.  Eventually, we worked our way over to Italy and had lunch.  For dessert, Bode and Teddy shared a chocolate sundae, with most of it getting on their faces.

We tried to get a picture of the cousins, but getting three kids to stand still in any theme park is next to impossible.  EPCOT has tried to make the tour of nations a little more kid-friendly.  One way to do this is to give kids communicators that talk with that monogram guy from Phineas and Ferb.  They go on this little interactive mission, which was actually pretty cool (although it got a little long towards the end).

We did some other things in EPCOT, but it was a tame day.  On our way out, we ran into Pluto.

We planned on taking things easy on Tuesday and then Wednesday was going to be a down-day for Ashley, Bode, and me (the others went to Animal Kingdom).  Turns out, we were right to have the rest day :-)  Tomorrow:  Downtown Disney.