Saw some pretty cool topiaries since it's the Flower and Garden Festival this month at Epcot. Nothing very notable otherwise. It was hotter than blue blazes today and the concrete that surrounds this park and lack of shaded areas made this not my favorite park today. We rode Soarin' twice, went through the Land and rode Living With the Land where we saw some pretty cool hydroponic methods that Disney is using to grow plants and something called aeroponics where they literally spray the nutrients on the roots of the plants as they move around on a conveyor. No dirt! How weird. We rode The Seas with Nemo and Friends which we'll definitely take Addison back on since that's her favorite movie. She also must see Turtle Talk with Crush. We didn't stay long at Epcot because our feet were killing us and we didn't feel much like walking anymore. We didn't even get to see any of the World Showcase, but we still have a few days left to do that.
We decided to try to get to Downtown Disney because Greg was jonesing for some Mountain Dew and Disney is strickly a Coke resort, so we would have to go "off property" to a gas station across the street to get it. We thought we could ride the monorail to the transportation center and catch a bus, but much to our dismay the transportation center doesn't really live up to it's name. The only way to get to Downtown Disney is to take a bus to a resort, then catch another bus to downtown. Most convoluted thing I've heard. So, by the time we got downtown it started to sprinkle...THEN it started to pour. THEN it started hailing!
We were stuck in a bus depot for like a half an hour. Finally I decided we needed to make the pop run another time and we also needed to get to our own bus stop which required hopping from little depot to little depot. We were soaked by the time the bus came and air conditioning was the last thing we needed! Luckily our bus driver turned the heat on for us since there was just us and another guy on the bus and we were all soaked.
It was nice to have a quiet evening at the cabin. Our feet needed to recover and we HAD to make time for American Idol! Maybe we'll get to bed a little earlier and be able to make it over to Animal Kingdom first thing in the morning to ride Expedition Everest. Addison and Joan will be coming back in the afternoon.
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