The plan was to spend the first half of the day at Downtown Disney and then take advantage of evening Extra Magic Hours at Epcot touring World Showcase which we missed earlier in the week. More on that decision later.
We headed toward Mexico for our la comida de la noche (evening meal, in Spanish, maybe?). La Cantina de San Angel fit the bill. The meals were of decent size, and best of all, we got a great table along World Showcase Lagoon.
The sun was just starting dip on the horizon, but there was plenty of daylight left. Our waterfront view allowed us to decompress a bit after a busy morning. Our need for a little respite was obvious because FM#3 was sound asleep by now in MawMaw's arms. He stayed asleep throughout dinner and beyond.
As we left the Cantina, what character do you think was just taking his place off the walkway next to Mexico? Who can you normally find in Mexico? Donald Duck! This was FM#3's must-see character!
Although he had gotten to see Donald in the parade at Magic Kingdom, he had hoped he would see him up close and personal at the Epcot Character Spot, but Donald was not there. Donald had proved to be very elusive to us thus far.
So, here we were practically walking right up on Donald and Jose! We were the third family in line so we didn't have much time to rouse our sleeping child. Alas, he was having none of that. He slept right through our Donald meet and greet. The older two boys posed for pictures, and no, we did not mention this to Sleeping Cutie.
Continuing around World Showcase, we spent a few minutes outside Norway, posing in front of the Viking ship. Good thing, too, because it was slated to be dismantled within the year.
Sniff, sniff.
Ships are cool. Wooden Viking ships are especially cool. And how cool would we be if they reassembled that bad boy in our backyard?
No visit to Norway would be complete without a ride on the Maelstrom. Why is that line always so long? Oh, well, good thing they have that huge mural to look at. Hidden Mickey fun!
After drooling over the sweaters and rosemaled plates in the gift shop we found a bench out front from which to view Illuminations. CB disappeared for a while and returned with a big ole soda and light up Mickey ears for the boys.
Boo yah!
Now, a little tidbit about World Showcase and evening Extra Magic Hours. Truth of the matter is, World Showcase doesn't exactly do EMH. The pavilions weren't running at 100%, but we didn't let that stop us. We toured China, saw the American Adventure, and played in those bright red phone booths in England. There were very few people back there which was nice. We were dragging which explains the lack of pictures I have from that portion of the day. The Cast Member from the America pavilion offered to take our picture in front of the fountain, but I will not post it for two reasons (1) we were dragging and it was obvious, and (2) my Mom would not like me to post that picture of her.
However, Mental Note: an empty World Showcase at night would make for great pictures.
Kind of like icing on the cake was Soarin' at the end of the night. We did the Child Swap since FM#3 isn't tall enough so we each had some time to relax in that lounge area where the Fastpass machines are. And let me just say, everyone should be able to ride Soarin' right before bedtime.
G'night!
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