Day five

September 10, 2014

From last night. My candy haul. I placed it in the rooms frig before going to sleep.

Today, at least for the morning, is not a theme park day, but a water park day. I did sleep late. Before going to the water park, I head to Pop’s gift shop and pick up the items I bought the other day at the Magic Kingdom and had shipped back to the resort. I didn’t get a chance till now. First is the 20,000 Leagues glass tankard.

How soon do they forget. 20k ride was in Fantasyland, not Tomorrowland.

They have this deal, if you spend x dollars, you can buy a souvenir watch, which I have done the last couple of years, so I picked out two more glasses to buy.

Tomorrowland

And the watch, they had two styles, one with a larger watch face, and a smaller one. I got the larger one.

It is close to 11 am before I am heading out to Typhoon Lagoon. I just like it slightly better then Blizzard Beach. I took a backpack, towel, change of clothes. I wear my bathing suit on the bus, but on the way back, will wear shorts.

Once at Typhoon Lagoon, I just went into the large wave pool. This trip I stayed away from the lazy river.

I took a break to eat some lunch soon after arriving at the water park. I was hungry from not eating breakfast. I tend to open places for lunch. I am eating before 11:30 am. Interesting to note, since I am on the dining plan, most places if you just order a soda, you get a medium one. If you ask for a large soda, that is included in the meal plan, but here I can only get the medium size, cant get the large size.

chicken strips

No problems with predatory birds. I go back to the wave pool. At first there are no waves for a while.

But after 12 pm, the waves are back.

I sit at the end of the pool where there are some benches and I am surprised how strong the wave is at that point too.

Here is a video of me being knocked around by the waves. The last time sitting at the end of the area.

I decide I had enough, change, and head back to my resort. I change into my Coral Reef/Living Seas with Nemo and Friends t-shirt once back in my room.

see how many people get it :)

Its now almost 2:30 pm, and I am heading to Epcot. Here is the video going from the bus parking area to Test Track.

I head to Test Track and use my FP+ for that. Here is my video riding Test Track.

Then I head to Universe of Energy. I notice in the last scene of seeing the dinosaurs, they removed Ellen fighting the snake.

After leaving Universe of Energy, I would be a little early for Coral Reef. So I went through Innoventions looking around.  Then I parked my scooter by Coral Reef and rode the clam ride. Here is my video of walking from Coral Reef to the clam ride. Forgive me, the video is dark once inside the ride area. 

I checked in about 10 minutes early and sat for about 5 before being shown to my table.

Since I am on the basic dining plan, I pay for the shrimp appetizer dish.

And guess what I have for the entree……

and for dessert, the chocolate lava cake.

After eating I went to see the 6:45 American Adventure show as I didn’t think I can make it there in 12 minutes to see the 6 pm show.  On the way there, I see they are setting up for the Illuminations Sparking Dessert Party.  I spoke to the workers there, and they told me that I would get out of the American Adventure about 7:30, and they don’t allow people in till about 7:50, so I could do both,  but decided to see AA another day.  I drove around the different countries window shopping.  Even tried Agent P game in Norway.

They now use smartphones in water proof cases. I only do Norway before handing it in. Here is a video of me doing part of the Norway adventure.

I also spend time taking photos of the garden train layout near Germany.

I also take some photos of the barges for Illuminations.

I then went to queue up for the Illuminations Sparkling Dessert Party. Unlike Wishes Dessert Party, there are no reserved tables, so its first come, gets their choice of tables. You go to the podium, they find your name on the list, they give you a sticker to wear

Then you then go to another place to actually enter the area. The seating is set up between the two trading posts opposite the American Adventure. You enter the area (facing American Adventure) by the trading post on the left.

They do have a couple of handicap tables setup front. I sit at one. Another family stands right next to me. Their very young daughter qualified for handicap as she suffered a stroke at a very young age. She likes fine to me, which is good, no lasting problems. Her parents say she is shy. I guess one of the nice things about this party was talking to this family. When describing her problem, they spell out stroke instead of saying it.

The tables where they set up the self serve items like cookies, had lights so the tables glowed.

They had premium ice cream bars. Some hot dessert dishes... Flam or something. Churros deep fried in butter served with ice cream.  The only lines I saw were to get the deep fried Churros. Next was where they were pouring the wine. They had two kinds, a fruity one, and another. I I had one glass of fruity sparkling wine.  I also had some cookies and water.  I enjoyed it allot better then the Wishes version.  Lots of people stood at their tables to watch.

Here is my video of watching Illuminations.

Here is a video of my Ustream broadcast of Illuminations, which includes some pre show chatter I had with another guest.

After Illuminations was over, it seemed you still could get more things to eat and drink, they don’t rush you out like they do at Wishes. I probably wont do Wishes next visit, but will look forward to do this again.

I don’t know what my plans are for tomorrow AM.  I have lunch at Kona (Magic Kingdom) and dinner at Le Cellier (Epcot)  And want to do Fantasmic (Studios)  Only question what to do in AM.. will sleep on it