After several early starts, we had a long lie. We decided upon breakfast in the market place in the neighboring Beach Club Resort. This was our first foray into the Beach Club. This seemed a much busier hotel with more families. This backed up by the numbers getting on and off the Disney buses. Breakfast was tasty with Mickey Waffles and bacon and a platter with sausage, bacon, egg, biscuit (more like a scone) waffle and potato.
After breakfast it was off to the pool. The kids could play about until their hearts were content. The adults could relax and play with the kids as suited. This lasted until 1:30pm, when the sky darkened. There was a flash of lightening and the pool was immediately cleared. Shortly afterwards the rain started. Back to the room for a shower and change. So we are ready to go on our next trip when the rain abates.
The thunderstorms are intense and quite spectacular.
In previous visits the thunder showers were later the day and worked out well for splitting the day. This visit we are having to change our plans depending on what the weather is doing. This is no real problem as there are plenty of options.
The rain has become a constant drizzle, going from being enough to need a coat (or poncho) to just putting up with it. We entered Epcot between the UK and France ( no not in the middle of the English Channel) and headed towards France. We were off round the world. We headed to Morocco. There were some tasty looking offerings for snacks that were savory rather than sweet. We bypassed Japan as we had been around earlier in this visit and we were a little peckish. Next stop was USA where we had to try some Funnel Cake. It was hot and stringy and covered in icing sugar. We all dived in. Next we went to Italy. It was by this point that there were many people on a drink around the world challenge. A good number seemed quite young and a number were clearly celebrating their 21st and \or graduation. Some were quite noisy and were obviously playing drinking games. You have to wonder, if this really fits with family image that Disney portrays. Then again the price of the drinks must make this a good earner, on top of this you have the souvenir glasses. How long will alcohol be allowed in Epcot or will they need to impose some sort of limit to the number of drinks? The few could spoil things for the many.
After Italy came Germany. Once again alcohol was at the forefront as this seems to be what Germany is most famous for.
Next comes Norway, famous now for Frozen. As we had breakfast here earlier in the week we passed straight through. On to China. The pavilion where a the souvenirs are actually made in the country being represented. They are all considerable cheaper in the country of origin. They had a troupe of Chinese acrobats to entertain. The didn't have much of a space to perform in, but they were quite good. We then took in the 360° film presentation on China. It started in Shanghai and the tallest building on the Pudong side of the river was the ??? Tower. This is now dwarfed by several other buildings and shows the age of the presentation.
Lastly, we went to Mexico, home of Tequila and Margaritas. We did the ride and headed out. The kids had wanted to try burrito, but there didn't seem to be any on offer.
Most of our visits to Epcot so far had been after thunderstorms and Test Track had been closed. It had been closed most of the day. As we wandered past we could hear cars on the track above. This was the test before the attraction being opened. We were lucky enough to get straight in as the reopened the ride.
Our dinner reservation was in The Nine Dragon restaurant. The meal was really good, one if the best so far on this trip. I had the Kowloon spare ribs in hosin sauce, cabbage and noodles.
After our meal there was a short wait until the illuminations reflections of earth fireworks display. We had read that the bridge in Italy was a good place to view the fireworks from, so we made our way there and found a spot. As the park wasn't very busy, there were lots of spaces. This was indeed a good spot as in the distance we could see another firework display. This must have been the Magic Kingdom. Disney do spectacular firework displays.
On our way back to the hotel, we saw some of the fireworks from Hollywood Studios to the soundtrack of Star Wars. Three displays for the price of one.
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