Fifty Five by Jess: Disney World Trip 9/2012: Day 1: Epcot

Hi everyone! Happy Friday! If you recall from one of my birthday posts in July, Mr. M and I have just upgraded our Disneyland annual pass from a premium to a premier! That's the pass for both Disneyland and Disney World. We couldn't wait to use it, so when we found a fairly cheap flight for a weekend, we started planning! That weekend was last weekend. We took a 6 AM flight from John Wayne Airport on Friday to Houston, Texas, then changed flight to Orlando, Florida!

Waiting for our bus

Our bus driver James

It was just a little bit cloudy when we landed, and see the dark clouds coming in?

Then wham! Started raining cats and dogs

We got to the resort 40 min later. We were a little bummed out that it was raining, but it must have been the leftover from hurricane Issac. Man was I glad I did the online check-in... The line to check-in was super long! All i had to do was go to the online check-in line, which was empty, and picked up my room key packet. It was still raining pretty hard so we busted out our Mickey and Minnie poncho and made our way to Epcot!

Oh how I've missed this...

I spot the Eiffel Tower!

Once we got there we made our way to the entrance, but turns out we needed to go to guest services to activate our pass since that was the first time we were gonna use it in Orlando. But after that, we quickly walked to the Paris showcase to make our dinner reservation at Les Chefs de France. All of the waiters there were French.

Escargot

Flatbread with bacon and sweet onions

Lobster bisque

Dinner was awesome! The escargot was delicious, and I didn't think I could ever eat snails. The pizza was good too, but my favorite was the lobster bisque, it just melt in your mouth. The restaurant decor looked like a real French restaurant too, it reminded me of the movie Midnight in Paris. After dinner we stopped by this cart outside of the restaurant for drinks. I got this yummy orange alcoholic drink (I forgot what it was called ><) and it was yummy! Then we just walked around until we made it to Japan. Last time we were there we watched the Illuminations show on top of one of the buildings in Japan and it was awesome, so we thought it would be nice to be there for the show again. Before the show started, Mr. M wanted to set up his camera so that he could record it. So I had time to trade some pins. Right after the show started we ended up moving around a few times until we found the perfect spot.

After the firework show was over, we walked around some more. Epcot doesn't have much rides, but it's my favorite out of the 4 parks in Disney World. We did ride the Donald Duck ride, Mission Space (forgot how intense this is and almost blacked out during the ride lol), Soarin', and Living with the Land.