Thursday's update:
Busy day. Started with breakfast at Ohana. It's always fun to see Mickey, Lilo and Stitch up close. Ian is a huge Stitch fan. He has over 20 plushes. Here's a few pics of us at breakfast.
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After breakfast, we were off to EPCOT for Donna to ride Soarin. We got there about 20 minutes before our FP window and the standby was 20 minutes, so what else was there to do? Ride Soarin twice, of course. We were in the new theater both times. Once we had our Soarin fix, DS wanted to check out Figment. I hadn't been in since Figment came back. I was disapointed since I remember what he was when the park opened. At least he has a place again. We walked over to the Disney Shorts in the old Captain Eo building. The shorts are really cute and the 3D is very good.
By now, it was getting closer to our 1:30 ADR at Tepan Edo. We had a very good chef and the food was as good as any other Japanese steakhouse. It rained while we were in lunch, but had quit when we came out. Cooled things off a bit. We wandered around World Showcase.towards the front. Shopped a little and then headed to the monorail for MK. I still can't get over how low the crowds are. Not complaining, but I don't ever remember it being this slow.
At MK, we didn't have any specific plans except to hang out to see HEA. With low crowds, we snagged a FP to Buzz. I beat Ian again and even beat Donna. She's pretty good at the shooter games. We walked over towards PotC. It was a 15 minute wait. Donna wanted to sit with the walking, so the People mover was just the ticket. It was a walk on, but when isn't it? We did some more shopping and then it was time to scout a good view spot for the show. We found a nice spot in the front of the hub, along a rail. This was the only time the park felt crowded. By 8:30 things had filled in pretty well. Not as bad as last Fall, but still pretty full. We stayed put after HEA for Once Upon a Time (another projection show on the castle). I had just read about the "Good night kiss" that is only done at MK to close the park. We started heading towards Main Street and the exit, when I heard the narration I had just read the other night. Pretty fun.
The park had cleared out well, by now. We had less than 10 minutes for the boat and there only about 10 people on the boat back to the Fort. Long, very nice day. It didn't feel as hot or humid today. Once the sun went down it was really nice. Here's one last pic from HEA.
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