Epcot Day & the Night Parade & Fireworks

As you can tell we had to take a little blogging break. Thursday we went to Epcot again for the search for Snow White and then that evening went to Magic Kingdom for the light parade and fireworks - and then we ran out of gas! 4 days of straight park adventures was too much for the family so Friday we actually just stayed at the resort, slept in, went swimming, took naps, went swimming again, then family dinner. We were exhausted!!! But more on that later - back to Epcot.....

As I said previously it is the Garden Festival at Epcot and it is beautiful. The things they can do with plants is amazing. We were at Epcot around 10:30 - but not much happens until after 11 there so we just took our time and wandered. Since we had gone to Mexico and China the previous day we took a right and went to the UK and France to start with.


Here Abby is with the Beast and Belle in France. We ended up going to a lovely pastry shop for dessert breakfast - it was excellent. Tim and I shared a strawberry tort - highly recommended!


Abby in front of Aurora and Prince Phillip, but as usual she was ready for the real ones instead of fake ones....



So finally Princess Aurora made it out and yes - that is Megan finally in a photo with a character and is not crying!!! She even gave her a hug!


We had to stop and see Belle again - and yes there is Megan again and she hugged Belle as well.

They had a miniature Rapunzel tower with the music from the movie - as we watched that most evenings when we returned to the resort, the girls enjoyed looking at it. There is a train set also by it. We were in Germany at the time.

Waiting patiently for Snow White......

SNOW WHITE!!!! Abby was thrilled - Megan threw a fit.
Since we were in Germany we browsed a bit...


Abby and Megan found shields/swords to play with (they are foam) and Ann & Tim found the Oktoberfest beer :)


From Germany we went to the American Adventure. There Abby got to help say the pledge of allegiance with a group of kids.

From there we went to Morocco and found Jasmine and Aladin. Megan is hiding in the stroller if you were wondering.

One more stop in France to see the Beast - which Abby was afraid of - Megan is still hiding in the stroller.

Then one last stop in the UK to see Alice - who had alluded us at Magic Kingdom - she's apparently hard to get time with, but we got her.

After that we headed back to the resort for naps and late lunches because we were heading back to Magic Kingdom for the Electrical Light Parade and Castle Fireworks.


Curb side seats for the parade. As you can see we had to get some light up toys for the parade - Disney has to make a fortune on these based on how many kids had them. They dim the lights for the parade so it was fun for the kids to be able to use them.


Another shot - Abby has a Cinderella one (which is Megan's actually) and Megan is playing with Abby's Tinkerbelle one.

Let the parade begin!

Prince Charming trying on the glass slipper for the step-sisters. They were a hoot!

We stopped off at the ice cream parlor on Main street for some "dinner" then watched the fireworks by the castle - not my best photo - I had a better one but it's too much work to replace it after a week of blogging like this.

We were back at the resort around 11:30 I think - and that is where we ran out of gas. Friday was Park-Free, but full of swimming which is what the girls wanted to do - we didn't mind either as we were a little exhausted with it all as well. We learned quite a few lessons on this trip. Hopefully we can share with our friends. We had a lovely time and I am sure there are more photos still to post - we're still trying to recover from it all. As I asked Tim when we got back to the KC airport - "Were we really gone a week?" - Tim said - "Felt more like a weekend".