Vacation Day 7 - Epcot

Today started with a little bonus in our hotel. When we booked at Pop Century, we expected it to be the bare minimum but this was not the case!!! This morning we found a couple of extra bonus features of our room that we were not previously aware of. When Mindy closed the door of the bathroom for her shower, she noticed that there were two towels hanging on the back of the door...from the previous guest! Now there was a card about them not washing towels if you leave them hanging up, so I guess our housekeeper is particularly environmental...or perhaps just lazy. We decided to complain, hoping they might offer us a free dinner or something but the lady at the front desk was too polite for us to get really angry at her and so we left with an assurance that our room would be thoroughly cleaned during the day.

After this, we headed off to Epcot for the day. The slogan for the park should be "At least we have Soarin'!". Seriously, this was the only ride that was any good that we went on. To be fair, there were a couple that our kids were too small for...and the Test Track might have been fun but the Fast Passes were all gone before we got there, however, this was BY FAR, the least interesting "fun" park we have ever attended. It is small which makes it too crowded. there is really just a whole heap of lame rides and attractions to attend - I mean, the cruise through the hydroponics farm might have been interesing in the context of a museum visit...but as a Disney attraction?? The only that was good was "Soarin' ". This was a ride where you felt like you were flying, complete with winds and smells as well (apparently when we flew over the orange orchard I was assured by Mindy that there was an orange smell piped in...however I completely missed this). It was a truly fantastic ride, however due to the lack of anything else of note existing in the park, the Fast Passes on this ran out quite quickly as well so we only got to ride it once.

There was also a Nemo ride which was pretty much appropriate for absolutely nobody. Older kids/adults would surely have found it kind of bland...and then they threw in a moment with an anglerfish that would have scared younger visitors. What attractions there were were all crammed into Future World...the rest of the park is the World Showcase, a series of themed areas about the countries of the world. This pretty much amounted to being a sequence of overpriced shopping and dining areas. We decided we to leave about 1:30 and go and get some reasonably priced food for lunch and found an Indian restaurant. After this, we spent some time in a souvenir store letting the girls pick out some stuff and have some fun playing with the toys in the store.

Overall, we knew that this would be a quiet day at the park...I just had no idea about exactly how quiet! The girls got to sleep early and we hope that they are ready for another day at Magic Kingdom tomorrow! The weather was also quite nice today - Monday was quite chilly - and it should be quite warm for the rest of the week.