Day 3 - Epcot

We decided not to wake anyone up today and get a late start to our morning. Here's Elizabeth with the start of her pin collection.
Here is Ben with the start of his pins. By the end of the trip these were totally full! The kids really enjoyed searching the pin booths for all the different types of pins.

Epcot! Trying to get us all in a picture.

We didn't get one with Grandma and Grandpa though, oops!

The first thing we did was head to The Seas of Nemo. We sat in these clam shells and rode around to see different scenes from Nemo - with their own twist to them. The kids really enjoyed this one.

We walked out and saw the shark from Nemo -we had to jump right in his mouth.

Meeting another guy from Nemo.

See, the posing has started! After watching all those princess Elizabeth started to try to do it herself!

While we were waiting to see Turtle Time with Crush we got to see some sting rays and other fish. The show with Crush was so great! Somehow Crush talks specifically to the kids, asking them questions, teasing them. There is obviously someone behind the screen and their voice turns into Crush, and animates him correctly. It was really neat. I wish we were allowed to take pictures in there!

This fish kept coming over to see Jackson.

After the show we went to eat lunch. Then we hopped on the boat ride called Living With the Land. It was showing how we used to live by the land and how some farmers still are, and then it drove us into Epcot labs were they are working to make new ways of growing fruits and veggies. It was very interesting. I didn't realize they have their own lab and are doing their own experiments at Epcot. Then we headed to the Circle of Life - a show talking about the importance of recycling and taking care of the earth. I think it impacted me a lot more than it did the kids - they just thought the Lion King characters were funny in the show! :)

After the show the guys went to ride Test Track - a car racing ride. The kids, Jessica and my mom went to Innoventions, an interactive Science place. Tom met us there later. We did lots of activities but one of the favorites was Tom riding the Vespa! I think he enjoyed himself!

This was all of our favorite things. The kids made themselves characters in their own video game! Do you see Ben and Elizabeth jumping?

You stand in this thing and it tells you to jump, run in place, and dance. It records your movements and then sends you over to the computer stations to let you play your game. It had me enter an email address that would send the game to us for 30 days but when I got home it wasn't there. :(

Another shot of the kids jumping.

There they are, playing themselves!

This is them dancing at the end, so fun!

We did this at least 6 different times. After that Tom, Jessica, me and my dad all rode Mission Space, where we trained to be astronauts. Jessica and I were so nervous because as you walk up it asks you if you want to be yellow or orange. Yellow is less intense, orange is more intense. It went on and on about how intense orange was, if you have any sensitivities not to do it, etc... We had heard all about people getting sick on it so needless to say I was very nervous! Lucky it was just a lot of fun, no one in our group got sick - thank goodness! We also went on Soaring with all the kids minus Jackson and my mom. It was a ride that made you feel like you were hang gliding - it was very realistic. After this we went back to our hotel for dinner and a swim!

The hotel pool was heated but it was still really cold. I did not go in.

They were freezing but they didn't want to get out.

We all went back to our rooms and went straight to sleep!