Sunday,  the 7th, SeanYoda & Meeko plan to  venture to EPCOT to get a peek at the Food & Wine Festival, attend the Twinings Tea Seminar at Ariel's (Disney's Beach Club Resort) and then eventually head to Magic Kingdom for X-tra Magic Hours (which because it was the day before "Columbus Day" the park was open til 3am for resort guests!)

WOW! What a long day.. so let's get started early.. first Meeko puts in her contacts..  *rinse* rinse* ugh!! "SOAP IN MY EYE!! ack!" *claw claw* "Out out contact! Omigosh $@!!!!!$%% *bleep!*  "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

SeanYoda sez.. "whaa? whatsamatter??"

Meeko replies "no! !this can't happen!! I ripped my contact!! I can't wear just one.. this is horrible!! I have no replacement!!!"

Seriously.. considering spending the next 2weeks going around like John Cleese from an old Monty Python skit.. hand covering one eye.. but no, that won't work. So we try spending the day with glasses, while SeanYoda looks up  providers in the area and Meeko  attempts the day in the Florida sunlight, "squinty-eyed meeko" *sigh*.. 

You may ask yourself.. Is this whole contact thing important?? Well, yes..  Sean & I spent 3 days of the trip going back and forth to the eyecare place in Celebration, outside WDW.. (thank you Celebration Eye Care!!! I will not forget you!!) SeanYoda was so good to take me & the folks at Celebration were so kind to find an opening for me.. me, a tourist! I'm telling you I feel lucky.

Yeah, I know.. Who goes to WDW without backup contacts?? Well, obviously, me for one.  *insert dumb comments here*



Enough of that.. breakfast!! 



breakfast at the  Everything Pop! food court was waffle meal (with bacon & sausage) and a very large veggie fritata meal (with side of bacon) split between the two of us, and of course our new refillable mugs from last night.  Very full & happy, (wow that was a GOOD fritata! who knew foodcourt stuff could taste like that?) We donned our hats and sunscreen and headed to the bus stop..



Ok,  you may have seen commercials for "year of a million dreams" or something like that.. Well nevermind that, EPCOT celebrated its 25th anniversary on the 1st of October, 2007. You'd think there'd be a big year -long celebration right?? WRONG. They had a one day event for commemorating the event and then put together this really nice gallery for the rest of us to enjoy til the end of this year.. but wait, you didn't get to go to WDW for the 1st of October either?? Good thing SeanYoda took all these pix and then Meeko edited them so you too, can look at the exhibits.. it's not the same as being there.. but then maybe you were there and you missed it anyway?? It was sort of out of the way..  We sort of stumbled apon it going to CLUB COOL (ice station cool) .




but first, let's set the stage.. It's EPCOT! 




while not a film, these shots were taken just as the big fountain outside the (former) Fountainview cafe were dancing and shooting off its huge water canons into the air. Not exactly the Belagio, but pretty darn good by Disney standards, this was the first time in many years we've seen them without holiday music. *sniffle*   Last shot is of SeanYoda, "mr cool" hanging out as we were about to head into CLUB COOL for some Americanized "mezzo mix" (meeko's fave) and "smart watermelon" (but NOT the "Beverly"!).


Freshened up, and ready to enjoy the EPCOT 25th Anniversary Gallery? Let's begin, with Walt.. EPCOT was definitely a WWWD? era.. so let's start with the original "man behind the mouse".. and a dream:






Next we rode "Imagination" and visited the cool game room on the other side, and of course visited with FIGMENT!!! Huray!

FIGMENT!

We had fun trying to take photos of Figment as he popped in & out of his attraction queue, then afterwards we checked out some of the fun "imganation" games of sight and sound. Here, SeanYoda stomps on pictures that make sounds.. a cow goes "moo!" the lighthouse photo makes a "foghorn" sound, etc.. Then after sending off a fun postcard (which we need to find on Sean's email maybe?) to a couple folks, we visited the special meet & greet with Figment!  Oy! does Meeko look like she needs a hairstylist.. bleh! the heat was awful for us!  (we really are used to making the trip in Decmeber).




WOW! we have so much more to share with you for today.. we're heading to World Showcase for some Food & WIne Preview, and then back to the resort to freshen up & then drive over to Disney's Beach Club Resort for the Twining's Tea Seminar (3-5pm perfect time for a tea sampling!) and then off again to the Magic Kingdom for some X-tra Magic Hours!!


Be sure and come back to see PART II  of Day 2 (Day One was arrival day.. ):




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