The Redd's: Disney World- Epcot

Thursday was Epcot day. We had reservations at Akerhus inside Epcot before the park opened. We were told that the monorail wouldn't be running that early so we had to drive. (however the monorail was running and the kids would have loved the 10 mile monorail run). We were let in the park right at 8am and we headed straight to breakfast with the princesses. We were greeted as "Welcome Royal Family" and then we were escorted to a meeting area with Belle. Hope was in the awe and the boys didn't know what to do. They all posed with Belle and then we headed to our table. We were able to go to a buffet with fruit, bread, muffins, etc and then we were served a family style platter with all our breakfast favorites. Sutton was still a little off from the day before with her eating. The kids all ate and Hope, Sutton, and I paraded around the restaurant behind all the princesses. After that all the princesses visited our table one by one. We met Cinderella, then Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Ariel. Sleeping Beauty was the sweetest. Hope just ate it up! We finished right at 9 and knew we had to head straight to test track before the lines got too long. When we walked up the line already said 45 minutes (whhaat the park had only just opened). We ended up doing a rider swap so someone could stay back with Sutton. It still probably took an entire hour. However, it was totally worth it! The kids got to design a race car on a computer. Then your car was put to test against all the other cars in your big race car. It's tested on power, efficiency etc. Craw's one the first test and he was so excited. It did several tests where the race car would take off and then slam on the brakes. Craw just loved it. They had all these interactive games in the room once the ride let out. It was great. We then headed to soarin for our fast passes. Again, someone had to wait with Sutton. We sent all the others and Brad, Craw, and I waited until they finished before using our fast passes. At this point, the park was slammmed. We didn't really know what to do before our next fast pass because most rides already had 45 minute waits and the kids were getting tired from the long week. We headed over to Nemo and luckily only 30 minutes. We all rode Nemo and then headed to turtle talk with Crush. The kids had a ball watching the aquarium before we were allowed in to turtle talk. We then headed to Spaceship Earth. Everyone enjoyed planning their future in the Jetson like production. We had late lunch reservations and started making our way to the world showcase. Craw and Carter passed out on the way there. We all got seated and started watching the show while Craw and Carter slept right through it. Craw eventually woke up and ate all his food (which is great for this picky guy.) At this point Craw was exhausted and just wanted to go home and play in the water park. We decided to split up. Brad, Papa, Craw, Sutton and I headed home while the rest stayed at the park. Craw passes by a miniature train display and he was in heaven. We didn't think we were going to leave. Then I told Craw I would take the monorail home with him. It broke right when we got there. Luckily, Brad and papa had not left year so we headed home with them. Once we got back to the hotel Craw wanted to go swim. We decided to go check out the Grand Floridian (since the big pool at the Polynesian wasn't complete yet). Craw made friends at the beach of the Grand Floridian and had a ball playing in the sand. Once Hope and Carter got back to our hotel we headed there so they could all swim together. They found life jackets and the kids went crazy jumping off the side and swimming all over the pool. They swam until it was dark out. Then we got a snack and watched the fireworks from our hotel before calling it a night.

Sutton at the beach at Grand Floridian