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If you're curious about the title of this page I didn't get it from Bill and Ted however awesome they might be. I actually took it from a suggestion made by Tony Robbins.
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June 5, 2008
Dr. Hugh WaltersI didn't know you Hugh but I believe I am a better man for having heard your tribute. Thank you. God bless and God speed.
May 31, 2008
Kim and I did the Epcot thing the weekend after Memorial Day. Their website indicated this weekend would be less crowded than average. Apparently most people still recovering from the Memorial Day weekend. Well, Holy Crap! Walking anywhere was like trying to get out of a dairy barn at milking time!
They have these "fast track" or some such that theoretically make it easir to get on rides.
First you find your way to the ride. Using their map which appeared to have been done in crayon didn't always make it easy but would give you the general area. Unfortunately we sometimes arrived in a general area and found "you can't get there from here". Anyway, after finding the ride, then finding the fast track machine, you plug in your ticket and out comes a chit that says Come back between this time and that time. This and that time were usually about an hour and half away. So you find something else to do for an hour and a half which wasn't hard, we were at Epcot after all.
The Fast track thing worked ok. We checked out some other features of "The Land" waiting for our window for the ride. Figment needs to stop his medications. They could really do a better job. I liked the gardens and aquaculture we got to see on the boat ride.
When our time came to do "Soarin" we showed our chits and cruised down the Fast Track line. It was maybe ten minutes. The ride was pretty cool as well. I recommend it.
We also did "Mission: SPACE" which was way cool. We did the Fast track thing with that ride too. At the gate a very pleasant gentleman was handing out cards, "Spinning or no spinning?" he queried? I said "What?" and he repeated "Spinning or no spinning?" Since the tea-cup ride can put me down we opted for the green "no spinning" option. The ride was way cool and in no way requiring of barf bags. As we exited, talking excitedly about the experience and what to do next we saw the wait time for standing in line was twenty minutes. The Orange, more intense or "spinning" ride. Lets do it! we decided. More intense was way better!
We did the Track ride as well. Kind of ho-hum.
We went and sat just outside of Canada, looking across the lagoon over and beyond Mexico where we expected to see the space shuttle launch. She launched as scheduled and moments later we could see her arching high into the blue sky on a tail of fire. It was quite the site.
Our dinner reservations were for For 4:45 at the San Angelo Inn in the Mexico pavillion. By the time we arrived we were nearly thirty minutes late. They didn't even say a word. We received a buzzer and were seated not ten minutes later. Dinner was excellent and I ate more than I should. I knew I'd be walking it off.
After dinner we did the Mexico boat ride with the Three Amigos, Donald Duck, Juan Something and Jose Carioca. Could have done without that but I guess it was good to sit and digest for a bit.
After that we went to the Nemo deal that used to be the Living Seas. They have really kiddified the whole thing. Sheesh. After the ride you walk out to viewing area for the giant tanks. I was discouraged to see how bad everything looked. The tanks looked awful. Brown. Everything brown. They had marginally more diversity than in their tilapia aquaculture tank. During our visit there were several very bad divers doing the "DiveQuest" thing. Not sure what is up with all that but something needs to change.
Kind of seemed to me that was the state of the whole park. A new coat of paint on everything but underneath was the same "old" thing. EPCOT = "Experemental Prototype Community of Tomorrow". Yeah, no thanks. I'll live right here, today.
