January 29th:
I got up around 7 and was not able to get back to sleep so I had a snack and did some typing.
Our first magic pass for the day was not set to be until almost 11 so we decided to take it easy in the room and around the hotel before walking into Epcot later to ride Soarin’ and check out the Festival of the Arts activities.
We got to Soarin’ right near the end of the fast pass window and we all rode the ride.
We then got on our fast pass for Living with the Land before heading to the DVC lounge to plan our day and have a snack.
Then a wander over to the Odyssey building which was the main building for the Festival of the Arts. We tried the cronuts, the flat bread and the beer flight before checking out the art in the building. We had never been in the Odyssey building before so that was interesting as well.
We did get a huge number of pictures through the PhotoPass folks at various special booths they had set up in honor of the Festival of the Arts – I will look at doing a special post just for those at a later time!
Next we went to the Mexico pavilion and did the Kidcot station. They were doing an artist’s palette in honor of the Festival instead of a Duffy or Perry the Platypus like the last few times the kids had done of the stations.
After that we rode the Three Caballeros ride.
We moved on to Norway for the Kidcot station and a scan of the store before moving to China to do the same.
Then we walked through Africa to Germany where I went to get a beer and a giant pretzel for us to share while Heather took the kids to the Kidcot station.
Next it was Italy and after the Kidcot station we stopped to watch a street performer and I got pulled in as the patsy for a ball toss game with the clown street performer. Our son T did not like me being made fun of but I talked to him after to let him know that I was in on the joke and that I was ok. He is pretty protective of his family.
We then continued on finishing up all the remaining Kidcot stations to fill out the kids’ palettes. We checked the art and Heather made sure to do some sampling along the way.
As part of the festival there were living statues out in front of the Fountain of Nations and K had to have some pictures taken with one. He snuck her glasses off of her head while she was distracted.
We had promised the kids ice cream – so even though it was cold we went in search of ice cream. We ended up at the vendor in front of the Electric Umbrella and T, K and I had ice cream and Heather made us take a picture in front of the fountain.
Then a quick run through Spaceship Earth before heading back to the Boardwalk area. We ordered pizza to take back to the room – I waited while Heather took the kids back to the room.
We had a quick supper looking out the patio doors to the Boardwalk.
Saw partial Illuminations and Wishes from our room.
We took it easy and rested for the evening – it has been tiring trip so far!