I gobbled down my
very messy school bread (and all but licked the plate!), and then we headed to the Fountain of Nations.
At the FoN, we noticed some pretty huge camera equipment set up outside a big roped-off area right in front of the fountain. There were also big signs that said "AFV," which Mom figured out that they stood for "America's Funniest Home Videos."
I went up to the CM walking around the area to ask what was going on, and he said that they were going to be filming the AFV finale that night after the park closed, from 11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. Wow!
From there, we headed over to MouseGear.
Mom bought a Flower & Garden Festival t-shirt with Minnie on it, and we used our AP discount for the first time! We were pretty excited.
We remembered that we had wanted to see the F&GF festival center in the old Wonders of Life pavilion, so we located that on a map and went on back. We thought it was odd that we didn't see anyone else walking to or from the building, but we went to check it out anyway and found that it had closed fifteen minutes before.
So we just figured that we would hit it on Saturday and went back to MouseGear.
I don't know what I'm doing here... I think I was trying to look like Buzz?!
In MouseGear, I decided to splurge a little and bought two tanks. The man who checked me out was named Tim. He was older and very nice. When I asked if I could use my AP discount he said that he had to see an ID, but I didn't have one at the time. I offered to go get my mom because she had her ID/AP, but he said it was alright and gave me the discount anyway. He said the total was $30-something, and in the back of my mind I was like, "Wow, that discount gave me a lot off!" because each tank was $25-$35, but I paid and went to go find Mom. I kept thinking that the price just wasn't right, so I got out the receipt and noticed that he had only rung up one shirt!
I told Mom and she "subtly" hinted that I should just let it slide, but I knew I would feel bad every time I wore it, so I went back in line and explained everything to Tim. He was a little distraught and thanked me for being truthful, and then he rang up the shirt and gave me 6 Mickey stickers. We started walking away and stopped to look at something, and then I realized that Tim had come up to us to give me 6 more stickers. We said thanks again and parted ways.
Mom and I decided to go on Spaceship Earth next. We basically walked right on!
Our journey into the past was quite enjoyable. I love Spaceship Earth! The smell of burning books in Rome is actually amazing.
We made another quick stop in Club Cool to quench our thirst (I swear, we went to CC about fifty times during this trip!) and then decided to see what the wait time for Soarin' was. As we were walking to The Land, we noticed that the wait time for the Epcot Character Spot was only 5 minutes, so we just said
YOLO and walked in without knowing who we were going to meet.
First up was Mickey!! The Boss himself!
Then came Goofy. He twirled me around in a circle and tried to get me to dance with him, but I didn't realized that until I walked away. DERP.
The last character was Minnie. I showed her that she was on my shirt, and she pointed to Mickey and started blowing kisses in his direction. :lovestruk
From there, we continued on our way to The Land to check Soarin' out. Of course, the line was crazy long, so we decided to pass it up for that day. I made sure to get a good few sniffs of that amazing The Land scent before we left though! (everyone probably thought I was crazy because I was breathing in so hard
)
By that time, we thought it would be best to head back over to Hollywood Studios to snatch some seats for Fantasmic! so we headed over to the bus stops.
Before we knew it, we were back in Hollywood!
The bag-checker guy at the park entrance saw my Unbirthday button and asked if it was my Unbirthday. I said it was and asked if it was his too, and he looked kind of surprised and said, "Yes, I guess it is!" I told him, "Merry Unbirthday!" and skipped away.
On Sunset we spotted a balloon guy that did not look very cheerful at all.
Maybe he was just having a bad day?
And the ever-so-lovely Carthay Circle Theater!