Happy to report, for a sold out day, Epcot was not horribly crowded this morning. Was held at IG until about 10:15, then held again at Canada until 10:30 when they finally let us loose in the park. While waiting in the sun by Canada was pretty brutal, we definitely had an advantage over those entering from the front of the park. Never saw anyone coming from that direction as we made our way to FEA.
We were on the first boat, and even when we got off there was hardly any line for the ride. Decided to swing by Mexico for some more AC (it is HOT today!) and since it was 10:52 at that point decided to start the line for la cava del tequila. They opened a bit late, about 11:05, and we were still the only ones there. Got our drinks to go, then headed to our first food booth of the day, the donut box where we got the donut with the chicken (too lazy to look up the actual name). This was really good, we didn't know what to expect, but we loved it!
We stopped to get some photopass pictures and get pictures of the 50th statues before heading to the noodle exchange. Got the pork and shrimp. The shrimp was nice and spicy, it was great!
We then circled WS starting in Mexico, we only ended up getting one more food item, the bread at India which was good, but not on our best list. It was a nice stroll back to IG, really low crowds back there at that point.
Did some shopping as we went, finally found the F&W ornament I've been looking for and the cogsworth timer. I mentioned to the CM at checkout how hard it has been to find the merchandise we wanted and she confirmed that a lot of the F&W was already, or nearly sold out. A bit frustrating, we never were able to find the red Remy shirt for my mom, only have them in XL in all the stores we found them. At least I ordered her a F&W shirt online so I'll be able to surprise her with that at Christmas.
Overall a great morning at Epcot. Now it's time to nap so we have a chance of staying awake through Boo Bash tonight!