Family Vacation 2005, Day 6....

Today's 2 stops were Epcot and then back to the Magic Kingdom. There weren't that many *rides* at Epcot, but there was plenty to see and do. There were a bunch of slow moving informational type rides that had no height restrictions, so everyone went on. After checking out stuff at The Spaceship Earth , The Land, and getting a bite to eat we headed over to the different nations section of the park. There were about a dozen different countries represented and in each section the buildings, streets, and vendors were all replicates of actual things in those countries. It was pretty cool. We were hanging out in Italy and caught a street performance of "Romeo and Edna". A very loose interpretation of "Romeo and Juliet". There was a lot of crowd involvement which made for a fun experience. We didn't have the time to check out every nation and we actually ran past a couple of the areas. It had been drizzling on and off all morning and in one instance the skies just opened up and poured. We had to run to find shelter. Didn't help. Jennie and I had to buy new t-shirts at the gift shop to replace the drenched ones we had on. Not a bad deal so far. I've gotten a whole new outfit so far on the trip. On our trip to Animal Kingdom on Monday I got new shorts and socks, and today was a shirt.

Around 6 we headed over to the monorail to head over to the Magic Kingdom. We were there yesterday and arrived too late to Main Street to check out the parade. There was no room for us to watch so we decided to head over early today to make sure we got a good spot. We claimed our 15' section of the curb around 6:30. Laid down ponchos (served two purposed - held our spots and kept our butts dry) and parked the strollers. We all took turns walking around Main Street checking out different shops and getting dinner. The parade started at 8. The lights on Main Street were mostly turned off and the floats and characters started down the street. The main theme to the parade was lights. Every float, car, and character was draped in different colored lights. A lot of characters were present in the parade and the boys had a blast seeing everything. The only dissapointed thing was that there wasn't as much character-fan interaction as the parade at MGM Studios.

After the parade we got back on the monorail to head back to Epcot where our cars were parked. Most of the kids passed out in the cars on the way back to the house. A nice quiet evening at the house......

.....until they all wake up and start running around the place tomorrow morning :-)