Day 1 Cont.
We hung a left out of World Showcase and headed over to the Imagination pavilion. We had some fun with the shooting water, though Jon was frustrated he couldn't get a better picture of it.
We saw that Captain EO only had a 5 min way and, on par with what we could expect for the rest of the trip, 5 min wait apparently = walk right on. We watched the pre-show movie, grabbed our 3-D glasses, and entered the theater. Despite popular opinion, we loved Captain EO! Michael Jackson in his glory days dancing and singing to fight the evil aliens! What more could you want? It was cheesy, it was 3-D, it was great.
We then went on Journey Into Your Imagination which I had been talking up to Jon the whole day since I had loved Figment as a kid. He didn't really get it, partially due to not growing up with it and partially due to refurbs I think, but I still enjoyed the ride.
We skipped the land pavilion since we knew we'd be back later with our fastpasses, and instead cut over to the Seas and rode The Seas with Nemo and Friends. I loved the projections into the aquarium, but we missed a lot of what was being said because there was a LARGE group of loud kids with two parents trying to control them in the seashells surrounding us. Grrr.
We got off and went over to Turtle Talk. Jon and I both adored this! The technology in it was fantastic. We had one kid in our group who's "question" turned out just to be a long story about how one time she fell asleep and had a bad dream and fell out of bed and bumped her head. Crush totally went along with it and kept asking her questions instead of brushing her off which I thought was cool.
Next we went to ride Spaceship Earth where we again walked right on. I loved the new (well probably not new, but new since I had last been there) stuff at the end where you could pick your future. We had fun playing with all the Siemens games at the end, as well. On our way out of Spaceship Earth we decided to try out Club Cool. I had been so excited to try and trick Jon into trying Beverly, but he actually LIKED it! Yuck! What a letdown. Neither of us found anything we really enjoyed at Club Cool so we journeyed on.
We headed over to explore the Welcome Center for the F&WF which was deserted. We had fun looking at the sculptures of chocolate made by some of the Disney pastry chefs.
I also spent a good while browsing through the merchandise and found a ton of kitchen supplies I wanted, but snapped out of it and realized I probably shouldn't spend our entire budget on the first day.
As we headed out of the Welcome Center we saw that Mission Space had a 5 min wait for the green side and a 10 min wait for the orange. Jon doesn't do spectacularly well with simulators so we opted for green. 5 min wait my butt. We not only walked right on, but there was a family of three that were the only other people there. We got our own car, blasted into outer space, saved the day, and came back down to earth. Both of us agreed that the green side was enough for us and decided against upgrading to orange.
By now it was about 8:00pm so we headed back to World Showcase for some dinner. It had now become full out crazy. People were drunk and stumbling all over, passed out on the side walk, making obscene gestures from inside the phone booths, and feeling each other up at the Off Kilter concert. I was a little disturbed that people felt it appropriate to act like this at Disney, and I know I would have been NOT happy had I had any kids with me. I just wanted to get food and hightail it out of there.
Canada still had a super long line, of course, but people were obviously not paying attention because the booth had a line on either side open and the side we came to had one person in it. Score! We ordered the Canadian Cheddar Cheese, Chicken Chipotle Sausage with Sweet Corn Polenta, Le Cellier Wild mushroom Beef Filet Mignon with Truffle Butter Sauce, and Apple Ice Wine and made a little picnic on a clear spot of sidewalk since there were no open benches, tables, or even trash cans in sight. The soup of course was incredible, the filet was delicious but a little on the tough side (which I will completely contribute to it being the end of the night and let it slide), and we both enjoyed the sausage but not as much as we had expected.
We both were anxious to get out of the crowds so we decided to split and Jon headed to the Dessert and Champagne booth while I ventured over to Hawaii and we met back with our findings. Jon got us Dessert Trio the dessert trio of Yogurt Panna Cotta with Orange Cake, Raspberries, and Pomegranate, Lemon Custard Verrine with Blueberry Compote, and Dark Chocolate Mousse with Chili and Salted Caramel. I'm a lemon freak so I thought the custard was clearly the best.
From Hawaii I grabbed us a Kalua Pork Slider with Sweet and Sour Dole Pineapple Chutney and Spicy Mayonnaise and Tuna Poke with Seaweed Salad and Lotus Root Chips. I loved the Tuna Poke and Jon hated it, I was indifferent towards the slider and Jon loved it, so we both finished off our respective dish.
I was still pretty full from our late lunch and desperately wanted out of the World Showcase, so we started towards the Land pavilion to ride Soarin', stopping for Jon's first Mickey Bar on the way.
Soarin' had a 45 min wait, by far the longest wait we had encountered all day, and even with our fastpasses we waited about 5 to 10 min before we got on the ride. Neither of us had ever been on Soarin' so we weren't really sure what to expect, but we both LOVED it! What a great way to make us forget about some of the horrors we had just seen in WS. I was back in my happy place.
We both wanted to go on again, but the standby line was still just as long and we were both exhausted so we decided to skip a second run on Soarin', skip Illuminations, and head back to the bus.
Up next: Universal's got nothing on Disney and dinner at Kona Cafe
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Sounds like it's going to be a great trip report. We 
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I apologize for the quality of some (most) of the pictures. Our camera did not take well to the Florida heat, apparently. It's used to brisk Minnesota days I guess! 
: i too once had an experience with that Singapore Sling....That is one STRONG drink....LOL
