Part 5: Breakfast with Princesses and Epcot

Going to our princess breakfast on Saturday also meant we had to go to Epcot for the day, as that is where the restaurant was. I booked it for 10:55 which meant that by the time we got our food it was closer to lunch. Whether you call it breakfast or lunch, that doesn't mean that Paige ate anything. There were no Mickey waffles to eat, and there were princesses to impress! If she saw one coming she would say "quick! wipe my face!" She came up with this all on her own, which made us laugh. She obviously felt very self conscious when the princesses were so perfectly done up.

As soon as we walked in the restaurant, we were ushered over to meet Belle right away. We were given a souvenir photo of the two of them together.

Paige would see a princess at the next table and she'd get her autograph book out and ready:

Sleeping Beauty was the first to come over:

Cinderella. Luckily real people aren't scary like Mickey Mouse!

Snow White:

Ariel.
They all took a minute to ask Paige questions and pose for pictures. With the exception of Belle, they all seemed to have coloured contacts in. All of their eyes were really blue, really brown or really green. It was odd to look at. Paige was very shy, but loved it.

The Princess breakfast was in the Norway pavillion. At Epcot they have a gigantic section of the park called the World Showcase. There are about 10 countries or so that are represented. Each country has themed restaurants, gift shop, entertainment, shows, etc. It took us a major part of the day to wander through it, but it was a nice day outside and fun to just leisurely look at the sights. And not to mention it was great exercise, and gave Rose a chance to have her nap in the stroller.

Apparently in Canada we are either Native or lumberjacks. I get it though, they needed to distinguish Canada from America. The main building was supposed to look like Chateau Laurier, a hotel. Now if they could have covered the exhibit with snow...There was a face painting stand in one of the countries. We helped Paige to pick the rose design for her face painting. Some were super elaborate and expensive.Germany:

A German? Norwegian? miniature train...

Awesome face painting.

The other side of the face painting. What kid doesn't love face painting?

After we walked through the entire World Showcase, we headed over to the very busy section where the rides were.

We went straight to "The Seas with Nemo and Friends". For the ride you sat in a clam shell that moved around "under water" while you watched Nemo and friends swim around (on screens which were in between an underwater set, so it looked quite real). For the final minute or two, the clam shell cars passed by a massive aquarium and they made it look like Nemo and the other fish from the movie were swimming right in the tank. Really neat. We did this one twice as it was fun, no line up, and Rose could go on it.

Peeking out of shark Bruce's mouth. Paige loved this! After the Nemo ride, there was this fun shark exhibit and a bunch of huge aquariums with fish, dolphins, rays of some sort, and sea turtles:

Snacktime:
The infamous Epcot globe. For our final, and one of few, rides we went on the ride inside it.

Yes, over the course of an entire day I went on 3 rides...the space one in the big Epcot ball, and the Nemo one twice. Paige and Mike went on a ride in "Norway" as well. It was incredibly busy as it was a weekend. The major attractions all had huge lineups. I really wanted to go on "Soarin", but it was 2:00 and the fast pass tickets being given out were for 6:00!!

After so much walking that day, and the business of the weekend crowd, we decided it was best to take a break from Disney on the Sunday hoping to get an evening on Wednesday to use up the 5th day of our pass!