Day #3

Today we started out in Epcot. We had a breakfast appointment to meet several of the princesses; Belle, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Ariel, and Mulan. Sydney
dressed up as Sleeping Beauty and was terribly
excited to see everyone. After breakfast we visited a few of the other “countries”. In China, Sydney was chosen out of the audience to say HELLO and THANK YOU in Chinese. The lady taught her the words and then she had to go to
the front of everyone and say the words - she did very well.

Later we went to ride the Nemo ride. Sydney enjoyed watching Nemo, Marlin, and all the others swimming around. After that ride we got to see a “sneak preview” of Turtle Talk. It’s brand new and isn’t shown all the time yet. You go into a small room with a movie screen. All the kids get in the floor while we bigger kids got to sit on benches. Crush then comes swimming in and starts talking to everyone - and the kids could talk to him. He asked a couple of questions to find out some stuff about humans and then the kids got to ask him questions. Only 3 or 4 kids actually thought of something. We couldn’t see Sydney, but when Crush asked what the person’s name was a little voice came through the speakers and said “Sydney”. Michelle and I just looked at each other - we both just knew she would have something to say, we just didn’t know what. Her question to Crush was “How long do fishes swim?” Crush looked at her very puzzled (another cool feature of this particular attraction) and said “Is this a trick question?” He then thought and said “well....for as long as they live, unless they’re flying fish then they fly sometimes. So, if they’re a whale I guess they swim for about 90-100 years. If they’re a guppy, then they swim around for a couple of days until they’re eaten.” That was a good time.

On our way back to ride Test Track we ran across a place where Sydney could meet a lot of the other characters. The line wasn’t long at all so we got to meet Mickey, Pluto, Chip & Dale, Minnie, and Goofy. She got all their autographs and pictures taken with them.

After riding Test Track we had to rush over to the
Magic Kingdom to have story time with a character.
We didn’t know who it would be, but we got there
and Sydney got to sit in the floor right in front of the
stage. There were only 9 kids there - it was a private
attraction for AAA members. Turns out Cinderella’s
Fairy Godmother was the story reader for the day.
She did a wonderful job with the story and with the
kids. She played a quick trivia game with them all and then took pictures.

After story time it was off to eat dinner. We ate at the
Concourse Steak House in the Contemporary Hotel.
Sydney acted like she hadn’t eaten all day (which hadn’t since breakfast). The best part was the dessert she had - vanilla ice cream. I realize that doesn’t sound like much, but they gave her four small bowls to go along with it - one had a cherry, one had sprinkles in the shape of Mickey’s Head, one had M&M’s and one had Chocolate Sauce. She went to work and it was truly like an artist at work.

It was finally time to head back to the
hotel. For the second straight night
Sydney fell asleep on the short bus ride.
When we got back to the room we
noticed the TV was on. Looking around
we noticed Cinderella was sitting in
the middle of Sydney’s bed. She was
covered up with the bah and had the
remote sitting next to her. I guess she had a good time watching the Disney channel all day :)