My DCP Journey: My Special Guests Arrive!

t's been another week since I have written my blog. I am going to be writing one blog a week for a while as work is taking up a lot of my time. School is also right around corner.

Last Saturday I had the day off so I went to Disney Springs to get some tickets for Cirque du Soleil and my personalized magic band. A magic band is something that is exclusive to Disney. You can hook up your park passes and also your fast passes to the band. It makes it a lot easier when you’re in the park. If you stay at a Disney resort you can hook a credit card to it and use your magic band to pay for things. Most importantly resort guests use it to access their room. It is a handy device.

After Disney Springs, I headed home and met up with my friend Stephanie. She and I went to the outlets and did some browsing. It was a hot day and the outlets for busy. We headed back to my place and chilled for a bit. She headed home and I headed to meet my FAMILY!!! They had finally arrived into Orlando. I had a nice dinner with them and then I went back to my place for the night as I had to work on Sunday.

Sunday and Monday I was working. Nothing special to report!

Tuesday was my first day off this week and I got to spend it with the family at Epcot. We got to see a lot of characters while we were at the parks. We say Minnie, Mickey, Goofy, Aladdin and Jasmine, Belle, Ana, Elsa and Daisy Duck. The lines were not too long so we were lucky. We booked a fast pass for Soarin. It was worth it. The ride was great and we got to fly over many destination throughout the world. It even smelled like the places too which made the experience even better. We then went to see the circle of life movie. It was ok and was based on helping the earth with the characters from the Lion King. After that we went on the Nemo ride. It was super cute and you just say in a sea shell and went around watching clips from the movie. After that we headed to club cool. This is sponsored by coke and you are able to sample different samples of coke products from different countries. My dad's favorite was the pineapple Fanta as it reminded him of a Portuguese pop called Sumol. Then we were hungry so we had lunch.

After Lunch, we headed over to the Mission space ride. We had a fast pass but we didn't end up needing it as the line was only 10 minutes long. It was so cool to be able to get USA safely to Mars. Then it was time to go over to the world pavilions.

First up was the Canadian Pavilion. We saw the beautiful O Canada film. Seeing it again just brought back more memories of home. We walked through the into France. Here we met Belle. She was very chatty and polite. We then headed to Morocco and then too Italy where we stopped to eat dinner. We went to Via Napoli and we ordered a half a meter pizza (picture below). It looked huge at first, but between the 4 of us we managed to eat it all. Off to Norway to see the Ana and Elsa, but before then I treated my sister and father to my new favorite beer.... the Schofferhofer from Germany! Then we went to Mexico and we enjoyed a short boat ride. It was very nice and quite. Then we headed to get our seats for Epcot's Nighttime fireworks called Illuminations.

Illuminations was very grand and very telling of the world and what Epcot is all about. The colours they used and the way they utilized the world showcase lagoon was just brilliant! I would definitely see it again.

I will leave it there for now and you will here all about our experience at Cirque de Soleil in my blog in Sunday.

Until then,

Michelle

xoxo