First of all thank you for all the comments on yesterday’s blogpost!

Like we said yesterday, this is going to be a vacation with a lot of firsts and today was Emily’s first time in Walt Disney World and the first time at Epcot.

Yesterday was a long and pretty exhausting day so we all went to bed pretty early. Emily at 7:00 pm and we hit the sack at about 9:30 pm. We all woke up around 7:00 am, I guess we all were really, really tired.

So we all had a little breakfast, we packed all our stuff together and around 9:00 am we left our villa into the direction of Epcot. Emily took a nap, first in the car and then in her stroller. 

At the entrance of the park we picked up Sander’s annual pass and we got a “1st visit button” and an autograph book for Emily. After that we had a Fast Pass for Test Track so Sander went first and then I could do the ride. 

Then it was time for Emily to get a picture taken with Mickey, Minnie and Goofy for the first time. We did have a Fast Pass for the Character Spot so there wasn’t much of a wait time for us and we were both curious about how Emily was going to react when meeting the Disney Characters. She really liked Mickey and Minnie and couldn’t stop touching them and giving them kisses. Only Goofy was a little, how is the best way to say it… goofy to her so she was a little shy there. We got some really nice pictures and also, of course, autographs in Emily’s autograph book.

Now it was time for us to leave Future World and walk to World Showcase. Unfortunately the whole Duffy shop at the beginning of World Showcase is transformed to a Star Wars shop… Daisy was standing there for pictures and a really short line, but Emily was sleeping so we saved that one for later on our vacation. Slowly we strolled along World Showcase Lagoon and we ended up in Germany having a Pretzel and some beer. We continued walking along the Lagoon and since Emily was talking a nap we decided to go to Mission Space. We both did the orange “more intense” version with Rider Switch (also known as Baby Switch). One person does the ride through the normal waiting line and the 2nd person gets a pass for the Fast Pass line. 

After we did some shopping at Mouse Gear we went to Spaceship Earth and visited Base 21, the Siemens VIP Center in Spaceship Earth. On our way towards the exit we saw Pluto, so we got a picture with him and another autograph for Emily’s autograph book. We also took some pictures in front of Epcot’s icon, the big golf ball called Spaceship Earth.


Now it was time for us to go home, we all were pretty tired. I drove home and there Sander and Emily took a plunge in our pool. After the swimming Emily got her dinner and Sander went to the Publix to buy something to throw on the barbecue for our dinner. We enjoyed home-made burgers while hearing the Magic Kingdom’s fireworks in the background. We could even see some glimpse of the actual fireworks.


I can’t wait what tomorrow will bring for us.