Did You Know About our Day in Epcot: World Showcase?

Did you know our day in Epcot's World Showcase?





Though this can be rather hot, I enjoy walking around Epcot's World Showcase. It is set up so that there are small sections that represent several countries around the world. You can usually find some place, or two, to eat "local" foods. There is shopping and some sort of exhibits from that country as well.

We stopped first in Mexico for an appetizer of nachos. We went inside the San Angel because I'd heard there was a ride there, and we'd not seen it before. We found the ride in the back behind the shop and took a ride through Mexico hosted by Donald Duck and friends as the "Three Caballeros".

We walked through Norway and Germany pretty quickly. The Maelstrom in Norway had a line, so we decided not to wait. And in Germany, we decided not to wade through the drinkers!

We stopped in China to see if we could get a reservation to eat (no). I went in and saw the "Tomb Guardians" which were a replica of the terra cotta soldiers! My son got a strawberry green tea slushee.

We kept walking around to the American Experience. It did not show for another half hour so we walked down to Japan and then would back track. There was not as much to see as I remembered in Japan. We went back to the American Adventure and went inside to wait and cool off. We heard an a Capella music group sing some patriotic and folk songs in the rotunda. Afterwards, we were informed that the show was broken and would not be playing. We left there and were able to catch the Japanese drummers. That was pretty cool!

We continued walking. We were thrilled to be able to get a table in the restaurant in Italy. We ordered two dishes to share. The cannelloni was absolutely delicious!! We then headed over to the bakery in France we had remembered. We all chose a different pastry to share. YUMMY!!



We spent some time walking around the shops in England and then headed back to Future World to catch some of the attractions we had missed. Our only real disappointments in Epcot were missing the American Adventure and not seeing any street shows. Before (we had gone in December and got to see each country's version of Santa) we had seen acrobats and the living statue and musicians. This time we did not see any of those. To end our day in Epcot, we got another set of pastries to share while watching the fireworks show Illuminations. This is a really spectacular show that we all enjoyed.