Nelson Family: Epcot Center - Disney World (Part 1)

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Epcot Center - Disney World (Part 1)

Tuesday, January 11, 2011: The 4 of us got up early enough to get to Epcot shortly after it opened and we spent the whole day there. I really enjoyed it a lot because I love to travel and explore other lands and nations. It was fun to 'travel the world' for a day!

These first few pictures were taken as we were walking from the parking lot to the entrance gates.

Not far inside the gates, we saw the "Jammitors" jamming it out on their garbage cans. They were pretty good....especially the older guy in the middle! We stopped and watched them perform for a few minutes before moving on.

One of the first things we did was go on the Test Track ride. It was really cool! This picture was taken inside the building as we were waiting in line to get on. They had the history of cars and how far they've changed and evolved over the years. This is one of the first models.

As we came off the ride.....this is what we saw. Super cool! :)

There was also a display of current cars that we see on the road today. Matt fell in love with this one....the Ford Mustang. :)

These are just some random shots of Epcot as we were walking from the main entrance area back to the countries.

Matt and I.

Since it was still so close to Christmas, they still had their Christmas Tree up.

These are some pictures of the different countries taken from afar, across the lake, as we were walking to get to them.

Seagull.

The next few pictures were taken in Canada. We have a brother-in-law on Matt's side of the family who is from Canada. I have never been to Canada myself, but I would like to go someday.

These next pictures are from the United Kingdom...another place I haven't visited yet, but hope to someday in the future. I was supposed to spend Spring Break my senior year of high school (I was living in Germany at the time) in London, but it fell through and I never did get to go.

I think these phone booths are so cool looking! :)

Alice in Wonderland. I was trying to get a picture of Alice, which was hard to do without having children in the picture since there was a line of families all wanting to get pictures taken with her. I don't know these kids, but I thought the picture was actually really cute. :)

I took these pictures of France as we were coming over the bridge into the "country". I was SUPER excited! I LOVE France! I have a soon-to-be brother-in-law from Bretnagne, France....and I've been to Paris twice. I was able to spend New Year's Eve my senior year of high school, 1995, at the Eiffel Tower with my friends. It was definitely a trip that I will NEVER forget....some really great memories!

These 2 pictures are of Pepe Le Pew's girlfriend.....Does she have a name? Penelope?

Update: I stand corrected. These pictures are actually of Marie, from The Aristocats. (To be honest, I'm not sure I've even seen that one!) :)

More pictures of France.

I took this picture of the Bretagne flag for my brother-in-law, Xavier. :)

More pictures of France.

Of course, we had to go into the little French Bakery and check it out. We even got a couple chocolate eclairs as a treat. So YUMMY!!

This is the French restaurant we had lunch in. It was so incredibly YUMMY!!

These pictures are included to more or less show what my new hairdo looks like. I love both the darker color and the shorter length! :)

The waiter in the 2 pictures above went around the restaurant with "Little Chef" from the movie "Ratatouille". This picture is of "Little Chef". So cute! As you can imagine, the kids in the restaurant went nuts over him! :)