Today was welcomed with a slower start as all 21 of us gathered for a delicious brunch at Boma - Flavors of Africa, a restaurant located on the grounds of our hotel...
After brunch, while M and I rested a bit in the hotel room, B went to the arcade with his cousin, B, and Hubby and L played ping pong, meeting up with a college student from Ontario who played a few rounds with them as well.
Early afternoon, we headed out to spend New Year's Eve back at EPCOT...
where we snagged a cool 360 degree cousins photo...
while waiting on the rest of our big party to assemble...
and where Aunt E was at it again, lining up Lightning Lanes and Virtual Queues, etc.
First, we headed over to Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind where we were in for a roller coaster like no other where the individual cars actually break apart from each other and cruise and spin singularly before returning together as a train...
{M's hair says it all}
All the spinning left me a little nauseous, but it was a winner with everyone else!
While already in the World Discovery section of the park, we rode Test Track again, as well...
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before moving over to the World Celebration section of the park where we were able to ride Spaceship Earth again...
and meet Joy from Inside Out at ImageWorks...
From there, we moved on to the World Nature section of the park and walked through the new Journey of Water attraction...
before heading back over to World Discovery for our hard to snag dinner reservation at Space 220 Restaurant...
This restaurant features an attraction within itself where after your party checks in, you ride a "space elevator" up 220 miles above Earth...
Once you "arrive" at the restaurant, you are greeted with magnificent views of Earth down below...
The food was really, really good, too!
We took a few more photos...
before boarding our space elevator back down to Earth...
where we met up with Uncle B, Aunt E, A and E in the World Nature section of the park...
We then added cousins A and E to our crew so Uncle B and Aunt E could have a little bit of time to wander the park on their own.
With our newly expanded group of 7, we rode The Seas with Nemo & Friends...
and then explored a bit of the SeaBase aquarium before wandering over to the World Showcase area of the park to ride the Gran Fiesta Tour Starring The Three Caballeros, a boat ride located in the Mexico pavilion...
The World Showcase area seemed to be where the party goers were assembling, and therefore proved to be pretty crowded, so we made our way back over to the World Celebration area where we rode the adorable Journey Into Imagination with Figment ride...
before meeting back up with Uncle B and Aunt E + K and F, and attending the Disney & Pixar Short Film Festival...
Lastly, within the World Nature section of the park, we rode Soarin' Over California...
before getting ready...
to ring in 2024...
Happy New Year!
FUN FACT: Before this trip, we last visited EPCOT in 2011, just days before B started kindergarten, and tonight we rang in 2024, just months before he is set to graduate from high school...
Don't blink...
Headed to Hollywood Studios tomorrow (or rather, later on today)!
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