Car! Mickey!

We rode the monorail over to Epcot for lunch. We tried the Lotus Blossom Cafe in the China Pavilion. Good quality, but extremely bland Chinese food. Very similar to the quick service part of the Yak and Yeti in Animal Kingdom. Neither of which we will bother with again. A girl's gotta try.

Then, it was back to the resort. I was hoping Sean would be excited about swimming in the big fancy pool, but when I took him over to see it, he just got upset. I asked him what he wanted to do and he told me "I want car and Mickey." So that seemed clear to me. We were planning on spending the evening at Hollywood Studios and there is a great place to meet Mickey there so we just fast-tracked our plans.

As with most of Sean's spontaneous communications, it was not as clear as it seemed. When we pulled into the Hollywood Studios parking lot and he could see the big Scorcerer's hat, he went ballistic. He just started yelling for Mickey. That's when we figured out that he had named the Magic Kingdom "Mickey" and wasn't just asking to meet the Mouse. We stuck with our original plan, though, because Hollywood Studios was nearly empty while the Magic Kingdom was predicted to be quite crowded. We took him immediately to see Mickey Mouse and played around with the touchscreen computers at the Magic of Animation and that seemed to calm him down.

The boys and I headed over to the ABC Commissary for some dinner while Jonathan rode (finally) the Rock n' Rollercoaster. The ABC Commissary is the most basic fast food you can imagine but it works well for us because they serve fries for the boys and have TVs everywhere. It's a good place for us to chill while Jonathan does one of the big rides. His verdict was that the rollercoaster was great and very intense. A success!

We walked around a bit and scouted out the layout of the park for the next day's Star Wars Weekend kick-off. That is after all the reason we chose to go in late May. We met Piglet and Pooh. Piglet was a new character for us. Then, we went to see the Voyage of the Little Mermaid. It is a live action show with some cool puppet work at the beginning and great effects that "rain" on you and make it seem like you are under water. It was the first live show we had seen with the boys. Sean had mixed feelings. He was scared by how dark the theatre was and the music was a little loud for him. But the raining was very cool and there was a lot to look at. Eli was having none of it. I bribed him for a few minutes with candy and then eventually he took a phone and got down on the floor and played with that. Whatever it takes.

Then, back to the room and to bed early. We had an early morning meeting planned with some Jedi.

**I wanted to add an anecdote about the live show. We walked right into a performance. The theatre was probably less than a quarter full. We sat near the back away from anyone else. The boys were already whining about it being dark and having to sit still. In walks another family and where do they sit? Directly behind us. Not the row behind us but off to the side, but directly behind us, seat for seat. Why would anyone do this? They had literally anywhere else in the theatre to choose from. And of course, the kids were disturbed by Sean and Eli. Every time the theatre got really dark or the music got really loud, Sean would get upset and their kids would want to know why Sean was upset. Their kids had trouble seeing over us and Jonathan and I got in their way anytime we had to shift in our seats. I just don't understand other people.