at our resort for breakfast. As I mentioned we have a dining plan included with our stay. This plan includes one counter meal, one snack and one table service meal per person per day. The table service meals need to be reserved ahead of time so we'd already missed out on using our first day's allotment of that meal. We were totally in the dark,however about what exactly constituted a snack and what constituted a counter meal so when we went to the cafeteria and put what we wanted on our trays the cashiers had to help us figure out how to group the items so that they made up either a meal or a snack. Consequently we've bought too much food and gone beyond our daily allotment of counter meals and snacks. So now we have to watch our meal usage by either cutting back and eating our own food or by paying for a couple of snacks so that we get back on track. As I said there is a system involved which takes some time to figure out.
Anyway, after breakfast we boarded our Disney motor coach transport shuttle bus to Epcot. We decided to go to Epcot and I had a lot to do with that decision. It was partly because I knew there weren't many rides there--and I needed a day to recover from the flights--and partly because I wanted to see the exhibits from the various countries.
Our first stop was the Finding Nemo ride where we sat in clam shells and went along a belt through an undersea world. Lovely and calm and this kept the ride-lovers happy. Then we went on to all of the national displays starting with Canada. Canada had a 360 degree movie narrated by Martin Short. It was funny and educational and had beautiful scenery too. Below is Jarrah sitting near the totem poles at the Canada pavillion.
We then went on to France for lunch--what a good choice. Jade had a croissant and Jarrah had quiche. France also had a film show but this one was accompanied by French classical music including Saint-Saens Organ Symphony as the finale.
The American pavillion was the largest, of course, and featured a show summarising American history performed by very life-like robotic actors. Prior to the show we were entertained by a group of singers dressed in period costume singing beautifully in parts. After the show outside the pavillion a colonial fife and drum group marched past us.
Many of the countries' pavillions mainly featured gift shops and restaurants without any other sort of cultural display. We homed in on the ones which had films or other shows and China was one of these. The China pavillion had a 360 degree film narrated by Li Bai, a Tang dynasty poet, who spoke about famous sights and some of the minority peoples in China. The show was in the Temple of Heaven, which we'd visited for real just about a year ago. The China gift shop was huge and Jade and I spent a bit of time looking around in it. Jade finally chose a leopard soft toy to go with her growing animal collection. I guess there are leopards in China.
We pretty much finished with Epcot after this as the rides had long wait times and there wasn't anything else much to do there. We returned to our hotel and had another quick service meal--probably our last as a dinner as I went to the hotel concierge as was finally able to book a series of table service dinners for the coming evenings.
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