Friday, 1 August 2014

Day 9 - Nouba

Up at a reasonable time today (thankfully with no long term ill effects of tennis with Jake!) and out the door to Epcot and fast passing for Soarin'. Good as ever, although we were saying that we are looking forward to the new film coming - not sure when it is due.

Due to lack of supermarket trip yet on this leg of our adventure, provisions in our villa are a bit thin, and so we'd not had much by way of breakfast so next stop was the (Fountain View) Starbucks, which by comparison to a normal Starbucks was actually pretty rubbish, but managed to serve us some drinks and snacks.

Next fast pass was for Nemo and so we climbed aboard our clam shells, but the best bit was the underwater viewing area inside the pavilion, where between us I expect we must have taken a couple of hundred photos, and due to the challenges of low light conditions and constantly moving marine life, I expect upwards of 90% of them are blurred.

Our final fast pass for the day was for a character meet and greet, and so we had some photos taken with Mickey, Minnie and Goofy, before heading out of the park and to Beaches and Cream, where we gave a pretty good account of ourselves with the Kitchen Sink.

Back to base for a short pit stop before getting the boat to Downtown where we have spent the rest of the day - first at Splitsville where we played a couple of games, stopping in at a couple of shops (Owen got himself some new headphones), booking a cinema trip for tomorrow for the boys, La Nouba, and then dinner at House of Blues.

La Nouba is extremely difficult to describe, so I'm not going to try too hard! It's part traditional circus acts (clowns, juggling, trapeze, tumbling ...) and part completely bonkers and and Cirque-ish, but still very funny and entertaining.

Turtle With Mickey Kitchen Sink At Epcot