Disney Halloween Trip, Day 3

Today was EPCOT day! Casey had previously asked to be Princess Tiana for Halloween back in Newfoundland, and we had planned to buy her a dress and accessories when we went to Bibbiti Bobbiti Boutique on the Friday of our trip. However, this morning we had a breakfast booked with the Princesses and Casey decided she wanted to dress up now! What else do you do except make her happy!?

We raced into EPCOT to Mouse Gears, one of the largest Disney shopping stores. We found the dress right away, but they didn't have her size. Thanks to a great sales lady who searched for what we wanted, we quickly purchased the complete outfit - they even helped us cut the tags off as we were rushing out the door! Off to breakfast at Restaurant Akershus - one of our favorite breakfast meals. Everyone gets to meet Belle and have their photo taken. You receive an 8x10 and 4 smaller photos as part of your meal. Inside, a variety of princesses visit you at your table - we saw Cinderella, Snow White, Princess Aurora and Ariel. The food is great here too - more on that in my restaurant review!

We did the Test Track ride - very fast - great experience! Then we headed to the International Food & Wine Festival Pavilion to check out this great Special Event. The Food & Wine Festival is held each fall, and features taste-testings from around the world, sessions where you can learn about different food and drink offerings, as well as sessions to meet with world renowned chefs. There are lots of cool souveniers to buy too!

We enjoyed some of these food offerings on our way around the lagoon. We also did the Kim Possible Adventure, which was a great way for Casey to learn more about the countries featured in EPCOT. We had some lunch in Mexico and spent some time inside the beautifully redone Mexican Pavilion. Then we stopped off at Spaceship Earth (the EPCOT ball) to do this relaxing ride.

Then it was off to Hollywood Studies for dinner! We had reservations at the Sci-Fi Diner - you sit in a car, in a replica drive-in movie theatre. Very cool restaurant and effect of being outside watching a movie while eating. There was a long wait even with our reservation and we ended up missing out on seeing Fantasmic this night. That was one of my must-dos this trip, so I was disappointed, but going back to the resort to swim in our pool was a relaxing second-best option. We swam for a while and called it a day - off to Animal Kingdom tomorrow!