More Family Fun at Disney

October 27 and 28
Monday and Tuesday were Epcot days.  And what fun we had!!!  The GM Test track proved to be such a hit that the kids did it both days.  One of the new aspects is designing your car before going on the ride.  Jack was positively thrilled that his was rated as the second best for the day.

I had the fun of watching Karsten while the rest of the family did the ride since he was too little to go on it.  He and I had fun checking out the cars on display.  His brother joined us the first day.

The whole family joined us and had fun looking too.

Soarin was the other big favorite.  The new method of ordering fast passes ahead of time made it quicker to get in to some of these more popular rides.

The International Wine and Food Festival was going on so it was especially fun walking around in the international area seeing all the little decorated food booths and checking out what they had to offer.  On the second day that was our mode for getting a meal.  A taste of this and a taste of that.  Janet LOVED the Greek spinach pie 

While Anders tried the Irish lobster pie

Ken and I enjoyed the fish and chips from England

We checked out the lumber jack show in Canada

And the acrobats in China

Plus the drummers in Japan

Both of the kids had fun solving one of Mr. P's Secret Adventures: Anders searched Germany and Dagny searched throughout France.  

Meanwhile Karsten was "dancing" in his stroller, keeping the beat to the music as these dancers did their thing

And Janet and Jack found some baklava!

We enjoyed the boat ride through Mexico

But one of the best adventures was dinner in Japan with the chef cooking at our table.  Everyone had fun watching all of his knife twirling, slicing and dicing and special affects like an onion volcano.

The waitress made oragami swans with wings that moved for each of the kids, as well as an Olaf that Dagny had fun inflating.  Plus the kids menu supplied lots of games and coloring opportunities to keep the kids busy when they weren't watching or eating.

Meanwhile Karsten just ate and ate and ate some more - he ate an entire order of edamome beans, most of his mom's rice, several pieces of chicken, an entire banana, etc etc etc.

 When he wasn't chewing, he was giving us lots of his classic smiles

And at the very end of the day we got a snap of all of us still looking pretty chipper considering all the walking and adventures we'd had.

But sadly all good things must come to an end, and that is what our adventure did - we had to wave goodbye and send the kids off to the airport to fly back home to Dallas.  And while they were doing that we drove "home" via our favorite restaurant bd Mongolian for a great stir fry meal and then to Camping World to pick up a couple of items we needed.

So we are left with lots of wonderful memories of a terrific week with our Texas family.