By Rachel - 3/18/07

We have finally come to Disney World! We started out going to Epcot Center. The first ride we rode was Soarin’. Soarin’ takes you all over California like you’re flying in a hang glider. Then we went to Test Track to get Fast Passes. While we were waiting to use our Fast Passes, we went to Mission Space. When you get in line, they give you slips of paper so they know if you’re riding the intense or less intense ride. At first, Mom got us all intense passes, but then Mom thought Grandpa wouldn’t like it and she didn’t know if she would, so they did the less intense. When we got into the box or whatever you call it, I was the Navigator, Sis was the Pilot, and Dad was the Commander. Grandpa was the Commander too, and Mom was the Engineer. After that, we went to the Advanced Training Lab. There you could send video postcards, play on a small playground, and other things. We went on Test Track. The wait was 70 minutes, but since we had a Fast Pass, we only had to wait ten! In your “unfinished” car, you see and do some of the things that a test dummy goes through. When we were on the ride, we went in heat and ice areas, bumpy roads, mountains, and BLAZING fast speeds with sloped turns. How fast did we really go? How about 100 miles an hour? We went back to the townhouse to eat supper and drop off Grandpa. Then we went back to Epcot. We did a few more rides and then went to some of the countries in World Showcase. The first thing we did was Innoventions, which is in Future World with TONS of stuff to do such as building a rocket. We waited in line for five minutes, and then we got to go build one. But there was a downside to it. Instead of a computer, they used a glass top and I guess they projected it on the glass. Well, they had a step but still I couldn’t see up on the glass. We had to rush to get to “Honey, I shrunk the Audience” which is a 3-D movie and you get shrunk because of one man’s invention. When you exit, you can go right to a slow moving but funny ride. The ride takes you with a projection of the professor of “Imagination Institute”. No, it is not real, but still the professor was the creator of Figment, a little dragon that won’t hurt you. But on your ride, you are at least supposed to learn stuff about the five senses, but you get into Figment’s imagination. Even his house is upside down! You have at least seen a picture of Epcot’s big “golf ball”, right? Did you know that there is a ride in there? The ride is Spaceship Earth. It is a slow ride that takes you through time and tells you when different ways to communicate were made. After that, we went to World Showcase. We didn’t get to see all the countries. We actually went in Germany and Norway. Norway has a cool ride. On your ride, you get chased away from trolls and almost fall down a waterfall. On your way out, you get to watch a short movie about Norway. Then we went to find a place to watch Illuminations, the laser and light show at Epcot. It was really neat!