I have Test Track Hair

December 2.

Oops.  I somehow skipped over December 2.  Sorry!

This morning, we had some breakfast in the room before heading to Epcot for the morning.

The kids were hot to trot to get on Test Track so we headed there first.

I have to say that there's nothing like walking through Epcot in the morning, with no one else around, while the Christmas music is playing.  Priceless.

We got the Future World just before the official rope drop.  We got to see the first family to get to ride Test Track get in a Test Track car and ride on over there.

Once the rope dropped we and about 25% of the other people in line headed to Test Track, while the rest of the group headed the other way for Soarin'.  More power to 'em.

The wait time said 20 minutes, which we knew was bogus because it just opened up.  We walked in, through the prep room and seriously, right onto a vehicle.

Let me tell you, it was a little cold on the loop out there.  The kids were all, "woo-hoo" outside and when the vehicle came back in, Stefan said, "Hey. My teeth are cold."

We got off, pondered getting a fast pass, but the CM said it was still like a 5 minute wait.  He was right.  We rode again.  Then we got Fastpasses and headed over to Mission:Space.

Both the green and orange sides were 5 minute waits.  That was pretty much the case.

Seriously, go on the orange side.  It's the closest experience you'll get to real lift-off.  It amazes me every single time.

We got off and headed to do the Mission:Space race.  We ended up being Team Orion and were facing a teenage team as Team Triton.

I was about to blow a gasket because our mission support people were not giving us the correct fixes and we couldn't boost as many times in the first half of the game.

Yeah...I'm a little competitive.

Somehow, in the second half, we caught up, and despite my thinking that we were completely out of it, we ended up winning by 2 percentage points.  Not sure I'm buying it, but it was still fun.

The Mission:Space store was starting to get lots of TRON stuff!  The kids are super excited for it.  We got Stefan the TRON warm-up jacket for his birthday to wear for swim meets. It glows in the dark like the light cycle rider suit.  It's wicked cool.

After an environmental break, we headed over to Test Track to use our Fast Passes and rode for the third time.

Even though my hair is shorter, I totally had Test Track Hair.

The kids headed for Soarin' and Bryan and I decided to shop.  We were on a mission to find a few things that we hadn't found yet.

Cate texted that she and Stefan had detoured to The Sum of All Thrills and were making a custom rollercoaster.  So we headed over there to wait for them.

By the time they got out, I was starving and so was Bryan.  He wanted to eat around the world. We went ahead to World Showcase and the kids caught up just after Bryan had gotten his Rice Cream from Norway.

Then we stopped at China and the kids had orange chicken and fried rice.

Finally, Cate and I got to stop at Karamel Kuche in Germany.  We picked up a chocolate and caramel covered marshmallow skewer (yum!), chocolate cupcake with chocolate frosting and caramel drizzle (Cate ate this) and a German Chocolate Caramel, which was a caramel mixed with coconut, coated with milk chocolate and drizzled with dark and white chocolate.

Can you say sugar buzz?

I only at the marshmallow thing at that time because I still hadn't eaten a real lunch.

I decided I wanted the shawarma platter at Morocco.  Yum.  Chicken - good.  Hummus - good.  Moroccan bread - good.  Couscous salad - good.

The boys had meandered off, but they caught up to us at Morocco.

We headed to France.  The boys stopped to get a chocolate crepe.  I wanted to see if anything in the Boulangerie Patisserie tempted me.

Nothing did. So we headed home.

We had a relaxing afternoon. I tried to register for a conference.  (Didn't get in.)

We had dinner in and some extra pool time.  All in all...a nice day.