We've done a bit more exploring today. We started our day with breakfast at our resort. It was profoundly adequate. Our next stop was the Magic Kingdom.
Brief Tirade: The security checkpoints at Disney are a sad commentary on our society. They diligently dig through anything that you carry into the park. They have no metal detectors or explosive detection systems. I'm sorry, but when the end-time comes; it's not going to be comming in my camera bag. Tirade concludes.
For no particular reason, our first stop was FrontierLand. It was pretty good. We spent some time exploring the caves on Tom Sawyer Island. I tried to get some pictures in the very low light. Some worked, others did not.
However, I also got some great pictures on the topside of the island as well.
Apparently we've chosen to visit during the slowest time of the year. We really didn't have trouble getting onto any of the rides or attractions. Space Mountain was great. I have been to Disney once before, as a child; but this was my first trip to Space Mountain. (It previously has been under construction).
The Haunted Mansion was my favorite of the attractions. We ran through the Haunted Mansion twice. There was only a 10 minute wait. I took some pictures when we were inside, but the light was too low to get any good results.
On our way to Pirates of the Caribbean we were rudely interrupted by a random Disney parade. At first I was fairly peeved at the interruption, but the parade turned out to be pretty impressive. I got a number of good pictures.
Pirates was great. As was the Jack Sparrow performance that was running nearby. Pirates seems to have a greatly revived interest because of the recent movies.
After a fairly long day at the Magic Kingdom, we realized that EPCOT was offering extended hours (until Midnight). We took 1/2 hour to regroup and headed out to EPCOT.
Our first stop was Spaceship Earth (the golf ball). It's been updated a lot since the last time. The new version of the ending includes a lot about our great global network.
We also managed to visit Mission Space and Test Track. We had dinner in England. We made a whirlwind lap around the countries, and returned for the night. It's been a lot of walking.