For this off day, we had a nice relaxing late start. We ate breakfast at the Everything Pop dining area here at the Pop Century Resort hotel and it was pretty good (no, I didn't take pictures of our food). After that, we hung out at the pool for a couple hours. Before we went to the pool, I was very careful to apply sunblock to the kids and myself. Somehow, though, I still managed to get sunburned on my shoulders and back--and my scalp, I think. This is probably because the sunblock we used (water babies) is only waterproof for 80 minutes and we were swimming for 2 hours. Oops! I'm probably spending too much time talking about this for too long but, when we first visited Walt Disney World twenty years ago, I got the worst sunburn of my life. That totally changed the way I spend time in the sun--particularly with my shirt off so, I'm a bit overly cautious.
After the pool, we got cleaned up and headed over to the Art of Animation resort, which is just across the Generation Gap Bridge and Hourglass Lake. We walked around for a bit taking pictures of the beautiful theming and cool movie-based sculptures and statues. A couple years ago, we walked around and enjoyed all of The Little Mermaid, Lion King, and Finding Nemo areas. This time, we focused on just the Cars area. In addition to some photo ops, we ate lunch at the Landscape of Flavors dining area.
Some Pictures From The Art of Animation Resort:
Lover this cool Cars motel sign.
Lily's blurry but Simba held still pretty nicely for this picture.
Simba, in the Art of Animation Resort Lobby
Caleb, keepin' it real in the Art of Animation Resort Lobby.
The Ink and Paint Shop.
These girls are always playing. Always.
The Cozy Cone signage.
From the Art of Animation resort we decided to ride the monorail at Epcot so, we hopped a bus and headed on over. The ride on the monorail was neat but uneventful. The particular train we rode on had Zootopia see-through decals on the windows so, it looks pretty cool from the outside. Unfortunately, these sort of decals make for so-so viewing from the inside and horrible photography so, I didn't even pull my camera out once.
From Epcot, we headed over to the Animal Kingdom Lodge, just to check it out. Right when we got there, it started raining but, wow, what a beautiful resort! We walked out onto one of the balconies and saw a couple zebras prancing around a few other Animal Kingdom animals in the distance but, we couldn't make them out.
In the lobby of the Animal Kingdom Lodge.
Waiting for the bus at Animal Kingdom Lodge.
We hung out at Animal Kingdom Lodge longer than we expected because we had to wait out the raging thunderstorm outside but, when it finally let up we decided to head back to our resort. So, we hopped a bus for Disney Springs (formerly Downtown Disney). When we got off the bus at Disney Springs, it was raining pretty heavily so, we were thanking the Lord when we stepped out into the rain after seeing a Pop Century Resort bus coming and, we were even more grateful when we were able to step right onto this virtually empty bus and ride it back to our hotel! All told, it took us over an hour to get to Pop Century from the Animal Kingdom Lodge.
Back at Pop Century, we ordered a couple of their seriously very delicious pizzas and called it a night. On the way back to our room, we saw a frog perched on the top of one of the trash cans. Lily happens to like frogs (and all small critters) so, that was a neat treat for her.
Today, we visit Epcot. I'm mentally preparing myself for a lot of walking but this ought to be a nice day for a seemingly strange reason: we don't have a lot of must-do's for this park. But, I'm glad to just go there and see the sights, shops, etc.
More updates to come tomorrow!
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