Epcot!

We started our fourth full day at Dis.ney with another pre-park opening meal at Aker.shus with the princesses.  When we first walked in, the children were able to take a picture with Belle.  They loved that she called them "teacups" and as you can see, they were awed by her.  The official pic with Belle had them actually looking at the camera!

We also got to see Cinderella again.  We were right by the door where the princesses entered the restaurant, and Carter got so excited for Callen when Cinderella came in!  He was urging her to get up to meet her.  Precious!

This was the first time we got to meet Snow White...apparently she isn't included as a princess at Cinderella's Castle.

And Ariel...Callen's favorite; can you tell?

 Aurora too.  Aurora led the parade and they had a blast marching around the restaurant.

We finished breakfast still a little before the park opened, so we took pictures by some of the great plants shaped like characters.

The children and I headed first to the character spot to meet and take some pictures with the characters, while Nick headed over to grab some Soar.in' fast passes.

 

Once we finished taking our pictures, we headed over to meet daddy and then ride the Nemo ride a few more times...{we had already hit Turtle Talk with Crush the day before}.

After that, we made it over to Soar.in' for our FP time and then hit the Living with the Land ride.  Then we left and did several other activities and rides in Future World.

By shortly after midday, we were ready to head back to the hotel for naps to gear up for a busy night.  We opted to skip lunch in favor of an early dinner at Tep.pan Edo--a hibatchi grill in Japan at Epcot.  The children loved the entertainment and the wait staff even made child-friendly chop sticks, so they loved eating with those!  {aside:  the food at Epcot was the BEST... we at there probably 4 times...several times just to eat and head somewhere else!}

After dinner, we were excited to see some favorite characters had been created in the plants.  We had to take a picture!

 After dinner, we headed to the Magic King.dom to take in the electrical parade and the Wishes Fireworks show.  They enjoyed a mickey ice cream bar while waiting on the parade.  They LOVED the night parade!

We moved our location after the parade so we could have a good spot for the fireworks.  They waited so patiently before the fireworks show!

The children loved seeing Tinkerbell fly from the castle and seeing all the beautiful fireworks!  Of course, the bus on the way home from the fireworks was packed and our children were worn out.  It was a great, busy day, and we were ready to get a good night's sleep in anticipation of our last day in the parks!