AndyL
11-05-2003, 03:03 PM
Since most of the trip I had night time activities to do. I'd spend late afternoon exploring Epcot. It couldn't be simpler with the ECV. When you turn in the machine at MK just hold onto your $10 Key Deposit return receipt & Pink card receipt for the ECV. Then turn it in at Epcot's wheelchair rentals and pick up a fresh cart. You have to give them another $10 Key Deposit but just like the first one you turn in the key and the money's returned. Total cost for the rental? $30 for the machine + $10 for the Key a day, simple AND boy I had a lot of fun on it . I did the park in quarters seeing each half of World Showcase in two days and the same for Future World. My perenial favorites? Ice Station Cool, the Land, Hista, Norway, Germany & Japan. This trip I made a special effort to see the China Circlevision. This year they installed a new movie to show the changes made since the original was shown more then 20+ years ago. Well the movie is shorter then the first but except for showing short glimpses of a very modern Buck Rodgerous Shanghai skyline, modern Macao and recently repatriated Hong Kong it's more or less the same film. Picturesque yes...definitely. Worth a second viewing a trip? Your move.
In the evening besides the Biergarten Dinner with Heidi I spent one evening doing major power shopping at DTD. I figured why not use my Disney Club discount before the program went poof? I was on a mission that night......Friends and family had orders for items in with me when I went down......plus the presents I would add to the purchases. Luckily for my leg (there's no ECV rentals at DTD) the night I did the shopping it was raining. It seemed to reduce the number of people visiting DTD considerably. God knows World Of Disney was still busy but there wasn't a zoo of people fighting for registers to check out. Walking got me pooped and I still was going to meet Steve C at the Adventurer's Club. I got in early there and found a seat watching the cast judging the audience & getting in the groove in their early show. Funny clever stuff, lots of inside jokes for the regulars. I've gone a few times over the years and I'm still learning the club's nuances Steve showed up and and we spent some time enjoying the ambience. A nice evening all in all. One night I saw the new fireworks show at the MK. Wishes. If you liked the previous show at the MK or enjoy Illumination wait till you get a load of this show. WOW I've never seen a show like this in all the time I've gone to WDW. They had shells with efx I've never seen anywhere . AND DON'T forget to watch the castle too. It's lighting efx dance and coordinate to the the show's music and shells. Absolutely wonderfully designed. Kudos all around. The Halloween Party night was yet to come. :D
In the evening besides the Biergarten Dinner with Heidi I spent one evening doing major power shopping at DTD. I figured why not use my Disney Club discount before the program went poof? I was on a mission that night......Friends and family had orders for items in with me when I went down......plus the presents I would add to the purchases. Luckily for my leg (there's no ECV rentals at DTD) the night I did the shopping it was raining. It seemed to reduce the number of people visiting DTD considerably. God knows World Of Disney was still busy but there wasn't a zoo of people fighting for registers to check out. Walking got me pooped and I still was going to meet Steve C at the Adventurer's Club. I got in early there and found a seat watching the cast judging the audience & getting in the groove in their early show. Funny clever stuff, lots of inside jokes for the regulars. I've gone a few times over the years and I'm still learning the club's nuances Steve showed up and and we spent some time enjoying the ambience. A nice evening all in all. One night I saw the new fireworks show at the MK. Wishes. If you liked the previous show at the MK or enjoy Illumination wait till you get a load of this show. WOW I've never seen a show like this in all the time I've gone to WDW. They had shells with efx I've never seen anywhere . AND DON'T forget to watch the castle too. It's lighting efx dance and coordinate to the the show's music and shells. Absolutely wonderfully designed. Kudos all around. The Halloween Party night was yet to come. :D