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Looks like an amazing meal at Bluezoo and glad you returned after many years! I haven't been there since 2005 and I remember enjoying it. It's funny how not only we but most resort guests leave great eateries like this off our lists with so many choices as well as Bluezoo isn't in one of the parks or official WDW resorts!
It is funny and it makes you wonder how they survive, but there must be enough people going there from the resort itself and maybe the conventions it hosts?
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Seems your experience was even better with such a great server in Alper. The show was incredible as well I already had this on my list for possible ADRs for October and with your review will almost be a certainty! Nice photos at night from the Boardwalk area.
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Wow! You dinner looked amazing! It's a very good server who can talk you into ordering something different than what you had in mind! And OMG! Mark's dessert! That looked especially yummy!
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I can't believe how empty SeaWorld was. Great pictures of your day there and the lunch looked delicious Speaking of delicious, your dinner also looked delicious. That was quite the dessert!
Thursday 2 March – part one: hmmm…. It only has a 20 minute wait…
The day started off around 6:00am for me, when I woke after a good night’s sleep. Sadly the same couldn’t be said for Mark, who’d apparently already been awake for three hours.
We started to get going slowly, with us watching the entertainment of my adopted donkey Gareth trying to evade someone giving him a shot at the Donkey Sanctuary. They have webcams you can watch the donkeys on, and honestly my little boy has his own style. They managed to halter all the other four donkeys, but the last we saw was a woman trying to catch Gareth with a needle in her hand, before the action sadly moved off camera. I sympathise with him, as I don’t do injections either. A donkey after my own heart! If you ever want to check out his antics, here’s the link: https://www.thedonkeysanctuary.org.uk/webcam5
We had to get moving a bit quicker when I realised that it was actually Extra Magic Hours at Epcot this morning… ooops!
We set off for Epcot at maybe 7:50am, and with no boat in sight, we walked it. It was actually a pleasant morning, although I already knew from the forecast that it would be sickeningly hot again later on in the day…
We had to wait for ages to clear security and get in through International Gateway, and what I thought was a real shame was that there was no line if you didn’t have a bag.
We headed through the United Kingdom…
… and stopped to get some photos of these guys!
As you can see, the sun was already blazing down.
We headed through Canada…
… and along World Showcase Plaza…
Now I really hadn’t made any plans for what to do during Extra Magic Hours, although I half thought maybe Test Track or Soarin’, as I’d checked All Ears Net before we left, and saw Frozen Ever After wasn’t featured in the list of open attractions. I will be honest, I thought that was a bit weird, given it’s the hot ticket right now, and I opened up the My Disney Experience app to look at wait times, and Frozen Ever After had a 20 minute wait… hmmm…
We made our way over there, although somehow Mark managed to jolt his back on the way, so was in quite a lot of pain.
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It's the best in the mornings walking through Epcot through the International Gateway!! I love your photos as always and I sure hope Mark's back is okay!!
So far so good. Hoping the 20 minute wait holds! Oh Mark. What did he do now? Poor guy. Luckily Frozen isn't a terribly rough ride!
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I enjoyed seeing all your pictures of the whales and shark areas of Sea World! We were just in Disney this past week and the main entrance to Disney is still a construction mess. I hope they get moving on it and have it all completed by my next trip in October! I enjoyed all your pictures of the gorgeous sunsets around the Boardwalk area. We had some really beautiful sunsets last week there too. I will have to check out the menu at Blue Zoo as your dinners looked delicious. So glad that you had such great service too. We did EMH at Epcot recently and did Soarin which was basically a walk on!!! Hope Mark's back was ok for the rest of the day.
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I haven't been there since 2005 and I remember enjoying it. It's funny how not only we but most resort guests leave great eateries like this off our lists with so many choices as well as Bluezoo isn't in one of the parks or official WDW resorts! 
I already had this on my list for possible ADRs for October and with your review will almost be a certainty! 
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Speaking of delicious, your dinner also looked delicious. That was quite the dessert!
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But sounds more like, poor keeper!
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