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Sounds like a great meal at Le Cellier! The chocolate Moose is one of my favorite desserts from their.
It was amazing!! LOL! I know some people have had bad experiences there, but we loved it!! Mmm... chocolate moose! I wish a place here made them! (I guess I'll settle for a beaver tail!)
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Well, we travel something like 5,000 miles and eat in the Rose and Crown sometimes, so I guess it's the same thing!
Alrighty, I guess you have us been! Nothing like some home town comfort food eh?
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Just getting caught up again! Glad you had a great time at 'Ohana! Love the pictures from Epcot! Looks like you have the park all to yourselves! More please!
Thanks for reading!! Ohana's was very enjoyable, especially getting to see Wishes!
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Excellent meal at Le Cellier! I love the Filet Mignon here!
I had a little piece and it was quite yummy! Well everything was, it's too bad it's gone to 2 credits for supper, but maybe we'll do lunch again there as it was definitely a keeper!
We slowly headed back to Future World and headed towards The Seas. I was super excited because I really wanted to ride in the Clamobile! Not sure why, but ever since I saw the Disney DVD and a clip of them I had been bugging my mom “CLAMOBILE!!” LOL! It got to be an inside joke more than anything by this point! The posted wait time was 10minutes, but I think it took about that long to walk from the entrance to the loading area. (Note to self: Never ride if the line is out the door!). We enjoyed the queue, and soon we were onto our Clamobile! It was a cute little ride, too short in my opinion, but it was very fun! After the ride we went and looked at the aquariums for a while. I was mesmerized by the seahorses, and probably spent a good 10 minutes just at that tank. We wandered around a bit outside after that, before heading towards Spaceship Earth. There was no wait, so we got right on. It was really interesting, and it was pretty cool to think we were actually inside the big ball. LOL. I had no idea about the ending with your pictures, so it was quite a nice surprise! My dad really seemed to enjoy the whole ride as well. We hung around for a while in the interactive are trying our hands at a few of the games. There was a 3D surgery type game my mom and I tried; and I’ll admit we kicked butt at it! Haha!
Next we decided to head on over to Ellen’s Energy Adventure, from the description it sounded really cool, but honestly it was a huge disappointment. I didn’t find it interesting and felt all the parts were really disconnected one from another. They kept saying it was like a 45 minute ride, but it maybe lasted 25, so not sure what happened there. Don’t think I’ll be going on this attraction next time. By now we had done pretty much all we had wanted to do in Future World, but we had about an hour to kill before heading over to Hollywood Studios, so we hit up Innoventions. We started in the East, and did a few things there. We saw the “Don’t Waste It” Exhibit and decide to try it out. The CM was really funny, he kept calling me “Canada” because of my Canada t-shirt I was wearing. It’s a cute little game showing you how much you waste and what is done with all the garbage and stuff (as well as what could be done better). I think we were the slowest of all the teams, lol, but we had a lot of fun. We even got a cool little certificate which we could email home (which we actually did get!). It was really fun and a cute little bonding moment with the parents!
We walked around a bit more and then crossed over to West. We didn’t do any of the exhibits here, they seemed more geared towards little kids (not that that would stop us or anything!), so we just kind of looked around and enjoyed. We rounded the corner and I heard “Hey Canada!” LOL I turn around and there’s the CM from East... guess he changed positions! We thought about maybe doing the Segway exhibit, but there was a pretty big line and we weren’t really in the mood to wait. Anyway, it was just after 4pm and we decided to head on over to DHS. We had to wait a bit for the bus, but not longer than 15minutes, it was okay though. I just sat by the curb and relaxed!
Mine, Mine, Mine!
Nemo queue, please don't feed the seagulls!
Not the best picture, but a manate chilling!
Lion fish, aka more cute poisonous animals!
I could spend all day looking at these guys
Although the eels creeped me out, they were highly fascinating at the same time!
I'm gonna name him (her?) Sunshine!
In the Middle of Future World!
Walking right into Spaceship Earth
Unfortunately, this is probably the best part of the attraction
I completely missed the aquarium area when we were there! Somehow we got on the ride and then excited the building entirely afterward! I'll definitely have to fix that the next time I go! I love Sunshine!
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Nothing like some home town comfort food eh? 
It was a cute little ride, too short in my opinion, but it was very fun! After the ride we went and looked at the aquariums for a while. I was mesmerized by the seahorses, and probably spent a good 10 minutes just at that tank. We wandered around a bit outside after that, before heading towards Spaceship Earth. There was no wait, so we got right on. It was really interesting, and it was pretty cool to think we were actually inside the big ball. LOL. I had no idea about the ending with your pictures, so it was quite a nice surprise! My dad really seemed to enjoy the whole ride as well. We hung around for a while in the interactive are trying our hands at a few of the games. There was a 3D surgery type game my mom and I tried; and I’ll admit we kicked butt at it! Haha! 
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Ellen's Energy Adventure. 
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