Disney Princess Weekend Day 2...Animal Kingdom and Epcot!

After the Princess 5K, we got showered and headed to Animal Kingdom! We had fast passes to be used!

A plus to staying on Disney property...Disney transportation! But...waiting on the transportation isn't always fun. But we made the best of it with pictures!!!

After a long bus ride (traffic was crazy) we finally made it to Animal Kingdom. But we were about 20 minutes late for our fast pass for Kilimanjaro Safaris. Luckily the sweet cast member let us use them! Yay for Disney Magic!!!

We also had fast passes for Expedition Everest!

We also had a meeting with a certain Duck named Donald! We had some fun with him! To help you understand the pictures....Tracy LOVES Donald Duck. Jenny planned to go up and hug and kiss Donald and Tracy was going to try to pull her away from him saying, "Get your paws off my Duck!" IT WAS HILARIOUS!!!!!! And Donald Duck was a good sport!

After playing with Donald Duck, we waited for some more Princesses to arrive! Heather snap chatted this picture of us lol! I apparently was unaware of her arrival lol!

It was time for our fast pass for Dinosaur! I love this ride because it always gives me that uneasy feeling even though I've ridden it numerous times. Jenny and Katie couldn't remember it and their reactions were seriously making me laugh so hard during the ride!!!

After the ride it was time to eat! We had dining reservations at Tusker House. We had a lot of fun...but I'm going to save that experience for its own blog post! ;-)

After eating we decided to head to Epcot. But first we stopped for a quick picture with Tarzan!!! I've never seen him before so I had to stop! Although his "costume" sorta freaked us out lol! It was short y'all!!! 

Once we made it to Epcot we had to have pictures in front of Spaceship Earth! The photographer was really funny and made Dorothy be in awe of our medals lol! Not sure why she didn't have hers on but it made for a funny picture!

Then we went in search of some ice cream! We found the perfect place in France! So yummy!!!

We enjoyed our ice cream immensely! We did a little more walking around and then we knew it was time to say goodnight. We had an early wake up call for the 10K the next morning!

We made it back to Pop Century and got everything ready for the race the next morning! Of course I posted my flat Road Runner Girl!

Stay tuned for my Enchanted 10K recap!!!

QOTD: What is your favorite treat in Disney?

Disney Day 2...Epcot!

Get ready for tons of pictures from our magical day in Epcot!!! So much fun!!!

QOTD: What is your favorite thing at Epcot?

Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend...An Afternoon at Epcot!

This is one of a series of posts about my Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend Experience! The other posts I have written thus far are listed below:

Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend Expo
Walt Disney World 10K
Disney Dining at 1900 Park Fare
Walt Disney Marathon Weekend...Magic Bands and Downtown Disney
Walt Disney World Half Marathon

After running the half we headed back to the room to get cleaned up. The shower never felt so good! I was starving so we headed to the resort cafeteria to eat. For some reason I wanted a grilled chicken sandwich and salty fries! So that's what I got and it was delicious! Then we boarded the bus and headed to Epcot!

I didn't take many pictures on this day...I guess I assumed I had tons of pictures in Epcot from the race lol! The first thing I wanted to do though was to see (MORE) characters! As a Disney Visa card holder, I headed to the cardholder character spot. And there was zero wait! :-)

You never know which characters will be there. So I was so happy to see Minnie Mouse (my favorite) and Pluto! I told Minnie all about running her race the day before! And I showed them my Donald medal...which Pluto licked lol!

After playing with Minnie and Pluto we headed to ride some rides! We ended up getting Fast Passes (using the new Fast Pass +) for Spaceship Earth (which we really didn't need one for but it was one of our choices), Mission Space, and Soarin'! Soarin' is one of my favorites! We also rode Test Track as single riders...which meant no wait time! I was excited to ride it since it was closed this summer due to technical difficulties. And I haven't ridden it since it's been redone. It was super fun! We rode a ton more rides. There were hardly any wait times. It was heavenly!

The rest of the afternoon and evening was spent in the World Showcase! It was fun to enjoy it as an adult with no kids! And we even got to see more characters because the lines were super short! They were all pretty impressed with our medals!

Belle...in her blue dress! :-)

Brooke, Me, Belle, and Sandi! Yeah...we are best buds with Belle! ;-)

Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty)! I had to get a picture with her since she is my favorite princess...and my son Sawyer's favorite princess!

At dinner time we decided to eat Italian. We headed to Tutto Italia Ristorante. I had eaten here a long time ago and remembered it being good but boy was I in for a treat! I ordered the Ravioli di Ricotta. It had chicken, pancetta, and parmesean in it and it was the absolute BEST THING I HAVE EVER EATEN!!! And did I take a picture? NO! I could kick myself! Seriously, my mouth has watered several times since then wanting that dish! It was so good! 

While we were eating it started storming outside! I'm talking wind blowing, thunder roaring, lightning flashing, heavy falling kind of rain! We had planned to stay and watch the night show...IllumiNations but we were just concerned about making it back to the buses. We had no umbrellas or ponchos. And we were all the way in the World Showcase area...the back of Epcot! The radar was showing a ton of rain coming through but we spotted a tiny break in there so we were hoping that would be our chance. And luckily...it was! We walked through Epcot (with no rain falling) while watching what we could of IllumiNations. We made it to the buses and to our resort without getting rained on! It was a Disney miracle lol!

We decided to call it a night once we got to the resort. Sandi and I were pretty tired from being awake since 3AM AND from running a half marathon!

Stay tuned for our day in the Magic Kingdom!

QOTD: Have you ever been caught in a thunderstorm in Disney World? Every time I go there it rains lol!