Epcot

On the same day as Animal Kingdom, we've also been to Epcot Center ... which isn't very funny.
Maybe it's just me, but everything feels very grown up, that's too bad.

Epcot means: Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow. SO it's the future, yay!!
...
Well of course it's not, I just wanted to say that.


The landmark is really impressive! It's Spaceship Earth and contains an attraction, where you fly through the society of tomorrow.

Actually, Epcot is a place, where you can learn a lot about environment, technology and more. I think it would be great for a class trip.

They also have this famous World Showcase, with several nations and building from their countries. UNFORTUNATLY my parents thought our ride home would arrive 2 hours earlier than it actually did, so we left the park way to early and had to rush through the World Showcase. I was kinda pissed.
All I got was my Orlando Hello Kitty from Japan and I wish I've had the time to look around more.

This was the German part:

I don't know, why they don't just call it Bavaria...


At the end of the day, we just went to dinner at a nearby Taco Bell and that was it. Really not that interesting, right?

Animal Kingdom

As I've said, we had 3 days for all 4 Disney parks, so we had to decide which two were good enough for one day each and which two could be half. Of course Magic Kingdom needed a whole day! And Hollywood Studios have the Tower of Terror...

So for the first day, we wanted to see Animal Kingdom and Epcot Center! We also wanted to save money in form of parking fees, we decided to use the shuttle idea.
Very. stupid. idea.
Later I'll explain why.

We started at Animal Kingdom, because our guide said to get there early in order to actually see animals, which usually hide when it's too hot.
BUT FIRST we wanted to take the great ride Expedition Everest.

After we convinced my mum, it wasn't a real roller coaster and totally easy (still don't know how we did this) she agreed to come with us.
It was a little mean... true, it's not a real coaster, it has no loops, but it actually goes forward, backwards and in the dark. I loved it!

Then, we finally wanted to see some animals:

Wait ... some animals!

And they were all so busy sleeping! But actually you can watch more animals in every smaller zoo...
At that point I noticed something. Is it possible, that a lot of Animal Kingdom's employees are disabled??
I'm not so sure, but it seemed like it.

We then took a ride for Dinoland:

But a big part of it was closed! Therefore, we took the Dinosaur ride two times, which was really fun.

We had lunch:

My second corndog ever. I've had one before in Tokyo, but it was really gross! So this time I wanted an authentic one. AND IT WAS DELICIOUS! Too bad they don't sell this stuff in Germany.

Finally, let me tell you something about the emblem of Animal Kingdom: The Tree of Life.

It's a huge tree, which first seems really wrinkly.

But when you get closer, you can see dozens of animals in it!

Obviously noone cares, that the "Tree of Life" is made out of plastics and cement... oh well.

Great Week!

This week ... is so ... AWESOME!!!

I don't know why, but this week there were so many great things happening to me. I'm so happy.

First, I was in in Disney World, which is enough happiness for a whole month.

When I came home, I got to know that I can go to Humboldt University ... I already took this spot, it was my dream.

Then, they told me, my grandma's fine ... she was really sick, when I left, but she's good know. Thank God.

Today I got a mail, I got first place in Closet Voyage giveaway. I can't remember, I ever won something, so this is great. Thank you!! I only got to know about this giveaway thanks to my friend Laureen, so I think I'll share a bit. :)

My boss from subarashi also had some great news, that I can't talk about yet.

So yes ... yesterday I came back from my vacation and I'll be posting about it soon. It was really great.