Disney Two

Rose’s opening comments to Disney World were remembered again on Thursday as we prepared for another day of magical fun.

“I just saw a spiderweb, so I don’t think this is the Happiest Place on Earth anymore.”

Jaya countered with, “Well, I just saw a duck, so I think it is!”

We were all together again for Epcot that morning. Joe was running at about 90%. Good enough. We started things out slow for him with Nemo and a lazy stroll through the sea.

An hour and a half wait for Soarin’ inspired Puck to invent new forms of entertainment as he shot his Minecraft hat back and forth with me along the railing before Linnea successfully distracted him with learning probability via Jolly Ranchers.

“Okay, Puck, what’s the probability that you’ll pull a purple Jolly Rancher our of your hat?”

He thought about it for a moment. “It’s possible.”

After hang-gliding over California’s orange groves, snow-capped mountains, and pine-stocked river beds, we took a leisurely float through Epcot’s exotic plants green houses, including monkey puzzle trees, nine-pound melons, and edible flowers.

The afternoon was booked with as many countries as the dissected group could handle before the nine o’clock show on the lake. We kicked things off in Mexico where Puck became a secret agent and we walked the night-air marketplace inside the Aztec temple in the shadow of a smoldering volcano. Visitors dined above us under strings of lanterns as we floated down another river into the land of caballeros.

“When I marry a rich Cardinal, I want one of these in my house,” Linnea decided.

China came next, sort of skipped over Germany (although Oxbear bought a giant pretzel to split), America, Japan, Italy, Morocco, France, UK, Canada, and maybe more; I’m not sure.

We ended things with ice cream, a bubble machine, global music, and rings of torches on the lake before the other finale show of fountains, lights, music, fire, and fireworks.

I’d say mission accomplished for the week.

As we tucked Puck into bed around ten-thirty, he had an addendum to his prayers. “Please let Mom tell me why cockroaches carry disease. I don’t know if that’s an appropriate question. I don’t know…”