One of the pools at our hotel. I didn't experience it up close.
The view from the window. We ate at that Planet Hollywood (far away, left) after we arrived.
Epcot! Also, the Rainforest Cafe, where my mom and I ate on the day we left. It had impressive elephants and monkeys that "came to life" every half hour. Otherwise, it was basically an Applebee's.
Mexico. Mom and I ate here when we got to Epcot and it was really great.
My view of Mom in the Mexico restaurant.
My view of the rest of the restaurant (it was blurry because I'd had a margarita).
These guys were excellent musicians.
So, there's a picture of me and Mom wearing hats like these from when we were here sixteen years ago. I'm the shorter one in that version. Note that my belly is sticking out because it is full of extremely good Mexican food.
I found this mural of "Norway through the ages" amusing and took a lot of photos of it to combat the boredom of standing in line for the Maelstrom.
Post-Maelstrom boat ride but pre-Norway movie. The movie, depicting a very 1980s "Norway of today," was an Epcot highlight, for me.
In Deutschland.
Morocco.
Me asking my mom why it looked like she was aiming the camera at my boobs.
Paris, of course.
This group called themselves British Invasion and just played Beatles tunes. Probably a pretty nice gig.
A bunch of people on Segways suddenly came out of what seemed like nowhere, and I thought it was funny.
This Mickey hand with Epcot sign wasn't here the last time I was. It's a little weird but I kind of like it.
My parents matched. (Dad joined us after the conference that day.)
The floor of the Parisian restuarant.
My parents still matched at dinner.
Dad and me.
Fireworks! Oh, if only you could hear the fabulous song that was playing during this.
A weird film shown during the boat ride in Mexico. The whole Mexico ride was very 1970s.
Mexico. The colors here are great.
The Mickey hand, at night!
I went on Spaceship Earth twice, because once my dad arrived, he wanted to see it. Apparently they redid the narration in 1994, but not hearing Walter Kronkite's voice surprised and saddened me a little.
I think this is the early printing press.
The dawn and breadth of cinema.
When I took this I thought I'd captured a real gem, but it's blurry and dark.
The baby boomer era.
I know it's a crappy picture, but at this point in the narration we were being told that this previously imagined version of our communications future had come true, and it's not quite accurate. This kid is video-chatting with a girl in Japan, and her words are automatically being translated into English subtitles, and his into Japanese.
Now that we're all receiving diplomas on TV, what might come next?
Fortunately someone's going to reimagine the future for us again soon!
I never appreciated the Small World ride when I was younger, but it's very impressive in its wholehearted celebration of color and its ability to keep you from wanting to kill yourself after that song.
After a really bad day in the Magic Kingdom, we were looking forward to ending on an up note with Pirates. Too bad for us! Way to promote your new movie, Disney.
