Yesterday, Emily and I had a fabulous Mother/Daughter day at EPCOT for the Flower and Garden Festival. We were going to go on Mother's Day, but she was sick. Below are some of the pictures I took throughout the day. Pretty much every picture I took is either of Emily, flowers or Emily next to the flowers.
Stopping to smell the roses.
We ate lunch in Japan. This was our server, Yukiko. She was so sweet to us. I took this picture of her with Emily and she gave me her email address and asked me to email it to her.
Emily eating sushi with chopsticks!! I love that she is such an adventurous eater. I ordered her a meal off the children's menu, which she ate, but she also wanted my sushi, too.
Watching the sushi chefs at work
They had a couple of these really cool playgrounds which we had not seen before. Emily had a blast playing on them. Then I found out that they are only here for the festival. Bummer!
Emily and this little girl had a great time playing together. When we left, the little girl yelled out, "I'll never forget you!".
This was another one of those playgrounds next to Germany. It was in a really shady area and they had these really comfortable adirondack chairs for the adults to sit in while the kids played. I could have sat there forever.
The last thing we did before we left was the Kim Possible interactive scavenger hunt game. I had no idea how much fun this was going to be, or we would have started earlier in the day. We ended up staying in the park a lot longer than I had originally wanted to because we were having such a great time with it.
We were given this video phone which gave us missions to do in several of the countries to help catch some of the evil villains in the "Kim Possible" tv show. For each "mission" you had to find a specific item located in the country. When you found it, you pressed a button on the phone and sometimes it would give you a secret code or do something. The picture below is an example of what happened when we found a certain rock in one of the ponds in China. This green monkey came up from under the water. My favorite part was when we were in Germany and we were able to activate one of the Glockenspiels. Whoever came up with the concept and design of that game is brilliant. It was so much fun!
I took Emily and Noah for a walk to collect sea shells. Noah collected shells, rocks, sand and seaweed.
"Look what I found, Mom!"
Noah playing with his new friend Kaley.
After playing on the beach for most of the day, we walked back to the house and swam in the pool before dinner. Swimming and playing in the sun all day sure does make you hungry.
