50 & Hitting it out of the Park!! The continuation...

HOLA,HOLA,HOLA My Beautifuls! This is the second half of my 50th Birthday Celebration at the Disney Parks. For those who didn't read the first half, we'll wait a moment- you must get the full flavor of the day.

Ok, ya? Seguimos- Let's continue where we left off.

Bueno, soaked but feeling soooo much better, Sweetie and I had a quick espresso and continued on to Epcot. Queeee??  You thought I could have continued on without that? JU SO FONII!!! Thankfully they now had espresso kiosks all through the park.  Oh yeah.

5:00 arrived at Epcot

Sweetie wanted to go to the World Showcase first- specifically Morocco 

       

What I think he was hoping for were belly dancers... 

  

   

What he got was BB's belly dancing. 

I was starved. 

And in the mood for eggroll; so to China we went.

On the way we passed by:

Italy- Italia

  

                      

Germany- Alemania

 

I almost succumbed to a perfect pretzel, but my roots won out.

Eggroll on my mind, we continued to-

China- China

and here's my own version of Peking Duck

Now how do they know BB always has food to give them?

Next stop was the Original part of Epcot- 

where they try to predict the future, so they're always renovating,

but in that prediction they don't forget their past.

ESO!!!

As my friend Luis Sung said- Walt Disney was a genius and an inspiration.

And speaking of the Original Epcot-

the Giant Golf Ball!

Ok si, I know- it's "Spaceship Earth" pero be truthful- 

who hasn't called it "The Giant Golf Ball" ?

No matter what you call it though- it's beautiful.

Yep, by the time we saw "Living with the Land" it was already night time, and though the Magic Kingdom was closing at 11 pm we knew we had to skedaddle over. So we took the ferry.  Ok si, not the quickest way perhaps, but it was nice to slow down a bit.  Not that we weren't doing that naturally, but you know what I mean.  

Now what would a trip to The Magic Kingdom be without a pic of Cindy's Castle?

It really is bella and awe inspiring.

And now to the other extreme- Sweetie had never seen

The Pirates of the Caribbean ride. so I obliged.

Hoping of course that it was updated to include Capt. Jack Sparrow. 

It was.  Oh my.

; )

Unfortunately by the time we got to this park I couldn't take a picture with my favorite- Pocahontas, 

but I was happy to have found this on the way out.

Happy, but as you can see, exhausted.  It had been 12 hours and it was time to go home. 

Amazing.  The moment we left the Magic we felt our age.  But there are pluses to that. The windshield wiper of Sweetie's car had broken, the clip that kept it together had somehow fallen.  You know that old joke about women fixing everything with a bobby pin?

Ready now to go home I noticed the parking lot and number where we were.

Peter Pan, the little boy who never grows up and 49- the last year to be "young" ?

Bueno, if tonight's adventure is any indication of what growing up is, BB's ready.  

I traveled, visited old friends, saw new sights, ate well, had fun, 

was with a loved one and looking forward to the next moment.

Si, Growing up- but never growing old.

Babushka Besos a todos.  Cuidensen. 

P.S.  Grateful to Hispanicize and DisneyParks for the free park hopper passes. And thanks to Sweetie for making sure I didn't pass out. Once again, the remarks, pics and tired feet are all mine.  

50 & Hitting it Out of the Park!!

Actually, it was parks- plural.

During Hispanicize 2012, Disney Parks, one of the major sponsors, gifted all attendees with two, free, one day park hopper tickets, and BB gifted it to herself for my 50th bday.  It had been over 10 years since my last visit to Epcot, and even longer for the other parks so I was ready to revisit- as an adult. Or so I thought.

First of all Sweetie and I had come home late from Medieval Times the night before. It was almost 1 am before we went to sleep so we knew it wasn't going to be an-early-morning-rush-to-be-the-first-ones-there sort of park visit. We were going to have a good breakfast, buy some more batteries for my camera, and then head to DisneyWorld.  And that's what we did.  We were adults; with no agenda, no hurry, we arrived at noon.  Then we saw this.

Olvidalo.  Still act like adults?  JU SO FONII!!!  Bet you've never seen babyboomers turn into babies so quick in your life!  Imaginate, BB was so psyched I even had to take a shot from the rear view mirror. 

Oh yes I did- and that was just the booth to pay for parking.

The plan was to start off at Disney Hollywood Studios because it had fewer things we wanted to see.  Que queeee???  Por fa My Beautifuls, we spent 4 hours there!

Transportation Ferry & Tower of  Terror

                                                                            

 

We hadn't even entered the park yet and I had taken over 50 pics.

At this point Sweetie was beginning to regret his choice of birthday present to me,

but eventually we did enter Disney Hollywood Studios. 

Proof- Sweetie & BB in Disney Studios

Please note how fresh and lively we are, and remember, 

this was our first stop.

We rode rides- in the Grumman's Chinese theatre reproduction, with real theatre memorabilia inside. Another favorite, Star Wars, and of course we couldn't pass up the Muppet 3D movie starring my idol Miss Piggy. 

But for BB what really makes Disney Studios are the "people in the neighborhood".

Sweetie had to remind me of the other parks, porque I was ready to invite these ladies to my home for Cuban cafecito and croquetas.  They SO FONII!!! 

Ahora, being a true life, real movie studio lot, there were lots of props and costumes-

must admit, the villains costumes almost made it cool to be bad. 

 

  

Pretty impressive, but what really never ceases to amaze BB is the attention to detail. Nobody does detail like Disney. Where you least expected it, where you wouldn't give it a second thought nor a second glance; here you started anticipating and took three and four glances- and at least that many fotos.  Of everything.  

But it's so worth it.

Now at this point BB was beginning to feel the heat and took out her secret weapon- a personal fan! And not her usual hand held ones, it had passed beyond that. Time for more modern weapons of heat destruction.  

Cool on the Go-
Bday present from My Capitan Maria de los Angeles

Unfortunately the flames of femaledom at fifty and Florida's farenheit continued to rise.  Arriving at Epcot an hour later, Babushka had to use all her tricks to cool down.  

Not a pretty sight. 

 Fonii tal vez, but definitely not a pretty sight.

Y con eso My Beautifuls, at this point I'm taking a breakesito- something I should have done at the park,

 pero- you know, ya tu sabes.  

There's still lots of baby left in this boomer, but I definitely did go boom.

; )

Babushka Besos a todos.  Cuidensen.

P.S.  In the next post I will finish my bday with Epcot and the Magic Kingdom.  Ok si.  Locura for one day, pero you know BB.  Hay que aprovechar el momento- you've got to seize the moment.  Besides, who am I to pass up free?

P.P.S. Just noticed a pattern with my picture taking.  During the American Latino Heritage Fund Roadtrip I apparently liked flags and buildings through the trees... no se, but I like it.  How about y'all? The rest of the fotos of this trip will be posted on Feibu next week along with part 2. 

P.P.P.S. Thanks again to  Hispanicize 2012  and   Disney Parks  for the tickets.  The opinions, pics and aching feet are all mine.