Breakfast consisted of leftover pizza and a Starbucks picked up from downstairs. We drove across the road to Disney and after a bit of 'exploring' found our way to Epcot, with it's epic car park and rather nifty monorail.

We went on every single ride in the park and I wish we'd had time to do a couple of them a second time. We arrived at the park nice and early and did our usual trick of heading straight for the popular rides so that we didn't have to queue. First stop was Test-Track which featured a hilarious collection of "car driving over surfaces" and accelerating and braking followed by a face pulling acceleration round through an outside track hitting 65miles per hour in the little cars. It actually had me screaming and laughing at the same time.

Next we wandered over the The Land, we queued up for Living with the Land which was an interesting tour through the hydroponic greenhouses that provide for some of the restaurants. There was a lot of information on this ride and it was very well presented and an interesting look at some real research into food production. On the flip side The Circle of Life film was rather green-hippy dogma.

The highpoint (ha) of the day was Soarin' the newest attraction at Epcot and a breath-taking flight over some amazing scenary. You ride sitting in something supposedly like a handglider with your feet dangling down and the rig tilts you from side to side to mimic motion. The rig is positioned so you're in the middle of a panoramic screen so you really feel like you're flying. The final touch is the addition of fans to create a breeze and add scents. It's absolutely amazing and easily the best attraction from the whole week.

After that we continued to tour the smaller attractions, taking in the impressively large aquarium while surrounded by small children going "look mummy it's a nemo!" and slightly weary adults trying to explain that it's actually a clown fish, to no avail. The Imagination section was a bit cheesy and the 3D Honey, I Shrunk the Audience looked very dated compared to Mickey's Philharmagic.

We went back over to Mission: SPACE which was an impressive simulator of a mission to Mars. Gary Sinese looked a little embarrassed by some of the lines he was performing as we 'pretended' to be astronauts, but the ride itself was quite fun. Jane unfortunately didn't think so and I left her having a lie down to recover while I took in the rather slow moving and unexciting Universe of Energy. Ellen DeGeneres didn't seem the least bit embarrassed by her cheesy lines, but the seats were at least comfortable for the 45 minute show.

The Spaceship Earth attraction in the centre of the Dome describing the history of communications was looking fairly badly dated towards the end but had some cool light effects. The Innoventions section was aimed more at kids and we didn't really linger at any of the small exhibitions except when we got caught by something rather like a real-time informercial for home cinema.

A lot of the day had already gone by the time we got started on the outer ring of the World Showcase. Luckily first stop was France where we picked up some very tasty pastries to sustain us. We didn't really have time to linger anywhere and had to hustle a bit, only just managing to catch each of the rides. We skipped every "educational" film we could as we were approaching sap overload at this point. Each little village was very cutely done with recreations of sites and average streets - the English section really did feel like a small English village. Jane had cleverly booked us for dinner at the Chinese restaurant which was extremely good and we were sad to have to abandon some of it. Maybe next time we should skip the pastries.

We found ourselves a good spot on the edge of the lagoon for the fireworks and settled in. Unfortunately by the time the fireworks started the temperature had dropped and I was really regretting opting not to carry a jumper around with me all day. The fireworks made up for it though and were pretty spectacular, nicely making use of the dome and sailing things out into the lagoon. The walk back to the car seemed to take forever thanks to the cold and I shivered my way home and into bed horribly early again.