If you have any doubt in how important Pixar is to Walt Disney’s rescue and future, come to WDW. There’s Pixar in every park. Here in Tomorrowland, the two cultures collide. Stitch meets Monsters Inc. Both so different in their very DNA. One is the traditional cell-animated slapstick, while the other is smart and hip. Zuzu prefered Monsters Inc. I think Disney would have progressed past the Stitch kind of project and more toward the Pixar type had Walt been around today. God knows they would have been further along were it not for those dark horrible Eisner days. Talk about your scary storylines….

Ice cream for lunch. They have been looking forward to this for weeks. This place faces out toward the castle and is just off Main Street USA; such a sentimental look back at an America the we wish once was. I wonder if
one were to create a Main Street USA of today if it wouldn’t need a Wal-Mart, BestBuy, Home Depot, and any number of other ubiquitous national chains that repeat like a Chuck Jones cartoon background from coast-to-coast. Nah, the wished for is often so much better.

The alternate headline for this could have been, I can’t believe they ate the whole thing. Each if my wee ones ordered ice cream sundaes big as a small dog and proceded to inhale them. I’m betting John could have downed another.

Having finished with EPCOT early, we’re starting on The Magic Kingdom. I am glad they first saw this by night. It seems more magical all lit up. Still, it has an energy all its own.

Life gives you what you ask of it. John learned that one when he asked to ride in the front seat of the Monorail from EPCOT to The Magic Kingdom. All four climbed into the cab as I reclined in back. Ahhhhhh. A win for all.