Around the parks

We went to Epcot a few times last week, mostly to use up dining and snack coupons. The kids joined Susan and I one night to eat at Le Cellier and another evening we enjoyed a second cast preview of Journey of Water. It looks really nice with night lighting.

 

A few nights later Bryan and I had dinner at Jiko at Animal Kingdom Lodge. It was really good, but I wouldn't have wanted to pay full price. Sunday evening after work I met Susan at the ESPN arena for a special cast marketplace. Disney gave cast members a chance to buy excess merchandise at a steep discount.

Jennifer had flown up to Boston for the weekend to visit a friend. Besides visiting bookstores, they went to a hockey game Sunday night. 

Yesterday I met one of my fellow Friendship Boat captains after work and we rode the monorail over to the TTC, then the ferry to the Magic Kingdom, during which I took a photo of the progress on the new DVC tower at the Polynesian resort.

We then made our way back to Epcot, where we joined more captains for dinner at the Biergarten.