*   *   * Wednesday, August 9, 2006 6:36am Still dark outside, Julia is showering. I take time to collect my thoughts. Such a green, swampy place this is! How moist the air is, and how easily I sweat, droplets rolling down my face! Last night's excursion to Epcot was unplanned, I hadn't studied the website for it. So I was surprised to find "The Living Seas" not an IMAX movie as I'd hoped, but a program for kids, albeit well done with a talking cartoon turtle that responded to people in the audience. I think the computer program for the turtle has animations for each word the human operator says, (who can recognize for instance, the young girl in the front row in the spotted blouse). What was a surprise was the Mission to Mars. An awesome simulation of space flight that was really quite thrilling. And there were fireworks! Today it is critters we will see, LIVE, no animatronics, live real critters. Julia has emerged from the shower and maybe I'd best be getting ready! *   *   *

I didn't get many successful pictures from the Epcot area: