EPCOT! Cosmic Rewind, Journey of Water & Chefs de France Dinner

It's Day 3 of our Walt Disney World vacation! We went to EPCOT today. We started the morning rope dropping Remy's Ratatouille Adventure before proceeding on to Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind.
We grabbed a ton of snacks throughout the day, ate lunch at Regal Eagle Smokehouse and dinner at Les Chefs de France.
We even checked out Journey of Water Inspired by Moana, which was the highlight of Benjamin's day.
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[@misssyfrance]

I’m a Disneyland Mama, but I went to Orlando for work this past March and visited Epcot. I missed virtual queue for Cosmic Rewind, so I paid an extra $17 to ride, but it was so worth it. Loved it! I learned they play six different songs during each ride. I got Everybody Wants to Rule the World! 😃

[@jayjayrj]

Amy explaining why she didn't get the joke was funnier than the joke itself. 😅

[@cindy_00]

Amy not getting the joke 🤣🤣🤣🤣 She’s hilarious

[@susanhill4212]

“But they’re so hot.” “But you wear it at Christmas time.” Lol Traver has a good point there. It would be super fun to see all of the souvenirs you guys picked up!

[@MBFF-if7yu]

Such a fun video! And Amy’s need to “explain” that she didn’t hear your dad joke 😂 hilarious. Can’t wait for the next ones! This is adding so much info to my planning…thank you :)

[@leighims]

Amy - I love your Loungefly backpack!!!!!

[@AL-eb9jx]

Amy, Orange Bird is my favorite too! Enjoy your darling backpack 🧡🧡

[@dippindonutz]

I’m with Amy, I love Orange Bird! He’s so stinkin cute!!!

[@PixiePassports]

Lovely family and video! Thanks for sharing

[@nickjames3169]

Absolutely living vicariously through you guys thank you so much for sharing your trip!

[@jayokee714]

Cute Loungefly Amy!

[@lisabostrack24]

Love those 👕 shirts. And it happens to be one of my favorite colors. I really do like Epcot. It's definitely growing on me. Can't say enough good things about your family. It really does feel like we're right there with you in all the action. Great vlog. I'm so excited for Animal Kingdom. My favorite park.

[@SoCalDisneyDad]

Mine too! It’ll be out on Wednesday!

[@rachelmartinez9025]

First of all, this is the most chaotic vlog of your family and i absolutely love it lol! Secondly, i’ve been waiting for this video to come out since you guys left for your trip and honestly my big takeaway from this was that genie plus wasn’t really necessary even on a sunday! I’m excited for my trip next week! Thank you for posting

[@SoCalDisneyDad]

Have a great trip! We didn’t buy Genie+ on our second EPCOT day. This is the park where it’s needed the least. Most rides have a 5 minute wait later in the afternoon and evening.

[@jessicaolaiya1254]

I was amazed at the low wait times, that's great! Loved this video and the rides that are unique to Epcot.

[@beckyhand4991]

im so excited watching these video im planning my first disney world trip and you are such a great resource! cant wait for the next video!!!

[@kelseydavey6498]

Loving these videos! Keep ‘‘em coming

[@Justafoxandabear-nr8pb]

My favorite EPCOT ride was Spaceship Earth. Rode it twice. It poured while there, but it was still a fun day. Glad your family had fun.

[@AprilBloodengutz]

The duality hahaha We leave Florida/wdw to go to Disneyland for their food (and obviously everything else but I’m always hyped for the food) since wdw doesn’t really change things up very often in the parks themselves.

[@SoCalDisneyDad]

For sure! Disneyland always get the better food. We comment on this all the time to ourselves. Since Disneyland is a locals park, they change food often. Sometimes too often. Where at WDW, what’s there is usually there for months or years because people make once in a lifetime trips and they want those classic or standard food options everyone always recommends.

[@sarab6415]

You are a fab family. Amy - love the backpack. So cute:)

[@lestat964]

Met you guys outside the Cheesecake Pixar booth a couple weeks ago. Your videos really helped us with our new Legoland APs last year. We are doing 10 days at the Boardwalk Hotel this November, so these are super helpful now as well. Thanks guys, keep up the fun work!

[@Geometrypat]

this guy is a w ytber very underrated he should hit 1m at this point but doesnt even get views he deserves more also great tip when you come next time for test track walk through the doors after the car done thing cast members do not care only do it if anyone wants to do it

[@Geometrypat]

you just comeplety skip a 10 min part of the line

[@leighims]

Maple popcorn!

[@EdFerber]

If you like shrimp, you have to try the orange glazed shrimp from the Odyssey.

[@Skye-cz5ik]

Love the bag Amy! Hope they still have them when we go.

[@SoCalDisneyDad]

It was a Flower and Garden exclusive. They had them discounted because the festival was ending and they were clearing stock. They mentioned that they’d likely run out by the weekend (which would have been Memorial Day weekend).

[@Skye-cz5ik]

@@SoCalDisneyDad Thanks. oh well. 😕 Good thing they have lots of other cute bags.

[@AreuisTheDemon]

If you go to universal, you might as well go to islands of adventure!

[@TheChainTV]

EPCOT was great :) took our 4 YO Niece to see the Disney Princess's in a restaurant :)

[@anthonylagano]

Greetings ! That honey cheesecake looked good ... I’ll need to try that on next visit . As many times as I’ve been to Epcot I’ve never taken a boat ride across the lagoon . Enjoying the Disney World videos . Haven’t gone in two years as I’ve been going to Universal. 😎😎😎

[@SoCalDisneyDad]

I’m not sure that cheesecake will still be there. I think it was part of Flower and Garden.

[@anthonylagano]

@@SoCalDisneyDad Well dang it lol . I’m sure I’ll see you guys eating some other great treats that I’ll write down to try .

[@kurtrichardson-wv8yk]

We were there two weeks ago at rope drop and frozen was closed at rope drop. Waited and it finally open hit frozen and after ride went right back in to ride it twice- rest of the day the ride was packed-

[@diannenieuwland2263]

I'm with Amy. Cherry tastes like cough syrup.😂 Those donuts are a very good sharing size, although I'd consider not sharing as I ❤ donuts. Those kids meals had a lot of food. For my family, I split it among the kids. They'd never eat a full hamburger. Your family looks like they had fun. I love the 👕! I know your mom is thete, who is the other lady? Which WDW Park is James & Benjamin's favorite? Do they prefer WDW or Disneyland Resort?

[@SoCalDisneyDad]

My Aunt Valerie (mother’s sister).

[@diannenieuwland2263]

Hey, all my Disney friends! Traver does not know that I am doing this, but I am sending this out to all of YOU to get your help. I noticed how many subscribers Traver is showing, 36.5K. Will you help to get Traver up to 50K? Share on your social media. Traver does a FANTASMIC job with these vlogs. So informative, not just for Disneyland, but for all attractions, hotels, restaurants, etc., in order for us to plan our magical vacation. Will you help? I'm hoping by July 4th. Thank you!

[@ReezA.MP3]

Would be cool to have the time on screen like the time that the footage being taken , I know it would be hard to remember the exact time everytime but it would be cool 🔥🔥🔥

[@SoCalDisneyDad]

That's exactly what I did! Any time you see the time on the screen, it's the timestamp of the video. I just looked at the exact time it was taken in the meta data of the video clip. Since we use our past trips to plan future trips, the time stamps really help me figure out how long various aspects of the trip took, from what time we left the room in the morning, to how long it took to get to the park, and at what time they opened the park or started letting guests on rides.

[@PuzzlesC4M]

Please tell us if you find the mint chocolate chip ice cream sandwiches or ice cream bars at DLR. I’ve been looking for it on the menus.

[@SoCalDisneyDad]

I’m sure it will end up in a video as soon as something becomes available. I’m looking for the cookie that WDW got before an ice cream sandwich, though ice cream would be preferable. 🤣

[@emfunTravel]

Not going to universal how many park days would you recommend at WDW?

[@SoCalDisneyDad]

4 days minimum, one for each park. Or if you can manage it, we like 9 days, even with no Universal. That’s two days in each park and a day off in between for Disney Springs or something else.

[@x2fishyy_108]

The mint Mickey ears and merch is also available at Disneyland and the ice cream is not for sale. Everyone is already asking Disney why not?😂

[@SoCalDisneyDad]

So a day or two ago they came out with a confectionary cookie that looks like this, but it’s buttercream not ice cream. And everyone in the comments of FB posts are really disappointed. It looks like ice cream! Not a cookie! And we all wanted ice cream. 🤣 Apparently you can get it in Magic Kingdom, but it comes a few days too late for us. Disneyland doesn’t have it yet. So I can’t try it. But hopefully we get it since the merch is available here as well.

[@pixiepinkcrystalsrosetta7027]

Could you tell me what time and location virtual que is offered and which to pick first, virtual que or genie + first? I'm not familiar with how WDW works.

[@SoCalDisneyDad]

It’s 7 AM for both the Virtual Queue drop and the Genie+ drop. Virtual Queue is a bigger deal to me. So I’d book that first. The second try for Virtual Queue is 1 PM (I think?) if you failed to get it the first time. What we did was have Amy log in to my account on her phone and she booked our Genie+ at 7 AM at the same time I was grabbing Virtual Queue on my phone.

[@pixiepinkcrystalsrosetta7027]

@@SoCalDisneyDad So helpful to know, thank you so much!! 😁

[@leighims]

I have a pronunciation tip for you: the first syllable of MAS carpone doesn’t have an “r” in it. It’s a common mispronunciation 😃

[@rickroberts4848]

Who has better food,Disneyland or Disney World?

[@SoCalDisneyDad]

Disney World has more variety, if we are taking Disney World as a whole as opposed to singling out one park, like Magic Kingdom that has terrible in-park food. But Disneyland gets all the “good stuff”. Disney World’s idea of a specialty dessert is a cupcake with a white chocolate medallion. It took a lot of research to find the “off the beaten path” snacks we get in these videos because the vast majority of desserts on most menus are not very exciting. Where at Disneyland, when we get new foods or seasonal foods, it’s often very creative and there’s not a standard cupcake in sight. We’ve also noticed that our food has more spicy and hot foods compared to anything at WDW. They do have some, but it’s usually not as hot as it claims.

[@resikat]

Yesss Royal orange from the Philippines! 👏 My mom grew up in the Philippines and was only able to get that whenever she was sick (which was a lot..). It's def still a staple! Was Club Cool always there?! Feels like I missed soo much when I went with hubby on our honeymoon 6 yrs ago (literally, we got married in May and went right after)! But maybe the rain also deterred us.. since we're also from SD and cant handle it lol 😅 Also I meant to ask in your first video, whaat are the fb groups that share where snacks and goodies are being left outside the hotel rooms?!

[@SoCalDisneyDad]

Club Cool was closed at one point. It used to be in a different location, then they tore out the whole around behind Spaceship Earth and it was one huge construction wall for a few years. Googling tells me it was closed from 2019 to 2021.

[@52185mertlich]

Is it possible to do everything in Epcot in one day? We’ve never been and would like to include it in our next vaca.

[@SoCalDisneyDad]

It’s possible to have a full and fulfilled day. But WDW is so vast, it’s impossible to get everything done even after the 9-10 trips we take. We had two full EPCOT days and still did not see everything we could have, and some of the things we had wanted. But it really just comes down to priority lists and focusing on what’s most important.

[@tracy1190]

QUESTION: We’re going to DCA in the beginning of April 2025 & we wanted to try to watch World of Color from the outside seating area of Lamplight Lounge. What time would you suggest we try to get reservations for Lamplight in order to catch the show from there? 🙃 Thanks!!

[@SoCalDisneyDad]

The show is at 9 PM, so no earlier than 8 PM I would say? But be aware that others will have the same idea, so outdoor seating may not be available. You’ll want to specifically request a table with a view. And that could take time. But also factor in that if the table becomes available immediately that you don’t want to have shown up super early expecting it to take awhile, and then it’s not and you find your dinner is done already and it’s only 8:15 PM. Because they won’t want you sitting around for an hour unless you keep ordering things like drinks or desserts.

[@tracy1190]

@@SoCalDisneyDad Thank you so much! This is very helpful!!

[@garygandhu7770]

What do you think is the best time to go on Rise of the resistance in California

[@SoCalDisneyDad]

9 AM-10 AM or 7 PM-8 PM. We’ve found both to be good, with the evening edging out the morning, but most people are unwilling to chance it that late in the day, so I’d recommend AM.

[@garygandhu7770]

Thanks!

[@nixchick20]

Is there a back-story with Amy and her love of the orange bird?

[@SoCalDisneyDad]

Not really. A lot of people love Orange Bird. We’ve even seen merch for it at Disneyland and people wearing it here too. Even though it is primarily a WDW thing.

[@nixchick20]

Ahhh. Okay. Thank you!

[@J5_95]

$27 USD for baked macaroni?!

[@SoCalDisneyDad]

Nothing at Disney is cheap, unfortunately.

[@AmusementTime247]

Looks like so much fun. I can't wait to take my family on Cosmic Rewind it looks epic!