Florida, May 2014, Pt. IV – EPCOT

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EPCOT

Wikipedia will give you an overview if you don’t know what it is. Theme parks are a business phenomena to behold. Mind-boggling. EPCOT alone had 11,229,000 visitors in 2013. This document enlightens. Entry tickets are $35-$94 per day, mostly in the upper end. Suppose visitors spent as much as $100/day/person, including food and souvenirs, not including lodging and meals outside. That would be annual revenue of $1,122,900,000. Over a billion. Well, there is a lot of maintenance. 😉

My go-to lens was the 18-55mm (18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-S DX VR NIKKOR Zoom Lens). There is nothing like bright, cloudless, Florida daylight to supplement the amateur photographer.

I HIGHLY recommend the Living with the Land tour (included with admission) and the Behind the Seeds side tour ($20 extra and one of the best $20 I ever spent).

Living with the Land ‘boat’ ride

Behind the Seed extra tour. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_melon

(See the link to OneDrive photos at the end of this post for lots more on the Seeds tour.)

The Canada area.

Inside Le Chefs du France restaurant. Outstanding cuisine and service.

Japan

U.S. Fife and Drum Corps playing on a blazing hot day and it’s not even summer yet!

Norwegian Stavekirke replica. I saw many in Norway in 1992. They are 800 year old pine structures soaked in pine tar to preserve them. Don’t light a match!