Club Cool & Soarin’
We passed Club Cool on our way to the F&G booths, and I wanted to stop there on our way back to Soarin’. We had never taken the girls before, and it was over a decade since the last time I sampled the sodas there. The girls were too young on our earlier trips, we hadn’t even introduced them to soda yet. They only drink Sprite now as a treat, so I was excited to see their reactions to the different sodas.
Here were our options:
I think I liked the Madagascar, Russia and Moldova options the best. I did not like the China soda, and obviously (I think?) I knew I was not going to like the Beverly. But since it had been a decade since I last tried it, I wanted to give it another chance.
I wish I hadn’t even tried Beverly again! It left a gross flavor in our mouths. It’s interesting how much taste can vary, since I know there are Beverly fans out there!
I took video of the girls sampling Beverly, it’s a rite of passage, right?
DD9 looked uncertain at first.
Then a little confused. Why did her mom give her this??
At first, I thought, maybe she didn’t think it was so bad. DD7 tried it next. She quickly let me know she did not like that one. But you can see in the background of her second picture that the Beverly was sinking in for DD9 and she clearly did not like it either!
The girls kept asking me why I made them try Beverly if I knew it tasted so bad. DD7 said her favorite was the Dominican Republic (Minute Maid) and DD9’s favorite was the Korea option.
As we were leaving, we saw the JAMMitors wrapping up a session. I think this was the first time I got to see them in person!
After this, we split up. My dad and DD7 did not want to ride Soarin’ so we asked DD7 which ride she wanted to go on again with Grandpa. I got them a LL for Spaceship Earth that overlapped with our Soarin’ LL. It looks like that saved them about 25 minutes of waiting in line.
More gorgeous flowers on our way back to Soarin:
We tapped into Soarin’ at 12:40pm. There was a 40-minute posted wait time and we waited 16 minutes. All of the LL line was being led to Concourse C. I knew B would have been a better viewing option but I didn’t want to ask to change, and we ended up on the far left-side of C, as close as we could get to B. The Eiffel Tower still had a strong curve going!
I get nervous with the heights on this one but it’s such a cool show. I was glad the global version was back while we were there. DD9 did really well and seemed to enjoy it this time but wanted me to tell her when the whale was going to jump, when they were about to throw sand, things like that. She didn't like those scenes when she was younger and still remembered them.
My dad and DD7 were waiting for us at the Land Pavilion exit when we got off the ride. We re-applied sunblock and then we split up again for our next rides.