Epcot Center November 2

At Epcot, we rode the future ride. I enjoyed the history. It explained where we had been and how far we had come. Rome had the first network (roads), Greece created paper, then came the printing press so writing could become available everywhere. Technology has been improving and making our lives better. Hard to imagine just a few years ago computers took up a whole huge room and today our scientific calculators are better than what they had. The ride concludes by reminding us that we have the opportunity to choose our future and make it what we want.

We rode the mars ride. This simulates what it would be like to ride in a space vehicle to Mars. Each person had a role to play. At one point, we about crashed down the mountain side. A very exciting experience.

At the aquirium, we saw eels, sea horses, shrimp, dolphins, sharks, and a variety of other fishes.






The students asked a lot of good questions.

It was interesting seeing the sea horses grasping things or floating in the water.






I especially liked it when a young man yelled look there is a dolphin and went running to his parents. Life is for enjoyment and excitement in learning.

In the land area we rode a boat around learning about how plants are grown at Epcot. Sadly they did not have a NASA Logo. Last time I was here there was a NASA Logo.

Roots exposed run nutrients over them.

Rotate and nutrients sprayed on.

We liked learning about the new techniques so well that we took a behind the scenes tour of the green house. We saw many different possiblities of growing plants without soil. It was fun watching Mr. Hanks. In his old school he had a green house. One possibility is using an old fish tank and float plants in nutrients. We got directions to do this activity. It was all amazing.

We talked about coming back to Wendover and working on getting a green house so that we could be involved in growing plants also without soil. We discussed how we could sell produce grown thus helping with the cost of the green house.

It was amazing seeing nine pound lemons. We fed Tolapia.

We learned how they are changing the genetics of plants. They also control pests by introducing a bug that eats the other pest. This way it is healthier for us to eat.










Technology is used to incorporate the best of two plants.

We saw a tomatoe tree. They had one tree produce over 3,000 cherry tomatoes. It is one regular tomatoe plant. You brace it so the tree can grow up ward and then have it branch out over rope.

I learned banana trees only produce fruit once. The blossom peels back a row and a bunch of bananas starts to grow. This continues until the tree realizes it can not handle more bananas and then the pedals fall to the ground.

Pinapple plants produce three pinapples. The first one is the sweetest that you can buy in the supermarket. The second one is used for canned pinapple. The third one is used for juice.

Pumpkin plants grown with nets holding up the pumpkin make perfectly round pumpkins. They raise pumpkins that get to be 500 lbs. 

We also went on the Soaring ride. It is amazing to fly above California and see different places.

They used metal covered cardboard to run water over to cool the green house.

We saw Japenese art in candy. She was amazing to watch. The candy is 200 degrees and she cuts and creates any animal you desire. The students asked for a monkey to be made.

We  rode the ride that demonstrated how they test cars. Boy was the ride bumpy and fast.

The students had to check out the new cars...wouldn't you like to drive away in this!

 Can you find Mickey Mouse? What is it made out of?












We had a meeting about the launch. We are getting excited...nervous because it looks like the launch is going to get delayed. We fly home Thursday and will miss the launch then.