Our anniversary

So as my last post said, I bought a Divequest trip at Epcot for a combination anniversary and Father's Day present. Divequest is a dive at The Living Seas(or now as it's called The Seas with Nemo and Friends) at Epcot. It features a six million gallon indoor aquarium with more than 65 species of marine life.
I had booked this over a month ago. I had the early afternoon to evening babysitting all set up a month in advance but last minute I realized that we may actually be able to make a day out of it. My cousin, Kelly, just recently started an internship at Epcot so she hooked us up and got us into the park so we could enjoy the day there. So Jen, Doug, and Baby Ben Liebler spent the morning and early afternoon with Parker and Sydney and then Papa and MeeMaw came over to pick up the early afternoon to night shift.
I can't remember the last time I have been to a theme park, let alone Epcot. It was so much fun! She even hooked us up with some fast passes so we could ride the rides with very little wait. It was our first time on the Mission Space ride and we got to do it three times.
We met at the front gates at 4:15 for our dive. It was so fantastic to get back underwater.
The marine life was incredible. Not sure we would ever be able to experience so many types of marine life in a single dive in the ocean. We swam with sharks, turtles, eagle rays, sting rays, Goliath groupers, and all kinds of other fish. It was strange not feeling frightened of the sharks. I have seen sharks in the ocean and I remember being curious but definitely nervous. In there though, you know they are well fed and cared for. I felt a great respect for the sharks but I was not fearful. There were actually a few times that they came with in arms reach and I just sat back and watched. It was one of those things I will check off my list of things I want to do in life and it was definitely nice to be back in the water, but is nothing like an open water ocean dive.
We are planning to make a trip to West Palm next month.
After the Divequest experience, they released us back into the park. We had not had a chance to visit the World Showcase, so we decided to travel around the World for our anniversary.
We ate dinner in Mexico and then stopped and had dessert and coffees in France. Then we found out that the Magic Kingdom was open until midnight and our passes were park-hoppers so we decided to hop on the monorail to Magic Kingdom. As we were on the monorail leaving Magic Kingdom, we got to see the Illuminations show at Epcot. When we arrived at Magic Kingdom, every one was on the street waiting for the parade. We walked right onto Pirates of the Carri bean(our first time since they changed it). Then we went to Splash Mountain and practically walked on. When we were on Splash Mountain the Magic Kingdom fireworks began and I swear we had the best seat in the house up there on that ride.Then we made our way to Thunder Mountain where we also walked right on. We attempted to make it onto Space Mountain but that was an hour wait. Instead we road some kiddie ride where the Delta ride used to be and then decided we were "done". It was already an hour past our bedtime(11pm). HAHAHA
We caught the monorail back to Epcot and by the time we got home it was after 1am. Can't remember the last time we were up that late on purpose. I am adding a picture of Patrick at the end of the night. On our walk through the parking lot, he hopped in wheelchair. The other picture I am adding is a picture we took of ourselves when we were leaving when Epcot around 9pm. Can you tell how tired we were already??
Here is a video of a part of the late night parade at Magic Kingdom before we left.