Hi everyone!

We went to Animal Kingdom for Biodiversity Day (I'll post about that tomorrow), and then headed over to Epcot for Via Napoli, Hacienda de San Angel and the Japanese Gallery -  I'll get pictures of the neat exhibit in the Gallery up this week!  It was brutally hot today, we had just finished up at Epcot when a strong breeze and the feel of oncoming rain started approaching to finally cool everything down.

I was amazed at how close to finished Via Napoli now is, we have both photos and video! Thank you to Jeff at JeffLangeDVD (the best in theme park fan DVD's including vintage Epcot DVD's featuring Journey into Imagination, Horizons and World of Motion and more!) for hosting my videos and taking his own - due to his height, he took the Via Napoli and Hacienda de San Angel videos today!  I am really proud of our joint YouTube channel, we just passed 1 million views and are approaching 500 subscribers!

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Italy from across the water:

Hacienda de San Angel is set to open in September. The table portion of the restaurant will be open for dinner and has seating for 250.  I am looking forward to seeing the view of Illuminations from here! We have video from today!