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And now, on to part three.  Just MGM left after this. 

Mission: SPACE
We got fast passes for this, which led to a very short wait, which was nice, since Erin was just going to wait for me outside the ride.  We had to wait about five minutes once everyone was in, because one of the cars for the ride needed to be cleaned after the previous occupants were finished.  The ride is basically a big centrifuge and it plays a video simulating you flying to Mars.  Other than being able to feel the g-forces when I put my arms out, the ride really wasn't all that it was made out to be.  I was expecting to feel squeamish at least a little bit, and I felt worse after the Dinosaur ride at Animal Kingdom than I did on this.  It was fun, but not nearly as great as I was expecting.

Soarin'
From everything that we had heard, this was the ride at Epcot.  Our waiter the night before couldn't stop going on about it, and as we entered the park, this is where just about every single person was going right away.  We did the same, but everyone was waiting in line to use the Fastpass machines, so we got in the standby line, and only had to wait about ten minutes.  It was barely worth the wait.  You are seating in a contraption that then goes up into the air, and a video plays while air is blowing at you to simulate movement.  The ride goes up and down a little bit as the video plays, but overall, it's pretty boring.  Like the Peter Pan ride at Magic Kingdom, I really don't understand what all of the fuss was about.

"Honey, I Shrunk The Audience"
Another 3-D movie, in the same vein as Mickey's PhilharMagic and It's Tough to be a Bug.  This one includes some of the cast of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, and guess what, you get shrunk.  Just like the others, things come flying at you, and you get wet once or twice.  I believe that this was the first of the 3-D movies at DisneyWorld, and definitely the most boring of them.  Definitely entertaining, but others are done better.

Journey Into Imagination With Figment
A ride where you tour the "Imagination" labs with Figment, a purple dragon.  Designed for kids, but we went on it anyways.  It's another of the rides where you sit back and enjoy the scenery as it comes around you.  Nothing too special, but forth the wait (since there wasn't one).

Maelstrom
In the Norway Pavilion, you ride a Viking boat through a cavern.  It starts out pretty tame, but then the boat gets turned around, and speeds up, with you going backwards the whole time.  Pretty fun ride, nothing too out there, but faster than most things at the park.

Ellen's Energy Adventure
A movie/ride with Ellen DeGeneres and Bill Nye the Science Guy.  Ellen dreams that she's on Jeopardy, and all of the topics are about Energy.  Unfortunately, she knows nothing about energy, so her neighbor, Bill Nye, takes her back in time to learn about energy.  About halfway through the movie portion, you are taken on a ride through a jungle with animatronic dinosaurs.  Then you go back and watch the rest of the movie.  Fairly entertaining, and the mixed media is once again very well done.

Circle of Life
A short animated/live action movie with Timon, Pumba, and Simba, talking about how everything on the planet is connected.  Good movie overall, but nothing that wasn't covered (if less overtly) in "The Lion King" itself.

Gran Fiesta Tour Starring The Three Caballeros
In the Mexico Pavilion, a ride where you watch the scenes as it goes by.  However, in this ride, there are videos playing of the Three Caballeros - José Carioca and Panchito are trying to find Donald Duck, so they can perform their show at the Fiesta.  The video clips are funny, and the scenes are well done.

Innoventions: The Road to Tomorrow
This is a series of miniature exhibits mostly for kids.  We walked through at the end of our night at Epcot, and really only spent time with one thing - the tour of the "Future House."  It isn't really so much of a future house, but a present house.  It exhibits all sorts of new things you could use to automate, technologize (yes, I know that's not a real word) and modernize your house.  Voice activated entertainment center, a round bed that hangs from the ceiling, a completely electric scooter, things like that.  Some very neat things in the house, and they included a card with websites to get more information on each thing from the house.

Living with the Land
This is a ride through Epcot's living labratories.  You tour the various plan labs that they have, with things like growing 2-pound lemons, pumpkins the size of a large dog, and tomato trees, which provide more tomatoes in less time than the standard tomato plants.  They are experimenting will all sorts of different ways to grow produce, using less soil, space, or water.  To me, this was the most interesting thing at the entire park.  Of course, it's all about science and learning, so it was fairly sparsely visited.  A complete shame.

The American Adventure
This is a movie/animatronic performance about the history of America, hosted by animatronic Ben Franklin and Samuel Clemens.  A very moving performance overall, with an excellent score, and poignant commentary.  This was my favorite attraction at the entire park, narrowly beating out Living with the Land.  The waiting area for the performance has many different exhibits, with various pieces of memorabillia from the nation's past, including several artifacts from recent and older presidents.  An experience not to be missed.

We also walked through all of the various nations' pavilions in the World Showcase.  Lots of interesting things to look at, and live performances with each country's native music/dance.  I thought that it was very neat when we were walking through each country, seeing that every employee of the park was actually from that country.  Every employee at DisneyWorld has where they are from on their nametag, and I didn't see a single person working in any country's pavilion that didn't whose nametag said they were from somewhere else.  I'm not sure how they manage that exactly, but adds a bit of authenticism which is greatly appreciated.