The new restaurant at the Italy pavilion at Epcot, Via Napoli, will begin taking reservations Aug. 6 for Sept. 10, the official opening day. A “Grand Opening” celebration will be Aug. 5, but the restaurant will be in a “soft opening” walk-in phase with no reservations between then and Sept. 10.

The huge size of the World Showcase, and just how much walking you have to do to get around it, never really registered with me until I started pushing 30. By then, nearly a decade of sitting at a desk all day had caught up with me, physical-fitness-wise, and circumnavigating the World Showcase Lagoon was suddenly a fairly exhausting proposal.

The Space Mountain ride at the Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom theme is not offering a Disney PhotoPass option as originally announced by the Disney Parks Blog. According to the Disney PhotoPass site, the Test Track at Walt Disney World’s Epcot theme park is the only ride that participates in the Disney PhotoPass program.

The Candlelight Processional is a seasonal show that takes place in Epcot at the outdoor American Gardens Theater in front of the United States Pavilion. It is performed each night at 5:00pm, 6:45pm, and 8:00pm and each show lasts about 45 minutes. This year, the Processional runs from November 26, 2010 through December 30, 2010. The show tells the story of Christmas from a Christian Biblical perspective and is very much religious in tone.

This week on the Meet Your Moms Panel series here in ZannaLand we are meeting a wonderful mom that started on the panel in 2009 – Cathy S! These informal interviews are meant to be a jumping off point from the bios that appear on the DisneyWorldMoms.com site where you can learn about every panelist’s background and experience with Walt Disney World, and see their personal videos as well.