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<font color="red">Proud Redhead</font>
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- Jan 21, 2008
Sorry its taken me so long, but thanks to some very 'gentle' reminders from Claire & Michelle I've finally got my act together so without further delay ..........
Day 5 - Animal Kingdom , Narcoosee's and DTD
As I've been so slack no doubt you've all forgotten who I am and what's happened so far so here are the reminders (Thanks to Goofyish for finding these!)
The pre-trip can be found here:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1850893
and the earlier installments:
Day 1
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1982340
Day 2
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1985151
Day 3
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1991243
Day 4
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2012346
Day 5 - Animal Kingdom
A nice early start today so we could make sure we get to AK in time for rope drop - but a quick Maccas stop later (utilising our buy one get one free vouchers) meant we arrived at 9.10 - I swear we're destined never to see a rope drop, the hour between 8am and 9am seems to last about 5 minutes for us! But then, when breakfast is costing less than $3 for both of us, it seems rude not too!
The Lion King is my favourite film of all time and I had been waiting for about 10 years to finally see the real tree of life and the surrounding park (and secretly hoping to see Simba and Nala) . We both had a feeling this would be one of our favourite parks, and we weren't wrong (nice double negative there!)
We headed straight over to Asia and specifically to Expedition Everest for our first ride of the day, but it took us longer than anticipated to walk over there as the whole place just looks so amazing! The scenery is great, and the attention to detail is amazing, I couldn't stop taking pictures!
EE is a brilliant ride, Em's favourite ride of the whole trip and definitely one of my favourites. It's so much fun but again, the theming and attention to detail really make it stand out. The queing area, as I'm sure everyone reading this already knows, is full of Himilayan artificats and is set up as a 'base camp'. If you get a fast pass you would miss all of this, and it really does warrant at least one walk around.
We rode this 3 times in a row thanks to the non existent ques, but I couldnt convince Em to go for a fourth. So we headed over to Kilamanjaro safaris to catch the animals early on in the day when they were still active.
This ride is great, again, amazing theming throughout and you really get the feeling you could be on a real safari. We saw all the animals out and about, and were even lucky enough to see some some impala having sex !! (no pics though!)
The safari was going fine, until some poachers came along and ruined our day, luckily we chased them off and rescused the baby elepant
We also got to see a real baby elephant
All that rescuing was hard work, and with the Lion King show starting in about 30 minutes it was time to get a pre show snack. We went to Pizzafari and shared some mozarella bread sticks and dip
Breadsticks - Basket of fresh baked breadsticks topped with cheese and served with marinara sauce - $3.99
They were sooooo nice! I was very pleasntly surprised!
We headed over to the Lion King show which was fantastic , and very different from what I had been expecting , We then wandered over to Maharaja Jungle Trek and walked around the ruins. I was gutted the tapir was sleeping and didn't want to be seen, but the tigers were great, and were all being quite active too, splashing around in their pool and playing with each other.
They look so cute, but when you see the size of their paws you realise just how dangerous they are! And you know what they say about cats with big paws.....
Then we met Stitch
I really like this photopass pic, as I don't think we have any 'natural' shots of the 2 of us from any holiday!
We then went over to watch the Finding Nemo musical. I was really intrigued to see how this would work as a show, and it certainly does. Its a great show, great production and some brilliant songs too. I think I may have actually preferred this to the Lion King show
As lovely as those mozarella breadsticks were, we were still hungry, so we went over to Yak & Yeti (counter service) for lunch. As we had an ADR for Narcoosees that night we didnt want too much so we shared the Kung Pao Beef $10.99 .....
.....and I have to say it was disappointing. We both love asian food (and have actually just decided on our honeymoon destination, 4 nights in Hong Kong and 11 nights in Thailand) so I had been looking forward to this, but it was pretty crappy to be honest and it would end up being the worst food we ate during the whole trip. Maybe we just ordered unwisely, or perhaps we caught them on an off day, but it wasn't the best. (however, did did still manage to eat every last bit
)
I couldn't convince Em that riding on EE was a good idea straight after lunch, so we headed over to the tree of life for 'Its tough being a bug'.
Oh - I've just remembered - we took waterproof jackets with us to Orlando, in case of afternoon showers, and we forget to take them to the parks every day apart from this day, and wouldn't you know it, this was the hottest day of the trip! It was absolutely boiling and there was me with a big rucksack on my back containing waterproofs......
Anyway, back on track, bugs life - wicked, i really enjoyed this, prob my favourite 3d show out there (although muppets would be a close second).
We wandered round the rest of the park enjoying the sights , including these guys, who were fantastic:
It was then time for the Pocahontas show! I really wanted to see this show as it advertised having live animal actors in it - including rabbits. Well I was very disappointed with the lack of rabbits. I guess the show would be good for little kids but not so much for us 2! Having said that, the porcupine was very impressive. I videotaped the whole show but surprisingly haven't got around to watching it back yet......
It was one of the hottest 15 minutes of my life though, this area really needs some shade.
We then got ourselves a spot for the parade which was all good and then we decided to have a quick go on Dinosaur before leaving. I really liked this ride but I can imagine it being very scary for kids - edit - very scary for kids and Emilie:
I love the fact that virtually everyone looks really scared in their pictures for this!
The park was closing so we headed back, taking a few more pics en route, to shower and change before heading over to the Grand Floridian for our Narcoossee's ADR
Continued........
Day 5 - Animal Kingdom , Narcoosee's and DTD
As I've been so slack no doubt you've all forgotten who I am and what's happened so far so here are the reminders (Thanks to Goofyish for finding these!)
The pre-trip can be found here:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1850893
and the earlier installments:
Day 1
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1982340
Day 2
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1985151
Day 3
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1991243
Day 4
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2012346
Day 5 - Animal Kingdom
A nice early start today so we could make sure we get to AK in time for rope drop - but a quick Maccas stop later (utilising our buy one get one free vouchers) meant we arrived at 9.10 - I swear we're destined never to see a rope drop, the hour between 8am and 9am seems to last about 5 minutes for us! But then, when breakfast is costing less than $3 for both of us, it seems rude not too!
The Lion King is my favourite film of all time and I had been waiting for about 10 years to finally see the real tree of life and the surrounding park (and secretly hoping to see Simba and Nala) . We both had a feeling this would be one of our favourite parks, and we weren't wrong (nice double negative there!)
We headed straight over to Asia and specifically to Expedition Everest for our first ride of the day, but it took us longer than anticipated to walk over there as the whole place just looks so amazing! The scenery is great, and the attention to detail is amazing, I couldn't stop taking pictures!
EE is a brilliant ride, Em's favourite ride of the whole trip and definitely one of my favourites. It's so much fun but again, the theming and attention to detail really make it stand out. The queing area, as I'm sure everyone reading this already knows, is full of Himilayan artificats and is set up as a 'base camp'. If you get a fast pass you would miss all of this, and it really does warrant at least one walk around.
We rode this 3 times in a row thanks to the non existent ques, but I couldnt convince Em to go for a fourth. So we headed over to Kilamanjaro safaris to catch the animals early on in the day when they were still active.
This ride is great, again, amazing theming throughout and you really get the feeling you could be on a real safari. We saw all the animals out and about, and were even lucky enough to see some some impala having sex !! (no pics though!)
The safari was going fine, until some poachers came along and ruined our day, luckily we chased them off and rescused the baby elepant
We also got to see a real baby elephant
All that rescuing was hard work, and with the Lion King show starting in about 30 minutes it was time to get a pre show snack. We went to Pizzafari and shared some mozarella bread sticks and dip
Breadsticks - Basket of fresh baked breadsticks topped with cheese and served with marinara sauce - $3.99
They were sooooo nice! I was very pleasntly surprised!
We headed over to the Lion King show which was fantastic , and very different from what I had been expecting , We then wandered over to Maharaja Jungle Trek and walked around the ruins. I was gutted the tapir was sleeping and didn't want to be seen, but the tigers were great, and were all being quite active too, splashing around in their pool and playing with each other.
They look so cute, but when you see the size of their paws you realise just how dangerous they are! And you know what they say about cats with big paws.....
Then we met Stitch
I really like this photopass pic, as I don't think we have any 'natural' shots of the 2 of us from any holiday!
We then went over to watch the Finding Nemo musical. I was really intrigued to see how this would work as a show, and it certainly does. Its a great show, great production and some brilliant songs too. I think I may have actually preferred this to the Lion King show
As lovely as those mozarella breadsticks were, we were still hungry, so we went over to Yak & Yeti (counter service) for lunch. As we had an ADR for Narcoosees that night we didnt want too much so we shared the Kung Pao Beef $10.99 .....
.....and I have to say it was disappointing. We both love asian food (and have actually just decided on our honeymoon destination, 4 nights in Hong Kong and 11 nights in Thailand) so I had been looking forward to this, but it was pretty crappy to be honest and it would end up being the worst food we ate during the whole trip. Maybe we just ordered unwisely, or perhaps we caught them on an off day, but it wasn't the best. (however, did did still manage to eat every last bit
)I couldn't convince Em that riding on EE was a good idea straight after lunch, so we headed over to the tree of life for 'Its tough being a bug'.
Oh - I've just remembered - we took waterproof jackets with us to Orlando, in case of afternoon showers, and we forget to take them to the parks every day apart from this day, and wouldn't you know it, this was the hottest day of the trip! It was absolutely boiling and there was me with a big rucksack on my back containing waterproofs......
Anyway, back on track, bugs life - wicked, i really enjoyed this, prob my favourite 3d show out there (although muppets would be a close second).
We wandered round the rest of the park enjoying the sights , including these guys, who were fantastic:
It was then time for the Pocahontas show! I really wanted to see this show as it advertised having live animal actors in it - including rabbits. Well I was very disappointed with the lack of rabbits. I guess the show would be good for little kids but not so much for us 2! Having said that, the porcupine was very impressive. I videotaped the whole show but surprisingly haven't got around to watching it back yet......
It was one of the hottest 15 minutes of my life though, this area really needs some shade.
We then got ourselves a spot for the parade which was all good and then we decided to have a quick go on Dinosaur before leaving. I really liked this ride but I can imagine it being very scary for kids - edit - very scary for kids and Emilie:
I love the fact that virtually everyone looks really scared in their pictures for this!
The park was closing so we headed back, taking a few more pics en route, to shower and change before heading over to the Grand Floridian for our Narcoossee's ADR
Continued........
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, Goofy Candy Co is amazing we brought a couple home with us, I cant wait to read all about the proposal, HURRY UP PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!
Well done Craig, it's about time too. 
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