Well, this face just about says it all:
Tyson and I happily walked to the bus stop in some light rain, and waited for an Animal Kingdom bus to whisk us away to the land of Expedition Everest.. only the greatest ride EVER. And we waited...
and waited...
and waited..
saw THREE of these go by:
and waited some more...
45 full minutes went by until our bus showed up. It was VEEERRRYYY hard for me to keep cheerful, but I had to be strong for the boy.. you know how it is...
We finally made it to AK:
I don't remember WHY Tyson was wearing that heavy sweatshirt. I do remember asking him if he wanted to take it off, and he said no. Maybe the wet air?
We made our way over to the reason we came:
The stand by line was actually very decent, so we hopped on in:
We rode it at least two times, then decided to ride another ride that Daddy can't do: PRIMEVAL HURL!! WEEE HOOO!! I love this ride, simply because it's unique... not too many roller coasters do what this does!
Ready to be whirled:
Then I tried to take some shots while the ride was whirling. Some of them are kinda fun! You'll see two young girls in our car. They were from England, so they had the BEST accents. It was their first time on the PW, so Tyson had fun telling them all about it!
Ok, enough of THAT!
Our afternoon together was nice... just me and my boy and some fun Animal Kingdom rides! Next stop was Epcot, where we were going to meet back up with Matt and Shae for Illuminations.
This evening requires a bit of background story, so here we go:
I am an elementary teacher, and this spring break, I was teaching 3rd grade. I had the MOST AMAZING CLASS ever!!! Wonderful, respectful, bright kids, and (even better), supportive, understanding, on-the-ball parents!! You just don't come across a class like this every millennia! I like them so much that I looped with them to 4th grade this year, and have them all again!
Anyway.. my kids know how much I adore Disney, and I talk about it all the time with them. One of my students and his family was going to Disney during spring break, and he was so excited to know that we'd be there at the same time. His mom volunteered in my class once a week, so we exchanged phone numbers and hoped that we could meet up at some point in the trip. Well, we had been there for several days, and every time we called each other, we were in different parks. The ONE DAY we didn't call, we were actually in the same place.
So tonight was their last night in Disney, and we were going to make it happen! I told them we'd be at Illuminations, and they decided they would be, too!
The best part of the evening was when they came around the corner of the lagoon by Norway, and he saw me for the first time. I was expecting him to come running over to me with his normal big hugs. Nope.. he was so weirded out by the situation, that he just looked at me like I was an alien... Stich, maybe? We all laughed about it.. it was just so bizarre to see each other so far away from our normal classroom!
Here we are.. he's such a cutie!!
They had quite a large group with them, so we let all of the kids hang out together:
You can see my student next to Tyson, and his twin brother next to him.
It was a very cool experience, as crazy as it was for both of us!!
A fun way to end a fun night! We had another heavenly stroll back to our resort (I felt bad for my student and his family, knowing they had to battle the buses back to their resort!) We went straight to bed. Shaelyn and I had a date with MK EMH... and a REAAAALLLLYYYY LLLLOOOONNNNGGG LLLIIINNNEE to see Tinkerbell.
So true!! I bet it's especially weird for the little ones!!
Towards the end, she decided she needed to go to the bathroom. 
