Thursday, 12/15 - Day 7
Can you believe this will be day 7?
I really hope we got to bed early on 12/14 because we will need to get up early on this day. How early? Well, with an 8am ADR I will want us to be leaving our room by 7am. Where are we going? Well, it is to the one park we have yet to go to.
So this is day one of two days we will spend in this park.
And even though it isn't the best breakfast on property, it does get us into the park before RD (a goal of mine in each park) So we will go to the special line and be allowed into the park early for our breakfast here
If nothing else, the juice is yummy and I plan on us eating until we can't eat any more. One because we will be paying oop for this meal and two because I don't plan on us having a lunch.
As I am writing up this plan I am wondering how well of a plan this actually is.
You see, after our very large breakfast we will head directly to
This is yet another ride I won't be going on that makes me worry for Zoe. She and Alex will definitely ride this. Steve might. I definitely won't!
Hopefully, we will all survive and we will take a stroll through Maharajah Jungle Trek. Now, I know what you are thinking. Why not just go here first. Well, cause ridemax tells me that if I make it to EE at 9:07 (and it is noted as being time sensitive) the wait time will be 8 minutes. Honestly though, I think what we will do is play it by ear. IF we (and by we I mean Zoe and Alex) do not feel up to riding after they have just eaten then maybe we will wait and take the risk of the line being to long for us to enter. If that is the case, I know that just before park closing was noted as being another time with little to no wait. We could just push it to then.
So after we are done taking in the sites of the trek it will be hopefully warm enough to ride this
It will have to be warm because I will no doubt get SOAKED.
Then we will get something that will look very similar to this
Next we will take another stroll through a forest.
After we are done there, we will need to have a bit more of a "personal" experience. Where can we get this?
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Well, it starts with a train ride
Once up in RPW, we will want to see some characters, look over the exhibits and pet some animals. The last trip with the guys they were performing a surgery while we were there. I really wish Kira had been able to be there and see it.
She would have loved it. What we won't do is stop to do the kid station. I forget what this is called, but it is AK's version of the Kidcot. You stop..do the activity and get a stamp in your card. I never knew quite where all the stations were so it was a bit frustrating to not ever finish. Plus, having spent ample time in the station there at RPW, I doubt we need to try and find everything in the "scavenger hunt" again (since we know where they are)
Back to Africa, we will next use those fast passes and see some animals a little more exotic than pigs and goats. Now if only we could brush and feed them.
After the safari, we will take a break and eat something. Remember I said we would not have lunch? Well, it is because aside from the super large breakfast we will be having a fairly hearty snack. Pretzels from Safari Pretzel.
For Alex and I...perhaps even Steve it will be a jalapeno cheese stuffed pretzel. Zoe will want a plain one cause the jalapeno one will be "too spicy" for her.
If we have time, we will run over to
If any of you read recently my ridemax discussion regarding this, you know that I had to assume we could hustle over to make the 1pm show. If not we will have to stay and catch the 2pm show. I would prefer not to though since we will be heading out of the park to spend a short break back at the hotel. Another thing to note is that ridemax also noted that the show times for Flights of Wonder have yet to be confirmed. So who knows if this will be the time after all.
On our way out of the park we will wind through Discovery Island trails.
Once back at the resort we will put our feet up and wait while each of us get cleaned up. (remember we may have got wet earlier in the day) Once we are all clean we will head back to AK.
Only one thing left to do in AK this day and that is
Have I mentioned I LOVE the parades. We never just sit and watch them all.
I really hope to this time.
Instead of going back to WL, we will leave AK and head to AKL.
At AKL, we will explore and see the holiday decorations like this
Before too long we will have to get over to Kidani Village for dinner at
This is one restaurant I am really looking forward to. I think it is going to be difficult to travel to using Disney transportation, but I think it is going to be worth it. Or... at least I hope it will. We have never been to even the lodge, let alone Kidani or Sanaa.
Dinner is scheduled for a fairly reasonable time (6:30pm) so I think we should have no trouble getting back to WL and getting a good nights rest.
This day we will use 4 snack credits (leaving 28), 0 quick service credits (leaving 28) and 4 table service credits (leaving 32)
Ridemax gives us a total wait time of 51 minutes with 40 minutes of walking between rides for the day.