Well every experience can't be perfect right? We'd had a good time so far, but Wednesday didn't start out so good. Our goal was to be out at the bus stop for AK at 7. We walked outside at about 710ish and saw 2 buses go by. BOTH were Animal Kingdom, so I started hurrying over, but we missed the bus. No biggie, we figured more buses would come. Well more buses came, but none of them for the AK. We didn't get a bus until 745. Good thing AK isn't super far away. We got there just in time to follow everyone else in.
So far it's not going too well. We headed over to Everest and got fastpasses and went to the Safari. I still have no idea what happened, but we were in line forever and the time listed was only 20 minutes. After that we were completely off of our Ridemax schedule, and apparently we were never to get back on track. Not that made much of a difference until we got to Primeval Whirl. We ended up not riding it.
I do have to say-EE was an extremely fun ride! I have been on tons of coasters-I grew up pretty close to Cedar Point-and this wasn't a huge thrill ride, but it was just FUN!! The backwards-ness didn't bother me and a lot of times it does. The Safari was pretty cool itself. Well minus the lady who kept telling her kid that everything was a deer. Ok, I STILL couldn't tell you what half of the animals were, but they weren't deer. GAH! Here's a couple pictures from the ride.
This is one of my fave pics-a meerkat on a termite mound! I didn't even notice the meerkat at first!
I like this one too-we were walking across a bridge and it was just a great shot of Everest!
And then there were the trails:
Tigers!
I don't remember what this was, but it's not a deer.
If you look close, there's a monkey in the tower!
Some photopass pics-including one with Simba!
We were meeting a friend of mine from a chat board for lunch, so we decided to head over to the Rainforest Cafe. The one thing I had wanted to see in AK was DeVine, but I wasn't sure we'd get to see her. Imagine my surprise when we were walking out and there she was! It was so neat, and DH had no idea what was going on. If you've never see her, you have to find out her times and scout her out! So impressive to see. I must have taken a kazillion pictures and video of her, but here are just a few.
I have to say before I go on that I didn't believe that any one park could be hotter than another. I know fully believe it and agree! I was MUCH hotter at AK then any of the parks. After that, rude people and just running over the park a million times, I had had enough of AK. I might have had a better time if I wasn't so hot, but dang.
Rainforest Cafe didn't make it that much better. We got there and was a really long line. We get into the line-I'm thinking it's the ADR line, but no-the person in front of us didn't have an ADR, so I tell DH to chill there and I'll go ask questions. I find someone and ask if there is a separate ADR line-he says no, you have to just wait in this line. Odd, but ok. I go back in line, and the lady behind us is wondering the same thing so I told her what the guy had said. We waited for a little longer and I found someone else-but same story. A little later we see people just walking up. So I walked up and asked the person at the podium what the deal is (again) she says, yeah you just had to come right up. So I tell her, uh that's NOT what the other people said. And, that it's not that big of a deal, but there might be other people confused. She made an announcement that if you had an ADR you could just walk up. We checked and waited to be called.
My friend hadn't shown up yet, and since I'd know her and DH wouldn't, he stayed in the nice A/C and I walked out to find her. She showed up a couple minutes later, and DH came out to tell us that we had been called. We walked in maybe 30 seconds later to find out that they couldn't 'find' us and we were back on the waiting list. Ok WHAT!? There are people all over the place-you can't just stand right next to the podium because there are 85 people already standing there. A manager happened to walk by and my friend grabbed her and explained. She apologized and we got seated quickly, but it was just strange. Oh and while we were waiting, one of the seaters must have called for 1 family a good 15 times-they said after 3 times they move on, which is why we were skipped. WHATEVER.
After we were seated though we had fun. The RC at AK is the largest in the world, so maybe that's why we hardly ever saw our waitress.....oh well. The food was really good, but it was dark and loud (normal for a RC) so no pictures. We had a sampler for the appetizer: Calamari-excellent, spinach dip-awesome, fried cheese-well you can't really ruin fried cheese. And the rollup thingys were pretty good, but I don't like them so I had to go with what they all said hehe. 3 of us got the bacon cheeseburger, and it was good-but it was a bacon cheeseburger so we didn't do the whole fancy thing. I like RC and have eaten there several times. I've never had a bad experience until now, and the ONLY problem was the seating, everything else was just as good as usual! It's a chain restaurant, but the theming is just FUN!
Oh and here is a pic to end our AK adventure. This is me, my friend Amy and her daughter. We had a blast!
So far it's not going too well. We headed over to Everest and got fastpasses and went to the Safari. I still have no idea what happened, but we were in line forever and the time listed was only 20 minutes. After that we were completely off of our Ridemax schedule, and apparently we were never to get back on track. Not that made much of a difference until we got to Primeval Whirl. We ended up not riding it.
I do have to say-EE was an extremely fun ride! I have been on tons of coasters-I grew up pretty close to Cedar Point-and this wasn't a huge thrill ride, but it was just FUN!! The backwards-ness didn't bother me and a lot of times it does. The Safari was pretty cool itself. Well minus the lady who kept telling her kid that everything was a deer. Ok, I STILL couldn't tell you what half of the animals were, but they weren't deer. GAH! Here's a couple pictures from the ride.
This is one of my fave pics-a meerkat on a termite mound! I didn't even notice the meerkat at first!
I like this one too-we were walking across a bridge and it was just a great shot of Everest!
And then there were the trails:
Tigers!
I don't remember what this was, but it's not a deer.
If you look close, there's a monkey in the tower!
Some photopass pics-including one with Simba!
We were meeting a friend of mine from a chat board for lunch, so we decided to head over to the Rainforest Cafe. The one thing I had wanted to see in AK was DeVine, but I wasn't sure we'd get to see her. Imagine my surprise when we were walking out and there she was! It was so neat, and DH had no idea what was going on. If you've never see her, you have to find out her times and scout her out! So impressive to see. I must have taken a kazillion pictures and video of her, but here are just a few.
I have to say before I go on that I didn't believe that any one park could be hotter than another. I know fully believe it and agree! I was MUCH hotter at AK then any of the parks. After that, rude people and just running over the park a million times, I had had enough of AK. I might have had a better time if I wasn't so hot, but dang.
Rainforest Cafe didn't make it that much better. We got there and was a really long line. We get into the line-I'm thinking it's the ADR line, but no-the person in front of us didn't have an ADR, so I tell DH to chill there and I'll go ask questions. I find someone and ask if there is a separate ADR line-he says no, you have to just wait in this line. Odd, but ok. I go back in line, and the lady behind us is wondering the same thing so I told her what the guy had said. We waited for a little longer and I found someone else-but same story. A little later we see people just walking up. So I walked up and asked the person at the podium what the deal is (again) she says, yeah you just had to come right up. So I tell her, uh that's NOT what the other people said. And, that it's not that big of a deal, but there might be other people confused. She made an announcement that if you had an ADR you could just walk up. We checked and waited to be called.
My friend hadn't shown up yet, and since I'd know her and DH wouldn't, he stayed in the nice A/C and I walked out to find her. She showed up a couple minutes later, and DH came out to tell us that we had been called. We walked in maybe 30 seconds later to find out that they couldn't 'find' us and we were back on the waiting list. Ok WHAT!? There are people all over the place-you can't just stand right next to the podium because there are 85 people already standing there. A manager happened to walk by and my friend grabbed her and explained. She apologized and we got seated quickly, but it was just strange. Oh and while we were waiting, one of the seaters must have called for 1 family a good 15 times-they said after 3 times they move on, which is why we were skipped. WHATEVER.
After we were seated though we had fun. The RC at AK is the largest in the world, so maybe that's why we hardly ever saw our waitress.....oh well. The food was really good, but it was dark and loud (normal for a RC) so no pictures. We had a sampler for the appetizer: Calamari-excellent, spinach dip-awesome, fried cheese-well you can't really ruin fried cheese. And the rollup thingys were pretty good, but I don't like them so I had to go with what they all said hehe. 3 of us got the bacon cheeseburger, and it was good-but it was a bacon cheeseburger so we didn't do the whole fancy thing. I like RC and have eaten there several times. I've never had a bad experience until now, and the ONLY problem was the seating, everything else was just as good as usual! It's a chain restaurant, but the theming is just FUN!
Oh and here is a pic to end our AK adventure. This is me, my friend Amy and her daughter. We had a blast!