Just came home yesterday
after 8 wonderful days of Magic.
Having experienced crowds at WDW before, I FORCED my family to get up early the first day we went to AK...oldest DD refused to get up and went on sleeping. Left her her pass and off we headed to the park (DH, DD, DS, and me). We grabbed breakfast, hopped on a bus and we were at AK 10 minutes before park opened. We all headed to EE ...I went for FP and they got in line. 12 minute wait in Stand-By...it was GREAT...everything everyone said and more. Stand-By said 20 min. so we went again...18 min. wait. Went over to Safari and walked right on...This was GOOD FRIDAY, DISers!! Lots of animals. By the time we got off Safari, used FP for EE. Grabbed 4 more FP...Then Dinosaur (2x), Triceratops, and PrimivelWhirl. All by 10:30 when oldest DD arrived and wanted to do all we just did. Sorry, dear, you will need to get up early the next time... they did ride EE once more, I gave my DD my FP. DH told me that they ran out of FP sign read when they went on EE. Out of AK by 11 - it was MOBBED by then. Tons and tons of people were just entering the park!
SO, it's easy to do EE a few times, during one of the busiest week of the year if you GO EARLY!!! Same can be said about Soarin', etc. etc. go early, go early, go early!!