yay a double update - Opps I erased the quote thing, sorry!
Our next stop was Kali River Rapids. We used our fastpasses, which was great because our wait was not long! However, that time we did spend waiting was brutal. The heat was unbearable.
I know exactly how august heat can be- NOT FUN!!! I can totally empathize with how you felt in the heat! Kali and any other water ride for that matter is an absolute MUST in august in florida!
I was praying we would go down the hill backwards, and THANK GOD we did!!! We were riding with another group of people who were british and they did NOT want to get wet (they must have been crazy!) so it all worked out. We left the ride completely drenched from head to toe.
YAYYYY!!!! That is a great thing to have happen in the summer but definitely not what you want to have happen at this time of year.I'm surprised that the brittish people didn't want to get wet, given that this must be really brutal if you aren't even remotely use to american extreme temperatures
We made our way to DinoLand next to ride Dinosaur! Sarah was a little hesitant about this ride, so her and Scott went to ride Expedition Everest again while we went on Dinosaur.
You can tell how hot is it outside by the look on Kristen's face in this picture:
The air conditioning in Dinosaur is fantastic, which made the ride experience quite enjoyable.
We did our classic "look the other way" picture! Nat did not understand why we were doing this until after the ride was over.
She thought we told her to look away because the Dinosaur would scare her too much LOL
I am a total freak when it comes to this ride. I pretty much always get freaked out on the ride even though i have been on it a million and one times and could recite the ride by heart. i don't know why it freaks me out so much but it really does. It is the only ride at disney i feel like that about, HOWEVER those emotions don't stop me from riding the ride.
After the ride, we sat in the shade for a little bit because we wanted to meet up with everyone for the 3:30 pm showing of Finding Nemo.
After dilly-dallying around we finally got to the line, and LITERALLY the family in front of us was the last one let in the theatre. Wahh.
Thats unfortunate! I would have been s annoyed had that happened to me. Oh well there wasn't anything you could have done to change the outcome.
So, Kristen's family went to Animal Kingdom Lodge to go to their dinner reservation, and Nat and I stuck around at Animal Kingdom.
We went to "It's Tough To Be A Bug" which is always fun. I hadn't done that one in a while!
GREAT SHOW!!! I love walking through the tree of life at this show! We always have a million and one pictures of waiting for this ride. We always take pictures with certain carvings in the tree as well. I really enjoy the actual show of this as well, i think it is really cute! My cousins really don't like this ride though, they hate the bug infestation part. at the end of the show i always sit on the edge of my seat so i don't feel the bugs going under my seat.
LOOK IT! DEER!
This picture is too cute! It's the Monkey and the Monkey.
I am obsessed with musicals, so I absolutely love the little posters down here!
"A Cockroach Line" - aka "A Chorus Line:"
I really liked this movie!
"A Web Side Story" - aka "West Side Story:"
another great musical!
"The Dung and I" - aka "The King and I" (however, I'm not quite sure how they equated a King with Dung... but I digress.)
You have a point there! it's a amusing title though.
"Antie" - aka "Annie," which I was in my Junior year of High School. That was one of my favorite shows I was ever in! It's SO cute!
I LOVE ANNIE!!! My junior high did the musical when i was in 6th grade and i helped out with it because i wasn't actually doing musicals at that point. i like the movie as well
"Beauty and the Bees" - aka "Beauty and the Beast," which Nat was in during her Freshman year of High School. I want to be in that show SO bad someday!
OMG!!!! I have wanted to be in this show since like FOREVER!!! My brother was in a production of beauty and the beast with a community theater group in our area (I had already joined another show the same weekends so i couldn't be in it) and he played Gaston. People who saw the show STILL comment on his performance, he really did a great job, I actually thought he was comprable to the movie gaston but that could be a biased opinon. The show was a few years ago. Ever since i saw his show i have wanted to be in a production of beauty and the beast.
After that show, we didn't really know what to do to pass the time until our dinner. So we sat by an Ice Cream Cart and watched Mickey's Jammin' Jungle Parade!
This parade always looks so cute from what i have seen of it.I am never in the park at the time of the parade so i have only seen videos of the parade
These old people behind us were wearing Mike Wazowski shirts and had their hair dyed purple. EVERY SINGLE performer in that parade commented on their outfits or gave them a thumbs up.. such as Mickey in this picture:
They were actually super nice and were just having a fun old time for themselves! I had to snap a picture so I could remember them. They were pretty awesome.
I feel like the Jammin' Jungle Parade is a little bit frumpier than the other parades. The performers were just chatting in the middle of it and seemed pretty casual. It may have been the heat, but you know what I mean.
It was so beautiful, though! The floats are AMAZING!
I haven't sat through the entire parade since I was in elementary school, so I'm glad we took the time to do that!
I absolutely LOVE Minnie's Float!
Br'er Rabbit!
I'm glad the Song of the South characters are incorporated into stuff... even though their movie is like, not available for purchase. I hope it is one day, I really want to see it!
More characters!
Donald!
Pluto is like one of my top, top, TOP favorite characters. He's so cute!
PRAISE THE LORD!
Even Mickey got tired from the heat and had to lean against the railing by the end of the parade! I can't imagine being in one of those costumes in August! Holy cow.
Poor mickey
All of the families chosen to be on the floats looked so hot and all of the performers were just sweating. I wish there was a better solution to this Florida heat in August but I really don't know what I could be.
Maybe they could do something like the magic kingdom did for one of their parades and have air conditioned domes? I remember those being really cute 2!