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Sunday August 18, 2013: Day 3, Part 4
When we exited the safari it was just after 9am and the park was open and people were rushing to catch one of the first of the tours.
We were led to Pizzafari for our breakfast buffet. The large room at the rear of the restaurant had been set up for the buffet with each safari party table identified with a name card. We had a nice little table for two that included real stoneware dishes and linen napkins. Fancy!
My official dining review may be found here. If you dont feel like reading it then youll never know that we posed with another chef, made friends with our tour guide who gave me his number to arrange for a private safari tour, or that we indulged in a signature breakfast dish only found here! No pressure!! I can't resist sharing just one photo. This was Eddy our safari guide.
We were led to Pizzafari for our breakfast buffet. The large room at the rear of the restaurant had been set up for the buffet with each safari party table identified with a name card. We had a nice little table for two that included real stoneware dishes and linen napkins. Fancy!
My official dining review may be found here. If you dont feel like reading it then youll never know that we posed with another chef, made friends with our tour guide who gave me his number to arrange for a private safari tour, or that we indulged in a signature breakfast dish only found here! No pressure!! I can't resist sharing just one photo. This was Eddy our safari guide.
Before we left, we thanked Eddy for a great job with the tour and for treatment and then had a hilarious exchange that is described here in this video. The annoying cackle at the end would have been edited out had I known how to do so!! Seriously, I regret that annoyance.
Post breakfast photos:
On to some rides and other attractions shall we? The first order of business was to check out the wait time for EE. It was about 40 minutes so we pulled some fast passes with a return around noon. (We hadnt booked any FP+ for this day.)
We noticed that the photopass photographer with EE in the background had the picture frames which looked like fun. We did the see my armpit pose before moving on to cross a Must Do off our list.
Better angle:
We passed under the great belly of the Chester and Hesters Dino-Rama and went straight to . Primeval Whirl!
I get that this is supposed to be a carnival themed dinosaur play area but it just seems a bit cheesy. (While Gertie the dino at DHSs Echo Lake is definitely NOT cheesy!) The ride itself reminded me of Goofys Flight School (renamed from Mulhulland Madness at DCA) however, when it started to spin, whoa!!! Hold on to your possessions and your kids. We safely made it back to the present time; however I renamed this the Primeval Hurl! Oh my! Not sure how we missed this ride all these years but we successfully marked a second item off our Must Do list Ride any Dino-Rama ride at AK. (I had to correct my Must Do list.)
Leaving Chester and Hesters Dino-Rama behind, it was time for our FP for EE. We were seated in the front row (wooo-hoooo!) and saw first-hand the Yeti ripping up the tracks. I had the feeling he wasnt welcoming us to his mountain.
Seriously though, Disney hit a home run when they designed this ride! A roller coaster that goes backwards in the dark with a scary mythological (or is he?) creature roaring in displeasure.
Unfortunately our ride photo was so horrid that I didnt even snap a photo of the monitor.
Keeping with the theme of rides that have creatures that roar and intimidate, we proceeded to Dinosaur which was walk on. In fact, we had nothing better to do before lunch so we went on this back to back to back with no wait each time.
Ride photo #1
Ride photo #2
Ride photo #3
It doesnt beat DisneyKid4Life's (Rob) 7x back to back EE marathon but it worked for us.
Love the Dino shirt:
It was nearing 1:30 and time for our Yak & Yeti lunch so we went back to Asia to the restaurant. Im a huge Y&Y fan!! I love the food, cocktail selection and theming but mostly the dessert!! To find out what exciting cocktail I ordered and who was called sweetheart throughout our dining experience youll have to read my dining review here.
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