MsPennieLane
<font color=660099>Self-confessed Disney addict<br
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Friday 23rd Jan
Awake early coz of my early night but I manage to fall back to sleep for a bit. No breakfast this morning and we head straight to Animal Kingdom. Its heaving as its early magic hour but we arrive just before 9am.
We encounter our first ****** step forward Mr Arrogant! This guy, his wife and their kid in a stroller pushing in front of the people stood in front of us. They comment on it and this guy starts shooting his mouth off. At first he claims that hes been there longer than anyone else but was in the wrong queue so he has a right to push in. Yeah right. When hes told he shouldve gotten in the right queue to start with and that it doesnt give him the right to push in front of everyone, he turns round and says he suggest the other guy shut up and hes ready to fight it out! What a doofus. Theres just no excuse for queue jumping but unfortunately theres a lot of it. Very annoying. Thats the last we encounter of the ****** but we manage to get in the park before him, which he hates. The couple in front apologise for the scene and we say theres no need as they were in the right. We head straight for Africa as we want to do Kilimanjaro Safari.
We pass Tusker House and quite fancy their breakfast platter so in we go. Its yummy. Scrambled egg, sausage, biscuit and spicy potatoes. Stuffed, we continue to the safari. Its brilliant, really enjoyable apart from a group of American college kids that keep chanting their team name and keep standing up so have to be told by the guide to sit down and be quiet.
We see giraffes, elephants and a baby elephant, gazelles, hippos, monkeys, zebras etc. The poaching segment is pretty corny but good fun all the same. The ride lasted about 20 minutes and is well worth doing. From here, we headed for Festival of the Lion King and queued for over 10 minutes, only for them to announce that due to a technical hitch the show wont be happening and it was an hour til the next one.
Kali River Rapids is down for refurbishment so we missed that too. As its warming up, we decide to leave AK and go to Blizzard Beach. So it was back to the hotel to change into our swimmers. The cleaners been and were quite chuffed to find shes taken my Mission Space Pluto and placed him on the bed with his paw on the remote control, and the TVs on how cute is that?
We head back to the bus stop and within 10 minutes were there. Theres only about 20 cars in the car park. Inside, the place is dead. Brilliant! We buy a mug for refills. Its a huge $7 to rent a locker with $2 refunded at the end. We plonk our stuff by the wave pool and hubbys feeling brave so he tries Summit Plummet. Up on the chair lift he goes and I stand at the bottom of the slide. After a few minutes, down he comes and it gives him, as Krista puts it on the Top 7 Must Sees, a water-powered wedgie. I manage to snap hubby coming down and Im in hysterics as he declares look love, its given me a wedgie and his bums hanging out. Luckily the place is dead so nobody sees but me. And no, I didnt get a pic unfortunately he pulled his trunks out too quick! The attendant on the slide isnt doing his job and telling people to cross their arms so you dont knock them. Hubby banged his elbow and also got bum marks and bruised cheeks. He openly admits that he shat himself out of fear and wouldnt do it again, but at least he can say that hes done it.
We seek out the lazy river Cross Country Creek. This was my favourite part. Its huge and goes around the whole park. We start sitting on white tubes and the flow of the water is great, gently pushing you along. There are lifeguards stationed all the way around. About half way round theres a cave and a waterfall of icy water coming down brilliant, I loved it. Going through the cave, I drop the waterproof camera and I panic as its got our Discovery Cove pics on too and so I fall off the tube into the water. Were both in hysterics and luckily I find the camera. I swim through the cave and find a tube I can climb inside of so Im more comfortable than perched on the tube. It probably takes a good half hour to go all the way round. We go round again then get out so hubby can do the toboggan run. I have a bit of fun in the wave pool man is that powerful! Hubby comes back and hes freezing cold and wants to go. I plead for another go on the lazy river so we do yayyy! We change and grab a bite to eat on the way out. We wait about 5 minutes for the bus back to Pop Century.
We shower and relax for a while trying to warm up. We have a PS at Cinderellas Royal Table for 5.05pm so we leave for the Magic Kingdom about 4.15. This is the longest time weve had to wait for a bus. Each other stop has 2 buses come and go. It leaves us with a mere 15 minutes until our PS time and the journey to MK is about 20 minutes. We walk swiftly after we get off the bus and get to Cindys about 25 minutes later. No problem they say, our table is ready for us. Woohoo! Were so impressed with the inside of the castle, it looks beautiful. Were lead to our table at the back and it looks out over Tinkerbells Treasures. Our server is very polite and calls us MLord and MLady cute huh? The setting is really lovely so we take a couple of piccies. The meal is expensive but so worth it. I have a Caesar salad to start and they bring out some bread rolls too with the butter shaped like Mickey Mouses ears. Hubby has the Earl Poulet chicken and I go for the prime rib. Delicious. My prime rib is on a bed or mash potato with suede plus veggies and a lovely gravy. Hubbys chicken is a whole breast its huge. Its sat upon a spinach and potato bread pudding. We take our time over the dessert menu and I choose the warm apple and custard pudding with maple walnut ice cream and hubby has the Bibbidi Bobbidy Brew a frozen smoothie in a collectable glass we get to take home. They even give us a fresh glass in a box to take back.
mmm pud!
Were there for the start of the fireworks very disappointing as we cant see hardly anything. By the time we get outside, its almost over. Hubby crosses the rope and gets some great pictures, only for a security guard to really shirty with him and push him back over the rope, as the firework caps land there. We didnt know! We walk round the front of the castle in time to get some good shots of the castle lit up.
We missed most of it so well have to go back. Its bedlam trying to get out and it takes us awhile to get back to the bus stop. There are already 2 buses being filled up and we miss them but almost immediately, another 2 show up. The cast members get them loaded together and we get a seat hurrah! We get back to the hotel for 8pm. As its Friday night, we skip Downtown Disney and hubby has a few cans in the room and I curl up and conk out really early.
Awake early coz of my early night but I manage to fall back to sleep for a bit. No breakfast this morning and we head straight to Animal Kingdom. Its heaving as its early magic hour but we arrive just before 9am.
We encounter our first ****** step forward Mr Arrogant! This guy, his wife and their kid in a stroller pushing in front of the people stood in front of us. They comment on it and this guy starts shooting his mouth off. At first he claims that hes been there longer than anyone else but was in the wrong queue so he has a right to push in. Yeah right. When hes told he shouldve gotten in the right queue to start with and that it doesnt give him the right to push in front of everyone, he turns round and says he suggest the other guy shut up and hes ready to fight it out! What a doofus. Theres just no excuse for queue jumping but unfortunately theres a lot of it. Very annoying. Thats the last we encounter of the ****** but we manage to get in the park before him, which he hates. The couple in front apologise for the scene and we say theres no need as they were in the right. We head straight for Africa as we want to do Kilimanjaro Safari.
We pass Tusker House and quite fancy their breakfast platter so in we go. Its yummy. Scrambled egg, sausage, biscuit and spicy potatoes. Stuffed, we continue to the safari. Its brilliant, really enjoyable apart from a group of American college kids that keep chanting their team name and keep standing up so have to be told by the guide to sit down and be quiet.
We see giraffes, elephants and a baby elephant, gazelles, hippos, monkeys, zebras etc. The poaching segment is pretty corny but good fun all the same. The ride lasted about 20 minutes and is well worth doing. From here, we headed for Festival of the Lion King and queued for over 10 minutes, only for them to announce that due to a technical hitch the show wont be happening and it was an hour til the next one.
Kali River Rapids is down for refurbishment so we missed that too. As its warming up, we decide to leave AK and go to Blizzard Beach. So it was back to the hotel to change into our swimmers. The cleaners been and were quite chuffed to find shes taken my Mission Space Pluto and placed him on the bed with his paw on the remote control, and the TVs on how cute is that?
We head back to the bus stop and within 10 minutes were there. Theres only about 20 cars in the car park. Inside, the place is dead. Brilliant! We buy a mug for refills. Its a huge $7 to rent a locker with $2 refunded at the end. We plonk our stuff by the wave pool and hubbys feeling brave so he tries Summit Plummet. Up on the chair lift he goes and I stand at the bottom of the slide. After a few minutes, down he comes and it gives him, as Krista puts it on the Top 7 Must Sees, a water-powered wedgie. I manage to snap hubby coming down and Im in hysterics as he declares look love, its given me a wedgie and his bums hanging out. Luckily the place is dead so nobody sees but me. And no, I didnt get a pic unfortunately he pulled his trunks out too quick! The attendant on the slide isnt doing his job and telling people to cross their arms so you dont knock them. Hubby banged his elbow and also got bum marks and bruised cheeks. He openly admits that he shat himself out of fear and wouldnt do it again, but at least he can say that hes done it.
We seek out the lazy river Cross Country Creek. This was my favourite part. Its huge and goes around the whole park. We start sitting on white tubes and the flow of the water is great, gently pushing you along. There are lifeguards stationed all the way around. About half way round theres a cave and a waterfall of icy water coming down brilliant, I loved it. Going through the cave, I drop the waterproof camera and I panic as its got our Discovery Cove pics on too and so I fall off the tube into the water. Were both in hysterics and luckily I find the camera. I swim through the cave and find a tube I can climb inside of so Im more comfortable than perched on the tube. It probably takes a good half hour to go all the way round. We go round again then get out so hubby can do the toboggan run. I have a bit of fun in the wave pool man is that powerful! Hubby comes back and hes freezing cold and wants to go. I plead for another go on the lazy river so we do yayyy! We change and grab a bite to eat on the way out. We wait about 5 minutes for the bus back to Pop Century.
We shower and relax for a while trying to warm up. We have a PS at Cinderellas Royal Table for 5.05pm so we leave for the Magic Kingdom about 4.15. This is the longest time weve had to wait for a bus. Each other stop has 2 buses come and go. It leaves us with a mere 15 minutes until our PS time and the journey to MK is about 20 minutes. We walk swiftly after we get off the bus and get to Cindys about 25 minutes later. No problem they say, our table is ready for us. Woohoo! Were so impressed with the inside of the castle, it looks beautiful. Were lead to our table at the back and it looks out over Tinkerbells Treasures. Our server is very polite and calls us MLord and MLady cute huh? The setting is really lovely so we take a couple of piccies. The meal is expensive but so worth it. I have a Caesar salad to start and they bring out some bread rolls too with the butter shaped like Mickey Mouses ears. Hubby has the Earl Poulet chicken and I go for the prime rib. Delicious. My prime rib is on a bed or mash potato with suede plus veggies and a lovely gravy. Hubbys chicken is a whole breast its huge. Its sat upon a spinach and potato bread pudding. We take our time over the dessert menu and I choose the warm apple and custard pudding with maple walnut ice cream and hubby has the Bibbidi Bobbidy Brew a frozen smoothie in a collectable glass we get to take home. They even give us a fresh glass in a box to take back.
mmm pud!
Were there for the start of the fireworks very disappointing as we cant see hardly anything. By the time we get outside, its almost over. Hubby crosses the rope and gets some great pictures, only for a security guard to really shirty with him and push him back over the rope, as the firework caps land there. We didnt know! We walk round the front of the castle in time to get some good shots of the castle lit up.
We missed most of it so well have to go back. Its bedlam trying to get out and it takes us awhile to get back to the bus stop. There are already 2 buses being filled up and we miss them but almost immediately, another 2 show up. The cast members get them loaded together and we get a seat hurrah! We get back to the hotel for 8pm. As its Friday night, we skip Downtown Disney and hubby has a few cans in the room and I curl up and conk out really early.
