Disney Summerpalooza! June 2018 Trip Report - Updated 9/12

[NotZacHoward]

Joining in! Sounds like a great trip so far!

Welcome and thank you so much! It was an awesome trip!

Sounds like a great end to the night! Great idea doing the dessert party with your mom!

It was so fun and so worth the money! Great desserts and stress free firework viewing

Your HEA pictures are amazing!

Thank you very much! I am really happy with how they turned out as I just got a new camera so I was nervous lol!

 

[NotZacHoward]

Part 6: Motion Sickness Who?
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We had an extremely early morning as we wanted to try to ride Flight of Passage with minimal wait time and it was extra magic hours. So we had our alarms set for around 6:15 and we were ready to go! Backstory, we couldn't get Fastpasses for this day because my sister lost her ticket she got in the mail and we had to wait for it to be resent to her. It didn't get to us at the 60 day mark so all the Flight of Passage FP's were gone for this day. I know I know, first world probs.

Well any who, we made it to Animal Kingdom and were off to the races to get in the line. Since it seemed to have just opened, the line was extremely intimidating. It almost seemed to start by the Festival of the Lion King. We were a little hesitant to wait but I am super glad we did! They didn't have any of the switch backs open yet so we basically were just waiting to get to the front (praise). We waited only about 40 minutes and my mom and sister absolutely LOVED it! My sister was nervous because she gets a little bit motion sickness but she powered through and made it!

We then explored pandora a bit and then started to head over to our first FP which was Everest (an all time Family favorite). We then headed over to the road side carnival and enjoyed Primeval Whirl (well I did, my mom and sister not so much. They aren't really fans of the spinning rides). Then we made it over to go explore the Dinosaurs! It was around the time to use our other FP for the Safari! My mother is absolutely obsessed with the Safari and could sit on it all day. It is so precious because she is like a little kid when she sees the animals. Side note, if you watched the vlog, my mom was trying to get one of those cooling towels to work. Idk if it was user error or what but we honestly could not get it to get that cool at all. It just felt like water on a towel around our neck. But hey, anything to help in the Florida heat!

After the Safari we were STARVING so we decided pizza sounded really delicious. I was VERY happy to hear that they had Caesar salad instead of the weird salad (in my opinion) that they had a couple years ago, which was the last time I ate there. It could have been a change that everyone knew about but I sure didn't know!

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[NotZacHoward]

Part 7: Park Hopping To and Fro​

We continued our "wild" time (I wonder how many times that pun has been made since opening) at Animal Kingdom with a ride on the Navi River Journey. Sure this ride is a lot shorter than I would have liked and I will probably never ride it without a Fast pass BUT I really think it is a beautiful ride! One of the most beautiful rides to look at in my opinion. And that animatronic is absolutely incredible to look at!

After the river journey we went to an all time favorite between my sister and I which is the Festival of the Lion King. This show is SO well done and the like singing and dancing and acrobats and everything literally give me LIFE when I watch it. I could watch it 5 times a day and still want to watch it just once more!

After a bit more frolicking through Animal Kingdom we decided we needed some adult beverages and here is where I made a HUGE mistake. We were at the refreshment bar by Expedition Everest and me and my mom couldn't decide what we wanted. I, totally not reading the sign right, THOUGHT I ordered a angry orchard type drink. Like a sweet hard cider. BOY WAS I WRONG. I read "dark ale" as like Disney for hard cider (can you tell I am not a beer drinker in the slightest lol!) and my face when I first took a sip was total disgust! But my mom got some margarita thing and didn't care for it so gave it to my sister. My mom was on the hunt for her Jack Daniels and frozen coke. Thankfully after the long hard search (thanks google) I found exactly where to go and all was well.

As we were drinking, we got to talking and decided we had done everything in Animal Kingdom that we desired to and it was time to head to my old home park, Hollywood Studios! This park is definitely my moms favorite and I have a strong addiction to it since it is where my College Program home was so I was a okay with this decision. We got a fast pass for Tower of Terror and headed to the bus station. Thankfully we did not have to wait long and we were on our way to the studios!

We had an absolutely joyous afternoon at Hollywood Studios since it wasn't very crowded (I think it was because Toy Story Land was opening in two days but that is just me). We got to ride Tower of Terror twice, Rockin Roller Coaster AND I took my mom and sister to the Frozen Sing A Long. They had never been and they were a little skeptical at first but the were in tears the whole time from laughing! Seriously, if you have not seen that show yet you HAVE to! It is a riot and fun for all ages, I promise you.

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[missangelalexis]

Sounds like a fun afternoon! Cute pic of your mom and sis during Frozen!