teekathepony
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Day 2 plans!
I'm 44 days away today. Very exciting! I've completed my ADRs, customized my Magic Bands, booked Fastpass+, and did online check-in. It's starting to feel like there's nothing left to do but wait!
Day 2 is the first full day. The first time waking up in the Boardwalk!
We are spending the whole day in Epcot. We'd like to hit RD at the IG (YAY!) and head to France for something yummy for breakfast.
We're going to head straight for Test Track and ride standby. We have no other real major plans, but want to hit all the Future World rides.
Our fastpass+ selections look like this:
[Fastpass+
3:45 - 4:45: Mission: SPACE
6:45 - 7:45: Spaceship Earth
8:40 - 8:55: IllumiNations]
I'm excited to try out the IllumiNations one. I'm assuming that return time means 8:40 is as early as I can get in? I haven't done a fireworks FP+ yet. Or should I still plan to be there before that?
We have an early meal.
[4:45pm: Nine Dragons Restaurant]
A new restaurant for us! We're excited to try it.
I want to see some of the Food and Wine offerings during the day, and if I can, take in the Eat to the Beat concert. Hanson is playing.
Yeah. I was a hard-core Hanson fan when I was 11. I swore to my little pre-adolescent self that I would (A) marry Zac Hanson, and (B) see them in concert. (A) has been scratched, so we're going with (B).
So that's about it! After IllumiNations it's going to be especially awesome to just walk back to the hotel.
Next...
Day 3, Nov. 13
We're going to get up early and head to
for some early magic hours! I was hoping to get a really early FP+ for the safari, but couldn't get it, so we're just going to run straight there and wait standby instead. I love going first thing in the morning when the animals are just starting to get up and get moving.
Depending on the wait time for that, we might run to Expedition Everest. Hoping for time to do both!
At 9:45 we have a new experience for us -- Tusker House breakfast! We've done dinner here, but not the breakfast. I'm pretty excited for that.
After breakfast our FP+ start. Here's what we have:
[Fastpass +
11:00 - 12:00 -- Kilimanjaro Safaris
12:5- - 1:50 -- Expedition Everest
2:30 - 2:50 -- Festival of the Lion King]
Depending on how the morning goes (if we get a good safari, if we get on EE) I might change those two FP+, but for now I'll leave them as they are. We're always up for riding either one twice!
We also want to get on Dinosaur, *maybe* Kali, depending on the weather, walk the trails and see the animals (both of us will be taking the good cameras and longer lenses for this day!)
We hope to close the park, depending on how we're feeling. Shouldn't be too bad since the park closes at 6.
We're going to take a bus back to Animal Kingdom Lodge for our dinner ADR:
[ADR: 7:35 PM -- Boma - Flavors of Africa]
Yum! I've eaten breakfast there many times, and once we ate dinner there but I was coming down with a really bad flu and didn't manage to eat anything. I can't wait for zebra domes, and we're planning to walk over to The Mara to grab some to go too!
After that, we'll get a bus back to Epcot which is open until 10, and then walk back to our hotel. (Have you noticed I say that a lot? Epcot? Walk to hotel? I'll have you sick of those words. I'm just so excited!)
I'm 44 days away today. Very exciting! I've completed my ADRs, customized my Magic Bands, booked Fastpass+, and did online check-in. It's starting to feel like there's nothing left to do but wait!
Day 2 is the first full day. The first time waking up in the Boardwalk!
We are spending the whole day in Epcot. We'd like to hit RD at the IG (YAY!) and head to France for something yummy for breakfast.
We're going to head straight for Test Track and ride standby. We have no other real major plans, but want to hit all the Future World rides.
Our fastpass+ selections look like this:
[Fastpass+
3:45 - 4:45: Mission: SPACE
6:45 - 7:45: Spaceship Earth
8:40 - 8:55: IllumiNations]
I'm excited to try out the IllumiNations one. I'm assuming that return time means 8:40 is as early as I can get in? I haven't done a fireworks FP+ yet. Or should I still plan to be there before that?
We have an early meal.
[4:45pm: Nine Dragons Restaurant]
A new restaurant for us! We're excited to try it.
I want to see some of the Food and Wine offerings during the day, and if I can, take in the Eat to the Beat concert. Hanson is playing.
Yeah. I was a hard-core Hanson fan when I was 11. I swore to my little pre-adolescent self that I would (A) marry Zac Hanson, and (B) see them in concert. (A) has been scratched, so we're going with (B).
So that's about it! After IllumiNations it's going to be especially awesome to just walk back to the hotel.
Next...
Day 3, Nov. 13
We're going to get up early and head to
for some early magic hours! I was hoping to get a really early FP+ for the safari, but couldn't get it, so we're just going to run straight there and wait standby instead. I love going first thing in the morning when the animals are just starting to get up and get moving.
Depending on the wait time for that, we might run to Expedition Everest. Hoping for time to do both!
At 9:45 we have a new experience for us -- Tusker House breakfast! We've done dinner here, but not the breakfast. I'm pretty excited for that.
After breakfast our FP+ start. Here's what we have:
[Fastpass +
11:00 - 12:00 -- Kilimanjaro Safaris
12:5- - 1:50 -- Expedition Everest
2:30 - 2:50 -- Festival of the Lion King]
Depending on how the morning goes (if we get a good safari, if we get on EE) I might change those two FP+, but for now I'll leave them as they are. We're always up for riding either one twice!
We also want to get on Dinosaur, *maybe* Kali, depending on the weather, walk the trails and see the animals (both of us will be taking the good cameras and longer lenses for this day!)
We hope to close the park, depending on how we're feeling. Shouldn't be too bad since the park closes at 6.
We're going to take a bus back to Animal Kingdom Lodge for our dinner ADR:
[ADR: 7:35 PM -- Boma - Flavors of Africa]
Yum! I've eaten breakfast there many times, and once we ate dinner there but I was coming down with a really bad flu and didn't manage to eat anything. I can't wait for zebra domes, and we're planning to walk over to The Mara to grab some to go too!
After that, we'll get a bus back to Epcot which is open until 10, and then walk back to our hotel. (Have you noticed I say that a lot? Epcot? Walk to hotel? I'll have you sick of those words. I'm just so excited!)
This will be very different from your offsite stay. 
Staying on a bench behind the dumpsters at Downtown Disney or sharing a swamp with a gator would probably be better than my offsite stay. 
