How we fell in love with WDW - Day 14 - AK, DHS & DTD

[torsie24]

It had finally arrived. Our last Disney day.

Our first stop was to be Animal Kingdom as we still hadn't explored the base of the tree and seen everyone who lives there, so that was what we decided to do!

We arrived around 10ish after deciding not to set an alarm or anything, and as you can see it wasn't a bad start queue wise:

We headed to our destination:

And really took our time seeing all the detail we could. There are a lot of creatures on that tree that we thought resembled Bella (we were missing her after 2 weeks!)

A cheeky Bella:

Angry Bella:

We came across this guy having a sunbathe.

Look at the size of this lizard!!! He is going to wipe out the whole of S.America!

We watched the porcupines for ages as we both love them.

Then we found 2 more Bellas:

Then we headed away from the tree, and decided to go visit the lady who sits on the little dock bit with the bug eyes (know where I mean?) as no one was with her and she looked lonely. She had some tarantulas and she taught us a bit about them. Jack hates spiders but finds them creepily interesting, and I just think any animal is amazing, so we enjoyed seeing her.

Next up we headed over to Everest slowly, stopping on the way for an iced tea and a cinnamon roll (why hadn't we had one of these before the last day?! OMG!) and to watch the monkeys on their temple.

See how the shrine is the same shape as the mountain range? (We learned that in our awesome Hidden WDW book)

The wait for EE had gotten pretty long, so we grabbed some FPs and headed over to the wildlife express train, as we hadn't been to planetwatch yet.

We didn't have long to wait for the next train and were soon onboard.

We had a walk around the conservation station and then headed outside in perfect time to see Jasper! The cutest, cleverest porcupine ever!

After we had seen everything we headed back onto the train.

And across to EE. Once we got to the ride we were put in the front row. And wow! There is litlerally nothing in front of you and it was really fun! I'd definitely recommend sitting there one time! It is a bit scary on the big drop though as you can't see the track below you!

We headed out of Asia and down to Dinoland following the huuuge Nemo line that had formed (we decided against joining it - we'll have to catch the show next time) and to Dinosaur for our last ride of the trip.

The line was pretty short, and we only had to wait through the indoor part, but there was a huge tour group who all pushed past us getting out of the little show room bit. Not very Disney of them.

We enjoyed the ride as much as ever, and Jack admired all the Dinosaur goodies in the shop before we headed back to AKL for a brief swim and some lunch from the Mara.

Next up: DHS and DTD

 

[jackieleanne]

Oh no bad luck with the tour groups.

Looks like you had a great final day though and lovely pictures.

I love AK.

 

[tinks_1989]

Oh you missed Nemo its the best you will love it! That lizard is too huge! And EE is the best Dave is petrified of the ride and only goes on once each holiday so I always wait for the front make the most of my one ride LOL

 

[Pinky166]

Woo hoo looks like I finally caught up.

Did you not do, It's Tough to be a Bug? If not definately one for your next trip. Along with the Nemo show, it's fab.

 

[mandymouse]

A great start to your last full day in WDW

 

[florida sun]

Great day so far, cant believe we are coming to the end

 

[torsie24]

So, after some time at the Resort we decided we best head out for the last time.

All through the trip (and the weeks/months of planning) we'd assumed we'd end at the MK for Wishes, but that was a few hours away, and TGM had MK as a super busy day, we'd done everything in MK more tha once, and we were really in love with DHS, so that's where we headed!

Our first job was to buy gifts for Jack's little nephews. They love all Pixar movies so we went to the open air Pixar shop at the back over near the HISTK playground.

We had already bought the smaller one a Mr Potato Head pick'n'mix box thingy, but Laim, who's older loves Rex and we'd seen an awesome plush Rex there that we couldn't find in DTD. We picked that up for him, and also got them some of the little Pixar cars that are themed like the movie characters. We could have spent so much in there on them, we loved all the T-shirts and playsets.

Afterwards I was really keen to ride Tower of Terror again, so we headed back over via TSM (just in case there had been some miracle and there were FPs left or a line under an hour - not a chance!).

My first job was to take a photo with the haunted sign, it's really hard to get a picture in front of the paris one as people always sit in front of it.

Then we jumped in line. It was a walk on and the first time we rode I got a little bit brave, so I put my hands in the air before the end. I felt like the bravest person in the world (yes, I'm a wimp) and was so excited that we ran round again and had another go so I could do the whole thing with my hands up. Hee hee, it's like a whole different ride when you do that.

Jack didn't put his hands up as he "had to hold the bags" (it looked like the handle to me....)

During that second ride we had the false ending where the movie starts, and that was awesome. We were now both a bit addicted to the randomised drops so we had a third ride for luck.

Suitably terrorised we headed over to Muppets 3D as Jack was keen to see it, and we'd not even stepped foot in the Muppet Area yet. We had a short wait for the show and we both agreed that for an old attraction (one of the ones I can remember from my 1993 trip) it was actually not as badly dated as we were imagining.

It was getting late now so we did our normal DHS routine of getting in the TSM line close to closing time. Again we had about a 45/50 minute wait. But off all the queues I think time just seems to go fast in that building. Mr Potato Head had taken out his ear and dropped it on the floor. Can he pick it up himself? We didn't think he would be able to.

Jack really loved this wall, so we took a photo, it is pretty cool.

Soon we were riding our last ride of the whole trip, but on the up side I got my highest score and finally got into the cat prize category! Jack beat me again though.

It was after closing time by the time we were done, I needed to get gifts for my parents, they both wanted T-shirts so I stopped in one of the stores on Hollywood Blvd and bought them. I was waiting for Jack as he'd gone to a different store so I had a really long chat with the CMs as it was pretty quiet in there.

Then it was time to leave the park.

It was going to be close getting to MK in time for Wishes, and as there was no PM EMH we didn't want to cope with the post firework bus scrum. So we decided to head to DTD instead.

How to get there was the question though!

We went to the SSR bus stop and waited for ages, but no bus showed up. An Old Key West bus turned up at the stop next door, so I asked the driver if I was right in thinking that the DTD boat stopped at OKW and he said yes.

We jumped on the bus and it felt like hours before we were at OKW, and then we were even longer driving from stop to stop. We finally got to the main stop and I had a look at the resort map and could see a boat dock at all on there.

Luckily it wasn't too long until a DTD bus appeared and we were finally there.

We started in the christmas shop where I went a bit crazy buying things (i love Christmas!) and then went to World of Disney and grabbed some last minute gifts, and then finished the night, and the trip, the way it deserved it be finished!

It was getting late so we headed back to the bus stop and back home for our last sleep. We went in through the shop, as Jack wanted to take this photo:

We did some final packing and had our last Disney sleep.

 

[disney_princess_85]

Booo, I hate the last day! Sounds like you had fun though. It was probably a good thing that you didn't see Wishes- I made the mistake of watching it on my last night in September and I was so upset, as was DBF!!

 

[tinks_1989]

Oh no I don't want it to be over

We always had trouble with buses to and from Hollywood Studios (When we stayed at SSR)

 

[Pinky166]

Such a lovely way to end the trip. I love DHS & am really looking forward to being there for Star Wars weekend, even though it will be !

I LOL's at Jack "having to hold tha bags"!!!!! Mind you i've never ridden it with my hands in the air either.....

EoS is so flippin' YUMMY! I really can not wait to have one again soon.

For future reference, you can get the boat from OKW to DTD. When you get off the bus at the main stop you walk through the walkway between the shop & lobby & the boat dock is just at the end of the walkway.

 

[CustardTart]

Last days are just so sad - well done for managing to do so much!!! And hey you'll be back in less than a year for an amazing trip so...

I love DHS & am really looking forward to being there for Star Wars weekend, even though it will be !

And I found out there's a special DVC Star Wars Weekend pin to collect too - just sayin'...

 

[Chilly]

I love TOT, I always ride with my arms up.

 

[darthtatty]

what a fab last day.xxx
loved reading all your reports.

I found out there's a special DVC Star Wars Weekend pin to collect too - just sayin'...

my husbands seen that,he really wants one.
he always collects the Star wars weekend stuff, as we're not going i guess he'll have to buy it from ebay.

 

[Pegasus928]

I cant believe you waited until the last day to have a cinnamon roll. They are up there as 'must-do's' for me - along with EoS on the first night.
We had the false ending last time we went on ToT and it was the best ride me and DD had ever had. She always puts her hands up to ride as well - bloomin nutter

 

[suzycute]

LOL - I always have to hold on to the bags ( oops - I mean handle) too!

 

[jjk]

fab last day, DHS is one of our favourite parks too, we have planned our last day here this year with dinner and fantasmic.

 

[torsie24]

fab last day, DHS is one of our favourite parks too, we have planned our last day here this year with dinner and fantasmic.

That sounds amazing!! You're really lucky F! is on. I think we'd end on it if it timed that way.

 

[Ware Bears]

Lovely last day, though there's always that horrible sad feeling that you just can't shake off

I had to laugh at your comment about Jack holding on to the handle ..... I mean the bags!!