We just returned the other day from another wonderful trip to WDW. However, one night we had a really strange experience.
We were returning to AKL on the night of the Wine and Dine Half Marathon. We knew from the staff at the hotel that it was going to interrupt the roads and blocks certain areas, etc, and all they told us that "bus service was definately your best bet for travel this evening". Well, we were returning from Epcot at about 10:30pm, I think, and the road closures had already started. Before we knew it, we were definately in areas we had NEVER seen before, in 15+ trips to Disney. It was very dark, but best we can tell, we were in the "bowels" of Animal Kingdom. They were windy, dark roads, lined on both sides with high barbed-wire fences, small trailers, piles of materials, greenhouses and plants growing in large quantities, safari vehicles lined up like a used-car lot, and a few times we actually went through heavily guarded "checkpoints" (think Jurrasic Park). It was CREEPY, but for real Disney freaks like us, it was an awesome chance to see behind the scenes. When we got off the bus, my husband said to the driver, "Do we get a pin with this behind-the-scenes tour?" The driver just laughed and said "You weren't supposed to be paying attention.....".
We were returning to AKL on the night of the Wine and Dine Half Marathon. We knew from the staff at the hotel that it was going to interrupt the roads and blocks certain areas, etc, and all they told us that "bus service was definately your best bet for travel this evening". Well, we were returning from Epcot at about 10:30pm, I think, and the road closures had already started. Before we knew it, we were definately in areas we had NEVER seen before, in 15+ trips to Disney. It was very dark, but best we can tell, we were in the "bowels" of Animal Kingdom. They were windy, dark roads, lined on both sides with high barbed-wire fences, small trailers, piles of materials, greenhouses and plants growing in large quantities, safari vehicles lined up like a used-car lot, and a few times we actually went through heavily guarded "checkpoints" (think Jurrasic Park). It was CREEPY, but for real Disney freaks like us, it was an awesome chance to see behind the scenes. When we got off the bus, my husband said to the driver, "Do we get a pin with this behind-the-scenes tour?" The driver just laughed and said "You weren't supposed to be paying attention.....".
I would love that!
