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I am the master of the water-squirting games, or at least I am if my husband isn't playing. I have won so many incredible stuffed animals (a monkey dressed as Elvis, a hot pink crab with glasses, etc.) when I play against friends or strangers, but when D plays he ALWAYS wins. He still lets me pick the prize, though.
Awww that's so sweet of your husband! Those stuffed animals sound awesome! I'm just plain bad at those games to be honest. I don't even play because I'm such a sore loser....
Okay, AK was my least favorite park last time. First of all, I went into it with a not-so-great attitude because I don't really enjoy zoos (I know now - it's not a zoo). What cemented my ranking was 100% due to how hot it was and a bit of inefficient FP planning. We kept going back and forth between Dinoland USA and EE. When it was time to ride Dinosaur, I had an actual meltdown (albeit a grownup, discreet one) because I could not face waiting in another outside line. (I know it's mostly indoors, it just wasn't that day.) Still, I had a blast on EE and Primeval Whirl and KS and ITTBAB. I even liked Flights of Wonder - and I HATE birds!! Imagine my surprise when they started talking about the nighttime attractions and I perked up! I started planning out better routes to avoid backtracking too much and adding in shows to beat the heat. We almost ended up with 4 half-day trips to AK over the whole trip - which has been scaled back to two half-days and third shorter visit for RoL purposes.
I'm so glad that Animal Kingdom is growing on you!! Half days will definitely make it more enjoyable. I'm sorry about the adult meltdown too! Whenever James senses one of those coming with me, he's like whoa whoa calm down everything will be alright. Haha he puts up with me so well! I hope you give Dinosaur another try!!
Your play list makes me happy. We got my SIL a 4 disc set of Disney Classics before we went on our trip in 2014. The third disc is all music from the parks - it's so awesome!
That sounds awesome!!!!!! I need that in my life!!! Disney music makes any moment magical.
I am also super frustrated about the RoL thing. AK is closing at 5pm when I go, which is nowhere near dark. I'll be SO disappointed if they don't show this when we're there. It's bad enough with Wishes not showing at all. I'm not sure why Wishes isn't being shown. Some people say it's a cost savings to off-set the money suck that is Disney Shanghai. HalloWishes only happens during the Halloween party (it's AWESOME) but we won't be going to the Halloween party and I don't know if they'll be showing it either. That would completely suck if they didn't. HalloWishes and the parade (and I'm not a big parade person) are the highlights of the Halloween party.
I think seeing Finding Nemo The Muscial once is enough. It is waaay to long.
So sorry about your souvie cup! I hope that you get another one.
I love that you have a playlist. Having a soundtrack in the background makes awesome things even more awesome. I listen to the 4 parks, 1 World CD all the time in the car. It's the little things!
Hmm my hopes is that they just haven't extended the hours yet. But come April 22nd they should! How do they just not show Wishes at Disney World to save for Shanghai Disney?!?! While I think it's cool that Disney is expanding across the world, they can't cut corners to make it happen. No way!
I agree with Finding Nemo Musical...what's funny is 40 minutes wouldn't be too much for say, FOtLK, or Beauty and the Beast in Hollywood Studios. I love those shows and sometimes wish they were longer. But Nemo just wasn't that good in my opinion, and my entire family. Maybe it's directed more towards kids? I honestly have no idea.

On my first trip I bought the Fantasmic! soundtrack from a kiosk outside the show, and I'd listen to it constantly! When I got into a car accident just over a year after I got it, I lost all the CDs in my CD changer in my car...and I lost Fantasmic

I was heartbroken!
Your playlist looks great! We have a couple Disney mixed CDs that play nonstop in the car. DD1 has to listen to her princess songs! We also have a Disney Pandora station that we listen to whenever we do housework or we are just playing. Too bad whenever I sing the Disney songs, animals don't come and help me clean!!!
Awww I bet you and your daughters dance and sing to all the Disney songs in the car!!! Every Monday afternoon when I babysit I have to pick the kids up from their after-school activities and we always put on my Now That's What I Call Disney cd and jamn out!! Disney Pandora is amazing!! It gave me lots of inspiration for my CD!!! When my sis and I took our trip to Disney a couple years ago she hooked her phone up to her car and we jammed to the Disney Pandora station the whole way there AND back!!
^ YES YES YES YES!!!! Those forest creatures are my favorite!!! I adore Snow White and her forest pals! I mean, how cool is that?
