Blueyed Girl
HAKUNA MATATA!
- Joined
- Dec 3, 2006
When I left off we were headed over to Animal Kingdom!! We actually went to this park a few times this trip and since my pictures are all mixed up now, I will ATTEMPT to figure out what we did this day.
I believe we started off by heading straight for DINOSAUR!! DS said he wanted to brave Dinosaur this trip. DH and I figured he would back out of that statement once we were at WDW but he didn't. On the way to AK he said that today was his day to ride it for the first time. So off we went!! The line was sort of long but we decided to do stand by. I'm not sure why other than the fact that we thought that if we get in line then maybe DS wouldn't back out. Here are a few pics from our wait in line.....
Nervous but eager!!
After a while we decided to skip the stand by line and get a fastpass for later. The line just wasn't moving AT ALL. So, away we went.....grabbed a fast pass then headed over to Expedition Everest so DH and I could do the single rider line. The ride itself was great except for the part I mentioned previously to Dan about getting run over by some brazilians on the way off the ride.
After this we played around in Dinoland, then it was time for Dinosaur!! We get there and.......it's broken. They told us that if it's still broken by closing time that they would accept our fastpasses tomorrow. Ok, cool!! It was around 2 or 3 by this time. We decided to head over to ride the Safari ride. Surprisingly, there were a few animals out that I got pictures of that I've never gotten before. Such as the ostrich(sp?)......
And the Cheetah.....
And THE LION WAS OUT!!!! The guide got everyone so excited and our cameras were out and ready when we rounded the corner and, well......I took this picture especially for Jordan!!!
After we left the Safari, it was almost time for the parade. We've never seen the Jammin' Jungle parade before. We keep hearing that it is top notch but we weren't sure if we wanted to endure ANOTHER parade and on the same day no less. Well, as we are walking along, we cross a bridge and there is rope with a small space on the other side. I asked the CM if we could watch from there and she said yes. It seemed like a good spot where people couldn't really crowd you too much so we snagged it and sat right against the rope. I will tell you......THIS WAS THE BEST PARADE EVER!!!! We loved it and only had kind people with small kids on either side of us. It was heaven. Here are pic's from that parade. I will post some video at the end of this update too!
Parade video:
Here are some photopass pictures that we took on this day. The first photographer we had wasn't that great. He wouldn't wait for the other people to leave before taking our picture so we have them in our pics. However, the 2nd one we ran into later in the day was awesome!
After the parade, it was park closing time.....or so we thought. We followed the parade out and left the park. By using the new Disney Mobile Magic on our cell phones, we could see that Dinosaur was still not working. We thought we could use the fastpasses the next day like we were told. WRONG!!! What I didn't realize was that they had added evening magic hours to AK that day and they ended up getting Dinosaur up and running before close. So our fastpasses the next day were no good.....according to a very stern older CM lady they next morning. So we started all over again the next day.
Up next......dinner at O'hana!! O'hana means "Family".
I believe we started off by heading straight for DINOSAUR!! DS said he wanted to brave Dinosaur this trip. DH and I figured he would back out of that statement once we were at WDW but he didn't. On the way to AK he said that today was his day to ride it for the first time. So off we went!! The line was sort of long but we decided to do stand by. I'm not sure why other than the fact that we thought that if we get in line then maybe DS wouldn't back out. Here are a few pics from our wait in line.....
Nervous but eager!!
After a while we decided to skip the stand by line and get a fastpass for later. The line just wasn't moving AT ALL. So, away we went.....grabbed a fast pass then headed over to Expedition Everest so DH and I could do the single rider line. The ride itself was great except for the part I mentioned previously to Dan about getting run over by some brazilians on the way off the ride.
After this we played around in Dinoland, then it was time for Dinosaur!! We get there and.......it's broken. They told us that if it's still broken by closing time that they would accept our fastpasses tomorrow. Ok, cool!! It was around 2 or 3 by this time. We decided to head over to ride the Safari ride. Surprisingly, there were a few animals out that I got pictures of that I've never gotten before. Such as the ostrich(sp?)......
And the Cheetah.....
And THE LION WAS OUT!!!! The guide got everyone so excited and our cameras were out and ready when we rounded the corner and, well......I took this picture especially for Jordan!!!
After we left the Safari, it was almost time for the parade. We've never seen the Jammin' Jungle parade before. We keep hearing that it is top notch but we weren't sure if we wanted to endure ANOTHER parade and on the same day no less. Well, as we are walking along, we cross a bridge and there is rope with a small space on the other side. I asked the CM if we could watch from there and she said yes. It seemed like a good spot where people couldn't really crowd you too much so we snagged it and sat right against the rope. I will tell you......THIS WAS THE BEST PARADE EVER!!!! We loved it and only had kind people with small kids on either side of us. It was heaven. Here are pic's from that parade. I will post some video at the end of this update too!
Parade video:
Here are some photopass pictures that we took on this day. The first photographer we had wasn't that great. He wouldn't wait for the other people to leave before taking our picture so we have them in our pics. However, the 2nd one we ran into later in the day was awesome!
After the parade, it was park closing time.....or so we thought. We followed the parade out and left the park. By using the new Disney Mobile Magic on our cell phones, we could see that Dinosaur was still not working. We thought we could use the fastpasses the next day like we were told. WRONG!!! What I didn't realize was that they had added evening magic hours to AK that day and they ended up getting Dinosaur up and running before close. So our fastpasses the next day were no good.....according to a very stern older CM lady they next morning. So we started all over again the next day.
Up next......dinner at O'hana!! O'hana means "Family".