MelAnderson
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Poor Animal Kingdom doesn't seem to be a favorite, but we LOVED it! The park is beautiful and we found lots to do.
This wasn't my first trip to the world, but it was my first visit to Animal Kingdom. Myself, sister and DS 2 visited last week. Animal Kingdom was a lot of fun and it's definitely NOT a 1/2 day park. When I first walked in, I thought that it smelled so I was thinking to myself "uh oh", but I kept a positive attitude. We started the day with Donald's Breakfastorous which we really, really liked. Afterwards, we made our way to KS which was the longest wait of the entire trip (about 20 minutes). However, it was well worth it! We saw quite a few animals and DS learned a quite a few new words (elephant, monkey).
Next, we did the trail. There were 3 gorillas playing on the hill side, so we stopped to look at that. We saw the musicians perform in front of the marketplace in Africa and stopped again to see performers in the area near Tusker House.
We then lined up for FOTLK which is not to missed. DS LOVED it! He smiled a lot and said "Yeah!" several times during the performance. That made the entire trip worth it for me. He liked ITTBAB a lot too - lots of laughing here.
After Dinosaur, we did lunch at Tusker House (DS fell asleep) and it was really hot by that time, so we left around 2:00 pm. We didn't get to see Asia or really do the boneyard which I had intended, but it was too hot. Next trip, I will devote 2 days to AK. We didn't get to do the character greetings, or really hang out in Dinoland. Comment here - the carnival like theming of Chester & Hester's is really out of place IMHO. I missed Lucky, but oh well, you can't see it all. Another plus is that there are places where you can hide from the sun and those misting fans are an excellent idea.
Now the park that none of us really care for, is DS. The park really needs a lot more shade. After TOT and Beauty & the Beast, I'm pretty much done with it. I thought the Belle and Gaston from June 2004 were better than the pair I saw last Saturday, though they were still pretty good. Beauty & the Beast is my favorite movie, so I'm very particular about it. I don't know, it just seems to be something missing at MGM I just can't get my finger on it.
Epcot was my sister's favorite park, her first time at the World. WS was great as always. I did the Land for the first time. We all like the Land ride (I didn't think that I would) and Circle of Life film. Soarin was soooooooooooo excellent! It was so enjoyable, I just wish that it had been longer. I also did Test Track for the first time. For the first 1/3 of the ride, I was thinking "is this it?", but it more than made up for it the rest of the time. Illuminations was excellent as usual and we managed to snag great seats. DS loved it too. He also like the Innoventions play section where they can jump on the images and they make sounds. The flower & garden festival is beautiful and the toparies were nice. DS played in the little playground areas set up for the festival. He likes this park too, next time we will get him to color masks for each country.
Magic Kingdom was fun as always, my only negative would be that Adventureland needs some serious help. The Jungle Cruise really needs updating, however, I still love POTC. I also did the Tiki birds show. Let's just say that's 10 or 15 minutes of our lives that we can NEVER get back. Spectromagic and Wishes was awesome! It really does make a difference where you see it. I had a bad spot last year which took away from the performance. New rides for us include IASW (I'd ridden a long time ago, but it was closed for a refurb when we were there in 2004), Mickey's Philharmonic (very cute and DS laughed almost the entire time) and Indy Speedway. DS is really into his hotwheel cars, so this was perfect. It seemed to be a lot of people in the parks, but the wait times were very low (under 20 minutes) for many of the attractions.
We had a really, really fun trip. There were a lot of people IMO, but the wait times were very low overall. The Standby for Soarin was only 30 minutes. We were there May 18-22.
My next trip will be in the fall so that I can go to Food & Wine and MNSSHP.
Melodie
This wasn't my first trip to the world, but it was my first visit to Animal Kingdom. Myself, sister and DS 2 visited last week. Animal Kingdom was a lot of fun and it's definitely NOT a 1/2 day park. When I first walked in, I thought that it smelled so I was thinking to myself "uh oh", but I kept a positive attitude. We started the day with Donald's Breakfastorous which we really, really liked. Afterwards, we made our way to KS which was the longest wait of the entire trip (about 20 minutes). However, it was well worth it! We saw quite a few animals and DS learned a quite a few new words (elephant, monkey).
Next, we did the trail. There were 3 gorillas playing on the hill side, so we stopped to look at that. We saw the musicians perform in front of the marketplace in Africa and stopped again to see performers in the area near Tusker House.
We then lined up for FOTLK which is not to missed. DS LOVED it! He smiled a lot and said "Yeah!" several times during the performance. That made the entire trip worth it for me. He liked ITTBAB a lot too - lots of laughing here.
After Dinosaur, we did lunch at Tusker House (DS fell asleep) and it was really hot by that time, so we left around 2:00 pm. We didn't get to see Asia or really do the boneyard which I had intended, but it was too hot. Next trip, I will devote 2 days to AK. We didn't get to do the character greetings, or really hang out in Dinoland. Comment here - the carnival like theming of Chester & Hester's is really out of place IMHO. I missed Lucky, but oh well, you can't see it all. Another plus is that there are places where you can hide from the sun and those misting fans are an excellent idea.
Now the park that none of us really care for, is DS. The park really needs a lot more shade. After TOT and Beauty & the Beast, I'm pretty much done with it. I thought the Belle and Gaston from June 2004 were better than the pair I saw last Saturday, though they were still pretty good. Beauty & the Beast is my favorite movie, so I'm very particular about it. I don't know, it just seems to be something missing at MGM I just can't get my finger on it.
Epcot was my sister's favorite park, her first time at the World. WS was great as always. I did the Land for the first time. We all like the Land ride (I didn't think that I would) and Circle of Life film. Soarin was soooooooooooo excellent! It was so enjoyable, I just wish that it had been longer. I also did Test Track for the first time. For the first 1/3 of the ride, I was thinking "is this it?", but it more than made up for it the rest of the time. Illuminations was excellent as usual and we managed to snag great seats. DS loved it too. He also like the Innoventions play section where they can jump on the images and they make sounds. The flower & garden festival is beautiful and the toparies were nice. DS played in the little playground areas set up for the festival. He likes this park too, next time we will get him to color masks for each country.
Magic Kingdom was fun as always, my only negative would be that Adventureland needs some serious help. The Jungle Cruise really needs updating, however, I still love POTC. I also did the Tiki birds show. Let's just say that's 10 or 15 minutes of our lives that we can NEVER get back. Spectromagic and Wishes was awesome! It really does make a difference where you see it. I had a bad spot last year which took away from the performance. New rides for us include IASW (I'd ridden a long time ago, but it was closed for a refurb when we were there in 2004), Mickey's Philharmonic (very cute and DS laughed almost the entire time) and Indy Speedway. DS is really into his hotwheel cars, so this was perfect. It seemed to be a lot of people in the parks, but the wait times were very low (under 20 minutes) for many of the attractions.
We had a really, really fun trip. There were a lot of people IMO, but the wait times were very low overall. The Standby for Soarin was only 30 minutes. We were there May 18-22.
My next trip will be in the fall so that I can go to Food & Wine and MNSSHP.
Melodie
) no one - I mean NO ONE should waste any time there!!! 1/2 day - heck why not just skip it? 
(can you tell its my favorite? We try to never miss going there and actually the parade is one of my favorites in all of WDW. So many colors, characters, different experiences wrapped up in one park. To me, its like the World Showcase for the whole family!)
