Friday May 22nd. Day 1. Part 4.
*I remembered something from earlier in the day that I forgot to mention. I guess that is what happens when you don't take Trip notes.
On our way over to Soarin' to get our fastpasses, we saw the most horrendous fall! It was truly awful. I wanted to warn all of you, that covered path in between Innoventions and the Mickey greeting area, is WICKED slippery so please use caution. I almost fell later in the week. So you have all been warned, be careful!!
Okay, on with the show.
We left the French Movie and it was still raining. Jen had her poncho on with her umbrella, I was just using my umbrella. I really don't like ponchos. I mean they serve their purpose but if I can get away with just using my umbrella then I will. We just walked through Morocco and Japan, I don't think we stopped for anything. Maybe Jen remembers. Neither of us have any pictures though. I am pretty sure we headed straight to America for the American Adventure.
Jen and I both love The American Adventure. We caught the very end of the Voices of Liberty.
I find the American Pavilion to be so beautiful. I love it.
Jen got this AWESOME picture of the flags as you are going up the escalator. You know how the CM's warn you to pay attention the escalator since a lot of people fall when they are looking up towards the flags...well I had to tell Jen it was coming up. Teamwork is Key.
We sat towards the front and in the middle because I really wanted to get some pictures of this wonderful show. Don't worry, I didn't use my flash!
This part of the Two Brothers is so chilling and powerful.
Hehehe.
After we got out of the show it was....still raining! We pulled out the umbrellas and Jen put her poncho back on and we trekked on.
I have no other pictures until dinner so this will be wordy.
We walked by Italy and Germany. We did see a little bird in the clock chirping out the half hour in Germany. It was very cute.
We breezed by the Outpost too, which still confuses me a bit. I still don't quite get it. I know we did stop briefly to check out the Flower & Garden Festival Pins. It killed me because they were almost $15 a piece. Seemed a little steep to me.
I think the rain was letting up and it was just drizzling at this point. We stopped in Norway to ride Maelstrom of course. I did Twitter that Jen looked cute in her poncho and she did and that the trippy trolls were next. Jen showed me the viking wearing the Mickey Ears in the mural where you load. The ride was even shorter than I remembered and I still got freaked out by the small drop. Eeee! They give me goosebumps EVERY time.
After Maelstrom, we debated getting schoolbread. The line was out the door and we decided to wait until the next day. We did meet someone who overheard us talking about schoolbread and asked us what it was. We described it and told her to get it. She got in line. I hope she liked it!
After Norway, we breezed through Mexico. We decided to save Mexico for the next day. Jen wanted to check out Test Track and Ellen's Energy Adventure. On the way over we stopped for a moment for Jen to talk to her DH. At this point it had stopped raining. The umbrellas were put away and the poncho was off.
On the way over we started talking about our plans for the following day. We were thinking that since we had done so much of Epcot that we wouldn't need the WHOLE day dedicated to Epcot again. So we decided to go to Animal Kingdom for the second half of the day and see what we could get for ADRs near there. Test Track had been closed because of the weather and hadn't reopened yet, we decided to skip it and head over to Ellen's. Jen called dining from her cell and was put on hold while we were walking over there. When we got there, it was closed. Boo! The nice CM said she thought they would be up and running in a few minutes and they were. While we waited, Jen performed "Keep the Crazy Disney Birds Away from LL." For which, I was very grateful. Those birds are demented, pure and simple. They swoop and dive and beg and creep me OUT.
After a few minutes, Ellen's was up and running and Jen hung up on Disney Dining and we went inside. Now Jen really wanted to see this, I could have gone or could have passed. I had no feelings on Ellen. Well, you know what? I am glad I went on this. Now, it might now be an every trip ride but I enjoyed the attraction and will go on it again. It didn't feel like 40 minutes either, it went by very quickly.
After Ellen's Energy Adventure we headed back to The Land to redeem our Soarin' Fastpasses! On the way over, Jen spoke with Disney Dining. We had three choices for our AK ADR 1. Yak N' Yeti 2. Jiko 3. Boma. We ended up getting one for 8:30 at Saana.
We had a bit of trouble canceling our Akershush ADR, they said they would have to charge us $10 each for canceling. Jen asked them to ask their supervisor since we were calling 24 hours before the ADR. They said they would waive and that if the fee went through to call them back and they would credit my card. Yay! AK and Sanaa the next day.
Wait a second. Did we Soar first or did we go on Figment first? Hmmm. Hmmmm. We are going to pretend we Soared first. I *think* that is what we did.
So we got in the fastpass line and were quickly asking the nice CM if we could ride in the front row. Jen was the asker of this trip. She asked for Soarin' front row, checked us into most of our meals and just took care of things. It was kinda nice since I'm usually the asker and taker care of things. Thanks Jen!
We got front row, it was so nice. We had to wait for the next ride but that was okay by us. We patiently waited. Well a large group of younger people were behind us, I think they were probably around 20-22 in age. I overheard them ask for front row and the CM said to wait. Well pretty soon we were told to line up in Row 1, the asker of that group started to whine saying they had asked for front row...well wait your turn. They had 6 or 7 people in their group. All I know is that most of them got in the front row after the two people behind Jen & I and then two people in the second row. Well as we are waiting, one of the boys in the second row of the big group kept saying, "Soarin' WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Not quietly at ALL. It was clear that he was pretty drunk. He kept saying he was really freaked out by Gary Sinese, his friend to his credit was trying to keep him quiet and reassure him this was not the Gary Sinese ride.
He was amusing but really annoying at the same time because he was swearing and being obnoxious. I can't stand people who swear in front of children. He kept talking about how is friend would have to keep him safe, how they were going to drink more and WOOOOOOOO!
Finally, it's time to go in and get settled. All we can hear from the front row is WOOOOOO! Really loud. At this point Jen and I are just making the best of it and laughing at him but it was slightly annoying. Soarin' is EVEN better in the front row. Seriously. I loved it and I was so thankful Jen asked for it.
As we were leaving, Jen heard the Mother that was next to the WOOO Boy go to her little son, "WOOOOO!" This just made my night. Jen and I often WOOOO'd through the rest of our time together.
WOOOO!!!!!!!
It was like seeing a really great friend that I hadn't seen in a long time! 
I caught up. Whew! OH what fun posts, what a swell first day so far! I have to laugh though, there are so many self-confessed "criers" reading your TR!!! 
I cry at everything too! Comercials, you name it. No wonder we all love Disney.
three pages of reading. What a wonderful start to your trip. I love the pics of Remy. As far as the light fixture are concerned, I am totally going to lose the bet. 
I think you already posted at least 15 already! 
Will you be posting all 193? And does the fact that you've counted mean that your photos are all organized and that you're ready to let the updates rip? 
