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Garrett, age 27- Your humble Narrator. Dedicated Disney nut who obsessively plans every single detail of his vacation, driving seemingly everyone else in the free world completely nuts with his constant talk about WDW. Is known for being the person you'd better not mention WDW too, as he'll never shut up... and heaven forbid if you say you're GOING to WDW... he'll try to plan your trip for you, too! He is in management at a major mall-based book chain and has singlehandedly sold enough copies of the Unofficial Guide and the Passporter to lay waste to a small forest. Has been to Disney only twice before (1984 and 2003), but is planning on making an annual trip if finances allow (fingers crossed...)
Nikkie, age 29- Music teacher extraordinaire who really needs the annual break from her students (what a great idea... going from a classroom full of screaming kids to a theme park full of screaming kids). Also a devoted Disney fan, especially of Winnie the Pooh. Not quite the rabid WDW aficionado I am, but she's getting there! Made her first trip last year with me after years of planning, and I think she was more sad to leave than I was... so we immediately planned the next trip!
Day 4- Friday, June 4 AKA "A Day to Remember"
Plan: Animal Kingdom EE morning, Dinner at Ohana, Magic Kingdom evening (Wishes), E-ride night.
Actual:
Mickey and Minnie are on the phone-- an hour early? What are those two thinking? Oh yeah-- we're doing Extra Magic Hour today. I slept alright. I needed it too-- we have a long day ahead of us. (A long day of fun, that is...)
At 6:00 we awoke and got ready to go. Once again Nikkie made a mug run while I prepared for our morning at Disney's Animal Kingdom. We enjoyed our Minnie-muffins and breakfast bars, and we were out of the room at 7. We waited a few minutes for the bus, and we were on our way to the youngest WDW park.
We arrived at about 7:30 and headed for the gates. One thing I had made SURE to do this year was to bring our resort ID's. Last year on our first EE day I had left my resort ID in the room. This caused a moment of panic as I was sure I wouldn't be let in and Nikkie would be enjoying all the fun without me. Fortunately, they didn't check IDs that day. I lucked out, I suppose. This year we had our resort IDs in hand along with our Park Hoppers. All prepared. I guess it takes a year of experience to make things go more smoothly.
We ended up being one of the first through the gates and into the Oasis about 10 minutes before 8:00. As the Mystery Voice says, "We invite you to explore the Oasis." Well, we, along with all our fellow EE folks, ignored the Mystery Voice and blitzed right through to the rope barrier at the entrance to Safari Village. There we waited for the Awakening-- we didn't see it last year because they didn't run it on EE morning for some reason. It was a cute little show, and I got a good shot of Mickey on his platform close to the Tree of Life. We followed the safari truck all the way back to Africa and entered Kilimanjaro Safaris along with seemingly everyone else from EE day. Like I said before, we were close to the front, so we walked all the way through the queue and got on our vehicle. Nikkie took pictures, and I took video. The safari was MUCH better than last year-- many more animals were active, and we didn't get stuck behind a white pelican for 20 minutes like last year. Some people caught a glimpse of the cheetahs, but we didn't look in time-- darn! Of course, we ended up saving Little Red, and our tour was cut short due to some poachers. That always seems to happen-- I don't know why.
On our way out of the Safari, we grabbed Fastpasses for later. We decided to skip the Pangani trail for now and moved on to Dinoland USA. We went straight over to Dinosaur, where the wait time was posted at 10 minutes. However, the queue was backed up all the way outside the building. 10 minutes, my rear end. It looked like our "technical difficulties" were rearing their ugly head again. I thought we could grab Fastpasses, but then I remembered that we had stupidly grabbed FP's for the Safari, so we couldn't. Oops.
We instead decided to go over to Primeval Whirl and go for a spin since we had skipped it last year and there was no wait. When we boarded I got two seats to myself due to my "Pooh"size, and Nikkie did, too, since she was the only other one in our party. The ride was kind of fun, but nothing too special-- I sure wouldn't wait more than 5-10 minutes for it. The line was still short when we got off and I tried to coax Nikkie to do it again, but one "spin" was enough for her.
I checked the show schedule-- it was almost time for the first showing of Festival of the Lion King. We walked towards Camp Minnie-Mickey, when, lo and behold, we saw Winnie the Pooh (Nikkie's favorite character) doing meet-and-greets. My first thought was just to move on, but we decided that we had to stop (there wasn't much of a line.) Pooh seemed glad to see us, and his handler CM took a picture of us, which turned out really nice. We waved goodbye to Pooh-- we'll see him again at Crystal Palace-- and continued on.
We got to Camp Minnie-Mickey about 5 minutes before the 9:45 showing of Lion King. Being the first show of the day, the place was only about 3/4 full, and we got pretty good seats in the Elephant section. The older guy that they took from our section to demonstrate the elephant noise was hilarious-- he made a sound that more resembled a dying horse than anything else. He got ribbed pretty good by the performers.
The show began, and once again, is stunning-- the best live show at WDW, in our opinion. The enclosed theater really helps, too-- it's nice to sit in some air conditioning for a while.
The show ended, and I took a picture of Nikkie with the big Simba on the way out. We decided to go ahead and eat lunch early, so we walked back to Discovery Island and Flame Tree Barbecue. Being pretty early, there was no line. We both got pork sandwich combos and a basket of cheese fries to share, and took them over to the patio overlooking the Expedition: Everest construction. The patio was uncrowded and the food was good, and it made for a nice, relaxing lunch. After we were done eating I took some pictures and video of the Expedition: Everest construction while Nikkie checked our phone messages at home.
We decided that we were too full to try and ride Dinosaur now, so instead we went to Asia to see Flights of Wonder. Before the show a handler was outside with an owl, and her presentation was interesting. We moved into the theater to watch the show, which is, I feel, one of the most underrated shows at WDW. It's simple but informative. and the birds are beautiful. After the show, we walked over to Kali River Rapids, where there wasn't much of a wait. We skipped it, however, because a.)we think it's a pretty boring ride, and b.) we didn't feel like getting soaked. Instead, we went over to the bridge overlooking the ride, where I doused a bunch of people with the squirting elephant cannon while cackling evilly at my victims, causing Nikkie to roll her eyes at me in exasperation. What can I say. I'm easily amused.
We walked over to the Maharaja Jungle Trek and took our time on the trail. We saw a lot of different animals, and spotted a ton of birds this time in the aviary. We also noticed a bunch of people just rushing right on through, missing everything-- I sort of felt sorry for them. The tigers weren't too active today (translation: they were lying in the shade), but we enjoyed seeing them, too. At this point we had seen most of what we came for (except Dinosaur), so we decided it was time for a break. We stopped at a shop on Discovery Island on the way out to buy a Safari Pooh that Nikkie has wanted since last year. We headed out of the park at about 1:00 and caught the bus back to Pop Century. We got back to our room about 1:20 and settled in to our room for a nap so we would be ready for our evening. The resort left a letter in our room explaining that the next day they were expecting large crowds in the Magic Kindgom (for Gay Day, even though they didn't mention it as such), and they suggested going to Disney-MGM Studios instead. Doesn't matter to us-- we had already decided to go to Typhoon Lagoon instead.
Our short nap left us refreshed and ready, and we left the room at about 3:30 with large, ominous rain clouds hanging over our heads. Sure enough, about a minute later, it started pouring. The Magic Kindgom bus didn't arrive until almost 4:00. We got to the Magic Kingdom about 15 minutes later, where it was still raining. Our first order of business-- stop by City Hall and pick up our wristbands for E-ride night. We did this quickly and walked to the end of Main Street to check the tip board for wait times. We decided to go to Adventureland and check out the Jungle Cruise, but it wasn't operating due to the rain, so we rode Pirates again with about a 10 minute wait.
When we got out of Pirates, Jungle Cruise still wasn't running, so we went to Tomorrowland and rode the TTA (our favorite "line busting" attraction), followed by a repeat of Carousel of Progress. We both really like CoP-- I hope it sticks around for a long, long time. An aside-- I was slightly disappointed that Timekeeper wasn't open. We still haven't seen it, and from the rumors on the internet, we probably won't ever get a chance to do so. Oh well.
By this time it was slightly after 5:30, so we decided to go ahead to the Polynesian for our dinner PS at 'Ohana. We went to the monorail station and I asked if we could ride up front, and we were able to-- what a great view! The monorail pilot gave us our Official Monorial Co-Pilot Licenses (signed by Mickey himself, no less) and we were off. There was a short delay at the Contemporary as they added a new train to the track, then we were off to the Polynesian.
We arrived at the Poly and checked in at 6:15 for our 6:30 PS at Ohana. We chilled out in the longe area until our name was called and we were seated about 5 minutes early. Since this was our first time, our hostess explained how everything worked-- of course, I knew most of it already, thanks to various WDW websites. We were seated at a nice table next to the windows-- not in view of the fire pit, but we really didn't mind, as we had a nice view of Cinderella Castle. We chowed down on our wings, vegetables, and wontons -- all delicious. When the meat started coming around, it really started getting good. Nikkie loved the grilled tiger shrimp, and I loved the pork and turkey. I used the peanut dipping sauce on just about everything. Great, great stuff. We got to see a little of the hula hoop contest and the coconut races. By the time we got to the pineapple for dessert, we were stuffed and happy. We both loved this restaurant, and it will be a must do for us now on every trip.
We stayed at 'Ohana until about 7:45, settled our bill, then hopped back on the resort monorail to return to the Magic Kingdom. Stuffed or not, it was time for the explosion of rides known fondly as E-ride night. To give us time for our food to digest, we went to ride the now-running Jungle Cruise with about a 15 minute wait. We had a really great skipper this year-- our skipper last year was kind of dull. After enjoying the ride, we walked over to Frontierland to ride Splash Mountain for the first time this trip. The wait was posted at 15 minutes, but we walked straight through the queue and onto the ride. Boy, do I love this ride-- it's my favorite in the Magic Kingdom. Nikkie enjoys it too, but I think the last drop still scares her-- maybe someday I'll be able to convince her to keep her eyes open for at least part of it. The broken animatronics, were somewhat of a disappointment, but not too much-- you just can't be sad on this ride. I think it's scientifically impossible.
We decided to go on over to Big Thunder next. We walked right on without a wait. Riding at night really adds a different dimension to this ride. We got off and got right back in line, walking right back on. This time when we got on, E-Ride had officially begun, and Wishes had started. Seeing the fireworks going off over our heads while on Big Thunder is something that I will never forget. We ended up riding three times in a row without getting off. Isn't E-ride great? We walked right next door to Splash and rode it again. Time to head to Fantasyland, we decided.
In Fantasyland, we rode Peter Pan's Flight (my favorite Fantasyland ride) with a short wait, then went over to watch Philharmagic again. I have to say it again-- what a great show. We were going to go on Pooh next, but it wasn't working. We went over to Tomorrowland, and, deciding that our stomachs weren't up to Space Mountain tonight, we went over and rode Buzz Lighyear three times in a row. I did moderately well each time, but I'm still not up to expert status yet. I did beat Nikkie easily each time, though. What can I say? It's the video game instincts at work. We almost bought one of our pictures because we were laughing at the sheer look of determination on our faces in the photo. It was like we were concentrating on brain sugery or something.
We walked back over to Fantasyland, and rode the now-functioning Winnie the Pooh. Upon exiting we went back to Philharmagic to watch the show again. I took a ridiculous picture of Nikkie wearing her "opera glasses" while we were waiting for the next show. The theater was almost empty so we were able to score great seats this time right in the center of the row. After the show it was about 11:45. E-ride night ended at midnight, and we were both dead tired-- time to head out. We walked through Cinderella Castle and saw that the characters were out greeting in the hub. We stopped to get our pictures taken with Minnie and Chip & Dale.
We were thirsty, and the food court would be closed by the time we got back to Pop Century, so we bought some bottled Cokes from a tired-looking CM at an ice cream cart. Just as we started on our Cokes, the "goodnight kiss" started on the castle. What a magical, magnificent way to end our day. We slowly made our way up Main Street, soaking in all that we could. We both really love the atmosphere of the parks at night, especially the Magic Kindgdom, which truly becomes magic after dark.
We left the park close to midnight and waited about 15 minutes for a bus back to Pop Century. We got back to our room at about 12:30. I unwound a bit and worked on the trip report, and we ended up hitting the hay about 1:00, ending a great, great day-- possibly the best day we've had yet at WDW.
Best Moments: Almost too many to list. Great safari, meeting Pooh, Festival of the Lion King. Dinner at 'Ohana (our new favorite.) All of E-ride night, especially seeing the fireworks while on Big Thunder. Seeing the "goodnight kiss".
Worst Moments: Just the fact that every day can't be like this. Other than that, nothing.
Garrett, age 27- Your humble Narrator. Dedicated Disney nut who obsessively plans every single detail of his vacation, driving seemingly everyone else in the free world completely nuts with his constant talk about WDW. Is known for being the person you'd better not mention WDW too, as he'll never shut up... and heaven forbid if you say you're GOING to WDW... he'll try to plan your trip for you, too! He is in management at a major mall-based book chain and has singlehandedly sold enough copies of the Unofficial Guide and the Passporter to lay waste to a small forest. Has been to Disney only twice before (1984 and 2003), but is planning on making an annual trip if finances allow (fingers crossed...)
Nikkie, age 29- Music teacher extraordinaire who really needs the annual break from her students (what a great idea... going from a classroom full of screaming kids to a theme park full of screaming kids). Also a devoted Disney fan, especially of Winnie the Pooh. Not quite the rabid WDW aficionado I am, but she's getting there! Made her first trip last year with me after years of planning, and I think she was more sad to leave than I was... so we immediately planned the next trip!
Day 4- Friday, June 4 AKA "A Day to Remember"
Plan: Animal Kingdom EE morning, Dinner at Ohana, Magic Kingdom evening (Wishes), E-ride night.
Actual:
Mickey and Minnie are on the phone-- an hour early? What are those two thinking? Oh yeah-- we're doing Extra Magic Hour today. I slept alright. I needed it too-- we have a long day ahead of us. (A long day of fun, that is...)
At 6:00 we awoke and got ready to go. Once again Nikkie made a mug run while I prepared for our morning at Disney's Animal Kingdom. We enjoyed our Minnie-muffins and breakfast bars, and we were out of the room at 7. We waited a few minutes for the bus, and we were on our way to the youngest WDW park.
We arrived at about 7:30 and headed for the gates. One thing I had made SURE to do this year was to bring our resort ID's. Last year on our first EE day I had left my resort ID in the room. This caused a moment of panic as I was sure I wouldn't be let in and Nikkie would be enjoying all the fun without me. Fortunately, they didn't check IDs that day. I lucked out, I suppose. This year we had our resort IDs in hand along with our Park Hoppers. All prepared. I guess it takes a year of experience to make things go more smoothly.
We ended up being one of the first through the gates and into the Oasis about 10 minutes before 8:00. As the Mystery Voice says, "We invite you to explore the Oasis." Well, we, along with all our fellow EE folks, ignored the Mystery Voice and blitzed right through to the rope barrier at the entrance to Safari Village. There we waited for the Awakening-- we didn't see it last year because they didn't run it on EE morning for some reason. It was a cute little show, and I got a good shot of Mickey on his platform close to the Tree of Life. We followed the safari truck all the way back to Africa and entered Kilimanjaro Safaris along with seemingly everyone else from EE day. Like I said before, we were close to the front, so we walked all the way through the queue and got on our vehicle. Nikkie took pictures, and I took video. The safari was MUCH better than last year-- many more animals were active, and we didn't get stuck behind a white pelican for 20 minutes like last year. Some people caught a glimpse of the cheetahs, but we didn't look in time-- darn! Of course, we ended up saving Little Red, and our tour was cut short due to some poachers. That always seems to happen-- I don't know why.
On our way out of the Safari, we grabbed Fastpasses for later. We decided to skip the Pangani trail for now and moved on to Dinoland USA. We went straight over to Dinosaur, where the wait time was posted at 10 minutes. However, the queue was backed up all the way outside the building. 10 minutes, my rear end. It looked like our "technical difficulties" were rearing their ugly head again. I thought we could grab Fastpasses, but then I remembered that we had stupidly grabbed FP's for the Safari, so we couldn't. Oops.
We instead decided to go over to Primeval Whirl and go for a spin since we had skipped it last year and there was no wait. When we boarded I got two seats to myself due to my "Pooh"size, and Nikkie did, too, since she was the only other one in our party. The ride was kind of fun, but nothing too special-- I sure wouldn't wait more than 5-10 minutes for it. The line was still short when we got off and I tried to coax Nikkie to do it again, but one "spin" was enough for her.
I checked the show schedule-- it was almost time for the first showing of Festival of the Lion King. We walked towards Camp Minnie-Mickey, when, lo and behold, we saw Winnie the Pooh (Nikkie's favorite character) doing meet-and-greets. My first thought was just to move on, but we decided that we had to stop (there wasn't much of a line.) Pooh seemed glad to see us, and his handler CM took a picture of us, which turned out really nice. We waved goodbye to Pooh-- we'll see him again at Crystal Palace-- and continued on.
We got to Camp Minnie-Mickey about 5 minutes before the 9:45 showing of Lion King. Being the first show of the day, the place was only about 3/4 full, and we got pretty good seats in the Elephant section. The older guy that they took from our section to demonstrate the elephant noise was hilarious-- he made a sound that more resembled a dying horse than anything else. He got ribbed pretty good by the performers.
The show began, and once again, is stunning-- the best live show at WDW, in our opinion. The enclosed theater really helps, too-- it's nice to sit in some air conditioning for a while.The show ended, and I took a picture of Nikkie with the big Simba on the way out. We decided to go ahead and eat lunch early, so we walked back to Discovery Island and Flame Tree Barbecue. Being pretty early, there was no line. We both got pork sandwich combos and a basket of cheese fries to share, and took them over to the patio overlooking the Expedition: Everest construction. The patio was uncrowded and the food was good, and it made for a nice, relaxing lunch. After we were done eating I took some pictures and video of the Expedition: Everest construction while Nikkie checked our phone messages at home.
We decided that we were too full to try and ride Dinosaur now, so instead we went to Asia to see Flights of Wonder. Before the show a handler was outside with an owl, and her presentation was interesting. We moved into the theater to watch the show, which is, I feel, one of the most underrated shows at WDW. It's simple but informative. and the birds are beautiful. After the show, we walked over to Kali River Rapids, where there wasn't much of a wait. We skipped it, however, because a.)we think it's a pretty boring ride, and b.) we didn't feel like getting soaked. Instead, we went over to the bridge overlooking the ride, where I doused a bunch of people with the squirting elephant cannon while cackling evilly at my victims, causing Nikkie to roll her eyes at me in exasperation. What can I say. I'm easily amused.
We walked over to the Maharaja Jungle Trek and took our time on the trail. We saw a lot of different animals, and spotted a ton of birds this time in the aviary. We also noticed a bunch of people just rushing right on through, missing everything-- I sort of felt sorry for them. The tigers weren't too active today (translation: they were lying in the shade), but we enjoyed seeing them, too. At this point we had seen most of what we came for (except Dinosaur), so we decided it was time for a break. We stopped at a shop on Discovery Island on the way out to buy a Safari Pooh that Nikkie has wanted since last year. We headed out of the park at about 1:00 and caught the bus back to Pop Century. We got back to our room about 1:20 and settled in to our room for a nap so we would be ready for our evening. The resort left a letter in our room explaining that the next day they were expecting large crowds in the Magic Kindgom (for Gay Day, even though they didn't mention it as such), and they suggested going to Disney-MGM Studios instead. Doesn't matter to us-- we had already decided to go to Typhoon Lagoon instead.
Our short nap left us refreshed and ready, and we left the room at about 3:30 with large, ominous rain clouds hanging over our heads. Sure enough, about a minute later, it started pouring. The Magic Kindgom bus didn't arrive until almost 4:00. We got to the Magic Kingdom about 15 minutes later, where it was still raining. Our first order of business-- stop by City Hall and pick up our wristbands for E-ride night. We did this quickly and walked to the end of Main Street to check the tip board for wait times. We decided to go to Adventureland and check out the Jungle Cruise, but it wasn't operating due to the rain, so we rode Pirates again with about a 10 minute wait.
When we got out of Pirates, Jungle Cruise still wasn't running, so we went to Tomorrowland and rode the TTA (our favorite "line busting" attraction), followed by a repeat of Carousel of Progress. We both really like CoP-- I hope it sticks around for a long, long time. An aside-- I was slightly disappointed that Timekeeper wasn't open. We still haven't seen it, and from the rumors on the internet, we probably won't ever get a chance to do so. Oh well.
By this time it was slightly after 5:30, so we decided to go ahead to the Polynesian for our dinner PS at 'Ohana. We went to the monorail station and I asked if we could ride up front, and we were able to-- what a great view! The monorail pilot gave us our Official Monorial Co-Pilot Licenses (signed by Mickey himself, no less) and we were off. There was a short delay at the Contemporary as they added a new train to the track, then we were off to the Polynesian.
We arrived at the Poly and checked in at 6:15 for our 6:30 PS at Ohana. We chilled out in the longe area until our name was called and we were seated about 5 minutes early. Since this was our first time, our hostess explained how everything worked-- of course, I knew most of it already, thanks to various WDW websites.
We were seated at a nice table next to the windows-- not in view of the fire pit, but we really didn't mind, as we had a nice view of Cinderella Castle. We chowed down on our wings, vegetables, and wontons -- all delicious. When the meat started coming around, it really started getting good. Nikkie loved the grilled tiger shrimp, and I loved the pork and turkey. I used the peanut dipping sauce on just about everything. Great, great stuff. We got to see a little of the hula hoop contest and the coconut races. By the time we got to the pineapple for dessert, we were stuffed and happy. We both loved this restaurant, and it will be a must do for us now on every trip.We stayed at 'Ohana until about 7:45, settled our bill, then hopped back on the resort monorail to return to the Magic Kingdom. Stuffed or not, it was time for the explosion of rides known fondly as E-ride night. To give us time for our food to digest, we went to ride the now-running Jungle Cruise with about a 15 minute wait. We had a really great skipper this year-- our skipper last year was kind of dull. After enjoying the ride, we walked over to Frontierland to ride Splash Mountain for the first time this trip. The wait was posted at 15 minutes, but we walked straight through the queue and onto the ride. Boy, do I love this ride-- it's my favorite in the Magic Kingdom. Nikkie enjoys it too, but I think the last drop still scares her-- maybe someday I'll be able to convince her to keep her eyes open for at least part of it.
The broken animatronics, were somewhat of a disappointment, but not too much-- you just can't be sad on this ride. I think it's scientifically impossible.We decided to go on over to Big Thunder next. We walked right on without a wait. Riding at night really adds a different dimension to this ride. We got off and got right back in line, walking right back on. This time when we got on, E-Ride had officially begun, and Wishes had started. Seeing the fireworks going off over our heads while on Big Thunder is something that I will never forget. We ended up riding three times in a row without getting off. Isn't E-ride great? We walked right next door to Splash and rode it again. Time to head to Fantasyland, we decided.
In Fantasyland, we rode Peter Pan's Flight (my favorite Fantasyland ride) with a short wait, then went over to watch Philharmagic again. I have to say it again-- what a great show. We were going to go on Pooh next, but it wasn't working. We went over to Tomorrowland, and, deciding that our stomachs weren't up to Space Mountain tonight, we went over and rode Buzz Lighyear three times in a row. I did moderately well each time, but I'm still not up to expert status yet. I did beat Nikkie easily each time, though. What can I say? It's the video game instincts at work. We almost bought one of our pictures because we were laughing at the sheer look of determination on our faces in the photo. It was like we were concentrating on brain sugery or something.
We walked back over to Fantasyland, and rode the now-functioning Winnie the Pooh. Upon exiting we went back to Philharmagic to watch the show again. I took a ridiculous picture of Nikkie wearing her "opera glasses" while we were waiting for the next show. The theater was almost empty so we were able to score great seats this time right in the center of the row. After the show it was about 11:45. E-ride night ended at midnight, and we were both dead tired-- time to head out. We walked through Cinderella Castle and saw that the characters were out greeting in the hub. We stopped to get our pictures taken with Minnie and Chip & Dale.
We were thirsty, and the food court would be closed by the time we got back to Pop Century, so we bought some bottled Cokes from a tired-looking CM at an ice cream cart. Just as we started on our Cokes, the "goodnight kiss" started on the castle. What a magical, magnificent way to end our day. We slowly made our way up Main Street, soaking in all that we could. We both really love the atmosphere of the parks at night, especially the Magic Kindgdom, which truly becomes magic after dark.
We left the park close to midnight and waited about 15 minutes for a bus back to Pop Century. We got back to our room at about 12:30. I unwound a bit and worked on the trip report, and we ended up hitting the hay about 1:00, ending a great, great day-- possibly the best day we've had yet at WDW.
Best Moments: Almost too many to list. Great safari, meeting Pooh, Festival of the Lion King. Dinner at 'Ohana (our new favorite.) All of E-ride night, especially seeing the fireworks while on Big Thunder. Seeing the "goodnight kiss".
Worst Moments: Just the fact that every day can't be like this. Other than that, nothing.
