Chellymouse
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Monday: AK, Ohana and MK
As previously mentioned, DH and I don't do many RD anymore and so far, we had 3 in a row. It's EMH at AK this am with an opening of 8am. In the best interest of everyone, and given that it's summer, we drag everyone, including ourselves, out of bed at 6:45am to make EMH. DH and I were out the door at 7:10am for breakfast and the rest of the family.....well....suffice it to say the adults were grumbling something that I wouldn't post on here!
We had just missed the bus however we were able to get on the bus that came at 7:40am (again...scary how good the bus service has been!) and what do we find? No family on the bus! Turns out they missed it! Good thing we had most of the gear! They made the next bus and arrived at AK about 15 minutes after us. We made a beeline for the safari and were not disappointed. The animals were very active and 40 minutes after we boarded our vehicle, we came back to Harambi village!
some of the animals!
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After our massive safari, we made our way over to EE where we grabbed FP then got in line as the wait was only 10 minutes. The 7 of us rode and well....we had 7 FP to use with only 3 of us that wanted to ride again! Grumpy, Dopey, FMG and Stitch said once was more than enough! We walked around and grabbed a few pics!
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After some discussion....it was decided that Minnie and I would put the FP to good use while DH took everyone else to the Boneyard. Grumpy was quite worried that Minnie was going to lose her breakfast and made us pinky swear that we would not "overdo it" Minnie at first said maybe we'll just do once and find a family to give the rest of them to. So during our first ride, about halfway through Minnie says "we have to do this again!" This was a recurring theme and we wound up riding 3 times in a row with the odd FP left for her scrapbook! Call from DH that they are still in Dinoland so we leave to catch up and find only a short wait for Primeval Whirl and decide to take a spin on that! The family had moved on to the Tree so Minnie and I ran to catch up with them. I called DH for a snack so he had popcorn waiting for me! We took a few more pics:
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And Stitch and Minnie wanted to meet Dug and Russell
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Grumpy took the kids to see Bug's Life while Dopey, FGM, DH and I went back to Harambi to buy Dopey a safari hat....not quite sure what he planned to do with it, but ok. We met back up with Grumpy and the kids with an hour before our lunch ressie at Rainforest Cafe. DH and I made our way back to Dinoland to ride Dinosaur while everyone else went to Camp Minnie/Mickey to see some characters. We met back up at noon then went to lunch at Rainforest at AK. It was adequate and by adequate I mean it was food. (thank goodness we were eating at Ohana tonight!) The kids were fairly well behaved so they were allowed to buy monkeys!
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We all needed a break and since AK is usually a half day park for us anyway, we hopped a bus back to SSR. The family took naps and DH and I decided to check out the new Paddock pool. It was very nice and we enjoyed the area. Sorry no pics...didn't want to chance the camera at the pool. We were impressed although it was a bit of a hike so it's not likely we will frequent the new pool. We went back to CP to shower and start getting ready for the evening. The family was also up from their naps by the time we arrived.
Next up....Ohana means and family.....and family means no one gets left behind....and late night at MK! How late do we make it???
As previously mentioned, DH and I don't do many RD anymore and so far, we had 3 in a row. It's EMH at AK this am with an opening of 8am. In the best interest of everyone, and given that it's summer, we drag everyone, including ourselves, out of bed at 6:45am to make EMH. DH and I were out the door at 7:10am for breakfast and the rest of the family.....well....suffice it to say the adults were grumbling something that I wouldn't post on here!

some of the animals!




After our massive safari, we made our way over to EE where we grabbed FP then got in line as the wait was only 10 minutes. The 7 of us rode and well....we had 7 FP to use with only 3 of us that wanted to ride again! Grumpy, Dopey, FMG and Stitch said once was more than enough! We walked around and grabbed a few pics!



After some discussion....it was decided that Minnie and I would put the FP to good use while DH took everyone else to the Boneyard. Grumpy was quite worried that Minnie was going to lose her breakfast and made us pinky swear that we would not "overdo it" Minnie at first said maybe we'll just do once and find a family to give the rest of them to. So during our first ride, about halfway through Minnie says "we have to do this again!" This was a recurring theme and we wound up riding 3 times in a row with the odd FP left for her scrapbook! Call from DH that they are still in Dinoland so we leave to catch up and find only a short wait for Primeval Whirl and decide to take a spin on that! The family had moved on to the Tree so Minnie and I ran to catch up with them. I called DH for a snack so he had popcorn waiting for me! We took a few more pics:



And Stitch and Minnie wanted to meet Dug and Russell

Grumpy took the kids to see Bug's Life while Dopey, FGM, DH and I went back to Harambi to buy Dopey a safari hat....not quite sure what he planned to do with it, but ok. We met back up with Grumpy and the kids with an hour before our lunch ressie at Rainforest Cafe. DH and I made our way back to Dinoland to ride Dinosaur while everyone else went to Camp Minnie/Mickey to see some characters. We met back up at noon then went to lunch at Rainforest at AK. It was adequate and by adequate I mean it was food. (thank goodness we were eating at Ohana tonight!) The kids were fairly well behaved so they were allowed to buy monkeys!

We all needed a break and since AK is usually a half day park for us anyway, we hopped a bus back to SSR. The family took naps and DH and I decided to check out the new Paddock pool. It was very nice and we enjoyed the area. Sorry no pics...didn't want to chance the camera at the pool. We were impressed although it was a bit of a hike so it's not likely we will frequent the new pool. We went back to CP to shower and start getting ready for the evening. The family was also up from their naps by the time we arrived.
Next up....Ohana means and family.....and family means no one gets left behind....and late night at MK! How late do we make it???