Day 3:
Today was our favorite park AK in the morning! Our plan was to head over to MGM by 2pmish in time to see the Motorcars Parade. We had our coffee and pop tarts while waiting for the AK bus at POFQ. Before going on with our day, I want to make a comment about POFQ. We were disappointed with this resort. This resort completes my goal of staying at all the moderates but in comparison, I would say this is my least favorite resort. It was dirty; one of our cabinet doors was broke and hanging by one hinge only. Now, I knew that there wasnt a table service restaurant here but the counter service area was terrible! Its theming was dull and cheap and the whole area was very small. The grounds and pool area just left something to be desired. The other moderates are so much nicer. My favorite is PO Riverside with Caribbean Beach my runner up. The whole time we were at the resort, we wished we were at PO Riverside. We will not return. Anyway, on with AK! We entered the park about 20 minutes late as the bus did a drop off at Blizzard Beach first. It didnt really effect our day at all though. Our first ride, EE of course, but we did stop long enough to grab some fastpasses for a second ride. What a great ride! Next up was the Safari! We just love this ride! We were sure we saw more animals than ever this time!
So, out of nowhere, this threesome in Disney uniforms stops our entire jeep from exiting. Whats going on, we thought. Whats going on???? Its the Dream Team! They said we were in the right place at the right time and we just won an ALL DAY FASTPASS!! :woohoo
Here we are with our prize!
How lucky! We were so excited! Off we went back to EE to use the fastpass we already obtained and then, guess what? We rode it again with our ALL DAY FAST PASS CARD! Love it! We wore that lanyard around our necks with pride! Next we decided to head over to do Dinosaur and PW with our ALL DAY PAST PASS! We were getting hungry so we headed to Flame Tree BBQ for lunch. We love that place! We shared a chicken bbq plate. Yum! Wow, was it hot outside!! Whew! We decided to take a break and watch FOLK show! Its our favorite show! Fabulous as always! Next up was the Bugs! It seemed like it was funnier this time!
When we exited the tree, it was pouring rain and thundering! Yuck! Of course, a good Diser, like myself, has ponchos in our bag! We whip those babies out and were good to go! Since it was after 1pm, we decided to head over to MGM. It was a tough decision because we had our ALL DAY FAST PASS at AK! But we felt we were done here. AK is a tough park to enjoy in the rain.
So we took the bus to MGM and the rain had lightened up a little bit and the thunder stopped. We grabbed fast passes for RnRC and waited in the stand by line for Tower. This ride is so much fun! The parade of course was cancelled due to the rain so we walked around a little bit on our way to Mama Melrose. We played in the New York set area. We didnt take any pictures though because of the rain. It was about time for our ADR at Mama Melrose. It would be great to get out of the rain for awhile! Our dinner here was really good! I was a little nervous because of the mixed reviews. I will say, beware of the tooth breaking bread! Both of our appetizers were terrible and the bread was so hard! I ordered the Artisan Breads and Spreads and my DH ordered Bruschetta. I ordered the Charred Butcher Tender Steak for my entrée and my DH ordered the Spicy Italian Sausage. For dessert we ordered Tiramisu and Crema Limone. Our entrees and desserts were fabulous! I would recommend dining here but the service was slowish and the appetizers are not appetizing. Knowing that, we would still come back.
Guess what? The rain stopped! We went back to use our RnRC fastpasses and had a blast! This is my favorite ride! In addition, Aerosmith is my favorite rock band! We had to do it again! We got fastpasses for later. It was time for The Beauty and The Beast show. We missed this last year so my DH has never seen this. It was a must do this time. Nice show but not FoLK in AK!
Heres my DH waiting for the show to start.
We did the One Mans Dream exhibit next. We had a great time! We loved learning all this good stuff! In the past, with the kids, we had the time or interest (the kids) in checking out this attraction. The movie at the end is very touching. I kinda got a little teary eyed. I cant remember what exactly affected me but I remember getting a tad emotional. Ok, enough about that. Ahem! We still had some time before our RnRC fast passes so we decided to do The Great Movie Ride. As we walked up to the queue, a large group of Brazilians stood near the entrance looking unsure. Right, so, there were two already in line (we didnt realize this yet) and the rest of them were deciding whether to ride as we got in line. After we get in line, they all decide they want to ride. What happened of course was few by few they cut in front of us to join the two that were already in line. They were bumping into us and eventually they all ended up in front of us and we ended up behind at least 15 of them. Seriously! Why didnt they just let us ahead of them, which would have been the polite thing to do. Urgghh. Just as we are about losing our patience they all decide not to ride and walk or I should say run everyone over in line behind us as they leave. Unbelievable! They waited in line for at least 20 minutes and annoyed the heck out of everyone around them for nothing. This of course was the longest line we waited in during our entire trip. At least they were gone! I certainly didnt want to get on the same boat with them! We were able to enjoy waiting in line now and had an enjoyable time on the ride. Thank goodness! I dont remember that ride being so long though. It was pouring rain and thundering again and it was almost 8:30pm! We decided it was too late to use our RnRC fast passes as we had a VIP ticket and the entrance time was 8:30. However, we were worried about Fantasmic getting cancelled! So we stood under a canopy waiting for the rain to lighten up and the thunder to stop. We also were debating on how long to wait before leaving. Our warm and dry room was sounding pretty good! Sure enough, the rain and thunder stopped and the show was on! This was our first time to enjoy the VIP Fantasmic package. The seats were fine but the best thing was the entrance. We didnt have to fight the crowds to enter nor did we have to arrive so early. It was pretty cool! Too bad we couldnt exit the same way we came in! We probably wont do it next time as we want to eat dinner at Sci-Fi. As we didnt have kids with us, we walked up to the top of the bleachers just before the Grand Finale and watched it from there to get a head start from the crowds. We couldnt wait to get back to our room for a shower! We were exhausted but excited about tomorrow! It would be my DHs first visit to Epcot!
by the way, i LOVE the mickey golf cart!!!
I can't wait to read all about it!
That is awesome and it sounds like you had a great day.
Looking forward to hearing about Epcot-it is becoming one of my favorite parks.
) I've never stayed at a value so we could try that.... maybe back to POR!
That scares me! I think it's too crowded to enjoy anything! I'm not sure if we'll go! That amazes them cuz they know I'm a disney nut! 
