Wednesday--November 21--Animal kingdom and MGM
We stayed at the Holiday Inn Family Suites
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Of course, by the time we got up and ate, we made it to Animal Kingdom at about 10. The security check lines were very long. Again, I feel bad for whoever was behind us, because they did seem impatient
We head right for the safari, this park always seems hot to me no matter what the temperatue is. It was pretty crowded and the line for the safari was long. I get all of us fast passes for it and we move on. We diecide to go see Its tough to be a bug. A big mistake since Sami was very scared and for the rest of the week was very hesitant about any
3D attractions. Allie didn't like it either. To be honest, I would rather skip this one too!
It was time for our safari ride so off we went. We saw a good amount of animals. On the way we saw the walking tree lady and Sami was amazed and kept asking where the walking tree was.
We were hungry already so we headed over to the place where you can get the Mcdonalds nuggets and fries(I can't remember the name right now).
After lunch, we got fast passes for Dinosaur, and noticed one of the rides in the new Chester and Hester dino park section was open. We got on pretty quickly, it reminds me of the new Aladdin ride in magic kingdom. We next played some of the midway games. Ryan, with his one good arm won a stuffed dinosaur on one of the games!!! Of course, this started the rest of the kids complaining about them not winning anything
We quickly leave that section.
After dinosaur (ryan, sami and me didn't ride--I don't mind being the one to sit out, I like to wander around the park, which I can't do when we are all together)
We decide to leave the park, no one wanted to see any of the shows and the park was crowded.
On to MGM--
Dylan wants to ride the backstage tour ride, so we head there. The line was long but it moved quickly. When we were on the tram they had technical difficulties and our ride was cut short, we never made it to the canyon. This was a waste of an hour, since they had us sit on the tram for about 20 minutes before they took us back.
On to muppets 3D, after convincing Sami it was not scary she put her glasses on and ended up enjoying the show. When we came out, Buzz and woody were at Als toy barn, so we waited and got their autographs.
While we were on line someone mentioned a second show tonight for fantasmic was at 7:30.
We headed over there to check and the CM said yes. doug had gotten fast passes for tower of terror. Doug, dylan and Allie headed over to do the ride. The rest of us wandered around and then I saw people were lining up (it was about 6:15) I got in line and was just about in the beginning. They started to let people move up at 6:30 but Doug wasn't back so we got off the line. The three of them finally showed up and we got in line. We have never seen the show since I didn't think the kids would like to wait 2 hours for a show. It took until about 7:15 to get seated into the theater. We were in the center about half way up. We all agreed the show was awesome. I have heard horror stories about getting out after the show, but I didn't think it was too bad, considering we had to go back to get the stroller.
The park was closed at 7 so when we came out we headed back to the hotel.
We are making a list of things we still want to do at MGM and plan to return on Saturday.
We stayed at the Holiday Inn Family Suites
deby-34
doug-34
dylan-9
ryan-7
allie-5
sami-3
Of course, by the time we got up and ate, we made it to Animal Kingdom at about 10. The security check lines were very long. Again, I feel bad for whoever was behind us, because they did seem impatient
We head right for the safari, this park always seems hot to me no matter what the temperatue is. It was pretty crowded and the line for the safari was long. I get all of us fast passes for it and we move on. We diecide to go see Its tough to be a bug. A big mistake since Sami was very scared and for the rest of the week was very hesitant about any
3D attractions. Allie didn't like it either. To be honest, I would rather skip this one too!
It was time for our safari ride so off we went. We saw a good amount of animals. On the way we saw the walking tree lady and Sami was amazed and kept asking where the walking tree was.
We were hungry already so we headed over to the place where you can get the Mcdonalds nuggets and fries(I can't remember the name right now).
After lunch, we got fast passes for Dinosaur, and noticed one of the rides in the new Chester and Hester dino park section was open. We got on pretty quickly, it reminds me of the new Aladdin ride in magic kingdom. We next played some of the midway games. Ryan, with his one good arm won a stuffed dinosaur on one of the games!!! Of course, this started the rest of the kids complaining about them not winning anything
We quickly leave that section.After dinosaur (ryan, sami and me didn't ride--I don't mind being the one to sit out, I like to wander around the park, which I can't do when we are all together)
We decide to leave the park, no one wanted to see any of the shows and the park was crowded.
On to MGM--
Dylan wants to ride the backstage tour ride, so we head there. The line was long but it moved quickly. When we were on the tram they had technical difficulties and our ride was cut short, we never made it to the canyon. This was a waste of an hour, since they had us sit on the tram for about 20 minutes before they took us back.
On to muppets 3D, after convincing Sami it was not scary she put her glasses on and ended up enjoying the show. When we came out, Buzz and woody were at Als toy barn, so we waited and got their autographs.
While we were on line someone mentioned a second show tonight for fantasmic was at 7:30.
We headed over there to check and the CM said yes. doug had gotten fast passes for tower of terror. Doug, dylan and Allie headed over to do the ride. The rest of us wandered around and then I saw people were lining up (it was about 6:15) I got in line and was just about in the beginning. They started to let people move up at 6:30 but Doug wasn't back so we got off the line. The three of them finally showed up and we got in line. We have never seen the show since I didn't think the kids would like to wait 2 hours for a show. It took until about 7:15 to get seated into the theater. We were in the center about half way up. We all agreed the show was awesome. I have heard horror stories about getting out after the show, but I didn't think it was too bad, considering we had to go back to get the stroller.
The park was closed at 7 so when we came out we headed back to the hotel.
We are making a list of things we still want to do at MGM and plan to return on Saturday.
