We woke up around 7:30 and caught the bus to the All Star Resort where we ate Mickey waffles! Getting Mickey waffles is one thing I've wanted to do since I got here so I was pretty excited about that. There were a lot of high school classes at the resort, which is something we weren't really anticipating so it was super crowded but we were able to get two Mickey waffles, bacon, grapes, and chocolate milk. The waffles were delicious, of course. I'm glad we got up a little earlier than we wanted to get them.
After breakfast we hopped onto a resort bus and went to EPCOT. We knew that we wanted to ride Soarin' Over California so the first thing we did was grab fastpasses for it. It was only 9:00 and the fastpasses were for 11:30 so we decided to get our first attraction of the day out of the way: Figment. Since many people don't go to that attraction we decided to ride it first because it's Erin's favorite and we knew we would be able to walk onto it. I've always thought the ride was lame but Erin gets so excited; she even knows the words to Figment's theme song. She's the most entertaining part of the whole attraction!
After Figment, we decided to meet some characters and since we didn't feel like walking all the way over to World Showcase, we went to Character Spot to meet Mickey and his friends! When we got there, Mickey, Minnie, and Pluto were out and the line was super short. We waited probably five minutes before it was our turn to meet the boss. Mickey was so cute, as usual. He signed my autograph book, had us kiss his cheeks, and kissed us back when we hugged him. Pluto and Minnie were equally adorable. We also made friends in line with a little princess! Erin and I always love watching little kids react to the different things going on at Disney and this princess was so excited that she almost ran in front of us to meet Minnie! We offered for her to go ahead of us because we wanted to see her interact with Minnie but her mother politely declined.
Here is our picture with Minnie. We didn't like any of our other pictures with Mickey and Pluto.
Since it wasn't time for our fastpasses, we decided to go on some other attractions. First we went to the Finding Nemo attraction and once we were done riding it, we looked at the different sea creatures in the aquarium, argued about whether or not the dolphin in the tank is real (I don't think it is), and we watched some rescued manatees swim around and eat heads of lettuce. They were the best part; we probably watched them for 25 minutes. We then went on Living with the Land because I had never been on that attraction before. It was what I expected it to be-- educational but overall, a little dull. When we reached the part about how Americans lived on farms and there is that farmhouse with rolling hills behind it, I joked that I felt like I was back home.
When we got off that ride, it was time for our fastpasses for Soarin' so we ran over to it. The standby line was 120 minutes and the fastpass line was 30! That's a little ridiculous for a fastpass line but Soarin' is the most popular attraction in the park so it wasn't so surprising. At one point we still had some time left in the queue but a cast member walked up to us and asked if we had a party of two. When we said yes, he had us skip the rest of the line and walk onto the ride. We were in the bottom row but I was okay with that because I'm afraid of heights. Erin was so nervous. She kept saying that the takeoff was scary so I expected something really fast but when the ride got going, I didn't think it was scary at all. I almost wished we were on the top row because seeing people's legs dangling above us took away from the experience.
About a minute into the ride, we were brought back down and the ride was stopped temporarily. Erin was mad because she didn't want to do the takeoff again and I was just trying to figure out what was wrong. I think there was a Code V because I saw a cast member with some towels. We had to wait almost ten minutes until the ride started back up again which slowed us down in terms of time. Once the ride was over, we ran to the front of the park to take a picture in front of the EPCOT ball, exited the park, and looked for the bus to Animal Kingdom. We ran to a line but then we realized it was for the Animal Kingdom Lodge and when we found the bus for DAK, it happened to be driving away. Go figure. We had to wait 10-15 minutes for the next one to come. Good thing we factored in travel time when we planned our day out the night before.
We arrived at Animal Kingdom and the first thing we did was get a picture in front of the Tree of Life since it was right there. Can you tell it was hot and humid that day? My hair wasn't looking too good.
When we were done with that, we went to ride Dinosaur since I had never been on it before. I was a little apprehensive because I heard it was really scary but it turned out to be really fun! It's one of my favorite attractions at DAK now! It was really jerky and dark and that's what made it fun. At this point, it was HOT. The temperature was supposed to get up to 90 degrees that day and the humidity was cray cray so we weren't really feeling walking around DAK for a long time. We got burgers and cooled off at a nearby quick service restaurant and then went to the Festival of the Lion King. This show is my favorite thing at DAK because it's choreographed so well and the singers are AMAZING. If you're at DAK, see the show; you won't regret it. Truth be told, we didn't think the show was as good as it usually is but that's because we've seen it a few times before. But to a guest who hasn't seen it as much as us, it wouldn't matter. Even when the show is just good, it's still wonderful.
After Festival of the Lion King, we walked over to Camp Mickey Minnie to meet some characters. We got in line for Baloo and King Louie from the Jungle Book because we had never met them before and the line was really short. Baloo was cute but King Louie was weird to me. His face was hard to look at and he couldn't move his hands but to be fair, he is an orangutan and they're kind of ugly, but it was still a little alarming. I mostly paid attention to Baloo. We got a picture with the two of them and we left.
When we were about to exit the park, a woman approached us and asked if we would answer a few questions about our experience at the park that day. Now, at Magic Kingdom, cast members usually ask the guests questions and they fill out an portable, electronic survey as guests answer them. I knew we were on a time crunch but I said that we would do it and I immediately regretted it. Instead of asking us the questions herself, the cast member walked us over to a computer and told us to fill it out on there. We didn't really want to but we did anyway and it took FOREVER. Okay, it probably took like thirty minutes but that was thirty minutes of time we had wasted when we should have already been at Hollywood Studios. We obligingly filled out the survey as quickly as we could and left the park. That was when it started to rain.
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