We started out our day early, and had breakfast at the Grand Floridian, which Mom, Dad, and I had never been to. It was SO beautiful. Our waitress was from Wisconsin, where, apparently, it was colder than it was in Florida that day. Mom decided she wanted to live at the Grand Floridian. Then, we went to the Animal Kingdom. The first thing we did when we arrived was tromped around to ride Expedition Everest. The line said 20 minutes, but we only waited about 5, which was fabulous, considering that, later that day, the line was up to 80 minutes long. Then, we went to see the Festival of the Lion King show, which is a personal favorite of the family. There is singing, dancing, acrobats, and people making animal noises… like bleating, which is apparently the sound giraffes make. Who knew? At the exit, we went around and met the main Disney characters, Mickey, Minnie, Donald (who looked sad because he had no line) and Goofy, all of whom were dressed for Christmas. We then went on Kilimanjaro Safaris, where Allie took animal pictures to her heart’s content. We rode the Dinosaur ride, which was a nice break. There was a parade, which was super cute, because everything was decked out for Christmas. We were right along the parade route, something we always try to do. It gets us close to the characters and that means interaction, which is fun. So, we’re standing there and characters are coming by waving, shaking hands, high fiving… Timon, the meerkat, from The Lion King, comes up, in his cute little scarf. He stops, right in front of me, where he proceeds to touch my hair and mime getting stuck because it’s pointy. That’s right, I was mocked by a fictional character… We then went to eat at Pizzafari and went to see the It’s Tough to Be a Bug show, which was also pretty cute. By this time, we’d pretty much done everything at Animal Kingdom that we wanted to do.
We drove from Animal Kingdom back to the hotel, to put on warmer clothes, as we were going to hit TWO more parks before the night was over. We went to Hollywood Studios (formerly MGM) because Allie wanted to see Fantasmic, the night fireworks show. Mom took the blanket off their bed and we wrapped it around the four of us on the bleachers to stay warm, as it was RIDICULOUSLY cold. But first, we rode Toy Story Midway Mania. Then, Mom, Allie, and I decided to ride Tower of Terror, because the wait only said 10 minutes and we had time to kill. Dad got in line to go into Fantasmic and we went to Tower of Terror. We made it through the introduction and were standing in line at the elevator with this group of people. Apparently, earlier in the day, these people had ridden the ride and got stuck right at the top for almost 20 minutes. Yup… and it was cold. I mean, bitterly cold. The ride went off without a hitch, however. There was dropping and squealing and bouncing and more squealing… and then giggling. We went over and went in Fantasmic, where Dad and Allie got us hot cocoa, which was nice.
After Fantasmic, we drove from Hollywood Studios to Magic Kingdom because, duh, we had Extra Magic Hours that night. What this means is that Disney Resort guests are able to spend longer in the park, without other park guests, for us that meant from 8pm until midnight. All you have to do is show your room key at everything. So, here we are, at 9.30 at night, in Magic Kingdom, in the frigid cold. Now, granted we rode everything in the entire park that night. But it was cold. We met Chip and Dale. No waiting on pretty much everything. Then we went back to the hotel because it was cold… and we were done.
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