My Disney Dreaming

A early-ish morning...up at 6:45 then on the bus to Animal Kingdom for a 8:20 Tusker House reservation!

Once again, John was “randomly” chosen to go through the metal detectors.

We were there a bit early so we took our time getting to Tusker House and I was able to get some nice pictures.

John going though security

This time at Tusker House it was MUCH better than last time. Last time we went we were in a food coma and didn't eat all that much! Great buffet, lots of choices, and love the Jungle Juice!

Rebekah and Donald

Rebekah and Mickey

Rebekah and Goofy

Rebekah and Daisy

Daisy signing our pillowcase

Tusker House Buffet

First thing we did was went right over and rode the Safari. Lots of animals were out and active! The hippos out of water and making noises, there were white rhinos everywhere, including in front of the bus in the road and the giraffes were close to us.

Safari - Okapi

Safari - Kudu

Safari - Hippos

Safari - Watusi Cattle

Safari - giraffe

Safari - yearling giraffe

Safari - flamingo

Safari - White Rhino

Safari - White rhino mama and baby

Safari - lions

Safari - zebra

Safari - wart hogs

Next we headed to It's Tough to be a Bug for our FastPasses and then we got Wilderness Explorer book for Rebekah to do during the day. We spent the day finding the Wilderness Explorer badges, and it was a lot of fun! It did not take us out of the way and brought us to new laces and we did learn a few new things!

Tree of Life

Cardinal in the bamboo

Tree of Life

Sadly the Maharajah Jungle Trek was closed. Wish I knew, I did not see it posted anywhere.

After getting some more Wilderness Explorer badges, we headed to Expedition Everest for our FastPasses, I asked to ride in the front row and it was AWESOME! Then when we got off the standby line was only 15 min, so we did it again, back row this time (MUCH rougher than the front).

Expedition Everest Queue

Expedition Everest - We LOVED this ride!

Lunch time. We did a quick service at Yak and Yeti. I got the Curry Chicken, John got the Honey Chicken and Rebekah had my side dish of Fried Rice.

John's Honey Chicken @ Yak and Yeti quick service

My Curry Chicken @ Yak and Yeti quick service

Rebekah's rice @ Yak and Yeti quick service

Egg roll and a Mousse dessert @ Yak and Yeti quick service

Then we slowly made our way over to Dinoland, getting more Wilderness Explorer badges as we went. I will add here that I REALLY don't like the carnival atmosphere over there. It is not Disney nd it does not fir the theme of the park at all!

So, we rode Dinosaur 2x (FastPass and then standby of less than 10 min).

Dinosaur ride outside

Dinosaur statue outside of the Dinosaur ride

Dinosaur!

Dinosaur

On our way to get more Wilderness Explorer badges, we stopped and got a new FastPasses for the Safari.

We made way to Planet watch, we had never bee there before. The train ride was very cool, you are able to see some of the animal barns and for me the large animal caretaker, I thought it was awesome. They were doing an ultrasound on a snake they rescued in the park when we were in there. The petting zoo part was blah, but I work on and grew up on a farm it was boring, but clean and the animals were happy and healthy.

So, the train back to the main park and then over for the FastPass for safari again. This time we saw the cheetahs, they were very cool!

Then we quickly ran through the exhibit Trail next to the Safari to get the rest of our Wilderness Explorer badges and then headed out to the Wilderness Explorer kiosk to finish it! Doing the Wilderness Explorer badges was a great way to make this usual ½ day ark for us into a full day park!

4:00 came and we decided to grab a bus to POP, drop stuff off in the room and grab another bus to Disney Springs and head over to Trex for our 6pm supper! We were not really sure how much we like it, to be honest! It was super loud, dark (and oddly colored), and loud, and loud. The food was good (but you could not really see it in the lighting), but did not really outweigh the atmosphere in our opinion. I got the Mastodon Stuffed Chicken (Marinated Chicken Breast, Stuffed with Artichoke Hearts and Creamy Spinach, Topped with Sun-Dried Tomatoes and Lemon Butter, Served with Red Skinned Mashed Potatoes and Seasonal Vegetables). John got the Bronto Burger (A 100% Beef Burger, Piled High with a Fried Onion Ring, Lettuce, Tomato, Pickles, and Cheese, Served with Waffle Fries) and Rebekah got the, you guessed it, the kids Mac-n-Cheese.

T-Rex ice room

T-Rex Ice Room into the other room

T-Rex mozzarella sticks

My Mastodon Stuffed Chicken

John's Bronto Burger

Rebekah with her birthday cupcake - using the flash

Rebekah with her birthday cupcake - no flash...the blue hue was the lighting in there, ugh!

Off for a little window shopping (in prep for tomorrow shopping). We did get a few things: 2016

Tshirt, earrings, 2016 pin, Duffy medium TsumTsum, Bymax Infinity, candy at Goofys, I don't remember what else.

Rebekah and LEGO Hulk

The LEGO figure I made

Rebekah's LEGO figure

Rebekah and her new Duffy TsumTsum

Finally, to tired to do more, we grabbed the bus back to POP and CRASH DEAD!

Steps walked: 22,696 (10.39 miles)

The animals were having a good time while we were gone!

We were all tired today.

Up at 8am, out the door at 8:20 off to 'Ohana for breakfast.

We too the bus to Magic Kingdom then the monorail to the Polynesian, nice and quick and easy

'Ohana was OK, good food and atmosphere, but we were in food coma from the night before! We were seated a bit late and had to leave by 10 to make our Fastpasses, so we were only able to see 2 characters (Lilo and Mickey) before we had to leave.

Monorail view of the Contemporary

Inside the Polynesian lobby

Rebekah's plate

The meal - served "Family Style"

My plate

Rebekah and Lilo at 'Ohana's

Birthday cupcake

Rebekah and Mickey at 'Ohana's

We too the bus from Polynesian to Hollywood Studios, once again easy. Got into Hollywood Studios (after John being pulled for the metal detector again), wandered shops a bit and then it was time for our Tower of Terror FastPass. LOVED it again, so much better when I am not scared to death!!

Rebekah's head was hidden =(

Proof we lived.

We had more time to spare, so we wandered the Main Street shops until our Rockin' Roller Coaster FastPass. Rebekah ALMOST backed out but she did it and we loved it! When we were loading a Castmember told us for our birthday/anniversary celebrations (we had our celebration buttons on) we can ride it again right away if we wanted we just need to tell a Castmember when we get off we were told we can ride again, we did and we were told to go through a side door and back to the front of the line and dd it again right away! LOVE IT!

Chip mug

Aerosmith

We really did enjoy it...really...

Rockin' Roller Coaster

We were so tired day...we walked like zombies all around the park now . We got ice cream, rode The Great Movie ride, got pretzel and churro, wandered some more, grabbed a carrot cake cookie at the writers shop, wandered more, watched Muppet 3D, wandered around the Star Wars area, got BB-8 drink, then decided to wait the 20 min stand by for Star Tours ride and then then we rode again right away with our FastPass. After that we, you got it, wandered more, then finally made our way to 50s Prime Time Cafe.

Mickey Ice Cream!

Great Movie Ride queue

Carrot Cake Cooke from the Writers Shop

Osborn lights were still up, but not on...

AT-AT, so cool, every time!

50s Prime Time Cafe was cute, our server/cousin didn't “play” much, but did say no walkie-talkies to me when I had out my cell phone and said “elbows off the table” once. We were still in food coma from yesterday. I got the “Cousin Amy's Iceberg Lettuce Wedge “ and the “Fried Herb and Garlic Cheese “. John got the “Caesar Salad with Chicken “ and Rebekah got the kids Mac-n-Cheese with Beans.

Peanut Butter and Jelly milkshake

Rebekah's Mac-n-Cheese

John's Chicken Caesar Salad

My fried cheese (with grapes and apples)

My Wedge salad

At this point, even though I really wanted to stay for Fantasmic and the fireworks we were all TOO tire so we decided to head back to the resort. I decided to do laundry and take a swim with Rebekah. The pool was COLD! Then we hung out in the room and I head fireworks close by so we ran outside and we could see the Hollywood Studios Star Wars fireworks from our building!

Steps walked: 16,618 (7.96 miles)

They were all awaiting our arrival!

My Disney Dreaming

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Day 5 - Animal Kingdom

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Day 4 - Hollywood Studios