Our First Orlando Adventure Together! Aug/Sep 2016 - Day 6: Epcot and Animal Kingdom

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This will probably be the last day of my trippie i post before Christmas and most likely the new year so i just want to wish everyone an amazing Christmas and happy new year

The only plans for the day were for Animal Kingdom at night and we would see what we felt like doing in the morning. We got up and ready about 8am and i had a look on Touring Plans.com to see what park would be the most quiet, which was Epcot (spoiler alert - it was heaving). We managed to make the 9am bus and pulled up at the entrance to Epcot at 9.20. The que for rope drop was sooooo busy but we eventually made it in. We didn't have any fastpasses booked so we were in a rush to get to Soarin before the que got too big (we had a FP for Test Track later on in the holiday). When we got there it was a 25-minute wait but it went in really quickly with the new quiz you can take part in during the que (I'm sure this is new? The last time I was on Soarin was 2011 so it might not be new actually). We got the front row which i was chuffed with as it meant there wouldn't be dangling feet in my view of the shiny new screen We both absolutely LOVED it! I want a candle that smells like the Fiji scene After Soarin we decided to grab some breakfast but were saving World Showcase for another day so Starbucks was our destination. We both had a sausage and cheese muffin and I got a Powerade while Sean just had water (roughly about $18 plus tax).


It was alright, filled a hole. We sat outside eating and could see how busy the park was getting. and it was really hot as well. We decided we couldn't be bothered with the crowds mixed with uncomfortable heat so headed back to the hotel to enjoy the afternoon relaxing by the pool

It became a bit of a pattern to go to a park in the morning, chill by the pool in the afternoon then go back to a park at night. I know some people don't bother about the pool or are all day park people but that was what we preferred to do as we felt it gave us more energy to go out at nights. We headed back up to the room to get ready about 3 and at this point I started feeling ill I just figured the heat had got to me and a cold shower would sort me out. By the time we left the hotel about 5 I still wasn't 100% but didn't want to spend one night of our precious Floriday in the hotel room so i soldiered on. We got to Animal Kingdom about 5.30 to see floods of people leaving the park with only a handful of people actually going in. We started to worry we had got the park hours mixed up and the park closed soon but a CM quickly cleared up that the park was indeed open till 11pm


Our first FP+ for Kilimanjaro Safari was at 6 so we took a slow stroll up to "Africa". I got a Mickey ice cream bar at one point but i still felt ill so after one bite it got binned OH ALSO, we spotted the woman walking in front of us had something furry draped over her shoulder (which at first we thought was a scarf) only to realise it was a dog! A little white dog It was soooo hot we felt sorry for the poor thing.


When we got to the safari the stand by line was only 10 minutes but we had Fastpasses so we bypassed the tiny que We had a really good guide with a dry sense of humour which was funny however the most annoying American kid in the world was behind us he kept shouting stuff like "UHM I DON'T SEE ANY ANIMALS" every 5 seconds even though they were in plain sight I even considered jumping out of the truck at one point and joining the giraffes. I'm sure many of yous have seen about a thousand safari pictures so I will only bore you with a few








When we came off the safari the last showing of The Festival of the Lion King was about to start. I was feeling a bit worse for wear at this point but really wanted to see the show so we headed in to the theater. The show was incredible as always but i don't think i appreciated it as much since i wasn't feeling too good although i did cry when "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" came on and the "birds" danced






When the show finished and we left I had to run to the nearest ladies room as that horrible feeling in your throat when you know your about to throw up washed over me On the plus side i felt a million times better afterwards I didn't feel like staying out any longer though so we headed back to the hotel for an early night.

We spotted the Tree of Life lit up on our way out

We then clicked on that neither of us had ate anything (apart from the measly bite of a Mickey bar) since breakfast this morning, WHAAAAT I never forget to eat Since i felt better now we grabbed two small pizzas from the Sun Dial market in the hotel. We ate them on the spare bed (all we used this bed for was to eat and dump our shopping on) Oh my, these pizzas were sooooooooo good

We watched tv before calling it a night sometime between 9 and 10 (washouts)

Thanks for reading

[macchu picchu]

Also love the front row in Soarin' - haven't seen the new version, sounds like you enjoyed it.

[Excitedx4]

Shame you felt ill, but glad you felt better later though.

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Originally Posted by macchu picchu

Also love the front row in Soarin' - haven't seen the new version, sounds like you enjoyed it.

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Was never keen on the original Soarin' but the new version was defo one of our favourite rides this trip

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Originally Posted by Excitedx4

Shame you felt ill, but glad you felt better later though.

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Nothing worse than being ill in Disney World quick recovery but!

[Leia77]

Not so good you felt unwell, but at least it passed quickly . We're split day folk too, although we have a tendency to stay too long in the morning 😛 The new Soarin sounds amazing, glad you enjoyed it