We have a six day pass and Disney World has four parks so that meant doubling up a couple of them starting with Animal Kingdom. We got to the park at 6:45a and headed straight for 'Flight of Passage' and we still ended up in a 90 minute line-up. We were backed up all the way to the Asia area of the park. When we did this ride the first time we used a Fast Pass and skipped the line-up. This is a missed opportunity for Disney parks because no one does line-ups like Disney. Things get better the closer you get to the front including being able to check out the lab with incubating avatars and some real unobtanium!
By the time we got off the ride the line-up was 240 minutes. Yes, that's right, 4 hours. No line-up scenery is worth waiting that long but it was time for us to do our Fast Rides including Expedition Everest, Na'vi River Journey, African Safari and Cali River Rapids. The Na'vi ride is pretty low key with a slow moving boat and lot's of things that glow in the dark. The Cali ride on the other hand can get you very wet. We put our stuff in a locker and this time Kerry bought a rain poncho. I think she's tired of always being the wettest one when we get off a water ride.
We had reservations at the Rain Forrest Cafe and on our way there we saw a flock of odd looking birds flying overhead. As we got closer they flew quite low to the ground and you could tell it was a flock of parrots. I had assumed they were wild but as we got even closer we saw them all perched with their handlers giving a talk. I'm always amazed at people that are able to train birds to fly in the open and come back. It seems like a rather risky hobby. You would only need to lose them once and these don't look like cheap animals to buy.
For our afternoon break we went to Blizzard Beach. This is a fun water park with a winter theme. There are icebergs, ski chairs, snow men and sleds. One thing that was not there was frozen hot chocolate. When we were here three years ago I promised Callie that we could have a frozen hot chocolate on our way out. Unfortunately they closed the concession before we left and she missed out. She still remembers and thought we could rectify the miss but it seems they don't sell it anymore. I will have to figure out how to make it.
We bought a park hopper pass which is more expensive, however it allows you to go to more than one park in a day. So far we hadn't done any park hopping but there are other benefits to the pass including the water parks and some very fun mini-golf courses. We chose to do the summer course which is themed as if Santa was visiting a sunny location on his holidays. Everyone was well behaved on this round. We don't keep score in mini-golf anymore because that only leads to problems. With the two water parks and mini-golf we made the park hopper passes worth our while.
We chose to go back to Magic Kingdom in the evening and we were going to meet up with Callie's friend however they had given up at 6:00p. It seems it is most people's spring break in the US this week and the number of people has increased at least 50%. Most rides have one hour waits and there are people everywhere. I'm goad we get two weeks for Spring break and got here the week before. We did whichever ride had the shortest line-up and were able to see most of the fireworks which I think were longer than previous nights.
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