Walt Disney World - Day 2

September 17th, 2010

We were up for the day shortly after 7:00 am so we could be at the bus stop around 8:00 am to make rope drop for Animal Kingdom. We arrived at Animal Kingdom at 8:25 and proceeded to the turnstiles. While waiting for the park to open Emilia managed to rub sun tan lotion in her eyes so she was crying and kept rubbing eyes. Finally at 8:45 they let us through the turnstiles to the rope right before the Oasis. Here we watched the opening ceremony which had Mickey, Minnie and Pluto on a safari truck. Here they told us everything that we would need for our adventure for the day. After they zoomed off we were allowed further into the park. Herm and Emilia went to get fast passes to Kilimanjaro Safari while I followed the crowds to Expedition Everest. I was close to the front of the line and decided to check on the Single Rider line which turned out to be closed so I lost about 25 places in the regular line. They didn’t let us into Everest until 9:05 for whatever reason and everyone in front of me seemed to want to look at all of the exhibits as we were making our way to the trains. I was finally off Everest at 9:15 am. Herm now hopped in line while I took Emilia to Dinoland so she could ride Triceratop Spin. She was upset that she didn’t get to watch the “slide” anymore which was Everest. She seemed happy once we got in line for her ride but then proceeded to cry once the ride started. After we got off the ride she wanted to watch the cars on Primeval Whirl until Herm made it to Dinoland. He decided to take her back to the Triceratop Spin while I rode Primeval Whirl. Now it is 9:45 and Emilia wanted to take another ride on the dinosaurs so I went to ride Dinosaur.

Emilia and her daddy also met Pluto and Goofy while I was gone. We made our way out of Dinoland and stopped to see Tigger while we made our way to Kali River Rapids.

No wait on this ride luckily so Herm and I were able to both ride and were done by 10:45. Now we made our way to Africa to go on a Safari using our fast passes. Its 11:15 now and time to start heading back to the room so Emilia could take a nap. First we stop to see Lilo and Stitch and then we had our picture taken in front of the tree of life. We made it to the bus stop by noon and were back to the resort by 12:30. We ate lunch in our room and then it was time for a snooze.

We wake Emilia at 2:45 so we could head back to Animal Kingdom to see the parade at 3:45. Emilia enjoyed the parade a lot. I really dislike it when people come up at the last minute and weasel their way to the front of the crowd especially when I have been sitting in my spot for a half hour. One guy tried pushing his stroller to the front instead of just taking his kid out of the stroller and holding him. Oh they didn’t speak English so you couldn’t communicate with them. I really do not get people at times. After the parade we made our way to watch Finding Nemo the Musical. Emilia loved this show. Which is to be expected since Finding Nemo was her favorite movie for the longest time. Animal Kingdom is now closed and we are heading to the Magic Kingdom next to see the Main Street Electrical Parade. First we were going to catch the bus to the ticket and transportation center but the line was very long. So we head over to the Contemporary/Poly bus stop. The bus arrived within 5 minutes of us walking up and it wasn’t crowded at all.

We got off at the Contemporary and then walked to the Magic Kingdom. This park was more crowded than Animal as it was a parade night but we made the most of it. We took our picture in front of the castle as the crane putting up the Christmas Lights was down for the evening. Then we got a fastpass for Peter Pan’s Flight and then walked over and got a fastpass for Splash Mountain. Since the wait said it was only 10 minutes I got in the stand by line and we got a rider switch pass for Herm for later. Herm then took Emilia to stake out a parade spot. My wait for Splash Mountain was 17 minutes so I didn’t get the ride until 7:30 where I needed to make my way to Main Street to find Herm and Emilia. Emilia made some friends with the ladies by us and mooched some popcorn from them. They were very generous in giving her popcorn as they kept filling up her stroller tray. Herm went to change Emilia’s diaper and bought back some food from Casey’s. Emilia ate her hotdog and French fries just as the parade was about to get to us. She was fascinated by the parade. I love the music to this parade and thought it was much better than SpectroMagic that has been at WDW for year. After the parade Herm took Emilia to ride Peter Pan while I used my fast pass for Splash Mountain. I got off Splash Mountain at 8:58 pm just in time for Herm to hop in the fast pass line before it closed at 9:00. I guess the workers were a little surprised to see him up at the boarding station but he was in before close so they sent him in his very own boat and the boats in front and behind him were empty also. While Herm was riding Splash Mountain I went to try to catch Wishes. I really wanted to watch these from Main Street but I couldn’t make it there as people kept stopping so I ended up watching them from Liberty Square. It wasn’t too bad of a view but I wanted to get castle shots as I have not had them before. Oh well maybe next time!

We made our way out of the park and to the bus stop. The All Star Music line was huge so we got into the All Star Sports line. We were on the next bus that pulled up and on our way back to the resort on a very packed bus. Herm and Emilia went swimming while I got some food from the food court. Then it was off to bed!

Up Next: Day 3 Typhoon Lagoon and Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party