Hey! Day Two is halfway in the bag, so here's an update. We should be out enjoying the pool at Grand Floridian, but the weather had other ideas and with all the lightning in the area, the pool has been closed this afternoon.
Up at 7am and heading to Animal Kingdom for EMH at 7:30am. By the time we got there it was a couple minutes before 8am and the gates were already open. So, off to Everest we went. By the time we got to it, the wait had to be at least 45....seconds. Rode twice with only the same wait the second time. Here are the girls on the way up the first lift hill.
And then going down the big hill.
And in case there was still any concern from anyone, the torn tracks are back and the bird on a stick is as well (nice to see that the bird doesn't come up quite so far, so the stick was not visible at all.
And while it appears that the Yeti himself cannot move (although he does seem to enjoy some good disco), he did look healthy at this particular moment.
We then headed over to Chester and Hester's, and while we did not play an carnival games, DD did ride Primeval Whirl twice. Once alone and once with DW. I guess by that fourth ride of the hour, the girls were getting a little tired.
We then headed back to Asia and rode Kali River Rapids right at 9am when it opened. Actually, it opened at about 9:10am which meant that the pre-line opening line looked a bit long, when it really only took about 10 minutes to cycle through the early crowd. After getting fully soaked (DD and I were facing backward on the big drop and if you've ridden before you know what that means) we walked through the Maharajah Jungle Trek. The tigers were not putting on any kind of a show (both asleep, one by the wall and the other in the grass) but we did enjoy a couple close up bird encounters. But, our camera and phones were all locked up in a locker from Kali, so no pics there. Sorry! By the way, if you didn't know, there are FREE lockers (for two hours) right outside the entrance to Kali which are great if you have things you want to keep seriously dry.
We took a leisurely walk over to Finding Nemo, the Musical for the 10am show. Originally we had planned to do Flights of Wonder first, then Nemo after lunch, but we have see FoW enough times and felt like getting back to the room for rest was a better idea for the afternoon. For the first time (in forever), I did NOT take any pictures during Finding Nemo. I must have at least 500 pictures of that show, so this time I just sat and enjoyed!
After Nemo, we stopped at Flame Tree BBQ and picked up some lunch for DD. And then back to Grand Floridian to get our lunch. Why do it that way you ask? Because it saved us $ and yes, it was worth it (PBJ kids meal is $.50 less at Flame Tree and you get Tables in Wonderland discount of $1.10 and I promise we will put that $1.60 to good use!!). We were quite fortunate to have changed our plans for the afternoon and leave when we did because we got to our car about 12:04 and the heavens opened up with a torrential downpour at about 12:04:01. Almost to the second when we got in the car it started pouring.
So, back at Grand Floridian, I dodged the raindrops to walk over to the CS restaurant, picked up DW and my lunches and we have been relaxing in the room ever since. I just finished my hour nap and now the girls are both asleep, which is quite good since we hope to be at Magic Kingdom for quite a while tonight after our dinner.
See you soon!
