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Trip Report (Completed) The Final Countdown
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I am loving all of the WE stories. WE always seemed so cute but I’ve never gone to AK with a kid who was interested.
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ferbtones
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Love, love, love your trip reports.
I am thoroughly enjoying going through this with my 13 year old daughter.
She thinks A is awesome.
She was about A’s age in my profile pic. She outgrew her sparkle and unicorn phase around age 9.
She is currently a Potter freak and wants to be a lawyer so she can boss people about and put bad people in jail.
A really reminds me of the gems she used to spout.
Currently our joint fave A-ism is the Mount Everest conversation about dead people. Classic.
Thank you for sharing your precious memories with us.
I am thoroughly enjoying going through this with my 13 year old daughter.
She thinks A is awesome.
She was about A’s age in my profile pic. She outgrew her sparkle and unicorn phase around age 9.
She is currently a Potter freak and wants to be a lawyer so she can boss people about and put bad people in jail.
A really reminds me of the gems she used to spout.
Currently our joint fave A-ism is the Mount Everest conversation about dead people. Classic.
Thank you for sharing your precious memories with us.
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Just an FYI. If you shave a tiger and a lion they are pretty much the same underneath the fur.
Plus under the skin as well. There was a series of animal dissections on the BBC a few years back focused on larger animals.
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lindawdw
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I am absolutely loving your TR!!! The dialog between A and the CM's at AK was so funny and cute! I'm going to have to remember what you said about the last seat on the safari ride! I think I would have had to ask for a room change with all that noise next door since I'm a light sleeper. 
Sorry you've had such a tough time with the meals at WDW this trip. It was kind of a pain with the mobile ordering in October and December but I did think most of the food was pretty decent when it came out. We did have sit down meals planned each day which helped too. Glad you're all having such a magical time together!
Sorry you've had such a tough time with the meals at WDW this trip. It was kind of a pain with the mobile ordering in October and December but I did think most of the food was pretty decent when it came out. We did have sit down meals planned each day which helped too. Glad you're all having such a magical time together!
Songbird76
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I thought taking pictures was for old people, and the new thing is livestream??Of course we had to go on Triceratops Spin! When we got in line the ride had to be rebooted, so it was a few extra minutes of wait but really not bad. A spent that time having a dance party where she kept freezing in poses and demanding her picture be taken
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I love her Everest conversation...that's hilarious!
Songbird76
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Your chicken joke reminds me of this one time my husband was out playing Ingress with E and they came across a father and 2 little kids walking one of those really small miniature ponies. My husband says "Woah, that's a really big dog!" and he said the look on those kids' faces was hilarious and the dad was trying so hard not to laugh.The Maharaja Jungle Trek is where I noticed my two favorite people were losing steam... I had left the stroller at the entrance because I didn't want to navigate the trail with it. Animal Kingdom was really crowded, and I had (rightfully) assumed the trail was kinda like a zoo with viewing areas, so I just didn't want to mess with it. A said no less than ten times "I wish I had my stroller..." And N started randomly just sitting down on any bench we saw
The highlight of this trail is the aviary
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There were all kinds of cool birds to look at, including this really big guy who surprised A while she was looking at a couple smaller birds
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A instantly became an "expert" on this bird and started telling us all about it
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After this, though, I found a little relaxation station on the outskirts of Harambe Market for N to rest and A to play with her new toy. There are only two more of these little doll sets she doesn't have. It's insane when I think about how much money we've spent on disney toys. She doesn't have the Moana I've or the Lilo and Stitch one, but she has all the others.
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I'll admit, it was really nice to take off my mask and drink some water. I think perhaps that's the hardest part of masks at Disney, is that it's hard to drink enough water.
After a break, we went on safari. I'll be honest here, after feeling the impact of the plastic curtains on Frozen Ever After, I wasn't exactly excited about them on the Safari. I took a chance on the back row being the best option, and it paid off. Big time! We had so much more visual surface space and open air.
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A decided that our new thing was to show off our magic bands for her "YouTube channel"
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Kids these days....
As is tradition, I'll spare you a lot of the Safari pictures, but it was cool to see the "real" tree of life!!
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We got stopped for a few minutes because the giraffes were having a grand old time hanging out in the middle of the road. It reminded me of India, where traffic on this busy highway was at a dead standstill and we were stuck in our hot little bits for almost an hour while a cow took a nap in the middle of the road.
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Me: hey A, isn't it cool to see chickens on the Safari?!
A: those are giraffes, mom
Me: then how do you explain how they're crossing the road?!?
A: mom.
N: see... Even she knows it's a bad joke
The tall one in the front has more reddish spots than the others. Her name is Stephanie. She came to say hi after finally getting out of our way
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Songbird76
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OMG her "impressions"! I'm laughing so hard. Do you ever wonder what the CM is thinking during their interactions with her? You know there are a lot of CMs who also do vlogs and a common theme is "spilling the tea" about what it's really like to work at Disney. I wonder how many stories there are out there from a CM who met A.View attachment 528190
I was surprised at how close all the animals were to the truck on this Safari. They were all just hanging out by the road. Except the lions, they were asleep, the lazy bums
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A: mom, you remember that song about the lions sleeping from my old ballet class?
Me: how could I forget
A: well I don't think that singer knew a lot about lions...
Me: oh?
A: well lions sleep during the day. They're awake at night. That's when they hunt.
She might have a point
I know I'm biased here, but this kid is so pretty when she lets me pull her hair back. Normally she looks like a walking rats nest
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We had one last badge stop and then it was time to go. And of course one more toy, too
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This station was all about elephant poop and how you can make it into paper
I think she found a second wind though, because the CM kept asking if she had any questions, and A kept making up questions. It felt like when you're meeting should be over, but the guy from IT who just likes to hear himself talk starts asking stupid questions that could have been an email... But I did learn a couple things I didn't know before.
A brought up that if you shave a tiger, you'll still know it's a tiger because it's skin is striped, but that tigers probably didn't like to be shaved. The CM was unwilling to try that one, anyway
She also asked the CM what the difference between painted dogs and hyenas was, and it turns out they're completely different. They just look similar, but hyenas aren't even in the dog realm.
The CM showed A a place in her book where she could make an impression with her pencil, but A told her she was already really good at making impressions.
CM: oh?? Can you show me?!
A: well I mainly make mine with my voice...
CM: okay, show me one...
A in a whiney voice: meh meh meeehhhhh, I'm mommy, blah blah blah clean your room, whomp whomp whomp feed the dog, meh meh meh meh meh I make all the rules...
CM: oh my
Then we headed out. Animal Kingdom really is a pretty park
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We got lucky and arrived at the bus stop only a couple minutes before our bus came, too!
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A showing off her new friend to some new friends she met on the bus. I'll tell you what, being the introverted mom of an extrovert is exhausting.
Songbird76
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Is the mask over sunglasses thing because the sunglasses fog up and you can't see? I have glasses and have discovered that if you pull the mask up enough for the glasses to rest on the top of the mask, they don't fog up as much. I also heard that you could rub the lenses with liquid soap and wipe it off rather than rinsing and that keeps the lenses from fogging, but I haven't tried that one.Back at the fort, A insisted we go swimming
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Her favorite pool game is for N to lay flat at the bottom of the pool and she gets to ride him like a surf board
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After showers we headed to the restaurant Maginos for dinner. They brought it the most delicious and perfectly cooked fried mushrooms I've ever had, so we were optimistic about dinner. But we shouldn't have been
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It looks delicious but it tasted like nothing. Not seasonings. Not butter. Not meat. I'm glad there were other things on the plate or I might I worried I had covid and lost my sense of taste
After dinner we stopped by the car so N could grab his pocket knife and do butt surgery. This is what A calls it when he cuts the tags off her stuffed animals butts
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And then we watched a little tv, and listened to our neighbor lady yell at her kids some more, and went to sleep early.
With the mask rules, I've found myself having to choose between mask and sunglasses and is not really a choice. So I've forwent sunglasses so far, and when we sat down at Harambe Market I almost said I was so surprised I didn't have as headache yet from there bright sun and my stroke brain. I guess you don't have to actually say the thing to jinx yourself though
Early sleep was so necessary. So in went the ear plugs, and out went the sounds of little Addison and little Avery next door and their mom making magical memories.
Perhaps purchasing a baseball cap or peaked brim may help your eyes a little.
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