Friday, September 25, 2020

Christmas trip 2017; Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios


So, I have to admit that while the previous two days had been typed up and just never published, this final day was not written before now....a full two years since this trip.  With it only being one day, I didn't want to ignore it all together, but I definitely don't remember all the details.  If you've followed along, you will know that this was originally our checkout day and we had planned on starting home today, so I think I had booked fastpasses for flight of passage, just in case we wanted to stop on our way out of town.  Looking back at our photos, I'm guessing we picked up passes for everest and kali the night before after we decided to stay another full day.

8:00
It looks like the park opened at 8:00 and we started at  Na'vi River Journey, attraction #1.  



You can see LittleCJC decided to sport her new reindeer headband that she got from our friends that we visited the night before.  By 8:39 we had made our way to Triceratop Spin, attraction #2.




Patrick decided to ride Primeval Whirl, attraction #3 while we were here.


I don't have a picture of me on it, so I'm assuming I didn't ride, which is only sad now (2 years later) knowing that I probably never will again.  After leaving dinoland, we circled around to Asia.

9:00
Patrick and I both took a ride on Expedition Everest, attraction #4 and #5.



LittleCJC had to check, but unfortunately, antlers don't count with the ride attendants checking the height requirements.

Even though it was cool enough this morning for Patrick to still be in his pullover, we all rode Kali River Rapids, attraction #6.




The things we do for our kids, right?  At this point, we trekked across the park to use our fastpasses in the land of Pandora.

10:00
While Patrick and I both rode Flight of Passage, attraction #7 and #8, LittleCJC passed the time by exploring the land.



She also tried on some of the native headgear,




and had some ice cream.


After Pandora, we decided to make a stop at Starbucks.


11:00-1:00
I'm missing any pictures from this time block to confirm what we did.  The obvious idea though, is that we ate some lunch, and my thought is that we first rode safari (probably with a fastpass that we picked up or else this was our third instead of Kali) and then went back to Pandora for Satu'li Canteen.  After lunch, we hopped over to Hollywood Studios for Littlecjc's current favorite, Toy Story Mania.


The entrance and line had already changed from our last day here in preparations for the upcoming Toy Story Land changes.  On this day, there were no fastpasses and the standby line was mostly outside wrapping down and around that dead end street where the Dinoco car was set up for pictures.  Even though you could only really reach this photo opt from the Toy Story Mania line, Disney kept a photopass photographer here, which made the line situation a little better than it otherwise could have been.


2:00
Right at 2:00 we eventually made it onto Toy Story Mania, attraction #9.  Now that Littlecjc is getting a little older, she is starting to understand her choices.  Like wanting to ride TSM means standing in a long line.  When we got off and asked what she wanted to do next, she chose to stand in line again, this time to meet Woody and Buzz, characters #1 and #2.


3:00
The only other ride option for Littlecjc here was Star Tours, attraction #10.


With both rides done, we decided it was time to meet some characters.  First up, Olaf, character #3.


We were actually then on our way to visit Mickey and Minnie, when we came across Chip and Dale, characters #4 and #5 looking spiffy in their holiday spirit.


We still made it to Minnie, character #6


and Mickey, character #7.


4:00
We decided to rush over to the Beauty and Beast stage show.  We missed the opening scene and were seated way in the back, but that was okay with us since we weren't sure if Littlecjc would stay in her seat.  She did though, and thought our seats were fun.


After the show we were making our way to the front of the park and stopped to watch the citizens of Hollywood.


5:00
Patrick and I decided we should leave the parks early this evening, because we still hadn't taken Littlecjc to the pool and she had been asking every time we passed it.  We also didn't want to be out too late since we decided to drive home all in one day now.  After Littlecjc had a bit of a meltdown at the front of the park realizing we were serious about leaving the park for the final time this trip, her and Daddy had a cute moment where she apologized and he carried her out.


We ended the night at the pool, where Littlecjc had a great time, even if I did find it very cold.


The hotel had these lifejackets and Littlecjc thought it was great getting to wear one.  

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