A Trip to Disney World - Animal Kingdom and the Rest
I almost forgot to write this up and I know my memory is not living up to a lot of this stuff but I hope I still remember enough blips to make an amusing post. At Disney World, we also visited Animal Kingdom, Downtown Disney, and Typhoon Lagoon...
TREE OF LIFE: So, the Magic Kingdom has the Cinderella Castle, and EPCOT has the big shiny ball, and Hollywood Studios has the Sorcerer's Hat. Well, Animal Kingdom has a centerpiece, too--it's called the Tree of Life. Except the Tree of Life is not alive at all. It is made from an oil platform. -_-
Ken and I in front of the Animal Kingdom Tree of Life.
DUDE I AM SO HUNG OVER: I enjoyed doing voice overs for animals, especially the ones who didn't care if people were watching. Like the tigers, who literally laid there like they had been shot.
Dude...I am...so hung over man. Yeah...I had way too many burritos last night. Oh man. I don't feel like I can get up. I know what you mean, man...
JEDI TRAINING: One of the biggest challenges was convincing Ken's little niece to ride the Mission: Everest Roller Coaster. She's only five, but she's way taller than I ever was at that age and definitely tall enough to ride it. But the line was prohibitively long and we only had two fast passes. Finally we decided it would be best if most of us got in the single rider line and one of us took the kid and fast passed it. She picked me, so I spent the entire time in line trying to rev her up so she wouldn't be scared. Finally she said, "I'm not scared! I did Jedi training and Jedi aren't afraid of anything!" ^_^
Photopass photo that Disney took of M doing Jedi Training at MGM!
Mission: Everest Roller Coaster
THE ROYAL YETI: After the ride Ken's niece declared that she was a princess, and that the Yeti was her escaped royal pet, and that he was behaving very badly and tearing apart the railroad. But that she was going to leave him there because he found a girlfriend on the mountain...
DINOSAUR: THE RIDE: Okay the dinosaurs in this ride legitimately frightened me. I yelped. I know, I know they were just robot dinosaurs. But still...
SWIMMING WITH SHARKS!: Yes! So I tried snorkeling for the first time in a big aquarium with sharks and manta rays and tuna fish. The first time I tried it I was so scared I just kind of scooted my way to the other side of the pool. I decided to go in again and take a long leisurely swim around the second time, though, and saw several sharks, manta rays, and tuna fish. Very neat.
Ken, me, and his sister on the "Crushin' Gusher" in Typhoon Lagoon
PEEING IN THE OCEAN: Who does this?! My innocence was shattered in a discussion with Ken and his sisters, where I learned that people pee in the ocean. At least, they do so on the east coast, where beaches don't have bathrooms. Now, despite having been in the ocean many times, I have never peed in it. I have always dutifully gotten out of the ocean and braved the filthy beach bathrooms. What does everyone else do--do you guys pee in the ocean? Why hasn't anyone told me all of these years that this is okay?
He'll make a great dad one day...
RAGLAN ROAD: Ken and I visited Downtown Disney really quickly one evening and got dinner at Raglan Road at Pleasure Island, officially one of my favorite places to eat at Disney. Yay for Irish Pubs with dancers and live music!
We asked a 12 year old kid to take a photo of us in front of the Tree of Life. He kind of missed the tree, but the photo came out great anyway.
JOURNEY HOME: Our trip home was pretty random. We went through Seattle again and I happily picked up some Ice Wine at a good price. Also, our luggage was lost and found and we flew Horizon Air in a plane with propellers (a Bombadier?) and got free unlimited complementary booze.
Ken's niece and me with Mickey Mouse
This is all I think I can blog about our trip. Suffice to say it was a lot of fun and I'm really glad that we went. You can view more pictures of the trip here.
TREE OF LIFE: So, the Magic Kingdom has the Cinderella Castle, and EPCOT has the big shiny ball, and Hollywood Studios has the Sorcerer's Hat. Well, Animal Kingdom has a centerpiece, too--it's called the Tree of Life. Except the Tree of Life is not alive at all. It is made from an oil platform. -_-
Ken and I in front of the Animal Kingdom Tree of Life.
DUDE I AM SO HUNG OVER: I enjoyed doing voice overs for animals, especially the ones who didn't care if people were watching. Like the tigers, who literally laid there like they had been shot.
Dude...I am...so hung over man. Yeah...I had way too many burritos last night. Oh man. I don't feel like I can get up. I know what you mean, man...
JEDI TRAINING: One of the biggest challenges was convincing Ken's little niece to ride the Mission: Everest Roller Coaster. She's only five, but she's way taller than I ever was at that age and definitely tall enough to ride it. But the line was prohibitively long and we only had two fast passes. Finally we decided it would be best if most of us got in the single rider line and one of us took the kid and fast passed it. She picked me, so I spent the entire time in line trying to rev her up so she wouldn't be scared. Finally she said, "I'm not scared! I did Jedi training and Jedi aren't afraid of anything!" ^_^
Photopass photo that Disney took of M doing Jedi Training at MGM!
Mission: Everest Roller Coaster
THE ROYAL YETI: After the ride Ken's niece declared that she was a princess, and that the Yeti was her escaped royal pet, and that he was behaving very badly and tearing apart the railroad. But that she was going to leave him there because he found a girlfriend on the mountain...
DINOSAUR: THE RIDE: Okay the dinosaurs in this ride legitimately frightened me. I yelped. I know, I know they were just robot dinosaurs. But still...
SWIMMING WITH SHARKS!: Yes! So I tried snorkeling for the first time in a big aquarium with sharks and manta rays and tuna fish. The first time I tried it I was so scared I just kind of scooted my way to the other side of the pool. I decided to go in again and take a long leisurely swim around the second time, though, and saw several sharks, manta rays, and tuna fish. Very neat.
Ken, me, and his sister on the "Crushin' Gusher" in Typhoon Lagoon
PEEING IN THE OCEAN: Who does this?! My innocence was shattered in a discussion with Ken and his sisters, where I learned that people pee in the ocean. At least, they do so on the east coast, where beaches don't have bathrooms. Now, despite having been in the ocean many times, I have never peed in it. I have always dutifully gotten out of the ocean and braved the filthy beach bathrooms. What does everyone else do--do you guys pee in the ocean? Why hasn't anyone told me all of these years that this is okay?
He'll make a great dad one day...
RAGLAN ROAD: Ken and I visited Downtown Disney really quickly one evening and got dinner at Raglan Road at Pleasure Island, officially one of my favorite places to eat at Disney. Yay for Irish Pubs with dancers and live music!
We asked a 12 year old kid to take a photo of us in front of the Tree of Life. He kind of missed the tree, but the photo came out great anyway.
JOURNEY HOME: Our trip home was pretty random. We went through Seattle again and I happily picked up some Ice Wine at a good price. Also, our luggage was lost and found and we flew Horizon Air in a plane with propellers (a Bombadier?) and got free unlimited complementary booze.
Ken's niece and me with Mickey Mouse
This is all I think I can blog about our trip. Suffice to say it was a lot of fun and I'm really glad that we went. You can view more pictures of the trip here.