Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios

On Friday we visited the Animal Kingdom. What a fun park!

We started out by taking the Kilimanjaro Safari, seeing lots of animals (real this time, not animatronic like at the Magic Kingdom’s Jungle Cruise.)

We wandered around the world of Pandora and saw amazing sights. So well done. The scale of these scenes is so huge that photos don’t do them justice. Our ride on Avarar Flight of Passage was an intense virtual reality ride that you have to see to believe. Even though I don’t think any ride is worth a 2 hour wait, apparently many people thought it was worth it. We used our second Fast Pass of the day to ride on it.

Disney has outdone itself in creating little worlds within this park.

When we saw the Expedition Everest rider decided to pass on it, even though we could have skipped the lines. If you look closely you can see the line of roller coaster rides making their ascent. And what goes up, must come down. Nope. Not for us.

A very fun day.

Hollywood Studios

On Saturday we went to Hollywood Studios which was somewhat of a letdown after the other three parks. There really wasn’t much there for us. It seemed to be mainly shopping (really, how much Disney stuff do you need?) and restaurants, with rides thrown in. We had passes to Star Tours which was a big disappointment after Soarin’ and Avatar rides. Very short and far too much build-up for what the ride was. But it was a lovely day, I’m glad we saw the park, and Auggie was glad we returned earlier than usual!