We got to our house and settled down before heading out to EPCOT Center for Flower and Garden Festival. We got there and first thing we did was get Soarin' fastpasses as it was necessary to ride this. I believe we also got some at Mission:SPACE. We rode the Test Track and something else, don't remember. Well, almost the whole trip report might be a little skimpy from lack of memory. Anyways, we then went to China to eat dinner at Nine Dragons and saved 10% with Annual Passholder discount. Then we rode Mission:SPACE, Spaceship Earth, Journey Into YOUR Imagination, The Seas with Nemo and Friends and Soarin'. I believe that is all we rode this day at EPCOT. We stayed for Illuminations and then got out of the park as fast as possible to get the Magic Kingdom, which was open till 1am. We hit up Space Mountain there and Buzz Lightyear, where I got a sad score of 999,999 and 430,500, not my best. We also hit up Small World and left Lundy a very nice voicemail from this grand and miraculous ride. Haunted Mansion was next and lines were short at this time of day with SpectroMagic going on. Finally, the great Splash Mountain, with many pictures again, as usual, and Big Thunder Mountain. Then finish at Pirates, this is where Ally got tired and wanted to leave. The first visit to the Kingdom, there was no camera with us, as it was left in the car, but still plenty of pictures.
Day two, we started the day at Disney's Hollywood Studios. We got fastpasses to RnR and went to Tower of Terror to get a nice drop ride, still the best. Then went to ride the GREAT Movie Ride, but isn't as great as the name says. Then RnR, just the basic Vekoma gloriness. Then Ally wanted to eat at the Sci-Fi Drive-In, which they have decent food, but nice atmosphere. Now we rode Star Tours, still good, but really needs that upgrade to Star Tours 2.0 soon. Then we left for Animal Kingdom for Everest and Dinosaur. We rode Everest a couple times, thanks a bunch to the single riders line! Also got on Primeval Whirl with a couple fastpasses as well, only 30 minute fastpass wait time to a 45 standby line...hmm... Then got on Dinosaur with our fastpass and still an awesome ride, but I think I may have had too much fun reciting the whole ride as we were riding. After this, we left and went to the Magic Kingdom again. This time, we brought the camera and did basically the same as the previous day. Re-enter passes on Space Mountain and walk-on all the others. We did do Jungle Cruise today though instead of Big Thunder. Again we left before it closed cause Ally was tired.
Now day three, Sea World. We get there and they wont Ally in cause her Bio wouldn't match and she didn't have a valid photo ID with her. But we got her pass reset by basically going to this lady, instead of this crabby guy and used her Disney Annual Pass. My Bio didn't work as well, but I had an ID, which made it easier, something must have happened last time we entered during Christmas. Anyways, we got to Kraken and took a nice ride on my first B&M of the year. It was surprisingly smooth, like really really smooth, caught me off guard. Then we rode Journey to Atlantis, still a fun ride, but Ally doesn't like it cause you can get wet on it, but what else is expected on a water ride? Then we waited for the other half of the park to open at 10 to ride Wild Arctic, since Ally only rode Polar Express version. Then it was time to hit up Aquatica. Now here, I will do a comparison between HH and Aquatica in my opinion. Overall though, I give the edge to Aquatica.
Slides - even
Wave pool - HH
Lazy River - Aquatica
Theming/Atmosphere - even (Aquatica had less buildings, but more plant life and water effects)
Locker Rooms - Aquatica
Pool Temperatures - Aquatica
Food - Aquatica
Play Structure - HH
Overall, I really enjoyed this park. It did hit capacity while we were there and the lines were still reasonable and the wave pools were not very crowded. The rapids lazy river is insanely awesome and the family slides were a lot of fun, very similar to MtO's family slides. As I have said before, I really enjoyed the buffet here and was a great deal, even just for the one time pass. The pool's water temperature was about 82 degrees, which is very comfortable, especially when it's about 84 outside. And lastly, the sand they used was sweet, amazing feeling sand, wish it was everywhere...
Then we went back to Sea World just to watch the dolphin show, Blue Horizons as it is my favorite theme park show I have ever seen anywhere. Also, the last like 5 minutes is the best sequence to any show I have ever seen, so amazing. After this, we left to go to ESPN Club to eat at the Boardwalk for the second day in a row, good food and cheap. We then went to Hollywood Studios for a couple rides, Great Movie Ride again and Little Mermaid thing, which isn't very great. Also saw Joe at RnR waiting for his fastpass time and gave him an extra Magic Kingdom re-enter pass we had, we had 9, but only could use 8 since there was 2 of us.
Then we went back to EPCOT the next morning and rode Soarin twice in the morning, crowds were much lighter than the previous days and we got on basically every ride in Future World before the power outage around 12:45. We were just getting off Universe of Energy and walked out and then Future World ran out of Energy.
But it was a power outage, but we were going to eat at Mexico anyways, so we went over there and World Showcase was still operating all the rides. Then we got our time to eat which was a 1 hour wait, so we went back to Future World and saw everything closed, really funny. And the time boards were all messed up with wrong times. Ally went to the pin trading store and got a couple pins then we went back to Mexico to eat. Then the day went as normal and ended just like the first day. But I believe we quit after Splash Mountain this time.Anyways, that is the trip in a nut shell. We then left to go home the next day, not before I spent a couple by our pool at our house before I left.
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