snookie5605
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Aug 21, 2008
Thursday June 25th
Today we were headed to Animal Kingdom. We woke up around 6:45am to head out. We had breakfast reservations at the Tusker House for Donalds Safari Breakfast. We got to the park extremely early with some other people.
It was a very foggy and humid day, which always makes for a fun time at AK. That park is hot to begin with!
So we get there and were all just wondering around, trying to find out where we should stand. Me and some other guy both asked a lady there where we should stand. She pretty much yelled at us and told us the park doesnt open until 9. We both responded that we had reservations at 8am so there must be somehow we can get it. She said something like she didnt know where we stood and walked away. We all agreed that this CM was not in the Disney spirit. Finally another woman walked over and said she forgot to put the sign out for where we stand.
The man told her how nasty the other lady was. She just laughed and said yeah thats normal and told us to line up. She was a lot nicer and had the mood of being in the happiest place on earth.
We finally check in out front at about 7:45ish and head on into the park. We got some nice shots being there so early.
We check in at the desk and get our picture taken (which we didnt buy) and go on into the restaurant. We head on up to get our food, which by the way, they had a huge selection of things. I go to grab plates for all of us and start to hand Mike a plate. Well Mike wasnt paying attention and I thought he grabbed it from me and I let go. CRASH!
There goes the plate! All we hear is This isnt Epcot. We arent in Greece where we throw plates! one of the servers said that and laughed and it was all good. My foot got cut in the process but not too bad! I didnt take a lot of pics of food because again it was the same stuff at breakfast. But we had the delicious juice again. The coffee was instant, but whatever! We had a sampling of eggs, bacon, sausage, yogurt, Krispie Kreme donuts, turnovers, danishes, chocolate croissants, etc
Soon the characters came out. First was Goofy.
He was cool as usual. At least a lot better than Chef Mickey! Then came out Donald.
Then Daisy.
Then Mickey.
All in all it was a good breakfast. The OOP cost would have been $73.46 plus tip, but we used 1 credit per person on the DDP.
So we leave the restaurant just in time for our first rope drop. This became a joke with Chynna and Mike the rest of the trip because they thought I was a dork. I had never made it for a rope drop before so this was cool! At least to me it was! They started saying at every rope drop, This is rope drop Animal Kingdom, 2009! with a dum, dum, dum after. They thought they were just so funny! There was also this lady who works there that became obsessed with fixing the rope. I guess from people pulling it, it got all twisted. Well she like freaked out if anyone touched it and was busy fixing it for a good 15 minutes. It was a little weird but hey whatever floats her boat! Since we were right outside of the Kiliminjaro Safari, we decided to go on that first.
This was a very good idea! We were the first truck out and saw tons of animals!
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Today we were headed to Animal Kingdom. We woke up around 6:45am to head out. We had breakfast reservations at the Tusker House for Donalds Safari Breakfast. We got to the park extremely early with some other people.
It was a very foggy and humid day, which always makes for a fun time at AK. That park is hot to begin with!
So we get there and were all just wondering around, trying to find out where we should stand. Me and some other guy both asked a lady there where we should stand. She pretty much yelled at us and told us the park doesnt open until 9. We both responded that we had reservations at 8am so there must be somehow we can get it. She said something like she didnt know where we stood and walked away. We all agreed that this CM was not in the Disney spirit. Finally another woman walked over and said she forgot to put the sign out for where we stand.
The man told her how nasty the other lady was. She just laughed and said yeah thats normal and told us to line up. She was a lot nicer and had the mood of being in the happiest place on earth.
We finally check in out front at about 7:45ish and head on into the park. We got some nice shots being there so early.
We check in at the desk and get our picture taken (which we didnt buy) and go on into the restaurant. We head on up to get our food, which by the way, they had a huge selection of things. I go to grab plates for all of us and start to hand Mike a plate. Well Mike wasnt paying attention and I thought he grabbed it from me and I let go. CRASH!
There goes the plate! All we hear is This isnt Epcot. We arent in Greece where we throw plates! one of the servers said that and laughed and it was all good. My foot got cut in the process but not too bad! I didnt take a lot of pics of food because again it was the same stuff at breakfast. But we had the delicious juice again. The coffee was instant, but whatever! We had a sampling of eggs, bacon, sausage, yogurt, Krispie Kreme donuts, turnovers, danishes, chocolate croissants, etc
Soon the characters came out. First was Goofy.
He was cool as usual. At least a lot better than Chef Mickey! Then came out Donald.
Then Daisy.
Then Mickey.
All in all it was a good breakfast. The OOP cost would have been $73.46 plus tip, but we used 1 credit per person on the DDP.
So we leave the restaurant just in time for our first rope drop. This became a joke with Chynna and Mike the rest of the trip because they thought I was a dork. I had never made it for a rope drop before so this was cool! At least to me it was! They started saying at every rope drop, This is rope drop Animal Kingdom, 2009! with a dum, dum, dum after. They thought they were just so funny! There was also this lady who works there that became obsessed with fixing the rope. I guess from people pulling it, it got all twisted. Well she like freaked out if anyone touched it and was busy fixing it for a good 15 minutes. It was a little weird but hey whatever floats her boat! Since we were right outside of the Kiliminjaro Safari, we decided to go on that first.
This was a very good idea! We were the first truck out and saw tons of animals!