Hey all! Before I get back to my updates I have some exciting news to share!
Our granddaughter came over today - just her she drove
I know it looks like she's about to body slam safari Mickey but she really loves him, calls him her baby and hugs him continuously. And her mouth is covered in chocolate from the chocolate covered pretzels Grams gave her Anyway while they were here they booked their very first Disney vacation!! Not only is it Hayden's but my DIL Candace's first trip And of course Steve and I are going! It's not until next September but I already gave Candace a list of restaurants to check out, we know what parks we're doing and how many days in each park.
And best of all we're staying at my #1 absolute favorite Disney resort of all time, the Wilderness Lodge Now I just have to count down the days!!!
OK, Let's get right back into 4th of July mode now, shall we??
I left off way back when with our DISmeet ending at AK with Renee
@ArielSRL and family when they went back to their resort to swim and we continued our time at the park. Satisfied from our snacking at Nomad Lounge we went straight to our first fastpass at EE
I'm always singled out on EE because I'm the coolest member of my family
This was going to be Chris's first time riding and we were surprised he'd made it this far! As you can see he made it on the ride and back with us too:
And he looks like he's having fun! Or maybe bored by it all? But not as bored as Ricky is with his "I'm on a really fun ride" face that comes with every PP ride pic he's in lol.
Next up was our FOP FP followed by a viewing of Festival of the Lion King, a show all of us enjoy. Somewhere along the line I took this picture of the back of Tiffins:
It's from the walkway connecting Pandora and Africa so we must have "walked this way" to attractions. Oops wrong park! We then went back to Asia for our 3rd FP because I like to make my family criss-cross the park as often as possible. This FP was for Chris for a ride we don't do that often, Kali River Rapids. Not that we don't like it but as a water ride it's usually pretty lacking. And as far as rides in AK it's just not at the top of our list. But since Chris likes it and it was July, why not?
I took a couple pictures since we don't see this that much:
And proceeded to not get wet at all. There was a little boy about 7 on the raft with us and he was SO excited to get soaked! And so disappointed when he got off as dry as when he got on lol. This is one I think they need to work on.......................
Now that we'd used all our FP's and it was 150 degrees outside, we were ready to move on from AK for today. I did need a little snack though so we stopped in Zuri's Sweet Shoppe so I could get the chili dark chocolate Mickey head I had gotten in Feb. Lo and behold they have stopped making this so I had to settle for an oldie but a goodie:
I do love this cookie but when you're expecting a nice, spicy, solid dark chocolate treat this just isn't quite the same. Oh well, didn't stop me from eating it!
We made our way out to go back to the resort and chill for a bit as we had a rather long night ahead of us. Steve and I had done DAH at HS back in January, had a great experience with really low wait times, and were now taking the kids to it again! Ricky and I love TOT and Chris really enjoys TSM so we thought it would be a hit and we'd avoid the scorching daytime weather.
We didn't have dinner plans until we were waiting for FOTLK when we got on the app to see what we wanted. We ended up booking a restaurant we'd eaten at back in 2014 and had a great experience at:
We ate dinner here on arrival night in 2014 during our first stay at CSR. Chris had what he thought was the best steak ever here. I did tell him the menu had changed but it still looked really good to all of us, so we Lyfted over there for a 6:00 reservation knowing it would work fine to get in to HS at 8:30.
I started with a Mexican sangria:
which I did not like at all and was a little foreshadowing to my meal unfortunately. Read on for more!