Day 3 - Animal Kingdom continued
We're heading back to Everest to use our FastPass! Yay! It's 1:24pm and it's starting to sprinkle! OH NOES! It will be OK. I just hope they don't shut down Everest before we get there. They don't! Here we are in the FP queue, you can see the raindrops behind us -
After we get off the ride, the second we get off in fact, a torrential downpour begins. Gushing water from the sky! AAAHHH!!! We decide to split up, Brad and Kythe don't care if they get drenched and want to go back to Dinoland and I want to find somewhere dry to wait out the storm. Within seconds I am drenched to the core. I purchase a poncho quickly and put it over my already drenched clothes. I take refuge in a toilet. Literally. It's 1:54pm. I figure I'll wait a few minutes and then see if the rain will stop so I can make it to a shop.
20 minutes later the rain stops and I've made my way to a covered kiosk that has a giant fan. I'm trying to dry out as best as I can in front of the fan. I get a call from Brad and Kythe, they are headed my way. I'm near the Outfitters. We browse the shops for a bit and try to kill time until our 3:30pm Lion King FastPass. More ominous clouds are moving in, so we head to Lion King anyway to get an earlier show.
We arrive just before a show is starting and are seated in the Giraffe section. The new theater is nice, almost exactly the same I think. The show is wonderful but seems quicker maybe? Maybe not. It's also weird at the end with the equipment being packed up seems not as smooth as what I remember in the old theater.
I got a bit of video of the reprise of Can you Feel the Love with the flying. I love that part -
After the show we decide to leave the park for the day, have a relaxing evening. Ride totals for today are on the low side - 2x Everest (1 w/ FP, 1 w/15 min standby), 1 Safari w/FP, 2x Dinosaur nearly walk on standby. We also saw Lion King.
Back at POP Brad and Kythe go to the arcade for a bit, then we take the car to Texas Roadhouse for a yummy dinner and stop at Target to pick up some things we need.
Up next....Magic Kingdom!! Finally!!!