Day 2 I woke up at 6:30 am. I was so worried about adjusting to the time, that I made FP later than I should have, because I was wide awake on Florida time and ready to go! What a difference a good night sleep makes in a comfy bed. We loved our room at Pop, even though it was not a refurbished room. I got showered and got the little guy up and we headed of to AK. Wow, once again what a beautiful park. Should have grabbed breakfast at the hotel but I was anxious to go. We took our rental car and getting to the park took maybe 10-15 minutes at the most. So we get in the park and we are hungry! We probably should have tried to get in line for Navi, but we were looking for food instead, and not much is open and serving that early . The yak and yeti quick service was serving breakfast so we had a burrito. Now we were ready to go. we did expedition everest first, even tho we had a fast pass for later, the wait was next to nothing. What a fun ride, and we don’t have a similar ride on the west coast. Then we did the river raft ride. We also did the animal walk through, ( cant remember what its called, Jungle trek?) walked over to dino land and did primeval whirl. cute ride and kinda reminded me of Goofy sky school. I felt like we did a lot of walking since we were not familiar with the park. It was time for our lunch and a good thing since we had only split a burrito earlier, I knew we were having lunch at Tusker and wanted to save plenty of room. We didnt have to wait to long to be seated, and our server was the best. All in all in was a great experience. I loved the food and the character interaction. we finished and road everest again. It was getting hot and crowded and our FoP wasn’t till later that evening so we left and went back to the room. DS8 took a dip in the pool, I had a nice adult beverage, and we relaxed for a couple hours. Then headed back for FOP and let me tell you it was breathtaking, all of Pandora is so well themed, but that ride is one of a kind. Then we headed back to the room again. later that evening we went to hollywood studios to watch the Star wars fireworks. I was a bit underwhelmed with that one. Seemed mostly projections and movie recaps. Ok, day two has come to end, we fell fast asleep as soon as we got to the room!!
nice reports. we are west coast too, and did our first WDW trip in April. I’ll look forward to your comparisons vs DL as well, especially MK once you get there.
I did forget to mention that kali is similar to grizzly river run, but I think grizzly is a little better. I really loved comparing the two coasts. Lots of similarity’s but for sure two different experiences.
We definitely liked Grizzly River Run better than Kali. We’re not even planning to hit Kali on this trip but we would do Grizzly again in an instant.
Sounds like a great day!
We too were underwhelmed by the Star Wars fireworks show. The previous version (from about a year and a half ago, or maybe even longer ago) was so much better. If you aren’t a huge Star Wars fan, this is a one and done. Glad we saw it though.