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Some nice plans for the parks and love your dining choices as well! Hope it all works out to a great time with no snags!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
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The three day itinerary looks great. Having a few slow days sounds relaxing. My DH and I figured by slowing our pace, we saw parts of Disney Parks we never knew existed.
Some nice plans for the parks and love your dining choices as well! Hope it all works out to a great time with no snags!
If there are snags, we'll just go with it.
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The three day itinerary looks great. Having a few slow days sounds relaxing. My DH and I figured by slowing our pace, we saw parts of Disney Parks we never knew existed.
A slower pace really does allow us to see things we used to miss in our hurry from one attraction to another.
Our plans today have us at Disney's Animal Kingdom for a slightly earlier start. Our FastPass+ selections this day are:
DINOSAUR 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM (One of Luke’s favorites, so we’ll get the herky-jerky over with early. )
Kilimanjaro Safaris 10:40 AM - 11:40 AM (I had hoped to have this one first thing in the day, but it wouldn’t work out no matter what we did to tweak it. We’ll probably try to get here right at the start of our FP+ time. So I’m hopeful we’ll still see some good animal activity.)
Festival of the Lion King 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM (This is my favorite live show at WDW, so I’m always excited for it. the new theater and the theming in this area. There is even a very nice new restroom back there.)
Luke recently read on Orland Theme Park News that an updated Disney Conservation Fund exhibit will be at Rafiki’s Planet Watch beginning in April. The Disney Conservation Fund is about to celebrate its 20th anniversary, and to commemorate that they are changing their name, dropping the word “Worldwide,” which had itself replaced “Wildlife.” DCF will have a new logo.
We haven’t been back to Rafiki’s Planet Watch in quite a few trips, but we’ll definitely head back to check out this exhibit. There will eventually be new buttons, but the old ones will still be available until the transition is complete. To read more about this new exhibit check out this article that Luke read. Orlando Theme Park News: Conservation Fund Exhibit Coming to Rafiki's Planet Watch
After a full day at DAK, we’ll travel the short distance to Disney's Animal Kingdom Villas - Kidani Village for dinner at our favorite restaurant ever -- Sanaa – at 7:00 PM. Every time I think about it I get hungry for Naan and Red Bell Pepper Humus or Coriander Chutney, Butter Chicken, Slow Roasted Beef, and Basmati Rice.
Thursday, May 14
Today will be our second time at Epcot, so we made our FastPass+ selections to try some different attractions. We also decided to start this day later since yesterday was an early morning day. We picked the following:
Meet Disney Pals at the Epcot Character Spot 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM (This is one of my favorite meet and greets as in one line you can cover usually four characters. Besides that the wait is mainly indoors in the A/C.)
The Seas with Nemo & Friends® 1:40 PM - 2:40 PM (More than likely, we won’t really need this FP+, but with the tiered system at this park, something needs to be picked.)
Soarin'® 2:50 PM - 3:50 PM (We’re still a little bummed that you can’t get a FP+ for this one and Test Track at the same time. I’m also excited that this one is getting an expansion plus new projection. Definitely time! We’ll be visiting Disneyland in October, and will get to experience the refurb there.)
During times between these three attractions and afterwards, we’ll once again be covering the Flower & Garden Festival gardens and lunch may be at one of the booths. Whatever we haven’t covered according to my F&GF PassPorter will be our first priorities.
Eventually, we’ll have dinner at La Hacienda de San Angel at 6:30 PM. Whether we stay for Illuminations or not will depend on how our plans worked out on Monday. I sort of suspect that this may be the night we watch it since we’ll probably be more rested with the late start.
Friday, May 15
Friday has us headed to Disney's Hollywood Studios to experience opening day of Star Wars Weekends. The park today opens at 8:00 and we plan to get there fairly close to that. Our FastPass+ are as follows:
Star Tours® – The Adventures Continue 8:45 AM - 9:45 AM (You can’t got to SWW and not ride ST. We both think that we get better rides at this time with places we aren’t used to visiting.)
Toy Story Midway Mania! 10:20 AM - 11:20 AM (This will be the first of my favorite rides. We used to fail at getting FP+ for this one as we typically arrived at the park to late and the passes had run out. So for this ride alone, I love FP+. Now we usually get to ride it at least twice each trip. )
The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror™ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (My other favorite ride)
At some point in the day we will join a very long line in order to shop in Darth’s Mall. We might go a bit crazy in here, but I can promise you that we are small-time spenders compared to many, many people who are shopping in there with actual carts. I only grade a hand basket. Luke has seen somewhere, maybe the Dis boards, that Dooney & Bourke has SWW bags this year. Now that is something I’d definitely be interested in.
We got very lucky and booked the Jedi Mickey's Star Wars Dine at Hollywood and Vine with the Fantasmic 1st Show at 5:40 PM. Along with seeing Fantasmic this night, we hope to stay late enough for the SWW fireworks, which we failed to make last May. This will be our longest park day, but maybe we can find a way to rest a little within the park itself.
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More great plans! Sanaa....I could eat the bread service every day.
Do you think the park will open even earlier than 8 on SWW? I thought we got in before then a few years ago. I'm surprised they've waited this long on the D&B SW bags. I'm interested to see what they look like.
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I wonder if I'll ever get to eat at Sanaa. My family is not adventurous at all, when it comes to eating.
I have the same question....my husband doesn't like "adventurous eating" and the younger two especially are scared of "different" foods.
Cam, your plans sound great so far!
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More great plans Cam! Those will be some long days in the parks and hope you will be well rested for them! Glad you will be dining at two of my favorites with Sanaa and La Hacienda!
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My family is not adventurous at all, when it comes to eating.
Glad you will be dining at two of my favorites with Sanaa and La Hacienda! 
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