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So many great experiences this day! I’m glad to hear that Claire loved her first ride on RnRC, and that you both enjoyed 50’s Prime Time! It’s been years since we ate there, but we liked it! So I take it you never saw the American Idol show in the theatre where the Frozen singalong is?
Wow, talk about packing in first time experiences this day! I'm so glad you got to do the 50s Prime Time. I must admit we've only done it once, as I'm not a fan of the antics there, but I do remember how good the milkshakes were in there!
I try to do new things each trip and today we seemed to be doing several!
We had such a good server that I think it made it really fun. We are jokesters, so it was pretty fun.
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I was worried that with high expectations, 50’s PT wouldn’t live up to it for you. Glad it did! We haven’t eaten there in years now. So many options, and if you don’t have a good server there, it can really fall short.
I can imagine you were feeling tired by that point!
We loved it! Our server was really great. I was happy we got a good one. I have heard it can be hit or miss.
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So many great experiences this day! I’m glad to hear that Claire loved her first ride on RnRC, and that you both enjoyed 50’s Prime Time! It’s been years since we ate there, but we liked it! So I take it you never saw the American Idol show in the theatre where the Frozen singalong is?
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I never did see the American Idol and actually forgot it was a thing. LOL. I think I have only watched one season of that show on TV and that was when Carrie Underwood won.
We arrived back at Music and went to our room. I was very disappointed with our location. I booked a preferred room and when I do that at a Value I usually put in 3 requests. First floor, Pool side, and then the building I want. We all know when you put those requests in, you put them in the order of importance and that they are only requests….but Disney usually delivers for us. Not always, but usually we get most of our requests. For me, first floor at a Value is my number 1 want! I love to be on the first floor and I really like it when I am poolside. Just my personal preferences.
Well we went to our room and right away I knew the number has us on the 2nd floor. Not happy about that, but perhaps we are still poolside….oh and we are in the building I requested. Nope, not poolside either. In fact, we are on the back side of the building in the VERY last room. Sure it’s closer than the standard rooms are, but I was so unhappy with our location. I let it be though. We were only here 2 nights. If we had our whole vacation stay here though, I would have gone back and asked to be moved.
We made the trek to our room and our bags were waiting for us.
You can see it looks a little grey out. I had been told by some people that it had just poured here recently. We had missed the rain at Hollywood Studios, so we lucked out.
I headed back to the room and we just relaxed. Claire had earlier seen pictures on Snapchat of Jeanne’s kids with Caleb. She was super jealous that they met up again….at Disney Springs. She assumed they had lunch together and she was feeling left out. I had been messaging with Jeanne off and on and she told me they just ran into each other and took a few pictures. Claire felt better then, but was still sad. She was missing her friends.
It felt so good to just relax and we made the decision not to go back to Hollywood Studios. We wanted to see the fireworks, but we knew it would be better to just lay low and go to sleep early since our plans were to head to Animal Kingdom first thing tomorrow morning.
It was time to call it a night then. I told Claire to put her phone away so that we could get some sleep. We had one more full day left and tomorrow we would be going non-stop all day long!
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I've been reading your trip report from the beginning. I'm just a little slow commenting.
Music was the first value resort I ever stayed at. I think we stayed in Broadway back in a corner. It was very quiet there but a walk to everything.
I'm glad Claire made some friends on the cruise. It looks like you both had a good time.
Liz
Sorry you weren't thrilled with your room location. You reminded me that I can do online check-in in 6 days!
I wish it had been at least on the pool side.
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Sorry you didn't get a great location for your room.
It wasn't the worst thing, but I just don't like being on the back side.
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I've been reading your trip report from the beginning. I'm just a little slow commenting.
Music was the first value resort I ever stayed at. I think we stayed in Broadway back in a corner. It was very quiet there but a walk to everything.
I'm glad Claire made some friends on the cruise. It looks like you both had a good time.
Liz
Thanks for reading. Yes, the Broadway area was pretty far back. I personally like the set up of Pop better.
We had such a wonderful time. Claire really enjoyed this cruise so much.
We had a goal today…to get to Animal Kingdom BEFORE opening. Claire actually got right up and got moving too. I think she knew this would be her only chance at riding Flight of Passage again for a long time and she really liked the ride.
We headed out to the bus stop. I really prefer the bus stops at Values than I do at any of the other resorts. I like that it is one stop (usually, with All Stars sometimes making more than one) and they just seem to work out better when it comes to getting on the bus as well.
The line wasn’t too long, so we figured we had just missed a bus and it did take a while for one to finally arrive. We got on the bus and soon were at Animal Kingdom….with several thousand of our new best friends. We had to wait to get in since we were here an hour early.
When it scanned us, it said something was wrong and to hold still while they scanned again….just like it did before. Another person told us that means that they are not ready for us to move to the next room. If all runs smoothly it doesn’t say that.
It wasn’t long before we were through all the rooms and onto the ride. We basically had the same seats we had the first time we rode it, only this time on a different floor. I did take a look up and down this time to see how it was set up. The ride was amazing once again and I am so glad we got to get on it again.
We still had some time before we HAD to leave for the Magic Kingdom so we decided to head over to Everest one last time. As we walked out of Pandora there were musicians playing to the people in line. The line went all the way to Africa and BACK! Holy cow!
It wasn’t too long before the bus arrived and I think only 2 other people got on as well. I thought we might be the only ones switching parks this early in the day, but I was wrong!
We were having lunch at Be Our Guest today and I had never done the pre-order prior to the trip. I decided while riding we should do that. It makes the line faster if you do so, so I gave Claire her choices and we made an order and were all set for lunch then.
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Soon we were rocking and rolling around the crazy track. I know not everyone likes this ride, but we love it. It is way too short, but we find it great fun.
Claire was still hungry and I had promised her another pretzel today, so we stopped off for that.
We had a little bit of time before it opened, so we decided to cool off in the gift shop. We found these soaps and chapstick and just started laughing….and of course had to take pictures of them.
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I'm so glad you got to do the 50s Prime Time. I must admit we've only done it once, as I'm not a fan of the antics there, but I do remember how good the milkshakes were in there! 
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