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So far a wonderful 1st few days of your trip!!! Can't wait for more!
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Sounds like a wonderful day! I just hope we can get Fastpasses for Flight of Passage - and ironically I'll be starting to try from 11 November onwards....
and for getting Flight of Passage FPs. I'm really glad Luke didn't mind getting up early to get ours.
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Great plans, FOP is a fabulous ride, I loved it, Pandora is a photographers dream. The gorillas were so active this trip, I was thrilled.
I can't wait for our first experience with this ride. I've been looking at other people's photos of Pandora, and imagining how much fun I'm going to have there. Hope the gorillas remain active through November, too.
You have a great day planned. We are looking forward to seeing the new babies in AK. We were lucky to get our FP for both the great rides in Pandora, FOP and NR!!!
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We’ll be back in Animal Kingdom today beginning with Kilimanjaro Safaris around 9:00. We have little time here between FastPass so we might head straight into Gorilla Falls Trail to see what the gorillas are up to this morning. Our next FastPass will take us to Dinoland to ride DINOSAUR around 10:20. Mid-afternoon we have a late lunch for 3:15 at Tusker House with the Rivers of Light dining package. Soon after we finish eating, we’ll walk over to Pandora: The Land of Avatar for our first ever ride on Flight of Passage. Our FastPass window is 4:35 – 5:35. Our night will finish with Rivers of Light.
Now that is a great day at AK. We were staying off property so we could not get FPs for FOP. We had to do the very early in line strategy and then keep watching the standby time. We were lucky to get a 60 minute wait in June and a 90 minute wait in September. The early in line strategy actually amounted to a wait of about 60 minutes counting the wait at the touch point before rope drop and then the wait on the bridge and teh walk to the ride. OH WELL, it was well worth the wait. The dinner seats at ROL are really great. We did that in June as well. You will love all of these.
I just saw an article about two new babies at AK. The article said that they will probably not be out until 2018. It would be nice if the article were wrong and they are out early. The new babies are both giraffes, a male and a female. We can hope, right?
I just saw an article about two new babies at AK. The article said that they will probably not be out until 2018. It would be nice if the article were wrong and they are out early. The new babies are both giraffes, a male and a female. We can hope, right?
If that is the same article I read, the baby giraffes are at the Lodge. We'll be staying at Kidani in May 2018, and I can't wait to see them.
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Time to head back to Hollywood Studios. We got FastPasses for our top 3 attractions here: Toy Story Midway Mania 9:25, Tower of Terror 10:25, and Star Tours 11:25. Originally, we planned to leave early, but then some new stuff caught our attention. Luke asked me one night when we’d be at Studios because Jingle Bell, Jingle BAM! Would be returning. Thankfully, this day we can make it part of the day, though it did mean changing the time of our ADR at Raglan Road. That was easily done, moving it from 7:50 to 5:00 PM so we can eat and make it back to the park in time. Also this evening we’ll be able to see Sunset Seasons Greeting, a new Christmas addition. If you want to know more about it, click here. After filling up on the Christmas spirit, we’ll head back to Saratoga Springs to sleep, envisioning dancing sugar plum fairies.
More great plans! I wish our fall break was either a little earlier, or a little later, as we seem to be missing both Halloween and Christmas festivities.
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I just hope we can get Fastpasses for Flight of Passage - and ironically I'll be starting to try from 11 November onwards....
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for getting Flight of Passage FPs. I'm really glad Luke didn't mind getting up early to get ours. 
Great plans, Cam and I am right there with you with Pandora and Flight of Passage!! 
Mid-afternoon we have a late lunch for 3:15 at Tusker House with the Rivers of Light dining package. Soon after we finish eating, we’ll walk over to Pandora: The Land of Avatar for our first ever ride on Flight of Passage. 
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