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One of the benefits of going to WDW often is that you don't feel like you just have to get up and go to keep from missing things. You've seen it before and you know you will see it again, so sleeping in isn't so bad from time to time. I love DeVine but haven't seen her in years. Like Dave, I never know when she's out and where to look for her. Every time I've seen her, I've just been lucky.
Probably a good thing to sleep in and get some extra rest, I find Disney always tires me out.
The extra rest really helped,s o I'm glad we altered our plans. The older we get the more Disney tires us out, too. I really do enjoy some non-park time while we are there.
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That was odd with breakfast with the miscues and items they were out of! But I think it worked out for you. Nice timing in seeing DiVine! Never know when she'll be around. Unfortunately, I've never had the experience of encountering her in my many times in the AK! Hopefully, one day. Nice animal encounters on the Jungle Trek. Great day so far!
I can't believe you've never seen DeVine. I think presently she is mainly on the right as you enter the park and head up the hill in the Oasis. She is usually fairly close to the front.
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Well, that was certainly odd about the biscuit.
Glad you were able to sleep in and get a little bit of extra rest. As much as I love Disney, we purposely pad our vacation with rest days/mornings like that. It’s a great place, but an exhausting one too. (Well, for us it is anyway.)
WDW is tiring for us as well. Not matter how much we walk each day here at home, it simply does not compare to WDW.
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I was wondering what Kaltxi meant as well! Thanks for clearing that up!
You are welcome!
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Everyone needs a slow start, down day every now and then. You certainly used the time well. Glad you got to see Devine even if for only a brief visit.
We've discussed choosing FastPasses for later in the day for the second half of our trip when we'll be probably more tired.
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Sometimes you just need a slow morning on a Disney trip as I think we all try to pack so much into our days that it catches up with us. Sounds like your breakfast turned out to be a good deal. I haven't seen DeVine in quite a while but hope to catch her on one of my upcoming trips! Sounds like the weather was a little unpredictable from day to day. We found that on our October trip this past year.
You are so right. I get to excited to be back and want to see everything I can as fast as we possibly can. As I've been working on the scrapbook for this trip, I've gotten tickled because one day I had on shorts and a t-shirt and the next day I had on jeans and a hoodie. But really we had the best weather we've ever had on a trip.
A slow start to the day was probably just what you needed! Great pictures!
Sometimes we've just got to listen to our bodies and give them a break, not always easy to do at WDW, but we're learning.
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One of the benefits of going to WDW often is that you don't feel like you just have to get up and go to keep from missing things. You've seen it before and you know you will see it again, so sleeping in isn't so bad from time to time. I love DeVine but haven't seen her in years. Like Dave, I never know when she's out and where to look for her. Every time I've seen her, I've just been lucky.
We keep reminding ourselves of the fact that we'll be back and we can see things again. We're trying to plan some down mornings on this coming May trip.
I can't believe you've never seen DeVine. I think presently she is mainly on the right as you enter the park and head up the hill in the Oasis. She is usually fairly close to the front.
Makes sense as so often I take the left side instead of the right, so hope to see her eventually! No reason why I take that side!
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I’m so happy to know DeVine is still around. We haven’t seen her in our last two trips. She just fascinates me.
I sometimes prefer a kids meal as it has a better amount of food for me. Weird he couldn’t order biscuits and gravy, but still got a biscuit. Wonder if they’re all pre-prepped?
Makes sense as so often I take the left side instead of the right, so hope to see her eventually! No reason why I take that side!
We tend to got in on the right and out on the left. I don't know why we do that either.
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I’m so happy to know DeVine is still around. We haven’t seen her in our last two trips. She just fascinates me.
I sometimes prefer a kids meal as it has a better amount of food for me. Weird he couldn’t order biscuits and gravy, but still got a biscuit. Wonder if they’re all pre-prepped?
Could have been pre-prepped. We also wondered if they were actually out of gravy and the cook just said the wrong thing. Either way Luke got a much bigger breakfast for the price of the smaller one.
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NEXT: A Very Different PhotoPass Experience Day 6 Friday, November 10 Part 2 at Animal Kingdom
Our wandering in the Oasis eventually brought us out and down into Discovery Island. But before any more adventures, we both needed restroom break, so we made our way down and around the shop on the right where we knew some restrooms to be. Sort of right before entering into Dinoland. I got out a little before Luke and took a seat on a rock wall across from the restrooms. There was a musician playing an electric harp here, which could have been pleasant if hadn’t also been incredibly loud. When Luke rejoined me, we noticed a lonely PhotoPass photograph who was taking photos with the Dinoland sign in the background. We’ve never had photos here, so we walked up to him and he obliged with photos for us. He took quite a few shots, including a magic one. You’ll also notice in the photos that this is a dismal, overcast day. We really moved sluggishly through this day and wondered later if the weather was muting our moods as well.
At this time of day, we noticed that the Tree of Life PhotoPass photographers had short lines and chose the one on the right. I don’t think I mentioned this on our first Animal Kingdom day update, but every time we had PhotoPass photos taken, the photographer asked to scan one of our bands prior to take any photos. We had discussed this later over dinner at Sanaa and wondered what was up. So today, Luke asked, and the photographer responded that it was an experiment currently being done only at Animal Kingdom. The reasoning behind this was twofold: to make the process a bit more efficient and quicker as once a family was done they were ready to move out of the way and to guarantee this step was not omitted. We liked it this way, but who knows if it will be fully implemented throughout all four parks.
Now this photo session started off in a normal fashion. The only difference being that there really as no line and I guess the photographer wanted to keep himself busy because he took a lot of photos. Despite the gloom of the day, these are really very good. After the photos below of us with the frame, we thought we were done.
But the photographer asked Luke to get our camera, and then turned to me and said pose like a princess. Now I’m not really a princess sort of girl, so forgive my silly poses. The PhotoPass Photographer then took photos of Luke pretending to take photos of me. Luke actually did take the first photo of me, but then just held the camera as though he was. By the end I was ready to move on as I felt the last bit of the experience was just a wee bit different, maybe even odd. But then I don’t like to have all the focus on me. Luke's actual photo is first.
Since their habitat was nearby, we went to check out the lemurs, both ring-tailed and collared. Today they were more active, so I was able to get several cool shots of these sweethearts.
Afterwards, we decided to take in It’s Tough to Be a Bug via the standby line, which was listed at 10 minutes. It may have taken us most of that time to weave our way through the queue before arriving at the theater. From the time we picked up our bug glasses, moved to a spot near the doors, and then the doors opened seemed like less than 5 minutes. We enjoyed the show again, and I was as thoroughly grossed out by the bugs leaving the theater first as always.
At some point I had begun texting back and forth with Lisa (lfredsbo) as they were still in Animal Kingdom. Once we came out of It’s Tough to Be a Bug, I checked to see if any new texts had come in while we were in there. Lisa had let me know that they would be at the bar near Expedition Everest called Thirsty River Bar and Trek Snacks. I replied that we’d head there immediately as they were planning on heading to Epcot for the evening. I feel like I’ve known Lisa, Scott, and Emily. In fact, those of us enjoy reading trip reports have watched Emily grow up. No bad knee today, so we made it over there quickly. When we finally met up in person, she was exactly as I knew her to be here on the boards. Warm hugs were exchanged and then she I jabbered away with Luke and Scott getting a comment in periodically. I have wanted to meet her for a long time, but there had never been any trip overlap until now. She has the sweetest smile. I regretted that I’d been too tired to come earlier in the day as we’d planned.
When they left, Luke and I wandered some in Asia. I saw the Siamang apes were out and immediately found a spot along the rope fencing to take some photos. Unfortunately, only one ape was out, and he gave me one nice photo before he jumped into a little cubby and then closed the door on us. Too funny!
A few more shots of Asia before we moved on. I love this tree with the scarves tied to it.
Great time in the AK and glad you were finally able to meet up with Lisa and Scott! I think they are from CT as I am! Some nice animal encounters with the lemurs and monkeys. With the monkeys you never know when they'll be out! That was quite an extensive and somewhat bizarre PhotoPass experience! Too bad it was a bit dreary on this day with the cloud cover!
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But I think it worked out for you. Nice timing in seeing DiVine! 
Never know when she'll be around. Unfortunately, I've never had the experience of encountering her in my many times in the AK! 
Hopefully, one day. Nice animal encounters on the Jungle Trek. Great day so far!
Sounds like your breakfast turned out to be a good deal. I haven't seen DeVine in quite a while but hope to catch her on one of my upcoming trips! Sounds like the weather was a little unpredictable from day to day. We found that on our October trip this past year.
No reason why I take that side! 
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