Florida, part deux.
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tenel_kaTHURSDAY; 5/25: So we're up before 7 am, hobbling around and taking turns in the bathroom. We were going to go to Port Orleans (FRENCH QUARTER, BITCH) and check in before we headed on over to Animal Kingdom. The rooming wouldn't be ready, but we'd get keys and a number to call about our room being ready. So we packed up the white, white rental car and drove over to Port Orleans. My fangirl-o-meter instantly threatens to like explode cause of the total hottness of that place. And of course, in our normal fashion, it doesn't work out. "O WAIT YOU BOOKED THROUGH AAA? WE ONLY HAVE ROOMS FOR U GUYZ IN THE CARIBBBBEEEAN BEACH RESORT, SORRY KAY?"
animal kingdom: We were extremely bitter after the hotel fiasco, well, Valerie and I were. But we got over it because CB ended up being pretty cool. Even though we were stuck in the ass back of the property. BUT WE'LL GET TO THAT LATER. We left Port Orleans to head over to Animal Kingdom, where we see a line of cars in front of the parking gate. The park was opening an hour later then we thought it was supposed to. So we sat in the car for awhile. And this is the point in our journey where Valerie and Brian say they have a present for me. And they bust out this damn Cruxshadows cd they bought to annoy me with. It ended up being the cd we listened to as we went from park to hotel and back the whole time. XD SO CHEESY. <3
Once we were standing in line to actually get in the park, I was afraid we were going to be harrassed by Wes Palm. He like... moves and talks to people and omg he was going to eat me. BUT ANYWAYS, of course, the first thing we were headed to once the park opened was Expedition Everest, just like everyone else. And we got there in fairly good time, got a fastpass for a second ride later and then stood in line for the ride for about five minutes.
Now lemme gush about this ride. First of all, as you're walking up to the thing, it looks like it's totally fucking massive. And it is pretty big. But as you turn the corner and see it "far away" over the little shrine you're standing in front of -- it's so awesome. Disney makes me squee my pants. The ride itself was also totally badass. The backwards and the hills and the omg. And the yeti was fucking huge. XD The picture to come out of us (the second time, with the fastpass) was also quite priceless:
After Everest, we rode Dinosaur (which is still so very kickass) and the little Primeevevalalaleval Whirl. Which actually really rocked this time since we had four people and could properly spin the car in complete circles. We checked out some animals, hiked the Maharajah Jungle Trek, saw tigers, ate some breakfast -- then OMG WE CAME ACROSS SOME PHOTOPASS PEOPLE. Photopass is an awesome, awesome thing. Every Disney photographer you see, you hand them a card the first one gives you and they take your picture and scan the card. Then you can look at all your pictures online and crap. It's BRILLIANT. So we got some AK photos done and headed out of the park. Now, we got out of there early, around 11 or 12. We obviously didn't see everything in the Animal Kingdom, but when you're doing all four Disney parks in two days, you can't stall. :P
caribbean beach: So we got checked into our real hotel, got room, stuff in room, then we took Mace and strolled down to the main building of the resort, with the shops and the food and stuff. (You can see Mace's pictures of the stroll HERE.) We grabbed some lunch, looked at stuff and then headed back -- we all rested and showered the sweat off and stuff to get ready for our night excursion.
OMG EPCOT! <3: I love Epcot so much. O_O And what's the first thing you do when you go to Epcot? SPACESHIP EARTH! BECAUSE THERE IS NEVER A LINE! :D So we did that, got stuck with a bunch of teenybopper asshole little whores about four cars behind us, who probably didn't understand wtf was going on. "LIEK OMG R WE IN THAT BIG GOLF BALL?" But yeah, that ride always gets me all nostalgic and shit. Cause I remember going on it with my Dad when we would visit Florida before he moved there and he would let me pick one park to go to for a day and I would ALWAYS pick Epcot. And when I would drag him to Spaceship Earth he'd be like, "IS THAT THE ONE WITH THE AIR CONDITIONING ABOUT THE COMMUNICATION AND STUFF?" So I was all, "Aww dad," on the ride. But we rode that, and I squeed at the starfield ceiling and the cars turning omg backwards so I could throw spitwads on those little fucks who were now ahead of us.
Once we got out of there, I wanted to find the talking water fountain, but we weren't near it and it probably would've scared me anyways. O_O Then we ended up in the little Coca-cola Cool Super Cold Ice Station thing. Where you can try Coke products from around the world (SODA. SODA NOT CRACK)... we all had to try the dreaded Beverly, which is from Italy. And, oh yeah, tastes like total ass.
So we washed it down with actual good drinks. Like the Kinley Lemon drink from Israel and the Krest Ginger Ale from Mozambique. As we headed out of there, we asked Jason how it was (omg total Beverly virgin) and all he could was retch and make a face. Yes, it's that bad.
(At this point I had already gushed endlessly about how we had to eat at the Yakitori House in the Japan Pavilion -- because it was so good. And everyone had said OMG WE'LL GET THERE SHUSH WHAT'S SO GREAT ABOUT IT. Remember this for later, ESPECIALLY when Jason is totally fangasming over the food. :P)
The Living Seas Pavilion was next. Jason was sad to see that the J.A.S.O.N. robot wasn't there anymore. But Disney never gets rid of anything, they just move it. So I'm sure it's somewhere. XD We watched manatees and sharks and rays for awhile AND WE LOOKED FOR NEMOS OMG. Then we headed on over to Innoventions and tooled around in those Pavilions for a bit. Valerie and Brian made this crazy robot thing that won a big race, I was tempted by the video game wall and Kingdom Hearts 2 and Jason and I made lots of noise slamming doors by jumping up and down on these mats.
This is where our insanity takes over and we head into the WORLD SHOWCASE, ZOMG. First off, in every country, Mace wants to get his picture taken (these will be up on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
winduland very soon, he's working on it!) -- and we say we have to get lots of food from different countries... that will be our dinner.
First up is Mexico, we head into the totally awesome pyramid into the "NIGHTTIME MARKETPLACE" (Did you know they made the marketplace setting nighttime because during the day it's siesta time and the markets are empty then? No? Now you do. XD) -- we rode El Rio de Tiempo and I fangasmed the fiber optic fireworks in the fiesta scene. After buying Mom a little skeleton pinata, we headed outside of the pyramid and wandered over to the little (a totally effing packed to brim with people) cafe thing to get some nachos. We all split one thing of nachos because it was big and we were gonna get food from other places. But there were no tables, so we kind of wandered around till somebody got up -- and just as we were headed over to an empty table this pardon-my-french cocksucking whore pulls her baby stroller over from THE TABLE THEY ALREADY HAD and seats her FAT COW ASS down, cause they couldn't fit ALL THEIR SHIT at the table THEY ALREADY HAD. And she gave us this snotty ass look too. Oh, I wanted to fucking slap the shit out of her, you have no idea. If I ever see that ugly mug of hers again I'll shove her baby stroller so far up her ass you could pull the handles out of her ears and push her around. That ho. That seriously pissed me off. So I sneered at her and as we went to walk off I called her baby ugly. We found a ledge and sat and ate our messy nachos. I MAY NOT HAVE A TABLE, BUT I LEAST I DON'T HAVE A FUGLY STANK ASS. Bitch, plz.
Norway! We didn't really do much there, we checked out the food but decided to keep moving, missing Maelstrom, much to my dismay. It's good to know that everyone (men & women) that works in the Norway Pavilion is still smoking hot. Jeeeeeez. O_O
After that was China. We went to look at the food at the counter-service restaurant, but decided against it once we saw all the little teenybopper hippies sitting like camped out in front of the Chinese restuarant in our way. We wandered around there for a bit then made our way over to Germany where we got PRETZELS! The really big soft-baked kind. Brian said they were the BEST PRETZELS HE EVER HAD. And Jason had never had one before, so when he did he was like, "OMG wtf this is great." And Brian was all, "NOW THAT YOU'VE HAD THE BEST YOU CAN'T HAVE ANOTHER BECAUSE THEY WILL NEVER COMPARE TO HERE." It was at this point, as we were gnawing on our pretzels, that we realized the World Showcase would possibly be closing soon. And we still needed food in more countries!
We looked really hilarious storming the streets of Italy shoving pretzel pieces in our mouths and posing Mace for a picture. It was pretty, but omg no time to stop there! We had to make it to France for dessert and we still had to get food in Japan! Next was the American Adventure, which is basically the America section. We rushed through that one finishing our pretzels, knowing what America is like, duh. XD
JAPAN! By this time, Illuminations was about to start. I went in the Mitsukoshi Department Store, gushed a tiny bit and asked what time they closed (since I had to stock up on crazy Japanese food and things) then we went to the OMG YAKITORI HOUSE and got FOOOOOOOOD! I got a garden salad with the ginger dressing (it's alllllllll about the dressing) and a bowl of miso soup. Valerie got a piece of ginger cake, Brian was full -- now Jason was all, "okay, okay, yay Japanese food just get the chicken and beef" -- so I did and we sat our butts down in the little out-of-the way courtyard with the lanterns behind the restaurant, which cut out after a few minutes so the fireworks could start. The trees were hanging over us so we couldn't really see the show, but it provided us some light. XD OH, and this is the point where Jason goes, "OMG OMG THIS BEEF! THIS CHICKEN OMG! WOW AND SHIT." It wasn't exactly like that, but he was all impressed by it and scarfing it down after making us all try it. And damn, it was so good. Love me some Yakitori House. We putzed around the store for a few and bought a couple things -- since we found out the restaurants in the countries were open late.
Then we moved on to Morocco, which I think is one of the prettiest pavilions in the World Showcase. I think cause it has all the crazy winding back streets. And Valerie and I met the Genie there once. <3 France was after that and that meant chocolate mousse, which we got a couple cups of and djklajfsdkjfaksd so good. The United Kingdom was where we took pictures of Winnie the Pooh shrubbery and Canada was where we had fun with masks. We totally traveled the globe and stumbled back to Future World, but not after getting a picture taken by an OMG PHOTOPASS PERSON!
Since Epcot was open two hours later for people staying on Disney property, we took advantage of that and went on Journey into Imagination (where I always forget about the skunk smell omg), Mission Space (we went on the pussy version, real version was 30 minute long wait, and well, I was being a pussy? I've already been on the hardcore one anyways) & finally Test Track, which we stood in line for for a good long time. That ride is totally worth the wait though. The brake test and the heartattack truck and the SPEED TEST. Yesssss. And my sign with the silly ducks. <3
We were beat after that and we meandered out of the park and back to the car, which was pretty much alone in the parking lot. That was our first full day and we were tired and sweaty and jdfaksflsfjd -- but Disney. <3
You can check out some more pictures -- especially some good photopass ones -- here!
animal kingdom: We were extremely bitter after the hotel fiasco, well, Valerie and I were. But we got over it because CB ended up being pretty cool. Even though we were stuck in the ass back of the property. BUT WE'LL GET TO THAT LATER. We left Port Orleans to head over to Animal Kingdom, where we see a line of cars in front of the parking gate. The park was opening an hour later then we thought it was supposed to. So we sat in the car for awhile. And this is the point in our journey where Valerie and Brian say they have a present for me. And they bust out this damn Cruxshadows cd they bought to annoy me with. It ended up being the cd we listened to as we went from park to hotel and back the whole time. XD SO CHEESY. <3
Once we were standing in line to actually get in the park, I was afraid we were going to be harrassed by Wes Palm. He like... moves and talks to people and omg he was going to eat me. BUT ANYWAYS, of course, the first thing we were headed to once the park opened was Expedition Everest, just like everyone else. And we got there in fairly good time, got a fastpass for a second ride later and then stood in line for the ride for about five minutes.
Now lemme gush about this ride. First of all, as you're walking up to the thing, it looks like it's totally fucking massive. And it is pretty big. But as you turn the corner and see it "far away" over the little shrine you're standing in front of -- it's so awesome. Disney makes me squee my pants. The ride itself was also totally badass. The backwards and the hills and the omg. And the yeti was fucking huge. XD The picture to come out of us (the second time, with the fastpass) was also quite priceless:
After Everest, we rode Dinosaur (which is still so very kickass) and the little Primeevevalalaleval Whirl. Which actually really rocked this time since we had four people and could properly spin the car in complete circles. We checked out some animals, hiked the Maharajah Jungle Trek, saw tigers, ate some breakfast -- then OMG WE CAME ACROSS SOME PHOTOPASS PEOPLE. Photopass is an awesome, awesome thing. Every Disney photographer you see, you hand them a card the first one gives you and they take your picture and scan the card. Then you can look at all your pictures online and crap. It's BRILLIANT. So we got some AK photos done and headed out of the park. Now, we got out of there early, around 11 or 12. We obviously didn't see everything in the Animal Kingdom, but when you're doing all four Disney parks in two days, you can't stall. :P
caribbean beach: So we got checked into our real hotel, got room, stuff in room, then we took Mace and strolled down to the main building of the resort, with the shops and the food and stuff. (You can see Mace's pictures of the stroll HERE.) We grabbed some lunch, looked at stuff and then headed back -- we all rested and showered the sweat off and stuff to get ready for our night excursion.
OMG EPCOT! <3: I love Epcot so much. O_O And what's the first thing you do when you go to Epcot? SPACESHIP EARTH! BECAUSE THERE IS NEVER A LINE! :D So we did that, got stuck with a bunch of teenybopper asshole little whores about four cars behind us, who probably didn't understand wtf was going on. "LIEK OMG R WE IN THAT BIG GOLF BALL?" But yeah, that ride always gets me all nostalgic and shit. Cause I remember going on it with my Dad when we would visit Florida before he moved there and he would let me pick one park to go to for a day and I would ALWAYS pick Epcot. And when I would drag him to Spaceship Earth he'd be like, "IS THAT THE ONE WITH THE AIR CONDITIONING ABOUT THE COMMUNICATION AND STUFF?" So I was all, "Aww dad," on the ride. But we rode that, and I squeed at the starfield ceiling and the cars turning omg backwards so I could throw spitwads on those little fucks who were now ahead of us.
Once we got out of there, I wanted to find the talking water fountain, but we weren't near it and it probably would've scared me anyways. O_O Then we ended up in the little Coca-cola Cool Super Cold Ice Station thing. Where you can try Coke products from around the world (SODA. SODA NOT CRACK)... we all had to try the dreaded Beverly, which is from Italy. And, oh yeah, tastes like total ass.
So we washed it down with actual good drinks. Like the Kinley Lemon drink from Israel and the Krest Ginger Ale from Mozambique. As we headed out of there, we asked Jason how it was (omg total Beverly virgin) and all he could was retch and make a face. Yes, it's that bad.
(At this point I had already gushed endlessly about how we had to eat at the Yakitori House in the Japan Pavilion -- because it was so good. And everyone had said OMG WE'LL GET THERE SHUSH WHAT'S SO GREAT ABOUT IT. Remember this for later, ESPECIALLY when Jason is totally fangasming over the food. :P)
The Living Seas Pavilion was next. Jason was sad to see that the J.A.S.O.N. robot wasn't there anymore. But Disney never gets rid of anything, they just move it. So I'm sure it's somewhere. XD We watched manatees and sharks and rays for awhile AND WE LOOKED FOR NEMOS OMG. Then we headed on over to Innoventions and tooled around in those Pavilions for a bit. Valerie and Brian made this crazy robot thing that won a big race, I was tempted by the video game wall and Kingdom Hearts 2 and Jason and I made lots of noise slamming doors by jumping up and down on these mats.
This is where our insanity takes over and we head into the WORLD SHOWCASE, ZOMG. First off, in every country, Mace wants to get his picture taken (these will be up on
winduland very soon, he's working on it!) -- and we say we have to get lots of food from different countries... that will be our dinner.First up is Mexico, we head into the totally awesome pyramid into the "NIGHTTIME MARKETPLACE" (Did you know they made the marketplace setting nighttime because during the day it's siesta time and the markets are empty then? No? Now you do. XD) -- we rode El Rio de Tiempo and I fangasmed the fiber optic fireworks in the fiesta scene. After buying Mom a little skeleton pinata, we headed outside of the pyramid and wandered over to the little (a totally effing packed to brim with people) cafe thing to get some nachos. We all split one thing of nachos because it was big and we were gonna get food from other places. But there were no tables, so we kind of wandered around till somebody got up -- and just as we were headed over to an empty table this pardon-my-french cocksucking whore pulls her baby stroller over from THE TABLE THEY ALREADY HAD and seats her FAT COW ASS down, cause they couldn't fit ALL THEIR SHIT at the table THEY ALREADY HAD. And she gave us this snotty ass look too. Oh, I wanted to fucking slap the shit out of her, you have no idea. If I ever see that ugly mug of hers again I'll shove her baby stroller so far up her ass you could pull the handles out of her ears and push her around. That ho. That seriously pissed me off. So I sneered at her and as we went to walk off I called her baby ugly. We found a ledge and sat and ate our messy nachos. I MAY NOT HAVE A TABLE, BUT I LEAST I DON'T HAVE A FUGLY STANK ASS. Bitch, plz.
Norway! We didn't really do much there, we checked out the food but decided to keep moving, missing Maelstrom, much to my dismay. It's good to know that everyone (men & women) that works in the Norway Pavilion is still smoking hot. Jeeeeeez. O_O
After that was China. We went to look at the food at the counter-service restaurant, but decided against it once we saw all the little teenybopper hippies sitting like camped out in front of the Chinese restuarant in our way. We wandered around there for a bit then made our way over to Germany where we got PRETZELS! The really big soft-baked kind. Brian said they were the BEST PRETZELS HE EVER HAD. And Jason had never had one before, so when he did he was like, "OMG wtf this is great." And Brian was all, "NOW THAT YOU'VE HAD THE BEST YOU CAN'T HAVE ANOTHER BECAUSE THEY WILL NEVER COMPARE TO HERE." It was at this point, as we were gnawing on our pretzels, that we realized the World Showcase would possibly be closing soon. And we still needed food in more countries!
We looked really hilarious storming the streets of Italy shoving pretzel pieces in our mouths and posing Mace for a picture. It was pretty, but omg no time to stop there! We had to make it to France for dessert and we still had to get food in Japan! Next was the American Adventure, which is basically the America section. We rushed through that one finishing our pretzels, knowing what America is like, duh. XD
JAPAN! By this time, Illuminations was about to start. I went in the Mitsukoshi Department Store, gushed a tiny bit and asked what time they closed (since I had to stock up on crazy Japanese food and things) then we went to the OMG YAKITORI HOUSE and got FOOOOOOOOD! I got a garden salad with the ginger dressing (it's alllllllll about the dressing) and a bowl of miso soup. Valerie got a piece of ginger cake, Brian was full -- now Jason was all, "okay, okay, yay Japanese food just get the chicken and beef" -- so I did and we sat our butts down in the little out-of-the way courtyard with the lanterns behind the restaurant, which cut out after a few minutes so the fireworks could start. The trees were hanging over us so we couldn't really see the show, but it provided us some light. XD OH, and this is the point where Jason goes, "OMG OMG THIS BEEF! THIS CHICKEN OMG! WOW AND SHIT." It wasn't exactly like that, but he was all impressed by it and scarfing it down after making us all try it. And damn, it was so good. Love me some Yakitori House. We putzed around the store for a few and bought a couple things -- since we found out the restaurants in the countries were open late.
Then we moved on to Morocco, which I think is one of the prettiest pavilions in the World Showcase. I think cause it has all the crazy winding back streets. And Valerie and I met the Genie there once. <3 France was after that and that meant chocolate mousse, which we got a couple cups of and djklajfsdkjfaksd so good. The United Kingdom was where we took pictures of Winnie the Pooh shrubbery and Canada was where we had fun with masks. We totally traveled the globe and stumbled back to Future World, but not after getting a picture taken by an OMG PHOTOPASS PERSON!
Since Epcot was open two hours later for people staying on Disney property, we took advantage of that and went on Journey into Imagination (where I always forget about the skunk smell omg), Mission Space (we went on the pussy version, real version was 30 minute long wait, and well, I was being a pussy? I've already been on the hardcore one anyways) & finally Test Track, which we stood in line for for a good long time. That ride is totally worth the wait though. The brake test and the heartattack truck and the SPEED TEST. Yesssss. And my sign with the silly ducks. <3
We were beat after that and we meandered out of the park and back to the car, which was pretty much alone in the parking lot. That was our first full day and we were tired and sweaty and jdfaksflsfjd -- but Disney. <3
You can check out some more pictures -- especially some good photopass ones -- here!
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Date: 2006-06-28 02:16 pm (UTC)Y'all are dorks. ♥
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Date: 2006-06-28 06:18 pm (UTC)But it was just a small capture of the essence of the entire trip.
Heh heh heh.
Corran Horn? I never quite saw it that way before.....
Hmm...heh heh heh
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Date: 2006-06-29 02:36 pm (UTC)I never saw the animal kingdom... your pictures make it look awesome, like I was stupid to avoid it. Love the group shot too. Makes me envious like I need to go there now.
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Date: 2006-06-30 04:34 am (UTC)And I hate you for riding the Everest ride, it wasn't finished when we went over Christmas >_<.
I miss Disney and the Turkey legs...so tasty.
I was going to type something else, but I forgot it o_o
Ah yes, how did you like the Negro Beach resort? We stayed there once. There was a fake alligator and a big palm tree, and the maid would arrange my stuffed animals in different scenarios every day. One time Baghera was attacking my snake, and had it in it's mouth. I like that hotel.
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