The morning of day 2 illustrates why I
need to learn to listen to my bodies cues. Plain and simple I pushed
too hard and as a result I woke up in a foul mood.
The alarm clock sounded and I jumped
out of bed to take my shower. While I was getting dressed I woke
Sonny up for his turn in the bathroom. I also suggested that he call
LJ and see if they had started getting ready yet. We had plans to
get to Animal Kingdom this morning and I didn’t want to meet a line
at Expedition Everest.
My intentions were to walk down to the
food court and possibly bring my hubby some breakfast to the room.
But I realized that Brianne and LJ would still need breakfast, so we
would still have to stop later. I nixed that idea and walked into
the gift shop. I just did some general browsing and picked up a pair
of cute iridescent Mickey earrings.
On the way back to the room I took some
more pictures of the grounds and stopped for about 15 minutes down by
the pool and read a few chapters from a book I had been reading. All
of the things that I did was to give everyone else a chance to get
ready without me hovering and rushing them. I was seriously trying
to take the vacation as it came and chill out.
That all went out the window when I got
to the room and everybody was still asleep! When I, not so gently,
nudged Sonny he immediately got out of the bed apologizing for
falling back asleep. You know that inner struggle you sometimes go
through where you want to scream, but you feel like decorum calls for
you to act like a non lunatic? Well that is the place I was at.
It was after rope drop at this point
and I saw the chances of us getting to ride Expedition Everest more
than once go sailing out of the window.
Pulling out my laptop and going through
the pictures we had taken thus far put me in a better frame of mind.
When Brianne came through the connecting doors apologizing for
turning their alarm clock off, I told her no problem and I really
meant it. I simply explained to her that my main concern was that if
we got into AK too late they would see some horrible wait times and
fast pass return times into the evening.
We arrived in Animal Kingdom at about
10:30 and walked straight back to Expedition Everest.
The wait time was at 60 minutes and the
fast pass return time was showing between 2:40 and 3:40. With only
one glitch with LJ’s ticket we got our fastpasses and contemplated
our next move. There definitely was a consensus that we didn’t
want to stand in line for an hour, but with only a short time before
our reservation at the Rainforest Café we were limited in our
choices.
The four of us are standing there
talking and I said something to Brianne that came across to Sonny the
wrong way. So 15 minutes got sucked into a vortex as Sonny and I had
a heated discussion about our “collective attitudes”. Trust me
when I say that it was not pretty! Brianne and LJ walked off to give
us some time and space. I didn’t realize until later that LJ was
upset because he thought we were arguing about them. NOPE! Mr. &
Mrs. SarCastro just had to take a minute to clear the air.
Once we expressed ourselves, cleared
the air and made up, everything was fine.
By this point it is time for our
reservation at RFC so we headed that way. Plus, with the late start
we didn’t have any breakfast.
We browsed the gift shop until they
called us for lunch and waited no more than 10 minutes.
I love the over the top theme in the
Rainforest Café and we usually go at least once a trip. Brianne and
LJ had not been prepped before hand about what to expect. We wanted
them to be surprised. They loved the entire experience and the food
was good.
The best part of the entire lunch was
that we only spent $7 each couple for our meal and tip. How was that
possible you ask? Stay tuned.
Up next: A $7 meal and Festival of
the Lion King.
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