We flew from Phoenix to Orlando because Heather (aka Dan) had had a hankering to go to a theme park for a while. We never quite made it to Busch Gardens near Tampa, and we had been to Universal a couple of times in recent memory for Harry Potter world. Heather is still scarred from BlackFish so SeaWorld is out. Setting aside GatorWorld for now, that leaves Disney. It was close to our 32nd anniversary, so we decided to lump it all together.
I wanted to try and do all four parks in a day. Heather was skeptical, rightly so as it turned out. We started at the animal park. The Pandora ride and accompanying area was not open to the public for a couple more weeks but it was still pretty crowded. We went on the safari ride first.
We also got very close to a few giraffes, saw the lions, pretty much everything was still out because it was early and still pretty cool weather. Even so, it is a pretty amazing experience to pack into 10 or 15 minutes. We also went on the Expedition Everest train like coaster and the Dinosaur ride. To save time we took the secret between park bus to the Magic Kingdom park. There we went on the Big Thunder Mountain coaster, Pirates, and we saw the afternoon parade because we couldn't escape it. We went on Space Mountain of course, but I may be getting a little too old for that. My back and neck popped in new ways that didn't hurt, but didn't sound great either. The air conditioning was nice. We went on Splash Mountain to cool off. We hadn't been on the 7 Dwarfs Mine Train before. It was very detailed but not that great a ride.
Back on the bus we go to Epcot. It was late afternoon by this time, and we did Soaring and Mission: Space (the wimpy one). Of course Heather had to open a pearl.
By this time it was dark and almost 9p, the closing time for the park. We made the mistake of sitting down to watch the fireworks show. By then I was tapped. It was a long slog out of the park, then waiting for a bus to take us back to the animal park. By the time we got back to our room it was about 11p, way past my usual bedtime.
In the morning we drove back to Marathon, stopping by a Miami Costco on the way. Someone had kindly bailed out our dingy about a week before, but it still had a few inches of water in it to be bailed before we could ride out to the boat, which was just the way we had left it.
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