Most Magical Anniversary Trip - Day Four - 5/2/08... with pictures!
Glad you guys are liking the trip reports so far! We had a great trip and i'm enjoying sharing it with all of you. Just an FYI, i'm going to start my dining reviews soon in the dining section.
The morning of May 2nd started out with us waking up and getting around for breakfast at Kona Café. Last minute reservations made the night before. I was REALLY excited to try the tonga toast. Our luck with busses was still pretty weak. We needed to get a bus to Epcot to take the monorail over to the TTC to get to the resort monorail. It took about 20 minutes to get that bus but luckily, once at Epcot, the monorail was waiting for us to board. We hopped on and once at the TTC we ran to the connecting monorail. One was just pulling away. Darn.
We ended up making our reservations 5 minutes early and were seated within 5 minutes. I’m telling you, I love the Poly. So so so much. It’s just the most gorgeous place. Someday we will stay there. I just know it. We have something to look forward to in the future. Enough of me gushing about the Poly. Breakfast was great and our waitress was super sweet. I wasn’t overly impressed with the actual restaurant itself but the food was outstanding and well worth the money. You sure do get a lot. Matt and I could have shared!!! Our waitress told me that I need to be telling people that I have now had the Tonga Toast with the new strawberry compote.
After breakfast we caught a bus to AK. Riding along with all of the rich folk who actually are staying at the Poly. It sure is a different group of people than at Pop. Not better, not worse. Just different. Since we got to AK late the park was crowded beyond all belief. We got fastpasses for Everest and then went to the walking trail to see the tigers. Last year, we forgot to look for the tigers and that is Matt’s favorite animal. They were really awesome and the bats were cool as well. I thought that when they said bats would be on the trail, they’d be behind glass. HA! They were in open air with us… just behind bars. Pretty cool! Our time for Everest finally came up and we were able to walk right on. Hooray! It was great and our photo was hilarious so we bought it and had it sent back to the room.
DH and I wanted to go to a water park at least once so we came back to Pop to get changed quickly. Again, our bus took forever. It seems that we see 2 or 3 of each park pull up before ours ever comes. No matter where we are going. Once we got into Typhoon Lagoon, we hit the lazy river and went all the way around. We really disliked having kids not on rafts, just swimming and kicking around us. We just wanted to chill out and relax and kiddies swimming under your tush just didn’t help.
The wave pool was really fun as well. We really hung ten! Kind of. Haha. It was time for us to dry off a little and then go back to Pop to clean up before heading to AK. We grabbed a bite to eat at Pop and then were good to go.
We went back to AK because a friend of mine that works in Entertainment down at WDW set us up with VIP seating for Festival of the Lion King. The bus this time took 40 minutes to come. The longest yet! Just crazy!!! I understand that the park was going to close at 6:00 p.m. and it was 5:00, but, c’mon! The VIP people thought that we didn’t show for our seats so they just gave them up. They felt really bad though and were searching everywhere for proper seats for us. We told them that it wasn’t a big deal at all and they ended up finding us a lower bleacher seat. The show was great as usual and I got to see my friend’s boyfriend perform! Hooray!!!
We were so beat from all of the traveling that we did that we just wanted to go back to the room. BUT, we didn’t want to waste our valuable time at WDW so we went to DTD to see what we could find. Not much really… everything was getting busy and a lot of the Friday night clubbers were out. Totally not our thing. We did see the really cool magic guy! We had more fun watching him than anything. No Disney Quest for us since it seemed to be crazy busy and we were getting tired. It was time to head back to Pop. We headed back to the room and called it an early night. We were both asleep by 10:00. *yawns* A long nights rest was so needed…
Link to Day Four's Pictures
http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x...008/May%202nd/
