good morning everyone welcome to day five the last day of our time here at walt disney world it's
been a great trip um i'm super tired which means that i've done a lot i'm gonna head over to animal
kingdom this morning the time is currently 9 20. animal kingdom opened at 8. my original idea was
to rope drop animal kingdom but last night after getting back late from epcot i was like i can't
do it i need to sleep in just a little bit take time for myself this morning i'm all packed up and
ready to go here so i will meet you all over at animal kingdom and we'll get our day started there
good thank you thank you have a nice day thank you too so right around 10 o'clock
made it into animal kingdom already a very packed park a lot of folks were headed toward
pandora again like with the last couple of days this is a park where they've made
major additions since the last time i was here so excited to explore pandora but not
right now because i think that's where everyone's probably going to be headed so i'm going to head
toward uh asia and one of my favorite rides across all of the walt disney
world parks probably the favorite rod and that is expedition everest
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apparently there's some monkeys over there being very noisy this morning admittedly animal kingdom
is the park here that i know the least about so i really just meander about until i figure
out where i'm at i never really know where i'm headed so just walking around but i think i do
know where everest is just ahead here oh and while we're walking here goes a uh cavalcade
donald and daisy and i think goofy on there too
so the line for expedition everest is about 20 minutes but it moves very quickly it doesn't
seem like 20 minutes just got off of it i'm gonna go again because i love it now i'm going
for the third time because it's only about a 10 minute wait even though it's 20 minutes posted
the line continuously moves so they did a really good job of managing the crowd on expedition over
thank you
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here's a pro tip uh come back behind the tree of life you can actually get um really good
shots of it so if you want to get pictures in front of it come back here to this back
side because there's not nearly as many people as they were on the front side
she might have better chances and a better angle to get those shots
so i've treated myself to a glacier slushie and a mickey
cookie here at harambe market this looks very very good all right so just had a bit of a snack at
harambee market gonna wait till later to have a more substantial lunch after the launch crowd dies
down a bit now i'm gonna walk around the african portion of the park then head over to pandora
and check out the line for a lot of passage i was just checking the app and it said something like
70 minutes so i'm hoping that that's not the case by the time i get over there but we'll see
i think i'm gonna skip out on kilimanjaro safari this trip the line's also pretty long for that
and it's not really a must-do or a necessity for my trip so right here at zuri's sweet shop right
across from the harambe market which is over there and next to zawani traders this is where
i got that cookie and glacier slushies so coming here they have a whole assortment of different
baked goods and items that you can get but highly recommend the cookie that i ate it was very good
but if you want something sweet you can see the uh the baked goods right there through the door
come in here and get you something and the line for kilimanjaro safari continues to extend
way down here by tusker house all the way near the entrance to festival the lion king
you can see the end of the line coming up right down here so oh and it actually extends down
to festival the lion king around the corner no thank you drummers we hope they have a wonderful
day
that's pretty cool i think even cooler for me than star wars galaxy's edge at hollywood studios
this is incredible theming
just finished up quite a passage which was amazing worth the probably hour wait that i had to endure
to get there my action camera just died so it's uh hard to get a lot of grab-and-go footage so
apologies for the audio and shaky video footage that you're getting now um everything's really
breaking down here at the end of the trip but thankfully it waited till the end to
die
so this is a red crown crane and it's frozen poke topped with frozen cherry
coke topped with strawberry cotton candy
did i need it no but it looked delicious so i'm gonna have it because treat yourself vacation
i think this must be the area of the park where they do the nightly show but it is a nice little
place to come have a little downtime you see expedition everest over there in view and nepal
just across the way so a nice quiet place not that many people over here and just for wayfinding it's
actually right across from dinoland usa which you can see right over there so yeah come up here and
take a seat if you can't if it's lunchtime and you can't find seating anywhere else they do have
these tables where you can stand at and have lunch there are some shaded areas like where i'm sitting
here so just a tip of somewhere you might consider coming to hang out for a bit and taking a break
from the park so just taking a little afternoon break here at animal kingdom of course it is my
fifth day in a row out on the park so i'm pretty beat today um i've already done a couple rides
that i wanted to do everest and then flight of passage later i'm going to go back and do the uh
navi river probably near the end of the day i'll do that i think the wait was about 30 minutes but
just walking around enjoying the day i really like animal kingdom park but i just don't feel like
it's a full day that should be spent here i think if you have park hopper or maybe this is one you
could come to in the morning and then go to one of the other parks in the afternoon as far as like my
top disney parks it's definitely not you know up there on that list you know i'd probably put
uh epcot number one then magic kingdom and then hollywood studios and uh animal kingdom is three
and four you know maybe alternating i'm not really sure which one maybe next time if i was only
coming for a few days i'd maybe consider skipping animal kingdom now that i've been here and done
everything at least once um this is actually only my second time to the park so i also wanted to
take this time to get my thoughts on coronado springs resort now i was there for four nights
and unfortunately because i've been at the parks all day long each day that i've been staying there
i didn't actually get to explore the resort too much i did take the opportunity to go to panchitos
which is the convenience store there and the gift shop that they have on resort but i didn't go to
any of the restaurants or anything i didn't go to the pool area and i stayed in casitas and other
than that in the tower i didn't go to any of the other parts of the resort i just thought it was
okay though for what you pay i don't feel like it was anything special it wasn't really overtly
themed like a lot of the other disney resorts so at times it was really hard to remember that you
were at a disney resort so i don't think i would do coronado springs again in fact i think next
time i come i probably won't sound disney property at all when you consider how much more you pay to
stay at disney i could take that savings and stay somewhere off park got close by and take
ride share you know lift or uber to the parks each day using the money that i save the disney bus
transportation service they do a really good job but it's still very slow and an ineffective method
of travel especially for park hopping i don't see how i've never done park hopping but i don't
see how anyone could come do park hopping and you know make the most of their time because it takes
so long to utilize the transportation system that's operated by disney so i do think next
time i come i will stay off property save a little bit of money because you're not in your room that
long anyways at least i'm not when i come and then utilize rod chair to get back and forth
from the park still uh several hours left here in animal kingdom so probably going to head over
i can hear it running now just right over here is expedition ever so i think i'll just go ride it a
couple more times in a row like i did this morning and then get on navi river here in a little bit i
also want to try out the barbecue restaurant and the name escapes me for some reason right now but
it's been like i've had that bookmark for quite a while to have lunch there it's really crowded
now because it's just around two o'clock in the afternoon so we're gonna give that some
time to die off then i'll put in a mobile order and go over and sit down and have lunch and just
enjoy the rest of my disney vacation because the hours are few remaining in this vacation
thank you
so here is lunch just picked up from flame tree barbecue i got the st louis style ribs with
fries and coleslaw also got a large coke zero no straw but they did include these wooden sticks
for some reason and then this right here this is a a limited time special that they're having this
is a flamingo cupcake and it's all strawberry supposed to be strawberry cake so i'm excited
to dig in and try this i was looking forward to this dining experience as i was spending my trip
so let's dig in so i have like a cross section of the cupcake you can see there is some like
strawberry compote in there it's very tasty this is a strawberry buttercream strawberry compo
strawberry cake so um this is a very very good cupcake and it's falling apart very quickly
well y'all that's going to do it for our day here at animal kingdom and for our week here at walt
disney world thank you so much for watching this video and thanks for watching my first
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