Well, today is our last day at Disney World. We started at Magical Kingdom and hit a few rides. I re-recorded Splash Mountain as promised and did an absolute excellent job at it if I do say so myself, especially since we even got to be in front, and I broke my lanyard just to get a good view of the big drop and everything. After we got on the bus to transfer parks, we decided to check out the great footage and found that the camera was laughing at me saying, "I had never pushed the record button." Uhg! Oh well! So anyway, I didn't take any pictures today of lunch and Dinner either cause we forgot at dinner and lunch was pretty much the same fattening ordeal as usual, except I had chicken nuggets and Jess had fish and nuggets.
After hitting up Magical Kingdom for a few last rides and lunch, we headed over to Hollywood to finish the trip off. We got to ride about 4 rides before Dinner and then right shortly after that the park was closed so we went home and are now packing so we can wake up at the crack of dawn and sit in a couple planes all day tomorrow (we have a layover). So Anyways, no food posts, but the 2 rides I promised from before: Magical Kingdom's Splash Mountain (Recorded side ways and cut too early, since my awesome recording today didn't turn out) and our best recording out of the three of Rockin' Roller Coaster. (Which includes Jessica singing... sorry!) So here you go!
Oh yeah, and it is our Anniversary today, so we got pins to force all the Disney Employees to say Happy Anniversary to us. It was great! ;)
Oh, and one more thing, I got another recording of the Tower of Terror that turned out pretty decent, so I am posting it as well.
Ride(s):
Tower of Terror: Better recording than my last, so we decided to put it up. Be sure to watch the Intro Movie on an early posting if you haven't yet.
Splash Mountain: Sideways and cut short of the last wing of the ride
Rockin' Roller Coaster Intro:
Rockin' Roller Coaster: Dark except for neon signs, and has Jessica singing! We will take all tips!
Today was the Animal Kingdom park all day. We went there and hit the Jessica's favorite ride from 2 years ago: Everest Expedition. It is where you you are on a trip to discover things on Everest and have an encounter with the "Yeti." Tis a very fun ride, and was Jessica's Favorite until today when she got sick after riding it. After hitting that ride we stuck to lighter rides like a one of those river raft type rides that every theme park has, and one called Dinosaur (Which is now Jessica's favorite ride). I recorded the water rafting one, but we decided to leave it out since almost all parks have them and they are all fairly close to the same. Also there wasn't much to see anyway. We were the ones that got the most soaked out of everyone on our boat. So anyways, we recorded the dinosaur ride, but like all the others, it is dark inside the ride for most of it and so you get a lot of dialogue, and a few snap shots every now and then. Everest turned out pretty dang good though, which is great since I only got to have one take at it. After we got home, I enjoyed sitting at the resort store getting supplies for Jess while she spent time worshiping the Porcelain god. Once again, Happiest place on earth, my eye!
Ride(s):
Dinosaur Intro:
Dinosaur Ride:
Everest Expedition:
Lunch:
Restaurantosaurus
Picture looks the same as all the other burger joints we ate at, so I didn't take one.
So today was Magical Kingdom where we hit up a bunch of rides and recorded a bunch. Since most of Disney's rides are inside and dark, that is mostly what you get to see. So on Haunted Mansion and Pirate's of the Caribbean you get glimpse every so often, but for the most part get to see the deep dark mist of Disney (Happiest Place on Earth, my eye!). Oh well, you can at least hear the dialogue.
We did attempt to get a recording Space Mountain, but it consisted of pretty much what we expected: Blast off and docking at the end of the ride... I think the movie showed 2 stars during the whole roller coaster ride, and all you can hear is wind cause there is no dialogue through it all, so it got voted off for posting.
As for, Splash Mountain, we got a couple of recording, but decided to attempt a better one on Thursday before deciding that the one we picked is the one we want. So Splash Mountain will be held off until Thursday.
Now as for the other well-known "Mountain" ride in Disney's Magical Kingdom, we have footage we thought passed, so Big Thunder Mountain Railroad is posted.
We also hit up the Jungle Safari where we are taken by a tour guide on a boat through a *cough* fake *cough* Jungle Safari. Your guide is what makes this one fun and we had a good one, but unfortunately we had a horrible audience. So I gave him many courtesy laughs that show up on film (sorry). But either way, he even joked about the "darkness" of a Disney ride. To understand his joke you have to understand that almost any time you get off a ride at Disney, it leads you conveniently through a shopping center associated with that ride.
So Anyway, enjoy the videos if you can. Tomorrow we are hitting up the Animal Kingdom Park which we have not visited at all yet. We have the whole day there, so we should have another video or two hopefully.
Ride(s):
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dark, but can hear most dialogue while sights show up every so often.
Haunted Mansion: Dark, but can hear most dialogue while sights show up every so often. Also, there is a part of the movie where I am just standing in line for a while before getting onto the moving ride.
Jungle Safari:
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad:
Lunch:
Peco's Bill Cafe:
Dinner:
Garden Grill
We finally completely forgot to take pictures. It was a family meal set up and was delicious food consisting of Turkey, Mahi Mahi, Sliced Steak, Mashed Potatoes, Stuffing, Vegetables, with a Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp. We had Mickey, Pluto and Chip N Dale wandering around the revolving restaurant interacting with the guests. Mickey, Chip, and Pluto, all gave me high five and kissed my wife's hand. Dale, came to our table and spilt our condiments and then blamed it on my wife to the hostest and pointed at me to back him up. So I did what anyone else would do and agreed. :) we bumped knuckles after he caused his chaos and fun and the left us to finish eating. Our Waiter was very very awesome, and he actually brought us out a card that was signed by all of our four Disney guests at the restaurant that was actually signed by each one and not just a photo copy. It was really truly awesome. So anyways, that is what I have pictured below instead. Enjoy!
So, today is Jess's Birthday, and we got to start the day with a phone Call from Mickey and Minnie singing her Happy Birthday! It was unexpected, but it actually made her day. She wore her Birthday pin which requires all "Cast Members" (Any Disney Staff) to have to wish her a happy birthday. She placed the pin on her pants to not make it extremely annoying, but to also have the experience and fun of having it. Even people just walking in the park were telling her Happy Birthday once they would spy her pin.
The first and only park we hit today was Hollywood Studios. This park holds two of our favorite rides. The Tower of Terror which is based off of the Twilight Zone. This ride starts you off with walking into a hotel to which a hostess invites a group of people into a library. The lights go out and a TV starts up in the corner that explains a story of a group of people that had entered an elevator at this hotel on a stormy night and they were shocked into the Twilight Zone (or something like that). So after the lights go on, your host invites you to step out and puts you in line for your elevator. Once the doors open, you step into the elevator, sit down in your seat, and lock yourself in cause this elevator drops 12 stories. Since most of the ride is dark, you can't see a huge ton in the video, but it is enough to get the picture of what is going on.
The second favorite ride is the Rockin' Roller Coaster. This is a ride based off of the music legends of Aerosmith. The story for this one goes like this: You stand in line to meet these rock legends and finally get to make it into where they are. They are excited to see you, but then their manager breaks through the door explaining that they are supposed to be on a stage in just a few minutes at a venue across town. The manager tells everyone who has come to see Aerosmith that they can't see them. The band gets disappointed and it is suggested that the manager take all of us (the riders) with them. So the manager in slight disbelief gets on the phone and calls for a "Super Stretch Limo" to get us all to the concert... and Fast! So, you then head out to the "Street" to stand in line for your limo, and then get in and buckle up as they are wanting to get you there fast. The ride starts off with a major sudden increase of speed (0 to 60 in 2.8 seconds), and it is an inside roller coaster with all the lights out. The only thing you can see are road signs every so often that light up as you are going by them. This is a very fast paced roller coaster with curves, corkscrews and loopty loops. Unfortunately, since you are only watching the ride, all you can see is a shaky camera with a few road signs that go by every so often.
So Anyway, I am posting the Tower of Terror ride on Today's, but am going to wait until Thursday to post the Rockin' Roller Coaster in case I can get some better footage. So you will have to enjoy the Tower Of Terror ride only today. I am going to be posting 2 videos for it, one is the video introduction you watch, which is recorded from a distance so is not very good footage, and the other is the actual ride.
Ride(s):
Tower of Terror @ Hollywood Studios
Intro Movie (will hopefully be replaced on Thursday with a better recording of the video):
So, we started our day off at Downtown Disney to check out the shops and of course, as can be expected, Jessica pretty much spent all of her money at one shop for a really nice pair of sunglasses since she couldn't find hers and has been wanting a really nice pair for a while. I found a cool shop where you can build your own RC car, but have used restraint for now to hold on to my money in case I find something else. We then ate lunch at Wolfgang Puck Express (Our "Quick Serve" a.k.a Fast Food Lunch) where we both had a good Caesar Salad, but went different routes on our desserts. I had a Carrot Cake and Jessica went for a more traditional Chocolate Chip Cookie. The cake was pretty good, and Jessica exclaims the cookie was excellent! The pictures are below in our food report.
After Downtown Disney, we headed over to Epcot and found our "Leave a Legacy" picture we took 2 years ago posted on the walk-in front monuments as we were told. It took us a while to figure out their madness of number coordinations, but after a long search, we found them.
Once we discovered our picture, we headed for a few rides and hit Test Track, Soarin', and the Nemo ride. The only one of those that was worth attempting to record was Test Track. Soarin' is way way awesome, but all you would see if I recorded it, was a small section of a video we can see, and Nemo is a little kids ride and so isn't really exciting. Upon getting on the Test Track ride, I was weary about using my Pen Cam as it totally sucked the day before when I was just testing it. But the guy next to me, whipped out his video camera and was waving it around all the workers there and no one said anything, so I pulled out my Flip for a much better quality Video for sound and Picture and may just do that now since the workers don't seem to care. After a few rides, we went to Dinner at the Coral Reef Restaurant where we had one of the coolest waiters. He was very kind and very willing to make your stay absolutely excellent. This is even more so cool, cause of the amount of people he was having to service. We got so carried away when our dinner came since we were hungry, that we started into them before taking pictures. So our food is already half eaten, and then dessert was completely forgot about, so there are no pictures of our dessert. So anyways, here is out first video of a ride, and our lunch and dinner selections for today.
Ride(s):
Test Track @ Epcot:
Today's Lunch:
Wolfgang Puck Express:
Both of us chose the Chicken Caesar Salad and our Desserts were a Carrot Cake (Devin - Top Left) and a Chocolate Chip Cookie (Jessica - Top Right)
Today's Dinner:
Coral Reef Restaurant (Yes, that is a live aquarium):
Ok, so I am going to try an experiment with the blog during our stay and give a quick run through of our day, and then put a section of the rides recordings (if there be any) and then put our dinner info including pictures. So here is our first day....
Well we arrived and survived the flight over. After jamming ourselves all in a bus that took us to our hotel, we headed out to hit our first park in Disney World: Magic Kingdom! We chose this park simply because that is where our Dinner reservations were. We arrived and started walking the park, scoping out some stores, Searching for our dinner reservation, and a seeking for a few rides. During our short pre-dinner excursion, we noticed an added entertainment bonus in the sky on today's trip. Some one was proclaiming the gospel by plane and he was preaching by plane: Trust Jesus.
Soon after we arrived for our dinner at the "Tony's Town Square" restaurant, which is based off of the romantic restaurant from Lady and the Tramp. We ate here on our last visit and I remember enjoying it very much and so requested we come back this trip. Prices are a little high, but since we are on the dining plan, we get to order whatever we want for no charge: Here is the price of the item I ordered if we would not have been on the dinning plan:
After, dinner we waddled to a few rides starting with Pirates of the Caribbean, and then hitting Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Buzz Light Year's Space Ranger Spin, Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, and Then Haunted Mansion. I tested out my Pen Camera on a few just to see what I was up against and have noticed that my breastbone points the camera up and the Mic picks up noises so well that it makes all background noises sounds like old sci-fi shows for ghost hunters. I have also discovered (but pretty much figured) that the Pen camera I have does not do well in a low-lit room, and if any of you have ever been to any Disney Park, you should be aware that almost every ride is low-lit. Either way, I am still planning on attempting some recordings of some of the rides and get them posted. Anyway, here is our Dinner info since today was just experimental for recording the rides.
So we have been pestering Jennifer Breithaupt to go to a movie with us at a cool movie theater here in Utah that allows you to buy food and then eat it in the theater. After chatting with her on the phone one day and just after seeing DreamWork's "How to Train your Dragon," Jessica insisted that we pick this one to take her on. So upon getting in contact with her, we proceeded to set up a date to go, and received the honor of celebrating Jennifer's Birthday with doing it. We set up a time and after Jess and Jennifer met me at my work, we proceeded to head over to the theater and watched that spectacular show in 3D no less. After great enjoyment of the show, we then went home and had some cake and sang Jennifer Happy Birthday (Which we did record, but I will spare your ears today.). This is where we had the 2 candle and 6 candle mentioned in Jessica's Birthday. After eating some cake, we played some games, and then folded out the futon in the front room and had Jennifer stay the night. After Jessica arrived home from work the following day, we then went out to the park to play a few rounds of cards. But, a funny thing about the cards were, they are see-through and very slick... VERY slick. When mixing them with a normal set of playing cards, they become even more slick and almost impossible to shuffle. In between games, it almost became it's own game of who could actually shuffle the cards. During one of these shuffling challenges, we had the camera rolling and my wife insisted that we post it to the blog due to my excellent work. ;) So anyway, enjoy! And Jennifer, we still need to get you all of the videos!
Note to Self: Blogger really lowers the quality of videos posted directly to it. Hopefully I can take that thought to my trip.
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