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- 7:18am - A look at EPCOT this morning from our balcony at Disney's Riviera Resort
- A crane was working backstage at EPCOT
- Video: The view from our 9th floor balcony at Disney's Riviera Resort
- A look around the kitchen of our 2 bedroom villa at the Riviera Resort
- My reservation today was converted to a good to go day.. so I did not have to go to Animal Kingdom first. The group wanted to go to Magic Kingdom so this saved some clicks.
- 8:00am - Heading to the bus stop
- 8:28am - Arrived at the Magic Kingdom
- 8:36am - The Magic Kingdom. Early resort guest hours had just begun at 8:30am.
- Main Street USA this morning.
- 8:45am - Making our way to the early entry scan point
- Headed for Tomorrowland
- Then turned around since the rest of our group had arrived and they wanted to visit the Jungle Cruise
- Video - Let the Magic Begins Greeting
- 8:49am - Heading to Adventureland as the park opened
- 9:02am - Decided to rope drop Jungle Cruise.. as did a number of other guests.
- Found the end of the line.
- 9:11am - Jungle Cruise posted at 45 min.
- 9:17am - Filling in the queue
- Queue renovation work underway.
- Queue renovation work underway.
- 9:22am - Boarding the next boat
- 9:28am - Setting off into the Jungle. So it was about a 25 min wait this morning.
- An African elephant
- Asian Elephants
- Still drying from overnight painting.
- Aladdin and Jasmine out for a stroll in Adventureland
- Passing through the hub
- 9:47am - 40 min wait for Buzz.. so not going to visit him.
- Instead heading for the PeopleMover
- 10:05am - Followed by Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress
- Of course my nephew wanted to sit in the front row here too.
- 10:31am - Main Street USA at the Magic Kingdom
- 10:33am - Leaving the Magic Kingdom
- Crossing paths on the Seven Seas Lagoon with the Admiral Joe Fowler
- The Island Tower at Disney's Polynesian Village Resort will open this December
- 10:58am - Arrived at the Transportation and Ticket Center
- Looking back across the Seven Seas Lagoon
- 10:59am - Taking the Monorail to EPCOT
- Passing over the entrance to EPCOT
- Spaceship Earth
- Donald Duck topiary
- Cruising over World Celebration
- A final look at the Communicore Hall area construction. These walls will be down my next visit as this area opens in June
- Moana was greeting guests near Journey of Water
- The Journey of Water support facility is mostly obstructed now with trees
- 11:14am - Arrived at EPCOT Monorail station
- 11:18am - Entered the park.
- Work underway where the temporary entrance walkway has been for the past couple years.
- Forces of Nature performing as we walked through the World Celebration Gardens
- Monorail Green passing overhead
- Encanto topiaries
- Passing Canada
- Winnie the Pooh Topiaries in the United Kingdom
- Alice was out greeting guests
- 11:30am - Arrived at the International Gateway Skyliner Station
- No wait this morning.
- 11:39am - Arriving at Disney's Riviera Resort
- 11:43am - Met the rest of our group at the bus stop.
- 12:25pm - Our bus to the airport arriving
- An overview of my day today.
- My time a the Magic Kingdom
- My quick walk through EPCOT and Skyliner trip to the Riviera.