Trip Log:
Started off the day a bit late due to the cold rain. Walked around the resort a while to see what's going on. Not too much in the rain. The Sunset savanna appeared closed and we saw a bulldozer in it. Headed out to EPCOT first. Walked over to the Living Seas, which has become a bigger dump than before. Next headed to Journey Into Your Imagination, still not as good as the original, but better than the past few versions. Walked through Innoventions and MouseGear. Then out to the International Gateway and the boat to the Yacht Club. Beaches and Cream for Lunch and bussed back to our resort. Rested in the room and let it rain for a while. Headed over to Animal Kingdom around 3:00pm and out to the Safari, no line since it was still raining a bit. Ended up waiting for Jamin' in the Jungle right in the middle of Harambe, there was a brief break in the clouds. Headed out to Asia after the parade and did the Jungle Trek. The tigers were fairly active due to the cool dampness and nightfall coming. After Asia exited the park and headed for the bus station and and bussed over to the TTC and took the Ferry over to the Magic Kingdom. Went to Buzz Lightyear, no line, yeah!! We were planning on eating some Carmel corn, but Sleepy Hollow stopped selling is a few weeks ago they said. We headed back to the Lodge after the disappointmend and grabbed a quick dinner at Mara. Back to the room to call it quits
and dry out.

Thoughts & Observations:

• This was the worst day, weather wise, of the trip. The temps dropped to the 60s and it rained most of the day. We saw this and decided to explore the Lodge for a while, and then left for lunch.
• EPCOT was like a ghost town, with just quick glimpses of Yellow everywhere. It was nice to walk around, but I wish it was a few degrees warmer.
• The Living Seas needs alot of help. It seems extremely run down and quite boring. It used to be one of our favorite places. They even skipped the preshow and instead the CM entertained us in the waiting area by asking where people were from. Still no seacabs, which really shortchanges the place.
• The new Innoventions area, the test labs were really fun and had a good size crowd.
• Beaches and Cream for lunch was busy as usual, but well worth the wait.
• Bussed back to AKL, via the AK. Always fun to transfer busses, but it was better than the rain.
• It was almost 3:00 and we saw on the weather channel that the clouds were breaking up, it was still raining rather hard outside, but we ventured over to AK to see what it was like in the rain.
• There were quite a few people leaving the park, we had to travel upstream the whole way. Walked onto the safari with no wait at all and had only a partially filled truck. The animals were fairly active, but most appeared ready to head in and were just killing time.
• After the ride the rain let up and we decided to wait and see if the parade would go, and it did. It was awesome to have virtually no one around and see it.
• The tigers were extremely active, which was nice.
• Afterwards a couple people had a graving for Carmel Corn, and we knew the best was at Sleepy Hollow at the Magic Kingdom. AK was closing so we bussed to the MK and took the ferry(which only 2 other people were on)to the park. It started to drizzle again, so we split up and went to Buzz and to get the carmel corn.
• We found out they stopped selling carmel corn their a few weeks ago, so we were bummed, but Buzz was great.
• So we headed back to AKL for dinner. No one was in the mood for a big meal so we ate at Mara. Several people got the shrimp and said it was great, I stayed with the tried and true chicken fingers, which were fine. The interesting thing was that we each got a ton of french fries, no skimping here... also I noticed it was 4 strips, compared to the parks which were only 3... this happened on two different trips, so I think its the way things are.. which is cool.

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