4 parks, 3 days... GO!

Last week I had some really super awesome visitors from home, Lauren and Stephanie, come down and visit me and my friend, Erin, who is also on program. All 4 of us were on the same RA staff together so I was excited to have a little piece of my Whitewater life visit for a few days. We planned for their visit for a couple weeks and literally had to sit down and figure out exactly how we were going to hit all the parks in the short amount of time they were visiting. CHALLENGED ACCEPTED. 

They flew in on Wednesday night, where we surprised them with their very own Mickey ears, which they loved, or at least that's what they told us. :) We decided to start the vacation off right and go to Magic Kingdom the following day. Erin luckily got some fast passes for us and we pretty much walked onto every ride throughout the day. We knew Stephanie really wanted to see the princesses so we especially had to spend some time taking pictures with them. They, of course, were great and I am happy we got the chance to see all 4 of them. It was great to spend time with friends from home and show them all the cool new things Magic Kingdom has to offer. The park closed early for the halloween party so we went over to Downtown Disney for dinner and hung out there for a little while. It was a really longgg but extremely fun day.

The next day we went over to Hollywood Studios and spent a significant amount of the day riding rides, seeing characters and walking back and forth between attractions because the lines were long. Still not sure why it was so busy that day but we made it work. Unfortunately we couldn't make it to Fantasmic because Lauren really super duper wanted to ride Test Track at EPCOT so we took the resort boat over there around 7. Since Food & Wine Festival is still going on the park was insanely busy on the World Showcase side so we power walked over to the rides. It was still 60 minutes long but when we finally got on it was so worth it. I hadn't been on it since they changed it either and I would wait in that line again.. and I don't even like lines anymore! Another long and tiring day was over but it was still so fun to be with Whitewater friends!

Animal Kingdom was next.. I hadn't been there yet since I started my program so I was very excited. We went of Expedition Everest, watched the Lion King show, became Wilderness Explorers and met Russell and Dug. I am so impressed with the park and the commitment everyone has to the animals and the environment. Hopefully some of the things they are doing there will carry over into the other parks. I can't wait to go back when my family starts coming down. I NEED to spend some more time there. 

Overall, it was a really great to spend some time with them at the parks catching up and reminiscing. So sad they couldn't just move in with me forever.