My youth group took a trip to Disney World in Orlando, Florida. It was soooooo fun!! In two days we went to all four parks (Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom). The group of girls that I hung out with and I got to do almost every ride we had hoped to. Some of our favorites were Rocking Roller coaster, Expedition Everest, Splash Mountain, and Space Mountain. We also watched the Indiana Jones stunt show.
We had the most intense Disney experience it is possible to have there since we had such short amount of time to do so much. We left school at noon on Friday and met at Trinity to load the bus. It was about an eight hour ride there. We got to the All Star Movies hotel around 11. Our rooms were labeled with our names and had everything we would need for the following day in them. We then met near the gigantic 101 Dalmatian puppy to feast on the 100 Papa Johns Pizzas that were ready for us. We had a meeting to discuss the weekend and then went to bed. The next morning we woke up at 7. We made in to the park at 8 so that we could see Mickey invite us in. We stayed at Magic Kingdom until 12:00 and then went to Epcot. There we rode rides like Soarin' and The Land. We also watched a show called Universe of Energy. Somehow Disney uses Ellen Degeneres to make a comedy about where energy comes from. Before leaving Epcot, we went to Turtle Talk where we got to talk to Crush from Finding Nemo. And yes...we really talked and he really responded. We finished the night at Magic Kingdom and stayed there until 1:00 AM.
The next morning we woke up at 8 and got to Animal Kingdom at 9. We rode the dinosaur ride and Expedition Everest. In retrospect I realize the following was a bad idea: it's about 40-50 degrees outside and we went on Khali River Rapids. My poor friend got SOAKED. She was freezing cold. I lent her my jacket so that hers could dry before nighttime. Soon, we headed over to Hollywood Studios. By now, I was getting a really bad headache. We went on Rocking Roller Coaster twice and also went on Hollywood Tower of Terror with a bunch of cheerleaders.
On a tangent, there was some sort of cheer leading competition going on at Disney because the were squads everywhere. Most were from colleges I had never heard of. One of the groups shirts had mustaches on their team t-shirts. I mean what in the world! Anyway, they were all screamy and climbing random trees and just being obnoxious in general....very annoying.
After that, our group met at Mickey's wizard hat. I felt terrible. I wanted to go back to the hotel. One of the advisors gave me some Advil...Up and running again!! We proceeded to Magic Kingdom. We watched the light parade. We also got to go on Splash Mountain continuously because nobody else wanted to ride it. We quickly got sick of seeing Brer Rabbit and listening to "Zip-a-dee-doo-da." Next, we went on the Tomorrow land train and the the Coca cola Store where we taste-tested sodas from all over the world. The
Italy soda was absolutely disgusting! It tasted like medicine. We then went on Space Mountain until 3 AM. We sprinted back to the Walt Disney statue for our final check-in in the park. We went back to the hotel and went to sleep. The next morning we woke up and went home.
I hope to go back soon! I had a great time and made lots of fun memories!
