Take me to the River
We arrived at Animal Kingdom around 6 pm. Our main priority for the evening was to see Rivers of Light, but we had a few minutes to spend walking around Pandora.
It was packed!
We went into a gift shop and it was wall-to-wall people. We got a closeup look at a pet banshee but we all managed to hang onto the hundred bucks * (clarification, $59.99) or so it would take to bring one of these cuties home (Perch sold separately)
We wanted to get to the RoL stadium about an hour before showtime, so we started to make our way over. None of us knew exactly where the theatre entrance was, and we went totally the WRONG way, through Africa to Asia, where they routed us past the Nemo theatre to an entrance near Dinoland USA.
We would have been much better off going through Discovery Island.
We found seats and settled in for the 60 minute wait to showtime. We were kind of hungry, and I think Nannette went off to try to find popcorn, but there was none for sale within the bounds of the show and she was afraid if she left she wouldn’t be let back in.
I felt really badly for the families around us with young kids. They were really restless waiting for the show to start.
Waiting with a friend…
As others have said, I found the show to be sort of “meh” Not much of a storyline. The floats were neat to look at. We didn’t have a great vantage point for the water projections.
After the show let out, we headed back to Pandora since this would be our only chance to see it after dark.
I don’t have a single picture worth posting!
We caught a very small part of the Tree of Life awakening on the way out.
We left the park and returned to Saratoga Springs. We hadn’t had much to eat since snacking around the world that afternoon, so we went to the food court. I got some potato salad to have with a sandwich I made back in the room.
The next day would be a busy one. Our last full day. Moving to a new resort. And an attempt to visit 4 theme parks.
Next Up: So they loaded up the truck and moved to the Poly (Nesian, that is) (Volcano Pools) (Tiki Bars)