Welcome And Roulette Rules

Nathan 0:03

Please stand clear of the doors. For favor, mantenganse a left. Please stand clear of the doors.

Alicea 0:20

Because this year's the wildest ride in the wilderness. Hello everyone, I'm Alicia. And I'm Nathan. Welcome to episode 236 of Adventures and Mouse Capades.

Nathan 0:31

Today is another day. This week is another week. This episode is another theme park roulette. This time, yeah. Ta-da! This time it's Animal Kingdom Edition.

Alicea 0:46

Yes.

Nathan 0:47

Alicia, can you explain to our new listeners what the heck this means?

Alicea 0:53

Um, sure. So uh we're basically leaving everything up to chance here. We are spinning a roulette wheel choice wheel, whatever you want to call it, on pretty much all of the things. And we already spun the wheel and did Animal Kingdom this time. So we are going to do, as you said, Animal Kingdom edition.

Nathan 1:19

This is going to uh uh figure out when we're going and what we're doing and all the rest of that stuff. Sometimes these turn out great. Sometimes we have serious debates with the fates.

Alicea 1:30

Yes, yes, yes. All right, so you're gonna have to find like a wheel choice sound or something and insert them in here, I guess.

Nathan 1:39

I've never found one that I like before, so why start now?

Alicea 1:43

I mean, I can do a search because I'm much better at research. You know I am.

Nathan 1:49

Oh, you are.

Alicea 1:50

Yes.

Nathan 1:51

Yay. Sure. If you find one, I'll use it.

Alicea 1:55

Okay, okay, okay.

Nathan 1:56

Future Nathan here. That did not, in fact, happen. What you hear from here on out in terms of sound effects, I found on my own.

Choosing A March Date

Nathan 2:05

You're welcome.

Alicea 2:06

All right, so first off, we are going to see when we are gonna do this.

Nathan 2:11

Okay, let's go.

Alicea 2:13

What month? What month are we gonna do?

Nathan 2:16

All right, ready. Let's say it together. Spin that wheel.

Alicea 2:26

Uh-huh. All right, we are going for March. Ooh. March. All right, what week are we going for? This could be good. This could be spring breakish. Yes.

Nathan 2:38

The weather. We'll see. Probably okay. We'll see. All right. One, two, three, spin. Spin. That. That wheel. Wheel.

Alicea 2:46

Gosh.

Nathan 2:50

Your level of excitement.

Alicea 2:51

Okay. First week of the month. Ooh. All right. What day? I'm liking this. We are leaving this entire thing up to chance. All right.

Nathan 2:58

Okay.

Alicea 2:59

Day of the week is Tuesday.

Nathan 3:03

Oh.

Alicea 3:04

All right. So this is the first Tuesday in March. That is Tuesday, March 3rd. Uh-huh. And uh I'm going to go into touring plans and see what we had for Tuesday, March 3rd of this year.

Nathan 3:17

2026.

Alicea 3:18

2026. Thank you, Len Testa. Thank you, Len. Okay. This was predicted at a five. Whoa. Do you want that the actual was?

Nathan 3:29

Yeah, hit me up. Two. Len, we need to talk. You're a little off.

Alicea 3:40

The actual was a two. Okay. So um, so I have, because of all the wonder of touring plans, I have the actual

Wait Time Nerd Tools

Alicea 3:50

observed times in line for every single ride here. Okay. So this is awesome.

Nathan 3:56

So another good source that I might suggest, other than touring plans, that folks may want to look into is thrill-data.com because this is another place that lets people just absolutely nerd out about wait times over time. You can see uh predictions on when lightning lanes will sell out and where, like through the morning, like the return time difference. So like at 9 45, the return line for Rise of the Resistance was at 8 p.m. at night or something like that. Like it has so much data. That's thrill-data.com. So between thrill data and touring plans, you have the world is your oyster when it comes to data about what's going on in the parks. Anyhow, I just wanted to plug another website that we are completely unaffiliated with. Hashtag notad and hashtag not sponsored.

Alicea 4:55

Yes, definitely not. Okay.

Nathan 4:58

All right. So now we have to figure out whether we are doing like a lightning lane premiere pass, whether we are like just doing standby. What are we doing? All right, so Alicia, let us spin. Spin. That wheel. Wheel. There you go.

Standby Plan And Mobile Order

Alicea 5:27

We are doing standby. Which is, I mean, it with a two, I think that's fine.

Nathan 5:34

Sure, but walking into the day, we thought it was going to be a five.

Alicea 5:37

That's true.

Nathan 5:39

So we will be pleasantly surprised. How's that? All right.

Alicea 5:43

All right. Meals, meals, meals, meals.

Nathan 5:46

Uh there's not a lot of options. So get what we get. This is obviously this is going to well, not obviously, but options would be like signature dining and fancy sit-down restaurants or character meals and stuff. Or yeah, yeah. Yeah, mobile order or just snacks and stuff.

Alicea 6:06

Yeah. All right. So we have spin that wheel. Spin that wheel. Okay. Uh mobile order food. Okay. Okay. So it has to be mobile order. Um. This is interesting because, well, with mobile order, you can do casual restaurants, but not all casual restaurants have mobile order.

Nathan 6:31

It's okay. My favorite restaurant to get food from in Animal Kingdom is mobile order. All right. So we're but we are leaving it up. I said restaurant, not lounge. So don't everybody just like jump on me saying, but I thought no man's lounge. No, that is my favorite lounge.

Alicea 6:46

And that is not a mobile order.

Nathan 6:47

That's not mobile.

Alicea 6:48

No, no. Okay. So for this day. Oh, this is nice. The high was 74 degrees. And the low was 60. Yeah. Park hours at Animal Kingdom were 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. with early entry at 7.30. The adult ticket price was $164.

unknown 7:16

Okay.

Alicea 7:17

I didn't pull the kids' price. It's probably $10 less.

Nathan 7:20

Right. It's not going to be that different.

Alicea 7:22

Lightning Lane multi-pass for Animal Kingdom for this day was $19. Premier Pass was $179. And they also have a Lightning Lane single pass for Avatar Flight of Passage. And that was $16. But we aren't doing any of that other than, you know, just the adult ticket price. Right.

Nathan 7:43

So we are slumming it.

Alicea 7:44

Yep. Are we doing early entry?

Nathan 7:46

7 30 is really early.

Alicea 7:48

Really early. Yeah. Let's just say, okay, just because I know Animal Kingdom, we know Animal Kingdom, and we know there really aren't a lot of breakfast options.

Nathan 7:58

Yeah.

Alicea 7:59

We're going to do breakfast at our hotel or something.

Nathan 8:03

Yes. Yeah. This is just us. We're not bringing the kids. Yeah. If it was just us and we're not bringing the kids, honestly, we probably would have had a reservation for dinner or for excuse me, for breakfast at Tusco House.

Alicea 8:16

However, this is not sit-down restaurants.

Nathan 8:20

This is mobile order food. But I scored that reservation like a month ago. So your wheel can Okay, whatever. All right, breakfast at the hotel.

Alicea 8:31

Breakfast at the hotel. We're going in at we'll say rope drop.

unknown 8:37

Okay.

Alicea 8:38

We'll get there right when it starts at eight.

Nathan 8:40

Okay.

Alicea 8:40

All right. Let's see what we're gonna do.

Nathan 8:44

If the wheel doesn't choose

Rope Drop Zootopia Twist

Nathan 8:45

the safari, I'm gonna be very upset. What are we rope dropping, Alicia?

Alicea 8:52

We are rope dropping Zootopia, better Zoogether.

Nathan 8:58

Um, I need to have a conversation with the wheel. Wheel, can you meet me off stage here for a second? What the hell are you doing? Okay, we're good to go.

Alicea 9:11

All right, Zootopia Better Zoo Gether.

Nathan 9:14

Um I did get a chance to do this ride a little while ago when I had a solo day at Animal Kingdom. It I this is not a ride. Let's just start there. This is entertainment or an attraction. I don't know. It's not a ride, but anyhow, it was cute.

Alicea 9:33

Okay. So I'm going to remove that from the wheel.

Nathan 9:37

Okay.

Alicea 9:37

It is not in the wheel anymore.

Nathan 9:39

All right. We have to keep track of time.

Alicea 9:42

Yes. Now, this one, I don't have any time lists for it at all. That's just gonna be, I mean, it's gonna be a walk-on. Nobody's gonna do that. Exactly. About how long is that show?

Nathan 9:53

Uh I would it's probably eight minutes or so.

Alicea 9:58

Okay.

Nathan 9:59

I would say, and the queue is really long to walk through.

Alicea 10:03

Yes, it is.

Nathan 10:04

So we I would say 15 total.

Alicea 10:06

Okay. We get in at eight o'clock. We have to get over there.

Nathan 10:10

Yeah.

Alicea 10:11

So get on do a show.

Nathan 10:14

We're done. Call it 8 30 so we don't have to do a lot of math.

Alicea 10:18

Yeah. We're good. For this, we usually round.

Nathan 10:21

Yeah. Yeah. Zootopia.

Alicea 10:23

So done at 8 30.

Nathan 10:25

Yeah.

Alicea 10:25

All right, wheel. What are we doing next? Spin that. No whammies. No whammies. No whammies.

Gorilla Trail Then Safari

Alicea 10:36

All right. We are doing the Gorilla Falls Exploration Trail. Okay. Mm-hmm. I put everything in there. All right. This is this is going to be an interesting one.

Nathan 10:47

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm down with seeing some animals, but not rope drop-ish unless you're talking safari.

Alicea 10:59

That was the one right before this. I was like, oh, come on. It's still early. Okay. So I'd I'd say that's kind of right around the tree of life, isn't it? So, like what, 15 minutes to go through all that?

Nathan 11:13

No, we're gonna sit and watch some big gorillas do some big gorilla stuff.

Alicea 11:17

So done at nine.

Nathan 11:18

Yeah.

Alicea 11:19

Okay, okay. Let me remove Gorilla Falls Exploration Trail. Alrighty. And see what we are doing next. Perfect. We are doing the Kilimanjaro Safaris at nine o'clock. This is this is actually great because it's still in the morning and the animals, it's not it's not right at the very first thing in the morning, which we have done before, and it's actually not great to do super early in the morning if it's a little bit cooler of a day, because the animals don't want to get out of bed.

Nathan 12:04

Yeah. True.

Alicea 12:06

So this is nine o'clock for the Kilmanjaris Safaris. That takes a little bit to get to, and the queue is really long. And we are also going to try and figure out um the wait times. The wait time. So the wait time is 25 minutes.

Nathan 12:25

Okay. Which is the same thing. Now that was the average across the day. We haven't drilled into everything. But we'll say that feels about right.

Alicea 12:33

Yep. Observed weight was about 25 minutes. Predicted weight was 78. Wow. So all right. So we'll say we'll we left Gorilla Falls at like 9 a.m. We got there at what, like 9.10, you think?

Nathan 12:51

Yeah, probably.

Alicea 12:52

Okay, 9.10 plus 25 minutes.

Nathan 12:56

So 9.35.

Alicea 12:58

Yeah, 9.35.

Nathan 12:59

And that is It's a 25-ish.

Alicea 13:01

Yeah.

Nathan 13:02

Yeah, call it 10.

SPEAKER_01 13:04

Right?

Nathan 13:04

Is that where we're Yeah.

Alicea 13:06

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 13:07

A few moments later. Hey, the lion on that ride was amazing.

Alicea 13:11

Yes. I mean. And they're all new lions, too. We haven't seen these lions.

Nathan 13:16

Rr. Rrr. Rarr. That's what they sound like, right?

Alicea 13:22

Yeah. Apparently, there is a female, there's a lioness there that is extremely vocal now.

Feathered Friends And Snack Debate

Alicea 13:30

So it's kind of cool.

Nathan 13:31

A chatty kitty.

Alicea 13:33

Yes. Chatty Kitty. Got it. Okay. 10 a.m. Next. Ready though. Spin that wheel. We are now going to do some entertainment. Ooh. Our entertainment is Feathered Friends in Flight. And we are going to actually see the first show because it's not until 10 45 a.m.

SPEAKER_01 13:59

Oh.

Alicea 14:00

So we have a little tiny bit of downtime walking all the way over there.

Nathan 14:05

Okay. We're going to have to get a snack.

Alicea 14:07

A snack.

Nathan 14:09

While we're waiting.

Alicea 14:10

So, okay.

Nathan 14:11

We're going to mobile order a snack while we're waiting for feathered friends in flight.

Alicea 14:16

All right.

Nathan 14:17

Is that allowed?

Alicea 14:18

I guess so, yeah. Um, do I need to spin the food wheel?

Nathan 14:23

No.

Alicea 14:23

Okay. That's we're just doing that for like lunch. We're just and dinner. Okay. Yes. Yes. We will mobile order a uh oh, what can we mobile order? Do they have churros on mobile order? There is a Zuri's sweet shop.

Nathan 14:39

We're not gonna mobile order a regular cart churro. That's bad in Florida.

Alicea 14:44

Well, okay. What exactly are you planning on mobile ordering then?

Nathan 14:50

Um I don't know. I'd have to look at a list of places that accept mobile order.

Alicea 14:56

I can tell you the places that accept mobile order. Okay, you do that. But okay, this is 10 in the morning. We have Flame Tree Barbecue, Harambe Market, Pizza Fari, Situli Canteen, and Zuri's sweet shop.

Nathan 15:08

Well, it's gonna be something from Zuri's.

Alicea 15:10

Yeah, that's that's I'm pretty much what I said, but okay. Folks, this episode is highly planned. All right, so we're looking at Zuri's. Do you want me to look at the menu? I mean, we'll figure something out. Okay.

Nathan 15:28

Even if it's just a bottle of water or they have food and spirits.

Alicea 15:34

I can't look online because there's no times available right now. It's like it's closed. At our current time, Zuri's sweet shop is not open.

Nathan 15:45

What a Z-U-R-I?

Alicea 15:49

I was just trying to find a menu.

Nathan 15:51

Yeah, you just go to They don't have a menu.

Alicea 16:02

Why do they not have a menu? I don't know. That's insane. Okay, so there's things like this is definitely a sweet shot. There's things like uh Werther's original caramel butter bar. That sounds really good. Really good. Um, they have the candied apples, chocolate chip cookies, the giraffe cookies, sugar cookies, stuff like that.

Nathan 16:29

Yeah.

Alicea 16:30

And this time of year, of course, because it is almost July 4th, as we are recording, and they have all the patriotic stuff. But wait a minute. We're there in March, so never mind. None of that's available.

Nathan 16:43

There's fudge, there's marshmallows. I mean, I'm probably gonna get a cookie of some shape and or form. Okay. Uh a bottle of water, uh uh at an outside stretch, maybe a rice crispy treat if they have one. Well, but uh probably figure on a cookie.

Alicea 17:06

Excuse me, they are Mickey cereal treats. Uh-huh.

Nathan 17:10

Uh-huh.

Alicea 17:11

What did I say? That was wrong. Rice Krispie. That is branded. Ding. You can't say tater dots either. They're potato barrels. Potato barrels. That sounds really good too. Okay, so we're getting some sort of sweets because you have to have morning sweets before our feathered friends in flight.

Nathan 17:34

Exactly. This is just the rules, folks. We don't make this stuff up, even though we're making this up.

Alicea 17:40

Okay, okay. All right. So the show for feathered friends in flight is probably about a half an hour.

Nathan 17:47

Yeah. 25. Yeah.

Alicea 17:49

Yeah. It'll be done at like 1115. Sounds good. Okay. All right. So I'm removing all instances of feathered friends in flight. And let's see what we're doing now.

Nathan 18:01

How many times did you have it listed?

Alicea 18:03

Three.

Nathan 18:04

Oh. Okay. You really wanted to go see some birds.

Alicea 18:08

All of them are three.

Oasis Backtrack Then Na’vi River

Nathan 18:10

Oh, I see.

Alicea 18:14

All right. We are going to the oasis exhibits. I don't even know what this is.

Nathan 18:20

The what?

Alicea 18:23

Um, what is this?

Nathan 18:24

That sounds fun, question mark.

Alicea 18:32

Oh, we are going all the way back to the front of the park because the oasis exhibits are the tropical introduction to the park. They feature waterfalls, exotic plants, and a variety of gentle animals.

Nathan 18:45

Wheel. What are you doing?

Alicea 18:48

I mean, we technically walked through all this already and saw it, but we're gonna go back and shouldn't we take it off the wheel?

Nathan 18:54

I don't know. No, it's fine. All right, fine. We walked to the front of the park because we need exercise question mark.

Alicea 19:01

Oh, we definitely do.

Nathan 19:02

Okay, so I'd say what? Like it's not gonna take that long, but okay uh like 12:30 done? 1230. We just it was 11:15. Holy cow.

Alicea 19:12

I was very wrong here.

Nathan 19:14

I was gonna say 1145. Okay. Because we got to walk all the way to the front of the park, see some whatever's there right now, and then go back about our day. All right. We should do a different thing, and then probably we're gonna just start getting hungry for some real food.

Alicea 19:33

All right, so one more thing here. What do we got? Doot do do do do do.

Nathan 19:36

Spin that wheel. The look on your face is not giving me hope.

Alicea 19:51

Well, it it was it was okay. I'll tell you where it was about to hit. And that was Collie River Rapids. Oh. It did not hit Collie River Rapids. It did. We are doing Navi River Journey. Your absolute favorite. This ride is horrible. All right. Wait time for the Navi River Journey. 42 minutes.

Nathan 20:23

So we're gonna blow an hour on the stupidest ride ever.

Alicea 20:27

Yep. So we'll be done at around 12.45.

Nathan 20:30

Hey kids, look, black lights and stuff we made up. And oh, an animatronic that doesn't work half the time. It's gonna work this time. I'm telling you, it's a good one. It's probably gonna be a screen. What?

Alicea 20:44

Okay, so we're done at 1245.

Nathan 20:47

Let me go to I'm gonna take this wheel out behind the shed after we're done.

Alicea 20:54

I think we're hungry now after seeing that just absolutely stunning shaman animatronic. Stunning. You haven't seen it, have you?

Nathan 21:04

I have. You have.

Alicea 21:06

No, I have you actually.

Nathan 21:08

I think I have. I've the first time I saw it, it was a screen.

Alicea 21:12

Yeah.

Nathan 21:12

And then you were like, well, we have to do it again sometime. I'm like, do we? And you said yes. And so we did it again. And it was not the screen. And I'm sorry, I was still unimpressed.

Alicea 21:25

Oh, well, I think it's pretty cool. I don't like the ride itself.

Nathan 21:29

I'm happy for you.

Alicea 21:30

Okay. We are spinning. We are spinning for food. Please

Mobile Order Lunch At Flame Tree

Alicea 21:35

do not land on pizza fari. Where are we going? Where are we going? Oh, oh, oh, oh. Dang it. Okay. We can't have lunch. We did not stop it. We did not stop on Pizza Fari. We did, however, land on Zuri's sweet chop. And I think I need to take that out.

Nathan 21:51

Yeah, that needs to be removed. We've done that.

Alicea 21:54

Yeah, we just we even though we weren't supposed to, we did it. Okay. All right. I'm gonna do this again. I'm spinning again.

Nathan 21:59

All right. Spin that wheel.

Alicea 22:04

Okay, you'll be happy.

SPEAKER_01 22:05

Okay.

Alicea 22:06

Because there's two on this list that are just phenomenal.

SPEAKER_01 22:09

Mm-hmm.

Alicea 22:10

The two that I'm talking about here are Satulli Canteen and Flame Tree Barbecue. Both of those have delicious menus.

Nathan 22:17

I have a preference for one over the other, but yes.

Alicea 22:20

Yeah. Uh well, we are going to Flame Tree Barbecue.

Nathan 22:23

Nice. Finally, something on this list hits that I really wanted to hit right then.

Alicea 22:31

Flame Tree Barbecue. I don't I don't know that I've actually had anything from Flame Tree Barbecue before.

Nathan 22:36

Is wrong.

Alicea 22:37

We just haven't. I mean, we will have a chance to do this in not that long.

Nathan 22:42

Okay. It's fantastic.

Alicea 22:45

So what did you have? Did you have the sampler? Yeah. Okay. So they have it's it's guess what? It's barbecue. What? They have a ribs, chicken, and pulled pork sampler, and that sounds really good.

Nathan 22:57

It's all fantastic.

Alicea 22:58

It's smoked pulled pork sandwiches, macaroni and cheese with pulled pork, smokehouse chicken sandwich. Mmm. Yep.

Nathan 23:09

There's lots of good stuff. They have great sides. It is excellent.

Alicea 23:15

Okay. So and we're mobile ordering this.

Nathan 23:18

Yeah. Which is totally fine.

Alicea 23:20

Yeah. So we were done with Nabi River Journey at 1245. So food, flames URQ, done at like what you think 130?

Nathan 23:28

Probably 130. Yeah. Especially with crowd level two. They probably weren't pushing orders out very far at all. It does take them a hot minute to put things together. The seating is right there. Um, it's covered. It's really nice. Although, funny story, there was, I don't know what type of bird it was, uh like a marsh bird, really long legs and a really long uh spiky beak. Spiky? Not spiky, pointy beak. And there's birds that just hang around Animal Kingdom. And this one bird came up and was kind of aggressive at this uh this two-top that had these two young ladies sitting at it, and hopped up on that thing and like started going after their food and spilled over their soda, and it was like wow. It was a menace. It was a menace. And the the cast members came over and rescued them.

Alicea 24:33

And um were they freaking out?

Nathan 24:35

A little, yeah. Uh gave them a uh a voucher for like another meal. Like, here, go hand this up and like they'll take care of you and get your food like redone and all the rest of that stuff. Like it was they handled it really well, but it was an ordeal. So um, watch out for the birds at uh I mean, yeah.

Alicea 24:56

Don't hurt them, but you can yell at them and scare them away.

Nathan 24:59

Right. That was not the reaction from these young waves.

Alicea 25:02

Oh my goodness. Yeah. Well, I will say that a large number of the population, for some reason, is afraid of birds.

Nathan 25:11

I mean, I I kind of get it.

Alicea 25:13

Uh, they are flying dinosaurs, okay.

SPEAKER_01 25:15

Right. Dino your all right.

Alicea 25:20

Lunch was delicious. Mm-hmm. Now what are we gonna go do?

Nathan 25:25

I don't know. I have a funny feeling you're gonna disappoint me, though. And by you, I mean the wheel.

Everest Then Festival Of The Lion King

Nathan 25:30

So let's spin that wheel.

Alicea 25:37

We are going on directly after eating Expedition Everest Legend of the Forbidden Mountain.

Nathan 25:44

Okay.

Alicea 25:47

All right. Wait time for Expedition Everest Legend of the Forbidden Mountain is 21 minutes. Wow. Not bad at all.

Nathan 25:55

Not bad at all. It's gonna take us a little few minutes to walk over there, so figure a half hour to walk over there. So that puts us at two. The ride's probably we'll be generous. We'll just round up, call it 15 minutes till we're done.

Alicea 26:13

Okay. Are you talking about we get on to the ride at two or no?

Nathan 26:19

We get on the ride at two. It takes a little bit to you know, get seated and all the rest of the stuff and then do the ride. Call it 215. All right. Yeah.

Alicea 26:31

All right.

Nathan 26:32

We're not like allocating time for bathroom breaks and stuff like that.

Alicea 26:35

So that's fine. Yeah, we can hold it the whole time. And we are hydrating, of course. We can hold it the whole time. Yeah, sure. Just don't drink a lot, although we have to hydrate sometimes. Yeah. I it's it's it's in the no, it's in the numbers that we're we are padding a little bit here. So we're okay.

Nathan 26:53

That was my point.

Alicea 26:54

Okay. All right. After Expedition Everest, where are we headed?

Nathan 27:00

Probably the complete opposite end of the park, knowing the wheel.

Alicea 27:04

We are going to have a nice sit down and enjoy Festival of the Lion King.

Nathan 27:10

Okay. I'm not upset with this.

Alicea 27:11

No. Festival of the Lion King is great.

Nathan 27:14

That show is awesome. Although we just missed a show.

Alicea 27:18

We just missed a show. The next show is at three o'clock.

unknown 27:21

Oh.

Alicea 27:24

That's okay.

Nathan 27:26

Okay.

Alicea 27:26

I mean, we are not go, go, go people. It's yeah.

Nathan 27:29

Yeah, we'll see Kevin along the way. Uh it'll be fine. We'll make this work.

Alicea 27:35

And this is like what, a 20-minute show?

Nathan 27:38

Yeah.

Alicea 27:39

Yeah. So the show starts at 3. I mean, they don't start letting people in at 3. This they probably start letting people in at 2 30 or 245. 245. Because it takes a while for that theater to get filled and for people to get in and everything. Okay.

Nathan 27:55

So the And then you gotta unload.

Alicea 27:57

So Yeah.

Nathan 27:58

Yeah. Call it uh Yeah.

Alicea 28:01

345.

Nathan 28:04

Bathroom break. 345.

Alicea 28:05

Okay, 345. Festival of the Lion King done.

Nathan 28:08

Yeah.

Alicea 28:09

Always great to see the tumble monkeys.

Nathan 28:11

Absolutely.

Alicea 28:12

Yeah.

Nathan 28:12

Alright, well, what else we got?

Alicea 28:16

All right, now, after we have finished Festival of the Lion King,

Character Meet And Tree Trails

Alicea 28:20

we are going to meet Disney pals. It is time for a character meet and greet.

SPEAKER_01 28:26

Is it?

Alicea 28:27

Yeah. I mean, that's what it landed on.

SPEAKER_01 28:30

Okay.

Alicea 28:31

Um, so at Animal Kingdom, this can be a variety of characters. It could be Mickey or Minnie. Um sometimes it's oh gosh. I don't know what they do now. We haven't done one of these at Animal Kingdom in so long. But I know I can tell you what they used to be. They may not be these anymore, but I know they used to have like Blue and King Louie there you could meet. They used to have Flick and oh, what's the lady ant's name? Ada? I don't know.

Nathan 29:02

You're asking the wrong part. I don't know anything about Disney movies.

SPEAKER_01 29:05

Um Pixar movies. I'm sorry. Don't come at me. A few moments later.

Alicea 29:12

Well, I know you used to be able to do to meet Chip and Dale in their dinosaur outfits, but not anymore.

SPEAKER_01 29:21

That's not a thing.

Alicea 29:22

All right. I think it it may be Mickey and Minnie in um in their safari duds. Got it.

Nathan 29:30

Where is this?

Alicea 29:31

It's at Adventures Outpost.

Nathan 29:34

Where is this? I don't remember where that is. I remember Chip and Dale were always over in Dinaland, and that doesn't exist anymore.

Alicea 29:44

It's to the right of the tree.

Nathan 29:46

Oh, it's over near the stage across the way from Flame Tree Barbecue.

Alicea 29:51

Yeah. Adventures Outpost. And it's yeah, it's usually Mickey and Minnie.

SPEAKER_01 29:55

Okay, got it.

Alicea 29:56

All right. Okay, so this will take 30 minutes. Oh, interesting. Interesting. The predicted wait time was 15 minutes. The observed was 30.

Nathan 30:12

And I'm gonna be pissed off for all 15 of those extra minutes.

Alicea 30:17

I'm it I wonder if they it was lower. Well, I don't know. Why would it be lower for a higher?

Nathan 30:24

I don't know. That is that's a thing. That's inter.

Alicea 30:27

All right. So timing-wise, it would not take us long to get over there from Festival of the Lion King. Because that's not that far. No, no, it uh no, it would. It'd take about 15 minutes. I had my timing wrong here or my location wrong.

Nathan 30:43

I'd say 10, but whatever. It's not that bad.

Alicea 30:45

Where is Festival Lion King? Okay, yeah, that's true. Okay. We can just walk over through Asia.

Nathan 30:50

Yeah.

Alicea 30:51

And then go down the bridge there, and Adventures Outpost is right there.

Nathan 30:54

Going east to west across Animal Kingdom isn't bad at all. It's when you have to go north-south and the river gets in the way and all the rest of that stuff. That's when it gets complicated and delayed.

Alicea 31:03

Okay, so like 355 start and then it's a 30-minute wait.

Nathan 31:09

Plus interaction time.

Alicea 31:11

Plus interaction time.

Nathan 31:12

So call it 4 30.

Alicea 31:15

Okay. What is next after meeting Mickey and Minnie?

Nathan 31:18

Don't know. Let's find

Flight Of Passage Finale

Nathan 31:20

out. Let's spin that wheel.

Alicea 31:36

Yay. All right. We are doing the Discovery Island Trails. It was really close to doing River Rapids, so um I'm happy with the Discovery Island Trails.

Nathan 31:49

Yeah. I love seeing what's around the uh tree of life.

Alicea 31:53

Yeah. And we're right there, so it's not far to go.

Nathan 31:56

Yeah. That actually seems like a decision we would make.

unknown 31:59

Yeah. Yeah.

Alicea 32:00

So we'd be do a lot, like what, 15, 20 minutes walking around there?

Nathan 32:05

Called a half hour, just round up.

Alicea 32:07

Five o'clock.

Nathan 32:08

Factoring in bathroom breaks.

Alicea 32:10

Yeah. Okay. So the park closes at six.

Nathan 32:15

Mm-hmm. So we're looking at last things.

Alicea 32:18

Yeah.

Nathan 32:19

Maybe one thing to do, maybe two if we're lucky.

Alicea 32:22

Yeah. Because the park closes at six, we are not going to waste time with food.

Nathan 32:27

No, we're not going to do dinner. No.

unknown 32:29

No.

Alicea 32:32

All right. What are we doing next? We are walking over to Finding Nemo, The Big Blue, and Beyond. No, we're not. We're not. There's no show. I'm sorry. We missed that show.

Nathan 32:45

Sorry, Wheel. You're wrong. So once again, let's spin that wheel.

Alicea 33:01

We are going over to Avatar Flight of Passage.

Nathan 33:06

Well, that's the last thing we're doing today.

Alicea 33:10

Because that is a 53-minute wait.

Nathan 33:13

Mm-hmm. Great.

Alicea 33:15

That's not a bad thing to end on.

Nathan 33:17

No, it's not the worst thing to end on. Although.

Alicea 33:20

It is much better than Collie River Rapids.

Nathan 33:23

100%.

Alicea 33:24

Yeah.

Nathan 33:25

And also, neither of us have ever done it.

Alicea 33:27

I thought you've done it.

Nathan 33:28

I have not done it.

Alicea 33:29

Okay.

unknown 33:30

First.

Alicea 33:31

Awesome. Yeah. Yeah. We get we get to do that, even though we probably won't get to do it in real life. We get to go on Avatar Flat Passage.

Nathan 33:38

Yay! Yay!

Alicea 33:42

And um it was great. It was an amazing ride. I'm so glad I got to do it.

Nathan 33:49

Yep. Ditto. Uh-huh. Just transformational.

Alicea 33:53

I have walked through the queue and seen Hank in the tank because you gotta.

Nathan 33:58

Yeah.

Alicea 33:59

It's a really cool queue. I do enjoy it. Um, I just can't, my legs can't get on the ride.

Nathan 34:04

I bet you I could do it.

Alicea 34:06

You could probably do it, yeah.

Nathan 34:07

Yeah. But uh I'll keep you company. Okay. If the kids were with us, I'd say we'd send them over to do Avatar Flight to Passage, and we would go to Nomad Lounge.

Alicea 34:19

No, we got we got to do Avatar Flight to Passage. We are done with our Animal Kingdom Day. This was a good day, actually. It was a complete failure.

Nathan 34:28

We never made it to Nomad.

Alicea 34:30

No. It's okay.

Nathan 34:34

Now did you know that the churros at Nomad Lounge are gluten-free and therefore healthy for you?

SPEAKER_01 34:40

Yeah, baby.

Nathan 34:43

I've never said this anywhere else on the show. That's pretty awesome. They're healthy.

Alicea 34:48

Yeah.

Nathan 34:49

Yeah. That means the calories don't count. They're good for you.

Alicea 34:52

It's at Disney. The calories don't count anyway. Where are we going for dinner?

Nathan 34:59

Probably Tapolinos.

Alicea 35:00

Yeah, that sounds good. All

Wrap Up And Listener Requests

Alicea 35:05

right. Well, thank you for joining us on our crazy random day at Animal Kingdom.

Nathan 35:11

Yes, this episode was thoroughly planned out. Uh really tight, highly scripted, just full of excellent information. And you are better off in your life from having listened to it. You're welcome, everybody.

Alicea 35:28

Yeah. You're welcome.

Nathan 35:32

Well, um, yeah, as we wrap up and move on, a reminder that we are not affiliated with Disney or any of its subsidiaries, especially after what you just listened to. Everything you hear on this show is based on personal experiences, opinions, and questionable snack choices. We are, however, proudly affiliated with fun.

Alicea 35:53

And not going on water rides.

Nathan 35:55

Exactly.

Alicea 35:56

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Nathan 36:13

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Alicea 36:25

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Nathan 36:37

Thanks so much for listening. We'll be back in your ears next week. Thank you for flying Star Tours. Bye bye.