As per usual morning EMH policy, Space is the only mountain running early, so we had a couple of walk on goes on Buzz, with Jake beating me convincingly both times, before heading back over to Main Street for a food and drink break at Starbucks. By the time we were refuelled the ropes were down for Adventure and Frontierlands and so we headed that way, and they were letting people in to Big Thunder, even though it wasn't quite nine yet. Again we walked pretty much straight on, and were riding before park opening.
This meant that we were fairly close to the front of the line for Splash, and only had a few minutes to wait for our final mountain. We secured the back row in our 'log' so didn't get too wet. Judging by Jake's whooping it up, I think this is definitely his favourite mountain.
As Big Thunder is definitely my favourite, and the wait time was still showing as 5 minutes when we came out from Splash, we snuck in for a second ride, before leaving the park, taking the (resort) monorail back to the car park, and heading over to Animal Kingdom.
We met up with the rest of the posse there and went straight onto our first fastpass ride of the day - the safari, which was as good as ever, with the one exception of absent lions. As always we eye up the outpost on the savannah and the small trucks taking people around, and say 'one day'!
After safari it was Kali River for three of us, with two taking up strategic positions on the bridge with the water shooters. In typical fashion we came backwards down the drop, closest to the water, and got thoroughly soaked, but is was plenty hot enough not to matter.
Lunch at the Flame Tree Barbecue, and then over to the Festival of the Lion King, and that was park two of the day done, and back to OKW for a well deserved rest.
Then, in the evening, Nicky and I headed out to Epcot (parking again at the Boardwalk), and enjoyed a very nice tapas meal at the Spice Road Table in Morocco, followed by the Boyz to Men Eat to the Beat concert (pretty lame), and then Illuminations viewed from Japan with the globe nicely framed in the Japanese gate.
So, whilst I can't claim four parks in one day, I can say four parks in 24 hours given the previous evening in Hollywood Studios!
