I woke up pretty early, probably because of time zones or whatever it is. I went through my suitcase to find the outfit of the day, but since my mother packed everything for me I could barely scramble together a decent outfit. I had the dresses that Tien gave me last night but U was saving those for Magic Kingdom. I pulled together a white shirt and my blue skirt with white flowers. Kim gave all of us bracelets that acted as bug repellent and I just put it on my ankle. While driving there I almost fell asleep, even though the drive was less than twenty minutes. When we got there we had to get cards to pass through the gate instead of an online pass. This was to my advantage because I was hoping for a card to keep for memories anyways. Since Disney is celebrating their 50th anniversary, there’s a lot of exclusive 50th Anniversary merch. The cards were also decorated accordingly, you could get one of 50 characters on it. I got Minnie, and TQ got Simba. Once we got past the gate, we were greeted by this giant tree. It wasn’t real, too green to be real, but it was huge. I grabbed a map, which I would be collecting throughout all four of the parks, also for memories. I opened the map and see four sections branches off the mainland, Discovery Island, with the Tree of Life. We first went to Pandora, from Avatar. Now, I haven’t seen Avatar in years. The one thing I remember is blue people and banshees, and the hair connecting thing. The first ride of the day, and in me and TQ’s theme park experience, was the Rite of Passage. This line was longer than any line I have ever been in. And apparently all the lines at Disney were like this. Hooray. After about an hour of waiting we went into this simulation room, where we would be experiencing riding a banshee. You sit in a chair like a bike, and the whole room moves around as a screen in front of you plays the banshee ride. It was very fun, very cool. I’m having trouble figuring out how to describe the ride, so just look it up. TQ was terrified, she closed her eyes the entire time. So afterwards we went on the only other ride in Pandora, a river ride. This line wasn’t as long as Rite of Passage but it was very close. The ride was cool though. The best thing was this very lifelike animatronic at the end of the river. My memory is a little bit hazy after that but I think we went to eat after that. And then we got ice cream. And this was the beginning of my love for Mickey Ice Cream Sandwiches. Godly. There was a kite show, with Simba, Zazu, Timon, and Pumba. Very cool. Then we went on the Mount Everest ride. TQ was very intimidated but everyone else kept telling her there were no drops, and that it was a smooth ride. At first I thought they were saying that on accident and I attempted correcting them; the Everest ride is probably the third most “scary” DisneyWorld ride. It definitely had drops, a good few of them. And I also knew that it went backwards. The power of the internet. But I realized TQ wouldn’t go on the ride if she knew about the drops so I just let the adults mess with her mind. Tien kept on saying how she’s been on the ride before and how she’s a big baby with roller coasters so it couldn’t be that bad. It was bad. I was screaming my butt off. And I think TQ was crying. After that we got Coke. Now this started a chain reaction throughout all the Disney days, we all craved the Disney Coke. They had to put drugs in it or something because it tasted so good. Towards the end of the day, we went to Dinoland to go on this dinosaur ride, but it got shut down right when we were about to get on, unfortunately. So we decided to repeat the best ride of the day, Rite of Passage in Pandora. It was kind of across the park so we had to speed walk the whole way. Oh my goodness my feet were killing me. I think my blisters had blisters it was so gross. And I was wearing Vans. TQ kept hearing all of us talking about how fun Rite of Passage was so she promised not to close her eyes this time. The line was relatively short and fast since it was near closing time. The second time on that ride was just as fun as the first time. I concluded that these long lines were all worth it. As we walked out to the car Mom Facetimed and I just smiled and waved and talked about what happened. When we get home, Uyen and Tien make rice and seaweed. I don’t know why but this whole trip everything just tasted so good. Then, I showered and TQ showered and then we ended off the day but resting our blistered feet and going to sleep.
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