Our Animal Kingdom plan WAS
Buy Flight of Passage for 8:00ish, book Safari, ride Navi River Journey, ride Flight of Passage, loop Everest, ride Safari and then have lunch at 10:45am so we can hop over to EPCOT.
Nope, didn't happen, at all.
We arrive before park opening, get through security and are lined up to tap in. We decide to rope drop flight of passage since we are so close to the front of the line. We know the routine, tap in, get scanned as onsite guest, hustle to Pandora.
While in line, I go to book Flight Passage, it is stated for 8:20 am. I select it, and go to pay, it has already bumped me to 12:30 pm!!! I thought they fixed this a couple of years ago. I buy it, but that really messes with us getting to EPCOT. I book Safari for 9:15ish and buy Guardians for 3:00 pm, knowing we can get to EPCOT by that time.
The rope drop wasn't horrible. They held us on the bridge going into Pandora and walked us through some of the different areas. This helped spread out the crowd. We walked all the way through the stand by areas into the underground loading area. They were looking for a party of 3! That's us!
We get loaded in, the ride starts. We have never rope dropped this ride, I can not believe how smooth it went. What was funny was the water that sprays you during the ride, I've never gotten that wet before. Must be because the reservoirs were completely full!
We exit Flight of Passage and are fully prepared to go ride Everest, over and over and over. NOPE, it's down. We look at Navi and it is already 40 minutes. So somehow my hubby talks me into Dinosaur. But first coffee!
There is no line at Starbucks. While he is getting coffee, I stop at Customer Relations (blue umbrella), to discuss my Flight of Passage paid LL. Nothing they can do. He says the didn't fix it. I don't argue, but it really should lock in the time when you select it.
Off to Dinosaur. We rode this years ago. We are convinced they toned down the animatronic dinosaur. Regardless, not my favorite, but hubs likes it. We have time before Safari, we stop at Joffrey's for more coffee and a donut the size of my head for my son. On our way, we check in at Everest, ask a few questions. They expect the ride to open, not sure exactly when.