I do have to admit that I'm not the kind of person who does thrill rides or roller coasters (just ask my family.... they try to get me on rides that I absolutely won't step onto). I'd rather spend all of my time spinning around on the teacups or riding the other "kiddie" rides than step on a coaster. Especially one in the dark (like Space Mountain). But I do have to admit that MY favorite, absolute favorite ride was Splash Mountain.Maybe it was the whole cute story/animatronic adventure or maybe it was the fact that flume and water rides are fun (to me at least). I was looking forward to Splash Mountain. We rode it on Friday night after dinner (we decided to get fastpasses since the line was over an hour long and we didn't want to deal with it before dinner).
The ride really did seem to go on forever. There were a gazillion rooms of animatronic figures and songs. There was even a smaller drop before the larger one (the larger one being only five stories tall). Every time I thought that we were about to go down, we would enter another room or go around another corner. We finally did go down the large drop though, and it felt GREAT (especially since the day was pretty hot... the water felt very good).
I got SOAKING wet. SOAKING!! Zack told me that the left side of the boat doesn't get wet, so I sat on the left side (his reply after I got wet: "I didn't say that the back of the boat doesn't get wet!"). The horrible thing was that only the front of me was soaking wet. I had a gray t-shirt on too, so anyone could tell that I was soaking in the front, but that my back was dry. Luckily because it was still a little warm (just a little.. lol) I dried fairly quickly.I liked the end of the ride. The last room of animatronics takes you to a room with a great big moving steamboat and a whole bunch of figures that sing "zip a dee do da". Since the story told during the ride talks about how Briar Rabbit is going home to his "laughing place", the ride ends with him safely home and singing along (although he does have different words the very familiar tune).
We didn't get any pictures of the animatronics during the ride because we were afraid that we'd ruin our cameras with all the water (and it was good that I had mine hidden... it really could have been destroyed!), or that we'd lose it when we went down the drop (many people do lose their hats and sunglasses as they go down). I did get some pics of the outside of the ride, and I've included them with this blog. My favorite picture is the one that's to the left of a log going down the ride. We also bought the picture that was taken as we went down the final drop (because Splash Mountain was the one ride we all went on together), but that one hasn't been scanned and saved on the computer yet. Once mom gets it on the computer and saved I'll try to get it posted.
Even though it is considered a "thrill ride" and I normally don't ride those, I had a blast riding Splash Mountain. It was by far my favorite ride. I'd ride it again in a heartbeat! :)
