Animal Kingdom Passholder Event

This week we were lucky enough to get tickets to go to our first ever annual passholder event at Disney! This time it was at Animal Kingdom and it was to celebrate the 5th birthday of the Expedition Everest ride! Our passes are only weekday, so I called ahead and they said this was fine as they were giving out wristbands anyway. But when we got to the gate, the cast member at the turnstile wouldn't let us in, so that was a bit frustrating as obviously no one had informed her about the event. So we had to go to guest services and he let us in via their side entrance and said he would make sure the staff were told as they were not meant to be sending us away!

As soon as we got in we saw a truck pull up with Minnie Moue, Goofy and Donald Duck on, they were saying bye to the guests. So as I had never seen that before myself, I had to take a picture!

We were given a flyer on what was going to be open that night as most of the park was still closing at 6 PM. So we headed straight to Expedition Everest! We were just trying to decide whether or not to queue up in the 20 minute wait time, when suddenly we spotted Mickey and Goofy dressed up as explorers! It was lucky that we saw them as we were able to be toward the front of the line, which by the time we had met them, was about 50 people long! It was great though as the cast member that took the photo for us told us to smush together to fit in, so we got really squished by them both, hence why the picture is a little blurry! LOL

After we met them, the line for Everest had gone down a little so we quickly lined up, as its quite rare to do the ride at night as its normally closed before sunset!

Most of the park was closed at this point, but there were some DJ booths giving out pins and encouraging people to dance....Simon wasn't so keen for some reason ;-) So we ended up heading to Dinosaur to ride that. I always seem to forget how violent it is, I regretted going on shortly after! But it is a great ride!

This was the end of our visit for tonight, as there wasn't much more to do and we wanted to catch the last tram back to the car! But we did enjoy our first passholder event, and I am already looking forward to the next one!