pandora!

this.  this was the thing that i was most excited about in our whole florida visit: pandora!  i unabashedly LOVE the movie avatar.  i know its not cool anymore to love that movie, but i do.  and to know that there is a recreation of the alien world at disney?  i'm all about that!  finally we made our way over to the pandora part of the park, and i was thrilled!  the whole thing was just as cool as i had hoped.  they had all kinds of alien looking plants and even some animatronic animals hiding throughout the land.  they had the amazing floating islands and even a couple rides.  we went on the lazy river style ride, which took us through the caves of pandora, but we didn't get a chance to go on the flying ride.  we didn't have fast passes and the line was 140 minutes long.  yikes!  yeah, i really really wanted to ride it, but i wasn't willing to waste two or more hours of our only day at animal kingdom just to ride it.  i did made sure we spend a bunch of time in the pandora-centric gift shop though!  one of the things they had in the gift shop was a place you could get a special one-of-a-kind na'vi designed to look like you!  it was super expensive so i didn't do it.  and it is the greatest regret of my life...  we did get ledger a special gift, diana got an awesome na'vi headband, and i got an awesome magnet that will stay on our fridge forever!  of all the things we ended up seeing at disney world, this is the one area i wanted to go back to!
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