Hello Yellow! Nana’s Princess Diary is here! I hope you guys had a magical week!

This week was A LOT. I returned to work on the 19th, and I was on Disney property EVERY DAY!

Sunday: EPCOT, Magic Kingdom, and Animal Kingdom, Monday: EPCOT, Tuesday: EPCOT, Wednesday: Magic Kingdom, Thursday: The Cake Bake Shop opening, Friday: New corndog at Blue Ribbon Corndog, and today: Animal Kingdom.

Sunday will be the first non-Disney day since returning to work. You might find me at Buc-ee’s.

On the way to the park, I did see hot air balloons flying. We might need to get on so we can peep Epic Universe.

Let the chaos begin, shall we?

Roar from Disney’s Animal Kingdom

This morning, I got a Starbie (Starbucks) iced tea extra sweet since I can’t afford $10 unsweet iced tea from The Cake Bake Shop. Half the price and more tea sounds good to me.

Animal Kingdom won’t let me bring in plastic straws, so I have paper straws in my car.

The Outpost Shop is not open yet. I hope Disney didn’t forget the store still exists.

I skipped all the stores and went straight to DinoLand U.S.A. for the FIRST holiday decorations at Disney’s Animal Kingdom.

The Brontosaurus fossil is completely covered in lights, as DinoLand U.S.A. preps for its final Christmas celebration.

Since I was already in DinoLand and no one was waiting, I decided to ride DINOSAUR.

I still hadn’t been on the ride since the Alioramus animatronic went missing. Nana doesn’t like that dark ride. It scares me A LOT.

I then proceeded to have a nice walk around DinoLand U.S.A.

I stopped by the photo booth. Each park used to have one back in the day. I love stopping by them with my family when they are in town. This is my family tradition, and I’ve been doing it for at least 10 years. But now, Dinoland and Imagination are the only two places that still have. I assume they will take this away from here when DinoLand closes.

On the way to Everest, I always take a morning Discovery River lagoon picture when I’m doing a loop.

Do you remember The Jungle Book: Alive with Magic? Rivers of Light? I miss those night shows in this lagoon. Some entertainment still hasn’t made it back or has remained “cut” as I wrote in another Nana’s Princess Diary. All the prices (including admission, annual passes, and food) have increased again this year, so can we have some more entertainment?

There was nothing new to report at Serka Zong Bazaar.

But I had to swap my FuelRod here! How many FuelRods do you carry? I usually have two.

Being a reporter, one is never enough. At EPCOT, there is no FuelRod machine in any of the pavilions at World Showcase. However, there is one in World Traveler by the international gate.

There was nothing new going on at the mosquito’s house.

Today’s animal break featured a couple of monkeys hanging around.

I stopped by Yak & Yeti Local Foods Cafe. Do you remember when the side of fried rice was $4.99? Now it’s $7.99!

Zuri’s Sweets Shop still has Halloween treats!

Oh wait, Halloween is not here yet, so of course it does. Stop by for some tasty choices.

I walked through Pandora, but there were no holiday decorations yet.

This is also where I started to notice that some guests were holding THE popcorn bucket… Which one am I talking about? The Stitch Halloween Bucket!!

I’ve wanted to get it so bad since I am the popcorn bucket collector (I can see a partial collection by my desk, and there are at least 20) but its only been available at the sold-out Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party. My “friend” went to MNSSHP last week BUT he took a picture and didn’t ask me if I wanted one. (I’m questioning if we’re friends ?? lol )

Happily, I got my Stitch Popcorn bucket and checked the front stores.

Then Tom called me to send me on a mission… The mission will be uploaded on Instagram or TikTok next week, so stay tuned!

Thank you for reading to the end. I hope you got a little chuckle from Nana’s Princess Diary!

Have a Magical Day!

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Nana T.