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Monday

101 Things To Do At Disney World ~ Splash Mountain

Welcome to our newest countdown to Disney. We’re counting down to our next great Walt Disney World vacation. This will be a different kind of family trip for us and filled with many firsts. We usually travel to Walt Disney World all together as a family but on this trip I will be travelling with my youngest son Peter and meeting up with some dear Disney friends. Peter and I have travelled to Disney World together many times and are really looking forward to spending some more mom and son time together. Peter has never been to Epcot's Food & Wine Festival before, I've never been to opening weekend and we're both excited to be at Epcot's 30th Anniversary Celebration.

In this series of posts I will cover 101 things we look forward to doing at Disney World, with each post focusing on specific things such as attractions, dining experiences, shows and well everything that's been on our bucket list since we started planning this trip a few months ago.

What better place to start our series than in our “Laughing Place”, Splash Mountain, a ride that always makes us laugh and hit’s the spot on a warm day..or night.

Tuesday

Special Teen Edition ~ Favorite Attraction

Today's Special Teen Edition is written by our resident (I mean that quite literally) teen blogger and dear son, Peter aka WDWPeter.
Welcome back Peter! So, what is your favorite attraction in Walt Disney World?

Walt Disney World with Teens and Tweens - Splash Mountain

Thanks for asking and thanks for having me guest blog today! My favorite and absolutely not to be missed attraction is without a doubt Splash Mountain in Magic Kingdom's Frontierland!
It's an awesome wet and wild flume ride that is very popular.You'll want to get a FastPass for this ride! Check out this now out of print FastPass!

I really like the back story for Splash Mountain. It's about Br'er Rabbit and his adventures searching for his laughing place. The story takes twists and turns in scenes set with animatronic figures as he leaves his safe little briar-patch home. All the while you travel through Splash Mountain with him in your flume boat. Br'er Rabbit gets entangled and trapped eventually by Br'er Bear and Br'er Fox and they threaten to throw him off the mountain. The theme is loosely based on the character Br'er Rabbit in a collection of short stories by Joel Chandler Harris and the 1946 Disney movie, Song of The South.
The stick in your head theme song is Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah from the movie Song of the South that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

This was a surprise favorite ride for me. I have mild ASD and SPD and that makes me very shy about trying new things. I was afraid at first but after my family showed me pictures of it and described it and after a few trips not going on it but watching, I felt I would give it a try. Now I love it! I even talked my cousin who has ASD into riding it and he had a great time too.

Another great time to ride is at night during Wishes. It's really cool!

This is where you land after dropping down the mountain.

Fun Splash Mountain Facts:

Splash Mountain opened in WDW July 17, 1992 three years after the ride opened at Disneyland.
The ride is 11 minutes long
During the last drop you are going 40mph.
The last drop is 52.5 feet or the equivalent of a 5 story building.
It features 68 Audio Animatronics.
It has the largest animated prop in all of the Disney parks, The Zip-A-Dee-Lady Showboat.
You have to be 40" tall to ride.