Continuing on with my Disney trip I took with my sister...
Standing under the Tree of Life at Animal Kingdom
How many creatures can you spot?
This was my second time to visit AK and my sister's first time. My first visit with my kids we really did not do much except the safari and eat. I was excited to see and do so much more on this go around!
We headed to Kilimanjaro Safaris first before it got too crowded and then did a few of the walking trails.
A funny little unrelated (or kinda related?) story here:
Disney World is huge with thousands and thousands of people everywhere. The day we flew to WDW, I was sitting on the plane next to a mother, her daughter (~ 4 years old) and the grandma. We chatted during the flight and she was asking me questions about how the Magical Express worked and what resort we were staying at, etc. What's funny is she started our whole conversation with, "what resort are you staying at?" She assumed (as I seem to do too) that everyone on a flight to Orlando is going to Disney World! Anyways, it was their first trip and they seemed very excited, but really had no idea what they were doing (she also did not speak very good English so I wasn't sure how much she was getting from me). We arrived at the airport and said our good-byes and to have a great trip.
Who would of known that four days later while at Animal Kingdom, we would pass by this family again! I'm not sure that the mother saw me and I didn't want to be all stalkerish so I didn't say anything. I was just amazed that in the sea of people our paths crossed at that moment!
Okay, so back to our day at AK. On one of the walking trails we saw this little fellow who appeared injured or sick.
It took about 15 minutes for these cast members to catch him and take him away to be examined.
Next it was on to Dinosaur! Fun ride, but EXTREMELY loud. Ear piercing screeching that was painful to me. You really get jostled around on this ride and I would only ride it again if I had ear plugs. Seriously.
We caught The Festival of the Lion King show which was spectacular. I can't wait to take the kids back and see it again. I was sorry we missed it on our last trip. It's a Broadway style show with theatre-in-the-round type seating. Not to be missed!
After the show it was time to eat lunch at the Tusker House restaurant. A large buffet meal with African flavors for lunch and dinner. At breakfast it's a character dining experience, although, starting in December there will be character dining for lunch as well. Currently, when you book lunch here you can get passes for reserved seating to the Finding Nemo- The Musical show. I have read though that once the character dining for lunch begins in December, the lunch/Nemo seating passes will no longer be offered.
Again, being able to walk up and be seated with the reserved seating passes meant not having to wait in line for up to 30-60 minutes before the next show time. The Nemo show was fun and entertaining, but I think I liked FOTLK just a little bit more.
We debated most of the day whether we were going to ride Expedition Everest. My sister, who's not big on roller coasters, for some reason, felt the need to conquer this thing. In my mind I was thinking it would be very similar to Big Thunder at MK, but I had some reservations about it going backwards. Well, as we were starting to walk over to that part of the park, a young man handed us two fast passes for EE that he wasn't going to use. Perfect! And nice karma since we had given away 3 sets of fast passes the day before to random people at MK. So it was settled and we were riding this thing.
Like I said before, I just can't handle roller coasters like I used to and I'm glad this was the last thing we had planned to do before leaving the park. All was fine until we went backwards. I hated it after that. And, of course, my sister miss IJumpOutOfAirplanesButIDon'tLikeRollerCoasters thought it was great! I think that bus ride back to our resort had to be the.longest.bus.ride.ever.
We took a short nap in the late afternoon and woke up with really no plan for that evening. Around 8pm or so we decided to just go to Downtown Disney to walk around and eat. We ended up eating at Earl of Sandwich and it was soooooo good!
Our last night at Disney had come to an end, but we still had another full day ahead of us!
And again, not many pics to share so here's a random one for you in keeping with the animal theme. :)
Gobble. Gobble.
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