it was another early morning, as our breakfast reservations were once again before the park (animal kingdom) even opened. we expected the bus situation to be complicated by the marathon, but it was even worse than we anticipated. caroline rocks the day-after princess look while waiting for the bus.
by the time a bus finally came and we got to animal kingdom we were already late for our reservation. we booked it to the back of our park and were reminded at check-in, "hakuna matata." nice. Q was VERY excited. this was day 3 and the first time we actually saw mickey.
caroline was excited to see daisy. she liked daisy's eyelashes.
a couple of goofballs
most of these meals had "parades" through the restaurant (like the princess parade at epcot on the first day.) Q loved these things and would happily ditch us to strut around the restaurant.
following breakfast we took advantage of the fact that the masses had not yet made their way to the back of the park, and hopped on my personal favorite - the safari. lilly was less than impressed by the safari (lack of princesses i presume.) caroline enjoyed it but Q was in heaven here (perhaps the same reason as lilly - the distinct lack of princesses?) the safari trucks have a picture of all the animals in the refuge posted on the roof. he was checking the board each time he saw a new critter and kept asking about some he saw on the sign but had not seen in real like yet.
hippos
a view of the savanna
some sort of antelopey things
our truck had to stop and wait for a bit so this guy would get out of the road
they say the animals are most active first thing in the morning, and that proved to be true. giraffes were everywhere.
elephants
"dabingos"
the big lazy male lion is up there somewhere
okapi. Q asked why that horse had zebra legs.
following the safari, i asked the kids which was their favorite animal on the safari. lilly said the lion. caroline chose the "efflents" and the "hoppopotomus". Q said, "the eggs." (eggs, you wonder? there were some probably-fake ostrich eggs by the ostrich.)
we wisely grabbed fast passes so we could come back again later. then we did the nature walk. Q was jazzed about the big frogs.
they all enjoyed the underside view of a hippo tank, with all the fishes
here comes the hippo. mr. hippo helped himself to a fishy snack right in front of Q who excitedly screamed, "the hippo eat the fish!!!!!"
then we happened upon the best random character spotting of the trip... dug! he even did "squirrel!" for us.
after dug, we took in the broadway-esque "finding nemo" show. because of the timing and location of our dinner reservations, we couldn't stay at AK too much longer, but we did manage to do the safari again.
crocopile
most of the giraffes had gone into hiding but this guy was still rocking out
white rhinos
cheetah on the rock
a much better shot of mr. lazy lion
hey! it's Q's eggs!
i have no clue. cool animal of some sort.
we bolted across the park and got to the cool lion king show just in time. it featured some awesome trapeze and trampoline artists. caroline loved the "dancing."
then back to the hotel for a quick rest before dinner
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Quentin looks QUITE excited about Miss Daisy Duck.
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