Disney Trip- Day Three

Day three we visited my favorite park, Animal Kingdom.  After a tasty breakfast of scrambled eggs and Mickey waffles, we got to the park at opening fireworks again!  Hubs, big guy, and I made a beeline for the kilamanjaro safari ride.  Which is an open air truck safari adventure, very bumpy but so thrilling to see animals in their natural habitat.  And the really cool thing is that each time you go, you see different animals.  This time we saw and loved the hippos, zebra, and flamingoes.  Probably the most magical for me was seeing the elephants, which are my favorite.  In fact, when big guy and I were watching them, I started to cry.  Again! They are just so majestic and I just thought, wow, how lucky that I am here with big guy and get to see these amazing animals.

Safari ride

Following our safari ride, we walked the Pangani Trails, which winds you through jungle like habitat to see fish, birds, monkeys, etc.  Big guy by far was obsessed with the fish!  We stood for almost an hour around all the fish habitats watching them go by.  Prior to the fish, big guy had been a bit grumpy and was not happy about having his picture taken.  Momma bear's solution: let big guy take some pictures, which of course got him in the saying "cheese" spirit for the rest of the day!  Following our love of pictures, we hopped onto a train ride up to conservation station.  The train ride was awesome, but big guy lost the good feeling once we got off, so we hopped back on.  We thought we might have to call it a day, but luckily it was time for our Mickey shaped soft pretzel!  And it was conveniently time for the Flights of Wonder bird show.  Which was totally fun and funny.  Big guy laughed and munched his way through the show with a big smile!

Family Photo while on Pagani Trails

The fishies!

Following the bird show, we were going to head back to the hotel but stumbled into the new Dino-land and ended up going on the Triceratops Spin twice and then having a quick snack of caramel corn and rootbeer float!  The new dino-land ended up taking another hour and a half!  We went back to the hotel, went swimming, and then headed to Downtown Disney for dinner.  We ate at the T Rex restaurant, which was full of dinosaurs that moved around and roared.  And every 25 minutes or so a huge thunderstorm shook the restaurant, which big guy definitely did not appreciate.  he was so exhausted he actually fell asleep before dinner came.  When he woke up he was miserable, but following a visit to the big fish tank, he woke up enough to eat some cheeseburger before we could all leave.  WE wandered around downtown disney before a huge rainstorm came.  We all got soaked as we ran for the bus back to the hotel for bath and bed.