Animal Kingdom
Tuesday was our Animal Kingdom Day… and everyone was excited. We were the only ones who had been here before and within an hour or two some were saying they could spend a second day here. It is a fun jungley atmosphere… totally different from Magic Kingdom.
As soon as we entered the park we made our way back to Mt. Everest – the big roller coaster ride. A few of us stayed back with the babies and strollers and the large group proceeded towards the gate to use the fast passes. Megan was so excited… but when she got to the gate she was just barely not tall enough. Crestfallen she walked back to sit with me. Life is so unfair. A couple minutes after the crowd cleared she walked back over to measure herself again…. just in case.
When they got out it was my turn to ride and most people opted to ride again. Only this time while our roller coasters were zooming through the mountain someone just finishing the ride was having a medical emergency which required the entire ride to be shut down. After ten minutes sitting in our stopped roller coaster at the highest point in the mountain we were ‘rescued’. Disney workers climbed 17 floors to come escort us back down and what started out being a roller coaster ride ended up being a cool behind the scenes tour. We walked in single file through a door into a cavernous building full of tracks and support beams…then into the stair wells to climb down 17 flights of stairs. At floor 9 we ran into the rest of our riders… Chris, Emily, Mike and Grandpa who were stranded in a different location. It was a happy reunion and we couldn’t stop laughing about our new adventure. And for our troubles… a cold water bottle and tickets to ride the mountain later.
More Magical Memories of Animal Kingdom
- Letting the kids play in the dinosaur play land full of stairs, nets, slides and lots of dinosaur bones
- Taking a picture with Pluto
- Katie and Ryan getting soaked down to their underwear on River Rapids!
- Watching Grandpa love the ‘museum’ on the way into the Mt. Everest ride
- Megan re-measuring herself for the Mt. Everest ride
- Seeing alligators, elephants, giraffes, rhinos and tons of cool animals on the bumpy jeep African Safari
- Watching the 3D Bug’s Life show in the trunk of the big Tree of Life
- Being with Luke as he spotted the characters during the parade
- 3 girls screaming in the River Rapids… Leah, Annie and Megan
- Megan stating that her favorite ride was the ‘bunny ride’… which we finally figured out was the River Rapids ride… she thought everyone was saying River Rabbits ride and she preferred ‘bunny’ ride. So funny.
- Being at the exit at the perfect time for a Donald, Minnie, Goofy dance party where our kiddos danced in a little parade. So cute!
