We decided to spend our first full day at Disney at the Animal Kingdom; we thought maybe on a Sunday, it wouldn't be as crowded. I think that was a good plan. When we got in, we headed straight to the Kilimanjaro Safari. It can be truly amazing as a tour bus takes you through a huge area where animals roam all over the place. This giraffe really was this close; he walked right in front of our bus!
Mia watching the elephants.
Zebras are my favorite!
There were lots of other cool animals too, but I didn't put all their pictures up here. We love this ride, so we actually got Fast Passes when we first went in, so we immediately returned and rode it again. Smart thinking, right?
After the second safari ride, we headed over to Camp Minnie Mickey where we met Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck and Baloo with King Louie. I made a rookie mistake here. I was taking pictures with my phone as the kids walked up to the characters, but then stopped taking them so the Photopass photographer could get really good ones of them together. I didn't realize it was totally okay to take pictures of them posed and then let the photographer take them. So, the pictures I have with these characters aren't so great, but we'll get them with our pictures yet to be scanned in.
They were both pretty excited to meet the two mice.
We could see we had a pretty tired camper on our hand (see picture below which was on the bus ride), so we headed back to our hotel for lunch, hotel exploring and a nap. Good call on our part.
When we headed back after nap time, we decided to go see The Lion King show which was pretty cool. We all thought the monkey acrobats did a great job.
After the show, we let the girls use some of their birthday money to pick the souvenir of their choice. Lily picked this sweet little baby Simba.
Mia loved her light up princess hat!
We headed over into Dino Land where we ran into a picture spot with Pooh, Eeyore and Tigger. I didn't even take any pictures here since I was relying on the photopass. Whoops.
We explored Dino Land a little and I watched the others ride Triceratops Spin ride which I think was a hit (it's very similar to Dumbo which we all love). Everyone was starting to get hungry by this point, so we made our way to the Rainforest Cafe. It was a pretty good dinner; we all enjoy that restaurant (at least, once the girls get used to the rainstorm that comes every 20 minutes or so). Mia liked that her chicken nuggets were shaped like dinosaurs.
This was a fun and pretty easy-going first full day. We definitely needed this slower paced day since Mia didn't seem to be feeling great yet. Overall, a great day though!
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