We started our morning off by having breakfast at the Cape May Cafe in our hotel with a meet and greet with some of the Disney Characters. The kids loved it.
We patiently waited for Animal Kingdom to open. We tried to get there before the parks opened so we could do a couple things without much of a crowd. However, the first thing on our schedule for the day was very disappointing. Doug had planned everything out using a park planner and the first thing they said we should do was a 3-D Flick show. It scared the kids to death. Huge Black Widows dropped from the ceiling, water, wind and stink bug smell sprayed on us and bugs in 3-D swormed around our faces. The first question the kids asked when we went to see a show for the whole week was whether they were going to get sprayed. As the day went on things got better. We saw some bats that were really cool and Ethan got completely soaked on a water ride which we all laughed about.
One of the coolest things Doug got to do was go on stage for the Birds of Prey show and take a picture of this owl. You can see us sitting in the audience on the right.
Seeing the Bald Eagle was also pretty cool!
Next, we went on a safari. It was similar to Northwest Trek in Washington, although we saw a lot more animals. The only downside to this safari was that they talked about poachers the whole time. It would have been a lot more enjoyable if we didn't have to hear about how people kill these animals in the wild for sport. As terrible as it is, I didn't want to hear about it while I was on this type of a vacation.
We caught Animal Kingdom's parade. Which Doug had heard was not worth your time, but the kids enjoyed it.
Before leaving Animal Kingdom Audrey took a picture with Pocahontas. She wanted to meet her but she was very shy when she walked up to her. However, it was a good warm-up to all the princesses she would meet tomorrow.
Our biggest lessons learned on the second day was that it was going to be a hot week, so sweating was impossible to avoid. Even though we had moments of fun Animal Kingdom was not our cup of tea, so we would probably never go again if we go back to Disney World. Lastly, don't trust the bus drivers. Doug made dinner reservations at a restaurant in the Animal Kingdom resort. Unfortunately, there's two resorts there and when we stopped at the first one the bus driver said it was at the second resort. When we got to the second one they said it was at the other resort. By the time we got back to the first one...we had to wait for another bus to take us there...our table was no longer held for us. This pushed our time to leave back which meant we missed the bus that would take us back to Animal Kingdom, then to our hotel. If we were finished about 15-30 minutes sooner it would have taken us 30 minutes tops to get back to our room. Instead, we had to go to Downtown Disney to catch a connecting bus to our hotel. We arrived to our room 2 hours after we left the restaurant. Next time we'll pay for a cab.
