Animal Kingdom

Sunday morning we got up bright and early to hit Animal Kingdom. I didn't mention in my last post that we stayed at the Double Tree at Disney Springs for our Disney portion of the trip. They had a pretty good bus system to the parks, though it wasn't as good as Universal's.







Tree of Life.

Everest.

Everybody else who was there for magic hours headed to the Pandora world so we had the run of Asia-which is where Expedition Everest is. Mom and Dave rode it once and then said that was enough. Ike and I ended up riding it 4 times in a row without any wait!







Ready to ride.


















I loved Ike's pose on this one so much I asked him to recreate it with me!

Too funny!














We had a little bit of time before our first fast pass of the day so we went to Dinosaur Land and rode the Dinosaur! ride a couple of times. It was Dave's favorite (until Flight of Passage). It was a little jerky but fun.

The line for this one was cool!














Next up was the safari-we got to see all kinds of animals and it was a nice break to sit for a little bit!

After the safari we did a quick walk through what was basically a zoo and then we went to watch the UP bird show-super entertaining and the kids loved it!








Waiting in line for the Kali River Rapids. Mom got drenched! It was our longest wait all day at only 35 minutes.













Ike and I rode Expedition Everest again (we had a fast pass), we had a quick snack of chicken fried rice from Yak and Yeti (delicious),  then the boys and I went to watch the Lion King show. Meanwhile mom went off to collect a couple more stickers from our junior explorers book and left her phone at a kiosk! After the show I called her and a man answered (who was not nice) so we went searching for mom to let her know. Thankfully we found her quickly and she was able to locate her phone!









The kids were so excited to see Kevin-their favorite Disney movie is UP!

















Snack at Flame Tree BBQ. So good! Notice the hungry little fella trying to sneak our food.

Tough to be a bug. Super cute show.

Finally made it to Pandora!

Flight of Passage. Hands down our favorite ride of the trip. Well except Ike but I'll get to that later!

Rounded out the day with meeting Russell and Doug.













We really loved Animal Kingdom! It felt a lot more manageable than Magic Kingdom and we just loved the theming. The shows were fantastic and also it wasn't raining! I would definitely recommend this park for anybody with kids who like animals or more adventurous rides. Also for anybody out there planning a trip to Disney-make good use of your fast passes! Using those and planning our day around them saved us so much time waiting in lines.

Favorite rides: Flight of Passage, Expedition Everest, Dinosaur!, Kilimanjaro Safari