Disney's Animal Kingdom

Each morning we were up by 7, grab a breakfast and arrive at the park minutes before opening. Today it was Animal Kingdom. As the gates opened we headed straight to Africa for the Jungle Safari cruise. That was neat as we rode in big bouncy jeeps and traveled through the animals, giraffe, elephant, hippo, lions, and many more. We had a brunch reservation at 10 with Donald, Mickey, and Goofy. It was a big buffet with tons of food. Throughout the day we hit the shows and rides. The kids really enjoyed the large playground of dinosaur bones. Mark went alone on the Mt. Everest roller coaster ride. He is the dare devil in the family. My favorite was the Nemo live musical show. Wow it was so cool! The costumes and sea animals were amazing. They even had a gigantic seagull. We hit that several times. Mark really wanted to spend extra time at Epcot, so he headed out at 3 to visit the many lands at Epcot alone. I was hoping to trade that for an evening alone of shopping and he take the kids. I got an hour, he got 6. Hmmm At the end of our Animal Kingdom day the kids and I decided to go on the dinosaur ride. I knew it was to be scary, but the kids wanted to go. We sat in jeeps, it was very bumpy and jerky, pitch dark, extremely loud, and yes scary. Jacob didn’t last long and his head was buried in my lap. Toward the end so was Jayden’s. And Mark missed out on the whole thing. Throughout our visits at the parks, Jacob was most fascinated with the birds. I don't know what kind they are, but the have long skinny beaks and the walk so close to you. Jacob liked using my small digital camera to photograph the birds.
We left the park around 4 and headed to our hotel. We heard back home in Iowa, their was no school again Monday or Tuesday, snowing and blowing. So glad we are here!