On to Animal King.dom

We started our Tuesday off with another pre-park-opening breakfast in the Animal King.dom at the Tusker House.  We got to meet and take pictures with Donald on the way in and while we were yumming up our breakfast and drinking our jungle juice, we go to meet Mickey, Daisy and Goofy too!

Goofy really does like to be silly!  He kept covering up Callen's face

 

After we wrapped up breakfast with a parade around the room led by Goofy, we once again were in a prime spot for the hot ride:  the Safari!

We hopped on the first truck of the day and headed out to see some beautiful animals.  We had barely gotten out on the path before we were stopped in the road by a giraffe eating her breakfast.  We got to wait patiently and watch until she'd had her fill and moved on.

as we drove past her...

We saw ostrich eggs just dropped in the middle of the grass alongside the road...there were several piles of these!

The rhino seemed to be posing for us as we drove by!

I really loved the hippos...I should have had Nick take this picture since he is taller, they were all laying on top of one another and were just snoozing.

 

After the safari, we headed over to the Kali River Rapids.  Carter and Nick were the brave ones who rode...  {and got soaked!  Luckily, they had plenty of time and sunshine to dry!} 

....while Callen found her own way to get soaked!

From there, Nick and I took turns riding Everest.  Carter was tall enough, but we had heard from one of his friends at school that Everest might be a little scary for him, so we opted not to push it.

We went to see if we could catch the next showing of the Nemo and Friends show, but we just missed it, so we spent some time in the dinosaur area {can't remember what it is officially called}.  We rode the Triceratops ride about three times since there was no line and then we waited to see Goofy and Pluto.

 Pluto kept trying to get Carter to give him five and then he would pull his hand away!  Carter and Callen thought it was hilarious!  Looks like Goofy's seen it before.

 After visiting with Pluto and Goofy, we finally made it to the Nemo show.  From there we headed over to Camp Mickey to see the Lion King show.  I was so glad that we saw the characters at breakfast...the lines to see them were super-long!  We enjoyed the Lion King, headed back towards the middle of the park to grab some lunch and then headed home to let the kiddos rest a bit before heading back out.

We had planned to have them have a  little down time and then we were going to hit the fireworks show at Epcot.  However, they didn't sleep much and when we began to head over to Epcot about 6:00, Carter asked if we could stay so he could go to sleep!  We grabbed a quick dinner and headed up to an early bedtime.