Animal Kingdom

(I don't know what's going on with my blogger but it's not letting me rearrange my pictures!!! So...sorry...there is a chunk of pictures out of order!)

We woke up bright and early to get to Animal Kingdom right when it opened. The first place we headed to was Dino Land. The Triceratop Spin was a favorite of the kids. You could make your dinosaur go up or down, and tilt up and down.
Ben's ready to take off, I sat on the front of his Dino.

Tom and Elizabeth ready to go.

Elizabeth and Jackson were loving this gigantic dinosaur at the beginning of Dino Land.

This is right when we entered the park, Ben had gotten hurt right after we got here so he was trying to ignore the camera (not in the best mood!:)

This is the big Tree of Life that the whole park is centered around.

We saw Pooh on our quick walk to the Dino Land...Ben was still recovering from his injury so he didn't want to get up to see Pooh.

After Dino Land we went to Kilimanjaro Safari - it was a giant jeep that we all rode in on a safari throughout Africa. We got so close to all of the animals, that was the best part.

We were all loving watch the giraffe eat, we could have reached out and touched him!

After the safari we went to Pangani Forest Exploration Trail to see other animals up close - it was kind of like a zoo. After this we saw the show "It's Good to be a Bug", which was a 3D movie. We had heard that it was a little scary for kids because it's very realistic so it makes it feel like the bugs are on you at one point. The only one who got really scared was Ben, at one point I almost took him out of the show, but it was pretty short so we powered through and made it to the end! :)

After lunch the adults (minus Grandma) went to ride Expedition Everest, this big roller coaster. We loved it!

Next we walked back to Dino Land to the Boneyard - it didn't open until later in the morning. This was the kids favorite part. There was a huge jungle gym, things to climb under and over, water trickling, we played here for an hour and they could have stayed all day!

These foot prints are fun! Once you jump on them a dinosaur growls!

There's part of the jungle gym behind the kids.

There's Tom and the kids heading up to the top of the jungle gym structure.

Jackson and Ben in the Boneyard.

Last we went to Finding Nemo, the musical. It was fabulous! It went through the whole movie with people holding elaborate puppets, the whole thing in song. They were so talented, we loved it!

We went back to the hotel to hang out on the beach at our hotel. The sand was so beautiful and white, we just wished it wasn't too cold to get into the water!

At this point it was about dinner time. Ben wanted to stay on the beach (Cooper and Jackson were both playing here, too) and Elizabeth was ready to go back to Magic Kingdom. So Ben and I stayed at the hotel, ate dinner, and went to bed early. Tom and Elizabeth went back to Magic Kingdom until it closed. They rode a ton of rides and I think Elizabeth really liked having some one on one time with her daddy.

Tomorrow we head back to Magic Kingdom!