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Day 20 – Thursday 4th October 2007 Animal Kingdom Gosh, we’re up to Day 20, it’s really motoring on. Today was the first time we had a final day at a Disney Park, we are all done with Animal Kingdom. As we were walking out we waved a final goodbye, and Lauren sobbed all the way to the car ‘I don’t want to say goodbye, I will really miss Animal Kingdom’. But then we reminded her that she also misses her grandparents and school friends, and she can’t have them both, so that helped. We next see the Walkers on Sunday when we do MGM together, as much as Hayley loves being with them, she decided tonight she doesn’t want to see them again as it means it’s our last week here! We met the Walkers at 9am, park was much more crowded than the first day we did it, took us longer to get on many things, and just more people around. We started with the safari ride again, as we did last time. We hadn’t seen lions last time and really wanted to, thankfully we saw a couple on this trip. We also did the ‘Birds of Wonder’ show that we’d missed last time, really enjoyed that. Around the park they have various displays/live creatures out to view. We stopped at one that had a very unimpressive huntsman. The guy started waxing lyrical re them, and we said ‘we have much bigger ones at home’. When he figured out we were from Australia, he agreed that we did have much bigger ones than he had. At this point Lori-Lee pipes up and says ‘but you can still vacuum them up’, and he gives her this horrified look, as he has a big ‘conservation matters’ badge on……we reckoned she’d get thrown out of the park for such an attitude, but we managed to beat a hasty retreat and avoid eviction. I had my first turn on the Kali River Rapids today (Michael, B & H had done last time). You go down in this raft boat and a few on each ride get absolutely drenched, the rest of them get partially wet. All the kids got saturated, but the adults managed to escape pretty well, so happy with that. Their favourite ride is Expedition Everest, a huge rollercoaster with an escaped Yeti running around. I did twice last time, and once today, that was enough for me, I was happy to hold the bags and be photographer at the end. Dave & the kids ended up doing it about 8 times all day, for the last hour they went on a frenzy and got 5 rides in (Michael, Brayden, Lori-Lee & I made a dash to catch the ‘Lion King’ show, but ended up missing it as we couldn’t get through the crowds and the parade in time). We finished the day with dinner at the ‘Rainforest Café’, an amazing restaurant with waterfalls and gorillas (fake!) inside, they have them all round the world apparently (the Walkers have done one in Toronto). Had a lovely meal, and finished it off with a chocolate volcano dessert……still full now. Not sure what we’ll do tomorrow, perhaps more mini golf (they have a free game to use after they last played yesterday). It’s the Lucas’ last day, so we’ll spend it with them. I meant to include a quote from Brayden re the Luau last night. He enjoyed watching all the Polynesian dancing, but couldn’t get over how much the ladies can shake their hips…..in his words “it’s unnatural & unnerving”….we loved that phrase! |