Thursday May 28th. Day 7.
The night before we had decided to go to Animal Kingdom for the day. We debated about going at park opening but decided to take our time and not worry about rope drop. I'm not sure what time we woke up, I think it was before 8AM. Mom, the trooper that she is walked to the Food Court to grab some breakfast for us both and brought it back to the room. She got me a yummy breakfast croissant and she had...eggs I think with bacon. Mine was delicious! I loved it. I was still in bed so no pictures for you. Hehe.
My feet were not better at all once I got up and walked around. The amount of blisters I had was making it impossible to walk comfortably. Sigh. I told Mom that she could go to Animal Kingdom by herself. Mom wasn't having that. She said she would rent me a
scooter. THE HORROR! I didn't want people looking at me and wondering why I needed to have a scooter. I was extremely embarrassed at the thought of having to go around in a scooter. I decided right then to suck it up and pretend I was fine.
We got ready, made the long walk to the bus...and I wanted to cry. I spent the bus ride telling myself that a scooter wouldn't be that bad. That I had to just do it so Mom could enjoy her AK time.
As we made our way into the park, I asked Mom, "Are you sure you don't mind renting me a scooter?" Sigh. I didn't want everyone to look at the fat girl in the scooter. Silly I know but that is how I saw myself. We stood in line for a scooter, $65 later...although you get $20 of it back at the end of the day if you return. Plus if we went to another park that night we could have used our receipt to get another rental. The nice CM showed me how to drive it and away we were. I didn't have any specific touring plans for AK. I knew I wanted to see Finding Nemo, Expedition Everest and the Safari. Beyond that, Mom was our guide.
I took off in the scooter, learning how to drive, not running into any people. I was quite proud of myself. I didn't know where I was going so at one point I pulled off while Mom was catching up. Gazing all around enjoying the sights. She took this pretty picture.
Have I ever mentioned that Mom is a horrible guide? Seriously. I think she has spent so much of her life just going with the flow of Dad, Me and my brother that when it comes time for her to make a decision for the group, she can't. She's so go with the flow. So I made the executive decision to head for what I believe was the first Finding Nemo show of the day.
This is where I learned there are perks to having a scooter! We got to the area where the line begins and noticed everyone parking their strollers. We asked if we had to park and the CM said nope, just go all the way up. At one point the line split into a handicapped entrance and a regular entrance. I felt super guilty about this and told Mom we should just park the scooter and she said NOPE get going. So scooting I went.
We were escorted right in, a nice CM showed us to our seats and then scooted the scooter outside and parked it for me. A few minutes later he came back with my key. What service! I felt a little bad but I was quickly getting over my guilt.
Here was our view.
Again, Mom convinced me to save myself some weight and just bring her point and shoot. I wish I had brought mine because I could have gotten much better photos I think plus with the scooter, I didn't have any weight to carry around!
Not the greatest pictures but you get the idea. I thought the show was fantastic and it is now on my MUST DO LIST for any trip to AK. Mom loved it too.
After the show was over, I hopped onto my scooter and we took off. I wanted to do It's Tough To Be A Bug, Mom really didn't' have any interest. She was getting hungry so she decided we should go to Flame Tree Barbeque. Okey Dokey.
I went to try to find a seat while she stood in line for our food. I went to the area right near Flame Tree and it was crowded and narrow...too narrow for my scooter. I attempted to back up and turn around and much too my dismay...I RAN INTO A CHAIR! I was so embarrassed! I knew no one was in it, there were people at the table though. !!!! I was too embarrassed to even look back, I just apologized and scootered my butt out of there PRONTO.
I was too ashamed to keep looking so I just waited for Mom. She led the way to one of the sitting areas down the path and towards the back.
We both ordered the bbq pulled pork sandwich with beans. YUMMO. I remember the beans being gross but they were good this time around.
It was starting to get overcast during our meal. Combine that with the scary birds we booked it out of there pretty quickly. We could see EE from the trail and Mom watched the coaster go by a few times. She chickened out! I couldn't believe it. I thought for sure she'd want to go on it since she loves Big Thunder Mountain. No dice. She was scared. I wasn't going to do it by myself so we moved on.
We decided to go wait in line for the Safari. We didn't have fastpasses so we knew it would be a wait. Oh well, at least we'd get out of the rain.
Mom took pictures on our way over.
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I wonder who told her to take these....hmmmm...I wonder....
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By the time we made it to the Safari it had started raining, not heavy yet but it was only a matter of time! Standby line was at 40 minutes. I was able to drive the scooter right in! It was amazing. I have never noticed this before apparently. Our time in line went by quickly. It makes a difference when you are sitting! I offered to let Mom sit and rest her feet but she said she was fine.
Before we knew it we were being ushered into the area for the handicapped safari truck. We probably waited a bit longer because it seemed they only had one truck for these people but that was okay with me. I don't know maybe they had two going. Shortly we were all aboard for our two week trip.
Mom had camera duty. I had never ridden the safari without a camera glued to my face so I really enjoyed it this time.
I never realized how well giraffes can blend in!
This guy scared me a bit.
It was a wonderful safari and Mom really enjoyed it. We made a bathroom break and couldn't figure out what we wanted to do. I suggested the train, the animal trails and Festival of the Lion King. Lion King was just about to start and we figured we could make it and we did!
We made it and was ushered right into a front row spot with my scooter. I didn't take a single picture and neither did Mom. We just sat and watched and enjoyed. Mom really liked it. There were the cutest kids ever in the little parade at the end.
After we were done with Lion King, Mom had enough. There wasn't a whole lot more she wanted to do and I was more than happy to head back to the resort. We returned the scooter and I hobbled out to the bus.
We didn't wait long for a bus and made our way to All Star Music. I would think this was about 5 or so. We poked around a bit at the gift shop again, I know that I bought some trashy magazine with Jon & Kate on the cover...I couldn't resist. As I was paying for my purchases I exclaimed and made the cashier jump and Mom look at me weird.
The CM had the Mickey Gnome pin!! Eeeee! I was so excited. I happily traded with her. While she continued to bag my purchases I noticed that she had the 5 legged goat that CP (CharlestonPrincess) told me about. The 5 legged goat is in the mural at the Contemporary and I believe it was designed by Mary Blair. Am I right CP? I was super excited. I asked how many trades I could complete and she said two so the goat was mine! Yay! Pin Trading Jackpot!
I don't remember what we did for dinner. For some reason I don't think we did anything...? That doesn't seem right. Maybe we were still full from Flametree Barbecue? I think that Mom had her school bread this night and I think we may have just snacked a bit.
It was sprinkling out so we decided to head back to our room and wait for the rain to clear so we could go for a swim.
We waited all night. Yep the rain didn't stop in a timely fashion. I am sure you are surprised. We watched So You Think You Can Dance again and went to bed. This night I dug out my earplugs. I slept better. Hehe.
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It looks like you still got in a nice tour of the World Showcase for your mom despite your feet. You didn't seem to miss much. It was so nice of you to be such a trooper to make your mom's vacation more magical, what a sweet daughter. 
I hope you find something that works for you!!
The shock, the horror!!! That's all I got out of this post... LOL Just Kidding!! 
