when I left off we had been gifted with FP's, seen lions, hippos, rhino's, gorillas and gazelle's and magically escaped being stuck by the parade!
reunited with our other Safari companions .
who so graciously had told us to take the FP's, allowing for some amazing gazelle grazing (or not....tree eating on hind legs, who knew!) viewing.
it was determined that
it was hot! See, don't they look hot? Steven's got some seriously wilted hair (but in his new necklace which still hasn't come off since the trip lol) and I have no idea what Scrooge is doing with his sunglasses, that just looks wierd. Almost as weird as when he puts them on his head backwards (which is all the time lol!)
we needed a snack! Our lunch (for us) really hadn't been all that late and dinner wasn't until 8:30. So a substantial snack was in order.
See where I am going with this?
as we made the trek from Africa to Asia
it happened.
again
"we have some FP's we can't use, would you like them?"
this time, for Kali. I can't remember how many they had but it wasn't 6. So we hemmed a little bit and I kid you not, someone entirely different nearby said
"I have some too!"
so somehow, magically, in the span of a minute we had 6 FP's for Kali! (which was still on a 60 minute wait!)
Excited, a little bit dumbfounded, we kept trekking to Asia.
But first. A stop.
Yak and Yeti Local Foods Egg Rolls!
TWO of these suckers are one snack credit.
Oh I wish I had a picture of their flaky, hot, yummy deliciousness!
SOOOOOOOOOOOOO good! Moist, tender and flavorful. I'd eat 2 of them right now if I could! And it's 9am here!
Scrooge and I each got our own, the rest of the gang wanted something cold.
For the life of me I have no idea what Goofy & Tink got. Steven was on the search for a smoothie and wasn't seeing anything nearby but had seen something somewhere else so wanted to go there later instead. I still don't know where he went, for some reason I think it may have been all the way back near the safari entry but I digress.
Wall-E, of course, got this
The last mickey bar.
he looks dazed and confused. Or intoxicated by it, I'm not sure.
AK is a dangerous place to eat a Mickey bar if you are dining challenged, as is our Wall-E.
Eat fast!
Lick around the edges!
You're dripping!
Aack! here's another napkin
and yet still, most of it ends up on his face.
Go figure.
Tummies full and faces ringed with Chocolate it was FINALLY time.
To brave the rapids. To stand in line. Or not!
Thank you fast pass gods of presidents week craziness. Of magic pay it forward karma. I bow to you.
We whizzed through that line so fast I didn't take hardly any pictures! Here is a couple. You can see, as fabulous as my little digital is, it is NOT great for inside/low light pictures. Not at all!
I probably had quite a few more that I deleted. I'm noticing that I did a lot of clean up and deletion of bad pics and kind of wish I'd waited. Oh well.
My brain was whirling.
Camera - protected
Poncho's - out
Hurry, get in the boat, get everything covered!!
Tink was by far the most apprehensive (I think she just didn't want to get wet) and as it was getting later it was going to cool off quickly but...we had to do it. It would just be WRONG to be at AK and not go on Kali. So it wasn't something that was ever up for debate though I confess to having bad hair concerns for dinner as we had no plans to go back to the resort.
And try as I might, I know I'll never bring myself to wear a shower cap (though I truly admire those who do, it looks amazingly effective!). I'm just not that brave.
Kali was, what can I say, wet, wild and fabulous.
and WET!
I think Tink and I got the worst of it. I had some scary looking pants afterwards but thankfully they dried quickly
And now we can see why I'm not in more pictures. UGH. Eyes closed. Looking weird. Now I know where Goofy gets that look from! Tink is the only one visibly wet though but we were pretty drippy! Scrooge again with the wierd sunglass placement. I really need to make him take them off or put them elsewhere, it ruins photos (IMO)
Thank goodness for poncho's is all I have to say!
Happy, wet, it was time.
To meet the YETI!
But first....
what's this?
It looks like a bubble!
Can we stick our fingers in it?
Sure, live large, go for it!
The E's played with this for at least 5 minutes, probably longer as I think there was a bio break involved. Sadly the picture is rather lousy. Darn low light. Oh yeah, and night time was coming....EMH and Ak in the Dark!
I will say this, compared to other parks I can really now see why generally AK closes so early. It is really really DARK there after 6pm!
Cool. but dark. But very very cool!
Next....EE in the dark, another run in with a Dinosaur, Steven's elusive smoothie and MORE necklace shopping...most importantly, will
I find a souvenir for
ME and then, a Bomastic last dinner!
I scroll through the food porn thread and think about retiring nearby someday so I can go and eat at least once a week (OK, in like...25 or 30 years!)
my camera. funny story, I was always really impressed with the shots my mom got with her little digital. She has quite a selelction of cameras but the little digital just did an amazing job. I went to get one of my own, did my own research, found something in my price range and go to find out...
Those close-ups are fantastic - I bow to your superior photography skills! 
It would help if I read the update title, hey? I'm sure you're right about them being gazelles and, yes, they are cool! 
Also, your description of the egg rolls has gotten me so hungry. Wish you had a picture (just for the torture of it!).
