...Animal Kingdom con't
Next we made our way on over to Rafiki's Planet Watch. We were really hoping to find him as we kept chanting, "Rafiki! Rafiki!" the entire morning, and sure enough we walk through to a building to find Pocahontas and Rafiki himself. No one was really interesting in Poch, and she was honestly just standing around watching people, so we went up for a picture with her
But of course we were more excited for this guy..
ps: at this point, Geoff was getting a little jealous at all the kisses I was getting from the all the characters, haha
Love this picture btw... can you see any resembelence?
After making our way back from the Planet Watched we headed for the Safari, which we grabbed fastpasses for earlier. For it being pretty hot in the afternoon already, I was surpised at how many animals were out for that time...
The last one there.. if you look really hard... he's PEEING!!!
We started our trek through Asia...
to get some fastpasses for the river rapid ride, and started to hear these monkeys from about a mile away...
The mommy and baby were so cute.. but the whole buch were screaming and talking so loud, it was too funny!
Festival of the Lion King was next. We waited in line, and one thing I loved about AK was they had fans everywhere outside to keep you cool... what a great concept!! Anyways... it was AMAZING. Best show of the entire trip. The acrobatics were incredible and the floats.. the performers. ahhh... just LOVED this show. I really liked how it wasnt just a normal re-inactment of the movie, the whole tribal performing thing was really impressive.
By the time that was over it was time for the fastpass. Geoff was really looking forward to this ride.. even after reading on here about the accident the week before with the "river of blood" hahaha... we got on.. and you know, its amazing how friendly you become with the people on a ride with you, or on the bus... I sat next to this lady who you would have thought was my nice next door neighbor I babysat for or something... we talked the entire ride about our day at the park and stuff, how we were waiting for the huge waterfalls to hit only our side of the raft, and how much longer it would be til the fall. And then...... the ride ended. haha. Everyone in the raft was really disapponted with it. We were barly wet, but of course I took off my short and stayed in my swim suit and the ONLY part of the shorts that got wet was the croth, so it looked like I peed myself
Now we were starving.. we circled around the park looking for somewhere to go and settled for Pizzafari. I loved this cat in front of it!
It was getting hot, we were getting tired, and the Nemo show wasnt for a couple hours yet, so we got our picture by the tree and headed back to the resort...
While on the way out I was wondering what to get as a remberence from AK, and thought about getting a different themed Mickey from each park. Geoff, being a lover of stuffed animals, took it one step further and wanted to get one of every Mickey we could find. Then it turned into starting a collection of all the characters we could find and everytime we come back we get more... Apparently this was going to be a big decision to make, lol, and we decided on talking about what we wanted back at the hotel. But of course in line for the bus as I was looking through my pictures from the day I DROPPED the camera. Naturally the first thing I blurt out is "S***!" which I think highly offended the family in front of us as they made it a point to actually MOVE AWAY from us on the bus after sitting next to us. It happens, what can I say

This had me really upset though, because of course I thought the worse and was freaking out that we wouldnt have any pictures for the rest of the trip if it died on us. Luckily theres only a small chip in the corner and the bottom piece only lifted a little, and it still works perfectly. whew!
Anyways.. go for a swim at the pool back home...
we shower and dress to head back to Downtown Disney on a quest to start the stuffed animal collection.
We walk out with Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisey, Pluto, and Goofy. The collection begins and we make our way back to eat at the glorious Pepper Market for the ?-th time, and fall asleep to the ritual Power Rangers that has been playing every night of our stay.
Next up... back to the Magic Kingdom where we meet LOTS of characters!!!
