After our last ride on Everest and James earning his yeti, we wanted to start to leave the park. First though, wed hit Its Tough To Be A Bug. Lauren and I saw it on our last trip, but the other kids were too small (we'd heard it could be scary for little kids) and Judy waited outside with them, so she had never seen it either.
As we went through the queue, Lauren had to touch this carving, since elephants are her favorite animal.
Im not exactly sure what animal this is (a horned lizard?), but thought it was cool.
We enjoyed ITTBAB. I had forgotten about getting poked in the back when the bee stings you. Im usually pretty good at anticipating those moments and blocking when youre about to be sprayed in the face or something. For example, I always pick my feet up in Honey I Shrunk the Audience when the mice are running, but I completely forgot about the bee sting in this one.
After that we went outside and saw another photopass guy. I dont like the pictures from this spot as much as some of the others. It was really bright and hard for us not to squint. Plus, even though the Tree of Life is behind us, you can't really see it. Heres one that he took with my camera.
And one where he said, roar like a yeti!, or show me your yeti claws! or something like that. Notice James can show his claws and still hang onto his yeti.
Then we wanted to do one last thing before we left. We wanted to find the trail that takes you close to the Tree of Life.
Id read about it on another board. Shhh. You can get to it across from Island Mercantile as you pass through Discovery Island, heading toward Africa, or on the other side of Discovery Island, near the fastpass machines for ITTBAB. We found it without difficulty. Here are some pictures along the path. I like the walrus in the foreground of this first one.
You could stare at this detail for hours and still find something new.
Pretty much just us here on this path.
Can you tell James is happy with his yeti?
Looking up at the Tree of Life.
Then, the kids wanted to get a picture on this rhinoceros. First they all tried to get up near it at the same time and that just wasnt working out. So, I had to take three separate shots since no one wanted to be left out or be outdone.
One last shot of the detail of the tree. How many critters do you see here? It reminds me that when we were standing here, someone would say something like, Ooooh. Look at the _________ And James would say, I dont see it! Where? And then wed spend five minutes trying to help him find it, as he (and we) got more and more exasperated.
Can anyone reading this relate?!
The path near the tree was really great, to be that close. Judy liked it and was glad I had done my research.
Then we left the park at about 3:00pm.
We went back to our suite and got ready to hit the pool. But first, because my wallet and gotten soaked twice on Kali, I had to take every bill, picture, credit card, etc. out of my wallet and I lay them out on the bed to dry. This included my precious park planning spreadsheets which I had shrunk down to near microfiche-size in order to carry them in my wallet. I wish I had a picture of this, but alas, I dont!
On my way to the pool I had to take a couple more pictures of the giraffes. Stay at Kidani, and youll understand.
In the next installment: Date night!
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It hurt pretty bad for the rest of the trip and she didnt go on any more thrill rides. It has slowly gotten better, but just the other day she mentioned that it was hurting her.
No, I think the ride just had my number that day.
) but look at the upper part of the headrests, looks like they endure a lot of head impacts.
thechesters420 and Sarahboo. It's good to have you along.
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