This day will start early. It will be 1 of two trips to
We adore this park and I want to give us a better chance to see the animals moving, so I planned two mornings for touring and exploring there. We closed the place the first time and probably could have stayed a couple more hours and didn’t do everything. We’ll start the day with what was probably my favorite character breakfast of our first trip.
AK has AM EMH on this day, so they probably won’t let us in early, but hopefully we can grab Safari fast passes before breakfast if we move quickly. Funny thing on our first trip, I thought I was making our reservation for 8:30 but it was actually 9:40, which I discovered 3 days after making it, but there was no ability to change it. We snacked a bit early that morning and I found I wasn’t nearly hungry enough. I loved the food and atmosphere there.
We had time to ride Kilamangaro Safari before breakfast and still ended up waiting a while.
Dd took this while we were waiting to be called after checking in.
While planning for this trip I’ve had a lot more chances to look at the pictures from our first one. It’s amazing how my children, especially ds, have grown. I wanted to shrink, but haven’t. Oh well.
We did get our picture taken with Donald, but I only have a paper copy. Here are the other shots. First Daisy came. She came so fast I didn’t even have ds’ high chair yet. You can probably see the CM with it behind Daisy and dd.
Then Mickey came. I’m hoping that in the three character meals we have with Mickey on this trip, I can get ds to look at me once. He could not take his eyes off Mickey at either meal and he’s been obsessed ever since.
Last came Goofy. Even though his nose is almost covering his eyes, at least ds looked at the camera.
They had a really cute conga parade through the restaurant, but none of the pictures I took was very good.
After this hopefully we can redeem our fast passes for the Safari ride if we were abe to obtain them. If not, we’ll probably grab some and do some exploring in the Africa area. That’s the main plan for day one there. We also plan on exploring the Oasis area and Discovery Island. I still have dd’s Safari journal from our first trip unopened. I bought it when we entered the park, but knew once we got out of Tusker House we wouldn’t be able to do all of the activities so I didn’t open it.
We like to make lots of stops. Vacation is about stopping to smell the roses for us. Here’s one stop.
And of course we stayed to color.
Times to be fascinated.
Time to admire animals in "the most beautiful color ever"
Time to admire animals that do what they want when they want.
And there’s always got to be time for interactions like this.
We’ll try to do a light late lunch. I haven’t decided where. We probably won’t be very hungry. We are not big lunch eaters, especially after a breakfast like Tusker House serves. Our plan is to be in Dinoland around midday to be near the front of the park. We didn't do much in here the first time, but now that ds is bigger, they may explore the boneyard. May play a game or 2, look around and have a light lunch at that food stand in there.
Main point of being there will be for.
And to be near the show we plan on seeing to end our day.
We’ll head back to the resort after that. Thanks for putting up with all of these pictures in a PTR. I abandoned my TR after this trip and never finished it. So, it's been nice to post them to show what we'll be repeating on this trip.