Here are the two pieces I have. I tend to buy the smaller, less expensive ones.
They are kind of expensive, but they're so unique. I wasn't sure what all you had. I thought you had several pieces in a hutch display.
Sorry I missed this the other day. My brain is fried, and I am barely keeping up with life right now. Maybe things will get better after my observation next Wednesday.
Just wanted to drop by and say Hi! Been AWOL since out trip. Its always hard right when I get back to come back to DIS. The reality that the trip is over I think interfering with me Dissing. :0) But we have another trip at the end of this month and I think I can handle it. lol
Have to catch up on what looks like 60ish pages. Memom- just reading this page it looks like there have been hard times at work and I am so sorry for your loss of the kids friend. So young. I hope today is a good day and the start of better days.
Our Reading Specialist has been good friends with our principal for a lot of years, and she said she had never seen him so stressed out. He plans to retire in two years, if stress doesn't kill him first.
The funeral was today. I'm sure his mother is just in a state of disbelief right now, thinking it is all surely just a bad, bad dream.
Ohhh those dresses are adorable!! Your TR's always make me want to spend even more money on souvenirs!
The pictures help me to
not buy things, actually. I enjoy being able to look at all the merchandise from the safety of the laptop without purchasing.
That video is a bit scary...all the more so when you say it is sadly realistic.
I agree you would be a great educator in AK. When I took the backstage safari in 2006, if I remember correctly, our guide was a former teacher who had " retired" to FL and I remember her saying something about how Disneynwas especially interested in her teaching skills. You should ask in Oct!
Thanks for the shopping pics! Love that the lions were soarin'.
That may be me one of these days, if I can talk the rest of the family to moving down there with me.
Great AK pictures. I love that park but I have to convince my family (Declan) to slow down there. It seems we are always rushing around and missing things. For example, I have never seen a kangaroo at AK.
Thanks for the pics MeMom.
We don't rush off to Everest, like many do, and we might or might not do Dinosaur, so we have plenty of time to take it slow around AK.
Good morning, MeMom! Did you see where I posted the pics of the African stuff over on the bottom of page 111? I think we were posting at the same time yesterday morning.
The kangaroo procedure is so neat!!! I cannot even begin to imagine being the one in charge of putting the gator on the ladder! Yikes! I do think Disney is amazing in its care of animals! One night we were over at my parents' and Connor decided to play the "If you were an animal, what kind of animal would you want to be?" game. I promptly answered, "An Animal Kingdom animal!"
I did now that you told me!
I would have missed it. I have been on here sporadically, and I know I skipped a whole slew of people about a week ago. I beg forgiveness, but there are just times that my mind can't do individual replies and I don't want to get more and more behind, so I mass reply. It seems like most of our teachers have slowed way down in the past month.
An Animal Kingdom animal is the perfect answer!
Great AK pictures! I love the care that the animals receive at Disney, it just makes Disney even more special in my eyes.
I'm sorry you are having a tough time at school, I've been in situations at work where the moral is so low it just makes going to work difficult.
Yeah, I noticed that I am calling it work more and more and school less and less. I think that is telling.
All the caregivers at Rafiki's seem so truly caring to even the smallest, most 'unexciting' creatures.
I'm so sorry school has been a pain. very sad.
In happier news, you're just a few weeks away from your trip!!! Yee haw!!
4 weeks from Saturday. I hope after all my paperwork for the evaluation is done and the observation itself is over with, I can breathe a little lighter for a few weeks and enjoy our trip.
Where were all these taken? We haven't seen any 'entertainers' like this in AK and I really want to. I think this is so great. It's one of the things I love most about World Showcase. I love seeing people native to the country that's being represented doing things like this. It is such an awesome learning experience since my family will probably never go to Africa or Asia! I am such a nerd when it comes to geography, world cultures, world religions, etc. I can't get enough of it, and when you find it as a sort of 'living museum' like this, I just LOVE it!
Loved the pictures from the vet area! They are the best pictures I have ever seen from back there. I love the close ups! You did a great job with that! It is so fascinating to see and read about what they do.
Oh my gosh! I have to tell you that it isn't often that something makes me laugh to the point of tears but this did. My DH thought I had lost my mind and came in here and asked me what the heck was I doing on the internet! I told him he had to watch it and he too got a good laugh out of it. He's never taught before (except the kids at church), but he heard my belly aching about testing for years before I 'retired', so he totally got it! It is sad to know how true it is, but having been there, it just cracked me up! THANK YOU for a much needed GOOD laugh that I haven't had in a while!
Most of them were in and around Harambe, I think. I love the learning part of a Disney trip, too.
I figured teachers would relate in a big way.
I'm so glad I saw that.
I love how much the employees care for the animals. Also, I think the procedure viewing area is an incredible opportunity.
I think you are right about the Lions being on soarin'
The video you posted was HILARIOUS!
I hesitated to write the lions on Soarin' part for fear that you guys would think I was so wierd, but then I figured you already knew it anyway, and I went for it.
Hi MeMom!! I fell behind, but I'm caught up now... and you are still at AK!
Sorry to hear about how stressful school is right now. Just keep swimming toward that fall break.
We stayed at AK about half the day, which is what - two weeks on this TR?
I say that often at school! When people are shaking their heads and looking for comfort (and there is realy not any), I tell them to just keep swimming!
Hi Memom. Got way behind on your lovely TR.Real life has been getting in the way. Staff training(birth to five child development and planning. Just when you think you've got it all sussed they go and change it) Had a job interview on Monday as well for a early years practitioner job in a private pre-school, so not had much DIS time) I love the picture of sleepy Bella having a lay down whilst waiting for the kangaroo's arrival. A day at a Disney park is hard work!!Brooklynn has some wonderfully named stuffed animals.How does she remember the names of them all?
I think that is the new DIS motto -
We don't have time to be here! 
Rafiki's is definitely one place I want to check out again when we go in January. I love that AK loves its animals so much and takes such special care of them.
Too funny that Brooklynn chose a bat to bring home, and I love the name "Pretty Bird"! :Some of our cockatiels learned to say "hello pretty bird" or even "hello pretty chicken." My dad used to call them chickens...I was old enough to know the difference when he was doing this, and knew he was just being himself, but my brother wasn't quite old enough. On a trip to the farm when my brother was in preschool (he was three or four), my mom was a chaperone and pointed to some chickens and said, "look, Mikey, chickens!" He responded, "THOSE aren't chickens! WE have chickens!" Can't tell we're from the city, right?
Trent teases Brooklynn about her animals and their crazy names all the time.
I hope you get to see a cool procedure.
Wow, I have never seen a procedure at Rafiki's. That would be a truly amazing experience. We missed it again this trip.
It is very cool to see animals up close and in such a different situation. I love that Brooklynn has seen so many animals in real life and not just in pictures in books.
Whoa, between Hurrican Irene, going away labor day weekend, and moving to my new place I fell severly behind on the trip report!!
I'm LOVING the AK pics!! I know alot of people give it flack but I love that park. On my solo day in June I spent a few hours in the morning just walking the trails, taking pictures and enjoying the atmosphere. It really is such a pretty park.
So happy to hear Brooklynn's excited for her October trip!! Can't wait to meet you guys!
You are in the right place for people who are swamped and behind with life. That seems to be the norm around here these days!
We will be there. Are you coming to MK on the 16th before the
MNSSHP? You will have to remind me what we talked about, because my brain is mushier that usual these days?
I think I have seen that kangaroo on the table before. Unless there is another one with mouth problems.
A relative of that guy was in my garage not too long ago.
That is on the list for this trip.
Isn't that a cute dress?
I don't know - they didn't say if the jaw issue was a recurring problem, just that she had some swelling.
Made me smile to read your thought about elephants having good memories. . . I always say to my friends that I have a memory as good as an elephant and they look at me like I'm crazy!
Hope your work week goes smoothly and you find moments of peace. My work week is dragging a bit. . . a trip to Disney next week will do that to you! I know you can relate
Maybe after next week things will get a little easier. I hope so anyway. One thing is that they are taking nearly all our planning times with meetings, so we have to do our normal stuff before and/or after school.
A bat named "Pretty Bird".....
Thanks for taking me out to Rafiki's Planet Watch today! Watching the vets work on the animals would be so interesting, I gotta add that to my to do list
Don't be surprised if there's a bird that ends up being called Batty someday.
Thank you for the wood animal pictures- I will have to pick up a rhino for my mom. She doesn't have one of those in her carved wood animal collection that began long before my Disney trips.
Also, we haven't seen that pin board - I know what to be on the lookout for now. We have that Mingo and bat - two of each of them actually! They came home with us on our very first Disney trip when the girls were 6.
The video made me laugh out loud..."Parts of speech aren't fun, but yes my lesson on parts of speech was fun..." I had to watch some others too. The one on cell phones is a good one too.
The animal operation observation is really cool!
I really do hope things get better for you soon. BUT looking forward to having a cool job in the future is a great way to pass the time! Not as cool as your Disney trips, though!
Differentiated instruction, differentiated instruction, differentiated instruction...yet the testing is not differentiated in the least. ELL kids take it. Kids that can barely read their sight words take it. Kids who don't give a flying flip take it. Then they call the teachers bad and the schools failing because of what the kids put out. Maybe if they made it into a video game, the kids would get more into it.
I love Planet Watch yes, but I've never been there at the right time to see a procedure done. Perhaps this next trip will be the one!
The little show looks cute, and even though I am terrified of bats, so does "pretty bird" Oh Brooklynn is so cute! I like the giraffe shirt in the shop too!
You do have to be there in the morning to see the procedures.
Pretty bird is a nice bat. He does not swoop or try to scare you in any way. He just hangs out with other furry friends in the playroom.
Actually, I think he is a she. Brooklynn almost always makes her animals be girls.
I can't be mad, you warned me!
Rolling the eyes is probably commonplace when reading some of my silly comments.
