wickesy
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Sunday 29th March 2009
The alarm woke us up and after a quick wash and brush up we were out the door at 8:00 and on our way to Boma for our 8:30 reservation. As we approached Animal Kingdom Lodge I noticed that they have built a new gatehouse on the access road which will serve the main building and the new DVC resort - Kidani Village, and they have also changed the sign on the road leading to AKL itself to Jambo House.
We were seated as soon as we arrived and ordered a house juice each and then we went up to the buffet where I had bacon, scrambled egg, French toast and breakfast potatoes and Dad had similar. After polishing his plate off Dad went back up for some fruit but I was too full for any more.
We had a quick look around the shop and then went back to the car at which point it started raining. By the time we got to Animal Kingdom it was absolutely pouring and so we sat in the car for twenty minutes until it eased off and then got on the tram to the main gates where we got a poncho each. By this time my cold had come out, I had a runny nose and realised I had left my camera in the car so the day really wasnt going well.
It was too late for the first Lion King show so we wandered through Asia into Africa and up to Kilimanjaro Safari where the wait time was posted as 20 minutes but it was actually more or less a walk-on. There were quite a few animals about and I would have got some great photos as our driver, who looked about 14, was going quite slowly. I think the lioness must have been in for re-furbishment though as she was nowhere to be seen.
After our safari we walked back down to Camp Minnie Mickey for the 11:00 Lion King show which was great and really lifted my mood. Once the show had finished we had a look around Island Mercantile and when we came out it had started raining hard again so I decided to write the day off and we went back to the studio to wait for the weather to ease a little.
By about 2:30 it had been dry for a while and so we decided to go over to Downtown Disney to do some shopping. As expected, due to the earlier rain, the place was heaving and so we ended up having to park at West Side and walk back down to Village Marketplace.
First stop was the Christmas shop where we bought some ornaments to go on the tree this year.
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The alarm woke us up and after a quick wash and brush up we were out the door at 8:00 and on our way to Boma for our 8:30 reservation. As we approached Animal Kingdom Lodge I noticed that they have built a new gatehouse on the access road which will serve the main building and the new DVC resort - Kidani Village, and they have also changed the sign on the road leading to AKL itself to Jambo House.
We were seated as soon as we arrived and ordered a house juice each and then we went up to the buffet where I had bacon, scrambled egg, French toast and breakfast potatoes and Dad had similar. After polishing his plate off Dad went back up for some fruit but I was too full for any more.
We had a quick look around the shop and then went back to the car at which point it started raining. By the time we got to Animal Kingdom it was absolutely pouring and so we sat in the car for twenty minutes until it eased off and then got on the tram to the main gates where we got a poncho each. By this time my cold had come out, I had a runny nose and realised I had left my camera in the car so the day really wasnt going well.
It was too late for the first Lion King show so we wandered through Asia into Africa and up to Kilimanjaro Safari where the wait time was posted as 20 minutes but it was actually more or less a walk-on. There were quite a few animals about and I would have got some great photos as our driver, who looked about 14, was going quite slowly. I think the lioness must have been in for re-furbishment though as she was nowhere to be seen.
After our safari we walked back down to Camp Minnie Mickey for the 11:00 Lion King show which was great and really lifted my mood. Once the show had finished we had a look around Island Mercantile and when we came out it had started raining hard again so I decided to write the day off and we went back to the studio to wait for the weather to ease a little.
By about 2:30 it had been dry for a while and so we decided to go over to Downtown Disney to do some shopping. As expected, due to the earlier rain, the place was heaving and so we ended up having to park at West Side and walk back down to Village Marketplace.
First stop was the Christmas shop where we bought some ornaments to go on the tree this year.
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No problem, always happy to help out our cousins across the pond.
We checked out of CSR that day, but couldn't check into our new digs until 4pm, so we ended up have a drive around I-Drive and lunch at Sweet Tomatoes (can't wait until there's one at LBV!). 
again you have purchased some cool gear 
Thanks for clearing that up for me, or I would have been the person on the Kilimanjaro safaris in August loudly telling her family that the lioness is another Disney animatronic! 
