We woke up Tuesday morning bright and early once again – not via an electronic alarm, but via our other alarm – a little wiggly 3 year old girl. No matter what time she goes to bed, early or late, she always wakes up relatively around the same time, but always no later than 8am. Occasionally we get an 8:30am, but that’s rare. Good thing she was up bright and early this day since we were off to the Animal Kingdom for breakfast.
I had been looking forward to the Tusker House breakfast for so long, especially after reading reviews on the DIS. We got all bundled up in layers, key for this February trip since the temperatures seemed to vary so much from hour to hour. Our plan was to eat breakfast with Donald, walk around AK for a bit, then head back to the hotel in the early afternoon. We had some friends coming into Orlando to join us for a couple of days, my BFF and her fiancé, Auntie Nini and Uncle G (that is what our little girl calls them ever since she was little and the names have just stuck as she has gotten older). We were all excited for 2 days at Disney together.
I do remember that is was pretty cold this morning. We had a 9:20am ADR I think, just after the opening of the park, but we still had to wait a bit for our name to get called. Or it may have just felt like a long time because we were so cold. While we had on layers/sweatshirts, we weren’t in coats because it was supposed to warm up and we didn’t want to have to carry them around all day. Once our name was called, we headed up and got in line for a picture with Donald. I was a bit bummed that we couldn’t add the Donald PP pic onto our card, especially because we had already prepaid for a cd, but I figure that’s how they try to get a bit more money out of you. The Donald pics were pretty cute too. We got a couple with our camera, but at the time, we thought the pics would be included in the package so we didn’t take more.
She loved Safari Donald!
See how happy she is?
We took a family pic too, but like I said, that was not purchased……
We got a quick tour of the inside and were shown to our table. I really liked the inside of the restaurant and the way the breakfast buffet was laid out. I will admit that I was most excited to try out the famous jungle juice! It did not disappoint – I loved it and definitely had refills of the juice. Once again, no food pics, we were too busy eating and keeping an eye out for characters.
First up was Mickey Mouse. I love their safari gear!
Then a super tall friend stopped by. Goofy.
Our little girl was so excited to see characters at our meals, but she did a good job at waiting patiently for her turn.
Then we saw the other main reason I had booked Tusker House – Daisy Duck.
I was trying to cover a lot of the characters with our character meals, just in case we had a hard time finding them in the parks. Of course, you can see that we already saw a fair amount by this point, and our daughter was not one to pass a character by without saying hi.
Before Daisy had gotten too far away, it was time for a conga line!
Our little girl manages to squish herself to the front every time.
I sincerely apologize to anyone who she may have cut off. We are still working on that concept of not cutting in front of other people. She understands waiting in line when there is one established, but when it comes to the parades, dance parties, etc., she has a tendency to squeeze her way to the front. Obviously we need to work on that a bit. I think she just gets so excited.
Once we finished greeting all of our friends, we were able to focus on finishing up our meal. I also ended up getting a hot chocolate to go. Perfect on a crisp cool day. Our waitress had offered up the juice to go, but since it was so cold out, I opted for a hot chocolate instead, otherwise I would have taken her up on that offer!
After we were done with our meal and our tummies were full, we headed over to Camp Minnie-Mickey. Since we didn’t buy the Donald pic from the breakfast, we decided to see if we could find him at the camp to try for the pic again. We were just hoping that we wouldn’t end up at the characters the exact same time that the Festival of the Lion King show let out. That happened earlier in the week and the lines get long so fast then!
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Love the little gifts left in your room and I think this:
Mmmm... creme brulee and I love the whole idea behind the kids dessert. I may just get that to fulfill my lost childhood dream of playing with my food before I eat it 
Hahahaha
And yeah, Fireworks are the best way to end a day at Disney. 
While I understand there's nothing you can do about, I just don't like it to rain on our trips!
I wish I had that kind of money at my disposable.
never been there before either.
