Remember that pixie dust pizza that nice lady gave us last night? BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS!
Fully nourished, we packed up our park bags, stroller and other gear and headed for Animal Kingdom. I took our tickets and headed straight for Expedition Everest to grab FastPasses while Bambi and the kids headed for a ride on Dumbo's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. I made it over to Dinoland as they were just getting off the ride and the kids decided to try out something new - Primeval Whirl. The wait was posted at 10 minutes, but it was essentially a walk on. Bambi stayed back with Ryder. I'm guessing she knows that the ride is mostly referred to as Primeval Hurl, so she was smart enough to send me on first to see if I survived before she took her turn.
The best part of the ride is that if you do actually hurl, the spinning of the ride vehicle will make a nice spiral pattern of your projectile vomiting. See? Imagineers think of the coolest stuff!
We got off, and the kids absolutely loved the ride. I somehow convinced Bambi that the pizza for breakfast would be fine and that she should go on. (sucker).
As much fun as they were having on the ride, our FastPass time was upon us so we wandered over to Asia. Madison can be "take it or leave it" on Everest and today she happened to be both - she wanted to leave it and let us take it. So Evan and I braved the Yeti first.
While we were riding, Bambi got a call from her parents who had just arrived at the park. We went off to meet them by the African Drums, but stopped half way to get some pretty pictures by a bridge.
This was me getting all fancy with the camera while I waited for my models to arrive on set.
And there they are!
Bambi and her mom then went off to use the other two Expedition Everest FastPasses while the kids banged on the drums and I ran for Kali River Rapids FastPasses.
The posted wait for Kilimanjaro Safaris was about 30 minutes, but we jumped in line anyway...and waited probably 50 to 60 minutes. The man in front of us had a shirt from the Clearwater Marine Aquarium (made famous by the movie "Dolphin Tale" about Winter, a dolphin that lost her tail and learned to swim with a prosthetic.) Madison and Evan loved that movie, so they had a nice conversation about the park and the dolphin so it helped the time go by a little quicker.
Finally, we were seated in our truck and I found out the reason for all the bumpity bumpity on the ride...
That explains a lot, doesn't it?
Ryder didn't seem to notice the bumps much. But then again, he was only 5 months old. He didn't seem to notice a lot of things.
The ride as pretty typical - some animals eating, some animals wandering the savanahs, a lion laying around doing nothing. But it was after we got off the safari that we saw the coolest thing - a Silverback gorilla playing in a stream.
He was playing around with a food bowl, splashing around in the water and getting wet. And he gave us an idea...
It's time to get wet ourselves! Who says you can't learn anything from the animals?
Bambi didn't feel like walking around the park soaking wet, but her dad and I are not that smart and decided it would be a good idea.
After the first deluge:
I have no idea who these people are, but they seemed to enjoy the ride too.
After our thorough soaking, Evan started thinking. (Note: this is usually NOT a good thing). He was soaked to the bone and trying to find a way to dry off. So he came to the conclusion that acactus is dry, so....
Stand like a cactus! The kid's a genius!
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No seriously love it 
The only saving grace is I won't swim in December so as long as I don't get a view of that thing from my room, I'll be okay. 
You could do much worse.
He has not, however, done the pose at AK! Definitely on our list of FP shots in April!!!
