Animal Kingdom

Ethan had a teacher workday at school yesterday, so we used the opportunity to use another day of our passes at Disney. We went to Animal Kingdom for the day. We bundled up because especially in the morning it was cold. Ethan remembered going in that we should take a picture of our parking section. We got that tip from a guy at Magic Kingdom and thought it was a good one. However, it does not work too well when your camera batteries die! Lucky for us we remembered without needing the picture. Aubrey loved the characters this time and ran right up to them. Last year she was terrified of them and we did not really have an opportunity to get up close to any at Magic Kingdom. We were able to see lots of characters and they liked that. Aubrey has been watching Mickey's Clubhouse on tv and they do a funny dance at the end, so she wanted the characters to do their dance. She is such a silly girl. We were able to see a lot of animals on the safari since it was cold they were out a lot more than when it is hot. Ethan liked the Lion King show the best. Ethan rode Mt. Everest with Derek and was scared to death, but was a good sport. I went on it by myself and decided just before the park was about to close I would like to try again since there was not any wait. Ethan rode it with me and was a really brave. It is a pretty intense roller coaster. Aubrey laid down on the train ride for a little break and the conductor asked her if she would like a pillow. She told him she was just resting. They have a really neat playground for the kids to play on and I think they could have stayed all day in that spot. We had the kids sitting on a dinosaur head to take their picture and an attendant told us we were not to play on them. I looked around and did not see a sign that said not to climb and it was made out of the same material as all the other play things. I am all about following rules, but it is a kids playground. We are really not supposed to climb on the stuff. Oh well, we got off, but not before snapping a picture.