Disney Day 6- Animal Kingdom & Magic Kingdom

We were really excited to go to the animal kingdom and we wish that we would have had more time there.  There is so much to take in and to look at and to enjoy.  We were also excited to be able to see Josh’s oldest brother, Matt, and his family.  Who we hadn’t seen in over 2 years.  We were excited to find out that they were going to be at Disney World the same time and so we arranged to meet her.  We wish that we would have had more time to spend with them.     We started off the day by ourselves again since the rest of the crew was running a little behind.  We thought that they would catch up with us at the shuttle stop, but we lucked out and we didn’t have to wait for the shuttle.  Once we got to the park we headed over to get a fast pass for the Safari ride since it was so foggy that we wouldn’t have been able to see the animals at that time.  On the way over we were lucky enough to catch some characters to get some pictures.  We then went on an exploration trail to see some animals while we waited for my family to get to the park.  Once they were there we met them over at Expedition Everest.  That was a great ride, I think one of the favorites on the whole trip. 

We were also able to catch up with Matt & Stacie at that point, then we were playing follow the leader as we rode a ride and then they followed behind from Everest to the Safari (since the fog let up).  We caught back up with them at Finding Nemo- The musical, which was a great show.  After we ate lunch together we went on Dinosaur and then let the kids ride on Tricera Top spin which is pretty much like Dumbo.  We then rushed over to see the Lion King show.  When we got there a cast member asked if our kids would like to be in the show.  Megan got all excited and said she would.  So they told us where to sit so that they would pick them out of the crowd.  The show was great and very entertaining and it was fun at the end of the show that Megan and Bryson were able to go up and participate.  They had them walk around the stage shaking a maraca like instrument.  It was fun and the kids loved it. Before we headed off to our dinner we went to see a Bug’s Life.  That was the one show that I remember seeing when I went to Animal Kingdom before.  Unfortunately I don’t think my kids want to remember the show.  Neither of them wore their 3D glasses.  Luckily that was our last 3D show.

For dinner we were so excited to go to Chef Mickey’s to see all the classic characters; Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy & Pluto.  On the way over Bryson fell asleep and was out cold.  We kept trying to wake him up once we got there since he had been looking forward to seeing Mickey the whole time.  He woke up just in time for the characters to start coming around, but wasn’t the happiest kid. 

After dinner we headed back over to the Magic Kingdom just in time for their firework show.  We started heading over to Frontierland and ended up getting a VIP look at the fireworks, it was great!  Once we got to Frontierland we rode Splash Mountain which was great.  Megan was able to ride and was so excited to go, since we had pumped her up about going on it.  This was also Josh’s 1st time.  I wish we had a camera to take a picture of the picture they took of us going down the big drop, it was the best picture ever.  Megan and I ended up in the front of the boat wrapped up in my Dad’s jacket and we still ended up getting soaked.  Josh and BJ were behind us and only got wet from a boat ahead of us going down the hill, then Jess and Tosha were behind them and stayed pretty dry.  It was great.  We also hit Thunder mountain, the Tiki room, Pirates (again) & Josh, my Dad, BJ & I went to the Haunted mansion while everyone else went to the carrousel.  It was a very long day, that ended really late.