Winter Vacation '09 -Part 3

Day 3 was Animal Kingdom. This was new to both of us since it is a fairly recent addition to the parks. We just loved it. Drew had so much fun watching for animals. We asked him before we got there what kinds of animals he thought he would see..we fully expected him to say ducks, sheep, goats etc., but to our surprise he talked about lions, giraffes, and zebras. He got what he asked for (except the zebras).

We started the day with a character breakfast right inside the park. We wanted Drew to meet one of the characters before we risked him freaking out at a breakfast full of them, but the characters don't just wander around like I remembered. You had to wait in a long line to meet any of them...we decided the 30 minute wait was not quite worth it and risked a potential freak out when he saw those big headed things coming at him. You can decide for yourself if you think Drew enjoyed it:

Our first stop after breakfast was the safari. This was another one of the highlights of our trip.

After the safari, we headed over to the "affection section" where Drew had a blast petting the goats.

These poor goats didn't know what hit them when Drew ran in. They had little roped off areas where they would go to get some rest and aren't supposed to be disturbed. Most of the goats took shelter in that section. A few of the goats were napping just outside the roped off area so Drew loved on them. This one black goat above was one of the few that wandered around outside of the ropes. He cracked me up! He was so ugly, but he got lots of attention anyway. Here is a closeup of the front teeth:

We couldn't believe Drew wasn't even scared of this guy.

We finally got some food other than hot dogs, chicken fingers or pizza for lunch at Animal Kingdom. We had a salad and chicken with rice that was pretty tasty. Drew however, wasn't so thrilled with what I offered him for lunch. He had the kids lunch which came with some Jello. Apparently, Jello is NOT for Drew. This led to puke #2 of our trip - more of a gag because of the texture sliding down his throat, but it also elicited nasty looks from other park goers who do not want to get our kid's germs. Honestly, I didn't care about the looks because I was stuck next to a guy who apparently didn't care that he was only supposed to smoke in certain sections of the park and I guess the small child or the fact that I was pregnant didn't stop him from lighting up right next to us while we tried to eat lunch. Amazingly, that was the only such offense of our whole trip.

That night, we went to Downtown Disney and had dinner at Planet Hollywood. It was much more like a TGI Fridays than I had remembered, but we had a pretty good meal regardless. I took the night off from photos, so nothing to post here.

Day 4 was our last day at Disney. We went back to the Magic Kingdom in the morning and then after lunch, drove the 4 hours to Key Largo. Check back for more photos of the last part of our trip!