Animal Kingdom - October 2

Slept in until 9:30! Nate and I loaded up laundry while the girls were still sawing logs. I was thinking that getting a washing machine would be a breeze but it was more like finding a parking spot at the mall on Christmas eve and the people were guarding those things just as closely too. I was little frightened in there. We were ableto score two machines fairly shorly upon arrival though. While laundry was going, Nate grabbed the girls and they swam while I watched the laundry to make sure no one would throw my wet clothes on the ground. During that time we watched a sky writer. I was hoping he was going to spell 'Surrender Dorothy' but instead he wrote 'Praise Jesus'.

We had lunch at the food court and got onto the bus for the Animal Kingdom at 1 pm. We loved it there! Our first attraction was Dinosaur and we loved it. Annabelle screamed so loud and dug her fingernails into my arms. After the ride we went on it again and again. we hung out in Dinoland until our fastpasses for Expedition Everest were ready. Chocolate Mike and Caramel Spike LOVED Dinoland and are excited to post on their blog about their adventures there.

We stayed at Animal Kingdom until 5:30 as we had dinner reservations at Port Orleans at 6:30. We really enjoyed Animal Kingdom and looked forward to spending a whole day there the following day.

We arrived at the Port Orleans resort and really wished we could've stayed there. It's a wonderful theme and so much more laid back and relaxed than the All Star resorts. It does look like it takes a lot longer to get to places though because it is so spread out. We ate at Boatwrights and had prime rib, steak medallions with squash and crawfish and Annabelle had cheese pizza (but we snuck her some steak). Dessert was Bananas Foster, Apple Pie ala mode and lemon spund cake with strawberries. We loved Boatwrights and the service was speedy and good.

Because there isn't any transportation from resort to resort we had to go to Downtown Disney to get onto a bus to go back to our resort. Port Orleans has a boat ride to DTD so we chose that option. It was a lovely relaxing ride.

DTD was a zoo! There were way more people there than at any of the theme parks we'd encountered. I felt like I was on Fremont Stree in Las Vegas for a moment and kept looking overhead to see the LED screen. The only thing that differed was the fact that there weren't any bums laying around and it smelled a whole lot better. We checked out the pin store and World of Disney - the largest Disney Store in the World and it was huge! We finally made it to Disney Quest and checked it out for a little bit. That was 5 stories of loudness. We did play a few video games but finally couldn't take the stimuli anymore and left.

We made it back to our resort at 11 pm. So much for thinking that we'd get to bed at a decent hour.

ATTRACTIONS
Expedition Everest X 2
Dinosaur X 4
Primeval Whirl
Kali River Rapids
It's Tough To Be A Bug
DisneyQuest

INJURIES
* Racked my head on Expedition Everest and it gave me a headache/ neckache for the rest of the day
* The Primeval Whirl ride stopped abrubtly and Annabelle hit her forearm on the bar which made it bruise pretty good right away