WDW Day 3: Animal Kingdom

We spent our third day in Animal Kingdom. It was cloudy and 80, but felt a little humid. This park definitely felt more crowded, but only because the walkways aren't as wide as in other parks. Even though it felt more crowded, everything was still manageable and fun.

We started the day with the safari ride and saw lots of cool animals. Elina was excited to see real wildebeest since we had just watched "The Lion King" again recently. We spent a lot of time in Dinoland because it's setup like a carnival. So Elina got on some rides and played carnival games. Of course, if you play carnival games, you have to win some stuffed animals. Elina was so proud of herself for winning 2 (although we were less than thrilled to add more stuffed animals to our home)!

Here are our faves/least faves:

ELINA
Fave: Face painting. As many of you know, Elina didn't get her face painted until recently. In Disney, the face painting is more elaborate (also more expensive), so I was hoping Elina would want to get it done while we were there. Luckily, she was excited and ready to get her face painted! She picked this butterfly face and it turned out beautifully. (Even J wanted her face painted, so she got a Tinkerbell face.)


Least fave: Tummy ache. Elina had a little tummy ache before lunchtime so she was acting sad and whiny for awhile.
US
Faves: (1) Festival of the Lion King. This was an amazing show featuring all the songs from "The Lion King" with singers, dancers, acrobats, and floats. It was so entertaining...we were all tapping our feet and clapping our hands. I think it was the best show we saw the entire time! (2) Standing in short lines to see Daisy Duck. We managed to run out of the Festival of the Lion King in time to see Daisy right away. We were so excited to see her because Elina really likes her and because she was the last of the Mickey group that we needed to see.
Least Fave: Elina's tummy ache.

The one thing that was amazing this day was that Eli fell asleep in a motionless stroller for almost 90 minutes. This is unheard of with my kids. They usually only sleep in moving vehicles and they can only keep sleeping if the vehicle maintains movement. Eli always opens his eyes the minute the car is parked. It's so annoying. Eli also always manages to wake up after one sleep cycle, about 30 minutes. I guess Eli was getting too tired to care about where he slept.

So here is a nice montage of Uncle C moments while we were at Animal Kingdom. We miss you, C!!
Tomorrow...The first day of Magic Kingdom!