Animal Kingdom and Downtown Disney

We left for Animal Kingdom at 8:30 this morning – surprisingly, we managed to get 8 adults and 7 children (under 7) out of the house by 8:30, and were walking into the park just after 9.

We all headed straight for the Safari ride. Carrie and her cousins all loved it! After walking around a bit with everyone else we split off so the older kids could go do older kid things and we could do toddler-friendly things. After a quick snack of fruit and the biggest soft pretzel I’ve ever seen, we took a train ride to Rafiki’s wildlife preserve. Carrie met Rafiki (he blew kisses to her, which charmed her thoroughly) and we went to a petting zoo. She had a great time chasing the goats!

Back to the house for lunch and a nice long nap, and then we headed to Downtown Disney for dinner at the Rainforest Cafe and some serious lego shopping. We heart the Lego store, where we got Carrie duplo-sized people and animals. Up to now we’d only had regular old blocks, now we have a full-blown farm to play with!