Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Animal Kingdom

On our second day in Disney World we visited Animal Kingdom! The first "ride" we took was the Jungle Safari, which is probably a 20 minute ride through the "jungle" on a jeep to see all the animals! It was pretty cool! :)
Here is one of the rhinos we saw. We saw quite a few, even some white rhinos!

I was excited to see the giraffes! I think they are such cool animals and such pretty colors!

Here are some of the crocodiles! Most of them were sunning, but this one was swimmin' around!

Baby elephant! It was so cute! The mommy wasn't far off, but we got a pretty good look at them!

The thing I was most excited about seeing was the lions...don't ask me why, because the scare me to death...but they are so cool! This was the best look we got, but it was pretty hot outside so we weren't too surprised.

After the safari we walked around the rest of the park and did a few other rides. The kids had fun on this one...though Micah was a little nervous according to Eric. :) We also went on the roller coaster (everest something), but didn't get any pics of it. It was NOT my favorite as it shot you backwards in the dark near the beginning which just made me sick for the rest of the ride. Oh well...

Picture with Pluto! Micah and Joshua were a little scared of him I think! :)

That night we ate at the Rainforest Cafe, which i thought was really cool! The whole place is decorated like a rainforest (complete with thunder storms every 20 min. and lots of animal noises) and had all kinds of animals...fake of course. There were some HUGE fish tanks though that all kinds of tropical fish in them that Micah loved!

Outside the Rainforest Cafe before heading back to our hotel for the night!
Phew, what a day!

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Disney World!

We just got back on Saturday from a 10 day vacation with Eric's family to Florida and the Bahamas! Our first 3 days we spent at Disney World visiting Mickey and Minne! :)

Welcome to Magic Kingdom!

Micah did GREAT (even with his lack of naps and a schedule)! Here he is watching his cousins race cars on the racetrack in magic kingdom!

Micah was able to go on a few of the rides, which was fun! He wasn't sure about  some of them, and got scared in a couple parts but did well overall! The Winnie the Pooh ride was great for kids and there were tons of games and toys to play with through the line! (I think ALL the kids rides should do that because they LOVED it)! Here Micah is playing the pumpkin drums with his cousin Joshua!

This was our first ride of the trip...Dumbo! He actually did really well on this one...and I liked it because the breeze was nice and cool! :)

Waiting for the daily parade to start so we can see all the Disney characters! How big is Micah...SOOO BIG!

We finally get to see Mickey an Minnie Mouse! Micah enjoyed watching all the big floats go by!

So hot and tired! Maybe I'll just take a little snooze here...

Our last evening in Disney World we stayed to see the Electrical parade. It was fun to see everything all lit up!
Of course it started with Mickey, Minne and Goofy!

Peter Pan and Captain Hook! Ahoy!

Pete and his Dragon...

The parade ended with a huge lit up flag and eagle to honor the troops...it was cool!

Micah watched most of the parade wide eyed and captivated but finally succumbed to his sleepiness!
Goodnight, Micah!

We also visited Animal Kingdom but I'll save it for another post...:)