Animal Kingdom at Disney World

Syd really liked the Animal Kingdom park at Disney as well. This park is divided into six sections: DinoLand USA, Asia (where the biggest roller coaster is - it goes through Mt. Everest), Rafiki's Planet Watch, Africa, Camp-Minnie-Mickey, and Discovery Island (where you can see the Tree of Life). At the start of the park is a section called the Oasis. We visited Animal Kingdom on the first full day we were at Disney. This was Monday, the 17th. It was really cold (at least for Florida). The high that day was 45 degrees and it was windy. Needless to say we weren't really prepared for that kind of weather so we had to buy some essentials at the park. Fortunately, we had packed some long pants and sweatshirts for Syd so, after buying her a Mickey Mouse hat and gloves and a Disney hockey jersey she was warm enough. Dad and Mom wore shorts and sweatshirts and weren't quite as warm, but Dad also bought a Mickey hat to try and keep warm. It wasn't your typical Florida day, but we had fun anyway as you can see from the pictures below.

We saw a lot of really cool stuff at the Animal Kingdom. Syd's favorite section was DinoLand USA where the Dino-Rama had an amusement park for kids, a huge play area, and a Boneyard Dig Site.



In the Dino-Rama area we rode the Triceratop Spin, which is basically just like Dumbo, but with dinosaurs. and a few other little rides.



Then we played for a long time in the huge play area.







Then Syd and Dad worked in the Boneyard Dig Site.



We also all got tattos while at the Animal Kingdom. As you can see Syd got one related to High School Musical... "Getcha Head in the Game".



We also went to see "Finding Nemo - The Musical," which we really enjoyed. Even Dad thought it was a great show. It was very much in the tradition of the Lion King musical (if you have seen any part of that) with people carrying large characters above their heads. And the show is basically the movie, but abbreviated and turned into a musical. It was really good. Syd loved it.





We caught the parade as well. We were on a quest all week to get our picture taken with Donald Duck and never did get the chance, so this is the closest we got to him.



And we ended our time at the Animal Kingdom eating at a Chinese restaurant in Asia called the Yak & Yeti.



We also rode on a ride called Dino-Sue, which we thought would be too scary for Syd, but she loved it. We're so happy to find she loves the thrill rides. Cedar Point here we come.

The Animal Kingdom also has the Kilimanjaro Safari where you go through the Afica section in a truck and see actual wild animals roaming. We didn't have time to get to this in our day at the park, but plan on doing it next time and have been told that it is great.