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December 2005, our official radp Animal Kingdom day.
Deb Wills (of all ears.net/wdwig) usually starts this day off with her annual Kilamanjaro Safari meet. We had just about enough for one or so safari jeeps. After having dragged our butts around MK the previous night for Mickey's Very Merry Christmas shindig.. we were running late to the Safari meet. We missed being in the meet photo, but as is the running gag ever since the great Meet Photo mishap of the previous year (which we didn't attend as Meeko was working through the holiday at DLR) 'we'll just photoshop you in later!" said Jack. =)
Silver-backed Gorilla =)
DeVine..
animal kingdom lodge
Photos in & Around the AKL lobby:
Deb Wills (of all ears.net/wdwig) usually starts this day off with her annual Kilamanjaro Safari meet. We had just about enough for one or so safari jeeps. After having dragged our butts around MK the previous night for Mickey's Very Merry Christmas shindig.. we were running late to the Safari meet. We missed being in the meet photo, but as is the running gag ever since the great Meet Photo mishap of the previous year (which we didn't attend as Meeko was working through the holiday at DLR) 'we'll just photoshop you in later!" said Jack. =)
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Sean did the video-taping for the
Safari, and somhow meeko, who wasn't supposed to ride the attraction
ended up on it anyway. We've ridden it many times before so
suffice to say we have some good pictures somewhere (and would have
some later as well). But let me just say if you aren't supposed to ride
the safari, you listen to the warnings and KNOW they are talking to
YOU, then do not ride them. No one wants a whiny meeko on their Safari,
especially when they're having fun and you aren't. thank you and please
don't lean out of the vehicle. So after that I stayed off the bumpy
rides for the most part. Also we walked a lot at AK, so I really was
feeling it the next day.
So once we got off the attraction, we needed to move on to Kali River Rapids, but not before seeing this familiar fellow:
So once we got off the attraction, we needed to move on to Kali River Rapids, but not before seeing this familiar fellow:
Silver-backed Gorilla =)
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Kali RIver Rapids!
Some of our AK day meet
friends as we head to Kali River Rapids!
from left: John & Charlotte in matching Tigger hoodies, Mike & Jan,
Jack, Marta (in yellow raincoat) SeanYoda, Bruce, Beth & her guy following behind her.
Kali RIver Rapids
Heading over to Kali we realized there were more of us watching than actually riding, so I'm sure besides our photos, there are many out there that are just as good if not better of MIckeyMom & her family as well, the Cherry family..
here's the ones we took of the meet:
Sean & his pretzel.. yummy huge thing but alas it was gone for the most part.. so he's left holding the mustard packet. =)
After a while we headed out to do some shopping with enough time left that we wouldn't be late for our early BOMA dinner at Animal Kingdom Lodge. As we were heading out the turnstyles of the gate and to our bus, we ran into a VERY familiar face.. =)
he's everywhere! he's everywhere! (and on his day off too!)
Sean & Pamela enjoyed their own chartered bus back to their resort from Animal Kingdom (joking!) but it's rare to get a bus all to yourself. This would not be the case the night before coming back from the Christmas party.. or later the next week. =)
After the bus ride back to Pop Century, we took care of visiting the
three Disney oulets in Orlando. The Prime
Outlet Mall (formerly known as Belz Outlet Mall) near Universal,
houses Disney's Character Warehouse in one mall building and Disney's
Character Premier. Both stores sell a lot of the same
merchandise, but sometimes you'll find an item in one store that's not
at the other. We ended up getting a pair of $4 sunglasses for
Pamela, some pins, some scrapbooking stuff, and a few other
souvineers. Our next stop was the Orlando
Premium Outlets which is next to the Mary, Queen of
the Universe church across I-4 from the Crossroads at Lake Buena
Vista. This mall houses both a Disney's Character Premiere outlet
and a Universal Orlando outlet. Neither store had anything we
wanted to purchase, so we drove back to Pop Century to get ready for
dinner.
from left: John & Charlotte in matching Tigger hoodies, Mike & Jan,
Jack, Marta (in yellow raincoat) SeanYoda, Bruce, Beth & her guy following behind her.
Kali RIver Rapids
Heading over to Kali we realized there were more of us watching than actually riding, so I'm sure besides our photos, there are many out there that are just as good if not better of MIckeyMom & her family as well, the Cherry family..
here's the ones we took of the meet:
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Sean & his pretzel.. yummy huge thing but alas it was gone for the most part.. so he's left holding the mustard packet. =)
After a while we headed out to do some shopping with enough time left that we wouldn't be late for our early BOMA dinner at Animal Kingdom Lodge. As we were heading out the turnstyles of the gate and to our bus, we ran into a VERY familiar face.. =)
he's everywhere! he's everywhere! (and on his day off too!)
Sean & Pamela enjoyed their own chartered bus back to their resort from Animal Kingdom (joking!) but it's rare to get a bus all to yourself. This would not be the case the night before coming back from the Christmas party.. or later the next week. =)
animal kingdom lodge
Photos in & Around the AKL lobby:
