Disney World, Day 6 - Animal Kingdom

On Wednesday, we took a bus over to Animal Kingdom. Our first priority was to check out the two new rides in the new Pandora, World of Avatar. The first was a leisurely boat ride through Pandora at night and the second was a ride on the back of a banshee. Only Chris, Melanie, and myself were able to/wanted to ride the second one and it absolutely blew us away!

floating islands of Pandora

Our next ride was a safari through the African savanna (or as Savannah likes to say "A ride through me!"). We saw lots of animals! After that, Chris and Adam rode Expedition Everest while the rest of us saw an awesome Festival of the Lion King show.

Chris and Adam on Everest

Safari 

After we ate our packed lunch, we spent awhile in the Boneyard which is a dinosaur themed play area and dig site. They could have spent hours there. We stopped by the It's Tough to Be a Bug show (which was too scary for Camden and Savannah just like it was last time) before heading back.

lunch break

bus ride

That evening, after dinner in the room, we went back to the Magic Kingdom with the older three kids to ride a couple rides and watch the Happily Ever After fireworks show. In addition to fireworks, images are displayed on the castle and it was so cool. We learned some valuable lessons about getting a seat closer to the front and not buying ice cream right before the show starts (it was a melty mess). We ended up watching the show again later in the week with Camden and Cece from our hotel room balcony.

riding Winnie the Pooh

the kids used their money to buy bubble wands

 These are two photos of the show photographed by Disney not me!