We wake up to the most beautiful sight out of our window. We have an excellent breakfast at Boma "Dine under thatched roofs at this buffet-style restaurant and try African food inspired by the culinary culture of more than 50 countries." in our hotel.
Being a bit more savvy as to how things worked, we decided to spend the day at the Animal Kingdom park. The fun part about this park is that it's located a few minutes from our hotel, and the buses are more frequent. The park is beautiful, is divided in 5-6 sections such as Africa, Asia, Dinoland, Discovery Island and some smaller ones. Once we pass admission, we are greeted by the Tree of Life on Discovery Island, in the middle of the park.
Our first "ride" is the Safari in the African section
We embark on this real old truck that takes us through the Savanah where we are a breath away from the most beautiful animals. It's a good fifteen minutes and is about the time we have to wait to get on it.
The ride is fantastic. We then go to Dinoland to try to get on the Dinosaur ride. Sabrina has been studying dinosaurs at school and she's in her element, explaining this and that, and teaching us things I didn't even know. We learn how to use the fastpass system at the Dinosaur ride (which is terrifying, btw).
We go to the Asia part to go in the "Kali River Rapid" ride, a super Pitoune, where Sabrina and I get completely wet. We all loved that ride. A few pictures on the other side of the lake separating Dinoland from Asia:
I'm not mentioning the "It's tough to be a bug" ride, where every kid cries in fear. In Dinoland there's this amazing kids park disguised as a bone dig site. Mathieu and Sabrina spend a good half hour in there, running. It's the warmest day of the week, but they're having fun
We're about to leave when we see that a parade is just about to start, so we find a great spot and watch it. It's great.
Finally we go back to the hotel to enjoy the pool. It's great for the kids as there is a beach side where the water goes down gradually. This gives Mathieu the confidence he needs to learn how to swim. The pool is big, very big, but it is never deeper then about 4 feet, so it's great.
When we come back to our room, we have a beautiful giraffe outside our window.
We have dinner at the hotel's cafeteria, a favorite for the kids as it's non-formal and it has a TV showing old Disney cartoons, to which they laugh out loud. Since it's on our meal plan, we like it too, even if the food is not up to par to the other restaurants. But since it cost $100 everytime we sit down for either breakfast, lunch or dinner, it feels good to not spend. A great day.
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