Animal Kingdom

After looking at all of our pictures of Animal Kingdom and for the sake of our blog book, I am spreading out our day at Animal Kingdom into a couple of posts. After our day at Epcot I could have gone home and said, "It was worth every penny," but then came Animal Kingdom. What a BLAST! There weren't huge crowds or lines at Animal Kingdom. We had so many favorite things here that we couldn't pick what we liked the best, so here is the start of it.

As we walked up to the Tree of Life, I felt like we were in another country or world for that matter. It is so colorful and vibrant. I don't know how they do all of this, but those folks at Disney really know how to "WOW" you!
Another picture that Karsyn took. Kaydree had her own camera, so of course Karsyn wanted opportunities to take pictures, too!
The girls inside the Tree of Life. Kaydree asked us, "So is this like the Tree of Life in the scriptures?" I could see the look of confusion on her face. We explained to her...that they are two very different trees. ;-)
Don't you love our 3D glasses? Karsyn has a habit of wearing glasses upside down. She has been this way from day one of wearing sunglasses, so naturally she put them on upside down and Kaydree just laughed and laughed!

After some persuasion Kaydree got Karsyn to switch them.

It was really neat waiting inside the Tree of Life for the, It's tough to be a bug, show. So many people told us to do this show, I couldn't remember some of the names so I kept calling Lori and Emily to tell us again where to go. Emily said, "you have to do the Bug's Life Movie!" It was so fun. It's a 3D show where the bugs throw things at you and it puffs wind at you, so you feel like they are hitting you. You find yourself ducking and moving out of the way. Or if you're Kaydree you start screaming when they spit at you and you actually get wet. Or if your Karsyn and the bugs run under your seat and sting you in the back, you think they are really there! It was so cool. It was dark in there but I kept hearing Benjy laugh. When we walked out, all I kept hearing was, "that was so cool!"
I thought Benjy looked bug eyed here!

We went to Dinosaur Land and the girls were a little nervous with all of the real looking Dinosaurs. They did have some cartoon looking ones so they jumped into the car!

Yeah.....uh....we were warned that the dinosaur roller coaster was a little scary. We told Karsyn to just close her eyes. Most of the bigger rides you needed to be 40 inches and Karsyn just barely made it. After this picture we went on the ride and Karsyn forgot to close her eyes and she cried through most of it. Benjy, Kaydree and I were so overwhelmed with how real it felt that we just screamed and laughed and screamed and laughed. Karsyn was so mad at us when we got off but we were so mean we were laughing so hard at how scary it really was that she probably didn't get much support from us. The funny thing is....later we asked what did you like the most at Animal Kingdom and Karsyn actually said the Dinosaur Ride. What?????