Thursday 4 August 2011

Day 8 - safari and soaking

(Hi Mum and Dad - welcome home from holiday - hope that you had a great time, and looking forward to catching up with you when we get back.)

The observant ones amongst you may notice a certain similarity between today's title and yesterday's!

Up slowly today after yesterday's long day and late night at Epcot, and we didn't make it out the door until almost 11am, and we headed just down the road to the Animal Kingdom, which was already pretty busy by the time that we arrived.

We walked in without a clear plan of which attraction to head to first, and noticing that there was an 11.30 Nemo performance, decided that would be as good a place as any to start. The theatre was full, and we only just managed to sneak in with a few minutes to go until showtime.

The show was up to its usual great standards. Jake was the official photographer for the show, and whilst it is difficult to take photos from a fair way back in a dark theatre, he got some great shots.

Bruce
Nemo show
Crush

When we came out of the theatre, it was raining, and this seemed to set a bit of a theme for the rest of the day. So, on the basis that if we were going to get wet we might as well do it properly, we made Kali River Rapids our next stop. Our review of the ride was that it wasn't as good as the Grizzly River Run in California, but you got wetter!

Been on Kali River

Mind you, if we thought that we were wet coming off the ride, we didn't appreciate what was to come. Whilst Nicky and I were in the queue to pick us all up some lunch, the heavens really opened, and after a minute or two, we were soaked to the skin.

Once we'd picked up our food, we managed to shelter in the Flights of Wonder show area whilst we ate and watched the rain come down. After twenty minutes or so it eased off so we crossed continents over to Africa and got in line for the safari. The posted wait time was twenty minutes, but we ended up waiting for about 50 - a rare occassion on which the wait time was underestimated.

Still, safari was fun as always. The elusive lion was on his rock, but he was sleeping on his back, and most of the time as we drove past him, we could just see one of his paws sticking up in the air.

On safari
On safari

We took Owen into the Tough to be a Bug show, and then watched the jungle parade.

Parade time
Donald
Pluto

By this time we were ready for a rest, and so after a quick look around the shops we came back to the hotel and relaxed here for a while.

This evening we've been over to Jambo House for dinner, and sat round the campfire there for a while before coming back over to Kidani and having a go with the night vision binoculars.

Jambo House

Time for bed now. Studios tomorrow.