We had fast passes reserved this morning at AK, with the first one at Everest in a 9.15 - 10.15 time slot.
We left the hotel room at 9.30.
Impressively, we made it to the fast pass ride entrance still with ten minutes to spare. Not bad - front door to ride entrance in 35 minutes. The ride was great fun. As always, I expect that it was coaster-fiend Owen who enjoyed it the most, and truth be told, now that she's been on it, I'm not entirely sure that Nicky will be rushing to repeat the experience - don't think heading backwards at speed on a roller coaster in the dark was thought to be a particularly good idea.
Due to being rather towards the end of our time slot for Everest, our next fast pass was available straight away, and so other than stopping for a cold drink to calm the nerves, it was straight over to Harambe and onto the safari. The animals were out in numbers despite the heat, and I was particularly pleased with a few of the photos that I got, although having said, that, now that I look at them on a big screen, you can tell on some of them that they were taken from a moving vehicle travelling across some rough terrain! Here's a giraffe picture I am particularly pleased with.
After the safari, we took a stroll through the Pangani Forest trail. Jake took charge of the camera for this, and also got some great photos.
By now it really was getting warm, so we decided we deserved an ice cream, so it was Mickey ice cream cookie sandwiches all round. This did a good, if temporary job of cooling us down, but we had a cunning plan for cooling down for a bit longer. Stowing anything that might get upset if it got wet (phones, cameras, keys etc) in a locker, we used our third fast pass of the day and got ourselves properly soaked on the Kali River Rapids.
After that, we headed out of the park and back to the hotel, where the boys have been in the pool, and Nicky and I have been lounging around it reading our books. The plan had been for the boys to go out on the water racers, but today's storm started coming in, so we will have to add that to the (long) list entitled 'things to do when we are back from our trip to Vero'.
Not entirely sure what the plans are for the rest of today. I think the boys are contemplating a trip to Downtown, but we'll have to see what everyone fancies. Right now we're all enjoying relaxing 'at home'.
Here are a few photos from the last couple of days to catch up.
