Today was Disney's Animal Kingdom. Em & Maddie had bought Thing 1 and Thing 2 shirts yesterday from Universal's Dr. Suess Park, and decided to go today in matching outfits after their morning modeling shoot:
We met up with Sherri's friend Charlotte and her son Spencer and went through the park with them. Charlotte helped us navigate the park and as a Disney employee, even helped us jump the line to get in through the back door of the Bug's Life show. The Park was about 80% shows and animals with very few big activity rides. Emily was in heaven with the animals. They had a very cool Safari and you wouldn't know you weren't in a jungle. We saw Lions, Giraffe, Hippos, Crocodiles up close. While Cathie and the kids went on the big roller coaster, Emily and I went to their petting zoo, which was pretty lame, but we got to take a train ride to get there. The Maharajah Jungle Trek takes you through an Asian village where you see Komodo Dragons and Tigers in a cool setting. We went to a Lion King show that was pretty amazing as well. Looking at the picture of the kids with their fingers in the monkey nose, you're probably wondering what they have in common? All we can figure out is that they both had the same kindergarten teacher (Sheri's childhood friend Charlotte made this observation):
There was this giant (read 100 feet tall) tree at the center of the park called the Tree of Life. When you looked up close it had all of these intricate carvings of intertwining animals with waterfalls and other things all over. We also were walking down the path and saw this giant moving tree, which turned out to be a Cirque-de-Sole person on tree-stilts, dressed like a tree.
Throughout the park there were animals everywhere. You'd look up and there'd be monkeys climbing over your head. The atmosphere of the whole place was so impressive. As you moved from Africa to Asia, the music, the smells, the villages seemed so real. This baby squirrel found my shoulder and rode around me for part of the day, eating snacks that I fed him:
We got to the park around 9:30 and left around 4:30, making it a pretty complete day. As we left, there was a whole line up of yellow cabs. Emily thought that since all of those people had bought the same color cars, they must have a tough time picking out their own car when the leave.
After the parks, we came back, hung out for a while, hit the pool and then went to dinner. We headed into Disney Downtown and walked around for a while. Once again, the girls were out cold five minutes after we left.
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She may no longer be my best friend after that comment!
The squirrel's tail seems to be covering your very large forearm tattoo.
It's not a permanent tattoo. I got the tattoo at one of the spray on places in the park.
This is the same guy that brought his own water and snacks to the park, flew down on frequent flyer miles and free rental cars and used his in-law's time share.
Do you expect us to beleive that you PAID for a tattoo that wasn't permanant?
Rumor has it that you took Maddie and Emily to Walmart after the park and had them pick out T-Shirts.
Walmart? That's big $$$... We went to one of the 5 T-Shirts for $9.99 shops on the strip.
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