Bring On the New: Days 5 & 6: Magic/Animal Kingdom

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Days 5 & 6: Magic/Animal Kingdom

Days 1 & 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5 we went back to Magic Kingdom, but because we’d already been there, we went a little late and left a little early. We still had time for:

And

I particularly enjoyed this because of my Arthur class this summer!

And a visit to Belle’s castle where everyone (including Daddy) played a role in telling the story:

For dinner, we visited the Polynesian, where the kids did coconut races:

And we ended the evening at the giant pool before an early bedtime.

Day 6, we headed to our last Disney Park, Animal Kingdom. The boys were especially excited about this one because of a VERY popular ride...so popular, in fact, that this was the line in front of them:

And this is the line behind them:

YIKES. The great part of this was that the rest of the park was completely empty, so Sister and viewed the animal exhibits and rode the flying dinosaur ride four times in a row!

After we hooked back up with the boys, we found out that Brother made a really awesome pin trade:

Pin trading is something I read about a week before we left. Official Disney pins can be traded, both by cast members and guests, so before we left, I ordered a handful of pins and lanyards so the kids could trade. This was great fun all week, but this pin was the icing on Brother’s cake!

We went on a safari on a giant open-air truck, which was really cool, and then saw a bird show:

But the highlight of the day was DEFINITELY the Lion King show. Husband and I had seen it more than a decade ago when we went to Disneyland in Hong Kong, and we loved it so much we went twice. If we hadn’t been at the last showing I would have insisted on a repeat viewing this time, too. It was EXCELLENT.