Day 3, Part 2: Exploring Animal Kingdom Lodge

We last left off with us enjoying the club level lounge at Animal Kingdom Lodge after moving over there from the Boardwalk. 

A bit after noon we decided to head downstairs to check out the lobby, and show dad the overlook area. 

We got a ton of pictures of the tree and the gingerbread giraffe and zebra.

The gingerbread giraffe and zebra.

We also swung by the store to browse a bit, but didn’t purchase anything just yet.

Finally, we made our way back out to the overlook and spent some time watching the animals, and dad found a cast member out there to chat with and ask questions, which he really enjoys, we probably could have left him out there asking questions for the rest of the day! 

We then spent some time sitting in the rocking chairs by the firepit just relaxing.  While we were sitting there we were pretty cold, but then suddenly, seemingly miraculously, it suddenly warmed up.  It was so weird, and then a few moments later it got super cold again.  What on earth?

Well, it turns out that every time the doors behind us opened a blast of warm air came out, but once they closed it obviously got cold again.  It took us like 10 minutes to figure out what was happening.  Ha!

After hanging out at the overlook for a while we headed to the pool area to check that out as well.  We loved the pool here the last time we stayed here, and were hoping it would be warm enough this week to take a dip at some point!

We also checked out the flamingos back here.

Anyone remember when they used to have flamingos at Epcot?!? 

Finally around 2pm when our room was still not ready, we decided to just head out to Animal Kingdom. 

We made our way down to the bus stop and got super lucky since a bus arrived about 2 minutes later!

It was a super quick trip to AK, and soon we were getting pictures in front of the tree!

Up Next:  Animal Kingdom Time!