Day 3, Part 3: Animal Kingdom Time!

We last left off heading into Animal Kingdom!

Of course we took pictures on the way in!

After getting pictures on the bridge heading from the Oasis into the park, I noticed that the Merry Menagerie was about to come out!  What amazing timing!  We really wanted to see them!

They were so awesome, we loved them, especially the polar bears. 

We spent some time interacting with them, before heading to the shops to see if there was anything we wanted to pick up.  I did end up getting the Merry Menagerie ornament, and then got the Merry Menagerie shirts for both myself and my mom. 

After shopping we stopped for some pictures in front of the Tree of Life!

Once we had our fill of pictures, it was into our time for the Safari, so we headed back that way. 

It was a nice ride, but there weren’t many animals out this time around.  Oh well.

Next we headed over to Pandora.  On the way in, we stopped for pictures in front of the Merry Menagerie mural and were getting pictures, when a couple saw us and offered to get pictures of us together!  Thanks awesome couple!  (we returned the favor of course)

After getting the pictures we made our way into Pandora, which was completely new to my dad!  He was in awe of that land, he thought it was so cool!

We headed over to our other prebooked DAS for Navi.

This is not one of my favorite rides, but dad enjoyed it, and he was very impressed with the animatronic at the end!

Once off Navi, we had a choice, we could either ride Flight of Passage (FoP) with the Individual Lightning Lane (ILL) I had booked earlier, or we could go ride Expedition Everest. 

We decided to head to Expedition Everest, even though it meant running back and forth across the park, but mom really didn’t want to ride Everest after dinner, so it just made sense to ride it then.

Dad decided not to ride this, last time he was here he thought it was too rough, so we left him at the overlook to wait while mom and I rode.  Of course, dad being dad, by the time we got off the ride, my dad had found a new best friend and wanted to keep talking and not head to our ILL for FoP! 

Finally we did drag my dad away, and we headed back across the park for our ILL for FoP! 

Dad LOVED it, he thought it was amazing, although he admitted he still thought Soarin is the best ride in WDW! 

Next up:  Dinner at Tiffins!