Thanks Julie. Its keeping me motivated having the walking group. I was to do 6K today so I walked to and from work. Thats actually 6 miles but I'm an overachiever.
Not sure if I would have if I didn't feel the group would be doing the same thing in their spare time. It was pretty tempting this morning when I got offered a ride home this morning after working 12 hours but I declined. I'm sure my co-workers think I'm insane.
Tomorrow I do hill training with my group and I intend to work in the garden all day before that. The wedding is looming up on me and I want my garden to look fantastic. Little garden pride issue happening.
Back to Animal Kingdom. I'de never been before-the only park I've never seen. I loved it! Everest rocks and so does the Lion King show. We arrived in time for the rope drop. The family beside us got picked for opening the park. We had talked to them before this happened and they had already done this before. They had two cute blonde children. We said we needed a couple of cute kids to borrow. Amazingly parents kept offering their kids up.
We talked to so many strangers on our trip and with the crowds so low we would keep running into them. One family yelled out "Hey Canada" whenever we saw them.
Our plan was to spend the morning at AK, the afternoon at Blizzard Beach and then EMH at AK. Didn't happen. lol. We could not seem to leave the AK park. I was glad we stayed because the parade was awesome. I had purchased "Magic" in the form of Disney purses to give out to crying little girls we saw crying from being too tired. I had meant to go back to the Dollar Store to get something for boys but ran out of time. We had one for each day in the park. We saw this little 4 year waiting for parade who was crying so Kim gave her a little purse. It worked and she stopped crying but she was too shy to say thank you as her parents wanted her too. We had told the parents we didn't need a thank you, we were just glad it made her time happier and we walked on further into the parade line. Then the dad and little girl came up about half way through the parade and the little girl came up to Kim and in Spanish said the nicest thank you. She was so sweet.
The theming at AK really appealed to me. I could have stared at the Tree of Life for hours. I kept discovering more animals. My 20 year companions weren't into quiet contemplation. Though Erin with her mega blisters should have considered sitting. We ended up visiting the first aid station for more bandaids. She ended up with a blood blister on top of normal blisters. Poor girl. I found AK of all the parks was doable in one day which I liked. We really felt we had seen and done everything. Though I never found "Devine". I did find Wes Palm and PIpa. I would love to have gone back and spent more time enjoying each area. We did get to see the baby Spoonbills.
Animal Kingdom became my favourite Park after Magic Kingdom. MK has the magic I feel. AK is beautiful. A Bugs Life is a hoot. Though there were some traumatized children in there that may need extensive therapy in later life.
Kilamajari Safari was fantastic. We went first thing in the morning and saw a lot of animals. I did find it alot of walking and a bit hot. But having read on the Disboards I was prepared for that. I was glad we did it on the first day as it got progressivelly hotter each day. They were calling for rain and thunderstorms every day we were there. I think it rained twice at night late during the nine days. Otherwise it was beautiful.
We left the Festival of the Lion King until last and what a great way to end a day!
We got home and swam in the pool and checked out the hot tub. Next day...Epcot.