The Traffords: Day 3 - 30 August 2016

Animal Kingdom

Today saw our first trip into the World of Walt Disney, in this case Animal Kingdom. Jodie (assisted by TomTom) from this point onwards was and is in charge of navigation and for once we managed to get somewhere (and nearly back) without missing or taking the wrong turn.

The American road system still continues to be a source of wonderment, they seem to have times where its ok to go on red, other times when its green random traffic pops across the path deemed as your time to go plus they have crossroads where everyone stops and no ones seems to have any idea who goes first!

Anyway first stop (aside from the restrooms of course) was 'Africa' where we all enjoyed the Kilimanjaro Safari complete with a dodgy bridge, Lions, Elephants, Giraffes, Hippos, Rhinos, Zebra's and other wild animal and birds. Half way around they make the bridge pretend to collapse as the truck goes over, the lady behind us (a fellow Brit) actually thought it was real and her reaction (words of which are unrepeatable here!) was even funnier than the trick itself.

We finished in good time to go to one of the festival of the Lion King shows, which was excellent.

Lion King show finale

Then it was on to the Gorilla falls exploration trail where we saw some gorillas up close and personal and extremely captivating. We watched them for a while as they did us! The highlight had to be seeing one of the baby gorillas, Jodie was in charge of a camera and got some amazing footage.

If I just nip round here do you think the Silver back will notice?

Cute junior

Hmmmm - what's junior up to now...

I've got my eye on you

A quick (as in length of time as opposed to speed) train journey to Rafiki's planet watch to see the petting animals including a Bearded Dragon, a quick pose with Chip & Dale for the girls and then off to the Kai rapids which were a little disappointing and Expedition Everest rollercoaster which only Jenny and Trudy braved. The thing with this ride is that you can't see where it goes and so until you get on it you have no idea what is in store............ There were a few unexpected happenings so probably a good thing otherwise Trudy may well have chickened out!! Simon of course would have gone on but he didn't want to leave Jodie on her own......................righto ;)