Disney Day Five - Breakfast in Africa

Thursday morning began early because we had breakfast reservations at Animal Kingdom. This was a brand new breakfast they opened in November so we were excited to try it out for the first time. It was a tremendous improvement over the last AK breakfast. Tons and tons of food that Max would actually eat as well as traditional African dishes that none of us were too crazy about. The characters at this breakfast were Mickey, Goofy, Donald, and Daisy (rare). Max loves Donald duck because "he is a little boy" like him.

We left breakfast and waited for the ropes to drop for the rest of the park. We grabbed a fastpass for the safari and Hiram headed over to Everest (his fav) while Max and I leisurely strolled from Africa toward Asia stopping to play drums and to look at the tree of life from our secret spot.

We met back up with Daddy to switch off so Mommy could go ride Everest, then we headed back to Africa to make our Safari time. It is always hit or miss on the Safari sometimes the animals are everywhere and sometimes you hardly see any. This was the best Safari we have ever had. There were tons of animals out and they were very close to the road. After leaving the Safari Max insisted on walking the character paths.

Once we were done with the paths Max and Mommy headed over to watch the Flights of Wonder show while Daddy went back to Everest. This show was amazing. It featured various birds doing tricks and the two highlights were when they brought out the Bald Eagle and also when a hawk swooped over Max's head (cleared about 2 inches). Max thought that was great and shouted he tickled me. We left the show and headed to the Kali River Rapids. Max and I had ponchos to wear so we wouldn't get too soaked. Since there was no wait we got to stay in our boat and ride it again. This might not have been the best decision because we all ended up pretty wet after that second ride. We had to buy a towel and take Max's pants off and wrap him up. We stopped for lunch and Daddy used the hand dryer to dry out Max's pants. On our way out of the park the Village Beatniks were performing and asked Max to join in. So here is our little almost dry rock star jamming with the band. He was hilarious everyone else just stood there and shook their bells but not Max. He really gets into the performance and was even doing a little Michael Jackson grabbing action. We headed back to our hotel to rest for our upcoming Christmas Party.