Animal Kingdom

On Tuesday,  we headed to Animal Kingdom.  The weather took a turn and it got really cold, really fast.  You can always tell when it gets below about 50 degrees because Rich will have on pants and/or long sleeves (sometimes anyway).  And the boys were bundled up in 3 layers of shirts and sweaters and then vests and jackets on top of that.

There are the Huey, Duey, and Louie statues that are in one of the hotel courtyards.  Tyler didn't really want to go near them last time, but was a little more adventurous this time.  He is funny like that. He wants nothing to do with the characters at Disney, but he will go on any and every ride without a moment of hesitation.   Jack had fun with the life-size ducks also.

Tyler sticking his head inside of the jaws of a hippo.

Looking through a "tell-scope"

This is on the animal safari ride.  Tyler is funny when he sees a big animal like a crocodile he will wave his hand and say "shoo, shoo".  I just hope that if he even happens upon one in real life, he doesn't do that and expect it to go away!

Look closely at Tyler's face in this picture.  It is classic.  Typical 3 year old meltdown when we make him do something he doesn't want to do.  Can you see this Nicole?  I will try to get it on video next time for you. ;)

Can you guess what is going to happen next....

This was funny.  They had a trash can that moved around and talked. Tyler wanted to go see it because I think he thought it was like "Wall-E".  But he went up to it and it started talking to him and following him and freaked him out.  He did not like it, but we thought it was pretty funny. 

They also had an animal petting area.  Tyler loved it, but Jack is not too sure yet what to think.

And, of course, we had to play the drums.

They have an area in Dinoland that has little overpriced carnival type games.  So we let Tyler play one and even though he didn't win, he had fun.

This is the play area at Dinoland. They have a huge slides and climbing areas and imitation fossils in the rocks.  Jack had fun standing up and holding on and walking around them.

Over the dinosaur bridge is the fossil dig.  Last time we were here, Jackson didn't want anything to do with the little pebbles that covered the bones.  He wouldn't even put his feet down for a while!  He did much better this time and enjoyed playing in it a little more.

Especially helping Daddy cover up Tyler!  I went to change Tyler's diaper after this and when I went to lay him down,  tons of pebbles poured out of his coat pockets!

Animal Kingdom is the first of the parks to close because they take the animals in at night.  The last thing that we did was watch the Nemo musical.  Jackson made it through about the first 5 minutes and Tyler made through about the first half.   Poor little guys!  They were pooped out!