Animal Kingdom

We kicked off our Disney World trip by sleeping in since we were all exhausted from traveling and such the day before.  It is a catch twenty two though because even though it is nice to sleep in, we also wanted to get up and get going so we could be at the park as long as possible. The kids needed to sleep though so that is more important :)
Thankfully we weren't the only ones who wanted to sleep in, so we went to the animal kingdom with Abbey and Trevor and Lindsay and Brandon.  The rest of the family headed out earlier so us slow polks got ready and went to meet up with them there.
There wasn't a lot of rides at the Animal kingdom for little kids, however there was a lot of cool things to see and do so it ended up  being a lot of fun.

We went on the Safari ride which was really neat because we got to see a ton of animals up close that you don't normally get to see.  There were hippos and Giraffes, lions, antelope, rhinos, and lots of other things that I don't know the names of.  The kids loved it, so we were happy.

There was a petting zoo that we went to wear you had to ride the train to get there, so it took a while and in my opinion was not worth it, but the kids had fun so that is what really matters right? It was fun for them to be able to brush the animals and touch them....even though I was secretly ripping my hair out :)

We adults had some fun too, we got to ride on this really wet ride, I don't remember what is was called, but we got soaked!  It was a nice way to cool off though since it was very hot.
In Dino land, the kids got to go on a couple of rides over and over again, and we also took them to see "Finding Nemo" the musical which they were mesmerized by.

Miss McKenna sure was a brave soul.  She went on Everest with us which was a huge roller coaster that goes backwards and was in the dark. It was so much fun! It was probably one of my favorite rides.  She was scared but said she liked it. It was really nice because she could go on pretty much any ride.  It was fun to be able to take her on all the big fun roller coasters with us.  It was a lot of trading off with kids so we could go on rides, but the first day in Disney land was not too shabby.
We had a lot of fun and the kids were exhausted when we got back to the hotel. They were soo good though and loved spending time with their cousins and aunts and uncles and grandma and grandpa, and I loved being with my family too!