The GA Guinn Trips

Day Three was really exciting for me, because I have never been to Animal Kingdom.  We began with safari breakfast!  One thing about a big party like ours is that we have to pay the 18% gratuity.  I honestly never mind paying for good service.  I am a great tipper, and if the service is great I will tip above the 18%. But I really have an issue with tipping 18% for crappy service, and our service was crappy!  But in the end it was completely worth it, because Alyssa got to see Goofy!  They were in the parade with Mickey and the girls did great! They took their little rattles and marched all around the dining room.    Daisy came by too!  It was a ton of fun! 

Alyssa seeing Goofy for the first time!

The look on Alyssa's face shows her love here (I can't believe she was this excited about Goofy, because last year she was scare to death of him!)

A hug from Daisy

Mickey and the girls!

Alyssa in the parade! 

Makenna with all three of the girls!

Afterwards we headed straight over for the safari ride.  It was a lot of fun (although not as much fun as a real safari!  I could so do another one with Poppa Wallace…(HINT! HINT! HINT! Just kidding, Poppa!).  The girls loved seeing the animals.  Although Poppa did get yelled at by the guide for letting Alyssa stand up, which would NEVER happen on a real safari!  LOL! 

Aunt Jean on the Safari!

After the safari ride, we headed over to the Festival of the Lion King.  The girls LOVED all of this except the Scar song and fire thrower which was a little scary!  What was really cool was the girls were chosen to be in the parade!  They went by themselves around the entire theatre with the characters shaking their rattles!  It was too cute, but I did not get any great pictures of it.  Hopefully, Nana and Aunt Jean did!

In the parade! 

 After the festival, the girls were SO tired they could barely keep their eyes open, so Poppa and I headed back to the room with them.  All three were sound asleep by the time we got to our drop off point. Luckily the bus driver was amazing and we laid two of the girls on the seats of the bus, got the stroller off, and then loaded them back into thestroller.  Poppa went and picked up lunch.  We got the girls changed and they ate a quick lunch and then we all took a long nap! After nap, we headed back to the park. 

We headed back to the African section and the girls spent 30 minutes playing drums.  When we left, they all informed Poppa that they wanted to BIG drum from Africa!  LOL! 

We had another great supper in the African area and then headed over to DINO-LAND.  The girls got to see Plutoand Goofy.  Pluto embarrassed momma by bowing down to her when he saw triplets. I got that a lot from the characters, and it made me blush EVERY SINGLE TIME!!!!!  We rode the dinosaur version of the dumbo (do you see a pattern here). Then we headed to run around the bone yard!  The girls LOVED this area.  But we were all pretty run down at this point, so we headed back to the room to pack and get ready for the last day.  

And then the biggest wildlife encounter of the trip occurred on the way to the treehouse.  Poppa was as usual walking about 10 feet ahead of Nana, Aunt Jean, and myself pushing the girls in the stroller.  All of the suddenhe jumped and ran the stroller off the path. Aunt Jean, Nana, and I started to hassle him about it.  When he announced that there was a snake in the path.  We honestly thought he was joking!  But sure enough as we got closer we saw the little snake moving off the path. Poppa had saw it as he approached, but thought it was one of the fake ones that were all over animal kingdom.  As he rolled the stroller pass, the snake struck at his leg, and the jump off the path was his reaction!  Luckily, he was not touched and the snake went on his way! 

As soon as we got to the treehouse, we bathed the girls,began packing, and told Aunt Jean goodbye, because she was heading out early the next morning!  We then collapsed into bed!