Animal Kingdom and Magic Kingdom - Day 6

This was our last full day. :( BOO HOO! We started the day off with breakfast in the Gingerbread house and a carousel ride at GKTW. A lovely way to start the day - delicious belgian waffles with strawberries and cream and a carousel ride. Life doesn't get better than this trip has been!

 We hadn't been to the Animal Kingdom yet, so that's where today's fun was had.  We saw a bunch of birds and ducks on our way to the safari ride.  This ride was super cool.  All the girls loved it. 

 We saw these huge nile crocodiles on our safari.  I'm pretty sure I got goose bumps seeing these monsters sunbathing and walking on the rocks. 

 Whenever we saw an animal Sophie would say, "woah giraffe! (or other animal we were seeing), more giraffe, more giraffe!"  Her favorites were the giraffes, elephants and hippos.  Cicily and Maya also loved the giraffes.

 We went on a nature walk and saw more cool animals.  Here we are in front of a big aquarium.  If you look closely in the tree in the background you can see these cool hanging bird nests.  The birds that built them are a beautiful yellow. 

 Next we went on a train ride to a petting zoo.  Sophie fell asleep in the stroller on our way to the train.  She must have been exhausted, she never falls asleep outside of her bed.  And then she stayed asleep for the train and petting zoo!  Therefore, no pics of the petting zoo.  Cicily liked this little pig that kept coming up to her and of course the goats!  Maya liked brushing the sheep.  Oh, and here we are with Rafiki.

After Animal Kingdom we headed over to Magic Kingdom.  Maya and Soph shared another double stroller. 
Here they are with their cousin Mikey's balloon.  We were pleased that we could participate in this special day and share our love for Mikey.  http://cesarfamily.blogspot.com/

That is where the pictures end for our trip (except for a few more Disney photo pass ones).  Our camera battery ran out of juice - pretty good timing.  We spent most of the day getting videos with our video camera.  So, I'll tell you the rest. 

(Imagine a picture of Maya smiling while driving her own car with Daddy and Sophie as passengers.  And another pic with Cicily smiling while driving her car with Mommy as a passenger.)

This was another thing Cis has been excited about for months.  She really liked driving Dad and then Mom around in her car.  Good thing they let us ride 3 times!  First I went in Maya's car and man is she a crazy driver!!!  Chris will have to take the lead on her driving training in 9 years, I don't have that much patience or bravery.  Then I drove with Cis and she wasn't bad.  She quite appreciated it when I kept saying that she was a much better driver than her big sister!

(Imagine another cute picture in front of Small World with little girls smiling.) 

To end the night we jumped on Small World.  Since there was no line we got to stay on the boat and ride 4 times - making a total of 5 Small World journeys for Cicily's wish trip.  It was the perfect last ride.  It happens to be Cicily's favorite ride of course, and Maya and Sophie's as well.  As you may imagine, Cicily's favorite part is the last room where all the dolls are dressed in white and dancing and singing together.  The angel room as I like to think of it.  Very fitting for my angel girl to love. 

(Imagine a picture of fireworks flashing in the night sky.) 

To send our trip out with a bang, we stayed till closing and enjoyed the fireworks show over the castle.  Well, Maya loved the show, Cicily thought it was sorta cool and Sophie hated it (was exhausted).  So, we left a tiny bit before it was over and made our way to some very last souvenirs on Main Street on our way out of the park.  (Grandma DeEtte would be proud that we left the park 30 mins after it closed, I told Cis.)

Then we caught the ferry boat back to our car.  And I made it to the bathroom just in time to empty my stomach of most of the vacation food I've been eating.  I guess Maya was right on that ice cream for breakfast idea.  I should listen to the good things I've taught my girls I guess!