Not so long day!!

Today we were off to Animal Kingdom. This is Mad Cat Lady's favourite park, although she hasn't had the chance to visit much of it when here with her husband and boys. We went on the safari first, and had to stop at one point when a baby giraffe decided to investigate the car a couple ahead of us!! Mad Cat Lady was so jealous that it wasn't our car that got such close up views!! Little Prince totally believed that we were chasing poachers (are they bad guys mummy?) and was very worried about the baby elephant missing his mummy. He was thrilled when we finally rescued the baby elephant.

We visited Camp Minnie Mickey and saw all the 'big cheeses' :-) Little Prince kissed Minnie, Mickey, Donald and Goofy and had a wonderful time cuddling them :-) The queues were really short so he coped well with the short waits and didn't get too upset - no broken shoes today lol.

We watched the Festival of the Lion King, which is one of my all time favourite shows. It was as fantastic as ever :-) Little Prince cuddled his Blankie through the show, as he said it was a bit scary, but afterwards he said the show was great and that he was having a wonderful day :-) We also saw the Finding Nemo Musical and again that was fabulous. Little Prince was worried about Nemo missing his Daddy and said was missing his Daddy lots too.

We happened on the parade route being set up, and as it was only about 15-20 minutes away we got some cold drinks and sat down to wait. Some cast members had hula hoops and were encouraging the children waiting to play with them. Little Prince tried so hard to hula hoop, and with some help from a cast member he was thrilled to manage it :-) Then they set up some hoops on the floor to make a hopscotch. Little Prince "helped" to make the hopscotch more difficult and then jumped all round it, to show everyone how to do it. He also managed to skip with a hoop :-) The parade was fantastic. There were no guests on the opposite side of the parade route, so all the characters turned our way and waved to us :-) One of the animal performers stuck his feathered tongue out to tickle Mad Cat Lady lol. After the parade Little Prince was thrilled to bits to be allowed to help pull up the tape on the floor and then to keep the screwed up balls of tape, which he made into a snowman and is safely in my bag to play with later!!

When Animal Kingdom closed we went over to the Park bus stops and said we would get on the first bus that arrived, to whichever park it went to. We ended up at Magic Kingdom :-) We only had time to ride Buzz Lighyear and visit Cosmic Ray's for tea. We caught part of the Dream Along with Mickey show, the bit where Mickey tells Minnie she has always been a Princess to him. I was joking with Mad Cat Lady that Mr Messy never says anything like that to me. Little Prince was obviously earwigging, as he piped up "Daddy doesn't say you are a Princess, but you're a Princess to me Mummy." He got the HUGEST hug for that :-) What a charming Little Prince :-)

We travelled back to EPCOT by Monorail and for once Little Prince managed to stay awake! He told us a long and convoluted story about Blankie going to the moon, but the moon was too small and his rocket fell off and it just got worse from then on!! My head was spinning and ready to explode by the time we got to EPCOT!! We rushed to our bus stop, as we were once again on the last minute!! We waited for about 1/2 hour and no bus turned up!! Another bus pulled in to the next stop, and the driver came over and asked us what hotel we were going to, when we told him he said he had an empty bus and was going past there, did we want to goon his bus?? Me and Little Prince were ready to jump straight on, but Mad Cat Lady was a lot more cautious. She checked that the shuttle would still be free, and wouldn't let us get on until the rest of the queue had agreed to get on too! I am way too niave and would have just jumped on!! Good job she's here to keep me safe :-)

We are now back at the hotel watching a cr*ppy 70's movie on Hallmark as every other channel has US politics. Little Prince is fast asleep in his ready bed and Mad Cat Lady is snuggled in her bed too. And as per usual I'm blogging!!