The Hunt's: Disney World! Day 3

The third day was Animal Kingdom. Growing up, I only went there once and I don't remember it being super fun, but I wanted to take Jane on the safari for sure, and they also had a Finding Nemo Musical and she loves Finding Nemo....so off we went.

We scheduled a character breakfast with Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Goofy , and Mickey. Again, I definitely recommend character meals. They are a little more expensive (obviously) than a regular meal, but the fact that we got to sit down, be served a meal in air condition, and the characters came to us was fabulous. Jane of course loved all the characters!

Goofy was the best. Jane said he was her favorite (she's never said that before, so I think she made that up) but it made Goofy very happy!

Next we decided to ride the train over to the petting zoo. Jane loved the train, then we ran into Chip and Dale. Jane doesn't have a clue who they are, but she still wanted to meet them!

The petting zoo was ok. We could have skipped it, it was basically just a bunch of goats. We did find Rafiki though and Jane was being VERY energetic at this point and time. She spun Rafiki around a million times. The lady taking a picture actually had to tell her to stop or Rafiki was going to get dizzy and fall.

Then we went to go see the Finding Nemo Musical which was really good. We had a fast pass for that so we got to sit in the very front and also near the stage where the characters came running out. It was the perfect length for little kids too.

Then there wasn't much else for us to do in Animal Kingdom that would catch Jane's attention. Plus, she wasn't behaving. I think she was tired and hot. So we decided to go eat a lunch at the Rainforest Cafe which was amazing for Jane. Not only did she get to eat yummy food, she also got to see all the animals (great distraction). After lunch, we thought about maybe walking around a little more, but it started to rain, so we left. There was really only a few more rides that we could have MAYBE rode, so we didn't miss much.

This was the only time it rained on us and it only rained for about 30 minutes. We thought for sure we were going to be rained on the entire trip because there was a hurricane coming through, but we missed it by one day.

Once again, Jane (and MR. Hunt and I) took a long evening nap, we woke up to eat dinner, took a long night swim, and stayed up way past our bedtime. But it was a blast!

Funny fact: Jane never slept with us before this trip. We tried to have her sleep with us once and she stayed up way past her bedtime and then asked to go to her own bed. I was happy about this because I didn't want to create bad habits, and Im so glad she likes her own bed. BUT for this special occasion we thought we could try again and see how it goes. We did have a suite so we had a separate room that she could have slept in, but we were just going to see what happened. This is why she stayed up super late. We tried to get her to go to bed without us while Mr. Hunt and I watched TV in the living room, but she kept coming out until we came and went to bed with her. SO, since this was the first time we've ever slept with her, we learned some of her sleep habits. One: She doesn't like blankets. All four nights, she slept without them. I always wondered when looking at her in the monitor at home if she was cold (and I always just thought the blanket fell off o her and she didn't know how to put them back on), but turns out she likes that. Two: She sleeps horizontal and likes to kick. I woke up in the middle of the night this night and decided to take a picture. This is Jane with her foot in Dad's head. That is the entire length of the bed, her head was on my chest before I got up. It definitely ant comfortable.