We brought Joel to Animal Kingdom the day after Magic
Kingdom. My plan was just to go to one
park, but Brad convinced me try Animal Kingdom and that Joel would be
fine. Why I let him convince me (when he
wasn’t even with us) I don’t know. Turns
out Joel hated 75% of his day at Animal Kingdom. For starters he was exhausted from being up
to all hours of the night enjoying Magic Kingdom. Followed by not really loving looking at the
animals and most of the rides he was too short to go on. He did love the dinosaur dig park and sand
box and probably would have stayed there all day.
We had a fast pass for the Nemo musical and I
thought Joel would love that because he really likes the movie Nemo. We go in the theater early and got good seats
up toward the stage. All of which was
great until I discovered that the giant puppets and props they used were
freaking Joel out. Joel was trying to run
away and we were in the middle of a row, so that wasn’t going to work. Joel covered his eyes and I squeezed him
tight and kept him in my arms for the whole show.
At one point Joel was so tired and just mad about everything
that we thought going on the African Safari ride to see the animals would make
him happy. Wrong again! He yelled and argued about everything we
said. “Joel look there is a
elephant” He would sit up look around
and yell “That not an elephant” and lay back down. After one attempt I just let him lay there
and pout. Grandma Diane tried a little
harder, but he kept being belligerent.
Not 10 minutes after getting off the ride and getting in the stroller he
was sound asleep, so we decided to leave.
It wasn’t worth staying any longer.
If I go back to Disney I will either skip Animal Kingdom with Joel or
make sure he isn’t tired when we go.
*pictures to come later*
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