The Promise of Spring: Flower & Garden Festival 4.0 -- A Cam and Luke TR COMPLETED 8/27 - Page 55 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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What awesome photo's, you had another great safari. I love the gorilla's its one of my favorite animals, well next to tiger's.
I was a little sad that we didn't see the tigers at all during this trip, but they were backstage for breeding. What excites me now is that there will be a baby tiger very soon!
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Great pictures from the safari and of the gorillas!
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All the pictures are great. I do like the giraffe ones the best. You were lucky to get them in groups. Great ride many animals to photo!
I was a little sad that we didn't see the tigers at all during this trip, but they were backstage for breeding. What excites me now is that there will be a baby tiger very soon!
BABY TIGER??? Oh, wow - I had no idea this was being planned! I hope there is one for our trip next year!
Sorry to harp on about the Caring for Giants tour again, but having read your report of it, I've just booked it for our October trip. We are having a non-park day mostly, just doing a pool/shopping day, but now we will be going to Animal Kingdom for the tour at 4 p.m.
Anyway, lovely photos from the Animal Kingdom, this really is a very close second to my favourite park (which is Epcot, but only by a very small margin!). Thanks for all your work so far, really enjoying the report!
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Oh my goodness! That pic of the mom gorilla with her feet up! I love it!
You were able to snag some really great photos, especially of the giraffes.
I totally sympathized with momma gorilla as it was another hot, humid Florida day.
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BABY TIGER??? Oh, wow - I had no idea this was being planned! I hope there is one for our trip next year!
Sorry to harp on about the Caring for Giants tour again, but having read your report of it, I've just booked it for our October trip. We are having a non-park day mostly, just doing a pool/shopping day, but now we will be going to Animal Kingdom for the tour at 4 p.m.
Anyway, lovely photos from the Animal Kingdom, this really is a very close second to my favourite park (which is Epcot, but only by a very small margin!). Thanks for all your work so far, really enjoying the report!
I think the female Sumatran tiger is expected to deliver in the next month, but that might be too soon for it to be out for your October trip. The baby would be a toddler by next year though.
Congrats on booking the Caring for Giants tour! I'll be interested to hear how the late afternoon tour is since we took the first one in the morning.
Once we’d left the gorillas, we walked through Africa and then headed toward Asia via the trail across from Tusker House. The Tree of Life here was calling out for a photo.
We were on our way to the last of our three original FastPasses, Finding Nemo: The Musical. We entered a nearly empty line and joined the a few other families waiting at this time on the ledge of a wall around the theater. The area gradually filled up with most of us sitting in the shade. At some point a Cast Member came out and asked us all to move forward, which I could understand as I remembered from our previous AK day how congested the area out front can get when a show is loading and another is unloading the theater. But it was another intensely hot day, and now we early birds were standing in the sun, baking. The family in the very front of the line kept nosing around the doors, and eventually one of the kids opened it. Not smart! That brought out an irritated Cast Member who then seemed to get revenge by making all of us wait even longer. Heat does make people act crazy. Finally, another CM came out and allowed the FastPass line to queue inside. We took seats in the front section to the left side of the walkway portion of the stage. Great view from these seats! It took a while before the rest of the theater filled up with those from the standby line, but we were enjoying sitting down in the air conditioning. That definitely had become a theme of this trip, seeking opportunities to rest in the A/C. Because of our seats, I was able to get some pretty good photos of the show. So kick back and enjoy Finding Nemo: The Musical.
See how close we were! The photo above is without any zoom.
When the show was over, we took our time exiting the theater. No need to rush back out into the heat, right? I asked Luke if he’d like me to get FastPasses for Expedition Everest. Of course, he did. So while we walked I worked on my phone using the DME app, getting two FastPasses for EE. Luke would be using both as I no longer ride this one.
Ride One
Ride Two
From Everest we stopped at the Anandapur Bus for some ice cream. I had a chocolate cone while Luke had a swirl cone. We also got a lemonade to share. While we were licking our cones as quickly as possible, we came to the Siamang ape enclosure. They were again out and active, but because of the ice cream cone, I only managed one photo.
It was now going on 4:00 PM, and the heat had again finished us off. We decided to head back to the resort for some downtime, especially as tonight’s dinner would be right in our resort. Nothing to do but walk down to the elevators and down to the first floor.
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Finally, another CM came out and allowed the FastPass line to queue inside. We took seats in the front section to the left side of the walkway portion of the stage. Great view from these seats! It took a while before the rest of the theater filled up with those from the standby line, but we were enjoying sitting down in the air conditioning. That definitely had become a theme of this trip, seeking opportunities to rest in the A/C. 
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