Disney World-2

It's a battle at the laundromat today, hence the separate blog entries.  I didn't want to risk losing an entry so I just did two instead.  Between them, I raced to grab the dryer that needs no coins, barely edging out a guy headed for the same one.  When he saw I had him beat, he just pulled up and smiled at me, realizing that I was a veteran of the washer wars and not to be messed with.  "Skill, finesse and cunning," as we used to say in pilot training, wins every time!  Even at the laundromat. 

The Tree of Life is near the entrance to the Animal Kingdom and dominates the backdrop.  The trunk has engravings of birds and beasts and is very beautiful.  It reminds me of the tree from the movie Avatar and is similar in many ways.  We started in Africa with a train ride, a walking tour and a very cool demo with a falcon on a naturalists arm.  We got our Fast Pass (a new process since my last visit) for the Kilimanjaro Safaris, a nice tour in an open-air safari vehicle.  We saw gazelles, elephants, rhinos, crocodiles and giraffes and hippos, all roaming freely in the open park.  It was veeery nice indeed! 

The gorillas were not roaming free, thank goodness, but the view of them was great.  This silver back came straight toward me for this shot, then went off to the side to be alone for a while.  Barbara spotted a baby scampering across the top of the hill, too quick for a photo. 

I'm not sure which was more fascinated with the other, the kid or the egret.  It was a very pleasing sight to say the least. 

Our walking tour continued through Asia then to Dinoland.  Dinoland was like a funny version of Jurassic Park so as not to be so scary I guess.  It was all a wonder to behold! 

This is all the server will let me do for now, so there will be a part 3.