Margaret has headed off to Europe for a few weeks, meeting up with her Mother and her Sister (Kate) – and all three have now headed off to Italy, staying near Lake Garda. And this is the view from their hotel!
Meanwhile I’m home, working and looking after Chloe – and right now it’s pouring with rain, quite different weather to what the girls are enjoying!
One of our favorite extra cost Disney tours is Wild Africa Trek at Animal Kingdom. We’ve done this tour a few times already (2011, 2012, 2013) but with Margaret’s Mum unable to climb rope ladders and bridges, we didn’t think it was suitable.
But Disney being Disney, of course there’s a solution – the “alternate” Wild Africa Trek which replaces the early rope bridge part of the tour with extra time parkside. I expected this to be a little less fun, but it turned out that today was the best yet; mostly because the animals really stepped up their game – pure luck – but if you take a photo like this, how can the day go wrong:
That picture was near the end of our tour, but we had an amazing time earlier with birds, Giraffe and of course the delicious lunch:
A few days away in Ogunquit, Maine; a storm rolled through this afternoon while we were visiting the beach, and (wet) we escaped back to our hotel room – and then watched as the sun broke through behind the storm, and lit the river in front of us. Beautiful!
The houses in the distance are on beachfront; to the right in the distance where the houses end, you can just see ocean – and that’s the parking lot and beach we were visiting when the storm arrived.
A few more pictures:
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