A day at Magic Kingdom

We gambled with the weather today, and won! Overcast turned to sunny and warm, and the predicted rain still has not arrived … what’s more, Magic Kingdom was finally less busy, with shorter queues and less crowds; a good park day, captured in this video:

After arriving and parking surprisingly close to the entrance, we had lunch at the Polynesian resort, then took the boat to the park, and visited Pirates of the Caribbean, Country Bear Jamboree, Haunted Mansion, It’s a Small World, Winnie The Pooh, and the new Ariel Under Sea ride – then left the park via an ice cream stop, and monorail back to parking!

Another Wild Africa Trek

Once again, the best way to enjoy Animal Kingdom is to join their Wild Africa Trek – we took Michael today, for his last day at Disney!

 

Finally, there were two Elephants “fighting” for hierarchy – distant so less than perfect video:

The new fish pond waterfall

While we were in England, our back garden fish pond had a catastrophic leak with the liner cracking open in multiple places! Luckily the fish were saved, and we called in Mike from New England Water Gardens to both install a new liner and redesign the waterfall … this afternoon that job was completed!
I’ve got lots of “during” pictures, but for now here’s the finished waterfall and pond with the fish settling in again …

(At YouTube you can watch in HD!)

UPDATE: More impressive when compared with the original waterfall!