Jambo House!

Last week we went on a vacation to Disney.  We didn't tell the kids until the night before we got there, after we had driven to Tifton, GA for a stop on the way.  We met up with Nana and Pa Bob at Chic-fil-A.  They were a little surprised that Nana and Pa were there because they didn't know that they were going on vacation with us.  We then told them that we were going to Disney.  They were a little surprised and excited but also seemed confused.  And then just acted like it was cool, just like an everyday thing to go to Disney. No biggie.  We had a great vacation.  We stayed at the Animal Kingdom Lodge Jambo House.  Luckily, we got upgraded to a Savannah view room on the Kudu Trail there.  We had an awesome view of a lot of animals everyday.  

That building thing in the back was where they fed the animals each morning.  Then they'd put food throughout the Savannah areas so the animals would all roam around.  At about the time we'd wake up each morning, this is what we'd see.  We could sit on the balcony and drink coffee and eat breakfast and look out to this.  Giraffes, zebras, antelope, ostriches, wildbeest, vultures, scimitar-horned oryx, etc. etc.  We absolutely loved this hotel!!

Nana and Pa stayed 2 rooms down from us and basically had the same view.  They liked it too.  

A cool thing about the animals here compared to a zoo is that they had so much room to roam around.  They animals all seemed very happy and well taken care of.  

We had some really good restaurants at the hotel.  This was the quick service place.  

There was a flamingo pond right by the playscape area near the pool.  

Flamingos with a giraffe in the background.

Our pool was fabulous too.  There were two sections of the Animal Kingdom Lodge.  We stayed at the Jambo House, where this picture was taken.  We also went over to the Kidani Village.  Their pool was pretty cool too.  Both had slides.  Kidani Village had a longer slide but smaller pool.  

We had snails at the hotel too!

Luke and Anna slept in a bunk bed.  Luke slept on the top and Anna on the bottom.  It was their first time sleeping on a bunk bed and they seemed to really like it.  

This was outside of Sanaa, which was at the Kidani Village.  We had a great dinner there! 

The ostriches were so handsome!

It was fun watching the giraffes eat and seeing their black tongues.  

On the last morning at the hotel the kids decided they wanted to wear life jackets.  This was the slide at the hotel.  Not as cool as Kidani Village (which I didn't get a picture of), but still pretty fun.  

Of course the animals were cool, but we also loved how pretty everything about Jambo House was. After we left and moved on to the next hotel in Georgia, Anna wrote 'Jambo House' on a piece of paper and put hearts all over it and cried hysterically about how much she missed Jambo House and wanted to go back.  It was sad.  We all miss Jambo House.  

The lobby was pretty amazing too.