Busch Gardern

Busch Gardens pictures here. (Please let me know if this link works)

We all met up at the front of the park after we had a strange time getting into the parking lot. We pulled up to the parking ticket line and were third in line, should have been through in about 30 seconds but six minutes later we finally moved. Have no idea what the problem was but it sure took a long time to resolve. All of that was forgotten as soon as we got in the park and got our picture taken. At this point Michael and Tommy went off on their own and I never saw them again.

Decided Jungala would be our destination, little did we know it would take us two hours to get there. We ended up stopping at all the rides and exhibits we passed that anyone wanted to do. So it was a pretty leisurely stroll.

First was the old wooden roller coaster, then the Gwazi Gliders, stop to look at and feed the lorikeets. SheiKra was next and then on to Stanley Falls Flume. And finally we made it to Jungala, lots of climbing and exploring for the kids. Riley and Kaleigh went to the toddler water area and had the best time, as always Riley didn't want to leave but we finally got him away.

By this time we were all hungry so we headed back the was we came to the Zambia Smokehouse, bbq for lunch. Everything was pretty good. We took our time and enjoyed just sitting down for a bit.

After lunch we split up and Tammy and Kim and their group headed to the Rhino Rally Ride and we went back to watch the tigers and look at all the other animals in the park. We were just heading in to look at the gorillas and who should we run into but the other half of our group. They were heading to ice cream and then out of the park.

We headed over to the last ride of the day Montu, a big roller coaster. Dan, the kids, and I found a place in the shade and Andy and Nikki went on the ride.

Made a spin through Africa and then we we off for ice cream and out of the park. Had a great day, the weather was beautiful and we couldn't have asked for anything more.