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Chapter 3: Animal Kingdom

Bella's POV

Esme had just left a few minutes ago to go to the bakery to get Renesmee a muffin and hot chocolate for breakfast. The rest of us were sitting patently in the TV room waiting for Alice and Nessie to emerge from the bedroom. Alice nearly broke down the door at 6:00 this morning to start getting Renesmee ready for the day. It was now 6:30 and it was unusually quiet in the bedroom, and Alice was blocking her thoughts. She was dead set on not letting anyone in on her surprise. A very pleased looking Alice stepped out from the room closing the door behind her.

"Nessie will be out as soon as Esme returns," Alice said with a sly smile.

"Which is now," Esme said closing the door with her foot behind her.

The bedroom doorknob turned and we all sucked in a breath. I could only imagine what Alice did to my little girl in thirty minutes. Nessie stepped out dressed as Snow White. Her dress was shiny yellow at the bottom and a light shiny blue at the top. The sleeves were puffy and a light blue with red diamonds around them, and a large red bow was on top of her head.

"OHHHH," Emmett squealed, can I be one of your forest friends…or maybe a dwarf.

"Yea Aunt Alice and I were talking about that in the bedroom," Nessie said biting into her muffin.

Alice giggled, "Yeah we were, and you all are the seven dwarfs," she said reaching into a bag that seemed to appear out of nowhere.

We all stared at her in shock as she handed each of us a new outfit to wear.

"Emmett, you're dopey," she said handing him a Green tunic, purple hat with Dopey embroidered on it, light blue pants, and light brown boots.

Emmett changed quickly with a goofy grin on his face, he fit the part perfectly. Alice decided that we were taking too long and shoved Edward, Jasper, and Carlisle into one room and Rosalie, Esme, and I into the other. She was going to change last. We all dressed quickly and emerged from the room.

Edward was Prince Charming. He was wearing light brown boots, light blue pants tucked into the boots, a loose white long-sleeved shirt, a dark blue vest with red trim over the shirt, and a dark blue hat with a white feather stuck in the top. Jasper was for some reason Sneezy. He wore brown boots, brown pants, a red tunic, and an orange hat with Sneezy embroidered on the back. Carlisle was Doc. Of course, he liked being that dwarf. He wore a red tunic, red-orange pants, brown boots, and a brown hat with Doc embroidered on the back.

I looked around at the girls, Alice had finally changed. She was Happy, which actually suited her. She wore a brown shirt, dark blue pants, brown boots, and an orange hat. I was detecting a theme; all of our hats had our dwarf names embroidered on the back. Esme was dressed as Sleepy in a green shirt, brown pants, brown boots, and a blue hat. I was not surprised by my dwarf, I was Bashful. My outfit was purple pants, brown boots, a brown top, and a green hat. Rosalie's dwarf was by far the funniest, she was Grumpy. She wore brown pants, brown boots, a red tunic, and a brown hat. Her outfit was completed by the scowl she had fixed on her face.

Nessie was finished with breakfast, and we were off once again to the bus stop. People stared at us and some laughed, but the employee's greeted us extra loudly obviously enjoying out family theme. We made it to the bus stop just in time to see the Animal Kingdom bus pull up. The dull looking driver perked up when he saw our family enter the bus. I could tell we were going to be the employee favorites. I wasn't surprised to find Alice pulling out more disposable cameras from her bag. This time she had one for everyone including Renesmee. The bus dropped us off just outside of the gates. It was a bit of a walk to get into the park, but we were soon walking through the main gates. Alice handed Nessie an autograph book and a light up pen with Minnie on the top. I hadn't even noticed she left the group.

"Ok Nessie, come sit down," Edward said gesturing to the stroller he smartly thought to bring along.

Once she was all settled, we began our journey. We entered the park in the Oasis. Alice had grabbed a map and suggested that we go to Discovery Island to see It's Tough to Be a Bug, which was located inside the Tree of Life. On our way to Discovery Island we saw many different animals; Nessie took a lot of pictures. I think she took pictures of the Giant Anteater, Exotic Boar, and a Hyacinth Macaw. There was already a huge line by the time we got to the Tree of Life, but we decided to wait in line instead of coming back later in the day. The Tree of Life was amazing, it had over 32o different animals carved into its 145-foot tall, 5o-foot wide frame. I stared up in awe; there were so many different animals. Edward was pointing at the tree as Renesmee said each animal he was pointing at. Emmett was of course most excited about the different bears carved into the trunk, Edward was happy once he found the lions, even I had to laugh when I saw what looked like a lamb. Renesmee was immediately excited when she spotted the wolf that she said looked like Jake.

Finally the line started moving and we were inside the tree, and handed a pair of 3-D glasses. We were told that we would be amongst the next group going in to see the show. The inside of the tree was still amazing, although it didn't have carvings around it. The walls were lined with posters of past shows that the Tree of Life Repertory Theatre Players have performed in, "A Stinkbug Named Desire", "My Fair Ladybug", and "A Cockroach Line" to name a few. Eight minutes later we were headed into the theater. We sat down and put on our glasses, the show started and Flik the ant came onto the screen. He introduced us to some of his friends, a stink bug that sprayed stink into the room, and some bees that stung us. There were "stingers" in the back of the chairs that were meant to poke us but we barely felt anything. Nessie was the only one who could really feel it and she was laughing. The show was coming to a close after the mean grasshopper, Hopper, came. Someone made an announcement saying how we should let the bugs leave first. After that announcement I felt something move under my butt. It made me jump a little, but nothing compared to Emmett's reaction, I heard a high-pitched girly scream and looked over just in time to see Emmett leap into Rosalie's lap. She of course got mad, dumped him on the floor, and angrily stomped out of the theater.

After the show we walked along the outside path taking pictures of the Galapagos Tortoise, Lemurs, and Cotton-Top Tamarins. The map listed Camp Minnie-Mickey next, so we headed in that direction. There were little huts set up for character greetings, and that was all Nessie wanted to do. We stood in line and met Minnie, Mickey, Rafiki, and Timon. Nessie got all of their autographs and her picture taken with all of them. Alice forced us all to get a group photo with all of them as well. We said good-bye to all the characters and headed to Africa, which was next on Alice's trusty map.

The first activity we did in Africa was the Kilimanjaro Safari. The line was long, so we knew it was going to be a while. We were all talking when suddenly we heard a familiar voice.

"Ugh, Jessica, look how long the line is," Mike complained.

"Well if you didn't forget to turn the alarm on then we would have been here earlier," Jessica spat back.

My family froze. I looked at Edward, his eyes were black and his jaw was clenched tight. He still hates Mike and was a bit less than thrilled to see him here. I turned just to make sure it was "The Mike and Jessica" which was a bad idea.

"Whoa, is that you Bella," Mike asked bewildered.

He hasn't seen me since my wedding five years ago. This was going to be interesting.

"Yeah, hey Mike, Jessica," I waved

"Wow you look great," he said earning himself an elbow in the chest from Jessica. "Oh yeah, Jessica and I just got married we are on our honeymoon," he said.

"Wow really, that's great I'm so happy for both of you," I told them in my most excited voice.

We continued talking as the line moved on. It was finally our turn to board the large safari vehicle. Alice, Carlisle, Esme, Rosalie, and Emmett sat in front of Edward, Renesmee, and I. Three random people sat next to Edward on our bench, and behind us sat Mike and Jessica. Mike was still talking to me as the ride started. We were coming around the corner and I was trying desperately to find some way to shut him up. Then Renesmee answered my prayers.

"Momma look," Nessie said pointing to the large male lion lying out in the sun.

Mike stopped talking almost immediately and stared from Renesmee to me, then from me back to Renesmee, and then from Renesmee to Edward. Edward coughed out a laugh; apparently Mike's thoughts were hilarious.

"Mike, I would like for you to meet Renesmee," I said kissing her head.

He just stared open mouthed at her and nodded his head. Thankfully he didn't talk to me the rest of the ride and I got to enjoy myself. Nessie laughed as the safari car bounced along and splashed through puddles. She was a little scared when we crossed the bridge and it started moving as though we were going to fall into the alligator infested waters. The radio crackled and a man came on saying how we needed to chase down the poachers that were trying to hurt the elephants. The car raced forward, we slowed down by the poachers "camp site" but quickly sped on once we were sure the poachers weren't there. In the end we wound up rescuing the elephants and saving the savannah. Nessie was very excited to hear that the baby elephant was ok. We exited the cars and turned to Alice to see what was next.