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Chapter 4: Animal Kingdom…Continued
Bella's POV
"The next thing on the map says Pangani Forest Exploration Trail," she said refolding the map.
We followed the trail through the thick leaves and came across a strange animal called an Okapi. It looked kind of like a moose except its back legs were striped like zebras. The next animal we came to were Naked Mole Rats. They were inside a little hut, and in there underground burrows.
"Should we be letting Nessie look at these things?" Emmett asked.
"Why shouldn't she, they are just little rodents," I said confused.
"But they are naked," he said.
We all just rolled our eyes and moved on. The next stop was an aviary. There were many different species of rare African birds including, Carmine Bee-eaters, Red-bearded Barbets, and Brimstone Canaries. Emmett was trying to feed the birds leaves that he found on the ground, but Rose put a stop to that by grabbing the leaves away and pulling Emmett by the ear off to the side were there were no birds. We left the aviary and continued along the path to the hippos. We could see them through the underwater glass viewing area. They were swimming around and eating.
"That reminds me of when Uncle Emmett wrestles his latest bear into the river," Nessie whispered to me.
I just laughed and nodded my head. The next spot we came to was an African Grassland Savannah. Meerkats, Gunther's Dik-Diks, Thomson's Gazelles, and Gerenuk roamed through the tall grasses. They grazed on the tall grass and leaves. Out of all the animals, they were the easiest to take pictures of. It was so nice to see Nessie taking pictures, and I couldn't wait to get the film developed. The trail was coming to a close and there was only one exhibit left to see, the Lowland Gorillas. There was a family of Gorillas sitting off to the side. The dad Gorilla was a massive Silverback, and there was a tiny baby huddling close to its mom.
After leaving the trail we went in line for the Wildlife Express Train to take us to Rafiki's Planet Watch. About five minutes later a rustic African train pulled up to the station. The conductor took us on a little behind-the-scene journey through several animal housing and care areas. We also got to see where Rhinos, Elephants, and other animals spend the night and obtain the care they need. After our little tour we stopped at another train station. There was a large building called the Conservation Station. Inside there were many fun-filled and educational activities. There is a section that looked like a hospital where we learned about the veterinary care, research, and food preparation. Once we were done looking around inside, we headed out back where there was a petting zoo. Kids were running around chasing after goats trying to brush their coarse hair. Some people were feeding the chickens, and llamas. We all went running off in the direction of the petting zoo.
"Pet with your hands, not with your mouths," Esme said so only we could hear.
We laughed and gave her thumbs up. She and Carlisle sat on the bench while the rest of us went to visit the animals. Edward and I took Nessie over to the sleeping goats. She picked up a brush and started to brush the goat's hair. Edward and I stood there watching her. Suddenly out of nowhere I heard a loud scream.
"AHHHH help it's trying to eat me," Alice screamed running away from a small black goat.
She ran out of the petting zoo and didn't stop till she was safely seated beside Carlisle. We were all trying not to laugh, ok not all of us, Emmett had fallen over laughing, and in the process of rolling on the floor almost crushed three goats and a sheep. We decide that we had enough of the goats and sheep, so we walked over to where Carlisle, Esme, and a very distraught Alice were sitting.
"What happened Alice?" I asked.
"The evil goat tried to eat me, see," she whined standing up and showing me the back of her shirt.
Sure enough there were little teeth prints and rips along the seam of Alice's shirt. I couldn't hold it in anymore. I started laughing, which in turn made my entire family, apart from Alice, start laughing. She stomped her foot and started to walk away. Mumbling something about how that goat was lucky she wasn't wearing her nice clothes. We all continued giggling as we boarded the train to go back to Africa. Once we got off the train we continued our journey.
Asia was our next stop. We first had to make a pit stop to get Nessie some lunch. Edward went to the Tusker House restaurant and brought Nessie some Mac and Cheese. Once Nessie was finished we followed a trail called the Maharajah Jungle Trek. Along the path there were beautiful murals, crumbling ruins, and colorful pennants that represented the cultures of Northern Asia. During our long journey we came across Asian tigers. Two of them were wrestling in the water and it reminded me of Jasper and Emmett after Emmett loses a bet. Near a waterfall there was a Komodo dragon. And a little while beyond that there were unique half-black, half-white Malayan Tapirs. After a while we entered a Bat cave. Inside the signs told us that there were Rodrigues Fruit Bats, and Flying Fox Bats.
"Are there any Vampire Bats?" Emmett asked.
"No Emmett," Alice said.
"Are you sure, I think this one just said, "I vant to suck your blood"," Emmett said in a very horrible impression of Dracula.
"Yea Emmett I'm pretty sure," Alice said rolling her eyes.
There were also over 50 species of exotic birds along this trail. There were Palawan Peacock Pheasants, White-Rumped Shamas, Fruit Doves, Indian Rollers, Masked Plovers, and Emmett's favorite King Parrots. It took us twenty minutes to get Emmett away from the Parrots. He was trying to teach them how to talk. The trail let us out by the new attraction in the park, Expedition Everest. I left Renesmee with Esme and we got in line. Once in line we made our way into the building. There were many newspaper clippings hanging on the wall telling different stories of Yeti sightings. Throughout the building there were pictures on the walls and tents set up. There are also masks and other artifacts set up along the path. We finally made it to the front of the line. We were boarding the railway car, all of us sitting in pairs except for Carlisle. As the ride began we climbed our way up the Forbidden Mountain. We made our way through scenic twists and turns, I could barely hear myself think over the screams of the passengers. All of a sudden we were at a dead end.
"Oh no, what's gonna happen?" Emmett questioned with mock curiosity.
We had no time to react to his stupid comment before we were speeding backwards through the dark passageways of the mountain. Up ahead I heard a loud growl. I looked up to see the dirty white arm of the Yeti swooping down as though it could grab me right out of my seat. It was so realistic that I screamed and ducked, even though I knew it couldn't touch me. We plunged down an 80 foot drop and somehow made it safely back to the loading dock. I swear, Charlie wouldn't think motorcycles were reckless if he went on that thing. We met Esme and Renesmee in the little store at the exit to Expedition Everest.
We continued to DinoLand U.S.A, where our first stop was the show Finding Nemo-The Musical. According to the map it was a thirty minute show. We went in and sat down along the benches. The show was amazing, in my opinion. Of course, Emmett, Alice, Renesmee, Esme, and I loved it while the others couldn't really care less. Edward pretended to like it for Renesmee's sake. The show was basically the same thing as the movie, except the fish sang songs like "In the Big Blue World", "Fish Are Friends, Not Food," "Just Keep Swimming," and "Go with the Flow." The puppets looked exactly like the characters which was impressive. At the end after Nemo had been found, Marlin tells him that he met a sea turtle and he was 150.
"Psh, so what," Emmett scoffed. "My dad's 362," he said at vampire speed earning him a smack to the back of his head yet again.
After the show we went to ride the Primordial Whirl. Again Esme took Renesmee as we rode the roller coaster. The car was spinning as we raced down hills and around corners. If I was still human I probably would have been very sick after that. Renesmee wanted to go on the TriceraTop Spin. It was a ride for little kids so we all didn't want to go on. Nessie chose Rosalie to take her on and we all laughed as they climbed into the large green triceratops. The ride began and the dinosaur lifted them high above the ground. Inside the dinosaur was a little lever that made the triceratops move up and down, and Nessie was taking great pleasure in jerking the dinosaur around.
The ride quickly ended much to Rosalie's delight. And we headed over to the next attraction, Dinosaur. The line wasn't too long, so we were able to board quickly. We climbed into the time rover, Edward, Renesmee, and I sat together, while Alice, Jasper, Emmett, and Rosalie sat behind us. Carlisle and Esme sat behind them. The ride began with us going back in time to capture an Iguanodon. Along the way we run into other dinosaurs, some friendly herbivores and others angry, carnivorous beasts.
"Hey, that's the butt kisser from CSI," Emmett shouted pointing to the man giving us instructions.
Sure enough Wallace Langham (David Hodges) was on screen. He was the one giving us the "secret mission" to find the Iguanodon and bring it back. Alarms and red flashes appeared signaling something bad was happening. We had approximately sixty seconds to get out before a meteor shower hit. We were about to escape when a giant Carnotaurus came out of the bushes and tried to eat us. We escaped from its sharp teeth by going down a hill and making it safely back to present time with the Iguanodon.
After we exited that ride we took Nessie over to the Cretaceous Trail. We followed the path through a lush, prehistoric garden and saw a Pachycephalosaurus dinosaur. Along the trail there were fossil dig sites. Nessie uncovered woolly mammoth bones in an oversized sand box. After Nessie finished playing paleontologist, we decided to head back to our hotel. It was already dinner time. We stopped at the Restaurantosaurus and got Renesmee a burger before heading back out to the bus stop.
Again we were lucky because the bus was already there when we walked up. We got to the hotel room and Esme suggested that we go for a swim. We all changed into our bathing suits and headed down to the pool. The pool was awesome. There were baby elephants around the pool spraying water everywhere, and an enormous water slide with a clown face attached at the mouth of the slide so it looked like the clown was throwing you up. Everyone had a ton of fun swimming, Emmett and Jasper made a bet on who could go down the slide the most and Jasper won, which caused Emmett to tackle him, and hold him underwater for a half an hour. We went back upstairs around 9:00 so Renesmee could get enough rest to stay awake tomorrow at Disney's Hollywood Studios. I couldn't wait to see what adventures we had in store for tomorrow.