Happy 4th all!
DH is at work and I am alone in the ac bored so I figured i'd make a post.
Here are a few things I forgot to post in the last post.
After we went on Splash, we were looking at the picture of us on the ride and DH was making fun of me in it and the CM was like.....aww its cute don't you want it? and DH was about to go no we can do better hahaha but then the CM asked us to follow him...and after a few mins he handed us a free ride photo!
so here is our silly free ride photo!
Also I forgot to post our Cinderella picture!
When we arrived home that night this was under our door
with a 20% off photopass card!
So I don't have a lot of pictures from this day but I will try and remember the day best I can.
So today we got up super early because we at at 7:30 ADR at Whispering Canyon so we could make it to epcot by 9:15 for our Dolphin's in Depth. Breakfast was good but I think neither of us were too hungry because of how early it was.
DH waiting for us to be seated. I think this is funny.
waiting for the bus
we headed to Epcot and went into the park for a bit. We stopped into a shop and then we ran into Daisy! So of course I needed a picture.
after this we didn't have much time so we went over to check in for Dolphins.
We ended up with a full group. There was 1 other couple and 2 mother daughter groups. We were given a small briefing before heading back. Even name tags, asked where we were from, and choose colors for the free bag we got. They for some reason changed this from a free t-shirt to a bag......which upset me because I would wear the shirt....I will never use the bag. but oh well. One thing that was said immediately was no jewelry which is fine and me and DH didn't think anything of it. Until the CM came up to us and said can you take your facial piercings out. Which of course made me panic. They take a long time to take out and both of our lip piercings will close up within 20 mins if we take them out....so it wasn't happening. She said she didn't know what she could do but she would try and talk to someone.
Spoiler.....if you don't want to know what you see and do in this program scroll down past this section!
So you can't take any photos backstage so thats why I have none. We went straight to meet the dolphins and learn a little about them. Then we watched an informational video on dolphin's and training. Then we were taken to the aquarium area out front with everyone else in the park. We got front row seats to watch the dolphin training. The Dolphin, i believe it was Calvin, sees a shape and has to match it on the other window. He did really well. Then we headed back to the locker room to change into our insane wetsuits. Me and DH were the talked to by the head of the department. She asked if we could please take out all piercings that we could and then let her know how many we kept in. She later would check to make sure we still had them in when we left.
We walked into the main backstage area where you can see the whole aquarium from the top. It is spilt in two. The side you see when you go into living seas and then part you see when you eat at Coral Reef. There is large bridge that runs across the tank. thats where we walked all wetsuited up and ready to play with some dolphins! We were split into two groups, we were with the other couple and our trainer was name Dave. Dave was very nice and fun to work with. We walk into the water onto the top of the observation deck that everyone below looks through. So when your looking in at the aquarium there is a good change there are people in the water walking over your head! We were working with Rainer. Dave had him come up to us and I got to tickle between his fins which he seemed to like a lot! then we swam up and we held him and pet him. Then we took our photos with him.
We were given the choice of taking a photo each alone or together and then one alone. (you get one photo per person) DH is afraid of water so I knew he would want one with me and then I got one alone.
Ranier was making kind of a purring sound when I was holding him (I was also rubbing his side) it was so sweet.
Then we learned some hand movements and more about the dolphins and their bodies and habits. We switched Dolphins half way through and got Khyber. Who is a lot younger and more playful. I even got squirted in the face from his blow hole!
The whole experience was really amazing. DH wouldn't have been able to swim with the dolphins and I wanted him to be with me. so this was a great way to interact and play with a dolphin. Everyone in the program was super nice and informative. After we played with dolphins we got changed and took showers and then met back up. When we sat back down we were given pins and then there was this sweet certificate from the dolphins.
we then took a survey and headed out to the park! It was around 12:30 when we were done and we had a ADR at 2. We ran and got mission space fast passes and then because everything had crazy lines we just walked around Innoventions for a while. We picked up Kim possible missions (which we never got to use...
) and played a bit.
We then went to club cool and tried some soda. I decided this was my favorite
Then I made DH try Beverly while I refused to HAHAH
We hung around a little to watch other people cringe and then headed over to check in at Coral Reef.
waiting in coral reef
We were meeting Wendy and Eric! When we were all there we checked in. Normally I would have made a thing about sitting by the aquarium but I figured we would be too busy talking (which I was right!) to really care.
The food was really good, it was our first time there for all of us. We had a really nice time and it was so great to meet Wendy and Eric.
We then decided to go over to innovention and did the video game. It was so much fun and hilarious. The we went over to mission space. Me and DH had never been on it so we tried green first and then when that wasn't too bad we got back online for Orange. Then Wendy and Eric had to go back to their hotel to finish packing.
We headed back to the hotel and got changed (I think I took a nap) then we headed to Hollywood Studios. We were going to see Fantasmics but the lines was INSANE....and being that we have seen it before we just decided to ride some rides instead. Some random guys on the street handed us fast passes rock 'n' roller coaster! DH had never been on it so he was a bit nervous. He ended up loving it tho.
Then we went on TOT
I think we went on a couple of times
Then we got ice cream and hung out. Watched some dad allow his child to pee on a building?!?!?! and then we headed back to the hotel to call it a night.
You looked lovely in your dress! I love all the pics so far. Plus the Dole Whip pic 
I think its easier to convinced them of the pin, its not as obvious....but Cast Members still notice it.
