We enjoyed our 4/27-5/4, 2013 trip. Very relaxing with just two couples and plenty of time to take it all in.
Had a great experience at Epcot one day:
One day while exiting Soarin', my friend Josh noticed that something had been left in the basket/bin underneath his wife's seat on the ride. He grabbed it... it was a Nikon D3100 D-SLR camera. Being sure that someone would be outside the ride looking for it, he called out to see if anyone would claim it. No one did. Before taking it to turn it in to a CM, he decided to take a look at the last few photos taken (just to see if could recognize the owner). Turns out it had been over an hour since the last photo had been taken. A beautiful family of four. We looked around the Soarin' area for a little while but didn't see them. Finally decide to take it over to the main Guest Relations office to turn it in. Josh was really hesitant to hand it off to GR agent without getting some kind of receipt which they wouldn't give. They wouldn't even take Josh's number so the owner could call to verify that he had gotten his camera back. We were just trying to be sure he got it. He gave it to the agent, trusting them to follow through. I might add that the rest of the day we kept our eyes peeled for the family that had lost their camera. Funny cause the Father had on this really bright peach colored golf shirt... needless to say that's what we looked for.
No luck... but then about three hours later, we were heading towards the front of the park to exit and got in the Spaceship Earth queue to ride once more. Halfway up the ramp we saw what had to be the family going towards the center of the park. We ran back down the ramp towards them. As we got closer we could see that he had the camera strapped around his neck!! We introduced ourselves and let them know we were the ones who found the camera and turned it in. They laughed at the fact that we had looked a few shots to see what they looked like and had found them. The mom shed a few tears too because it turns out they still had some family pictures on the camera from their family Christmas. We went our separate ways feeling pretty good!
All in all... a very good day!
Had a great experience at Epcot one day:
One day while exiting Soarin', my friend Josh noticed that something had been left in the basket/bin underneath his wife's seat on the ride. He grabbed it... it was a Nikon D3100 D-SLR camera. Being sure that someone would be outside the ride looking for it, he called out to see if anyone would claim it. No one did. Before taking it to turn it in to a CM, he decided to take a look at the last few photos taken (just to see if could recognize the owner). Turns out it had been over an hour since the last photo had been taken. A beautiful family of four. We looked around the Soarin' area for a little while but didn't see them. Finally decide to take it over to the main Guest Relations office to turn it in. Josh was really hesitant to hand it off to GR agent without getting some kind of receipt which they wouldn't give. They wouldn't even take Josh's number so the owner could call to verify that he had gotten his camera back. We were just trying to be sure he got it. He gave it to the agent, trusting them to follow through. I might add that the rest of the day we kept our eyes peeled for the family that had lost their camera. Funny cause the Father had on this really bright peach colored golf shirt... needless to say that's what we looked for.
No luck... but then about three hours later, we were heading towards the front of the park to exit and got in the Spaceship Earth queue to ride once more. Halfway up the ramp we saw what had to be the family going towards the center of the park. We ran back down the ramp towards them. As we got closer we could see that he had the camera strapped around his neck!! We introduced ourselves and let them know we were the ones who found the camera and turned it in. They laughed at the fact that we had looked a few shots to see what they looked like and had found them. The mom shed a few tears too because it turns out they still had some family pictures on the camera from their family Christmas. We went our separate ways feeling pretty good!
All in all... a very good day!
great story..
There are some who would have found and not tried to find an owner... I am glad to see there are still really good people in the world. 
it was the wrap kind so someone maybe thought it was just a blanket and unimportant. I witnessed a custodial CM sweep a lovey blanket into the trash outside of Star Tours a few weeks ago and my heart sank thinking about the family who may be looking for it.
