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Wednesday, April 3, 2013 cont'd (part 5)
From the Odyssey Center we next headed toward one of my favorite parts of the Flower and Garden Festival: the fairy garden! Actually, this year it was a little different because the fairy topiaries were a part of the butterfly garden (which I do not like butterflies, thank you very much). Even though the butterflies are kind of creepy I still had to go see the cute little fairies!
Dad and I had our picture taken outside the butterfly house by Tinkerbell and Periwinkle! For those of you unfamiliar with the Disney fairies movies, Periwinkle was introduced in the latest movie-she is Tinkerbell's sister! So cute.
We also had a couple photopass pictures taken-one of them was a magic shot where they gave me fairy wings!
Then we headed inside the garden to take a look at the flowers (and butterflies if you like that kind of stuff...). I also had some more fun playing around with my different camera settings.
Iridessa, the light fairy
They had the cute little fairy houses again.
Terence!
Silvermist, the water fairy
Fawn, the animal fairy
Rosetta, the garden fairy
Vidia, the fast-flying fairy
Notice how the flowers surrounding the fairy match their clothing!
Funny how I didn't get one picture of a butterfly in the butterfly garden. Oh well. To be honest, I don't remember seeing all that many. But then again I don't go seeking them out...haha
Next up we did a couple Future World attractions, including a visit with Figment at the Imagination Institute!
The line for this was the longest I have ever seen it. Which still meant there was maybe only 20 people in front of us. Maybe if they hadn't ruined the ride when they took out the original. I don't think I'll ever get over that. It was also kind of amusing because as we were waiting to get on, there was this group ahead of us who saw a part of the ImageWorks and thought it was just a playground and not a ride.
The best part of this ride is definitely the ending with good old Figment!
We also made a stop at The Seas with Nemo and Friends. We did the ride first, which is always cute (I LOVE THAT MOVIE), before spending some time exploring the tanks.
I tried one of the Mr. Ray quizzes about various sea creatures. Knowing that I passed the easy level on another trip I decided to go for the harder version. Yes, it was definitely harder. I think out of the five questions I only got one right! Atleast I got my email certificate, with the grade of a "Sea Plus."
We spent some time watching the manatees. One of the CMs was tossing lettuce in the water for them to eat. It was kind of fun watching the manatees munch on their dinner.
In case you were wondering what the manatees' names are, there was a chalkboard up on the wall. The little picture in the corner is an image of their tail injuries so you can identify them. Poor guys.
In the larger tank one of the scuba diving tours was going on because there were a ton of divers swimming around!
It was really cool too because one of them was taking pictures (maybe an underwater photopass photographer?). I remember seeing him stop and pose with a little boy who was watching them. What a cool photo opportunity!
By that time, it was getting to be a long day since we hadn't gone back to the resort at all to rest. So we decided to head back to Bay Lake Tower. I think we might've just eaten back there too.
I was also hoping to have another DIS meet that evening. There was an April 2013 DISer facebook group and there were a few people who were planning on meeting at the Top of the World Lounge. It was going to be neat to see the lounge, and also hopefully meet some fellow DISers!
The lounge itself was really nice (sadly I don't have any pictures) but I didn't see anybody who looked like they were there for a DIS meet. Thankfully I took my ipod with me (yes, my ipod...I am technologically behind the times and do not have an iphone or smart phone) to see if there were any more messages sent out and if people were still planning on coming. Sadly, for various reasons nobody else came (there was also some rain that evening). But I was still going to take the opportunity to enjoy the awesome view from the lounge's balcony!
The view was pretty similar to the view from our room-so in other words, AMAZING. I could see the Electrical Water Pageant passing by the Polynesian.
And of course the Magic Kingdom/Cinderella Castle view was incredible.
Seriously, I love this picture and I just LOVE this view!!!!!!!!!!
I didn't stay up there to watch Wishes so after a few minutes I decided to just go back to the room. Good night, Contemporary!
Even though I missed out on meeting some DISers it was still pretty cool getting to see the Top of the World Lounge. I think I might have to go back there some time! And Susan, if you're still reading, hopefully our trips will overlap again sometime and we can meet up!!! I'm sorry we missed each other-how did that happen when we were at the same resort?! LOL.
up next: More time with Emma!!!
From the Odyssey Center we next headed toward one of my favorite parts of the Flower and Garden Festival: the fairy garden! Actually, this year it was a little different because the fairy topiaries were a part of the butterfly garden (which I do not like butterflies, thank you very much). Even though the butterflies are kind of creepy I still had to go see the cute little fairies!
Dad and I had our picture taken outside the butterfly house by Tinkerbell and Periwinkle! For those of you unfamiliar with the Disney fairies movies, Periwinkle was introduced in the latest movie-she is Tinkerbell's sister! So cute.
We also had a couple photopass pictures taken-one of them was a magic shot where they gave me fairy wings!
Then we headed inside the garden to take a look at the flowers (and butterflies if you like that kind of stuff...). I also had some more fun playing around with my different camera settings.
Iridessa, the light fairy
They had the cute little fairy houses again.
Terence!
Silvermist, the water fairy
Fawn, the animal fairy
Rosetta, the garden fairy
Vidia, the fast-flying fairy
Notice how the flowers surrounding the fairy match their clothing!
Funny how I didn't get one picture of a butterfly in the butterfly garden. Oh well. To be honest, I don't remember seeing all that many. But then again I don't go seeking them out...haha
Next up we did a couple Future World attractions, including a visit with Figment at the Imagination Institute!
The line for this was the longest I have ever seen it. Which still meant there was maybe only 20 people in front of us. Maybe if they hadn't ruined the ride when they took out the original. I don't think I'll ever get over that. It was also kind of amusing because as we were waiting to get on, there was this group ahead of us who saw a part of the ImageWorks and thought it was just a playground and not a ride.
The best part of this ride is definitely the ending with good old Figment!
We also made a stop at The Seas with Nemo and Friends. We did the ride first, which is always cute (I LOVE THAT MOVIE), before spending some time exploring the tanks.
I tried one of the Mr. Ray quizzes about various sea creatures. Knowing that I passed the easy level on another trip I decided to go for the harder version. Yes, it was definitely harder. I think out of the five questions I only got one right! Atleast I got my email certificate, with the grade of a "Sea Plus."
We spent some time watching the manatees. One of the CMs was tossing lettuce in the water for them to eat. It was kind of fun watching the manatees munch on their dinner.
In case you were wondering what the manatees' names are, there was a chalkboard up on the wall. The little picture in the corner is an image of their tail injuries so you can identify them. Poor guys.
In the larger tank one of the scuba diving tours was going on because there were a ton of divers swimming around!
It was really cool too because one of them was taking pictures (maybe an underwater photopass photographer?). I remember seeing him stop and pose with a little boy who was watching them. What a cool photo opportunity!
By that time, it was getting to be a long day since we hadn't gone back to the resort at all to rest. So we decided to head back to Bay Lake Tower. I think we might've just eaten back there too.
I was also hoping to have another DIS meet that evening. There was an April 2013 DISer facebook group and there were a few people who were planning on meeting at the Top of the World Lounge. It was going to be neat to see the lounge, and also hopefully meet some fellow DISers!
The lounge itself was really nice (sadly I don't have any pictures) but I didn't see anybody who looked like they were there for a DIS meet. Thankfully I took my ipod with me (yes, my ipod...I am technologically behind the times and do not have an iphone or smart phone) to see if there were any more messages sent out and if people were still planning on coming. Sadly, for various reasons nobody else came (there was also some rain that evening). But I was still going to take the opportunity to enjoy the awesome view from the lounge's balcony!
The view was pretty similar to the view from our room-so in other words, AMAZING. I could see the Electrical Water Pageant passing by the Polynesian.
And of course the Magic Kingdom/Cinderella Castle view was incredible.
Seriously, I love this picture and I just LOVE this view!!!!!!!!!!
I didn't stay up there to watch Wishes so after a few minutes I decided to just go back to the room. Good night, Contemporary!
Even though I missed out on meeting some DISers it was still pretty cool getting to see the Top of the World Lounge. I think I might have to go back there some time! And Susan, if you're still reading, hopefully our trips will overlap again sometime and we can meet up!!! I'm sorry we missed each other-how did that happen when we were at the same resort?! LOL.
up next: More time with Emma!!!
I'm sure you remember that I'm not a huge fan of Bay Lake Tower, but I cannot get over the views there! That's probably the only reason I'd ever stay there again, well, that and the monorail! 
Kind of lost some motivation there when I got to thinking too much about how long it'll be until we go again. So I sat down and did some calculations to see if we can try for DVC next time, which we can, so maybe I'll be a bit more motivated this week. 
I agree, we'll likely see a whole lot of those bags at Disney parks. 
