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It's time to move on and move forward.
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Your French Toast looked so ! Your pictures from the monorail of the F & G Festival are terrific and I really like the Dopey topiary you took from the ground.
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those pics from the monorail of the gardens around the lagoons are so great....the colors are just bursting....thanks for sharing all these photos with us....
I want to know how you got the monorail driver to stop so many times to set up all those pictures. You sure got some great ones.
First - your French Toast looks so
Second - your photos of Epcot are so vibrant with all the color from the flowers
Third - How cool was it to see Epcot that empty before the crowds started!
Sunday 3 May – part two: waiting for that elusive shot...
We knew that Sue and Angie were off Soarin’ and were in Seasons, so we headed that way. We didn’t see them on the way in, so we went to get some drinks and quickly found them on the way out, coming across Lesley, Sharon, Bob and Larry as well. Lots of photo opportunities ensued with a very kind Cast Member called Doris taking photos of all of us with all our cameras. Bless her heart!
We headed over to the Seas, so that Lesley could drop off the gift that we had got for Jennifer and Dave – you’ll here more about that later.
I love Larry’s sense of humour in this one!
Then it was into the Seas with Nemo and Friends. This is such a fun ride and has brought a whole new lease of life into this pavilion.
I think they enjoyed it too!
We went to watch Turtle Talk with Crush, as it turned out that neither Sue nor Lesley had seen before, but sadly the Cast Member informed us that the next show wouldn’t be until 11.00 and it was only 10.40. It was all very odd, as the crowd from the last show had just come out, so I don’t know what the problem was, especially as it did seem at first like they were going to let us straight in.
We decided to walk around Epcot and get some Flower and Garden Festival photos, which really pleased me, as that was one of my aims for today.
We headed down to the main flowerbeds between Future World and World Showcase and this was just as beautiful as I remembered from the last time I was here for the festival in 2004.
We took lots and lots of photos, but Sue, Bob, Lesley, Larry and myself all had one thing in mind that would make a perfect photos here – to have a monorail in sight. One had gone through a couple of minutes earlier, so we knew we would have a wait for one, but we didn’t expect it to take as long as it did. My goodness, we began to think that they knew what we were doing and had taken all the monorails off the track just to spite us. Finally, we got the shots we were looking for and joined the rest of our group in the rose garden.
Flower and Garden is so pretty. Too bad I didn't have enough time to actually look at displays this year (I basically just ran to the birthday party and back to the exit that day). Thanks so much for posting your pictures - this way I at least know what they looked like
Okay, Wendy, you are cracking me up with that one! Sometime I will have to tell you about the individual who I found changing their child's diaper on the wall at the Hollywood Brown Derby's patio near other tables....
Do tell!!! Sometimes, you really do gotta do what you gotta do........
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Gorgeous photos of the flowers Cheryl!!! Great photos from you too Wendy!! I thought I was the only one who took random shots unknown to me. O f course you want to show the blackmail shot!!
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! Your pictures from the monorail of the F & G Festival are terrific and I really like the Dopey topiary you took from the ground. 
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My goodness, we began to think that they knew what we were doing and had taken all the monorails off the track just to spite us. Finally, we got the shots we were looking for and joined the rest of our group in the rose garden. 
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I might have even been picking on her too!!
This is a typical shot of mine--I didn't realize I had my finger on the button! 
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