The Promise of Spring: Flower & Garden Festival 4.0 -- A Cam and Luke TR COMPLETED 8/27 - Page 52 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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What a cool tour!! May need to consider this on our next trip. Although since it's a short trip where we'll likely do 1 park/day, may not have time since Pandora will cut a big chunk out of our day.
I need to come back to this from home tonight. Your jacket picture isn't showing up for me at work.
Thanks for such a great description of the tour like so many others we are now considering it. We loved the backstage tour at AK several years ago This one looks almost as appealing. Sorry to hear you had such a rough go of it on 7DMT Kudo's to Luke for not channeling his inner Dr Beverley Hofstadter and offering her advice and encouragement of "Buck up sissypants!"
I love elephants. It's interesting to learn about their fear of bees. You wouldn't think that such a big animal would be afraid of a little bee.
I'm glad that you were feeling better after yesterday. Cancelling you adr was a good call.
Liz
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Looks like a great tour and amazing value for what you got in return! Great photos and closeups of the elephants and these themselves is worth the price! Glad you are feeling better!
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What a great tour, lots of information and love the pictures. Glad you are feeling better.
Thanks! I actually weeded out some of the blurry photos, but I had so much fun photographing the elephants.
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Oh wow, the tour looks amazing! I've been waiting for you to get to this part of the trip report, as I'm thinking of taking this tour and I wanted to get your views on it. Based on what I've seen, I'm thinking we'll book this...
The length of the tour, the value pricing on it, and a reserved spot for photographing really make this tour great for almost anyone. Stella was so cute up close.
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That sounds like an amazing tour and a great value!! How cool!! I love the photos of the baby elephant!! You sound refreshed today as well!!
Stella was so much fun to watch. I loved when she would start running. Didn't make for good photos as those blurred, but it was so much fun to watch. I definitely felt 100% better after a great night's sleep.
I was thinking EXACTLY the same as Cheryl! It does look a fab tour and I think we'll do this in October, so thank you for the detailed description!
I think you all would enjoy it.
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That tour sounded so interesting and fun!!! I didn't know that elephants were afraid of bees and how great that Disney was able to solve the farmers crop issue in South Africa. Loved the pictures, especially of the baby elephant with it's mom!
Stella stuck pretty close to her mom the entire time and was so cute when she nursed.
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What a cool tour!! May need to consider this on our next trip. Although since it's a short trip where we'll likely do 1 park/day, may not have time since Pandora will cut a big chunk out of our day.
I need to come back to this from home tonight. Your jacket picture isn't showing up for me at work.
Colleen, the photo is missing because I forgot to upload it along with a few others. I'll add them momentarily.
Thanks to Colleen, I have realized that I omitted several photos from yesterday's update. So if you want to see the Mickey jacket and our PhotoPass photos at the Tree of Life in our cool elephant shirts, just scroll back up and to see those. Sorry! I didn't realize I had forgotten them because they were uploaded out of order on Photobucket.
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Thanks for such a great description of the tour like so many others we are now considering it. We loved the backstage tour at AK several years ago This one looks almost as appealing. Sorry to hear you had such a rough go of it on 7DMT Kudo's to Luke for not channeling his inner Dr Beverley Hofstadter and offering her advice and encouragement of "Buck up sissypants!"
Luke learned as early as our honeymoon that when I get motion sick there is really no quick fix. He makes it as easy as possible for me. For that I am thankful.
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I love elephants. It's interesting to learn about their fear of bees. You wouldn't think that such a big animal would be afraid of a little bee.
I'm glad that you were feeling better after yesterday. Cancelling you adr was a good call.
Liz
I had learned about their fear of bees several years ago when we took the Wild Africa Trek, and like you kept thinking about the size difference between the two. Then I remembered that I'm afraid of spiders even though they are a lot smaller than me.
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Really looks like an educational tour. We may take the tour this November. All the photos were great, love the baby.
I think you'd really enjoy this tour and it doesn't take up too much of the day.
Great start to the tour! Love the elephant pictures!!
It was and thanks! I sure had fun taking the photos.
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Looks like a great tour and amazing value for what you got in return! Great photos and closeups of the elephants and these themselves is worth the price! Glad you are feeling better!
It was an amazing value. I was so cool to be so close to Stella and all the other elephants.
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Great photos and closeups of the elephants and these themselves is worth the price! 
Glad you are feeling better! 
I've been waiting for you to get to this part of the trip report, as I'm thinking of taking this tour and I wanted to get your views on it. Based on what I've seen, I'm thinking we'll book this... 
You sound refreshed today as well!!
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