A Spring Adventure: Wilderness, Flowers, and the Force (with Cam and Luke) PTR Updated 5/22 - Page 26 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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I love all of the merchandise on your wish list. Good luck getting everything at a discount! Lexi just got into collecting pins on our recent trip to Disneyland and Kermit is her favorite Muppet, so she would love the F&GF pin you have picked out.
HGTV is a Saturday staple at our house and between that and Pinterest I keep Justin very busy in his spare time.
I remember going through the butterfly exhibit during the F&GF and Eleanor
loved getting a butterfly to land on her arm. They were flying all over the exhibit.
She also enjoyed the play area while I enjoyed the FAB from France at the same time.
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just read through all 26 pages
It is sooooo nice to "get to know" you this way...
I LOVE all the details you are giving!!!
Love your back-story about WL & joining DVC!!
Awesome bathroom re-do! What an amazing transformation.
Loved loved loved your "get together" Muppet story. Awwww.
We have never been during the F&GF, so I am really looking forward to the rest of your story (and pictures!!).
p.s.... LOVE HGTV but we don't have "that" package so I only get to see it when I stream episodes from a website somewhere or if we go away, it's the FIRST thing I look for on the TV in the room. LOL.
Love that T-shirt, it is really cute. I'm not a big HGTV fan, I get too depressed when I realize how crappy my house looks and how much work it needs done to it and how I can't afford to do any of it.
So glad it worked out with the Festival events for you! We weren't a fan of the happenings our weekend, so we are going to take advantage of the lower mid-week crowds at Epcot!
Catching up on a few updates! I love the merchandise that you are interested in... I hope you get some good marked down deals. I've been during the F&GF three times, and it is such a beautiful time to be in Epcot!
I am so tempted to pop in for the last day of the F&GF. Your plans look wonderful.
I'm excited that we'll get two full days of the F&GF.
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I love all of the merchandise on your wish list. Good luck getting everything at a discount! Lexi just got into collecting pins on our recent trip to Disneyland and Kermit is her favorite Muppet, so she would love the F&GF pin you have picked out.
HGTV is a Saturday staple at our house and between that and Pinterest I keep Justin very busy in his spare time.
Our project list seems to grow every week after out HGTV viewing.
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I remember going through the butterfly exhibit during the F&GF and Eleanor
loved getting a butterfly to land on her arm. They were flying all over the exhibit.
She also enjoyed the play area while I enjoyed the FAB from France at the same time.
Can't wait to read more.
Right now the beverages are sounding a little more interesting than the food at the F&GF.
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just read through all 26 pages
It is sooooo nice to "get to know" you this way...
I LOVE all the details you are giving!!!
Love your back-story about WL & joining DVC!!
Awesome bathroom re-do! What an amazing transformation.
Loved loved loved your "get together" Muppet story. Awwww.
We have never been during the F&GF, so I am really looking forward to the rest of your story (and pictures!!).
p.s.... LOVE HGTV but we don't have "that" package so I only get to see it when I stream episodes from a website somewhere or if we go away, it's the FIRST thing I look for on the TV in the room. LOL.
You did have some catching up to do. for joining in! I'd be bummed if we didn't get HGTV.
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Love that T-shirt, it is really cute. I'm not a big HGTV fan, I get too depressed when I realize how crappy my house looks and how much work it needs done to it and how I can't afford to do any of it.
I have told Luke that I don't like how HGTV makes me discontent with all that I already have.
So glad it worked out with the Festival events for you! We weren't a fan of the happenings our weekend, so we are going to take advantage of the lower mid-week crowds at Epcot!
We got lucky on the events, but we are also doing a mid-week visit to see everything first without the crowds.
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Originally Posted by pamcarey
Catching up on a few updates! I love the merchandise that you are interested in... I hope you get some good marked down deals. I've been during the F&GF three times, and it is such a beautiful time to be in Epcot!
I'm hoping this isn't are only time to visit during the F&GF.
Just got all caught up!!
LOVE how you and Luke got together! Special story.
Myself and DH went to WDW during May for our 20th wedding anniversary (9 years ago) and enjoyed all the beautiful decorations and flowers during F&GF. He loves Spring, so this was a perfect time for us to go. I hinted that I wanted to go next year for our 30th Anniversary! We'll see...
Your trip reports are so much fun to read and follow. I always feel like I'm right there with you two!!
Sign me up for that support group! And I, too, just love those cute Property Brothers!
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Just got all caught up!!
LOVE how you and Luke got together! Special story.
Myself and DH went to WDW during May for our 20th wedding anniversary (9 years ago) and enjoyed all the beautiful decorations and flowers during F&GF. He loves Spring, so this was a perfect time for us to go. I hinted that I wanted to go next year for our 30th Anniversary! We'll see...
Your trip reports are so much fun to read and follow. I always feel like I'm right there with you two!!
That is my goal with every TR. Hope you get to go back for your 30th Anniversary next year.
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Sign me up for that support group! And I, too, just love those cute Property Brothers!
Tinker Bell’s Butterfly House unites fairy topiaries with butterflies in a walk-through garden. I’m not fond of insects, but butterflies are an exception to that dislike. In fact, the flower bed in our backyard is designed to attract butterflies, though it has done a very good job at that yet. So I’m interested in learning what is used in this particular butterfly house that I might be able to do in my own garden. Besides that I, I can’t wait to see all the Tinker Bell and fairy topiaries (and take photos, too). A new addition this year involved several beautiful glass creations, made by the same artist who created the glass poppies for last year’s Oz play area. Of course, I’ll be taking photos of the glass creations as well. One site I was reading suggested I spend 10 – 15 minutes here photographing and viewing. I’m thinking that time might need to be doubled.
Another walk-through is Hummingbirds at Home presented by the National Audubon Society. In the county just over from ours has the Audubon State Park, which we have visited several times. For years, my parents have had a hummingbird feeder outside their kitchen window. I have always been amazed by how many birds their feeder attracts. I also taught a passage for ACT practice last year that was about hummingbirds, mentioning that they have the highest metabolism ad must feed almost 24 hours a day. Because of that, they hardly ever sleep. Very interesting creatures. This garden is located behind Mouse Gear, which means a shopping break might followed our explorations.
Both these exhibits are a part of Disney’s “edutainment,” which has always been a major purpose of Epcot. And I can’t wait to be entertainingly educated.
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so I only get to see it when I stream episodes from a website somewhere or if we go away, it's the FIRST thing I look for on the TV in the room. LOL.
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for joining in! I'd be bummed if we didn't get HGTV. 
how you and Luke got together! Special story. 
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