We make our way over to Soarin. As we reach the point where you turn over your FPs, I see a family of four a few parties in front of us using Magic Bands to redeem their FP. Some people nearby must have asked about them because they appeared to be explaining to another group what they were and how they worked.
We got down to being assigned our glider and asked to wait for the row 1.
It is Richard Gere approved- It is the best. We had an awesome flight, but I was annoyed with myself for forgetting my earbuds. See, I have the Soarin music on my phone, so I sync up my music to the track during the ride. It is pretty fun. I started trying to remember to do this after one particular trip where several large groups of teens decided it would be fun to scream on the ride as if it were a roller coaster. Completely ruined the experience.
The ride was over all too quickly. We were going to ride Living with the Land- I had rode CoP after all- but the line was crazy long. So DD said she wanted to go check out Sum of all Thrills. I knew the line would be crazy there too. It was getting later in the morning and the crowds had picked up considerably. We got over there and the line extended beyond the regular queue. DD wasnt up for waiting (neither was I), so we wandered around Innoventions for a while. Habit Heroes, which we haven't done yet, was also quite busy. Eventually we wandered into Innoventions West and checked out the new to us IBM exhibit.
My dad worked for IBM for 30 years, so I'm always interested in their stuff in the parks. This exhibit, I think I was just too tired to get. There was movie that ran on a loop, that I really don't remember. We'll have to check it out again when I'm more alert and can appreciate what it going on. We did get a neat little button though.
After Innoventions we decided to go to Spaceship Earth. The line there was pretty long there too, but I knew it would move quickly. We joined the line. While winding our way through the queue I took a picture of this palm.
The leaves were so white, and I really didnt remember ever seeing such white leaves on a palm tree before. Crazy. Were the trees diseased? Were the leaves changing color for some reason like leaves do in the fall? Did Disney breed these trees to grow white leaves? Inquiring minds want to know. I checked into these white palms when I got home. I believe what we have here is a Silver Bismark or Bismark Palm. I considered it might be a Cuban Wax Palm, but the way the fronds grow out of the trunk looks different on the Cuban. This has been Horticulture Chat with Pixie Princess. Please join us next time as we explore what plant produces these lovely puff ball flowers.
Oh where the mind goes whilst waiting in line. We eventually made the final turn for the ramp up to Spaceship Earth.
It was a lovely ride as always. We were stopped temporarily just as we turned around backwards to make our return journey. We just missed being stuck in my favorite place. Darn. If Im getting stuck on Spaceship Earth, I want to be stuck up at the top staring at earth among the stars. I was stuck up there for about 20 min. once. It was heavenly. So relaxing!
After Spaceship Earth, we were done. It was after 1:00 at this point, and it was all my poor DD could do to stand. Truth be told, I think we both took a nap on Spaceship Earth. We grabbed a bus back to Pop and took and nice long nap.
There really isnt much to tell for the rest of this day. After our nap, we werent hungry enough for a CS meal so we just had PB&J with some chips from the food court. I wanted to go see Wishes and the newest version of the castle projection show, but DD wasnt up for it. She just wanted to go back to sleep. So I went on my own, and met a lovely couple while waiting on Wishes. They were both Disney geeks like me, so we had lots to talk about while waiting.
After the show I high-tailed it out of MK for the buses, and promptly went to sleep when I got back to the room. The next day wed be going to AK!
So here was our 
Hope you enjoy the rest of the journey!
