Late Night At Disney Springs For Spring Break - Best Balloon Ride / The Cookie Bar & World Of Disney
Disney Springs March 2025
Transcript
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Today's adventure begins right here on
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Hotel Drive, very close to Disney
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Springs on Walt Disney World property.
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In fact, I am standing at one of the
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first, if not the first,
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building ever on the premises of Walt
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Disney World where guests would go in
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before and during the building of Magic
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Kingdom, which opened in October of 71.
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This was the previous center.
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I'm only about half mile from the first
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parking garage of Disney Springs,
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formerly Downtown Disney, and I am going
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to have a Disney Springs evening. It's
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about 7:14 p.m. Sun will be setting soon
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right here, the backside of the Amateur
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Athletic Union Building, but this is
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where tourists and future guests of WDW
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would show up. They would see a model of
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Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom while it
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was being built right inside here. The
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building still stands. Back then, there
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were not any hotels, there were not any
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resorts, and there was no traffic, and
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it was all dirt roads along
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here. Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo
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here. It's going to be a Disney Springs
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evening. Right over there's Disney
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Springs. Park in the parking structure
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and just see what maybe the balloon is
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up tonight and meet up with a buddy.
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We're gonna have
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a a rockus good time. I don't know where
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that why I said that, but we're going to
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have some fun at Disney Springs. And I'm
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inviting you, yes you, to join
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me. Shall you? It all started here
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roundabout way. WDW began right here at
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this very spot surrounded by dirt roads.
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This building still stands used for
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other other things.
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Now, right after the Florida project was
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announced with Walton Roy and the
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governor at the time of Florida, they
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started construction and this was used
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as the previous center. You could be
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visiting Central Florida and going to
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its other attractions, Cypress Gardens,
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etc.
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If you were in this area, you could stop
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by and see what would be bestowed upon
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the Central Florida area for years to
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come. Right over that way is Disney
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Springs. That's where I'm heading. And
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I'm heading into the Lime parking
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structure. Usually I'm team orange, but
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I'm coming in from the different
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direction tonight. So, team Lime garage
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as the recording of this Wednesday,
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March 19th, 2025.
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We've arrived, Big the Foot. Well, we're
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we've almost arrived. We've almost
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arrived here. We're almost We're going
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in. And it looks as if all levels are
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full with the exception of the top
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level, which has 66 spots on level five.
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It is spring break time. 64 spots. We
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got to hurry, Bigfoot. We got to get up
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there. We got to get up there. Oh. Oh,
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this is a good sign. I mean, it's going
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down now, but it was just up in the air.
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The balloon is
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operational. So depending on how busy
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the spring break crowds are again,
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spring starts in a couple days
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officially, but spring break crowds are
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already here. If they're not too bad of
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a line, I might do the
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balloon. There's also sun setting there
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behind the back side of Planet
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Hollywood, which also looks like a
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spherical item.
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And then the balloon is dipping down to
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let more guests on. That's the orange
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garage over there. I still think it's
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better to park at the orange orange
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garage. The reason is when you're going
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up to the top of the orange garage.
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Doesn't that look wild? Look at the sun.
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That is intense looking orange over
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there. You're already up on like the
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elevated floors. from this one. I had to
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sit in quite a bit of congested traffic
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to try to get up to the top fifth floor
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of the lime garage. So, I think it's
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quicker on on a busy day. On a regular
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day, probably not so bad. But with these
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crowds, orange garage would have
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probably been the better the better
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option. Also, this is the water the
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what's that thing called? Not a
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waterfall, not a water tank. Water
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tower. I'm drawing a blank on that. So,
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originally the Earful Tower at Disney's
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MGM Studios than Hollywood Studios,
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there was a strong rumor that it was
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going to be moved over here to
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Springs. They did not move it over here.
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This is a completely different water
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tower than the one that used to be at
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Disney's Hollywood Studios. I can really
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get a good clear view of this. Usually,
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I can't see it from that far from the
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orange garage. So, that that's one
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that's one quick advantage to
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the Lime Garage. And you can see there's
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still some spots up here, which is kind
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of
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nice. It was the only level that had
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spots left. Walk down three flights to
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level two, just like the orange garage.
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The line garage, which has lime
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stansions to let you know what spot
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you're in, also has their checkpoint
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area. It's also not called Reedi Creek
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anymore. They have changed the name of
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Reedi Creek to the Central Florida
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Tourism Oversight District. That
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just that just rolls right off the
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tongue, doesn't it? Certainly a creature
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of habit when I go to places I am used
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to going to on a regular basis. So being
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entering in down the staircase down the
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escalator from the line garage messing
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with my head a little bit. I was like
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throw throwing me off. I mean it's all
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the same general area but usually coming
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down from the orange I'm usually team
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orange. Today I'm team garage. No team
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lie. What am I saying? Team garage.
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We're all team garage. All right. And it
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is in fact open. A little bit of a line.
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A little bit of a line. Always promising
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to see an open proceed to the ticket
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window.
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Scroll. Weather's good. The cost $29.99
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right here. Do not It's not recommended
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to those who are prone to motion
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sickness, vertigo, heart problems, or
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that are aggravated by
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flight. Are you aggravated? Aggravated
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by flight. Flight does not bother me. So
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you're good. Ry's here. Hi. say no food.
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It just says no
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hamburgers or drinks. What if you had a
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like what if you had a fried piece of
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fried chicken? It could be allowed.
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Fried chicken. What about just like some
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fries? Hot dog for a year or a hot dog.
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Taking a little bit to a little bit to
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get to the front of the counter, pay the
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admission, and sign our waiver. So, over
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here looking at some of the merch. They
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have merchandise available. They have a
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patch, a pin. I didn't know they had
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pins. And they have a magnet and
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keychain. This used to be called
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Characters in Flight. It had all the
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Disney characters on it. And then now
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it's a different company called
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Aerafile, but it's it's pretty much the
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same balloon. Now, Starbucks over here.
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I don't know if it's open, but it is
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under construction. You got the
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construction walls up over at the
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Starbucks. I was going to grab a a
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coffee from it, but we're going to go
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ahead and do the balloon first, and then
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I might get a coffee after the balloon
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and get lucky and get a little bit of
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the glaze of the sunset. We're not going
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to get a full sunset experience. So we
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might get a little glaze of the sunset.
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We might not be in this group. We'll be
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in the next group. Now terming the
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terminology the glaze the sunset. Oh, I
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definitely will not be getting a coffee
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in there. That is what the inside of
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Starbucks looks like. That's the Okay.
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Yeah. So I will not be getting a coffee
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inside the balloon Starbucks at Springs.
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Not too windy, but there is a little bit
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of wind. You can always tell when you
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look up at where the palm trees, even
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though the palm trees are not swaying.
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You can see the balloon is just kind of
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shift. Now, I've seen this thing
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operational when it goes like this. But
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there's been a lot of times that they
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won't even run this thing. So, if
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there's like a nice wind and it's like
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veering over past the here, they just
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shut it down. They don't run it. So,
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we're lucky to be able to go on this
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this evening. We get a night nice post
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sunset view of Disney Springs, formerly
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Downtown Disney. Looking like we're
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going to have to wait a couple cycles.
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Definitely the group size and the amount
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of people getting on each one. So,
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another one's going up now. We might get
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on the next one, but at Oh, wait a
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second. Stop. Is it going? Oh, it's
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going up.
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So, well, I think we're definitely going
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to miss the golden hue of the uh the
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little bit of the sunset over there. So,
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we might miss the might miss that,
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but spring should look pretty good all
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illuminated. But I think we are in fact
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getting on this very next one. So, after
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purchasing the tickets, we waited about
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20 minutes to get to this point and
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probably waited 15 minutes to buy the
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tickets. Uh 35 minutes total during
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start of spring break. Not too bad.
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Going to get a nice little view. And I
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just realized I am wearing quite the
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appropriate shirt for
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this. I got
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my reaching new heights shirt I got last
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night at the Emporia because I'm going
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to be going to new heights. I didn't
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even realize it till you pointed that
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out. Yeah. I looked over. I was like,
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"That's perfect." What's your What's
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your appropriate shirt? It's not very
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appropriate. It's Indiana. So he was
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adventurous. Yeah. Yeah. You know, this
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kind of reminds me of the Raiders of the
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Lost Arc Boulder.
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Going in. This is south. That's south
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going in. I think I This might be my
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fourth or fifth time. I've always done
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this. Couple times at night. I've done
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it more times during the day than I have
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at night. But yeah, always I think I did
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Characters in flight and then I've done
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a file maybe three times in my life.
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Ry's never done this. This is first
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time. First time on this, right, Randy?
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First time. Mine's too.
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Really? Watch your step. First time for
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the for the pilot. That's fun. I watched
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a YouTube video. That's all that's what
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I do. I learn everything from from the
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internet. There's that cable that Adam
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was talking about right there. Yeah. My
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my fear is what if this steel rope All
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right, everybody. Welcome aboard. Now
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we're going to have a real adventurous
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fun time here because everybody's over
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there and nobody's over here. Oh, let's
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move over that way. He wants us to shift
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over. We want to spread out evenly,
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guys. Either that or we're going up
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sideways. Oh, that sounds fun. That' be
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something That'd be something Indy would
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be into. All right, everybody. Welcome
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aboard. My name is Crash and I'll be
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your pilot. So, while we're in motion,
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everybody hold on to the handrail.
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You're going to feel a little bit of
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motion here, guys. Okay. So, hold on.
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Here we go. We're going up.
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Anybody this week? Doing all right so
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far. We're doing all right. We're doing
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good. We're doing a really good week so
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far. He hasn't lost one this week. This
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week about last week.
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What day of the week is it?
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Going up. All right, guys. You're going
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to feel a bump here. Oh, here's the
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bump. Oh, wow. Go down up a little bit
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faster. Up, up, up, and away. You guys
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are coming this way, son. Oh, we're
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really we're heavy on this one side.
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There's like only a couple people on
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that side. Now you can let go. Maybe
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should go over this way. Or you can stay
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where you at. Be a member of the White
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Knuckle Club. The White Knuckle Club.
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This is
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great. We're going to get a scenic view
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of Springs. Oh, this is much better at
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night than it is during the day. I can
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see Oldtown over there. That's Oldtown
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way over there. That's kind of where I
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live. Over near Celebration in Oldtown.
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There's the Sky Coaster.
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There's the world of coke right there
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where we can get a large Beverly if we
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so
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choose sole lenuba whatever it's called
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now. And then you got spaceship earth
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over in the distance. Illumina. So
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there's Epcot over there in the
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distance. Pretty awesome. Eminem store
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down there.
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Splitsville here. Oh, there's a
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bump. Whatever you
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do, don't look down. I think we're at
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the 400 ft right now. I think we're at
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the 400 ft.
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I think we're at the we're at the top of
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the pinnacle of the
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balloon. Be kind of neat if the
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volcano was going off down there, but it
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doesn't look like it is. Where is that?
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Down that. There's the boat house. Oh,
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Rainforest Cafe. There it is. Rainforest
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Cafe over there. Looking pretty dang
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amazing. You got uh World of Disney over
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that
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way. This is a pretty expansive
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footprint. Oh, there's the paddlefish,
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the boat, the river boat there. Used to
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be called something else. Now it's
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called the Paddlefish. And then of
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course down here you
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got you got Planet Hollywood, which is
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rethemed and redesigned since it opened
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in the early '9s. And then you got all
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the different garages. Where's Lime
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Garage? That Lime Garage. That might be
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Lime Garage over there.
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So far, the rope is holding on pretty
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good. The metal rope. My fear is always
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that this rope that's holding that. But
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what happens if that rope
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snaps? Is this thing turning on its own?
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Very comfortable right now. I got my
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seat. I got my my uh air legs legs.
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First time I did this. I think the fifth
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time in like 10 years that I've done
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this. First time I was really afraid.
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I'm not I'm not afraid. Go back. Was a
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little shaky, but I'm pretty good. What
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if I just You see, if you do this, you
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could really feel the thing sway.
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Beautiful view. Yeah. You could feel
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every movement up here, right?
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I don't feel anything. You don't feel
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it? You're used to it. 400 feet. No,
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we're about 270.
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The sign said 400 up to 400. Oh, it was
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windy. You were right. Yeah. I was
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wrong. Interesting. Okay. I go anywhere
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anywhere between 2 and 400 ft, but right
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now we're at about 260 270.
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Okay. Interesting. Does it tell you the
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height or you just know? No, it says the
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height on there. Mhm. Okay.
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Well, no. Actually, I can look around
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and see how tall I am cuz I know how
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tall everything else is around me.
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I've been judging by the sun. I've been
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here a long time. How long you been
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working here? I've been here going on 13
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years. So, you were in the old
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characters of flight deck. Characters in
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flight. Yes. Old school. I've been here
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since the second balloon. This is the
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fifth fifth balloon. Okay. This is
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helium. Yes. 6,000 cubic meters. Not hot
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air. Nope. The only hot air in this
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balloon is me.
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Thanks for the info.
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Very interesting about the height thing.
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I just assumed every time it was 400 ft.
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No. Be Mr. Toad's Wild Ride if it was.
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I do have an interesting question, but I
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don't know if I should ask you or not
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because it might frighten people. But
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what is the contingency plan if this if
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this breaks? Like if for some reason
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that steel rope you you have and the
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contingency plan, you have like a a
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lever that you pull. Uh no. Well, first
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of all, we just do that. Okay. Right.
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And then I have these four ropes right
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here, which are all command ropes that
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open different valves on the balloon
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that happen. Okay. But it would take
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about 5 hours to bend enough helium to
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get it to come down. So, we're floating
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around. Saloon has 9,000 lb of lift. So,
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we're floating around for 5 hours. Oh,
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yeah.
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All right, guys. You're going to feel a
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little tug on the line as we go down
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here.
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You answered a question I've wanted for
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years. Uh, there is a contingency plan.
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You turn around this way and you hold
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your phone here and you lean over, you
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get the balloon behind you. Oh, there
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you go. Get that, Randy.
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Got it. Yeah. Yeah, I think we got
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I learned something. I learned a lot of
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new things about this.
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Okay. We've built 110 of these balloons
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in 30 different countries. We've never
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had a cable detach. Okay.
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Right now in operation, we probably have
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60 balloons around the world. Really?
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Okay. You actually set my heart at ease
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because that was always the thing I was
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most worried about. And now I have I'm
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not Yeah. We would go up really high,
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really fast for a while. Yeah. Maybe
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about 12 15,000 ft before I could slow
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it down. Man, look at the the fear on
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everyone's face over there.
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I'm fine with that. But like I said, I
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haven't lost anybody this week. As long
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as I know we're not going to the
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stratosphere.
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Well, if anything in the world happens
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to this balloon right now other than
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getting hit by an airplane, I guarantee
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we're not going to fall. Okay. No,
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guaranteed we're going up. We're just
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going to keep going up. All right, guys.
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We're going to come to a stop here and
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go down the best slower. Hold on to the
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hand. This is the best ride I've ever
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had on this. Roll a little bit. You
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ready for the bump? Here comes the bump.
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Ready for the bump. Big bump. You ready?
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You ready? Hold on. Tight. Ready. Feel
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the bump.
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Hold on. Get your seat.
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I hope everybody enjoyed their flight.
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If I can get everybody to come around to
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my left. That was awesome. Watch your
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step, guys.
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You're great, man. Thanks for the info.
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I'm glad you enjoyed it. That was the
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best uh best balloon ride I've ever had.
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A 13 year 13-year cast member here.
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That was awesome. He uh he set my mind
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at ease
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now going down. Yeah. He would yank on
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those levers, the the other ropes, and
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eventually after 5 hours, we would start
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to descend. Yes. 5 hours. Is it wrong of
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me to want to do that again and hope
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that happens? That'd be a little out
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there around mid around 1:00 in the
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morning.
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It could get 5 hours late. You get a
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nice little sunrise.
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He could get a
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He could get a nap in the sunrise. It
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would be wild. One can drink. But so it
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would be 5 hours. What if he's not
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working though? What if it's someone
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else that doesn't know the the
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prerogative? Yeah, without a doubt that
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was the best balloon pilot I've ever
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had. learned a lot of great info. I uh
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definitely enjoyed that flight.
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Considerably enjoyed that flight.
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Even though they only take you, I don't
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know 65% of the way up. They do not give
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you a discount. No. Of the 65%. They
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don't give full 100% even though they'll
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take you to 400.
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What are you going to do? And the
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balloon's way up there. This is a
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recreation of the Max Factor building.
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It's currently still on Hollywood and
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Vine. It's the Hollywood Museum, but
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this is this is a thing you got like
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Mel's Diner on Hollywood and Highland.
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Not Hollywood, it's Hollywood and
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Highland over near the Chinese Theater.
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And this is uh this is a recreation of
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that. It's kind of neat that they did
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this pizza place here. And then you got
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the balloon up above. Very interesting
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that we only were 260 ft up. 400 ft is
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the height that it goes all the way up
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to. So, even if it's a little windy,
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they will still run it for a
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non-disounted rate. Walking by T-Rex,
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you can definitely tell it's a little
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busy out here because usually the
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standby line just to just to check in
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does not stretch all the way out here,
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but it does in fact this is the check-in
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line after people have already made
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their reservation and they've gotten
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their call back. But you can still walk
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in the gift shop if you so choose. walk
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in the gift shop and see the
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dinosaurs up
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here roaring and doing their thing. I
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ended up stopping at Joffrey's. Want
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some of my Joffre? I got a vanilla latte
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here. If this right here would, you
19:40
know, keep it from dozing off and going
19:42
extinct a little stay caffeinated. Might
19:45
help a little bit. Actually, I think the
19:48
last time I was at Springs, I ate here.
19:51
My buddy Jim and I, Jim and myself, I
19:54
should
19:55
say, were in here and we ate over in the
19:58
ice cave. It's pretty cool. I think that
20:01
might have been the last time I was at
20:02
Springs. Was that a couple months
20:05
ago? Right
20:11
here. Oh, he's he's snoozing. Guess the
20:11
the smell of the coffee didn't help.
20:13
He's got to consume it for him to stay
20:14
awake. Walking past the Lego store and
20:16
going to head into Worlds of Disney.
20:18
Eggos the salt and pepper shaker. I
20:21
didn't even realize these were a thing.
20:23
Mouse wares right here. You know, I
20:27
think last time I was you were in town,
20:29
we met up right here. Yeah, right here.
20:32
Actually, not at this exact spot next to
20:34
this, but we were a few a few feet over.
20:37
We didn't ride the balloon. You seen the
20:39
new stitch trailer? I did. Looks fun.
20:42
Yeah. Yeah, it looks pretty good. These
20:44
are These are cute little
20:47
guys. Problem with these hats is they
20:49
don't fit my big noggin. But now I'm
20:51
really disappointed cuz now there's a
20:52
Figment one that won't fit me. Want
20:55
anybody asking if there's any additional
20:56
sizes in the back? They just put the
20:58
sign here. No, we don't have any
21:01
additional sizes for these items.
21:04
Yeah, they probably look right at this
21:06
and then they ask for a cast number. Are
21:08
there any addition? What does this sign
21:09
mean? Do you have this in large? Do you
21:12
have this? No additional sizes for this
21:14
particular sign. Do you have this sign
21:16
in a smaller size? Can I just get this
21:19
sign in like a little little one? Yeah,
21:21
like business card. Business card sign.
21:24
Yeah, Stitch is taking over. Stitch is
21:27
definitely definitely taking over. I
21:29
think he's he's pretty much taken over
21:31
anyway, even before the new movie
21:33
trailer came out. Oh, this is nice.
21:36
Established 1971. See, I like spirit
21:38
jerseys. I just I don't really like
21:41
wearing things that are like warm. I'll
21:43
wear a hoodie that's a zip up sometimes,
21:45
but when it's something in clothes like
21:47
this. I mean, I do have some sweaters,
21:49
but I just don't have any spirit
21:50
jerseys. I don't know. I feel like once
21:52
I do the spirit jersey thing, I'm never
21:53
going to go back and I'm just going to
21:55
be the spirit jersey guy. Mansion
21:57
shirts. Here you got the standard
21:59
t-shirt here with the wallpaper, but
22:01
then you also got this one, which is
22:03
pretty nice. It has it's a collared
22:04
shirt with all the different items. Got
22:06
Leota and the hatchet and everything
22:08
from the mansion. That's tempting.
22:09
That's really tempting. Ditch just
22:11
started off as the world of world of
22:13
Disney spitting alien up there and now
22:15
he is a he's an international movie
22:18
superstar. I mean he's he's
22:20
internationally known but now he's going
22:21
to be a movie superstar and he started
22:23
out just spitting on guests in front of
22:25
world of Disney. Never forget your
22:27
roots, Stitch. Never forget where you
22:29
came from. It's the line for Gerard Deli
22:31
right here. Okay, it's busy.
22:35
Spring break. Sometimes the co-op has
22:37
some really good stuff in here.
22:39
Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.
22:41
I would say more times than not, they
22:42
have some good merch they don't have at
22:44
the other stores. Inside the cooperative
22:48
citrus shop, also known as the co-op,
22:51
co-op for short. Everyone Everyone calls
22:53
it the co-op. No one No one calls it the
22:54
citerative citrus. We're in the pin
22:57
store celebrating 25 years of pen
22:59
trading here at the parks. Got a few I
23:01
hadn't seen before. Like you got the
23:03
genie right over here. You got Aladdin.
23:05
Look at this Chesire cat one. That's
23:07
kind of interesting. Kind of 3D and very
23:09
interesting. I do collect Chesire pins
23:12
or Cheshire or Cheshire. I don't I call
23:14
them Cheshire Cat. I also do collect
23:17
genie pens as well. If I'll buy any
23:19
today, but I I do kind of like this. I
23:22
do kind of like this one though. And
23:23
then of course Stitch. I have a lot of
23:25
Stitch pens as well. I like the genie
23:28
one. The genie one is kind of the genie
23:30
one's calling me. I don't know. Maybe I
23:33
won't buy. Yeah, hold off on that one.
23:35
But if there's any other any other ones
23:38
in here, I can't can't pass up.
23:48
Photos on this carousel, if you look up,
23:48
are back when Springs first opened,
23:50
Disney Village first opened and stuff.
23:52
So, you kind of scroll around here. You
23:55
can see the old the old archway there.
23:58
It's kind of hard to tell from this.
23:59
There you go. There's another one of the
24:00
the old archways. You got the And then I
24:04
think up top here too, here's like a
24:05
artistic rendering of the carousel
24:07
there. And then up here are what is
24:11
going on up here. So he won't I'm not
24:13
sure exactly what that is. I don't I
24:16
can't really make out what that is. Can
24:18
you tell what that is up there? What is
24:20
that? I know what it is. Is right next
24:23
to Bricky, but I don't know what that
24:24
is. Yeah, that's the dinosaur, right?
24:27
Yeah, that is I don't know what those
24:28
characters are. That's old school. Oh,
24:31
and then there's the there's the what's
24:33
his name? Brickley. Brickley. I just
24:36
called him the Lego dinosaur or the Lego
24:39
dinosaur snake that's coming out of the
24:41
the water. That thing's been here since
24:42
like the '9s. Maybe even longer back
24:45
than
24:46
that. Rickley, I learned something new.
24:50
Ah, hello my old
24:52
friend. How are you? Well, I don't know
24:54
your age. I don't want to call you old.
24:55
I mean, you may be younger than me, but
24:57
you are a gator
24:59
here. Getting a little misty waterway.
25:02
Are we going to get to see the eruption
25:04
of the volcano today,
25:06
Gator? You getting a good video down
25:08
there? You get a better video when you
25:10
crouch down versus you get a better
25:13
video when you crouch down or you just
25:14
get a better angle? I was just getting a
25:16
different angle. A different angle. Let
25:17
me see. Let me see the What do you got
25:19
there? Something's wrong with your
25:20
phone. Yeah, it wasn't focused. It
25:21
wasn't focusing
25:23
right. So, I should get down lower like
25:25
this. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's good.
25:27
Yeah, like that. So, you get the mist.
25:30
Look at that.
25:32
Very good. I like that. But you don't
25:34
climb on the rocks, though. No. No. Can
25:36
you kneel on them? Is that climbing? No.
25:40
That's uh You're falling over and like
25:42
stopping yourself
25:43
from See, he
25:45
proves. Randy, what do you think the
25:47
odds of us seeing the volcano go off are
25:50
at this current moment in time? Not very
25:53
good. How long do you want to stand
25:55
there?
25:57
Have you ever seen the volcano? Yeah.
25:59
It's worth it. Yeah. And last time I was
26:02
here, it was very cold, so I just needed
26:04
it for the heat.
26:06
Really? Yeah. It was really cold last
26:08
time I was
26:10
here. I don't think the gator wants it
26:13
standing here. You're very angry.
26:15
Nothing
26:17
happened. You know, as soon as we walk
26:19
off though, it's going to erupt.
26:32
go. We're going to go inside the Lego
26:32
store. Take a look at this is made out
26:33
of Legos. You got Orange Bird on it. You
26:35
got the family with the Mickey ears.
26:36
They got a little Pluto down here made
26:38
out of. And there's Disney Springs right
26:40
there. And then you got a sign to
26:42
Disneyland. A sign to Tokyo, Hong Kong,
26:45
Shanghai, and Paris. All the Disney
26:48
properties and parks. So, we're going to
26:50
head. We're going to get in this line,
26:52
loop around. We're going to go in the
26:53
Lego in the Lego store. In the Lego
26:56
shop. Still got the line. It's very busy
26:57
out here, so you got to wait in the
26:58
queue. This isn't too bad of a line.
27:00
This person went under the classic TV
27:02
series Batmobile up here for
27:06
$149. Also go with this version for $59
27:09
right here. $149 for this. I guess this
27:12
is this new Jaws one right here. Fairly
27:14
new. Barely new. Check this out. Jabba's
27:17
sail barge right here. That's pretty
27:19
dang cool. Even has Java here, Salacius,
27:22
the whole band, the Gmorian Guards.
27:24
That's awesome, right? Going to I'm back
27:26
over here at this particular restaurant
27:28
overhead. Maria and Enzo's Pizzeria,
27:31
which is on the top floor. Going to get
27:33
a slice of pizza inside place called
27:37
Pizza Point. If you come in here, it's
27:39
called Pizza Point. You walk in and
27:42
there's a quick service pizza place
27:43
right over here. Slices are pretty good
27:44
down here. You got all the different
27:46
flavors over here. Here you got the
27:47
oralana flavor right over here. You got
27:50
cheese. You got some of the feta cheese
27:52
right there and the Canadian bacon right
27:54
there. Armicotta they call it. And this
27:58
is not really a lot of people in here.
27:59
There's even some tables available. As
28:01
busy as Springs is, there are tables
28:03
available in here. And you got the pizza
28:06
master right there. They're cooked in
28:07
this little little machine right here
28:08
called the pizza master. And here's the
28:11
prices. It looks like there $7 a slice,
28:14
four cheese, $8.95 for the
28:17
paracotta. You got a pretty dang good
28:20
little quick service here at Disney
28:23
Springs. You got the regular slices and
28:25
then you got the chunky sp chunky slices
28:28
here, which is a little deeper dish, I
28:29
guess. Oh, yes. A nice little stop off
28:32
here. I got some Tuscany water right
28:34
here. They got the uh veggie veggie
28:38
pizza with all these Sprite and I got
28:41
the Aqua Hana Tuscany natural spring
28:44
water right over here. All right. Had
28:47
some delicious pizza. Now I think I'm
28:48
going to go down here get myself a
28:50
cookie. The balloon is still running at
28:52
this hour. There's no one in line, but
28:54
you could still go if you wanted right
28:55
now. Can get a ticket to the balloon and
28:58
go up in the balloon. Still still
29:00
operational at the moment. But yeah,
29:02
that Starbucks is not open but walls at
29:04
this Starbucks. One thing I do like
29:05
about this Starbucks is the fact that
29:07
they have a hole right there in the
29:09
little in the little over section, which
29:11
they call the little awning that lets
29:13
this palm tree go up through the roof.
29:16
That hole would not be there if that
29:18
palm tree did not exist. So that palm
29:20
tree right there is the only reason that
29:22
hole in the roof was
29:25
created. Starbucks. Starbucks
29:32
facts. Summer house on the lake. Cookie
29:32
time. All right. They definitely have
29:34
quite the selection. It was kind of hard
29:35
to choose which one of these really
29:37
extreme cookies they have, but I ended
29:39
up going with something called a It was
29:41
called a salted chip, which is like
29:43
chocolate chip, but it has salt on it. I
29:45
ended up getting getting the salted chip
29:48
walking past the movie theater. Snow
29:50
White the movie is going to be coming
29:51
out very, very soon. I'm not sure if I'm
29:54
going to be going to see it immediately,
29:55
if I'm going to wait a little bit, but
29:57
yeah, kind of interested to see how how
29:59
that's going to be. And I've already
30:01
eaten half of my from the Summerhouse
30:04
Santa Monica. Guess it's based on Santa
30:07
Monica, California, where the pier is.
30:09
Summerhouse chocolate chip salty
30:12
chocolate chip cookie. It's pretty
30:14
actually a pretty good mix of chocolate
30:16
and salt. Standing in front of House of
30:18
Blues here. I don't think there's any
30:20
show
30:21
tonight. Oh yeah, the old uh the old
30:23
House of Blues. You got Splitzville down
30:25
there. House of Blues gift shop. One
30:28
building I've never been inside of the
30:30
Cirus Sole. Lenuba. Okay, now it's
30:32
called Circus Sole, but I think at one
30:34
time it was Lenuba. Been in House of
30:35
Blues many, many, many times, but never
30:38
been in Cirus Sole. We're here once
30:39
again looking at the balloon above the
30:41
Starbucks. This is not open. There is a
30:42
Star Wars store and there was like a
30:45
full-size Ewok inside the Star Wars
30:47
store. And they also had different
30:48
different helmets. They had the Vader
30:50
helmet, like the two-piece Vader helmet.
30:52
They also had a Kylo helmet and things
30:53
like that. The thing that most impressed
30:55
me though, I never seen that Ewok inside
30:57
there, but they had the they had the
30:58
Ewok. And I think I'm going to start
31:00
heading out now. Start heading home.
31:02
There's a fountain
31:03
there. Heading home. And another
31:05
fountain. This one's got a lot of
31:07
pennies down in there. There's a
31:08
fountain right here at the base of the
31:12
garage I parked at. Not It's pretty rare
31:16
I park at the lime garage, but I parked
31:18
at the lime garage today. Randy parked
31:21
at the orange garage. He told me he
31:22
usually parks at the lime garage and I
31:24
told him I normally park at the orange
31:26
garage. So, we're both doing the
31:28
complete opposite of what we normally do
31:30
as far as garages go. For those keeping
31:33
up and following along,
31:55
And that's going to do it for
31:55
today from Disney
31:59
Springs. Top of the parking
32:02
structure. Again, this is not the earful
32:05
tower that used to be at Hollywood
32:08
Studios. This is a different water
32:11
tower, but a water tower nonetheless.
32:15
Now I'm curious if it's like the
32:17
celebration water tower that has no
32:19
water in it. If that is just a fake
32:23
water tower just for appearances. I'm
32:26
going to say
32:27
yes. But to be honest, I do not
32:30
truthfully know the answer. Thanks for
32:33
watching. I'll see you in the next
32:34
video. The
32:35
vlog is over.