A Tiki Day At Disney Polynesian Resort -Trader Sam’s Grog Grotto / Eating At Ohana & Pool Fireworks
Disney's Polynesian Resort
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here as
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the recording of this Wednesday, October
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8th, 2025. I'm standing here on the
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balcony at my room overlooking
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7's Lagoon off in the distance. Disney's
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Polynesian Resort, Magic Kingdom's right
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over there. So, I think I'm going to
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start the day. My mom and dad are
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heading down to the pool and hot tub.
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This is pre- noon. I think it's right
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now it's probably about 9:30, maybe
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10:00 a.m. How about 10:00 a.m. I'm
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going to head over into Magic Kingdom.
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Take the Resort Montreal loop. One stop.
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Well, two stops. First stop is just
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going to be a brief moment to load more
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guests and unload guests over at the
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Grand Fian and then pop over into Magic
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Kingdom and maybe just do one attraction
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and then pop back over. But I wanted to
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just see how long it takes me to get
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over there close proximity from being at
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this particular resort hotel. And I
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can't, you know, staying here for a
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couple days. You cannot not go into the
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park. It's just, it's just so close.
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Obviously, not going to be in there a
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long time. We're going to be in there
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for a good time. Let me flip this back
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around and get the day started. I just
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love just love this balcony. I mean,
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this is this right here is the uh this
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is the selling point for booking this
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particular DVC room in my own opinion is
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just how how expansive the balcony is.
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All right, let's have ourselves a day.
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And I with each and every time I go and
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do anything, put them here in the
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videos. I'm inviting you. It's good to
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have you here. Join me,
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shall we? And my mom and dad are going
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to be catching some rays down there in
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the pool, getting a little sun a little
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bit later. Got a couple other friends
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showing up. And we are going to go over
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into the main building. That is the main
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check-in area for the Polynesian Resort
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built back in 71. But it's also where
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Trader Sam's Grog's Grotto is. So, we're
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going to try to get a table and get some
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midday snacks over there a little bit
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later. I know it does fill up pretty
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quickly, so might be easier said than
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done, but we're going to try to line up
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around 2:00 and get in there. Get in
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there by 3:00. In fact, there's my mom
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and dad right down there walking to the
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pool. There's mom heading to the pool.
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[snorts] Going to get her. She loves
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pools, loves hot tub. And my dad right
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behind her there. I am currently right
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here. You are here staying over here at
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the island tower. I am here now. Got to
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pop in the great ceremonial house which
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is also where Trader Sam's is and then
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going to walk up here to the second
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floor of the Montreal. Zip around and
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over into MK which is right out here. I
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was over here yesterday around 3:00 when
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it opened. The line was so incredibly
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long and I asked the cast member and she
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was saying that I need to line up over
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here around 2:00
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>> and get in line here because later in
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the day this becomes a 2-hour wait to
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get in as the day goes on. So I'll line
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up here later. Oh, I am happy to report
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that Captain Cooks, which always had one
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size of Joffrey's coffee. Even in the
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park, Joffrey's Coffee has always been
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the one size, which is kind of like a
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small in comparison to like if you go to
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like a big coffee chain like Starbucks
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or something. But I was told by the cast
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member this is the first day that they
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are now selling large cups of coffee at
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Captain Cooks and possibly in the park.
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So you can now get Joffre in two sizes.
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The other size up to where my thumb is,
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but now they have a large one. That is
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awesome cuz I do like a large coffee. So
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this is uh this is what's happening. I
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uh she said she thinks today was the
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first day. Could have been yesterday,
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but the cups are brand new.
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Update new news flash. Yeah, I always
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like over here like this photograph of
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Walt and Lillian right there where they
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got their lays on. They're in the
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Polynesian vibe. This is kind of
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interesting, too. This boat right here.
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They used to have these. You can rent
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these out at the Pali. It's kind of like
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a little uh little like gazebo. Like a
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little gazebo on water of sorts. Kind of
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neat. I love the love the Polynesian
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Resort. So happy to be So happy to be
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staying here. Look at the tiki carvings
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right up there. It's like that's from
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the tiki room. Now that I'm getting
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caffeinated, I can take the stairs up to
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the second floor. Right up there is
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where the Montreal is going to be
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boarding. So, just really, really,
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really close to my room. Not just a I
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don't know, few 30 yards, 40 yards.
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That's the express Montreal.
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It's 10:42 right now. Just got to the
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Montreal platform. 1042. See how quick I
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can get to the park. Resort Montreal
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will be coming the other way. As far as
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close proximity to getting into Magic
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Kingdom the fastest, I would say Bay
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Lake's probably the easiest because you
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can just walk out of the resort and walk
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over. But this is pretty dang
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convenient. Also, this is pretty dang
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convenient. You just walk up, jump on
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the Montreal. It's like a lot of people
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have the same idea as well. One stop at
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Grand Fian and then right after that,
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Magic Kingdom.
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Not even sure what I'm going to do over
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there. Going to meet up with a buddy who
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stayed in one of the rooms last night.
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He popped over early for early entry, so
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I'll meet up with him for a minute.
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>> All right. Took a little longer to get
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over here than I was thinking, but made
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it in a decent time. It's 5 minutes
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until 11:00. 5 minutes
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till 11:00.
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Now heading in Magic Kingdom. I'll at
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least try to do one attraction, but
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definitely not a park day. Just wanted
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to pop over cuz I am so close. Just
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makes sense to just pop in. Get a nice
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little view here.
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Another Montreal pulling in. Express
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Montreal pulling in the station right
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there.
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Pulling into
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the train station.
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Nice. Perfect timing. The train
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approaches
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just before 11:00 a.m. Love it. Love it.
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All right. Got to meet up with David
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who's over here. He hit early entry this
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morning at 7 or 8:00 or 8:30. The park
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opened at 9:00. He headed out of the
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hotel earlier and headed down to try to
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do early entry, but evidently Haunted
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Mansion is is stuck on Haunted Mansion
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for the last 10 minutes, he said. So,
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the line is not moving currently
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for Mansion.
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But I got to find a ride. And I got to
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see what he hasn't done and at least do
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one attraction while I'm here before
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heading back over to the hotel for
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Trader Sam's pool time, pool and hot tub
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time and dinner a little bit later at
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the restaurant with my mom and dad
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at the bottom at the base of the new DVC
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tower. I can't remember the name of it,
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but they got some pretty good food. I
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ate there once with my friend Kevin
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Heimbach and they had pretty good they
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had a pretty good burger, but they also
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have some kind of, you know, Hawaiian
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type of type of items like msubi and
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things like that. So, I might try some,
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you know, pokey and some msub a little
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bit later.
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The haunted mansion.
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I guess one of the 999 happy haunts
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caused some issues in there, but there's
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room for a thousand.
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>> Any volunteers
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over here at the pet cemetery?
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>> He's making his way off. You don't look
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happy. Either way,
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>> I was in a seance room for like 15
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minutes.
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>> You were in the Leota room for 15
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minutes. [laughter]
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>> Just sitting there.
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>> Are you now uh Have you been haunted?
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>> I'm a little bit. I'm a little haunted.
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>> I need to ask you a question. So, you're
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you're you're the Disneyland expert guy.
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I don't know if this this might fly here
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more than at Disneyland. So, you know
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Mr. Toad's up here, right, David?
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>> Yeah.
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>> So, look up here.
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>> See him now? Yeah.
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>> Yeah. Mr. Toad is right up there.
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>> So, is that So, he's dead.
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>> Well, the ride they got rid of the ride
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here.
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>> They did. Yes. So they put him in the
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pet cemetery.
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>> Is that the toad that was in the queue?
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>> I don't know if he No, he wasn't in the
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queue, but they just put him up here
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with all these other all these other
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pets.
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>> Do you think I I thought when they
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closed Splash Mountain they were going
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to put Bray Rabbit up there.
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>> Do you ever see that happening?
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>> Well, but that this this suggests that
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they're passed on, right?
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>> Yeah, but Bray Rabbit is extinct.
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>> But maybe they can't kill a rabbit like
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I don't know. Like a rabbit has nine
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lives like a cat.
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>> I mean, I see I know that Arto
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met the dark end on our ride.
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>> He goes he goes
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>> to
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>> to Hades.
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>> To Hades.
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>> Yeah. Yeah. Goes to hell. Double aka
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double hockey stick.
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>> I don't know. Like I guess it makes
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sense that he would be here in that
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sense.
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>> One more thing. You stayed in the room
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so you got early access this morning.
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Was it worth getting here early?
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>> It wind up being completely useless
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because Seven Dwarfs My Train opened 30
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minutes late
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>> and that was that was my rope drop ride.
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So
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>> So it didn't work out.
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>> Well, it did. I It It worked. I got here
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much quicker than I normally would.
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>> But all of it was to waste because I
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didn't get to actually I didn't even get
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on dwarves until Oh, wow.
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>> maybe like 10 after 9.
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>> It's the thought that counts.
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>> No. Yeah, I was I really enjoyed it
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actually.
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>> All right. Going to head back over to
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the hotel now. Maybe I'll take one of
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the boats over. Put the Montreal in.
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Maybe I'll take one of the little boats
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back over to the Polly.
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Love the main street vehicles.
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Love it. Love it.
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I think this might be for some reason I
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thought it was going to be one of the
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little smaller boats, but it might be
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this big yellow boat.
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Goes over to
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Grand Fian and the Polynesian
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right, backing out of the dock. Going to
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the Grand Fian first and then the Poly.
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Two quick stops cross 7 seas Lagoon.
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Right over here is where the old wave
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machine was when the Polynesian the 7C's
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first opened. There used to be a wave
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machine in there. Quickly started to
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erode the shoreline by the Polynesian
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village and resort. So they got rid of
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the wave machine. Didn't last very long,
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but this is where it was right over
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there. Overgrown
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>> on that island. This is a free floating
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>> think like kind of over in this area
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for your safety if you're seated.
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>> And there's the DVC tower I'm staying at
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right there.
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It's kind of hard to tell from here, but
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I think our room is right there. Kind of
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where like the right there in the
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middle. That's the general area. I think
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it's like right there. What the heck?
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Hitchcock
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would be proud. What is going on out
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here? What is happening?
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What the heck?
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Oh, wow. This truly is a Hitchcock
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moment. Okay, what is happening? Why are
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these swirling around?
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Hundreds
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of crows.
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What the for real? Why is this like What
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is happening? What is happening? What is
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happening up there birds? Why are you
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circling the DVC tower?
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Oh my goodness.
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This is something out of a horror film,
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right?
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>> [panting]
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>> I wonder if it was like this yesterday,
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cuz yesterday we checked in at 4:00. So
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maybe this time of the day, prior to
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that time, it's 1:00 right now. Maybe
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they circle around
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circling around seven seas.
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This is uh
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interesting.
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all over.
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>> I have I at 1:45 I end up getting in
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line, talked to a cast member at Trader
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Sam's. There was probably 20 people in
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front of me. put my name number in for 3
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p.m. Going to get a response back at 3
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p.m. Might have to share a table with
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another group, but got a group of three,
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possibly four to go inside Trader Sam's
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and going to pop in there. So, it'll be
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the first time I'm actually going to be
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able to get a snack, maybe a mocktail in
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Trader Sam. I think there was one other
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time me and my buddy Tiki Jay from
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California, we were able to go in and we
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just kind of stood right up at the bar
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and I got a mocktail then, but I've
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never sat at a table in there and spent
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a decent amount of time. So hopefully
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should be able to get in by 3. Lucked
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out at 1:30, 1:40ish. Cast member
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started taking taking the line down and
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taking all the names down and
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everything. And then also the restaurant
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based at the bottom of the DVC tower
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which is called W Lulu. Wulu. W A I L U
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L U. Bar and grill to go. They do not
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have reservations. They only have walk
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up. And I was asking my mom wanted to
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eat around 7 to 8:00 around that time
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frame. And the cast member said around
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that time it's going to be a 90minute
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wait. So, I made another decision and I
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thought, I've never eaten at Ohana. So,
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I asked my mom and dad if they could eat
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anything at Ohana. I've eaten at Kona
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before, but I've yet to eat at Ohana and
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I've heard good things. They said yes. I
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went ahead and booked a reservation for
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Ohana later this evening. So, we're
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going to get an all we care to eat meal
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from Ohana. So, going to do a little
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Trader Sam's and then relax for a few
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hours, then some Ohana, and then after
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that, I'm going to try to watch the
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fireworks from the pool at 9:00 p.m.
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Last night, the fireworks were at 10:00
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p.m. because they were doing the
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Halloween party over at Magic Kingdom,
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but tonight there's no party, so the
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fireworks are at 9:00. Okay, that was a
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lot to digest for anyone that's
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watching, but wanted to keep everyone up
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to date and just remind myself mentally
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that's the plan.
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There's Maui down there. I think that I
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think that Tiki's name is Maui. So, to
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reiterate, 3:00 p.m. Sam, 6:45 Ohana.
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So, I'll be back over here at 6. I'm
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excited. I've never ever eaten at Ohana,
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and I've heard nothing but good things.
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Always heard good quality things about
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this place. All right, heading back to
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the room for a little bit. Let's see.
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Crows.
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They're Look at this.
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That is again, that is something else.
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Right.
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That is that is something something you
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don't see every day. Also, cast members
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are going out to the pontoon.
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>> You got the shirt. Look at this shirt.
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Specially made.
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>> Uh, no, I didn't.
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>> Oh, so you just they somebody already
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made it.
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>> Somebody Somebody made it on the
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internet. I got it.
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>> Okay.
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>> Got to love the internet. You can get
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anything.
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>> Anything you want.
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>> The crows are back. Well, they never
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left.
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Do you think the balcony needs to be a
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little bit bigger? You think the balcony
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needs to be bigger out here?
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>> I don't. It's a It's a
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>> little smaller.
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>> This is a huge
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>> You don't even need the You don't even
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need the rest of the place. You just
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need the balcony.
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>> My favorite thing about this room is the
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balcony.
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>> Look at that. You can see up top from
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>> Yeah. You see Spaceship Earth over
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there. You see Tower Terror. You see
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Guardians.
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You see crows [laughter] flying around.
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It's 3:00.
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Time to go in.
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>> It's like winning the lottery. It is.
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>> You got to
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go through a whole bunch of different
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steps to get in here.
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>> You won the tiki lottery.
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>> All right, it's now 302.
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>> Heading in.
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>> Thank you.
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>> Trader s. Hello.
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Oh, there we go.
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>> And the three of you, you can please sit
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on the bench. We have another two guests
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coming to
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>> All right. Thank you.
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>> All right. They have moved us over to
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the surfboard now, which is kind of
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cool. Over to the surfboard.
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Take a look at the menu here. There are
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a couple of Sam's no booze bruise
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mocktails, a Skipper sipper, and
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Schwitzer.
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It's kind of neat to be one of the first
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ones in here. This is going to fill up
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very, very quickly. Very, very quickly.
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All right, get a little look around in
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here. Different decor
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going around here. Got You know what's
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interesting? I used to I used to have
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one of these carved pirates right there.
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>> I used to have that very carved pirate.
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Look at the orange bird.
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Got the orange bird right there. And
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then there's the
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>> Brady tiki. Is that the Brady Bunch
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Tiki? It's a tiki that looks like the
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Brady Bunch Tiki. There's the Nautilus
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>> right up top.
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>> Is that Walt? I think that's Walt right
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there. Tough to tell from here, but I
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think that is Walt.
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This with the squid. 20,000 leagues
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under the sea. They got a little box up
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here. Little fisherman's crab box.
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this little carved tiki. Then you got
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this.
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>> What is that called? A horse. What's
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that called? A uh sea fish or seahorse.
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Seahorse. Sea fish. What I'm saying?
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Seahorse. It's the word [music] I was
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looking for. And then you got all the
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decor behind the bar as well, including
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the squid tentacle coming out of there.
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And then all the different tikis that
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are tiki mugs that are placed up here. I
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see the piranha. up top right over there
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for fish up top.
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>> Now you do when you sit in here, you sit
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at a table. You have to sit with others
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at the table. We're sitting at the
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circle where we're sitting across
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across from other people. Originally, we
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were going to sit over here. We would
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have sat across from someone. Now, they
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sat us across from someone at the at the
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surfboard area.
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[music] So yeah, you got to got to share
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tables with other guests.
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I mean, everywhere you look, there's
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like a little something hidden in here.
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Just love the theming of just tiki bars
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in general, though. Also like Trader
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Sam's on both coasts. They're both
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called Trader Sands, but they do have
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different names. This is Grog's Grotto,
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and then in California, it's the
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Enchanted Tiki Bar.
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Oh, look at this. So, there's like a
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little
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thing here. Parrot jungle. Here's some
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of the mugs that they sell over here.
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You got the Nautilus. You got this cute
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little guy. I don't think they sell
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this. I think that's just a card. But
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they got the zombie that you could
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purchase as well. If you want to if you
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want a zombie, you can get these over in
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the boutique, which is the tiki shop
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that's in outside of Trader Sam's. It's
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in the main area, the main check-in area
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for the Polynesian.
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Oh, you got to love this. You got the
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lanterns on the wheel, the ship wheel
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right there. And then you go through the
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little bamboo flaps over here towards
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the table. You head in. There's just
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stuff everywhere. If you look up,
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there's like photographs up there to the
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wall. Different lights, all kind of
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stuff. Got photographs just like all all
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up here. Stap
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stapled up to the beams.
21:19
Oh, take a look at this. Almost like in
21:22
the cheeky room. They got all the
21:24
carvings here going down. These don't
21:26
sing, however.
21:31
And these don't hang. The mouths don't
21:31
move on these. But that is cool. I never
21:33
noticed that before.
21:42
Oh, it's
21:42
>> I can see it in your eyes.
21:45
You have never been as scared as you are
21:47
right now.
21:49
But it's about to get scarier
21:53
cuz I'm about to show you your ride.
22:18
>> And the plane.
22:18
Uh-oh.
23:03
Oh, that's awesome,
23:03
>> dude. How cool was that? That was cool.
23:11
I felt rain here. Hey, it rained on me.
23:12
That was awesome.
23:14
>> Somebody must have ordered the Oh, I do
23:16
that. Every time you order this, it
23:18
starts to rain in here.
23:21
>> I wonder if they do something for every
23:22
single thing. I don't know. What do they
23:24
do? Like gouge out your eye without
23:26
>> a zombie? Another color just like an
23:28
eyeball. It's the purple in there.
23:30
>> Yeah. I wonder what the other ones they
23:32
do.
23:34
>> Probably for the mocktail. They do
23:36
nothing. Probably just walk up and slap
23:38
you in the face.
23:40
>> That's it.
23:41
>> Sort of magical things are happening
23:43
here in this corner of the bar. I know
23:47
you all must be so confused in the giant
23:49
clam in the middle of the bar just going
23:51
twinkly noises.
23:54
Right. Everybody prepare yourselves cuz
23:58
we are about to witness something so
24:00
magical that people actually line up in
24:03
the hallway for 90 minutes.
24:06
>> Behold the one, the only, THE IRIDESCENT
24:13
PERITZER
24:22
FALLS.
24:22
>> WHAT' you get? Skipper sipper or
24:24
schwitzer falls.
24:24
>> Schwitzer got put up here. Skipper
24:27
>> skipper sipper. There it is.
24:31
>> Stir it. Sure. Stir.
24:32
>> Stir it.
24:33
>> All right. There's the hot tip.
24:36
>> Little strong in the bottom.
24:38
>> That's good though.
24:52
>> Oo. That's good. It's good. [music]
24:52
>> That's good. Yeah.
25:03
>> All right. This is the snacks we're
25:03
dealing with. A little dumpling action
25:05
here with some uh sauce. Got the
25:07
flatbread.
25:08
>> Flatbread. And what did Jake? Tuna roll.
25:11
Tuna roll. Look at that. This all looks
25:14
good.
25:16
The dumplings are uh dumplings are
25:18
dumpling it up. What's all on that? Uh,
25:24
cheese. It's a meat.
25:31
>> Bacon, peanut sauce.
25:31
>> Bacon and peanut sauce.
25:33
>> What is that? What are the big chunks of
25:35
stuff?
25:37
>> Is that bacon?
25:38
>> That's
26:04
If you don't stop swimming, you're going
26:04
to swim.
26:18
>> Hippos. How do you get hippos out of the
26:18
trees?
26:19
How do you get the hippos out of the
26:22
>> How do you get the hippos out of the
26:23
trees? I don't know.
26:26
>> That's how.
26:28
>> All right, I'm doubling down on the
26:30
mocktails. I went with a sipper skipper.
26:32
Also, I'm trying both of the
26:35
non-alcoholic beverages in here. And I
26:38
decided to go ahead and get the Trader
26:40
Sam's Grogado mug as well. So, the first
26:43
drink I got for did not get the mug with
26:46
it. The second one, they're going to put
26:48
this towards [music] the price of the
26:49
mug, which they don't normally do with
26:51
normally you have to get the alcoholic
26:53
one. She's like, I'll just I'll [music]
26:54
do it.
26:56
>> Throw it in with the price of the mug.
26:58
>> That's kind of nice. But not for the
27:00
first one. Only for this one.
27:03
>> Well, I mean, you guys are my
27:05
>> round two.
27:08
This is the one that
27:09
>> went off the rails.
27:10
>> The one that Albert used to get when it
27:14
>> like that better. All right, I stand
27:15
corrected. I don't like this as much.
27:17
This is kind of bitter.
27:20
Has like a little bit of like a bitter
27:22
kind of bitter, right?
27:44
We're underwater now. We're underwater.
27:44
We're underwater.
27:58
>> She blasted me. I wasn't swimming hard
27:58
enough.
28:00
Come on, Jake. Swim.
28:03
How long can you tread water?
28:31
Notice the little cheeky girls up there.
28:31
Top of the
28:51
>> Oh, no.
28:51
Like we're in Florida. Like I don't I've
28:54
never
29:18
sunken gardens pennant
29:18
right there in St. hate still there.
29:23
>> Sunken gardens.
29:25
>> I can see you are terrified of a special
29:29
event.
29:36
This is millions of dollars of Disney
29:36
Imagineer workmanship. [laughter]
29:42
I think they have this at Guardians of
29:42
the Galaxy.
29:48
Very
29:57
hot weather
29:58
finish
30:18
mug. achieve little souvenir. My first
30:18
tiki mug that I've got that has the
30:20
words grog grt on the back. Trader Sam's
30:22
grog grat. Of course, the one out of
30:24
Anaheim is Trader Sam's enchanted tiki
30:27
room. Kind of like that right there. And
30:29
now I'm got that's going to add to one
30:32
of my little shelving or mantel pieces
30:34
or whatever kind of storage area I
30:36
decide when I get home. So, right over
30:39
there in that building is where I just
30:40
was. The the base of that building right
30:42
there is where Trader Sam was. And it
30:44
was kind of nice to just kind of hang
30:47
out with some friends in there. And then
30:49
here in a little bit, me, my mom, and my
30:52
dad are going to go over to Ohana. Jim
30:54
and Jake had to head out. They're off to
30:57
do other things today, but they wanted
30:59
to pop in and see Trader Sam with me, so
31:03
that's what we did.
31:06
Love this. This is so cool. Like it. Oh,
31:09
there's a spiderwe right here. I don't
31:11
know if it shows up right there on
31:13
camera, but yeah, crows, birds, spiderw
31:17
webs, what kind of adventure, all kind
31:19
of adventurous activities out here. We
31:22
relaxed at the room just for a little
31:24
while. Now going to head down to Ohana.
31:28
Right down there. Well, right down
31:30
there. Back down to that same area.
31:33
Trader Sam's is over there as well, but
31:35
past that and that other main building
31:37
is Ohana. It's time for some food. All
31:39
right, it's now time to check in. Go
31:42
home. Our table is ready.
31:45
Being seated now. Yeah, I've never been
31:48
in this section before. I only seen it
31:50
from the outskirts.
31:56
Oh, this is going to be cool.
31:56
I believe it's like an all you care to
31:58
eat type of thing. See them down there
32:00
cooking the all the meat.
32:08
And our seats are right over here by the
32:08
window.
32:09
Take a look at this. You got the good
32:12
angle there.
32:17
>> Look, we're looking. You can almost see
32:17
if you look really closely over there,
32:18
you see the castle.
32:25
>> Yeah, I love all the tiki carvings up
32:25
here. And I love the roof, the thatch
32:27
roof. It definitely has that, you know,
32:28
tiki room vibe. No birds up there
32:30
singing, but it has that same kind of
32:32
same kind of vibe as if you were at Walt
32:34
Disney's enchanted tiki room in some
32:36
ways. Got some bread here and butter.
32:39
Got some salad stuff. Tonging it out
32:41
there. This is a family style feast.
32:43
It's all you care to eat, chicken,
32:46
veggies, stir fry. All right, here we
32:49
go. This is what we're dealing with.
32:51
This is a platter full of all different
32:53
kind of things. You got dumplings, got
32:55
chicken wings, and you got some noodles
32:58
over here, and then the veggies are down
33:00
in there. So, it's a little bit of
33:02
everything. So, you kind of had to move
33:04
everything around to see it all, but you
33:06
got some broccoli, got some carrots, got
33:09
the dumplings, [music]
33:11
a little mish mash of a bunch of
33:13
different stuff. I did have some
33:15
something similar to the dumplings over
33:16
down below at Trader Sam's, which fun
33:20
fact is directly below. So, Trader Sam
33:24
is directly below where we're sitting.
33:26
So, same same area.
33:30
>> There it is. I love chicken wings.
33:34
>> How are they?
33:35
>> Wonderful.
33:36
>> They're good.
33:39
>> Are they spicy or just normal?
33:41
>> Not spicy. They taste good. Nice salt on
33:44
them.
33:51
>> What's this?
33:51
>> Those are dumplings. They're probably
33:52
going to have some sort of a meat item
33:54
inside of them.
34:04
pepperc corn steak and shrimp. They got
34:04
some shrimp right there. And there's
34:06
still more more on its way. Okay, the
34:09
pepperc corn steak. If I've ever had
34:11
pepperc corn steak and try some
34:26
welcome. Are we using our dining pass?
34:33
Maybe not this time around.
34:33
Save room for dessert. These are simple
34:36
but tasty pineapple coconut. [music] It
34:38
is served with some salt and caramel
34:40
sauce.
34:42
Just regular [music] barbecue pineapple
34:48
teriyak
34:51
and peel shrimp. [music]
35:05
All right. This is another chicken. This
35:05
is not a chicken wing. This is another
35:08
chicken dish here.
35:11
>> I'm sure there's a way to do this.
35:13
>> Grilled chicken.
35:14
>> Grilled chicken. That looks pretty good.
35:16
So, I'm going to get a get a chunk of
35:18
it. Piece of grilled chicken.
35:21
This is definitely a uh smores of food.
35:26
>> Okay, it's happening. It's starting to
35:28
slide down. This is bread pudding. Did
35:32
he say what flavor the bread pudding
35:33
was?
35:34
>> He did, but I don't remember it.
35:36
>> Big chunk of ice cream on the top. Warm
35:40
bread pudding. You got some syrup over
35:43
>> I think it's caramel.
35:44
>> Caramel syrup.
35:47
>> Apple.
35:47
>> Apple flavored.
35:49
Okay. I believe it's apples.
35:51
>> It looks good.
35:54
All right, we're we're finishing up the
35:55
the meal. Everything has been amazing.
35:58
Everything's been good. All right, that
36:01
was really good. I'll definitely have to
36:04
eat here again at some point. That was
36:06
That was good. That was
36:08
That was definitely worth it. That was
36:11
That was a tasty meal. A lot of food.
36:13
Lot of food. Lot of food. And now back
36:15
up at the room. I'm going to take I'm
36:16
going to put my bathing suit on and head
36:18
down to the pool where I will be able to
36:19
watch the fireworks over at Magic
36:21
Kingdom in about a half hour over off on
36:24
the horizon. Should get a pretty good
36:26
view from the pool. Nice meal. And now
36:30
going for a nice night swim.
36:40
>> Yeah, real quick. Hopped down to the
36:40
pool right before 9 and had such a great
36:43
view. There was only a couple people in
36:45
the pool. There's a few people around
36:47
the pool watching in the pool area and
36:49
then quite a few people over on the
36:51
Polynesian beach, but I had the pool
36:53
pretty much to myself with the exception
36:55
of one or two other people. I was able
36:57
to watch the happily ever after
36:59
fireworks. And man, it was awesome to be
37:02
taking a little dip, taking a little
37:04
swim,
37:05
kind of stretching out, relaxing a
37:07
little bit in the pool. Pool water was
37:09
not too incredibly cool. It was It was
37:12
not cold. cold. I want to say it was
37:14
warm, but definitely not cold. So, it
37:15
was enjoyable even after sunset.
37:23
A nice little little top off. A little
37:23
polish off to the day. I don't know what
37:24
polish off means, but a a top off to the
37:27
day. A good ending to the day. I guess
37:29
that makes more sense.
37:31
Just kind of waiting in the pool. You
37:34
can see the fireworks really great from
37:37
the pool with the new DVC tower at the
37:39
Poly.
37:42
Really nice day. Hanging out with
37:44
friends, hanging out with my parents,
37:46
enjoying the room. This will be my last
37:49
night of the two night stay.
37:57
Definitely like like the new DVC wing,
37:57
the new DVC tower here at the Polynesian
37:59
Resort.
38:01
All right, thanks for watching. I'll see
38:03
you in the next video. I appreciate it.
38:07
I'll see you in the next video. The vlog