Staying In Closest Hotel Room To Magic Kingdom - Bay Lake Tower Two Room Villa / Room & Pool Tour
Bay lake Tower Two Room Villa
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welcome everyone Adam the Wu here has a
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recording of this Monday December 12th
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2022 Christmas season is in full effect
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as shown here down on Market Street here
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in Celebration Florida I will be taking
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a very short commute
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to Walt Disney World property there's a
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leaf blower right over there
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par for the course pretty much
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the next series of days I will be
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staying at Disney's contemporary resort
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Bay Lake Tower which is the newest
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edition part of DVC and I'll be staying
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there one night with my mom and dad and
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then another night or two with my mom
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who has recently become an annual pass
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holder so the next series of days I will
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be at Bay Lake Tower tonight have a
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Theme Park View room which I'm really
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excited about technically check-in is
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until 4 P.M it's about 11 30 now I'm
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gonna head over there see if I can get
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early check-in and if I can't I'll pop
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into Magic Kingdom got my magic band I
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booked a reservation it's going to be a
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fun series of days Christmas time
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is here
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Jordan shall you just about 11 30. just
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waiting for the bicycle and the minute
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hand to move over there I also booked a
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reservation for dinner tonight at
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Steakhouse 71. oh there it goes and
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we'll have a balcony to watch the
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fireworks we will be in Magic Kingdom
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later to see the fireworks we'll be able
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to see them from the balcony part of the
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perks of getting a theme park room at
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the Theme Park View room I only have for
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one night the other night I gotta move
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over to the Bay Side if I get it pretty
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dang awesome and this all worked out
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coincidentally kind of in a good way
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the only annual passes that are on sale
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right now are the Florida resident
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Monday through Friday which is the one I
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got my mom
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but they are blacked out after this week
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until New Year's you wanted to see the
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Christmas stuff I wanted to go with her
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and I checked yesterday morning and Bay
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Lake is usually booked up this time of
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year but Bay Lake was available so I
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grabbed I grabbed it for a couple of
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nights three nights and it'll be extra
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nice because they'll have to park a TTC
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take the tram over take the ferry boat
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over and just walk
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oh a couple hundred yards
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from Bay Lake to Magic Kingdom when we
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go in I went ahead and parked over here
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the Bay Lake Tower parking area
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monorail going by
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so contemporary is there
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Bay Lake Tower is here I will be on this
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side this evening
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facing Magic Kingdom to go in and see if
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I can request a floor
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I'm not sure if I can or not but I'm
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here early enough to ask the way Disney
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Vacation Club works is you buy in at a
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certain number of points that you can
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use each and every year over the term of
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your contract usually like a 40
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42-46 year contract and you can use
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those points every year now the points
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change during peak times of the year
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right now like the first two weeks of
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December they are a little bit less than
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the last two weeks of December so if I
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were to book the same room next week you
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know
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Christmas week up till New Year's it
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would probably be about twice the points
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of what I am utilizing for the room
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today it's still you know a lot of
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points but it would be considerably more
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if I did not have the availability to
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book this week all right I put my name
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in room not quite ready yet but taking
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the very short walk
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the monorail heading around the loop
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here at the bus barn we're at the bus
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barn but the bus depot where everyone
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gets dropped off my room will be right
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up there on that side that's how close I
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am to Magic Kingdom I'm only popping in
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here for a brief moment
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until my room's ready I definitely want
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to check on the train this is a lily
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Bell there's also the Walt and the Roy
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this is a lily belt number two
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foreign
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they have removed the water slash
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sandbags off of there too so if the
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train is ready for gas it's just not
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open today
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still have not announced an opening day
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but hopefully soon be nice to post
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Falls over Bay Lake over the next series
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of days of this thing open I could just
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walk right over and go on it quick
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little stop off and I'm gonna head back
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out I actually need to get a coffee here
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at some point so I think I'm gonna head
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out grab a coffee somewhere and then go
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back over to Bay Lake area
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on the way out I want to show this
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poster I'll be able to watch the Disney
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enchantment fireworks this evening from
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the balcony I believe at 8 15. you are
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the magic
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even though I got here kind of early to
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request the room that was a little
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higher up I've always heard if you get
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go up to the front desk you know before
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check-in and just ask for like a higher
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floor room sometimes it works out I
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think it's going to work out today
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however I don't know if early entry or
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early check-in is going to be available
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because pretty much the hotels are in
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capacity this time of year so it might
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be closer to four but we'll see I'm here
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early so hope to see what happens you
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got to twist my arm to just kind of
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lounge around the Contemporary self-made
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mocha initiated hot chocolate packet
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with regular coffee learned that during
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staying here during the Hurricanes my
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friend hey bricky taught me that
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we stayed over at Bay Lake then too but
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the parks weren't open our first time
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staying at Bay Lake I have to stay at
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the Contemporary proper I stayed in here
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once but I've never stayed at Bay Lake
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wild Magic Kingdom was open for business
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but I did purchase this new pen right
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here has the 50th logo on it and also
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has the the monorail going by Mickey and
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Minnie and
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as the you know the little 50
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contemporary logo at the bottom of it
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there goes another one cruising by that
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has the 50 wrap on it and everything I
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think I'm gonna wander around a little
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bit since my room's not ready they
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actually notified me and said be patient
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the room will be ready soon but it's not
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ready yet so I think I'm gonna walk
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around the property and just do a little
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property tour got one of the pools over
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there now that's the pool specifically
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for Bay Lake Tower there are a couple at
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the Contemporary also that any guests
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could stay at here in this little
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Courtyard that's like almost like a back
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side of the Horseshoe here not the back
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side of waters this is the water here so
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this would be the Bay Lake Side not the
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Theme Park View side or at least one of
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the bay bay lakesides and there's also
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different activities as well there are
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some there's like a chess board there's
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a shuffleboard there is some what they
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call hacky sag the hacky sack it's a
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cornhole and things like that and it's a
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pretty decent pool and the pool is like
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a water slide as well very unique way
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water fly you can go down if you so
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choose we'll be hitting that a little
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bit later well hello little bunny chew
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it on a leaf this little bunny is making
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eye contact me while it's chewing down
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on that leaf hello we're having a stare
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down buddy I think you might win I think
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you're not you're not gonna turn away
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and stop staring until you up guys I won
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the only thing on the main agenda today
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as the monorail goes by is to check into
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the room it is just about five minutes
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until three o'clock check-in is at four
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but there's been times I've checked into
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some of the resorts at one o'clock noon
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two o'clock as stated it is the holiday
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so that's probably why but also some
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hidden Mickeys here on the ground and
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we've got 5 50 p.m me and my parents are
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going to be eating over at Steakhouse 71
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for dinner and then at 8 15 the
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fireworks over at Magic Kingdom will be
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able to view from up here once we check
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into our room and at just after three
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o'clock is 308
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checked into the room
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and
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room tour this is a two
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bedroom Villa
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which is really nice this is the living
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room here
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you have a little Space Mountain artwork
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here you got a table
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with uh
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a little cut outside here where you
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could
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you know sit a group of people around
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here as well my parents have arrived
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they are putting their stuff away in
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their room got a big TV here
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as well you got a big open window that
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looks out
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upon the parking lot the monorail beams
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Magic Kingdom over there the castle
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Space Mountain I got my luggage here I
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haven't put it in my room yet you got a
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couch here
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as well and then this is the kitchen
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there's a full-size kitchen here with a
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fridge
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and oven
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coffee maker no Keurig but a full-size
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coffee maker with the Joffrey's coffee
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a toaster oven I think you can sleep up
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to nine people if you really wanted got
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a little bar here with the two
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the two seats for the bar
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I really like this little area a lot
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got the fridge
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a dishwasher over there the oven as
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stated
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and then there's three different
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bathrooms so this is one bathroom
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so you have a main bathroom they still
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even though I think this company
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is called I call an equip the H2 ocean
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they still have I guess a back catalog
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of these that they're putting in all the
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rooms so if you stay here get yourself a
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little souvenir
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take some of this so you got the main
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bathroom there and then in here
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is
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a bedroom with two queen beds so I'm
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gonna be in this room my parents can be
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in the other bedroom with the king bed
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you got Mickey and Minnie up top there
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so I'll choose one of these beds got a
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TV in here as well
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a little table here
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and there are two balconies on this two
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bedroom Villa so this is one balcony so
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a pairs I have to choose which balcony
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we're gonna sit on watch the fireworks
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tonight at 8 15 but this is our view
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from the ninth floor
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there's also a tennis court down there
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and a basketball court got Bay Lake over
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here
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and of course contemporary proper
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right over here you've arrived
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very nice you made it what do you think
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very very nice you have a whole big old
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family in here as big as it is yeah it
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kind of worked out where impulsively I
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booked this yesterday morning because
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one sprung up I didn't think that there
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was going to be any available one popped
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up and this would be good for future
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for future endeavors
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because I'll be able to know exactly
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like how big the room is and if we ever
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wanted to get a bigger group we'll know
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exactly how many how many people could
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fit in a two
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room Villa turn the lights on
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three bathrooms
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they just have to choose which bathroom
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you want to use
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now the what you have in here has is
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kind of a unique has a tub right here
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dad's over there sitting in the corner
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so you have this tub and
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if you want some privacy you could close
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this or if you don't want privacy you
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could leave this open and just take a
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take a bath right here just watch each
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other
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but the bubbles comes out oh okay
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oh yeah so you might be you could use
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that if you so choose there's also a hot
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tub at the pool
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oh there's a shower too oh yeah yeah
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what do you laugh for that you're
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getting out of it getting out of it just
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watching each other
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so I was thinking maybe that it wasn't
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going to be a shower in this one because
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there's the tub but you have a this is a
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nice shower too
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was this built at the same time as the
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Contemporary no this came out the
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Contemporary was opened in 71. this is
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probably only 10 years old don't quote
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me on that but it's not hasn't been
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around as long this is a newer
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newer place I got the little Hidden
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Mickey made of towel there you got the
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king size bed and you got to view a
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Space Mountain out the window now yep
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that in the castle and I saw the
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monorail go by a second ago
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so tonight we're going to be able to see
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the fireworks at 8 15.
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just by sitting out here on the porch
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should we come out here I'll pull a
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chariot from my balcony and we'll all
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sit right here and watch the fireworks
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at 8 15. cool so we're eating a building
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we're going to eat over here
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at
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right around the corner in there a place
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called Steakhouse 71 at 5 50.
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player in that building
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in the big building yep
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walk across the bridge yeah
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so you got the main bedroom over there
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where you could get the king size bed
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get two people in there through my men
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you could really get four more people on
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those two queens this is a pull out bed
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here so you got this you could get one
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or two people in there so really you
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could get you get a whole herd of people
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in here
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and it's nice to have the full kitchen
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too
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this is like a
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a nice apartment this is a full
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apartment
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two bedrooms
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three baths it's even better than an
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apartment also noticing over here there
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is a DVD player
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you can go down to the community area
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and get a DVD so maybe you'll get a DVD
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watch a little bit later and here in the
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living room I'm not going to put my
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bathing suit on and my mom and I my dad
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are going to go down to the pool take a
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look at the Crossing of the ferry boats
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going across seven seas Lagoon over
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there
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they probably just did a little shave at
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a haircut
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possibly at least in my mind they did
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all right I walked out into the hallway
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and saw the pool and I changed my mind I
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am going to bring the camera down there
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so but this is kind of neat because I
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really call it a Hidden Mickey it almost
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looks like a hidden heart does it look
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like a heart
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kind of looks like a heart right here on
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the edge of Bay Lake with Discovery
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Island off in the distance
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and it's a heated pool probably I don't
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know 70 degrees maybe give or take it is
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awesome
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yeah it's supposedly it's heated we'll
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find out when we get in there there's
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also the hot tub hot tub as well and
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there's a little beach down there too
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you can see like a little Beach area
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we're gonna go full on swimming in
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there's three pools there's the quiet
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pool over contemporary there's the main
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pool contemporary and there's this one
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which is specifically for Bay Lake Tower
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that's the one we're in right now
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and just like that back upstairs looking
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downward at the pool I did the slide I
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ended up doing the water slide which
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surprisingly was fun also makes me wish
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I own still owned a GoPro I think about
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to buy a GoPro at some point so I can
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like not to worry about getting my
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camera wet and whatnot and we also went
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in the hot tub which was felt really
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good the pool was pretty cold what you
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got in there went to about the hot tub
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felt just perfect very very nice I
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thought it would be really cold we got
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out but really wasn't as cold getting
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out of there the temperature with a
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temperature is Right 70 probably right
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now
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70 degrees somewhere around there yeah
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somewhere around 70. so it's definitely
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not cold but definitely not warm but the
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hot tub felt really refreshing and then
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we're gonna head back over
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to the room now
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magic hour now it's about 5 20.
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p.m with the sun just about to set
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over there you can see the monorail kind
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of going by the angle I'm holding the
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the camera kind of Silhouettes out
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come on around as I shift it down it's
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going to be a little more visible
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about a half hour or so till reservation
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at Steakhouse 71.
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look how beautiful the sun is there
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a little more zoomed in there
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see the sun is just about to go
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Over the Horizon there
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that's so awesome the food has arrived I
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have gone with a mac and cheese this is
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a New York 10 ounce New York strip 10
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ounce a little butter a little mac and
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cheese over here I'm not really sure
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what that was in a New York strip is and
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what was what kind was yours
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a six six ounce sirloin steak sirloin
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steak and I got the New York strip so
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it's not a sirloin it's a New York strip
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yours is a sirloin this is asparagus
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with a little dipping sauce and mushroom
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mushroom salt oh yeah the waitress
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recommended the mushroom sauce I said
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you really gotta try the mushroom sauce
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what'd you get that and I got some kind
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of uh the day's fish flavor with a
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couple of shrimp thingies with it and uh
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potatoes and it looks like um radishes
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radishes yep and I got some broccolini
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the broccolini over here there's quite a
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bit of broccoli there piled on there
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radishes is in a bread bowl uh let's see
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it's some kind of a no it's paper it's a
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paper it's a paper box it's a paper
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paper that's paper yeah that's edible
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paper and I don't think so yeah I ain't
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gonna eat it
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and then before we got the food the food
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came in the entrees came in we got one
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appetizer that were crab cakes and I
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have to say the the size of the crab
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cakes were not I thought the crab cakes
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would be just a little bit bigger but
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yeah you ended up getting the crab cakes
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as well now I just remember what I got
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this is not butter so Mom got the
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mushroom sauce I went with a horseradish
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sauce but it almost looks like a little
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bit of butter right here that you put on
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the New York steak but it's don't
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confuse it with butter it's horseradish
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so you probably don't want to go as
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thick as you will with the butter kind
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of wish I would have ordered a extra
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side of the asparagus that looks really
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good
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just shared a piece of the asparagus
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with me and both of us agree well I said
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it and she kind of agree with me this is
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pretty good asparagus but The Boathouse
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asparagus is probably the best asparagus
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that I've had so I think The Boathouse
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Meats the steakhouse 71 asparagus
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nonetheless it was pretty good so far
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how's the broccolini broccolini's okay
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are we looking at this photo of the crab
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cakes and as The Story Goes The
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Waitresses tell us that there are
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Saltines on the crab cakes because
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supposedly according to Urban Legend
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Walt Disney used to carry around crab
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cakes not crap
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you didn't care he carried salty
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Saltines in his pocket so he would get
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hungry I have never in all the years and
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knowing about Walt and the history of
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wall I never realized he would carry
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around Saltines in his pocket so it
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could be true it could not be true one
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thing about this place when you first
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walk in Steakhouse 71 there's a lot of
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Walton Roy history the opening a wdw
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Disney World and all that but I have
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never heard the old Saltine Walt story
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before except I would imagine that if he
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did carry him in his suit pocket they
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probably had some sort of like shrink
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wrap around them and not like open face
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like this but maybe hey we want up one
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level from where we were oh so this
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looks like The Shining carpet just a
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different do you remember this we came
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here one time before back in 2020 when I
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stayed at the Contemporary we walked
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over here because I wanted to show you
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the ballroom of America's but everything
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was kind of you know interesting time
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then in 2020 so this was all kind of
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stanchioned off you couldn't go over
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here but now I'm going to show you
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inside the room where Richard Nixon gave
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the I'm not a crook speech is right over
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remember that speech yeah
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it was in the ballroom of America's okay
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they've kind of taken down the
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partitions so this room kind of
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stretches all the way over here
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but where the podium was was right here
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so there was a little bit of a backdrop
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right here 's a photo
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with like a
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almost like a not a netting but a like a
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cloth backdrop here and the podium was
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right here and in those photos you could
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see
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you know all this and you can see this
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little cylinder item behind him there
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so if you've ever seen the news Clips
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right
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yeah
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I am not a crook
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I've I've earned every cent
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well that happened right there so if you
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ever watch that clip again or ever hear
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that in pop culture history
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that was where the podium was right
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it was a big deal
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so here's a photo a little behind the
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scenes photo so I'm kind of standing
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where the
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where the camera was a couple cameras
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and then
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all the news people were here so I'm
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kind of like in that same general area
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so yeah last time you were here at the
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end of 2020 we couldn't get in here
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I remember that
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but you did it
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the podium would have been here
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so I've been looking at you you're like
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you're asking me questions
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ask me if I'm a crook Mr President are
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you a crook
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I've earned every cent
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lots of hidden Mickeys on the carpet
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and Mickey and Mickey
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and Mickey
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and on the way back to the room in the
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lobby of the Contemporary I got us
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awesome little ice cream got two Mickey
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bars and a sandwich bar so we could pick
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and choose which one we want to watch
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for the fireworks when the fireworks
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start a little treat to watch the
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fireworks from the balcony whenever the
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fireworks finally yeah the bed goes down
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or the chair goes out into a bed also
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which is pretty interesting the couch
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pulls out into a bed but also the chair
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it pulls out into a bed it's like it's
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like a twin bed so you got a king
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so this pulls out into a bed the chair
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pulls out into bed
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then there's the king size really you
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could have someone lay over here if you
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wanted to as well
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so two queen beds one king bed a pull
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out couch oh what's that does that pull
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out two nope it's uh all the blankets oh
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extra blankets and stuff plos and stuff
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yeah that's sweet
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and full-size kitchen looking out of the
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balcony what a sight across over there
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that Magic Kingdom oh I think I see some
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Tron testing I'll zoom on that in that
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momentarily but I also wanted to show
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that I went down to the Community Hall
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and picked up a DVD they were going to
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be watching a little bit later Tangled
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to Bay Lake Tower Community Hall tangle
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this is only one of a few Resorts I
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think Hilton Head has a DVD player
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Hilton Head Resort which is a Disney
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Resort as well as Old Key West
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and I think this is the only the third
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one that I've seen
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that has the DVD player I'm kind of
23:16
surprised they don't have Disney plus
23:17
but this is kind of fun too it's kind of
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like a they're the old way of watch but
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this is actually obviously near where
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the VHS but before Blu-ray before
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streaming it's kind of a fun thing so
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we're going to watch this after the
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fireworks should I get it up there goes
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Tron
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there it goes look at that that's pretty
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cool
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all lit up get launched out of that
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building over here
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and then going into that little dump
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there it goes again just launched out
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it's really going about every 30 second
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intervals
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there it goes again
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look at that you see it even from here
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behind the little railing
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got Astro Orbiter Rockets going around
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over there
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people move or below it
24:14
Tron over there
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perfect occasion
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for a Mickey bar
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how many minutes we got two minutes
24:29
given that effect when you're standing
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on Main Street
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it all looks precisely where it needs to
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be when you're when you're outside like
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this really get a perspective of where
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everything is launched from
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also neat because Main Street is over
25:21
this side of the castle
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fireworks are right above the castle but
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really like back here away it's almost
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the same length as Main Street is double
25:32
that behind it or actually behind where
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the park is it exit of the parking pass
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where the train loops around
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as far as they're even back is where the
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fireworks are launched
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oh oh Tinkerbell's flying from the
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castle see it over there there's Tinker
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Bell
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see her
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there it is
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crescendo
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oh it's a castle
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Tinkerbell has flown
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Grand Finale
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Tron going by
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here it is
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for today
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vlog
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is over
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that was awesome
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very awesome