The Perfect Cold & Rainy Night at EPCOT - No Ride Wait Times & Disney Announces The Best News Ever
Rainy and Cold Night at EPCOT
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today's adventure begins by looking at
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I-4 Westbound as a recording of this
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Sunday
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November 20th 2022.
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about 54 degrees right now and I'm
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heading to Epcot Center and if you add
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in the fact not only with the
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overcastness and the dreariness in the
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rain
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but also with the recent time change
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even though it's 4 45 it seems a lot
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later than that
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I've checked the wait times
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very low
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and got a reservation to hit Epcot or as
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some including myself occasionally most
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the times I would say probably 80
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percent of the time refer to it as what
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it was originally
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called Epcot Center
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even though this one still has the
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capital E small letters Epcot they
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haven't changed that yet back to the
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capitals and what incredible timing
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sometimes I have to get out and wait for
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the monorail to do this epic reveal
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going around the front of spaceship
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earth
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but I got it from the vehicle this time
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we think of that big the foot
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you like that right and it was parked
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over here at Journey seven
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way over here even though there's kind
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of empty spots over there I believe
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that's preferred
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I'm just in the regular parking
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maybe you can see
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I have over here at this little
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threshold corner
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side view spaceship earth welcome
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everyone Adam the woo here now 55
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degrees is in no way shape or form cold
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but for Central Florida those that are
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acclimated to the heat and humidity it's
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a little cool and crisp and it's raining
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got my umbrella got my magic band right
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there underneath my
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sweatshirt I'm heading in no game plan
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just going in join me shall you just
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noticing there on my sleeve a little
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coffee stain which is not only making me
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realize also this is where the buses
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pick up and drop off over here next to
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Epcot
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not only making me want to get a piping
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hot caffeinated beverage which would be
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very tasty there's Goofy on the side of
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that one
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side of that one's going to Disney
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Springs this is going to Coronado that
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was going to Riverside there's an
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airplane look at that
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barely see it up there in the clouds
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there it is you can see it
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but when I get home I don't want to toss
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this sweatshirt in the wash
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threw it off at the last second I didn't
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realize how kind of cold it was outside
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I have my windbreaker on I've been
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wearing the 50th Anniversary windbreaker
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but I
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upgraded just a bit with a sweatshirt
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which needs a little little wash and as
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I'm walking in monorail yellow is going
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back over to TTC
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from the monorail platform
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and take a look at that beauty peeking
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up over the trees
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that sphere in all its Glory
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spaceship earth
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also this is a rare occasion it rarely
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happens there is no Festival going on
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food and wine just ended
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Festival of the holidays has yet to
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begin
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so this is one of those fun times you
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can walk around
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with no
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agenda of a festival doesn't happen
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often but it's happening tonight this is
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just a regular Joffrey's coffee the 50th
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Anniversary Joffrey's roast I've been
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trying not to drink too many lattes and
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whatnot but I have kind of a hack I
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don't know if I call it a hack but so
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before walking into the park I try to go
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over to the Joffrey's in front of
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spaceship earth in front of where before
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you scan in your admission or your magic
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band or your AP or any of that there is
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a Joffrey's that never has any bear I
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would say never but rarely has anyone in
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front of us so that's where I ended up
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and just like that I am back inside well
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I've made it in I've scanned in my magic
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band and I am inside the park looking at
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spaceship earth and I'm gonna walk
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around World Showcase and just kind of
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just get some steps in now 5 13 p.m
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spaceship earth as I walk past it was
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only a five minute wait Nemo and Friends
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10 minute wait the land five minutes
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figments
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five minutes and then I kind of stroll
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path it looks like three Caballeros 10
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minutes you know there's a couple rides
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like frozen there's 55 but doesn't look
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too bad over oh it looks like
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Ratatouille's down
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but future world looking really mellow I
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mean
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obviously sore in 40 minutes but
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everything else is pretty much a walk-on
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Sunset is slated to happen in about 15
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minutes
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give or take even though I'm not gonna
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be able to see it with the cloud
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formation so you can see it's going to
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rain 100 70 percent
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90 of the rest of the evening 56 degrees
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at this moment
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low of 53 that'll kind of drop down just
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a little bit also PVC Fountain and I
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call it that because there is a big
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chunk of pyramid PVC pyramid on top of
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the
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fountain that goes up and it worked out
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really well because the monorail has
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gone by also there's a Christmas tree
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over there I'm not going to focus too
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much on Christmas because the festival
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the holidays coming up I believe it
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starts Friday or this weekend coming up
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in about six days five six seven I think
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it starts on Friday
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so I'm gonna focus more on that but some
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of it is inevitable and also still
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another half hour before the DVC Lounge
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closes I'm gonna pop up there just just
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real quickly you know something else I
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might do I did this a while back but
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over there where they're running they're
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trying to get out of the rain but over
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there where
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honey I trust the audience used to be
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and and Captain EO is a Pixar short film
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festival which is really cute I think
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it's really knocked me on I wish honey I
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took the audience was still in there but
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and as far as I can remember I don't
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know if I've ever been up here at this
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hour so going up the staircase but I
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don't know if I've ever been up here
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what you could consider dusk or I guess
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you consider under the shroud of kinda
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sorta Nightfall yeah take a look at the
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desk here it's like illuminated
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different colors just went from pink to
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Yellow it almost like a bluish Hue over
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there as well my feet are squeaking
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because I have water on my souls and I
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already purchased a coffee on the way up
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so I probably don't need any refreshment
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from the refreshment spot but it's
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always been nice to come in here and as
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I said I've never really been in here at
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this hour it's always when the Sun is
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bright out and very very bright outside
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and not not Nightfall spaceship earth is
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like over there underneath it's kind of
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see oh yeah you can see that you can see
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spaceship earth kinda sword in the
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distance don't walk over there get a
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better view well it's really tough to
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see with the rain out there it's raining
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pretty good now kind of glad I popped in
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here because even with the rain you can
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it's tough to see spaceship earth out
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there through the windows and they've
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also turned on oh even the lights that
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on the pyramid itself are changing so
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now it's like a pink and now it's the
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same as the desk and now it's doing that
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bluish Hue yeah I kind of like this vibe
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in here at this hour DVC Lounge log
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so cool I don't know just something
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about being up in here which is just
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kind of a neat feeling all right I got a
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little curious and I wanted to see when
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Festival the holiday starts it starts on
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November 25th which is this Friday
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and back downstairs now you can see the
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Jewish green coloring turning to purple
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and wasn't planned but the monorail
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yellow going by once again you can
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really see the PVC Fountain from here
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something about the parks at night just
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very very beautiful I mean they're great
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during the day
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but really nice at night all illuminated
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I love them so much the park doesn't
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close till nine tonight which gives me
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plenty of time to walk around World
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Showcase to come back over to future
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world before close and do all the
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attractions that I can pretty much
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guarantee within inclement weather this
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cool Christmas in the air
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low crowd levels right now we'll
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probably be walk-offs at that time too
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which is which is nice
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pretty nice yeah check it out got the
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Friendship boat going across World
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Showcase Lagoon but none of these food
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booths are open right now because it is
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between festivals I was stated earlier I
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think my two favorite festivals out here
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are Festival the holidays and Festival
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of the Arts I like them all but those
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are my two favorite oh wow is this
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correct 30 only 35 minutes for
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Ratatouille and take a look a little
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topiary of Remy right here is also gone
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yeah 35 minutes according to the app for
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Ratatouille I don't know if that's
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correct or not but I'm gonna go in and
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see because that is like unheard of
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wait time wise usually it's like an hour
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and a half or more or at least an hour
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or more 35 minutes doesn't even seem
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right yeah take a look over here the
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outdoor queue is pretty much empty it's
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just pretty much goes right inside
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usually this is all full over here
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you're just gonna like walk right yeah
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I'm walking right in now 35 minutes is
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still nothing to pretty you know 35
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minutes is still a half an hour but
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compared to what it usually is out here
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I have to get in this way you just have
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to okay it's 604 I'm gonna time it hey
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I'm inside a cityscape like almost like
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on a rooftop of sort got the neon sign
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up there but I'm guessing this is
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supposed to depict like looking down
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into a into a restaurant or something
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like that so I'm on the rooftops of a
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city through here yeah the theming in
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here is pretty dang awesome the theming
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in the queue I got to see say is really
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is on point
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okay there's like the it's almost like a
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roof up there you got the windows and
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everything this is pretty awesome good
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job in here and this is a 3D attraction
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yeah so I put on my 3D glasses kind of
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like Star chores or you know something
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like that I got the 3D technology my
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mouse is pulling up here it's 6 32 so a
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little under a half hour
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really like how they combine not only
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the Practical effects you know the
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actual set pieces with the digital
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screens and the animation but I really
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like you know the digital screen thing
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really isn't my thing but it's nice but
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it's mixed in with really good practical
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sets and the ratitude we have that as
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well which is really really nice to kind
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of see the combination and it is
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trackless you know very similar to rise
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of the resistance or Mickey mini runaway
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which is kind of the future of a lot of
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rides but this is a really good like
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dark ride it mixed with the screens and
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the Practical effects I like it I like
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it I actually really enjoyed it yeah
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that was a really a lot of fun that was
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really great I really like the fact that
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they had the Practical effects and the
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animation all combined and it worked out
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that the line was not too terribly bad
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wait time wise so that's kind of why I I
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jumped in the line it was only ended up
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being a 30 minute way 29 or 30 minute
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wait because trust me sometimes that
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line can get up to an hour or two hours
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an hour and a half to two hours sometime
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to get on side that so if it's you know
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a half hour you just kind of have to do
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it when you see the line going inside
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and not even stretching out into the
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outer queue you've got to get into the
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line or something like that you have to
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yeah not seeing some of these food
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stands is very unusual just simply
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because you know there's there's no food
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to be served in between the festivals I
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always like the band that's over here
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the festival band it's always over at
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this little stand soon very soon all oh
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they have the festival Market which is
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going to be switching vessels very soon
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and all these food booths will be open
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and you know by Friday and one thing
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about not having the festival how do I
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kind of reiterated myself of not having
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the festivals out is World Showcase is a
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lot emptier than it usually is a lot
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more Elbow Room than before I've made my
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way around completely around World
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Showcase I think I'm going to head over
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to test track now which is operational
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because I could hear the cars going
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around the former world of motion
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building world of motion to turn into
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test track many years ago let me get on
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test track in this brisk weather it's
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got to be it'll be an experience yes a
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Brisk outdoor I think it's like 60 miles
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an hour I can't remember exactly but
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it's in the I think it's like it goes
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like 0 to 60 in just a matter of seconds
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kind of going around the outside of the
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building and low 50 50 weather yeah sign
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me up also that's the one there goes the
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monorail I ain't got to imagine I'm
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going to predict that the wait time for
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single rider for test track is going to
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be very very low say I can probably be
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on there in less than seven I'm not I'm
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gonna scratch that five minutes less
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than five minute walk on single rider
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for test track it's 40 minute standby a
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single Rider usually is pretty quick oh
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I can hear the vehicles going around
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actually I'll just wait right here see
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if I can hear another vehicle I'm gonna
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stand here and get the vibe of test
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track as the ride vehicle goes around it
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listen here
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it's gonna be brisk oh starting to rain
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again too it's separated for a while but
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now I just felt a sprinkle on my nose it
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is 708 right now it's like sun go
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Rider's gonna pretty much be a walk okay
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there were only six people in front of
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me in the single Rider line I'm pretty
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much walking right yeah
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over there a ride stop for a second oh
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what's going on
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and from here I believe I'm gonna walk
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over to the land Pavilion
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can't possibly do the land get on the
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land it's pretty much a walk-on at this
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point which means no wait times has all
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been pretty good on the wait time so far
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look at spaceship earth all illuminated
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over there that's the construction going
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down the escalator here and yep says
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five minute wait time the grand reveal
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of the crowd in the queue is a grand
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total of zero people zero nada
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this is something I mean I've seen this
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where there's only like maybe 10 20
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people in front of there's no one no one
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at all I go around this and then you
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just go straight on like this row number
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one the gate is opening
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some inclement weather outside earlier
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and now there's some inclement weather
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in here
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I always loved this first scene here in
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the land
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and where I am at I'm at the very front
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row there's no one else on this boat I
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remember back in the day when a cast
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member used to stand up here in the
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front in the very front and they would
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have a box right here that a microphone
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will be plugged in and they would do the
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Spiel live and in person as a cast
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member not a pre-recorded Spiel like it
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is now the cast member the stamp right
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here the employee
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oh yeah I remember those days
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landscape to another
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into the desert
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I've always loved this house over here
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full on Americana here on this boat ride
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right along the Waterway and it appears
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as if there's a little Corridor here
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they have the Christmas lights on and
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they also have lights on the trees
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already they've already illuminated them
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I figured they'd be up I didn't think
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they haven't squished on to a festival
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of the holidays I was incorrect a little
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Christmas here a little pre-Christmas
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for the festival the holidays
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to the corridor oh that's where all the
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fish are but look how illuminated it is
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it's like sparkling lights the little
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lights are twinkling Clark
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but they are
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this is a really cool Cool vibe through
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here it always is normally but at night
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and with all the Christmas and stuff
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adorning it looks awesome
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now it is starting to rain again you can
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see from my shadow that I have my
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umbrella starting to precipitate a
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little bit from the heavens quite a bit
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and speaking of a Heavenly View I mean I
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guess yeah more or less a really good
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view should say I'm gonna have a little
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bit but Chris we're closer close that's
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a heaven it's a monorail going by in
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front of an illuminated spaceship earth
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but it's going to be interesting are
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they still going to leave but as I was
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saying are they gonna leave these up
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yeah the lights that they put up for the
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50th anniversary of wdw even though
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Epcot just celebrate its 40th the 50th
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anniversary of Walt Disney World which
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started on October 1st it was supposed
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to run 18 months it just turned off
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supposed to run 18 months we should put
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it at say from October 1st 18 months a
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year would be October of last year so
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let's say maybe March April say April
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probably April 1st is with the 50th of
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WW is supposed to end is the are they
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going to take the illuminations and the
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whatever they call the little little
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dots that are on there doing the show
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will that be something that sticks
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around or is that going to be removed as
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well as the lights under the bottom of
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the monorail I want to know and with
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that I'm gonna go ahead and head out
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parallel to the monorail and parked on
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the other side you can really see
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precipitation coming down now had a good
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night walked on a lot of the attractions
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30 minute for Ratatouille cannot beat
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that and pretty much everything else I
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waited no more than
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two minutes and take a look there at the
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rain coming down from the street lamps
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there or the parking lot lamps you can
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really see how it is really just coming
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down
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pretty well I mean it's not like a
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downpour but it's definitely more than a
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heavy mist
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I always like when he got rain
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underneath her light like that you could
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really kind of see how much there is and
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it's kind of slowed down too it's not
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raining as heavy as it once was a minute
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ago as I've crossed the parking lot
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that's gonna do it for today
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short and sweet Trek
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starting at dusk and into Nightfall has
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reared its head and the shroud of
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Darkness ooh ooh ooh there
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approaches
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with a little lens flare there because
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of the
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the monorail other approaching monorail
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that's going to do it for today you can
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kind of see oh it's on the other beam
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it's on the opposite beam but you can
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see it going by yeah okay you know what
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it didn't stop raining it's still
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raining
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I thought it slowed down about probably
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starting back up again
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well that's gonna do it for today
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short sweet Endeavor popping in at dusk
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staying till not till close but close to
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close
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it's interesting there's this big gap
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here in the parking so I parked on this
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route but there's parking over there
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which we preferred this is
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non-preferred that's preferred this is
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non-preferred
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and that over there
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is the Glorious nature of a sphere known
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as spaceship earth
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a rare non-festival day has been
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accomplished they don't happen often
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here at Epcot Center but I did it and I
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had a lot of short wait times which was
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awesome
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on a very rainy cool crisp
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if you're acclimated to humidity here in
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Florida it's cold
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some would say it was cold
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here at Walt Disney World
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on a Sunday evening
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the Vlog
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are those lights gonna stay
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a vlog
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is over
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bonus footage
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throwing this on the end of my Epcot day
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I got home I started editing what I had
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and then the news broke
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immediately
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I almost
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did a cartwheel jumped for joy
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shed a tear
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I think the entire Disney Community well
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99.999 of the Disney community
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boisterously
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cheered either verbally or outside
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in Real Fashion
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or maybe inside in Real Fashion
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a sudden happiness
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of sorts
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Bobby C
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has been replaced
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by Bob Iger
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what the heck
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more on that more on that
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possibly tomorrow or the next day or in
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the upcoming week on my thoughts on that
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but I am very very very very very happy
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to say very that is an understatement I
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am ecstatic
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that this news
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and this happened
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good Lord
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much needed