When Will I Return To Disneyland - Things Have Changed in Anaheim / Harbor Blvd & Disney Walk Around
Anaheim Resort District Walk Around
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welcome everyone out of the woo here as
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a recording of this wednesday june 30th
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2021 i have returned to southern
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california after
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over 130 days 19 and a half weeks
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and take a look at that toy story
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parking is open
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the disneyland resort parks are open
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disneyland proper
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and dca amazing
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absolutely amazing
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2020 was a an unusual year
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and for that entire time you could find
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me
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strolling around the perimeter of the
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disney properties here
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in anaheim california on my bicycle or
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walking
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with a glimmer of hope that things would
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reopen
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and that very very slowly took place and
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then it
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came to the realization that it really
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was not moving
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forward at a quick enough pace i ended
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up getting a place
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celebration florida and that was in
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december of 2021
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we came back here for a short time for a
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couple weeks just to tie up some loose
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ends and then went
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back and now i have returned
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once again and there is
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there is some activity around these
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parts as you can hear
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there are cars pulling in and i am going
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to walk around
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the perimeter of the resort do the full
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circle the grand circle
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loop walking around and just kind of
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give my thoughts on the past
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the present which is considerably
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different than it was
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when i was back here when i left on
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valentine's day
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of this year so much has changed and
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what the future holds
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i'm inviting you to join me shall you
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to be honest it is very unusual to see
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a lot of activity through here
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a lot different there is a definitely a
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a glimmer of a positive aspect to that
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but i am thinking back to all the
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memories that i had
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of going through this section countless
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times
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when it was it it was almost
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unfathomable how empty it was
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this hilton over here has reopened
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this was all kind of barricaded off you
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couldn't even
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couldn't even get over there and i just
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looked up they are bringing conventions
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back to the convention center
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even vidcon in october will be rearing
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its head again
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wow so cool
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it shouldn't sound like it would be that
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exciting to see vehicles
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in that in that little roundabout but it
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is
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trust me it is memories of
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the desolation of this place
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over the majority of that year and then
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i really haven't been here much of this
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year just for
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a couple weeks and then went back to
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florida set my place up
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in central florida i did a food review
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series
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when things were kind of in the the
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prime of all
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that was going on of 2020. up in la
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with some in orange county and many
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i would ride my bike around and park get
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get take out because you couldn't go in
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any restaurants and there were only a
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few restaurants open
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and i would get take out i would sit at
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one of these tables
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and i would just keep putting into the
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universe one day everything will be back
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to
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how it was
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and it kind of is slowly getting there
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well
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exponentially getting there very quickly
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to be honest
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a time frame that most of us well none
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of us ever assumed would happen
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in our lifetime or ever
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happened will it ever happen again
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who knows will 5 10 15 years from now
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we even recall it will it just be such a
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distant memory
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that we don't even don't even
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acknowledge it or if it maybe
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seems shorter than it really was but
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when you're living in the moment
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it seemed like an eternity did it not
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i'll also address
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when am i going to go back to disneyland
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when am i going to go back
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onto disney property here in southern
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california
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not today i will not be going into
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downtown disney
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i will not be going to dca or i will not
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be going to disneyland
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soon i might go back to downtown disney
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but do not have any plans to go back to
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disneyland for at least a week
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well after the july 4th you know holiday
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is over and then maybe even a few days
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past that so at least
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a week to more than that before i have a
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reservation to go in there
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i'll go back but it won't be today today
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i'm just going to kind of peruse around
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get my thoughts and see what is now open
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versus
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what was closed on my last tenure
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walking around the premises
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and even though there are some events
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taking place here later this year
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2022 is going to be
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very prevalent yeah d23 will be taking
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place here
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star wars celebration both of which i
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will do my darndest
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to attend looking for joe for a brief
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moment i did consider
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landing flew in last night
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then you know the next day getting a
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ticket well i have some tickets but i
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don't have all the reservations locked
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in yet
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but attempting to get a reservation even
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before this pre-planning it
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that way when i got out here once my
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my feet hit the soil well the following
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day after the airport
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attending and going to disneyland
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i had considered that i considered going
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in here today
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and if anyone was putting odds or if
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anyone was a
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were betting folk most would have
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assumed you may
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have even thought i'm going to click on
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a video from adam today
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i'm going gonna see him inside walt's
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original magic kingdom
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but you know what i just i didn't feel
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like doing it i felt like i feel like
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waiting i waited long enough
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i just kind of wanted to soak in the
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sights and sounds and the ambiance of
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orange county california do a few other
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things
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and really gear myself up prime myself
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up
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for it why am i why did i make that
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decision i have no idea
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and as i walk as i was walking down this
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path i'm going to take the loop all the
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way here up katella
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go down harbor and then go around the
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back by the parking structure
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and i am going to see guests going in
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that i have not seen
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in over a year well over a year this is
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kind of my stomping ground i have spent
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a lot of time around here and it was
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put quite the smile on my face well you
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can't see it from here i'll get to it in
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a moment
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but over there is the former california
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screaming incredi coaster now
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and the mickey fun wheel i think it's
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called pixar pal around now
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kind of showing showing some of the old
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school names
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i could see them moving i could hear the
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screams
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and it kind of got me right here
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disneyland's back
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it's it's like something i shouldn't
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even you would think
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why would someone get excited about this
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there are way more problems out there
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there were more problems out there and
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yes that is true
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but wow
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okay digressing from that it's a little
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update on what's going on around here
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let me get some coffee over here oh at
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this uh coffee stand
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which was on and off close for a long
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time and i'm gonna i'm gonna say it's
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probably open
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give myself a piping hot caffeinated
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beverage oh yeah
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high of 81 today no humidity
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i'm back california love the weather
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here
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oh yeah the alpine inn open
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this was closed for a long time the
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rental car place
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opened this was closed for a long time
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and
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disneyland has replaced the banners they
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had some incredibles banners up
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kind of talking about you know the
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current state of things and
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distancing in the situation and they
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have been replaced now with mickey
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saying
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come on in and within eye view of this
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coffee place
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you'll notice up there on the top of
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that hotel i booked a room up there
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doing a hotel series for a while too
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late last year
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when you couldn't really get in the
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parks and i kind of peeked in
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from a distance you could see down you
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could see the castle you can see the
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matterhorn you can see all that
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don't have to do that anymore just buy a
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ticket get a reservation and
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walk right in if you so choose wow those
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are going to be some times i'll never
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forget
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and yes they were open and just seeing
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people
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crowds of people while not crowds but
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seeing a small congregation of people
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walking across catalan harbor
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brings some joy to my heart because yeah
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this is nice the doors to the a market
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have reopened as well on the other side
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of the a market the 7-eleven that some
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claim to be or was before all this
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happened
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the busiest 7-eleven in the u.s on the
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corner of catalan harbor
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never confirmed that that's what some
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say one place it has not reopened yet is
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the candy cane inn which i really want
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to stay here
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one of these days says hotel is closed
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they are doing some serious renovations
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one day i will stay at the candy cane
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it's kind of uh it's very
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among annual pat well former annual pass
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holders there are no aps at disneyland
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anymore but
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it was kind of a go-to spot that i've
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heard good things about i like to stay
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here one day
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when it reopens across the way there
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castle inn and suites
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has also reopened its doors and the
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anaheim hotel
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which i believe the anaheim hotel there
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on that corner which you can pay i think
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we used to be able to pay 20
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and park there instead of parking over
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at the
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parking structure at disney and walk in
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that has reopened as well as far as
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lodging
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but this one here was not open last time
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i was in town
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but there's a lot of cars in the parking
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lot it's back
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traffic has escalated quite a bit as
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well and this sidewalk is seeing
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quite a bit of foot traffic as well with
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gas walking to the park
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oh yeah i showed these when they were
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moved from the front of the park over to
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sometimes i would stand here i was doing
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a video kind of documenting these
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when they were replaced from way over
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there
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and no one was on this block
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up here at the very end is walt star it
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is the very
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last one walt disney
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got the buses pulling in now the way i
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recall it is they had all this kind of
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stanchioned off with these concrete
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dividers
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did however lose gym boys over there
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it's in the bottom of that hotel
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the hotel's back gym boys is gone
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a pretty good taco place that i would
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frequent very very often
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pre-2020 the drop off area and ride
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share stop off
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all back monorail's not back yet though
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if i saw the monorail going by here i'd
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get pretty dang excited
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that would be cool i don't i don't
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believe it's back no one queuing up over
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for downtown disney which was you that
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space there was utilized for that for a
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long time the buses are
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back okay now i'm starting to get really
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excited about
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thinking about going back in there
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later this month oh i have missed you
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disneyland
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you have no idea because you're pretty
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much just an inanimate place
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but if you knew how much i missed you
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you'd probably sigh a little oh because
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i have
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looks to be cam a lot
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also back and of course someone doing
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some yard work back in there camelot oh
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yeah look at that look at all those cars
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in there camelot is back
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and what the heck this is when you know
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everything is back on track this was
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fenced off
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for well over a year you couldn't even
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go past this point
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there was a chain leak fence it said
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reopening soon
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it was not soon spoiler alert mickey d's
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you did not reopen soon you were closed
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a long time and now there are people
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parking
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going through the drive-through this
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makes me very happy
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wow the mcdonald's across from
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is back yes
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look at that they even have a little
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banner up there welcome back
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dine in is open it wasn't just dining
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the whole thing was closed
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even drive through everything you
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couldn't even couldn't even get in here
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panera's back look at that panera is
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back open yes
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anyone has who has just stumbled upon my
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channel recently
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and may not have seen any of the series
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when i was going around here they could
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see all the gates up here
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blockading all of these and there were
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no cars or seen me riding around
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on the bike and there was no traffic not
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one vehicle here
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you might not understand the excitement
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i have right now
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but i had to do this this was a must do
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before
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finally going back in the park and this
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will probably be
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my last ever complete full circle walk
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around
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of the disneyland resort that just hit
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me all of a sudden
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this is probably the last one i ever do
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because from now on i'll just be in the
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park
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courtyard marriott now open mimi's
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now open no longer a ghost town
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the ghost ghost town days are long gone
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long gone listen closely listen
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do you hear it
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it's the freaking train
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i am in trouble if i got
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i got a little emotional right there
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just hearing the train over there
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i spent a lot of time at walt disney
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world recently
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a lot of times since the reopening last
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july
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well disney world's been almost open a
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year already about another week or
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10 days it'll have been a full year
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there's something very special about
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probably because it's my quote-unquote
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home park
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meaning it's a lot smaller in proximity
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than disney world but it has a little
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something special mostly because
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i hear i hear the activity over there i
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did not think this was going to be that
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big of a deal for me to walk around here
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whoa if i'm getting this way just
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walking around the perimeter hearing the
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train
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i don't know what it's going to be like
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when i finally go back in there
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man the feels
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what i'm looking at now is mickey and
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minnie runaway railway
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which is being built toontown
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i've kind of stayed spoiler free on the
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reopenings of disneyland
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maybe totally watched
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three different videos since the park
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has reopened here and even those i
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skimmed through
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and that was that was back during the
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reopenings
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so it's been a while i haven't really
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followed anything i haven't searched
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anything i've been inundated with walt
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disney world
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so being back here and seeing movement
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i didn't think it was going to get to me
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the way it has but wow
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i am so happy this is back
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and everything is now
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more or less more or less behind us than
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moving forward
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wow emotional
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i'll probably be a little bit of a mess
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walking back in there i might not show
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it i might not physically
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shed a tear but inside i will be
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a whole range of emotions i have heard
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that these offices here
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these offices that are owned by disney
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the architecture of it is made to look
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like the front of a train
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pretty neat right look at the front of a
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train like a cattle guard
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for a train
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continuing my false grand circle tour
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around the outskirts of the property
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another reason one of the many reasons
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well not many but one of the couple
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reasons
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why i'm putting off my return to going
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inside the parks
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until a little later in the month is
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because i know once i do
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it's game on i will be in there a lot
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and i'm just not ready to inundate
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myself with that after returning from
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florida
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just giving myself a little room to kind
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of a little elbow room to get it one
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with my thoughts
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do a few other things because once i
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back in there
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let it be known mark my words
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i'm going to be in there a lot prepare
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thyselves
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viewers and me i cannot tell it to
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myself so i'm waiting
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till middle of the month almost middle
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of the month
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before going in because
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it's going to be a real thing when i'm
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in there
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yeah oh man i hope i can wait
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ah i am i am so happy
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southern california anaheim orange
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county
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back living in such close proximity to
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this place
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and for a solid year gleams of hope that
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never
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came to fruition by the way this is a
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pope house the oldest
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the oldest building on property here
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just want to show this real quick
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they moved it from deeper into the
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property over here
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to the to the corner by the main
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thoroughfare i just had to pull myself
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away from it i had to
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leave it was being in this area when
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everything it
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almost like this never had existed it
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never would exist again and after months
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and months
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and months and months and months of
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assuming things were going to go back to
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how they were and they did it
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for our own mental well-being i had to
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leave
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i just had to leave for a while
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i tried long enough but i had to get
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away
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just had to get away how do i cross the
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street oh over here
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oh there's a bunch of pallets right
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it might be it might be hard for some to
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grasp but i had the opportunity to
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just to kind of clear my head and go to
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florida and that's what i did and it
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worked out pretty well i was waiting for
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this light to change
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it is interesting how a bad situation or
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certain times can affect your your mind
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and affect your life a lot
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a bad situation ended up being
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beneficial
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because i never would have i had even
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made the statement
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i will never move back to florida
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and i'm glad i did there's a lot of
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benefits
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in that and it worked out here having
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the place here and having the place
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now i could just bounce back and forth
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something i would have never done
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and if it continues to work out very
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well i'll keep both coasts
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and if one place doesn't work out i
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could end up back here i could end up
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just out there
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get rid of either place right now it's
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working out pretty well
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i think it's going to be good for the
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future i'm going to keep doing that for
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quite some time no plans
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on getting rid of either or i'm just
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going to have both
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and just go where the wind blows or
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where the weather
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coordinates or certain events happen
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would you look at that the green arrows
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going off of the freeway over
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this bridge that was built to head into
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the parking structure the green arrows
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are
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activated saying that the the parking
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structure
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is open to guests i mean i knew it was
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but just like i said
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seeing it with my own eyes makes me very
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happy
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very happy i'll admit this is a
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lackluster update
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in comparison to what has been shown
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others have shown
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what has been out there on the internet
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since the reopenings
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but it's more of a something more of a
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personal look from me
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so it won't be as overwhelming when i
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step foot back in there because
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i've already kind of known of just
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things around the perimeter
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seeing certain things and i can really i
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can i can
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handle it a little bit better where it's
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not like all
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just happened back there thrown at me at
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once so this is more of a personal look
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personal update then it would be
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news breaking news flash current
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up today it's not up today it's up to
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date in here though it's up to date for
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it's my own update if you will look at
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that
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cars going into well one car
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going into the parking area
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here comes another one let's witness it
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in real time i have not seen this
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in well over a year car pulling in
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to the parking area that's what's up
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oh there's guests walking across up
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there there's people up in the parking
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area
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about to go underneath where downtown
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disney crosses over
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in fact you can see the dragon up there
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at the top
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from the top of the store but look out
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from the distance now a few feet back
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over the last overpass there were guests
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walking in the trams are not back
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you have to walk from the parking
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structure damn down the tram
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route but the tram route is open for
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walk through traffic will be neat to see
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that monorail making the loop around
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again
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gotta wonder if it'll be back before i
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even head back in it'd be
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kind of cool to for me to go back into
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the parks
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once the monorail is back might not be
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by mid month though when i'm planning to
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head back in
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well a little before mid-month having
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the monorail in there would really
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kind of add to the equation and the
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ambiance quite a bit
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that's the monorail beam right there you
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see it going up through the palm trees
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grand californian hotel and paradise
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pier hotel
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are back as well oh i am hearing some
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screams for some of the rides at dca
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getting a little closer but yeah the
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hotels are back goofy sky school
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it's right there
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hearing the happy guests in there i'll
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be one of them soon enough
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and as i kind of go up here be coming
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into
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view will be the fun wheel and incredi
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coaster
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keep going to call the california
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screaming buddy credit coaster i'm also
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getting my steps
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this is quite a quite a walk around the
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entire property it's good exercise
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and i don't have a car here right now my
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car hello
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my car's back in central florida
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so i'm either gonna have to rent cars do
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public
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transit some ride sharing or
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you know catch them catch some lifts
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with friends
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over time i'm just kind of winging it
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out here
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kind of winging it this weather's
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amazing however
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so good do a little tree maintenance
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over there trimming the palm tree leaves
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see the fun wheel going around see if we
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can get a
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ride vehicle on and credit coaster again
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where's where you at right vehicle there
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it is there it goes going up the
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ascension
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okay i got that let me zoom in a little
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bit
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see if we see a ride vehicle zoom by the
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ride cars
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any moment now wait for it be patient
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i hear it i hear it i think it's going
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through the circle
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and then up and there
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it is
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nailed it up another one going up
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through the stream tubes
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those tubes are called scream tubes that
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way you cannot hear
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the yells all the way over here and it
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doesn't disturb any of the hotel guests
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or home or apartment owners
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scream tubes that's what they're called
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and this is how oblivious i am to
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everything that's been happening in
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i nearly forgot about avengers campus
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over at dca
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this banner just reminded me also since
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i've been gone
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this hotel here the westin has opened
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they were really
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kind of rushing to get it done before i
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left
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looks as if it's open i bet you could
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get a really good view
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from the top floor of dca pretty neat to
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stay there one day
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i might look into that no time soon but
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maybe one day
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you could probably get a really good
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view of one of these one of the rooms
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like
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up there per se over into dca over there
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yeah looking to do some tree maintenance
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that sidewalks closed that's why i
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walked on this side that's going to do
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it for today the soothing sounds of a
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wood chipper
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a siren going by up on harbor and
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catella i'm almost there
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but that's gonna do it oh butterfly just
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went by right there where you at oh
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right there look
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butterfly just went by my head the spot
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oh there's like another butterfly
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down there as well there's a couple
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butterflies so we have the soothing
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flight of a butterfly with the wood
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chipper
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with the siren coming in with incredi
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in the distance and before it gets too
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loud i'm gonna end this thanks for
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watching i'll see you in the next video
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the vlog
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is over