Anakeesta Mountain Top Park / Smoky Mountain Sky Bridge & MORE - My Moms First Visit To Gatlinburg
My Moms first time in Gatlinburg Tennessee .
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welcome everyone
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adam the woo here a special guest has
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arrived all the way from florida
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last evening it's my mom hello everyone
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you have never been to the pigeon forge
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gatlinburg area
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i don't think so it might have been
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years and years ago many you like to say
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many moons ago
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which which means a long time ago
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as far as you can recall you have not
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been here
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we are standing along the little pigeon
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river which leads to gatlinburg that way
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pigeon forged that way you have to kind
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of watch
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your footing around here because we're
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right here at the at the base of this
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rocky terrain a lot of rocks for an old
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woman
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oh hold on hold on i don't want you
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going down the river
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hold up get your bearings just watch
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where you're walking there
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hold on to a stick
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she's she's already bored with the intro
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we're going up to anacosta
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going up to the top what's over there
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i know they're very very unique looking
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with all the moth and
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whatnot growing up there would you like
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to go up to the top of a mountain with
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me
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yes i will let's go we're gonna do it
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anakista
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we're on our way
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she's got so much energy she just wants
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to get moving i'm inviting you to join
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and my mom this is the view
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leading in traffic is very
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very backed up what are you looking at
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over there
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it's bigfoot oh bigfoot over there
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quite a few of the pumpkin folk out and
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about this is like a band we got a
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stand-up base there and a banjo gonna
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take uh
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a ride up to the tippy top peak up there
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there's our shadow right down there yeah
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here it is
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i always i always like to kick my feet
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it makes me feel like i'm
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really you could do this too kick both
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feet where you can act like you're
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running
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quickly my mask off first thing yeah
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take it off we're gonna be getting some
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fresh air here
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going up to the top and we're gonna walk
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i didn't tell you this at the bottom
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we're gonna walk across this bridge
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that looks down into the ravine way up
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there i think it's the longest
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sky bridge across a mountain we're
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stopping
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wherever we are
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the weather is wonderful here i love it
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you gotta take it back to florida with
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you don't like the florida weather it's
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too it's too hot and humid right still
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90 degrees there
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this is wonderful it's 58 this morning
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when we woke up here
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check the weather app it's a little
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warmer now it's warmed up a little bit
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you had your jacket and you were going
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to bring your jacket you decided to
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leave it in the car
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yep it's great i love this weather
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here's what i've seen in a river for a
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long time it goes to tell you that
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tennessee's got
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clear water here where everywhere
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this is the same river that we started
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at going through the
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the road leading in we get to the top up
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here there's a
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sky bridge i think they say it's the
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longest
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bridge across a ravine i don't know
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maybe it's just a sales tactic but it's
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very
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very high up there then after this one
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we're gonna take another ski lift the
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gondola
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chandela they call them go up to anakisa
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and there's a tree canopy
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that we're gonna walk across oh awesome
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that would be really nice
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i'm looking forward to that you're going
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to see you're going to see a lot of a
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lot of good views
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a lot of pretty flowers maybe whether
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grandeur or grandeur or whatever that
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thing is
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what flowers would it be flowers around
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it granular
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grandiose yeah
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i know the changing of the leaves are
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happening starting to happen
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does that count as a flower a leaf is a
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leak no it ain't it's a plant it's a
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tree
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no i wouldn't think so but it goes to
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show you how small i am i don't have a
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green pop
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okay look at the birds up there the
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birds oh whoa
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look at all the birds up there nice
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they're like they're circulating
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circulating neither one of us know how
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to talk correctly
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i know i i think i got your trait of
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making up words
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they're they're usually when they're
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doing like that there's something dead
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underneath
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they're looking for something and we're
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heading right there but that's
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that's usually what that is that's not a
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good sign if you're out in the
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pasture land and if you saw birds like
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that in the pastures
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that i mean something is dead and
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they're wanting to eat it
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but making me hungry oh my god
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just continually continually going
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up up up
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have to cross that oh yeah it's quite
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quite the accomplishment also got a
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little memento here a little
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a little keepsake souvenir to take home
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oh the time has come the time
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has arrived it is swaying okay look at
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this is like really
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really swaying quite a bit if you like
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kind of look at the horizon there and
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then see
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this kind of tilting and then up that
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way a bit is the
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glass portion where you can look down
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and see through
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the bridge you're gonna you're gonna lay
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down on the glass mop
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you're not going to lay down on the
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glass
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the space needle there yep it's called
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the space needle gatlinburg
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refers to it also just like seattle it's
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a space needle
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and that's way high but we're twice as
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tall
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as the tippy top of that oh yes
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look at this you can see down here
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i'm going across whoa i'm going
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oh we can do it we can do it right we
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got this
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look at this wonder how sturdy that is
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probably double reinforced triple
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reinforced
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oh my goodness
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just a couple more feet when you get to
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the other side there's a little
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merchandise vestibule here with some
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hats
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some t-shirts i like this one
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established 2009 so
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the bridge itself is only a little over
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a year old
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i also like this one of the bear right
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there wearing a
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baseball cap
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this is a good little little headwear as
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well
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and some retro looking postcards
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it was 25 per adult to take the ski lift
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up and cross the bridge so
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give you this wristband also when you
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purchase tickets
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and i have beverages up here so i got
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myself a
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coffee my mom got a kind of water
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what's your first impression of water
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maybe make me smart
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right what's your first impression of
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the smoky mountains
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great smokey the bear said great
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no that's the lions smoking it's tony
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the tiger
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telling the tiger what did smokey the
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bear say
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he said give a hoot don't pollute
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okay no that was the owl
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what did smokey the bear say you could
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prevent forest fire you could prevent
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forest fires
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all those the right character but the
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wrong sight
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tony the tiger just wanted to eat sugar
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sugary cereal don't listen to him
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adam you're brave okay
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you're braver than i am
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hold on to the camera i'm about to drop
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my water too
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definitely
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get down there oh she's doing it
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you don't think i'm full of money you
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can't do it you can do it we believe in
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you
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y'all stay away out loud get ready
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here's your uber you'll have a good day
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oh here's our uber
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whoa oh
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now heading back back down the hill
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i got ended up getting a t-shirt there i
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got one of the
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the bear t-shirts oh yeah this is nice
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and we're going from here over to
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anakista which is up on that other peak
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so we'll be doing something similar
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except there's a whole village up there
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a lot of a lot of lifts today
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he said this is our uber i just had this
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our lift
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that was a unintentional not on the side
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of this hill but
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over there i saw a bear once i don't
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know if it was a grizzly bear or
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what type of bear would you like to see
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a bear yeah i would
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how what kind of proximity would you
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like to be like really close to you or
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just
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when we're up here in a car in a car
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this isn't a wait if we see it from here
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okay
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but if we're i'd rather sit in the in my
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car
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up where they can't get to me
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i remember you was in a hotel one time
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and i was
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saying there was bears outside in the
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garbage they were digging through the
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trash
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originally we had no intention of even
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going up to the sky bridge
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we had reservations and book tickets for
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and had a little little down time
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figured
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heck it let's just go to the top of the
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top of the other
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peak worked out pretty well
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now we got to get over to the other
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attraction
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jogging across the water
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it is a good thing we arrived at this
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spot when we did because the line
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stretches all the way down the road now
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some more of the pumpkin heads
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they're chrysanthemums i thought they
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were
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you sure they're not petunias
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here's some more do you know what types
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these are these are impatience
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i think you're impatient well we're
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going to be heading over there soon
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don't be impatient
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we're go we're going to oh you mean the
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flowers oh you could get this
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maybe you could place this in front in
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your in front of your door there mom
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this would be a good place now right
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on my butt and tommy look who's here
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machines do everything now they were
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seeing uh taffy making
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behind the scenes so that's how taffy is
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made right there
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it just kind of goes through wraps it up
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and dumps it in that basket
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i'm in the mood for some taffy to buy
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some while we're here
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the line for anakista is a lengthy one
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already pre-ordered the tickets online
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so i'm thinking might be able to bypass
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that but i will not know
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for certain until i go up here to the
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front and
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in choir should be seeing the signage
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here momentarily as it starts to rear
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its head right there
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and a keystone i think i've got it
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figured out now when you purchase online
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you go to something called the express
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lane which is about
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considerably shorter so we're going to
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get in that one because we purchased
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ahead of time
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this is ours right here oh yeah okay
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we're gonna
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whoop go down sit down okay we gotta
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pull down
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this okay
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go in they also have this bus if you
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don't want to take any of the
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chair lifts or chandelas they're spelled
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chandela but i call them gondolas
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you don't want to take those up if you
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take this up if you have a
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fear of heights whoa we're swaying we're
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swaying
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my opinion and advice is to get your
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tickets in advance
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save this a lot of time by waiting in
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both the regular ticket line and then
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the
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standby queue probably saved about
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an hour give or take just
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it's a good round number you've probably
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gone on more of these in the last few
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hours and you have
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in the last few lifetime in a lifetime
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that's right
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new adventures last time i wrote what's
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up kind of like this was in disneyland
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years ago
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disney world long time ago the sky
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buckets yeah
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that was the last time i wrote something
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like this i believe where you went
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so there's the sky buckets there so
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that's that's kind of like
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where you're referring to right there
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that's kind of yeah that's kind of what
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like disneyland and disney world used to
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have
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yep going across on the zip line
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you gonna do that mom no you don't want
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to get up on that scaffolding and then
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go across the treetops like that
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strapped to a metal wire
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no old woman should i ever do that
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well if i meet an old woman i will tell
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them not to
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but i don't know any old women
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what ones ever got stuck in the middle
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maybe i wouldn't want to get stuck in
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the middle
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have you seen any bears around uh not
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today but they were active yesterday
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oh man they'll probably be out today
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they've been getting
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they get more active in the fall what
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are we doing guys keep a keen eye out
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for some bears
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we'll be down here in this little this
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little gully
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oh there they go
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oh and there's the the ridge rambler
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going down the
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ridge doing its rambling going down to
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the bottom
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it's going to do the circle there head
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back to the or maybe not maybe it's
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no it's pulling over there i do not
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recall this item being here when i was
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when i was in town about over a year ago
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was the last time i was in this area
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got some of their halloween theming out
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oh there's
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andy taylor right there
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wasn't expecting to see an al bundy one
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even the skelly is abiding by the
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some of the regulations yeah going up
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top here i'm gonna get myself a nice
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little
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little view from the tippy top
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my mom decided to stay down there that's
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her right there
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getting some photos and i am up here
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with a even higher up perspective
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across the landscape very beautiful hold
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strong
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buddy hold have a have a good tight grip
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and then the treetop canopies i'll be
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walking across soon
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way down there they're really high up
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too you see all the resorts and hotels
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yeah we're way up here oh my goodness
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what is going on
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here oh yeah then over here is this
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familiar face
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adorned for the fall
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there's the ridge rambler going up
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that's
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full of people
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yeah they're just attached to the base
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of the trees here
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it does look fun
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from here you can see the sky bridge
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that we were on a little earlier let me
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zoom in
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way over there
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swaying in the i'm saying the breeze but
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it's
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the whole thing stopped going back down
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back down the mountain
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i'm gonna bring you with me oh no no oh
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yes yes
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yes we're gonna go double on the zip
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line
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keep dreaming
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there is no shortage of
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tourists here every cart
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is full
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right over there the he's manually
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changing the light with a little
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switcher he has
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right up there so whenever it is deemed
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necessary
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he reaches down
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makes it happen yep i agree it's good to
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be back around these parts poor regard
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it's great to see you oh yeah
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by the way we did end up getting some of
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that
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delicious tacky