The McDonald’s at Disneyland Entrance on Harbor Blvd has ReOpened / Close To Free DL Fireworks View
McDonalds at Disneyland Entrance Harbor Blvd
Transcript
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welcome everyone adam the woo here as a
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recording of this is thursday july 8th
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2021 and just about 7
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00 p.m going out of one of the
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disneyland parking lots
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i am not heading to the parks today by
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the way take a look
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at the sun that is starting to slowly
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set over there
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well that's probably not the best angle
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but you kind of get the idea
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i am heading down to mcdonald's which
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just across from the harbor boulevard
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entrance
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near the esplanade of disneyland i don't
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want to give an exact date when i'm
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going back to the parks but it will be
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in the next
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few or so days a few days
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give or take one or two that is when i
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will be making my
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return and until then i'm just kind of
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wandering around orange county perusing
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things
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and the mcdonald's just across from the
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entrance has been closed for well over a
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year
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since i got back from florida that
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mickey d's
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which i believe is independently owned
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so there's going to be a fluctuation in
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prices and whatnot
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i don't ever recall well i think once or
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twice i have eaten there but i've never
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documented it so i'm going to go to that
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mcdonald's
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show how close in proximity it is so if
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you were in
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the theme parks you could leave the
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esplanade cross harbor
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within a matter of steps hit a fast food
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establishment
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that is non-disney related also in about
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two and a half hours at 7 p.m right now
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at 9
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30 i believe they're going to be doing
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some fireworks
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i'm going to show you a neat little spot
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that you can see them without being in
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the esplanade
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and without being at disneyland you can
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see them on the corner of harbor
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and the five freeway i'm inviting you to
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join me this has been a long winded
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intro
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shall you just to give a little
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perspective of where i am
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my feet are right here facing south well
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south is that way then you got west you
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got north you got east
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so i'm going to be heading northbound on
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harbor
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all the way up to the mcdonald's that's
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going to be about there
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now where i'm going to watch the
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fireworks unless it's too windy they
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might not happen
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if the weather is a little too much it's
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going to be kind of right about there
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where the
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the tip of my glasses are but i'm
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starting here right
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right beside the convention center at
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the parking area
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that is it says so right there this
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parking area is back open again and the
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parks are as well
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as you go across the cross streets of
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catella
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here on harbor you'll see this empty lot
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this has to be some very valuable
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real estate next to the castle inn
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and suites 1750 is the address
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and it says you can make out the
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inscription it says the village
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in internationals but there is no
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there is no there's no property here
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well there's property but there's no
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buildings there is no village in here
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anymore just sits empty i always love
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being able to see guardians over there
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the former
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hollywood tower across the street
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pretty cool pretty excited about going
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back to the parks
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soon very soon
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how rare is it i'm not documenting any
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cars drive by okay now they're going by
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i can hear them there's one
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there's a couple more here at the
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threshold of disney way
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and harbor is the anaheim hotel a little
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secret you can park over here
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instead of one of the disney lots which
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are 20 25
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because no annual pass holders anymore
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so you don't get free parking or
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included with your ap
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thirty five dollars so ten to at least
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ten or fifteen dollars more
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than what disney is charging the the
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good thing about that if you wanna
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cough up the money you're only one block
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from the harbor entrance so you park
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here
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it's a little pricey but you're in the
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esplanade in
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less than five minute walk maybe even
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three minutes and to give an update on
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my proximity
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i am right here at this moment
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disney way and the boulevard right there
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always a pretty good view here of
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of the former tower right over there
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oh you can even see some of the little
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the peaks and spires of radiator springs
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over there i've never noticed that
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before
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that's pretty dang cool
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disneyland entrance right up here and
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the mcdonald's right across the street
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from it
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and just above the well standing here on
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the sidewalk on the city street
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over there you can see the rideshare
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vehicles pulling in to pick up gas you
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can see the matterhorn peeking up over
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the tree line
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from outside the park i love it
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now do not attempt to park and go to the
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you know to head over to disney by any
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of these lots
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they will tow your vehicle utilize the
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anaheim
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hotel for 35 dollars or
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the disney parks parking and the hotels
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along here
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customer parking only do not
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attempt to park and spend a few hours
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but you know what
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inside disney they will tell you
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they don't play around no monorail going
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by and it's a little silhouetted out
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because the sun is setting
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but above above the monorail beam space
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mountain i am pretty dang excited to be
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going on
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that back here later this month pretty
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dang excited
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and even more documentation that parking
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is only allowed
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oh look at this big bold letters no
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no public parking and the best western
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they don't even want their restaurant
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next door to
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the ihop you're not allowed to to have
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ihop or
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disney parking no park eye hopping no
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park hopping eye hotness
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okay that joke didn't work now i do
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believe right over here
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they were gonna build a pedestrian
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bridge
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that did not happen the plans fell
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through
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so this is some valuable real estate
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also that never
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came to fruition to have a bridge here
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and
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if memory serves me correct don't quote
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me on this they were going to have a
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parking structure
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back there as well so now it's just kind
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of a
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an empty lot used for for maybe cast
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member parking
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perhaps okay gonna continue on just next
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to this is the mcdonald's
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right over there adjacent to
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camelot inn and suites see the golden
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arches peaking up there
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as the oc bus goes by
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and cash shuttle as well
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yeah this was all fenced off for a heck
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of a long time for over a year
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probably a year and a half it's not
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fenced off anymore it is open for
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business it is quite
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operational and notice the sign right
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there
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says mcdonald's customers only
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i think it's great my dad uses that joke
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a lot
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great because i kind of borrowed that
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from him
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60 minute parking only you'll be towed
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at owner's expense and that rounds out
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to about a
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350 dollars
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you could buy a lot of big macs for 350.
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i think they may have rented i think
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they may have renovated someone talking
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they may have renovated this too i think
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they
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they updated the facade there got some
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it's crow hour right now
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all right i'm gonna go in get myself get
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myself something
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i even have the golden arches in the
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form of a flag right there
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next to the u.s
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1500 harbor is the address one five zero
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zero
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now from what i can tell they are not
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allowing or acknowledging indoor dining
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everything is out either pickup through
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the drive-through
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or outdoor dining so as you wander
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through here
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you cannot find a table that anyone is
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sitting at there is no indoor dining
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inside of this and they have the
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lettering here across the walls
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pretty unique in here you know most
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mcdonald's kind of look pretty similar
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and this does but it has like its own
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little own little flare
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as well
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yeah just as i said locally owned and
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operated this mcdonald's
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which might have a different
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i guess i guess technical it's a
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franchise but
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it's uh has some different rules and
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regulations and
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maybe the pricing is a little bit
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different as i was scrolling through the
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the menu board inside definitely could
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tell the dollar menu was not what it
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used to be nothing on here
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was completely a dollar in fact as i
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totaled everything up
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came to 11 for everything i didn't get
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too much of i did get a small fry
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large coke uh mcdouble and
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a mcchicken and it's all done you don't
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go up to the counter you go up to
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you use this little board here do it
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ahead of time and then you just they
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give you the number mine was 779
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and this is what we're dealing with take
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out
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all of it down in there i got my own
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napkins but they put plenty of napkins
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in there
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got the little small fry chicken and the
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mcdouble
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and uh coke i always go with coke at
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mcdonald's because
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coke tastes for some reason coca-cola
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tastes much better at mcdonald's than it
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does at other places
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something about the fountain machine
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that they use versus
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other places i don't know just you could
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you could tell the difference
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definitely taste the difference and i'm
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sitting outside obviously
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and as the well some crows are flying by
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just showing exactly how close in
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proximity
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it is to the harbor gate of disneyland
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a lot of people walking back to their
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hotels taking their food back
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and you could enjoy yourself a little
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meal and head right back into the parks
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within less than five minutes if you so
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choose oh my gosh i just heard
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i think i just either heard the ferry
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boat or the train i think the train
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i think that was the train horn that
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went by
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that's it i'm just kind of like here
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small fry
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what was that's the mick chicken
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i think that was the mcchicken
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and the mcdouble it's not gourmet food
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by any means
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but inexpensive and if you're really
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looking for a little better pricing if
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you're on a budget you're going to the
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parks
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make sense yes as stated
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i wouldn't say call this gourmet
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delicacies but
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my stomach is full and i enjoyed the
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beverage
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and this small fry i think was like two
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dollars for the small brat
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give or take still a few left
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something about mcdonald's fries which a
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nice tie-in
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disneyland used to have mcdonald's fries
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in the park
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so did magic kingdom they no longer have
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them in the park anymore so now you have
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to walk
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outside the park at least here at
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to get the mickey these fries some about
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mickey d's fries
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and a nice cold refreshing beverage
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while i was over there
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chowing down it was pretty neat a group
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of
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of bikers went by not motorcyclists
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but regular bikes were going down harbor
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probably at least before i even started
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recording about 50 had passed by before
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i went oh
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there's a bunch of people on bikes going
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by and i pulled the camera out and
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documented this there's probably at
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least 100 and all
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just taking their bikes down harbor
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passing disneyland and the mcdonald's
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across
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from the parks none of them stopped and
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asked for a fry though and now from here
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to show exactly the distance to
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where you can go into the esplanade i'm
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not going to do
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one long tape because that would be
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pretty lengthy but you'll get the idea
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so you see the traffic signal down here
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as the shuttles go by that traffic
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signal down there
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is the entrance to the parks
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that's how close it is you can see the
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traffic signal
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and you can see the mcdonald's
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in one fail swoop i don't even know if
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i'm going to be able to
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polish off all my fries before i get to
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the archway
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i guess that would be the word it's not
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really a gate it's an archway
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magic hour look at the sky oh look over
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that's pretty dang cool i'm gonna pop
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into downtown disney for a moment
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and then start you know around 9 00 or 9
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15 or so
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start making my way over to the five
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freeway
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on harbor to get that little kind of
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secret view of the fireworks okay got
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the got the walk
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signal heading across i really do like
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that sunset it's about eight o'clock now
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so i got about another hour
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before i gotta start making my way over
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to the firework area
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and now i'm gonna head back over and i'm
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gonna get a coffee now a little
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late evening coffee you're welcome for
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visiting even though i didn't visit the
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park i did visit downtown disney
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now back to the sidewalk almost over to
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the mickey d's so you can see the
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fireworks
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from outside of any disney property
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technically not on property
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and that's where i'm heading after
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getting a piping hot caffeinated
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from that same mickey d's only took me
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about two minutes to walk over here
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that is of course if they are open it
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might only be for drive-thru in that
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case i do not have my
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here i have my vehicle within this block
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radius
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it has cut a little bit of a wage from
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here so let's see you know there's a
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little bit of a
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walk up but maybe maybe i can get in
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over here maybe
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oh yeah with tax two dollars and 37
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cents
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pretty good size though this is what
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they consider a large it is
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a large piping hot caffeinated beverage
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probably shouldn't even take a step
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because this thing is
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warm hello
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oh yeah i can feel the heat exuding onto
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my lips from the little
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hole there oh
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i got two creams and two sugars i think
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it
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may not be mixed up in there
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the garlic pop is pretty dang good
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i probably have mcdonald's coffee more
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than i have
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food and i also will get the coke
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you know when i go through the drive
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through get coca-cola classic sometimes
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especially when i'm in florida and i
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there's a there's a very vintage looking
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hollywood-esque
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mcdonald's on the way to hollywood
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studios on world drive out of
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celebration
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and i got in this habit of always
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getting a
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icy cold coca-cola all the way to the
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park
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so either coffee or
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a fountain coca-cola as opposed to food
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normally but sometimes i'll get food
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like today
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i had to make chicken a little spicy and
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i have the mcdouble and i have a small
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fry
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this is almost too warm to drink right
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now like i'm gonna walk a little bit
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and i was looking at a sign on the door
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and they said the dining room closes at
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six so if i would have got here before
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six
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i could have ate inside they drive
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through and
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walk up inside close at one so open late
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you still go inside and place your order
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and a lot of people are leaving the
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parks and walking in
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or going out of the parking structure
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and heading over
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so it's kind of a mix between people
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walking up
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and doing the drive through
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now it is really common to watch the
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fireworks either inside the park
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on main street usa or even the esplanade
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like i chose to do
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on july 4th
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tonight i'm going to watch them from a
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spot i never have
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long as the wind cooperates right here
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on top of the five freeway
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this is going to be a little bit of an
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experiment because i'm not 100
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sure exactly how close i'll be
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but you can see them from the backside
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of galaxy's edge
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as they go over the falcon a lot of
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times people will watch them
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just in front of small world which is
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just over
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my shoulder right over there so
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using those as clues this should work
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out pretty well
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i should also add in as the recording of
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this today just
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earlier this afternoon they have
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announced
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here in socal that not only
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halloween horror nights is happening at
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universal hollywood
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also oogie boogie bash and halloween
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time
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will rear its head into early september
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things are pushing forward here and
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while i'm over here might as well point
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out the building that is going to be
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mickey and minnie runaway railway
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in fact i am wearing a mickey and minnie
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runaway railway
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ap shirt from when it opened back in
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florida
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it's going to be so cool when that goes
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back into toontown looks as if there's
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even some office buildings kind of tied
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into the building to the ride building
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so it has a multi-purpose you know a
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year ago
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this was just going vertical just a few
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steel beams and then a few months before
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that
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nothing and a very beautiful
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view of the icy slopes of the matterhorn
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some some lights shining on them to give
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it a little proper ambiance
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there it is oh yeah
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way up there way up there
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that's a lot higher up than i expected
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look at that
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that's awesome
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i'm gonna walk down here to the end of
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the fence with a little bit of a gap so
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i
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i could film it that's so cool
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wow look at that
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it's amazing a little different
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perspective
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oh nice look at that grand finale there
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it is
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something in front of me almost tripped
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over but i saw
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saw it at the last moment not a bad way
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to spend the evening
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a little meal from mickey d's is now
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reopened
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as stated here
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then i went in wandered around downtown
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disney came back out
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got a coffee watched the fireworks and
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now
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i'm gonna throw away and dispose of my
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garbage