Anaheim Resort Staycation Day One - Sheraton Park Hotel Top Floor / Disneyland Theme Park View Room
Day one of Anaheim Resort Hotel Series . Walking Distance to Disneyland .
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Transcript
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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to day number one of this september 2020
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series a staycation if you will
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instead of hitting the road and
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traveling i have decided to
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stay in close proximity to the anaheim
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resort
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next to disneyland in fact walking
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distance
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to the gates there is a very strong
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air of positivity when it comes to
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the park reopening in the near future at
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least
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in my own mind and motel
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hotel prices are considerably less
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than what they will be upon reopening so
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i figured
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heck it why not do this series
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now checking in at about 40 minutes
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give or take to today's episode i'm
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inviting you
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to join me this should be fun
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shall you because i'm only staying one
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evening at each spot
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and not too far away from my homestead
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traveling light
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got some toiletries a towel camera
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accessories
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this is all i need for one night
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that's a good question and i'm not
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really sure big the foot this could last
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a few days a week
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two weeks just kind of playing it by ear
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and seeing how it goes
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arrived at 1855 harbor boulevard
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on the corner of catella and about
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to check in now to the front office i
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have opted for a theme park view on the
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opposite side of where the camera is
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pointing
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closer to the top level i'm just
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guessing as you walk in you're greeted
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by this put a little magic
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in your convention those tickets however
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are not on sale at the moment check out
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the
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lighting arrangement of the font there
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protruding down upon the ground over to
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the side in some in the frame is in
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those frames is some artwork and there's
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also a painting a little mural there of
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sleeping beauty castle and leading down
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that hallway is mickey mouse himself
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first impression this place is is pretty
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dang nice
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a little computer section over here if
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you need to get on the internet if you
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haven't brought your own laptop or
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smartphone and there's a photograph of
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some fireworks
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there's donald and huey dewey and louie
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and there's even pluto here getting
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he's having his ear whispered into all
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checked in
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gave me the directions on this this
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paper here i have to
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kind of do a u-turn go around to the
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north parking lot
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and i'm going to be on the 14th floor of
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the top floor
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here's some of the hours front desk 24
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fitness center 24. they have laundry up
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until 11 p.m and the pool
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which i got a reservation for is open
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till 10.
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dollars per vehicle that pull in so you
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have to add that on to the
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the total cost and there are little
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gates that go down and up
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to keep you in and out counting upward
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i'll be on the 14th floor
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way up there should get a pretty good
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view
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once i'm on the balcony
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i like the design the little archways
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leading into the doors
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okay that didn't work from the parking
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area
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looking this way let's see there
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the location is the of the pool is
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through there
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go up to the room first
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down at the end of this little
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thoroughfare
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you peek out this window
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toy story parking over there
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a little bit of mist on the
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little dirt from the outside and the
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wind blowing
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and the sand and whatnot against it
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you can really see the expansiveness and
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how massive
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that parking section is no garage there
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no elevator no vertical parking
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over in front of the convention center
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the convention center is on the other
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side
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i just kind of bumped into the glass and
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then down there
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it's where check-in was that's harbor
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boulevard
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and then catella is that corner there
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those are those cross streets there's a
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walgreens and a cvs and some stores all
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that's walkable
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and the theme parks are the next block
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over so it's all really close
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can even see the the tippy top there of
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crystal cathedral in the distance
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look at all that property imagine if it
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was elevated
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how much space they'd have for no other
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attractions and
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etc right in there now who knows what
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the future
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has to bestow upon us into the room
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give a little tour of the area
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got the sink here a mirror if you so
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if it is so needed and into
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the facilities got a tub
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got the soap down below got some shampoo
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conditioner
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nice little jet stream nozzle there
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plenty of towels
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you can already tell this view is going
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to be it's going to be a good one
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two beds even though i'm staying here
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even though i'm staying here by myself i
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did invite some friends over to go to
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the pool later and put them on the room
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so for a total of three for the evening
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so paid a little bit extra for that not
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too much
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but each additional person that's
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staying here
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it does kind of tack the price up just
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a dollar or two but nothing too bad you
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got
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some aquafina complimentary there
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decent size television
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got the lamp over there
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some little arrangements on the on the
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wall
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a desk do any business that needs to be
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taken care of
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looking out the mirror there onto the
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balcony
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okay let's go out and a seat over here
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nice little
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nice little pillow got a lock
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really can get a good angle of the
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matterhorn there in the distance
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and the new jet they have placed for
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avengers campus down here
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that just made an appearance a couple of
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weeks ago they finally got that
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and the flagpole right there in the
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front hub the
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town square down town circle on the
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front right when you walk through
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into disneyland top of big
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thunder mountain railroad best to remove
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them
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the screen is not distorted it is the
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way the pattern
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of the paradise pier hotel is
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almost looks pixelated the way the
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design
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goes upward very clear angle of grizzly
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river rapids
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just howling up into the air
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i believe the pinnacle of the castle
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yeah right there above the foliage
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could be the corn dog cart the corn dog
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castle
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signage down down there towards the
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bottom
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yeah that's even readable faintly but
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it's there
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and panning this way
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see the mickey and friends parking
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structure over there
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peeking off the balcony once again the
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corner of catella and harbor
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harbors the street there that's running
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that direction and catella connects if
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you follow it along
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you'll have the harbor entrance over
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there just past
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guardians and then shifting this way
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you really can see quite a bit
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it's another pool from another hotel
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incredicoaster in the distance mickey's
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fun wheel
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backside of radiator springs
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too dang cool a couple of seats
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a table
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staycation is already off to a a nice
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start
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total amount spent 198 dollars now it
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was only about 140 but
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they put on an additional fifty dollar
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fee which i think is a called a tourist
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tax on top of the regular taxes
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now keep in mind normally during
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other times of the year this would
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probably be twice that maybe maybe not
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twice maybe
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40 50 60 percent higher than
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that particular and for this view and
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for the first episode of
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doing this staycation this is good now
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i'm also going to be
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you know procuring other properties that
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are going to be a little
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less in the price range but this is a
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good start somebody might even be just
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a a little bit higher but i've noticed
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that everyone there's probably at least
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a dozen maybe even
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20 that's another little side note it
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has to be within walking distance
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of the disney theme parks so it has to
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be
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within an area where i can walk to
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downtown disney or to the harbor
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gate in order to fit into this i just
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kind of want to show off
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all these different non-property
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non-disney property
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establishments that you can stay at
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that are you know give yourself a little
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different options
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than paradise pier hotel over there
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the disneyland proper hotel over there
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and grand california the three
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on-site properties here the anaheim
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disney resorts
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we only have three here on the west
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coast quite a few
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in the double digits in in florida
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on property but you can see all of these
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are also
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just as close including the one i'm
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staying at now as those over there
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should also mention through the entirety
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of this no matter how long it lasts
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and no matter how many different types
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of places i stay in this general
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neighborhood
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going from this perspective
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all the way over there and even could be
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around
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down that way past the convention center
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that's that futuristic dome
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you are seeing and even behind this
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hotel
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there are even some others and i might
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visiting their accommodations it's all
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at random
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and i'm paying for all of it out of my
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own pocket
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not being invited to anything i'm just
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kind of doing it
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on a whim no real rhyme or reason i'm
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just gonna
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pick them at random
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tell you the cost see the traffic going
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by on the freeway over there
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not too not too congested
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from this angle you can really see just
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how many places there are to stay
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all tucked away in the nooks and
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crannies
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also flip this over and there's a aerial
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map
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kind of shows you the layout of the land
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starting with
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you know where i'm at across from the
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toy story parking there
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and then going upward it just kind of
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shows the landmarks
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and even a kind of a scripted out
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monorail
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i think that's what that is i think
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that's the monorail
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loop going from over there
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and then kind of doing the little
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makeshift figure eight
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around by small world i would
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guess that's what that interpretation is
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supposed to be so
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i would be looking north according to
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this yeah i guess i'm looking
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northwise when going out here
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so that would be
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that would be north i'm wearing not only
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an appropriate t-shirt because i'm in
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orange county california i'm wearing the
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the oc shirt wear
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but also but also the appropriate
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bag with the characters
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that reside down there
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i fit right in up here even though i
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can't go into the park
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it's the next best thing right
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and naturally when the things go back to
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being
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quite operational
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you get a really good perspective
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firework show from
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from right here so close you can almost
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taste it
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it's very plus or even world of color
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see it pretty well from right here the
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the water show
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going up in the air there
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um
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does not appear to look as if this gift
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shop is open where they you know they
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sell drinks and other accessories state
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6 30 to 11 p.m but
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during these times it's not going to
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take a little walk looking at the
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sunburst there just kind of
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rearing its head how long it takes to
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walk down to the entrance now 5
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29 let's time it next building over
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about 100 yards is this cvs
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where they have pretty much anything you
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could want right inside its doors
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very convenient whoa classic
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car alerts oh and then some tiny classic
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car alert
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along the path are other gift shops and
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you know
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little stores that you can you can go
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inside some of them are not closed as
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well as
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some of these hotels are not quite open
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yet for example
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this one here and the other one across
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the way they're not all on harbor open
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but there are quite a few
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but in time they all will be it is a
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nice little commute here next to the
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palm trees
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not too much farther add another block
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or so
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up on the far end down here would be mr
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walt disney
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the very last or you could say the very
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first
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depending on which direction we're going
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under the shadow of that impressive
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building
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guardian's building formerly not the
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guardians building
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but it is now and there's a nice little
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inscription in the sidewalk gives you
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another bird's eye
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perspective continuing on
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right up here it's the front entrance of
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course the rideshare
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area is sometimes a beehive of activity
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there's that option instead of walking
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as well current time 5 40 so
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took about 11 minutes to walk up here
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not too bad and to give a little better
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proximity
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the hotel's right over there that's not
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powerful
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well next block past that power pole
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there are others that are even closer
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i wanted the view on this one the view
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one out
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i mean there might there might be some
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with better views
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find out as this continues
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dang if they were open you get yourself
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a a slush puppy
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this retro signage over here
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sit sip and chill with a slush puppy
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oh yeah that's good times
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a really big part of this also will be
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utilizing
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different pools so that that's also
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something that i won't be staying at any
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they don't have pools that's going to be
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a big plus
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i can't wait to
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to dip my body in the pool
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check it out there's one of the birds of
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paradise
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flowers always reminds me of the tiki
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room
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give a little 360 here
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yep i always think of the tiki room i
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see this beautiful flower
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don't you going up
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into the wonka vader katie calling we're
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ascending to the heavens
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that's the pool we're going to be in
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right now there oh look at that
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right over there's a convention center
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too if you pass right through that
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little area that's the convention center
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look at that what a beautiful view too
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tony stark created the quinjet is it
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quinn not quint like from jaws right
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imagine if quint was piloting that thing
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so you can see the see the spires of the
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castle there
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and the top of the animation academy
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right in the center of the screen there
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down
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down the boulevard
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how well can you see thunder mountain
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you see thunder mountain pretty good
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there's a lot of haze tonight after
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we're going down to the pool now but
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after the pool it'll probably look
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maybe they'll have the lights on even
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more it's a little hazy over there you
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can see angel stadium
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see the a illuminated
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looking at this photo once again the the
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hotel that we're in would be
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right about there on that side of dca
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looking over what was a parking lot to
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disneyland
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it's a great picture here of the mark
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twain you can even see the sky buckets
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there
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off in the distance and there is the
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nighttime
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spectacular above the castle oh whoa
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there's a throwback elephant's going
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possibly main street yeah i would say
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that's probably main street that's
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minnie up there
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yeah farther down the hallway here we're
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looking out this window
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and you can re you can get right in the
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middle there that's the castle
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all this glory that's amazing okay we
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got to get down to the pool
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also on this far end this is the the new
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wing
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of the convention center that they
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finished a few years ago
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oh yeah d23 vidcon
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star wars celebration would have been a
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couple weekends ago
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never happened only eight
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eight seven more floors to go
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thanks you guys are you ready to do some
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swimming
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so ready gotta we're gonna just keep
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swimming just keep swimming
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just keep swimming okay we're down at
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the l
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i think that means lower we're live i
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think that's lobby
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thank you sir okay that's that goes back
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outside we don't wanna go out there
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now we want to go this way we gotta go
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check in at the
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front desk you have to get a pool key
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okay which way is the front desk oh boy
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this way oh you know what we should
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probably
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the pool's out that way front desk
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is not this way
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or maybe we can go out maybe we can go
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out and around
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over and there are some washing machine
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machines and dryers
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what's in there that's the fitness room
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gotta use the room anyone in there nope
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oh oh
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you're gonna say i was gonna go in and
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do a little cardio
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what's funny is you ask me you're like
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is it open and it's straight
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in front of my face i guess you can do
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this pilates the same as calisthenics
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i was going to say we could still do
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some rudimentary calisthenics out here
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regardless of that being closed i mean
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over here is a photo op if you
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so if you so desire okay go into the
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lobby
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given wristbands you need a key and a
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wristband
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to gain access to the pool i wonder if
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this is
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something that's taking place during
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these times mini golf all you have
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golf clubs and the balls at the front is
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that the hole there
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that's a large oh that's like a
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sprinkler system
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so this is would this be the back knife
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and who knows if there's an hour limit
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on this could you play a little
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a little round of midnight golf
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you'd have a putting contest out here oh
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yeah this looks pretty nice think we
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might have the whole
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dang pool to ourselves however the hot
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tub
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is not accessible so now they do supply
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towels but i purchased one today
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that i just had never seen before is it
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upside down
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here there goes
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the monorail it's a little chilly i'm
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not gonna lie it's a little chilly i
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think i just have to just do it here it
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goes
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whoa i didn't catch the front of that
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but i got you flop it in there
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i'm at about 10 feet right now oh boy
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yeah this is
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very very deep yeah i'm just kind of
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like i'm dog
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paddling oh whoa i got to put the camera
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i like the the hue of the pool the color
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of this pool
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it's very chlorinated also i can't even
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touch the bottom
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at all so it's eight feet right yeah
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and then it's ten over there
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i'm not very eloquent i have i've got it
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i've got it
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you got it i got it get me back to the
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shallow end
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hold out here
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yeah that's very similar to the wonka
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vader
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oh it's only one that only went halfway
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up they didn't have they didn't use
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enough fizzy lifting drink
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they pushed the wrong button oh that
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thing just hit me
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dude like a a pebble not a pebble but a
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walnut or something fell
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out of this tree and cracked me right in
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the cranium
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i'm not even kidding i don't even know
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if you could hear it on camera
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i was like talking about i'm getting to
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talk about grandpa joe
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oh my gosh did you hear it i didn't i
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didn't hear it
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after an enjoyable swimming experience
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back
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up on the balcony a nice little
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yeah you figure how disneyland is so
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small but really when you look at the
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whole thing
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with dca connected yeah
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it's pretty big from up here how far
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back it goes like look how far over the
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hotels are oh yeah
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and the parking structure way over there
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it's kind of crazy to me how close the
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galaxy is
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because those spires over there are
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probably taller than this
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or at least the same height yeah
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i mean think about that's the end of the
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property and that's the end of the
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property right that's what i'm saying
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but doesn't it like
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if you were to walk that that's a good
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walk like when you park at the farthest
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top
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portion of the parking structure and you
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see the wheel on
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yeah and you're like whoa i'm a long way
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yeah
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i don't want to think about that you
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ever get one time i got that last spot
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you look over and there's the houses and
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you're like in a neighborhood
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yeah oh the one back quarter spot i
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literally got that
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same i was like you gotta be kidding me
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and i'm like i'm going to dca yeah
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but now it's nice because the parking
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structure before all this happened the
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parking structure has the
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numbers not the numbers but the the
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can you imagine that when like
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all of that
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yeah yeah you'd hear the screen i mean
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they put the screen tubes there to try
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