Early Entry To Magic Kingdom On First Day Disney World Opens After Hurricane & Celebration FL Update
Early Entry Magic Kingdom 2022
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today's adventure begins by looking at
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the sun rising over Bay Lake
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that is Discovery Island the former
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Discovery Island there in the middle of
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the water
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as the recording of this it is Friday
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September 30th
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2022
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and I am about to walk my suitcase and
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backpack
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over to my car and check out
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of my room next to Bay in Bay Lake Tower
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next to the Contemporary Resort
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it's all code joined is one property
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heading home later but first popping
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into Magic Kingdom for early entry for
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the first day back
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that the Parks have reopened here at
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Walt Disney World
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after the hurricane welcome everyone
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Adam the woo here it's early I could use
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a little bit of coffee piping hot
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caffeinated beverage gonna do that now
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head over I have never done an early
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entry
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at a hotel stay here at the parks before
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should be interesting and kind of
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coordinates with the reopenings join me
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there's a truck shall you now opted for
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Joffrey's here on the ground level
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of the Contemporary because we figured
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Starbucks over in the parks would be
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kind of busy also
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reveal you look tired
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that's kind of a Joffrey's reaction face
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I think it's a little harsh I think it's
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a little harsh but yes I am your team
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Starbucks all the way oh wow I'm team
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Joffrey's why are we friends we're the
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Hatfield McCoys
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and the current time about 7 35
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this early entry is at 8 A.M
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the park opens at 10 A.M
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cut my bags in the car
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caffeinated and heading over and
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honestly there's more people over here
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than I had expected
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yeah it looks like the front Gate's
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there a little full
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yes
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it is quite a crowded front gate
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experience over here just look at how
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many people are lined up waiting for
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rope drop
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and this is all Hotel early entry this
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is not even the normal 10 a.m crowd
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entry that it's going to be empty it's
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not always the case no I don't know that
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though
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come here for me please
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thank you thank you boy
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I didn't have to use my finger all right
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heading in here you leave today at the
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end of the world of yesterday tomorrow
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and fantasy and have made it in it's
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about 803 a.m give or take into the
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front hub here
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hi hey
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we're in here
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and a nice little view here of the
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partner statue Walt Disney and Mickey
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Mouse
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the partners here
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in front of the Walt Disney World castle
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now this area here is relatively empty
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at the moment because the crowds are
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being funneled over through Tomorrowland
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everyone for early entry has to go over
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that way took this opportunity to kind
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of have an empty Courtyard here in front
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of the castle
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you got a lot
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now while standing here in front of the
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castle I was not expecting it and kind
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of everyone's lined up to get on the
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rides over to the kind of funneling area
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but the characters are coming out not
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only Mickey and Minnie but a whole cast
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of characters come out they're dancing
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in front of the 50th Anniversary
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decorated Castle which is pretty
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freaking bad pretty freaking awesome but
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was not expected especially not
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expecting to have hardly anybody up
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front in front of Mickey and Minnie so I
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got a kind of a first-hand look a little
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peek right up at the very the very front
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while everybody else is kind of waiting
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their lives now I'm gonna go get my
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early entry wristband and head in the
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park okay now heading over into the
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slide so it kind of circulates over here
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next to the hub grass over here you get
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a wristband and then you had a it's also
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very interesting they did like a little
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music for the opening ceremony kind of
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deal but other than that it's pretty
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quiet over here in the front hub more or
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less definitely a lot quieter than it
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would be after 10 a.m it's kind of a
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nice peaceful rope drop early entry rope
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drop Vibe and we were kind of discussing
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what we want to do as far as a game plan
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the only thing I really want to get on
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is Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and the
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people mover over here you know there
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used to be a boat dock right here really
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it was a boat dock right here and you it
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was kind of in this area
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you could get up here you could go
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through the little Waterway hey don't
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quote me on this but I believe it was
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right here maybe over here but I'm
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leaning towards it being right here my
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bearings are a little off but I think it
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was right there that sounds like my
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favorite ride ever a hub ride a hub ride
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I kind of figure most people are
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probably darting over
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to mine train so game plan kind of sort
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of just ahead through Fantasyland and
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over to frontierland Big Thunder
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Mountain Railroad there definitely is
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kind of a cool early entry vibe in here
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though it's not going to last long
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because once 10 a.m hits and the crowds
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show up it's going to be a different
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vibe okay we were just told that Big
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Thunder Mountain Splash Mountain
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everything over in this area will be
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closed off until the rides as far as
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rides and attractions will be closed
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until 10 A.M so I guess early entry
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really is just kind of Tomorrowland and
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Fantasyland I'm just gonna stroll
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through though okay this this is worth
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walking over here though
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now Country Bear Jamboree and Aladdin's
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magic carpets is open
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but this is cool we're just walking
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walking through here this is quite the
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vibe right here this is this is my
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favorite ride safety Park to use your
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terminology
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you're a Vibe Crusher not a ride Crusher
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that's right so you must be in heaven
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right now this is my favorite ride the
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favorite ride is not getting on a ride
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that's right
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look how empty this is this is amazing
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quiet Serene peaceful
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rope chop
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take a look at that well I could hear a
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siren which is interesting
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but take a look at all the cast members
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over here
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all lined up ready for the opening
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there's a squirrel going by
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be kind of neat if they just opened it
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because everyone's over in Tomorrowland
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check it out
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lined up over frontierland
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Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
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a couple more guests walking over here
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it's very weird to hear a siren over
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here too
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and then Splash Mountain
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and that's probably why there is music
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playing that way you cannot hear
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anything outside of the park
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I don't think I've ever heard an outside
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the park siren obviously backstage
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foreign
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Liberty Bell going by no one on it just
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doing a lap without anyone
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I'm gonna go I'm gonna walk over to Big
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Thunder and just see if the ride is open
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they were testing it I think it might be
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open now if so it'll just be me and
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bricky
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as the only ones on it
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it's everyone else's
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over in Fantasyland
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Tomorrowland it is definitely an added
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feel that there is no house music on at
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all
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walk over towards Pirates
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I'm kind of liking this a lot
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and we could ride rides anytime but you
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really can't get this this sort of
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experience any other time quiet peaceful
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walking or strolling around in the
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morning also back in the day I remember
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this in the 90s early 2000s maybe late
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90s mid 90s this was a McDonald's fry
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stand
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just soaking this in because this is
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usually packed with people and obviously
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judging by the amount of people who were
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walking in there you know definitely a
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lot of people in here just no one over
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in this area so really it's not like
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there's a lack of crowds they're just
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all shifted to a different area of the
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park because the attractions over here
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the exception of Genie behind me are not
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open yeah
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and word gets around pretty quick five
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minute wait but there's already kind of
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a lot of people kind of started running
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I always like being in the very back you
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kind of whipped around a little bit more
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it's now 9 00 a.m so still another hour
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of the early entry going past Sleepy
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Hollow Refreshments looking at the
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castle
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from this angle I think maybe head over
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to some of the other lands now and now
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over into Tomorrowland the Astro Orbiter
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going around nice little Sunburst there
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for effect I always enjoy these metal
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trees that are right here so they're
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like palm trees but they're made out of
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metal also we're gonna go on the People
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Mover but people over right now is
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either broken down or it hasn't opened
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quite yet either I do hear Tomorrowland
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speedway off in the distance
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probably the octopia East is running 55
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minutes for Space Mountain
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don't want to get in that line don't
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want to kind of heat up the time for the
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early morning thing the cool ship
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some say I am one of the ones that say
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that this is the screen used prop one of
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the two spaceships from fly the
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Navigator the 1980s
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film
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some say it isn't some say it is I am
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team
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it is
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thirst Rangers you know they added a
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little front on over here they added the
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little Rockets upon the back but if you
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look at the shape of the ship
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I'm 99.99999 percent
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but this is one of the two that was used
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just side note I've stated it before but
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I just wanted to reiterate I'm pretty
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confident passing by Mine Train
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storybook storybook
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circus look at this this up here the
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little little squirting flower up top
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there world famous clowns this says
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sometimes they have the water effects on
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over here and it's like difficult to
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walk through here without getting
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soaking wet
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there's the giraffes
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I haven't seen the water back on over
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here in a while though still no word on
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when the train station will reopen they
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kind of hinted at d23 it'd be spring of
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2023
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when Tron would open but no word
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I also like this too because it says
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Carrollwood Park Carrollwood was the
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road where Walt's Barn was and his
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miniature train was now it's located in
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Griffith Park so it's kind of a nice
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little touch up there on the clock also
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the clock says 9 25 so 35 minutes left
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of early entry it has been years since
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this train has done the Grand Circle
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Tour
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around Magic Kingdom here in Florida
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Florida's Magic Kingdom now there were
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some rumors speculations that possibly
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Tron would open
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for epcot's 40th which is as a recording
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of this tomorrow
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not happening though according to Josh
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tomorrow's announcements at d23 I got to
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ask your opinion on something really
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quick yeah what's that so
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did you think that Tron was going to
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open this month this year or were you
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expecting it to open when they announced
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the tote I was shocked that they didn't
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at least give a date inside of 2022. but
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if you think about it it makes sense
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because everybody who's already booked a
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trip for 22 has it in the calendar so
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put it on 23 it's a whole new wave of
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marketing and bookings for the part so
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it's a marketing makes sense
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when the train finally opens you need to
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come back here the trainiac Needs to Go
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full wdw
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I've never rode the train out on the
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East Coast
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maybe the Florida gaming commission will
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approve me to do a stunt in the state of
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Florida
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and now time for the People Mover it is
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open and gonna go around Tomorrowland
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above in a little bird's eye perspective
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well uh upper perspective all right
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change of plans the ride just went down
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so we're going to step out of line and
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not do people mover today and now over
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into the Emporium with the 50th kind of
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winding down it's hard to believe it's
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been one year since the 50th anniversary
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on of last year it's kind of hard to
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believe that you know time just
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definitely goes by very quick kind of
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like this backpack I do have a DVC
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backpack it's kind of a nice DVC member
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backpack too also these socks down here
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I don't know when I'm gonna kind of go
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in and eventually get the Dapper Mickey
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50 is sure but one of these dies kind of
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like this too this polo shirt has Mickey
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or here in front of the front of the
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castle the specialty ears collared
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shirts also this hoodie down here
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yeah one one day I'm gonna get some 50th
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merch and over inside the Main Street
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Cinema it looks like they also have some
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retro merch here as well this even says
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you know opening 1971. you got some
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shoes over here sweatshirts and whatnot
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some good merch definitely like all the
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classic 71 stuff that they have in here
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the sweatshirt too look at the sleeve
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it's got a old school pendant going down
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the sleeve yeah that's amazing that's
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great even Vans has their own little
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line here with Mickey kind of painting
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on the side of the shirt even the
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baseball style ringer here well not
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baseball side with the ringer style and
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these like kind of retro looking hats
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here with the emblem on the side oh wdw
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actual classic Mickey over here I don't
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even know if they'd have this in my size
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this looks like a this looks like it's
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around the back okay yeah this is the
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front so that's the front and this is so
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it's a back design okay this is the
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front of this and then this is the back
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of this it's kind of interesting I
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thought maybe they would only have the
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one with the front design but when you
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spin it around it is two-sided I really
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like this here I don't know if I like
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that on the back I'm not much of a back
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design guy but I don't know this is
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pretty dang cool with the cast of
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characters on the back there and now
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making my way back over to the
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Contemporary Bay Lake parking lot
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to get my car and make my way back home
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check on my place in Celebration Florida
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as the monorail goes by the quick few
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hours in the morning
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Magic Kingdom for early entry it's not
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even quite noon yet and another one
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going by
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it goes
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the Mona Ray
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made it back home now over to
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Celebration it's getting a little later
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in the evening now I spent some time
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inside just you know relaxing and doing
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some things around the house unpacking
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and whatnot
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but no broken windows
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no standing water I crept through the
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door anything like that so good to go
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pretty thankful I didn't have I did not
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sustain any damage to my place
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pretty much looks like outside of maybe
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a little flooding that has since dried
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up
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mostly just a lot of fallen leaves and
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branches that have
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you know kind of fell from the
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the trees and whatnot
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all right so yeah the lake is a little
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higher than normal so this I've never
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seen water up on this where the
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shares right there are because usually
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every time I walk right down to the edge
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of Lake Reinhardt it's right here this
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is usually where I walk down to I've
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never seen the lake this high up before
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that's very interesting take a look at
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that so the rocking chairs are all kind
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of in the water there
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definitely got some serious rain through
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here now the coast definitely get
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a lot more of the impact of hurricanes
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my family moved here in 91 and I haven't
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been through each and every hurricane
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because I've lived to live in California
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through a couple of them but I've been
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through a lot of hurricanes here
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oh is the lighthouse on or is it just oh
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no you know what it is
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so the Sun the setting is reflecting off
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the spinning Bohemian Hotel signage over
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there
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which is kind of giving a little bit of
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a faint light
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there it is see it right there
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very interesting
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so a lot of people who do evacuate from
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the coast come over to Central Florida
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so it never gets it as bad as the coast
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the coast definitely takes the brunt
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either the east coast of Florida or the
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West Coast
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and this time it was the West Coast of
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Florida hitting in Fort Myers
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so Celebration Orlando Central Florida
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definitely did not get it as
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as anywhere near as intense as the
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shoreline did
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but they're definitely
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definitely are some telltale signs of
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the storm came through and the fountain
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is off right now you have the Walt
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Disney World here it shows how far it is
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to Boston as the crow flies that is
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Cape Canaveral Kissimmee Miami
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sometimes this is on but they have it
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off right now
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right here in the water Howard standing
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strong well swimming strong
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Howard is a little decoy duck
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affectionately named you know because of
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the movie Howard the Duck no correlation
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to the film but other than the name
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it's a decoy duck stuck on a pipe never
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moves
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even strong winds
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still in the same spot
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now it does look like a structure here
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got ripped down
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it used to be like a
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kind of a gazebo type thing that went
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over these parking spots you could see
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where the wood was wedged in the ground
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and now it's all over here in this
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dumpster they cleaned it up pretty quick
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all right here is a little
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youthful Gator coming really close to
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the shore
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never seen this one before this is a new
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one
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it is coming up really close to the
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shore
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also
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over here you can see the bike path and
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walking trail yeah take a look the
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sidewalk here usually goes all the way
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through the woods I've rode my scooter
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and my bike and walked out many many
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times
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but it is completely submerged obviously
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so all the swamp and water over here is
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flooded up so much this is completely
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engulfed in water now
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okay this is the first piece of like oh
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my gosh there's a gator right there holy
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crap
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sorry to disturb you gator
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holy goodness that thing's really
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startled me
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okay I was just talking to a couple
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people and they were saying that there's
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been some Gators in the streets walking
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around too it's interesting though where
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you see these picnic tables are
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underwater as well but it's interesting
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because you know I've walked around Lake
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Reinhardt many many times but I've only
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seen two Gators
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but because over here
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you know the swamps are usually back
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there quite a ways and now they're all
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the way up here
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there's a lot more appearing it's kind
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of interesting some of the lights are
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working some of them aren't
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I was spelling out celebration but some
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of them have little blue boxes around
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them and some of the blue boxes
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are either burnt out
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or been removed
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and the Marquee is empty because the
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theater hasn't been open in like a
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decade and that's gonna do it for today
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started off at the Contemporary this
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morning checked out of the hotel I was
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in for two nights
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went to the reopening of Walt Disney
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World Magic Kingdom early entry because
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of being a staying in the hotel being
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getting an early entry which is kind of
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nice being there two hours early I'm not
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sure if it's usually two hours early I
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always thought it was an hour maybe
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because of the storm and because the
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parks were closed for two straight days
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they added an extra hour on instead of
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going in heading towards the ride so I
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just kind of walked around frontierland
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Adventureland did Big Thunder naturally
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but
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I think kind of dipped out of there at a
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decent hour before noon back over here
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relax a little bit checked on my place
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and now ended up the evening walking
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around just checking on and see how
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celebration fared during the storm
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thanks for watching I'll see you in the
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next video the Vlog
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is over