Closing Out Disney’s Magic Kingdom in Rainstorm - Empty Tomorrowland / Stretchroom & New Sunken Boat
Magic Kingdom in The Rain
Transcript
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today's adventure begins at dusk as the
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recording of this wednesday june 23rd
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2021 current time 7 39 p.m
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and i am heading onto walt disney world
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property
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directly towards magic kingdom
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big the foot yeah i know it's a little
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it's well overcast that would be an
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understatement
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it's stormy lightning thunder and rain
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let's do it could classify this episode
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oh
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squeakiness of the windshield wipers
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could classify this episode as what's it
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like
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in mk the last hour before close
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park closes at 9pm during a rainstorm
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and also haunted mansion stretch room is
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back
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i'm gonna do that or attempt to and
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jungle cruise has some new additions
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and at this hour there are no cast
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members out front
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you just go right in
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over the speed huh
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i know they're squeaking they're squeaky
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big the foot it's okay
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means they're working welcome everyone
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adam the woo here i am happy to report i
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have purchased
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a new umbrella keep me sheltered from
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the elements
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as it rains a little nighttime adventure
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inviting you to join me shall you and
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not only were they they were cones
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they're also puddles everyone is exiting
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with their ponchos
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and umbrellas i might be the only one
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heading in i might be the only one
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heading in and car alarms i feel like
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i'm swimming upstream
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past heavy metal mickey even though he's
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making out of aluminum
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yeah i'm the only one heading in i don't
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have a poncho but i have an umbrella
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well i think there's a bus about to go
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over the
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yep there's one of the disney buses over
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the top
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tram area still not being utilized by
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trams nor is the epcot loop monorail
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yeah i'm swimming upstream just catching
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the tail end of the monorail you know i
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think i'm gonna take the monorail over
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inside of the fairy though take the
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ferry boat out
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take a look at this no more plexi
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no more dividers here on the monorail
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whatsoever and also
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over on the other side is the express
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monorail
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and at this hour the express monorail is
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only leaving
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the parts so i have to take the resort
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monorail around also this is the only
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place right now transportation that you
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are required
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to wear these walking around you know
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whoa i gotta sit down i gotta sit
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gonna get the crossing of up there was
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right over there
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wrong side dang i missed i hadn't
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misjudged it
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now i checked the app a little earlier
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and due to the storm a lot of the
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attractions in frontierland were down
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but they have popped back up short wait
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times
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big thunder splash mansion five minutes
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jungle cruise 15 minutes
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doors are closing now at the grand
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floridian
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the polly's under construction so there
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was only one service
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there was only one stop on the resort
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monorail so
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should be there about two minutes okay
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not a lot of guests walking along the
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sidewalk that runs parallel to the
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pulling into the station for obvious
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reasons it is
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implementation of weather is happening
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the rain drops rolling down the window
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oh as i walk in there goes the monorail
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got to be careful though these these
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rips here are very slick
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yep it certainly is very rainy 8 25
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right now and it says 20 minute wait for
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jungle cruise so this might be the only
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one depending
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i really like to get on mansion but i
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really want to see the sunken boat scene
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that just happened over here so it's 20
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minutes you're going to be getting on
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genghis
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greece that's the name of the boat and
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you'll also notice there are no more
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dividers
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there are no more dividers here as well
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and there's no one sitting in the back
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they want to shield everyone from the
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elements there be kind of nicer than all
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the way back there but there is
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other than that everyone is just kind of
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back to how it used to be here on the
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jungle creek but no divider except
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the skipper has
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this is very awkward for you yeah oh
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hello
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that's pretty neat with all the rain
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coming down river
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very wet don't you
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do we have any fans in the jungle book
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do you want to see it again
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yeah okay we'll try this in 12 more
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minutes
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and again again
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because i am stuck on this thank you
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but now we're on the nile river you know
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we're basically longest river here in
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africa
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because it goes on foreign
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we have all the guys that was so nice of
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those lions to protect that
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creamy horse while he sleeps
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uh yeah nothing to see here absolutely
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nothing so we're just going to keep
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going
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because if we all agree that we didn't
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see anything just now i don't have to
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fill out the paperwork
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yeah that looks like an hr nightmare um
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that's actually skipper felix on the
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bottom
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today's his first date probably is tried
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so now we're gonna talk about all my
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favorite plans
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do you want to move to florida with me
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there it is
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did you get it
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oh there's a fence back there
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there are no more of the ambushing there
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are no more ambushers
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all the ambushers are gone
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yeah um okay but now we're gonna keep
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um we are now on the river
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inside of the temple now i am soaking
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wet from the rain pouring in for the
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sides of this thing i am really wet all
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right
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okay i'm not gonna lie to you guys i was
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fully expecting there to be a gift shop
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at the end of that tunnel
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oh this is to see while that's at all
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but i wouldn't take a picture of these
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guys over here they thought it was a
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good idea to take a bath under a full
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moon
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i always love that joke oh this is
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steven i caught him a trick
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spray good boy
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let's see if we can get him to do it
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again you guys might want to duck
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oh no everyone hide i see the most
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dangerous part of our journey up ahead
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the return to civilization
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yeah trust me i do not want to go
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oh look at that you guys get to hang out
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with me for 10 more minutes
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yeah if these all of us skips on our
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breaks
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that was a joke we don't get breaks or
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paid
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or sanity yeah yeah
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so who woke up this morning it was like
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jungle cruise
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gotta do it yeah was it as painful for
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you as it was for me because i was like
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jungle cruise gotta do it
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again to everyone else if you didn't
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laugh
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thanks for leaving yeah
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but really those of you who didn't laugh
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you can leave your comment card in that
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little blue bin up there
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i wouldn't want anyone to experience any
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unnecessary peer pressure
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oh we're stuck no i'm kidding we're good
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oh look at that those nice skips are
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holding up to number two
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one thing's for sure oh look at the rain
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on the lens there jungle cruise in the
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rain is quite an experience oh also look
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at the stairwells
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where the stairway leading is not
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blocked off anymore going over to tiki
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room
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that has been kind of stanchioned off
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for a long time no more
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markers or anything and it's 8 46 i
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think i can make it over to mansion
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before close
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taking this little shortcut through this
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little little alcove here i always see
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the ferry boat over there and mansion
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around the corner
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it is 8 50 p.m meaning there is 10
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minutes i have time to get on mansion
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and go through the queue the extended
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queue is back open as well as
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the stretcher oh yeah that is a glorious
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sight even though it's kind of like
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hidden under the shroud in the shadows
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of nightfall
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the stretch room is something that in
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anaheim is reopened and here in florida
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and as you can see there is
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virtually no one well not virtually
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there is really no
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virtually something used quite a bit in
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the last year and a half no this is it
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this is in real
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in real life there is no one in here and
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you know i say the stress room in
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anaheim's open
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i guess it's open but nonetheless here
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at www the stretch room
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is back fully back and that
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is that is a wonderful thing a wonderful
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thing the stretch room
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oh man it's gone for so long
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like since last just three openings in
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july this was not here
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and now it's here everything is moving
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forward okay for one reason or another
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it was the stretch room was you could
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walk through the stretcher and i'm
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looking at this
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purse here horse-drawn ears and now i'm
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turning and looking at the silhouetted
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out
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mansion facade but yeah there you you
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walk through the stretch room but it did
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not work they did not do the spiel and
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all that
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good thing is i kind of got stuck in the
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well as i went through and kind of saw
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all the different areas of the mansion
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that i really enjoy once i got to the
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ballroom scene for a good while probably
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for a good
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half a minute to a minute i was kind of
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stuck looking at the dancer so that was
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pretty cool
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just sitting here overlooking the
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ballroom scene with the dancers just
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going around performing like a little
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show for me as i continued on
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and then it finally started to move
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again and finished up
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going through the mansion stretch room
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had removed all the dividers however
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oh there's some thunder however even
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though the stretch room had moved
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i can't tell if that came from the
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mansion or if that came from the sky
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interesting so
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at this hour right before close they
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have removed the dividers from the
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stretch room but the stretch room was
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not
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working it was not it was not doing the
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spiel and all that
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and it is now 904 which means the park
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is closed of course the emporium and
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main street stay open an hour later
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i'm just going to wander around a bit
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and see what it's like on a rainy after
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hours
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well the final oh you can't go that way
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you cannot go that way there's a cast
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member but
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can walk that way head towards i'm gonna
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start heading towards main street
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walking across the bridge over to big
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thunder mountain railroad i'll be able
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to go on it but i can probably get a
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view of the last couple riders making my
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direction
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up nugget way up past the geysers here
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because even though the park closed a
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few moments ago there are still
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others that are in line so they will
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close off yeah look at the geysers there
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and these cactuses down here if there's
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any hidden mickeys
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in those cacti plural cactuses
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but once the cue is emptied out then the
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part can start its
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closing procedures might have missed the
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last one
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okay i guess the last guest that i
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passed walking up
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we're it no more trains
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okay no one exiting
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oh no there's some guests exiting down
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there that must have been the last train
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i just missed it by a moment
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oh they just made the announcement
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they just said oh look at that look at
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that
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holy cow that's cool i have never caught
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that before
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that is neat the lights are now on wow
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that was cool heard the closing
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announcement
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last train saw the last guest walking
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out the exit
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that is so neat
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i am really glad i have this umbrella i
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lost my umbrella the other day
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and we ended up having to buy another
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one stop to the store on the way in got
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a
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a pretty decent umbrella so now walking
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by splash mountain over there
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start making my way up to main street
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they have announced that they are
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bringing fireworks back for the 50th
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anniversary celebration
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50th anniversary starts on october 1st
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of 2021
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from here looking at the side view of
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the castle main street's still pretty
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busy over there
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everyone kind of heading out and getting
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their photos in front of the castle
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i'm looking over at tomorrowland and
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from here i'm looking down at this
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waterfall down here
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kind of this very very
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peaceful waterfall down the stair steps
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and i'm going to take this and walk
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around
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through tomorrowland and out that way
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and just get some views of
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tomorrowland as i stroll along with the
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red sidewalk
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with the wet sidewalk not the red the
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wet
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sidewalk as i stroll along and get some
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views of you kind of a more or less
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empty
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magic kingdom via through the
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tomorrowland
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exit passing past you know some very
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familiar
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landmarks and then out through the
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tomorrowland exit as well
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yeah not a lot of people back in here at
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this hour everyone is heading down main
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street usa and
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out through the front of the park and
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i'm going to take not the monorail but
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i'm gonna take the fairy boat back over
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not too long of a line
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admiral joe fowler
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that's the boat i'm boarding got the
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richard f irvine directly next to me
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my boat is pulling away but over there
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the richard f irvine is is also going to
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be having guests get on
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both boats are heading over back over to
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ttc
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a nice little monorail angle there going
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by
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space mountain yeah this time of night
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they usually have two boats
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going across seven seas lagoon and the
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mod oh there was some lightning over
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there
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i miss it maybe maybe it'll maybe it'll
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happen again maybe we'll get the
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lightning
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you can kind of see it over there a
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little bit of lightning flashes
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as well yeah i always love exiting
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across
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on the boats with the view of the
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contemporary over there
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and the bus depot takes you to all the
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resorts
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all the attractions and the monorail
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platform
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train station if you turn this direction
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you'll see
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grand floridian off in that distance as
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well
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very very beautiful across the seven sea
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that's kind of my thing taking the
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monorail in
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and the boats across seven seas out this
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is always a better exit in my opinion
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just uh it's just always so beautiful
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especially in the evening hours
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lots of pictures memories of the day
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safe travels wherever next station may
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be whether that be home or
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somewhere else come back and see us real
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soon i'll be out there not here welcome
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to
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this trusty umbrella you can see the
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shadow there
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really came well you could see now the
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light is
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under this little walkway you can't see
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it maybe when i get back here
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be able to see the shadow again really
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nope can't say it
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where's the chat there it is really it
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was very helpful
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i would have it would have been a more
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not as
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pleasant an experience without having
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this although on the jungle cruise
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just a heads up if it's raining the
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little awning
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that's on the boat will not shield you
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from the elements
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that is for sure the question i have and
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i've been saying this for a while when
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will the epcot loop monorail which is
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the beam you're seeing come back
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and will when will the trams
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at ttc come back that are usually
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right through here i want the epcot luke
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monorail and i want the trams
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nice little buildup of water here
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standing water is but it rained a lot
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today
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especially in the late afternoon into
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the evening and
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good portion of the uh hour and a half
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i think i got in the park around 7 30.
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eight no i think i really was in the
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park around 8 15. yeah i got here
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yeah and then i stayed till another hour
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after after clothes
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standing water everywhere
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my socks are wet underneath my shoes
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i'm not the last ones to leave i wasn't
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the first ones here first one's here
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first one's here because i did not get
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here at rope drop and i'm not the last
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one to leave but i'm pretty close to
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being one of the last ones to leave
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there's still a few other cars in the
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parking lot though
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and there will always be a car horn
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honking
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that's going to do it for today this was
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very very impulsive trip up here at the
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end of the evening but i wanted to see
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the jungle cruise changes
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the sinking boat it's kind of tough to
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see in the under the
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darkness but you can see it a little bit
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from the back of the book
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that's pretty good and i got to see the
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stretch room kind of sorta well
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none of the distancing markers anymore
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but the stretch room
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thought it was going to be working it
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really wasn't working for me at this
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hour
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power pole mickey