Taking My Mom To EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival - Disney World Passholder Lounge / World Showcase
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as a
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recording of this Wednesday May the 15th
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2024 I'm hoping throughout the course of
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the afternoon I'll be able to utilize
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these right now it is raining however it
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is scheduled to clear up around 2 300
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p.m. should be
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overcast so might not need these got to
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go pick up my mom and we are going to do
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a little flower and garden festival
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which is ending
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soon there's a cart driving down here
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should probably move out of the
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way my mom loves flowers she has not
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been able to attend the flower and
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garden festival this year at Epcot so
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I'm going to go pick her up the festival
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is ending relatively soon and this is
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the really the only day that we could
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coordinate going there together and it's
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the only day she's really able to to go
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over and look at flowers probably not
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going to be focusing much on food or
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rides she loves flowers I know a little
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bit of about flowers I'm a novice she
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really likes flowers so this might be an
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opportunity to focus on what kind of
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flowers are there cuz I know probably
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that doesn't get covered much even
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though a lot of people do go there
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sometimes the flowers at flower and
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garden
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festival aren't really the focus but
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today they possibly well could be join
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me
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son and mom day shall you all right it
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is now 3:06 p.m. it's 84° here at Epcot
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severe thunderstorm warning or watch in
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effect until 5:00 p.m. we scroll down it
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looks like
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hopefully it's going to be 70% chance of
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thunderstorms until 5:00 p.m. and then
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it's not showing any rain after that so
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we'll see what happens and my mom is
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here H everybody we both have umbrellas
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because we're probably gonna need them
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it's probably gonna rain the good news
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is we probably won't get a sunburn today
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that's
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good going get our steps in we're going
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to get our steps in we're going to see
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some flowers see some
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butterflies have you been to this every
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year they've had it no no I want to be
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here this probably my third or fourth
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time I don't think you or I have ever
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been here together yes you brought me
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last year I did okay did I'm losing my
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memory I've been here three times
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counting today okay you brought me last
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year probably going to teach me a few
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few things about flowers I tell
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definitely tell you where what patunas
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look
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likez you every time this
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patunas I don't know if they'll even
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have patun this time of year or not with
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my luck they won't I hope they do if I
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if there is I'll show you so patunas
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only grow at a certain time of the year
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I mean obviously Spring right they
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should be out they should be out this
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time of
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year we might have time to catch the
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tram maybe we'll catch this one and it's
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because it's and because it's after 2:00
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p.m. my mom is a passholder she has the
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weekday pass I'm a passholder we're
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parked in Dory 411
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we are not going to need to let's go
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towards the back we're not going to need
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to book a reservation we just go
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in all right my friends if you or a
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member of your party has not already
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crossed the yellow line I'm going to ask
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for you to remain behind it cuz I'm
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going to call for no further boarding no
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further boarding for my friends on board
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this tram this tra is prone to Sun
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starts and stops at any moment in time
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so for your safety we do ask for you to
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remain seated friends
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open until 9 p.m. today also at 9:00
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p.m. is going to be our firework show
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luminous a symphony of if you're open to
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catch a tram ride back out to your
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vehicle that is parked in Dory 411 Dory
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411 the last tram ride will be leaving
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for everyone to remain seated facing for
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holding on to those small children
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Anders articles at all times until this
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TR has come to a full and complete stop
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for everyone's
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safety in just a few moments here our
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driver will be making our parking lot
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world famous 5 mph U-turn after we have
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made this U-turn the exit will be on the
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driver's right hand side and the right
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hand side only my
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friends also my friends where we are
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dropping you off by the silver handrails
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that is also where we will pick you up
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at the end of your Daye
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today for my friends on the ground
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waiting to picked up by the tra I do ask
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for you to remain behind when you were
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here last year the TRS weren't running
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last year they just brought the trams
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back oh really yeah so this is a
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historic occasion you riding the tram at
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Epcot oh it's been many years okay are
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you excited oh
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yeah I love it
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walk I always like to document myself in
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front of the spaceship earth mirror here
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my mom's shirt says what day is it today
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who cares I'm
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retired you what I don't care take one
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day at a time
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it's kind of neat when you go over here
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I disappear out of this section and then
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you can walk in now you're disappeared
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and then you walk over there you go
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there you are now walk over my way 2
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feet and then keep going keep going and
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now a little more now there you are it's
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like a fun house mirror oh okay all
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right we're going to head into the
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butterfly Landing through here and I've
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kind of noticed that sometimes later in
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the season of the festival there are
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more butterflies in here because they've
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had time to hatch and and kind of
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formulate than they are at the beginning
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of the Season you can see there's
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definitely quite a few in here inside
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the butterfly Landing also want to show
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a few photos my Mom finally got to see
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the Walt sculpture there over in World
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celebration Garden so I got a photo
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there we also got to see the chary
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figment as well this is her walking
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through the Waterway so she got to
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experience the Moana inspired journey of
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water got in front of the Lion King
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topiary and these are really cute me and
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her front of spaceship earth when we
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first walked in there's one me and giv
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her a little little kiss right there and
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there's like a a nice one too as well so
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off to a good start got a Montreal going
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by over there definitely so yeah I was
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here on the opening day of flower and
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garden there weren't really a whole heck
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of a lot of butterflies but because so
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much time has gone by now it's like a
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whole culmination and a whole like huge
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grouping of them that are all kind of
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flying around seems like I don't know
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maybe it's all in my mind but I feel
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like there's way more butterflies later
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in the season of this Festival than
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there is here's some impatience you got
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to be patient with the butterflies
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though even these are New Guinea
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impatience these flowers are called
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patience see I know a little bit if I
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can if I have a little little something
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I could read like a tropical milk weed
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all right Mom trivia time what kind of
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flowers you think these are right down
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in here if you had to guess they're
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called patience they're called patient
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impatience or patience impatience
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impatience so what's these must be these
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are pentas pentas right here pentas so
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this right here is the oh look there's a
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butterfly right there this is
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interesting this is a cigar plant I
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wonder if it's because it looks like a
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cigar or it's not a tobacco plant I
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would guess no prob just uh just because
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it looks like a little miniature cigar I
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guess so look at that there's a moth or
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a butterfly right there yeah you can
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really see how many of them are down in
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here kind of fluttering around they're
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just they're everywhere there's like
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thousands of them in here right now so
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without reading them do you know what
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you know what a lot of these are would
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you know what that is without without
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actually reading what that is I do not
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so these are the impatients down here
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yes okay so they come in uh I guess a
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lot of different colors the impatience
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is there a patience or just impatience
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impatience just impatience I did find a
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small P like there did there that's a
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small that is are those small
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patunas so that's a petunia that's a
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small one okay there there's a bigger
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one but that's a small one I think okay
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so there's a mini patunas and then
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there's fulls size
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patunas I might be wrong but it looks
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like one they how do all their business
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like a nice little beautiful waterfall
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right here as well and here's a kind of
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a nice little little uh little blossom
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here on the side of the plant just love
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all these
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butterflies just got to watch where
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you're watch where you're stepping you
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can learn about what the different
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butterflies are there's the Monarch the
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mesite the common buckeye the zebra long
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wing and it shows kind of what they are
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there's also the hel Conan butterflies
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right over here the Z zebra long wing
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butterfly all of those can be accounted
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for fluttering around in here I noticed
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too A lot of times they they kind of
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congregate over in the
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corners like in the corner sections over
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there this is called a a rubber tree
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right
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here not sure why it's called a rubber
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tree but it's a rubber tree that's a
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ruby glow pentis Ruby
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glow that's what that is oh that's the
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really but this right here doesn't have
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a sign all right since we were right
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over by the journey to imagination
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Pavilion decided to go up the DVC Lounge
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just take a little
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break and enjoy
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some relaxation sit
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down soon as the door opens the GVC
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loung I asked my mom if she wanted to go
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up to the DVC lounge and relax a little
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bit and she was all for it so we're
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going to get a little relaxation this is
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ours right here so since the last time
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you were up here they got new furniture
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yeah I love the Coca-Cola Coca-Cola
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Freestyle machine cuz you can get non
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soda like minute made zero sugar limeade
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that's what I always get my mom just
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said get her anything so I'm going to Al
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mess it up got to do it again I waited
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too long I was explaining myself a
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little little bit too long cherry
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limeade right there and
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then
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go there one
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and
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two that's good it's good right yeah
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that's like my go-to when I'm up here
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because it's not really technically soda
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and it's got no sugar in it so it's kind
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of sort of moderately healthy tce in a
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day what makes it
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sweet magic imagination
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all right here's a couple more there's
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one with our arms spread wide open
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almost looks like we got spaceship earth
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in our in our arms we got our arms
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strategically I think it's unintentional
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but around wrapped around spaceship
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earth and then there was like a little
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magic moment too where they added
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figment and we're doing a little
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thinking all you need is a little
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imagination look at figment I have a
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light bulb above my head and figment is
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above the light M we're doing a lot of
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thinking you put your heads together two
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people and you got figment will just
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appear all you need is a little
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imagination all right so we're now going
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to exit out of the member lounge and it
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really wasn't a whole lot of people up
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in here it's like a pretty pretty open
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up in here today this is probably the
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emptiest I've seen it in a while I guess
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here on a weekday really not a whole lot
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of people at flower and garden I to like
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that you can look out and see spaceship
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earth out there as well here inside the
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DVC Lounge have now made it over to the
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land Pavilion of course living with the
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land over there in that corner which is
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like a 5 minute minute walk on but also
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saurin is only a 20 minute wait so you
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want to go on saurin Zer let's go let's
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go for it let's do it
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okay it's a little less intense than
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Guardians try to do another elevator
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here almost looks like like a I say
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broccoli or like a like leaf right there
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going down oh yeah press it
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down look like a celery like celery
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sticks on that I don't know reminds me
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of all right we are in row
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three I think is the
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bottom this was Soaring Over California
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for a while they changed it they they
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changed it from Soaring Over The World
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which I think is what it is now it was
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TN over California for a short time but
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I think
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I don't know I don't
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know do you like this ride yeah I last
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time we rode this we went all over the
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world we went all over the world I think
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so may seeing the elephants this is
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where the elephants they throw the dirt
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up I think we are going to be on the
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lowest
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tier what's that mean I think we're in
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the low there's three tiers I think the
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first tier goes up Winnie the Pooh is
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not allowed to
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ride so w the Poo will not be on this
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he's being punished and W theoo is not
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allowed to sore around the
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world he he got into the honey when he
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was he did
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yeah he's not allowed on the
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ride didn't follow the
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rules all right have decided to head
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over to the land because it's all it's a
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pretty much a walk- on it's a 5 minute
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wait so we're going to do the land while
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we're while we're in this Pavilion all
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right Road Number
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fruit there's some bananas over there
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the one over there they're still green
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M someone did that once you don't want
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to be like that that is a snake
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GD right there a snake
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G oh look here's other small cucumbers
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springing
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up mommy
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feed what is that
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seed
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sprouting I think as far as the amount
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of flowers per section this is probably
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the most right here along the Waterway
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this is timing out pretty good mom The
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Montreal's coming by you get a picture
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of the Montreal going by right directly
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above us right over here you can have
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the
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floating the floating flower planters
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there right up top monal going
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that worked out well so any idea what
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these kind of flower oh that's the
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butterfly right there too makes it the
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butterfly y so do you know what these
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flowers are cers I don't really know
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what did you say they were cers cers
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kind of looks like lettuce almost I
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don't know what it's a type of it's
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going to show you how to do this oh the
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phone app okay what you do you go to
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it'll tell you what it is y what's that
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say right there that says let me look a
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CO a c l e u s kind of right colus
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Wasabi a Wasabi
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colus I think a Wasabi I think it' be
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very spicy like a little little flavor
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to
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it I didn't notice this till now but
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Goofy or maybe the dandelions weren't
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there there's more dandelion have blown
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up but Goofy is blowing out the
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dandelions right there it's like a a
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little like assortment of dandelions in
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front of goofy right there I've always
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seen the goofy here but for some reason
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I didn't notice the dandelions out here
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amongst the other flowers I think I
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remember him holding them but I remember
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them being in the little field area yeah
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pretty neat I ended up using the little
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thing on my phone too the the app you
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could just go on take a photo of it and
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realize that this is a sulfur Cosmos I
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never realized what that would have been
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but that one right there that little
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orange flower is a sulfur Cosmos now I
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never have to ask are those patunas
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anymore cuz I have the answer right
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unless I leave my phone
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in and it actually worked out while we
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were in both of those attractions in the
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land Pavilion it looks like you got a
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little bit of rain and it's not
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scheduled to rain according to the
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weather the rest of the night so we
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caught a little rainstorm while we were
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on those two rides and almost all the
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flowers have wasps or bees a beeh hive
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of activity all are getting the little
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pollin
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or the pollen from inside the flowers
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I'm not sure what these are probably
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should look it up all right
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investigation is now happening right
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before my eyes so I look it up on my
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phone or Mom can look it up on her phone
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she thinks maybe it's a lilac of some
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sort it's called
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a
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Petra or something a Petra
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what a Petra Vol buis I love the little
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Bambi display over here cute this used
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to be over near where the jamut used to
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perform by Club cool but now they moved
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it over here so like they're just over
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here now and this beautiful thing is
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called a candle Larks spur a candle
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Larks spur look at that thing that that
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is a that is a beautiful purple and
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white flower there by the waterfall here
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in Canada
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Pavilion we actually walked down there
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it
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was get Mist all over us nice little
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cooling Mist this is tucked away here
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here around back side of the Canada
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Pavilion all right we have grabbed a
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seat over here almost to the UK Pavilion
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past the Canada Pavilion and we're just
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kind of resting a bit getting I got a
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coffee right here from jof and doing a
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little people watching been doing a lot
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of people watching while you're sitting
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here Mom y any any uh anything
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interesting that you've seen while I
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went to get the coffee
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yeah no nothing usual no nothing out of
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the ordinary it was just kind of
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something that would like go on a porch
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spin around in the wind very decorative
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the sun just kind of bounces off of them
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Stitch right up there there's a Hidden
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Mickey there's the Rose from Beauty and
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Beast I am not got the Friendship boat
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going across over to the Morocco
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Pavilion there's a beach down here L
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people might not realize there actually
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is a beach and there's even a a bird
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right down there on the beach there's a
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small little Beach right over here in
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front of the Canada Pavilion between
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Canada and the UK Pavilion yep tree
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Story look here's a beach no lounging on
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that beach though even though there are
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some Footprints down there I wouldn't
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recommend going down there though
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there's a beach right down there if you
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look over this come over here there's a
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hidden Beach over here there's a
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Canadian Beach see it yeah did you know
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there was a beach down there and now
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walking around what is the Tea Garden so
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a lot of different teas are grown over
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here in the UK English Tea Garden
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through over here the twinnings tea got
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Tinkerbell over here and I like all the
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little houses that are in in here they
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all got little lizard like live lizards
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on top of the house there's like a
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lizard on top of that little oil can on
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top of that house there's even a little
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lizard it's hard to see them right there
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this is like Tinker Bells like small
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miniature houses right along here yeah I
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always love the always love the to
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Beauty and the Beast topiaries over
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through here we just passed the Muppets
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Miss Piggy topiary got a little selfie
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with Miss Piggy the topiary and now
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walking by the
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Morocco Pavilion as well not sure if the
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passholder lounge is still open we did
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one Lounge now we're going to check out
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the annual passholder Lounge no way
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right when we're walking in it is the
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genie Mom it's the genie you got a wish
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your wish has come
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true your wish came true you met the
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genie all right Moroccan mint tea I was
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looking at the sugar I have to make
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sure got some snacks in here got a
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Moroccan mint tea for my mom and I what
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do you think of Moroccan mint
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tea not not your thing we do it all day
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okay it's not everyone's cup of tea see
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what I did there just a cup of tea it's
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not everyone's cup
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of all right I was just looking it up
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and I guess the time frame on this AP
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Lounge is only 6 weeks it's already been
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2 weeks it's been open but it only goes
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through the middle of June so if you're
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definitely in the Parks and you're an
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annual passholder pop in here meet the
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genie and get some Moroccan mint tea or
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some water and snacks they also have
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snacks snacks oh come on you do better
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than that I said are you having a good
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time much better we are element we're
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here to party with you guys all right
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we're over here at the Lady and the
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topiaries and there is just so
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many potted flowers that are over here I
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mean just like multiple amounts of of
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like possibly all these flowers around
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it just goes all the way up the side of
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the stage very impressive sculpture here
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I always like this I forget this is even
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back
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here Comm but before our begin I'd like
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to tell you about this building in our
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upcoming fi the
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temp we going to watch the reflections
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of China show which I do not even
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remember most in 500 years ago each year
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of the emper go there to pray for good
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props in the coming year the field that
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you are about to see was fill within my
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homeland in reflection of China we will
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VIs such famous setting as the Forbidden
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City the great and Sh one of China's
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most mod wonders he will also visit and
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Hong our show is about to begin find
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your emotion that reason we ask you
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please lean but refrain from sitting on
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the rails in front and behind you should
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you require see we do have some benches
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in the back and very similar to the C
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show I watched the other day go those if
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you want to sit benches in the back
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that's where we are we're in the back
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sitting in the bench all right I had
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seen that movie but gosh it is probably
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been a few
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years all right like the sun is going to
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be setting soon start going to keep
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continuing around World Showcase I think
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now we're going to start heading out
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there's the Montreal going by front of
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spaceship very nice but got to check out
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the Encanto topiaries here on the way
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out well actually the way into where
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Shas but we're heading out out past the
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topers from Cana got the sun setting
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over here there's a bubble going couple
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bubbles going by someone's got some
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bubbles down here overload of mint
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Fields oh this is the Center Street so
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what fragrance is this refreshing
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fragrance stir for you mint flavored
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down here very very nice if you smell
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that you get a like nice minty flavored
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almost kind of like the Moroccan mint
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tea that I had as a glorious grapefruit
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right here now on the way out we were
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about ready to head out we realized they
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were getting ready to do the show on
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spaceship earth so my mom and I grabbed
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the bench on the way out a very
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futuristic looking bench and we just
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kind of sat there and watched the light
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show that they were doing we actually
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got to see the lights turn on in the
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park and what from spaceship earth and
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we just ended up waiting on the bench to
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watch the spaceship earth final show on
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the way out and now after we got done
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watching that we ended up making it out
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to the parking lot where we're going to
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get on the tra and head on
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of the lot this time stay behind theine
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for your safety for those friends on
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board this tra is prone to sudden starts
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and stops at any point in time so please
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remain seated facing forward holding on
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to small children and loose articles at
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all time and if any chance to loose
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article were to follow from the champ
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just remain seated or next stop come
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talk to me so I'm able to retrieve the
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item for you with that being said
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everyone on board just sit back Turn 5
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miles hour so be able to stop on the
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crite but don't worry door is going to
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be located to the driver's left hand
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side after the 5 mph u-turn
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my cars over
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there 5 m hour U
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turn all right that's going to do it for
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today look at spaceship earth up there
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that is so cool looking
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look at spaceship bir now mom huh look
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at spaceship bir now like doing though
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Beau that's going to do it for today
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thanks for watching I'll see you in the
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next video the
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Vlog is over
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last call to board last call to
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board all right this time calling for
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forther boarding no forther boarding at
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this time