Staying At Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort - Inside Trader Sam’s Grog Grotto / Late Night Pool Fun
Disney Grand Floridian & Trader Sams
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welcome everyone out of the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Wednesday
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May 24 2023 it is rainy it is
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precipitating and some storm clouds
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are rolling in someone is backing up
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their vehicle in the distance I believe
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there are some workers down here that
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are putting their stuff away because
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there are some inclement weather rolling
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in I
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am going to be departing celebration for
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at least
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five weeks give or take it I'm gonna be
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in the central Florida area for four
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more days but I am going to be doing
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some Resort stays
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before heading out
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after those that short time frame and I
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will not be coming back to celebrations
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beforehand you know if something happens
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I can always stop back by and grab what
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I need to grab it I think I have
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everything packed up put my items in my
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car and I am ready to head out going to
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MCO Orlando International to pick up a
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buddy of mine who has not been here in
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five six seven years
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perhaps and we're just gonna have some
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good times over the next series of days
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and then after that I will be hitting
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the airport actually the same day I drop
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him back off at the airport it's not for
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a few more days I will be flying
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he'll be flying home and I will be
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flying to a different Airport
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gotta keep travel I'm inviting you
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to join me today checking into Grand
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Floridian and possibly just see where
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the at late afternoon and the evening
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takes us join me shall you part of me
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wants to go down to the shore and get
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that soccer ball out of there possibly
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grab a stick
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but I'm thinking if there's a gator in
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there
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could be like Akbar says it's a trap so
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I'm just going to leave that there
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I'll leave that soccer ball there
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because you just never know what's
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lurking underneath the murkiness
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with a green algae or whatever that is
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along the shoreline
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it's supposed to rain
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today tomorrow the next day during the
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tenure of my friend's visit so it's
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going to be interesting
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it's going to be a fun trip for him for
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sure and just to add a little more fun
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to the mix let me dropping my car off
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not at the airport getting a ride to the
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airport because the day I'm flying out
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in a few days from now
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so early I won't be able to drop the car
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off before that and usually I'll park at
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the airport for like a week or a week
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and a half this is going to be gone over
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a month
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I don't want to leave my car at the
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airport that long or at my Celebration
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Place for that long so
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yeah making a little I'm getting a
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rental car for the next few days and
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then dropping it off when I fly out
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I also brought my bags with me and it's
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gonna so I'm gonna put those in the
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rental car I'm not gonna get the rental
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car yet because it wouldn't make sense
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to get the rental car and that's a
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come away till he gets here and then
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hit the rental put my put my bag I
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always love this it's like one of my
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favorite things at the Orlando Airport
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this gentleman here who's all tuckered
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out not a real person
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but this is like an artist made this
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it's like a real person right
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all right got the rental car what is
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this what is this Dodgers cap doing on
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the front of the rental car
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it's a hit
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should I give the head or should I just
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show you
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give a hint give a hint all right give a
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description Who You Are
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with some Clues
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California yes Disneyland
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Ropers The Ropers yeah remember The
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Ropers rope droppers yeah we were the
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Rope droppers could be
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who could it be
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it's me
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you're here I'm here but I I forgot my
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broom
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they're broom because the Dodgers are
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going to be doing a lot of sweeping this
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week oh God okay there it is
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just in time for sunset the most magical
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place on Earth not going to a park
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tonight but we'll be close to him all
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right pulling up to the Grand Floridian
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is this weather Great Jay
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uh no not really at least it's not hot
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out that is true I'm glad for not hot
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swampy yeah sweaty weather this is kind
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of how the weather's going to be for uh
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most your trip I can dig it you like
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this I'm good okay
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oh there's a monorail going by
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over there
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got to present ID to get in here
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do you have any ideas the Villas
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at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort and
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Spa
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we're here Disney Vacation Club he's
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emblem right there on the side we've got
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another monorail going by there
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also that is the new construction over
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there for the Polynesian DVC you made
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like a nice little joke about a staying
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in the Villas
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well I think that makes us Village
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People
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all right over to the DVC Towers well
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the DVC area where we're going it's a
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little bit of a walk from the parking
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lot but not too bad you kind of go
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through this main little area here if
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you bring your swimming trucks I did and
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I can't wait because that's a and
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slide it looks like it's a Westlife a
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rock slide one slide that's a and
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slide I'm gonna go on that
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up there's a little duck right here
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hello duck
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Hello Duck I think the duck might be
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sharing a room with us taking us to our
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room maybe he's the bellhop
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maybe so the main area there it has like
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the
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big main Atrium and all that is right
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it's a walking distance from where we're
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going to be okay this is known as Big
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Pine Key where our guest room is I want
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to show this
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so I think all the DVC rooms Disney
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Vacation Club rooms are all in Big Pine
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Key
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pretty sure
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I'm not sure if there's any in there but
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maybe there too all right we're going up
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there's us when was the last time you
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were uh you were in Orlando I think like
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six years ago
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2017. and that was your first visit to
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Disney World so this is your second
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visit second visit we did one day each
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part four parks that was great the room
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is now
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these are the accommodations starting
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off here looking into the mirror here
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you can see the artwork that's in here I
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really like staying here and it's
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interesting even though
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oh wait a second yeah H2O plus is not
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going to be
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Furnishing the rooms and some of their
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stuff they're still are for now even
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though down the road you will not see
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these in the rooms currently
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they do they do have the H2O
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plus as well
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so this is the shower
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a nice shower head up here a little room
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tour shampoo sea salt body wash
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is my favorite I think out of all
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out of all the items the sea salt
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is probably my favorite and if you look
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closely there are two sinks you have to
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look closely you just look you can tell
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there are sinks here's a little makeup
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mirror I've already placed my stuff over
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on the counter there is a Keurig one
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thing I like about Grand Floridian
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versus some of the other Disney Resorts
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some of the Disney Resorts have a
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non-curag they actually have a Keurig
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here with some of the Joffrey's blend
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Resort blend some of the sweeteners and
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creamers there
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coffee cups you have a
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microwave here
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safe to say that's where you put your
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money
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a handheld steamer
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right over there you got this little
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thing oh you check these out
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if you want to relax a little later Jay
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you can put this on I don't mind if I do
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yeah you could have this this is a
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little smoke I don't think you could
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smoke out here but this is like uh oh
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it's already wearing that it will be
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smoking
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this isn't a bad view huh not at all I
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can wear that real down to the pool you
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could
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just a room
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this is a good view I was expecting it
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not to be a good view because there
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wasn't going to be a Theme Park View but
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this is awesome I kind of like this
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there's the main area right over there
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nice I love it
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Choice room yeah two beds
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so this has two it looks like full size
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beds maybe Queen maybe queen beds but
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there's also a pull out couch here so if
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we had a couple other folks they could
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they could take the couch
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if they search you so choose and it's
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also Mary Poppins themes you can see
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this little area over here remember when
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they announced that d23 a couple two
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d23s ago they were going to put this in
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Epcot
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I never did that never happened
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but at least we have the artwork
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at least we have the artwork here no
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ceiling fan
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some of the resorts have ceiling fans is
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that painting Mary Poppins
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or that's just a painting Cherry Tree
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Lane right that was supposed to be
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called I guess you could say That's
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supposed to be
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no I don't think that's supposed to be a
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Mary Poppins
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did our chargers I got my phone charging
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oh you could hear the you can hear the
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boat the Riverboat ferry boat oh you're
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putting that in front of the wait what's
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behind that I just upgraded the room
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do the Dodgers have the best uh they're
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the they're the best in the NL right
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barely barely are the best in the NL
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you're the best in the ale right yeah
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The Showdown
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all right I'm gonna put this on
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I think we did the room tour
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that's it so what do you want to do on
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your first night here
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I feel like getting groggy
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are you groggy at The Grotto at the The
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Grog The Grotto The Grog Grotto Trader
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Sam's Grotto let's go check it out some
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tropical Libations there let's go do
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that maybe some food oh look at this
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I never noticed those little birds up
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top there feed the birds tough It's a
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bag
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so we'll do that and then
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is that you
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I can't do that
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my whistle doesn't work and then maybe
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go to the Bay Lake Tower to watch the
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fireworks from up there
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I just love you can hear the ferry boat
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and the pool is open till 11 so maybe
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we'll hit the pool up I don't know I
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think fireworks are at 9 20. we might
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have time to hit the pool up a late
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night little late night dip
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with Jay
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do you feel like you should have a
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nickname like Tampa Jay or should I just
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call you just VJ
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what do you want to be called I don't
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prefer I'll go by tepa J right that's
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what you say You're Gonna Go by now I
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already know a Tampa giant you're not
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from you said you'll be known as tabijay
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or BJ no me too not BJ
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Vijay what about BJ what is this this is
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a tiki mug yes that I brought I actually
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bought brought two this one's for you oh
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uh we a company I work for called Tiki
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land trading company made it
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Tiki Bob is an iconic
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mug yeah from like starting the 60s to
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San Francisco so he's been around for
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for a long time and we think at taking
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on Trading
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he loves Disneyland and his favorite
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ride is the jungle cruise yeah she has
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an old school hat
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Bob steering wheel
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and has it iconic logo on the back so
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he's like he's like one of like the
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original like kind of Disney Tiki mugs
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kind of uh well no but the Bob is a kind
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of different the Bob is okay we made him
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a drunk Cruise Skipper because we figure
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he loves Disney yeah yeah so yeah so I
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brought one I brought two one for you
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cool
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you're gonna give it to the skipper at
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the garage we do it at Trader Sam's
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California all the time you just get you
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take them a gift we bring multiples at
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California we give them away really
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we're taking one over there yeah so this
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one mine or is actually do you drink
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from that tonight your tropical libation
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and my trick in taking this with me yeah
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I don't drink alcohol can I get it
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drinks what do they call that a faux a
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mocktail yeah I'm taking this with me
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Jack George you're taking it yeah VJ
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yeah my friend Tiki chippy he loved the
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idea he's he's aka the mayor of tiki and
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then tickling training and if anybody
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wants it I love it people on trading so
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they're just gonna pour my drink right
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in this you can take that to any Tiki
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Bar
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and they'll put your drink in there okay
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yeah sounds good one for you one for me
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do you have one too I got one on my bag
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so you brought three of them well I
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brought two of them I'm gonna drink from
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one oh you're gonna give them the one to
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strike I have to put my mouth all over
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you gotta I'm gonna give it away
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yeah this is definitely not
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not a bad view right here look at this
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I like this not necessarily you don't
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always have to have a Theme Park View to
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get a good view you can have a nice
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Ambiance from the pool
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right back and didn't have to go check
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in or anything it's linked to my magic
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band so we just went right in here you
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should get over here
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get get the for posterity I have good
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posture already but I'll I'll come over
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here anyways posterity yeah how do you
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say posture we have a good you stand
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right right yeah look at this if you've
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never stayed here before right never I
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walked through the hotel and we're
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walking distance from Nepali we could
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walk to the poly before we take the
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monorail my favorite place here are you
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wearing it you're wearing a tiki I put
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it on that I'm taking that you just put
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that on yeah very nice good luck
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it's gonna be fun is that what that
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means good luck
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yes
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let's go let's go now the walkway over
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to the poly is a little wacky right now
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because of
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stuff that they're stuff that's going on
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but you can kind of see I was kind of
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hoping the monitor will be on the other
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side of the track but
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you get the idea
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all right they said there's an hour wait
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but they said we could stand by the left
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side of the bar
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and just walked right in but it was an
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hour wait for a table let's just we're
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gonna try to catch the fireworks
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you want to point anything out in here
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that you know more than I would some
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stuff over there there's some stuff over
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things over here something that you
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would acknowledge she was the tiki guy
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Tiki Jay I need a few minutes
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for the first time I've been in here you
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frequent the one in Anaheim all the time
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you've only been in here just silly the
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second time yeah the first time we just
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walked through and walked out we came in
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here back in 2017 when you're busy right
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to be honest I don't really remember
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much about the Anaheim one it's kind of
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the same setup but definitely have some
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different items in here versus there
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it's a bunch of tiki Mugs Up There
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obviously
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hello
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Skipper Bob from simple Cruise
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okay sorry about that is this um
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this is awesome so yeah so a bob is a
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famous yeah
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so I work at a particular trading so we
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figured Bob was a Disneyland fan of
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course and I figured Jungle Cruise was
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his favorite ride he'd want to be a
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super this is probably the best of these
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that I've ever seen this one's great
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that's awesome I love that is it not
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it's a non-disney section thing right
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nothing it is a non-discuit
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nothing says specifically
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thank you
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what should I get you no booze Bruce the
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skipper sipper yeah tropical juices
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organic agave nectar so that's a no
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booze bruise all three of these are
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Schweitzer Falls tropical juices at
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Sam's gorilla Grog topped with Sprite
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Polynesian punch Skipper sipper sounds
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pretty good there you go maybe I'll get
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this what is your go-to you're getting a
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little uh a little alcohol little adult
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beverage right I think I might have to
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do that here yes do a proper drink for
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my visit inside I usually go with a 44
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or 44 at my time okay but on this it's
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not on this menu it's a classic drink
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oh it's like a specialty thing yeah it's
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like any ticket bar you can order this
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classic 44 uh
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I'm sorry my time okay whatever it is so
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do you think that they're not allowed to
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put this in here if you gave it to them
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is that the vibe you were getting from
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them
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well I'm not sure if they'll put it here
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but if they don't see any mugs from
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outside
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maybe that's why I was asking if it's
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officially Disney sanctions because the
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one in California there's a ton of mugs
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that are well no there's a there's one
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up there that's happened here maybe I'll
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have to ask them you have to ask him
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yeah oh look at my friend sister Tony
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has a few things in here you see that
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bird and the little tiny red bird in
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that middle case yeah it's a trip that's
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a tiki Tony me that years ago those are
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really rare it's a rare chirp shirt
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you guys put moves on your shirt that's
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not his name well let's see what
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expression we have before if you guys
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are Skippers yeah well
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volcanoes
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foreign
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oh look there's like bubbles coming out
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over here oh look they're swimming we're
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under water oh it's moving that's
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awesome
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squid crap
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I thought we're gonna have to like wait
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an hour but because we're standing we
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didn't have to wait everyone's very
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friendly in here Jay is in his Vibe he
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is definitely the tiki and when I lived
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in Orange I had like a tiki side yard I
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actually have a few tikis that I've got
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from Oceanic Arts as well before Oceanic
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Arts closed so I do have I do love some
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Tiki but I'm definitely not on par with
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some oh check it out there's Sunken
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Gardens right there in St Petersburg
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Florida I've been there all right here's
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the Schweitzer Falls the mocktail
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version of it what would this have in it
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if it had alcohol in it like rum put rum
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in there well you probably put rum if
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we'll make it through it
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yeah cut the little pineapple there it's
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got the little about the umbrella with
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the parasol it's got a cherry
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yeah and Jay's getting his drink in his
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mug
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magical moment oh he's getting a magical
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moment all right yeah no questions asked
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that's all right I don't even know what
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that means but I think it's good because
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there we go
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that's good welcome to Florida
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now it's time to get
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um
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can you taste the rum
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it's very pineappling
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but it's good
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orange and Cherry
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these angers are gone
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she's spraying something up in the air
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man that's like a full-on party over
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there keep it all over there
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it got really windy in here it's raining
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pretty much the weather you're going to
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experience your whole trip Jay is that a
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volcano with floor she has a rain jacket
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on over there okay A little okay it's
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over now the storm's over so you can
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take the rain jacket off we'll go back I
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like it in here I gotta hang out here a
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little more often you got to come into
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town more often so I'm gonna go full
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Tiki I think I should I might kept
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moving to your apartment you want to
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move in
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those are hard to come by they're very
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rare really I have one but but you have
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all of them how many mugs do you have
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now a couple hundred three hundred maybe
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300.
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I don't know but I'm alive
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so this place is just decked out with
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cheeky Toby paraphernalia as it should
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be I have to find another ticket 20
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stuff I know there's other stuff
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oh you got the flashlight on it
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that's a thing of beauty right there all
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the way from SoCal
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oh what is it oh well this is appendix
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Walt Disney's appendix that's where it
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went there for you oh my god Jay you
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just you just drank out of that and it's
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on a shelf it's a relic you have
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transplanted yourself well at least
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you're taking it
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I've heard this happening but it's never
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happened prepare yourselves for this
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Wonder of nature
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the one in California is the Enchanted
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Tiki Bar so calling it Trader Sam is
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like a newbie thing to say something I
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would say yeah
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you know someone's like a real spooky
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Aficionado when they call it the real
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name
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but now you know the garage in the
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garage we all dropped yeah I'll gradi
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let's go check some fireworks out I'm
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down let's go let's do it yeah I
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definitely love the tiki room and I love
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Tiki I've been to quite a few tiki bars
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around the country
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you know Trader Sam's definitely uh a
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big one because she got all the Disney
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tie-in as well I like these windows over
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here look at that
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we gotta head out we gotta move quick to
26:09
get up to the Bay Lake Tower to watch
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Happily Ever After from the top roof
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near
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the villains Lounge
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in this close time was like some spoons
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right there on that wind chime
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this guy come alive and does something
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oh really
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you know what I like about this Tiki Bar
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unlike other ones I don't have to worry
26:42
about being cautious about what I filmed
26:44
because sometimes you'll be like oh
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that's an over 18 photo in here
26:50
everything is safe for the video
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the golden Tiki is amazing but you got
27:03
to be really careful what you put out
27:04
onto the interwebs for a family-friendly
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video
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do you still have it well there might be
27:20
it might have been different color oh
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look at this this is available at
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Boutique yes the big bowl all right
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let's get out of here oh look at this
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this chandelier is made of like a pirate
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ship uh wheel it's awesome
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all right awesome till next time
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okay should have enough time to get over
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to Bay Lake Tower all right here we go
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we got this whole section over here look
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at the sky there we go perfect monorail
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gold
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does it get much more gold than this
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things are working out swimmingly so far
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the change for me usually
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it didn't work out because they're
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closed
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or they don't let me in
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the whole thing
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aren't working out so far so good good
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we're on monorail gold it has 8 45
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fireworks started at 9 20. I think we
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got time to get up it'd be perfect time
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to get up there if you've never seen the
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fireworks on top of Bailey Tower no I
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have not first time for a lot of things
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well no you've been in Trader's hands
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before yeah we just walked in and walked
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right out it was so busy your first
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drink at Traders yeah oh wow yeah
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we're on the resort monorail
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the rest of your stay goes this well
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we're gonna have a good uh a good
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weekend
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all right we're gonna have a good
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today's Wednesday but it's approaching
28:48
the weekend as a recording of This
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inspection oh nice and crossing of the
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monorails
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it's a good vibe out here at night too
29:07
and it's nice it stopped raining it's
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not humid
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and it's not really that hot it's nice
29:13
yeah top middle
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it is 905 we got 15 minutes to check in
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and when you are staying at a DVC Resort
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and your DVC member they will grant you
29:23
access to the top floor so we're going
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to utilize that
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since we are standing at a DVC Resort
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DVC room we're gonna head to the top so
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we're going to be right up there
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and 15 minutes from this very moment
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happily ever after fireworks are going
29:37
to be started was there a monorail going
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over it is look
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so you're used to Disneyland half the
29:45
time the fireworks don't even happen due
29:47
to inclement weather that's what it
29:48
sounds like it's cloudy it's rainy nope
29:50
there's no weather happening no no it
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always happens here it's a whole other
29:54
world unless the Park's close no pun
29:55
intended unless the part unless there's
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like a really bad hurricane where the
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park is closed
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the fireworks always happen at Magic
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Kingdom I love it
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team wdw
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know how many times I've been to
30:09
Disneyland and like waited on Main
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Street for the fireworks and it's like
30:12
due to inclement weather ladies and
30:14
gentlemen boys and girls due to high
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winds none of that here those high winds
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but they still see this this carrier
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they don't even care right the cast
30:23
member has seen our credentials and now
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going up to the 16th floor
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to the villains Lounge the villains
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we're just going up there to get the
30:35
view oh that's awesome actually you
30:38
might be able to go yeah she didn't even
30:39
ask if we wanted to just get the view or
30:42
to go to the little
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little snacky restaurant area
30:51
16th floor all right are you ready for
30:51
the grand reveal Jay because we're
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staying at the Grand Floridian but this
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is actually this is a different Resort
30:56
but
30:57
not bad is it good bad indifferent what
30:59
are your what are your thoughts it's
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torture to see all the beautiful colors
31:03
and all the rides going around yeah and
31:04
not be alone tonight not tonight but
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maybe while you're here we should pop in
31:08
you want to go in there at some point
31:09
while you're here maybe at some point
31:11
they'll be pretty cute yeah maybe if
31:12
there's reservations we'll have to check
31:14
yeah Disneyland's tough to get a
31:16
reservation here a little little more
31:18
Elbow Room also this is try
31:25
Tron next to Space Mountain oh okay
31:25
right there looks like a big Rave is
31:27
going on over there so from here do you
31:29
know where we're staying like if you had
31:30
to point out or you have your like
31:32
bearings
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we are right over here nope that's not
31:37
where I was winning yeah right over
31:39
there so that's the poly okay that's
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where we just were the Traders and it's
31:43
so dark over there yeah that's the grand
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National Television
31:48
Floridian yes those colors over here at
31:51
the Parker incredible wait to see the
31:53
fireworks you're about to have your mind
31:55
blown I will show the castle now before
31:57
the fireworks happen
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you got Main Street USA right there you
32:03
got Tomorrowland the People Mover right
32:05
down in there got space about you got
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Tron
32:09
sorry to get the hiccups a little better
32:11
a little uh a little it's coming back up
32:13
the uh the drink I just had the little
32:15
mocktail slicer Falls the little I'm
32:17
getting a little Schweitzer back up
32:18
because it's coming back up popping up
32:20
some little schweitzies a little
32:22
Schweitzer look at the cat the castle
32:25
Yeah the one's in a room up there look
32:27
at the top of the castle someone's in
32:28
that room is that a bathroom you think
32:29
that would be a DVC room
32:32
is that we're staying tomorrow yeah no I
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wish
32:36
I want to stay in the castle that would
32:38
be great right and the nice thing is
32:40
it's not raining and that's my favorite
32:43
part so far it's a nice breeze up here
32:45
it's Breeze are happening can we
32:48
continue this for an hour to happen you
32:49
want to come up here to Mars yeah no no
32:51
the weather I'm gonna continue the
32:53
weather for tonight it's a perfect way
32:55
to watch the fireworks
32:56
yeah perfect way to watch the fireworks
32:58
when there is
33:00
well there's not going to be any sun out
33:02
when there's fireworks because it's at
33:03
night time you know what I'm saying but
33:06
it usually would be a lot more humid
33:07
than this and it's not very humid
33:09
watching that and and this is exciting
33:11
too because the fireworks are happily
33:14
ever after which is a kind of a fan
33:15
favorite for Disney World APS okay the
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one that was before this was for the
33:20
50th Anniversary it wasn't as loved as
33:22
the one you're witnessing
33:26
yeah so you're not seeing it from Main
33:28
Street USA but you're able to see it
33:30
from up top here get a bird's eye
33:32
perspective so you're seeing how
33:33
Tinkerbell would see it no wait I found
33:35
this here six years ago I think we
33:36
watched the parade on Main Street I'm
33:38
sorry the fireworks it probably was
33:40
happily ever after so you've seen this
33:41
one before but I'm gonna go out on a
33:43
limb and say you haven't seen these or
33:45
you don't remember these you're out on a
33:47
limb I will be yeah
33:50
if you're out on it
33:52
yeah well I'm really on top of a roof oh
33:54
all right yeah either way
33:57
oh yeah that sounds great yeah
34:00
I'm sure this is a better view less
34:01
crowded
34:03
crowd than on Main Street oh Main Street
34:05
right now is probably a real beehive of
34:06
activity I've been leaving Main Street
34:07
after the flight oh yeah it's gonna be a
34:09
lot easier for us to just head out of
34:11
here this will be happily ever after as
34:13
we leave
34:14
it's gonna be in our way the push and
34:16
shelf
34:17
I like the way you think Jay yeah
34:20
all right now over to the Contemporary
34:22
we have mobile orders something from the
34:25
Contempo Cafe
34:27
a couple of grilled chicken caesar
34:29
salads
34:30
for both of us yeah I'm gonna get a
34:33
little uh little food a little meal a
34:35
meal of the day
34:40
from the Contempo Cafe I didn't mean to
34:40
rhyme saying that but I was like the
34:42
contemporaries right next to Bay Lake
34:44
I was kind of what didn't think
34:46
Tinkerbell was going to come out but
34:47
Tinkerbell did come out I thought it was
34:48
going to be a little too
34:50
windy you know because Peter and Wendy
34:53
it's a bad joke
34:54
did you like my joke when I told you up
34:56
there about the Peter the windy it'll be
34:58
a little too windy it's a perfect joke
35:00
it fit perfect it actually does it So
35:02
you you're a big you're you're a big
35:04
like
35:05
Mary Blair fan yeah you know the the era
35:09
of Disney did I ever show you the Mary
35:12
Blair signature here along her wall
35:15
I don't remember so obviously she did
35:17
this mural here but her signature's
35:20
right up here
35:21
right there on that little top one right
35:23
there there it is yeah
35:26
variable air of course was popular for
35:29
small world but she did a lot of other
35:30
stuff
35:31
for Disney as well
35:33
World's Fair stuff this mural here the
35:36
Contemporary
35:38
the five legos are on the other side of
35:40
this and this is what we're dealing with
35:45
I went with the grilled chicken Caesar
35:47
salad so I've always heard that the
35:49
worst thing about a Caesar salad is the
35:51
dressing and I have never confirmed that
35:54
until now but check out the Ken's Caesar
35:58
dressing Salad this one packet has 210
36:02
calories
36:03
serving size 1.5 but look at the light
36:06
this balsamic only has 100 calories
36:10
so you're 110 calories less just by
36:14
switching
36:15
to the balsamic olive oil I think I'm
36:18
gonna try the balsamic I don't know if
36:20
I've ever had balsamic kind of thing
36:23
I think they say Caesar salad is
36:25
probably like one of the the worst
36:27
salads you can eat as far as like
36:28
calories go but I don't know what do I
36:30
know
36:31
either way still better than a burger I
36:33
mean it's grilled it's not fried
36:35
oh I had croutons too croutons are 30
36:37
calories that's not too bad of course if
36:39
you eat you know six packets
36:43
sounds delicious and we got some Waters
36:55
and gotta catch the monorail try to get
36:55
back over to our Resort maybe possibly
36:59
jump in the pool it might have just
37:01
enough time to get over there
37:03
take a dip in the pool real quick and
37:05
then hit the hot tub here's the five
37:06
lugged goat right up there there it is
37:08
yeah you see it yep
37:11
way up there
37:13
the classic five-legged goat
37:17
some goats have four legs
37:19
that one has five
37:48
and always like to walk it through the
37:48
main lobby here I like during Christmas
37:50
when they had the gingerbread house over
37:51
there they had the Easter stuff set up
37:53
recently too as well but right now it's
37:55
just uh the normal feeling yeah I just
37:57
love this this hotel is so amazing the
37:59
chandeliers all right we're going to the
38:01
pool
38:03
all right both the pool hours are 10 a.m
38:06
to 11 P.M
38:08
so we might
38:10
go change into our suits you want to try
38:12
to hit both the pools
38:14
the challenge I'm in for you know what
38:16
we could do we'll go changing door suits
38:18
go do the pool that has the waterfall
38:21
yep real quick and then we'll go hit the
38:23
hospital we'll hit we'll do we'll do
38:24
some pool hopping we got about 25
38:26
minutes look at this
38:33
don't mind if we do I like how it's like
38:33
a walk-in Beach style okay it is a
38:35
little chilly
38:37
it's a little chilly
38:45
okay yeah the water slide goes here and
38:45
then dumps out over there
39:52
the water slide
39:52
I did the slide how was it
39:54
you get out of the water here
39:56
I woke up a lot of stairs I think it's
39:57
really chill it gets really chilly up
40:10
I got the camera away no you're good I
40:10
think you're good oh yeah how was it it
40:12
goes fast right it goes really fast all
40:15
right got a little dampness there on the
40:16
front of the camera that's fine walking
40:18
past the fountain you got the main area
40:21
so definitely if you want a kind of a
40:24
half empty pool I mean there's
40:25
definitely people in the pool but show
40:27
up
40:28
hold on a second
40:30
show up post fireworks are when the
40:32
fireworks are happening
40:34
and right after the fireworks when
40:35
everyone come back to the room you can
40:36
see pool's pretty updates it's kind of
40:38
the same style where you walk in like a
40:40
beach Style
40:42
no entry shallow water I don't know what
40:45
that no entry shallow water I'm not sure
40:48
what that means but yeah you can walk in
40:49
over here oh you know maybe you're
40:51
supposed to go over here
41:02
our room's right up there
41:03
this is a little warmer than the other
41:10
there was quite a few people in the hot
41:10
tub though but yeah we're getting with
41:11
the hot tub in a minute
41:17
oh yeah this is way warmer
41:17
soothing sounds of the ferry boat going
41:19
by our room is right up there
41:23
this is nice like bath water
41:26
oh there's been a lot of kids in this in
41:27
the day so
41:29
oh my makeup is like uh you know
41:33
yeah a urine I am in the pool you're in
41:36
the pool
41:38
there's two kinds of that in the pool
41:41
I'm sure it's just heated I'm sure it's
41:43
just heated I think it's just heated
41:45
I mean the hot tub is right over there
41:47
and that's going to be even warmer than
41:48
this
41:55
they gotta have these big big hot tubs
41:55
because if not you wouldn't be able to
41:57
get as much I feel so busy
42:05
and the value of yours
42:05
for Resorts like top Century like the
42:07
ones that are kind of the value ones
42:08
don't have
42:10
it and that's going to do it for today
42:13
ending here
42:15
I'm gonna retire for the evening from
42:17
the Grand Floridian hotel and the pool
42:20
from
42:22
our room looking around the Big Pine Key
42:25
Villas that we are staying at looking
42:28
down at the pool I'll see you in the
42:29
next video the Vlog
42:32
is
42:34
over I always like this little balcony
42:37
View
42:38
how does it fit
42:40
I think it fits perfectly what do you
42:42
think nothing wrong with this we're good