How I Spent Labor Day Changing Hotels & 3 Theme Parks - Universal Hollywood To Knotts To Disneyland
Labor Day 2024
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today's adventure begins from my hotel
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room as the recording of this it's Labor
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Day Monday September 2nd 2024 I'm
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checking out my accommodations here
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looking down upon
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Universal trying to figure out what I'm
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going to do throughout the course of the
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day checking out here about
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10:30ish might pop down into the park
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down there and then head down to Orange
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County where I'm checking into another
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hotel and I will not be back up at
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Universal Studios Hollywood until Horror
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Nights is off and running I got my bags
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all packed up popcorn bucket I have a
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couple other popcorn bucket items in my
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rental car at some point I'm going to
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have to ship some stuff
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home got the minion over
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there overlooking the
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valley yeah I think I'm going to head
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down to the park for just a little bit
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and then before traffic gets too bad
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heading southbound to Orange County
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checking in the Disneyland Hotel Tonight
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where I'm staying for a series of
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days happy Labor Day welcome everyone
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Adam the woo here this will also be the
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last time I peek into poke into walk
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into Universe Studios Hollywood before
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hhn begins so be down in Orange County
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they coming back up a little bit later
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this
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weekend doing some things down there
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staying down there also should also
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mention by staying here the parking lot
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is underneath over here even though I
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just checked out can stay parked in
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there
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until 6:00 p.m. not going to be here
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till 6:00 p.m. but do not have to remove
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the
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minion I like talking to the minion I'm
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inviting you
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to join me it's good to have you
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here shall you it's very bright and
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sunny out very bright and sunny now I
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did not go in this park yesterday but
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when I was driving out saw the
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sign out on the main road and it said
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that it was sold out yesterday so
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yesterday which would have been the
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final day of the weekend I guess it' be
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extended weekend today is Monday but
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today is the national holiday let
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checking the weight times doesn't look
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too busy in
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there see what happens when I get in but
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yesterday was completely sold out but
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then again I think the pass I have would
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still have granted me access if I did
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pop in here
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yesterday Disneyland which I'm going to
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a little bit later want to go over to
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DCA especially cuz I have a a new Mater
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popcorn bucket that just dropped in his
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vampire outfit need a reservation for
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there though Universal Studios Hollywood
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No Reservations needed they dropped that
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a long time ago different story at the
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Disney parks though I don't know if they
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will ever get rid of the reservation
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systems on either Coast Florida is a
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little more a little easier to get into
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the park a little more difficult here on
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the West Coast but there was one
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available today so I went ahead and
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snagged it and it's 1056 I was looking
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at the app and most of the stuff on the
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upper lot really was no
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weights so maybe most of the crowd was
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here yesterday or everyone's probably
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down at the lower lot Super Nintendo
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World and Jurassic and mummy and all
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that but the upper lot seemed pretty
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mellow at this hour at 11: a.m. now
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truthfully I think it's probably just
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too early I think it's going to be a
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really busy day as the day goes on and I
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really do think it's going to be busy
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day it's a holiday at
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5 is a little toasty today too they got
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the misters on which is nice yeah
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there's definitely people showing up now
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so going off the app in the early hours
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doesn't look like that's going to be
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appropriate look at everyone over here
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purchasing tickets you don't really see
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people in all those lines too often
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unless it's like a special event or a
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holiday yeah over
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there know how long I'm going to stick
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around in here but yeah yeah you know
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it's busy when they have the center
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section you can go through the
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archway you know it's busy when they
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have this section open usually it's just
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that section right
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there for hhn they open up this middle
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section too I don't think prior to hhn I
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don't know if I've walked other than hhn
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I don't know if I've ever walked
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underneath there happy to announce that
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I finally saw the first Insidious this
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reminds me of Darth Maul's like cousin
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or something like that but so now I know
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know what the further is I also finally
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saw black phone and I finally last night
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W this is all this week watch The Purge
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it takes me a while to get up on quote
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unquote current current horror even
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though it's like been around for for a
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while I mean I've seen the Quint Central
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Classics obviously and I did see Frozen
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Empire when it came out in the theater
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so I've seen a lot but there's some
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there's certain thing ooh check this out
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they actually have a Chucky Child's Play
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2 poster in here yeah I also watched a
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quiet play so I finally just watched I
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watched a lot of movies in the last
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couple weeks so I know what's going on
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in the in a quiet place or at least kind
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of sort of what's going on in here it
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was not a bad line for Starbucks so I
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got a piping hot pumpkin spice latte
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beverage backside is super silly fun
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land got the tram tour going by right
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down there the fire station Super
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Nintendo World and of course
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construction update here on The Fast and
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the Furious something's happening over
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here Tipsy ser queasy and sley what the
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heck is going on over here in
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Springfield on top of Mo the reactors
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are
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about tough
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whoa
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o side note I missed the Back to the
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Future ride pretty wild that this
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coaster is going to go over the top of
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the escalators and then up the side of
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the mountain and then down the mountain
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over there but it's going go over the
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escalator which is kind of curious are
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they going to put scream tubes like
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credit coaster has at DCA so the valley
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doesn't hear all the screams as everyone
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launches over there time will tell I
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will be going to hhn at least at least
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two times for a regular time with a
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front- ofthe line pass and also I have
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just purchased a VIP experience pass for
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later in the season towards the end of
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the the end of the month so I'll be
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going twice this month want to
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experience at the regular way with the
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just the regular front of the line and
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then also the VIP tour with the meal and
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everything so I'll have two videos of
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hhn Texas chainsaw is definitely the one
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I'm looking forward to most however that
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and probably the Eternal Bloodlines
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which is the universal monster maze
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which is happening over at the old Sound
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Stage where the universal monsters were
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filmed so going to go through the jassic
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world queue and then across the tram
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route and over to a Sound Stage which
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has never had a haunt in it before
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that's going to be pretty dang exciting
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and music from slash as always they even
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got the Monster eats sign up here where
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the mummy is you got the Monster
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eats dang drayton's chili cheese dog is
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22 in of all beef hot dog and Frankin BB
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cute ribs Sally Sally we took the keys
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he took the keys really I'm catching
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this twice I never walk by this when
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this happened I'm getting it twice in
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one
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day twice in one freaking
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day the conductor is going to
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blow also I missed the Back to Future
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looks like a tasty dut and piping High
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caffeinated beverage well done officer
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well done even though you wrecked into
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the the the you wrecked into the pole
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there I'm want to get mosy and back over
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to my car so I can try to beat the
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traffic down to Orange County trying to
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head southbound before 2 p.m. usually
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the 2m cut off on a weekday with rush
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hour traffic starts around two but I've
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noticed it usually sometimes starts
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around 1:30 now so leaving at 12:30 46
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minutes there a couple other routes you
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do 55 and 49 but straight down the 101
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to the 5 46 minutes which is pretty dang
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good so to 12:30 departure time I think
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is that's a that's the move on a weekday
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and you know what I didn't even take
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into consideration that it is a holiday
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so that might be why traffic's not as
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bad too
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so ah those cars that start and stop
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turn off and
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on that's the kind of car I have for
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run all right heading to the OC Orange
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County traffic was very smooth maybe the
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the smoothest it's been in a long time
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I'm just going to chalk that up to the
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holiday only took about probably 45
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minutes like it said smooth sail and
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didn't hit really any congestion
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whatsoever still have a little time for
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I can check in the Disneyland Hotel I'm
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going to do DCA later as stated but I
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figured I'm passing right by the general
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area of Nots Berry Farm why not pop into
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knots I have an annual pass season
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passholder to this park as well and I
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cannot ever think of going to Universal
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knots and the Disneyland Resort parks in
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one day ever before even when I lived
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out here but I'm going to do it today
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why not and just like Universal probably
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the last time I pop in there before
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their Halloween Haunt starts this will
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probably be the last time I'm at knots
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before
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their Halloween Haunt well it used to be
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called Halloween hot now it's called not
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scary farm back in the day it was
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Halloween hot
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and then Halloween Horror Nights up
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there so this will be the last time I
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probably pop into regular knots before
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Scary Farm begins I can hear it I can
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hear Ghost Rider ride vehicle ascending
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and now dropping listen to the
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screams that is a bumpy amazing wooden
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coaster
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it o oh I can go in the Legacy store
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over here see if they got any new not
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scary merch not really knows how to put
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together a very spooky merchandise store
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and they have all the little uh
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headstones here or former attractions
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from the old Halloween hot at preview
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night which was like two weeks ago week
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and a half two weeks ago was so
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overwhelming I don't know if I even saw
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all the merch I don't remember seeing
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this one so some of this might be some
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of this might be new I can't really tell
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it looks like Ghost Town alive is still
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going on over here where they're
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celebrating founders day they got the
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banner across love a good train old
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number
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41 steam locomotive this guy's got him a
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chunk of gold right there in the hand
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like he's got a pipe in one hand and
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then chunk of gold right there
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she is not
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impressed by the size of his chunk of
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gold oh wow just so happens if this is
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the last day of Ghost Town lot today is
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the last
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day right now this is Plan
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B I'm going right now I have a career in
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pictures to you decided to get one I
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didn't know what it was MB what does
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that stand for Mar Poppins no
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mad oh what's going on around the back
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there I just like I
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know going into the bank
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what's going on there's like a lot of
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hollow out
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here we are here our fashion with an
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explosive potato
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up
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W everybody make sure you stay over
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this can't
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believe heads
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up everyone all right y good
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all right everyone good yeah all right
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what what happened j po it blew up in my
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crow all right they
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usually it's all right we just let him
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turn out for a bit
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what's
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park what a
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guy all right yo
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maybe
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later my
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hat my
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districtal is now in session number 226
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up3 the T of Calico versus the newly
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formed combined gang of the M field the
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main what are we calling you now Theo
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versus presides Order in the Court all
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right our first order of business is a
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square and a jury every raise your hand
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and repeat it to me I do Sol swear I
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swear give a fair and impartial Verdi
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and
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impartial I
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age all right now hang on a minute your
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honor look here exploding potatoes and
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stuff now that's not our Mo oper Randy
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we was FR God tells you we
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was fr
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you a picture obviously we were framed
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by that Professor wat
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fell you have any evidence oh yes still
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eating the potato I would like to
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present exhibit a voice exhibit a if you
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please a
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gross the Admiral the 100 lb catfish has
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been stolen
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I got about a half hour till I can check
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into the Disneyland Hotel it's about
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3:30 right now so I decided to stop off
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here on Harbor Boulevard and wilin way
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at Joe's now there was no parking down
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there very very full the uh faux place
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across the street does not let anyone
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parked there they have it all chained
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off as does the abandoned building over
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there Joe's is always busy in fact it'll
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be a lot busier later this evening this
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is a good time of the day to stop in
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here and get a Joe latte I parked in the
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neighborhood over there where they have
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street parking Joe's Italian ice one of
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my favorite places here in Orange County
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a little Italian ice
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action yeah I'm just covering a lot of
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ground today doing a lot of stuff today
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yeah standing in the sun it is freaking
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scorching it's actually hotter right now
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here than it is in Celebration Florida
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of course is also 3 hours later in
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celebration fla but there's an excessive
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heat warning in Anaheim I just looked it
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So Cal Heat at least there's no humidity
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but still the sun's really hot
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definitely a test in patients waiting in
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this line but it's definitely going to
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be worth it check that out excessive
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heat warning 87 celebration right now is
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82 but it's also stormy and rainy and
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overcast cloudy so that has a lot to do
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with it they have a new flavor I decided
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not to get the jol latte which has like
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the ice cream sherbet or whatever it is
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in there this is a sugar-free watermelon
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cool me off cuz I was standing in that
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line outside for probably probably 25
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minute
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wait all right heading in it's checkin
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time it's
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4:02 my room should be ready at 4: to
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Disneyland
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Hotel I got to say it might be my new
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go-to Joe's Italian
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ice the sugarfree water ballon really
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good really good I don't even miss not
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getting the Joe latte with the uh with
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the ice
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cream it's good I think it might be my
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new go-to flavor a Joe's it even has
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some little watermelon seeds in there
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not an overload of them but it
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definitely has some watermelon seeds
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really dang
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good I'm hoping my stay here turns out
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better than the last
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time not because the hotel was
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anything poor or a bad it bad situation
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the hotel's great but my rental car last
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rental car would not start up here and
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it was a whole
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mess with the ridle car
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company so I'm hoping it works out a
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little bit better this
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time love State the Disneyland Hotel
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though love
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it I can't can't say how good this
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flavor is this really
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good normally I get the Cherry
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latte this is a sugar-free
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watermelon I'm going to go check in and
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then I'm going to go to DCA yes I know
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that sign all too well I waited up here
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quite a bit all right walking in this
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way so I walk back outside but take a
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look at this because of the Halloween
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season they have the Haunted Mansion
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stretch room posters right here pictures
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right in front
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here all right in the room good to go
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just got everything put away give a
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quick little impromptu room tour I've
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stayed in this type of room before so
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not going to go into too great detail
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but got the accommodations over here I
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love the
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artwork all throughout each room each
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level's a little bit different theme
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based on a different movie or
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princess I like these type of showers
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there one similar of this at Universal
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Hilton I just checked out of which has
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the door not the tub style the glass I
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kind of prefer this over the other one
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other
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style and I got everything put away more
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or less there's a pull down bed here
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which is called a Murphy bed that pulls
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down into a queen bed so you can sit
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here during the day that pulls down
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there's also a queen bed over here so if
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you really wanted to you could have two
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people comfortably with their own bed or
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four people if two people share a bed
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times two in here now this is part of my
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Disney Vacation Club points that I
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bought into a few years
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ago so when I just go in I use the
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points that book the reservation ahead
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of time and do that which I cannot
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cannot say how happy and content I am
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with being a DVC member I'm glad I did
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that at the thought process to do that a
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couple years ago and now I got the
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points to stay in certain Resorts so
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really helps out I'm out here on the
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West Coast and I want to stay next to
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Disneyland in that area
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all right heading to DCA we get that
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popcorn bucket this turns off also so
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you got a little switch over
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here but I I turned it on just so you
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can see it for the video and I got to
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walk through downtown Disney and head
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over to DCA and see if they got that
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popcorn bucket follow the sidewalk to
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downtown Disney and to theme parks
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follow the sidewalk I'm in the Grand
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California now take a look at this this
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is made out of this is is a made out of
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a of
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cake you go over here you see everything
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that's made out of 280 eggs 250 lb of
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powdered sugar 100 lb of rice
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doing she has the sun glistening right
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there on her
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face dipping the poisoned Apple in there
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I found a nice juicy Apple Deary ooh
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they got the spooky trees like they used
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to have on Snow White scary Adventure
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except they've changed the Dark Ride
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they don't have the spooky trees there
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anywhere at Le least we have them at the
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Grand California though three theme
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parks in one day three SoCal theme parks
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in one day on a holiday through San Fran
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Soo Square across the bridge here slow
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down you're not racing yet well actually
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they they are racing they are racing out
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back over at DCA now Disney California
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Adventure where in fact they did have
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also you've heard the Wheel in the Sky
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keeps on turning also the wheel here at
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Eureka golden Timber Company Disney
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California Adventure keeps on turning
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I'm sure a lot of people today probably
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the line was pretty lengthy for this
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because it was a little warm today it
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was a there was a heat index advisory
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here in SoCal or at least in orangey
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County but over at the over at flows
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they ended up having the popcorn bucket
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I was looking at for there's only two
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places that I could figure that they had
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it they had it at flows and they also
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had it over at the Cozy cone area I
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chose to get mine from flows took about
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20 minutes it's kind of slow going
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waiting in the line I probably could
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have mobile ordered it but I wasn't
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thinking uh we didn't have the
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wherewithal to mobile Order ahead of
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time so I waited in the line and moved
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kind of slow about 20 25 minutes but the
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good news is I now have another popcorn
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bucket to add to my arsenal of popcorn
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buckets and this one I believe you can
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only get at two spots at Disney
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California Adventure probably will not
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have it at Walt Disney World so it's
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kind of a good thing that I am out here
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on the West Coast in order to get it and
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I think out of all the
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Halloween characters that they have I
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think Mater in his vampire he wants to
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suck your
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oil I don't know what image I was doing
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there I was trying to do like a vampire
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like a Dracula but I think like I don't
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think that's how L the cable guy would
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probably probably do it but yeah I got
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to get her done he wants to get her done
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and that's going to do it for today with
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Mater here on this
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corner DCA over the backside of DCA
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behind me over there Grand California
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Hotel there Disneyland hotel there I got
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Mater I did three parks in one day did a
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couple other things had a good traffic
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day on the
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popular it's going to be very
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popular that goes without
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saying I'll see you in the next video
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the Vlog thanks for watching the Vlog
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it's over so now that I'm showing this
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from the distance fun fact that is the
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original Disneyland Tower there was only
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one and then they added the other two
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that being one of them there the other
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one is obscured by the original
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Disneyland Tower that's there and then
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the fourth one is the new Disney
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Vacation Club Tower there which is the a
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different style than the other
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three okay that's it also feel as if the
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lanyard that's around this one is
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shorter than the lanyards on some of
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thought there was someone in that car
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now I'm seeing I'm seeing