Walt Disney World Contemporary Resort Tour - Eating at California Grill Rooftop with My Parents
Day 2 of my stay at Disney's Contemporary Resort
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even at 6
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45 a.m some activity
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preparing for the start of the day
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the sun is just now rising this was
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quite a view to wake up to this morning
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castle was illuminated throughout the
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entire course of the evening while i
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slumbered
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right here in this bed about the last
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hour or so i've just been
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sipping on some coffee
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i love it welcome everyone
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adam the woo here today's adventure is
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at the contemporary resort
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for day number two yesterday i checked
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in just a little before
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3 p.m today no check out
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no check in giving me a full day on the
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premises i'm just going to wander around
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do a little tour of the property just
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take it easy
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see what can be seen staying in this
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general area
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might might kind of mosey around
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some of the other sections but in this
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vicinity i'm inviting
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you to join me for my
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second day
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for this 500 000 subscribers celebration
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by staying at one of my favorite
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disney hotels shall you
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chef mickey's appears to be open over
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there in the corner i will not be eating
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breakfast a little later this evening
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gonna have dinner up on the roof at
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california grills
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first time doing that looking forward to
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it
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okay there's a fitness center down here
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however it appears to be
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closed at the moment oh don't close
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yours okay
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going up to fourth floor which is the
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main lobby
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i heard there was a salon and a haircut
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place on the third floor as well
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but i didn't see it it must have been
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removed
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i know during these times some things
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have changed just a little bit
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going down the escalator now that's why
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that's why the motion is happening as
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such
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i've always heard that this patch of
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foliage
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and this design is a wrist watch from a
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bird's eye perspective
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when i'm up at the very top i'll be able
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to look down and confirm that
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from my room it is obstructed by the
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trees
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my room is up there in that corner one
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of these days i went to try out the wave
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as well i've heard good things it's
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located on the bottom level it's a
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restaurant
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certainly love the floor mats and there
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is the logo as well inscribed here
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along the concrete as i kind of pull
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back and pan back you see it there along
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and of course mickey sitting here along
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the ears this was built a few years
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ago it sits adjacent and there is a
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bridge a walkway
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over to the original
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never realized till now there's also a
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beach area over here on the bay lake
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side
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with some chairs and even a volleyball
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court and that
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and the net itself has the monorail
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also inscribed on into the netting
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how cool is that i had contemplated
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getting a haircut
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the salon i asked at guest services on
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the third floor has been
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removed and then i asked about the
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barbershop on main street over at magic
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kingdom
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which is also temporarily closed for now
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so
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no haircut today but as you can see
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definitely need one soon where the
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monorail goes over
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the gift shop one of the one of the two
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gift shops that are side by side in here
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this is a different perspective
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see one of those transportation devices
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cruising in the rails there
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you can also faintly make out splash
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mountain over there
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and the castle throw it in
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uh almost in you're almost there keep
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going keep going keep going keep going
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and you're
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in there you're you're there looking out
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over bay lake now from this angle i had
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assumed that a boat went from here over
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to magic kingdom i was gonna take it and
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then walk back down the pathway
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but i went down there i didn't see a
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sign for it so hey i was mistaken on
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that
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we are way up here way up here
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thinking back to the opening day special
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when bob hope was
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right there around where that gift shop
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is doing some stand-up and
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just right there a little a lot of
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history inside this building
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here's a photograph of him from that day
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there used to be a staircase you can
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notice the mural off to the side there
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there used to be a staircase right about
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here in the middle that was used as a
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makeshift
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stage i'm heading back down to go out to
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the lake
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to show this angle of glen campbell also
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from that television special
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got to walk out on this dock to to get
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the angle
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that's it right there we've been leaning
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against this rail railing's probably
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been replaced but you've been leaning
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against that railing
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i really like the roof line in here as
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well the ceiling the way it kind of is
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exposed to the
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to the outdoors up there oh let me be
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more specific it's not it's not
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open air dude there's a there's glass up
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there like a
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almost like a window to the sky
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speaking of open air however if you
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follow this along you will see how it
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just
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goes through a portal there which never
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closes
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my mom and dad are on their way over got
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a hold of my parents
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added them to my dinner reservation so
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get to hang out
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with them on the roof we'll be
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undercover
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because it is the elements are out
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but nonetheless we'll be enjoying a meal
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up on the top of the contemporary there
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they are right down there
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if they'll see me hello
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you guys remember the first time we we
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came to walt disney world and what year
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it was
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wow i don't remember what year 1977
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1977 78 so it'd be somewhere between
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there
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75 and 80. still remember the pictures
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we had made up and that
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i think i don't think you can go up to
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the flower decoration place anymore
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right there on the front entrance after
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you come in and get your tickets oh with
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mickey mouse
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yeah you know where the swan and dolphin
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dolphins are
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i do know where the swan and dolphin is
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i used to deliver papers there
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i've been all over the place
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is over by the boardwalk so you used to
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deliver
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papers there honda i did
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one stop at each one i did not come to
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the contemporary
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so i would have been three years old
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four years old the first time i came
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here
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probably probably
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probably four you were born in 747
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a long time ago yes it was
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you guys are just saying that you came
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down here that year and you're dead
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that's when he fell in love with florida
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had to move so
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that was his whole goal is to move to
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florida
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and here we are okay it was not 77 or 78
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so it was probably 79
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and then we came down a second time
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that's when we dropped adam off
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i'm letting them figure this out and you
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and i came down to panama city
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and then we went back home and then i
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began to plot
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our moon he plotted i plotted
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and it took we didn't move here until 91
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well we moved to the
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we moved to the panhandle we didn't move
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to central florida until 91.
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we lived up to the panhandle in that
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year and then we moved after that we
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moved to oklahoma
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and then back to florida yep
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back and forth just all on my five pages
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of
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so in a weird way it almost visiting
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here kind of
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kind of was part of that not really but
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kinda sorta because this
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this is in central florida it's a part
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of the first vacation
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trying to throw a tire yeah there's
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italian
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circus world um
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bushcraft i remember circus world
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cypress gardens it was all part of a
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like a package deal you got right
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and disney was included in that yeah
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first magic kingdom
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and knowing your mom she probably got it
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for about 15
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yep she's always good at finding deals
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that's not been too bad
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so that was that was the year because it
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didn't open to win
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it opened in 71 october of 71.
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it was only a few years if it was late
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seven days
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that head here then was just the magic
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because epcot didn't open until 1982
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so it's before epcot looking for the
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second floor
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i am not a cook my dad remembers the
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richard nixon
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famous speech and i was informing him
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that right here
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between this door and this door is where
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the podium was facing inward
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with the crowd on the other side where i
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said those famous words that now
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kind of live on right here in the
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contemporary
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what was that and it's located right
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near the podium
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for a garden grill we just just did the
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check-in
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usually these doors are unlocked
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but because because of everything my mom
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and dad are now looking out at the lake
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over there
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our table is ready thank you
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have a great time okay thank you thank
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you very much
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i have to come all the way to florida to
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go to the california grill
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i pulled up the mobile menu i'm looking
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at the sushi i might go with the
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california combination roll and then
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there is a
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wonton dish that beef braised short rib
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wontons i think i might go with both of
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those and then
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just the water my dad's looking up the
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what a wonton is mr
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google is my best friend but then i got
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the looking up here
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they left pizzas yeah they here pizza
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also
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what if these are like little personal
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walking out on this platform all the way
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to the end you really can go
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you can really tell how you know how
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high up you are from this angle it's
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kind of looking down upon the
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magic kingdom and all the attractions
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and rides and
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the whole area and the perimeter from up
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here it's pretty majestic
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it's pretty much just still a little
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cloudy it's gonna taste like but what is
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i don't know it's just like uh okay put
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it on the bread there
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is tomato we tasting it's got tomatoes
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in it okay so they brought the bread
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and this little little topping here
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what's it taste like dad
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oh my sushi that's her job can you take
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a picture of them they can't hold your
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phone
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okay not not right now
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i can take a selfie though
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there's some salads there what's that
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that's almost like a head of lettuce
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romaine oh romaine
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sparkle romaine that's really good a
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little bit of it i've never seen
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anything like that
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they just take the romaine lettuce and
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they have it and put stuff on top of it
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wow and i love avocado
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so it's going to be really good i know i
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have to try some of this i haven't had
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bread it's maybe the first bread i've
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had in about a month
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i'm going to try a little bit of that
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then i'm going to go in on this is
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called the california
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it's a california mixture sushi roll
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it's like
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custom shrimp and other things it's not
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just a regular california roll but
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there's other items on here as well
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just ask what this was it's uh
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definitely got some tomatoes in it some
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balsamic vinegar i believe he said and
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i've lost track on everything elsie
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roasted tomatoes
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basil
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all right i'm gonna dunk this in here i
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got the soy and the wasabi
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oh i'm making a little bit of a mess
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that was delicious now for the other one
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oh yeah just get a little good thing
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there's a
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plate underneath oh plate underneath
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this bowl
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because that is falling apart like a
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rabbit head
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it does look like it from his cycle
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thank you very much that looks really
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good okay thank you so much
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oh yeah you guys both got the same thing
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are those meatballs no it's pepperoni oh
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pepperoni
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hand hand crafted pepperoni and i am
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getting these are the
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the wontons here those look delicious
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oh yes it's like swiss cheese what is
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this over here it's like almost like
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rhubarb
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it's kind of different like different
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houses it's not like pepperoni that i've
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ever had
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that's pepperoni there's like a
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different taste to it
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yeah my chopsticks have been
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taken away with the last dish so i'm
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going to go in with the fork here
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oh yeah
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thank you tried the first piece i don't
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i don't really know if i really cared
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for the
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flavor of what it was like kind of spicy
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and then the
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the meat was not kind of what i was
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expecting maybe i'll just try
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i don't know if that is cheese maybe
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i'll just try the other items that are
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on here
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okay i have opted out of that and
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decided to share some of my mom's pizza
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i think leaves spicy the other dish
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if she was right it does have a very
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sausagey taste for the pepperoni there
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we were also wondering
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what the green sauce is what do you
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think the green sauce is that
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you had to guess avocado sauce the sushi
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i had was amazing i kind of wish i would
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have got two orders of the sushi instead
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of the other thing i didn't know what it
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was but next time
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next time oh yeah i wanted to show the
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wrist watch off there through the
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the topia a lot of topias the foliage
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you remember the time we went you went
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on space mountain not knowing what space
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mountain was
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i do and you were you were thinking oh
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this is going to be like a little casual
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casual experience it was you were wrong
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you were sorely mistaken
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what kind of what kind of ride do you
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think it was no idea
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you just said oh the rest of the
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family's going on this i'm gonna get on
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this
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go along with the crowd
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mountain
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y'all always do such a good job of
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landscaping
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just walk them back out to their car i
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just want to point out that
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that was the restaurant up top there
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believe i ate more today than i have in
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a while it was all dinner time
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but i am full
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