My Return To Epcot & Magic Kingdom - Disney World Changes Are Coming / Tron Previews Are Happening
Walt Disney World 2023
Transcript
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today's adventure begins by me driving
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out of Celebration as a recording of
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this Wednesday February 22nd
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2023 got a few stops in mind
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gotta fuel up first ended up going
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inside also and getting a piping hot
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caffeinated beverages that they are
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exclusive blend I'll put a little
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hazelnut in there as well and I picked
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up a new pair of sunglasses
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metal these were 19.99 Aviator style
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been wearing a lot lately yeah because
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my other ones were all just kind of
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been out of shape so got another
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another pair you can look through this
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Art Deco Hollywood Boulevard Style
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convenience store
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here in celebration through them
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take a look
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I-4 Westbound looking relatively smooth
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at 10 54 A.M
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got about an hour left of Spring
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training over at ESPN Wild Rose sports
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with Tampa Bay Rays
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and then
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reservation for Epcot I'm gonna park my
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car over there and then Park hop via
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monorail to Magic Kingdom and check out
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what's happening over there see what
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they've been doing to the now closed
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Splash Mountain and then go back to
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Epcot after that now what I mention an
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hour left of Spring Race spring training
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at wide world I meant for the day
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they will be here throughout the rest of
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the month but their practice is usually
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go from 9 A.M to noon
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so I got about an hour
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before heading over to Epcot kind of
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short and sweet head over here each time
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every time I see a globe like this I
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think a Universal Studios Hollywood I
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spent a lot of time at
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like they're setting up for a half
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marathon this weekend as well
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it's a lot quieter the last couple days
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I've had music player through here
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no music today
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it's a nice quiet attitude
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all right Tampa Bay Rays Straight Ahead
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see what's going on back that before
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heading on to the park property welcome
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everyone Adam the woo here now I've
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stated this before you park your car
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over here in order to get over to the
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race
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training camp you have to walk all the
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way up this way hang a left and then go
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all the way around the main stadium and
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into the back of four different baseball
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fields that are on the back you will get
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your steps in this and then go into the
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parks and get a lot of steps in there
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I'm inviting you to join me
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how do these glasses look now that I'm
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in the shade probably not the best
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comparison let me get out in the sun
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tilt the Hat up look at the glasses
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not bad join me
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shall you
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base coach Rodney
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Harold Ramirez right there
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that's also interesting they have the
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Umpire there too probably doing a little
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training as well so it's almost like an
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actual at-bat we've got the up behind
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home plate
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it looks like I'm going to see wander
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gets about as well in BP
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and there's esoc there and brujan right
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there
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you can always tell it's wander because
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he always wears the very bright tennis
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shoes
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pitching coach down there on the
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Third Base Line behind that netting
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that's a strike
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in very quick passing I got a photo with
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Harold Ramirez which is pretty awesome
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but then I did have a little
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conversation for a couple moments with
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Kevin cash which is pretty dang awesome
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told him I go to a lot of away away
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games and go to the Trop a lot and told
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us at the wild card game when they're
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raising it up sadly losing in the 15th
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inning in the walk-off Indians home run
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that really Kevin cash was really nice
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it was great to great to finally meet
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him all right now got to get my car head
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over to Epcot park there and then take
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the monorail over TTC in the Magic
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Kingdom then back over to Epcot later
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I can go into Magic Kingdom I gotta scan
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into Epcot first
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and then the Magic Kingdom I could scan
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in it too well I could take this over
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I'd be like I'm going full Disney
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if I hopped in that and that took me
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over to Epcot
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that's just like a photo op here for the
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marathon though
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now keep in mind I haven't been here in
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over a month
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but before I left for months and months
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before that I kept putting out into the
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universe that we're gonna take down the
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capital E lowercase pcot sign and put up
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the old caps similar to a throwback to
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Epcot Center days and I heard the rumors
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I saw stuff floating around online
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photos and whatnot and I am now seeing
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this with my own eyes it happened after
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being gone as long as I have I should be
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able to notice
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few things that have changed
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that this happened right before I left
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but they've gotten rid of the parking
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areas like imagination and dream and
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things like that and now they are
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characters like Dory I am in Dory 405.
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let's go take some getting used to and
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this should work out pretty perfectly
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it's just about 1 p.m now time to scan
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in to Epcot by the time I take this over
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to TTC and then the monorail in the
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Magic Kingdom should be just about two
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o'clock to stand I think you can scan in
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like 12 minutes before
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the hour so like 148 ish whenever I
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travel I usually kind of stay spoiler
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free on what's happening on either Coast
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that I am not at so when I am not in
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Florida you know for the last four weeks
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I've been gone I really haven't paid
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much attention to what the heck's been
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going on at Walt Disney World and then
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when I am local and back home I really
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just kind of get fully immersed myself
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back into it instead of trying to keep
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up with like you know Daily Posts by
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different websites and trying to keep up
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to date on everything that's really
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happening I just wait until I am on said
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Coast whether it be Anaheim Disneyland
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West Coast or here in Florida at Disney
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World so you know a lot of the stuff
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it's going to catch me by surprise and
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be like oh holy cow that's been changed
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all right so I scanned in yeah if not
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Center and then ran up well not ran up
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walked restfully up the ramp
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and I ended up getting on
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monorail green the same one that I saw
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when I was in front of spaceship earth
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which is kind of rare
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enough time to get up here
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she'll take me to TTC I get off get
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another monorail and then over to Magic
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Kingdom usually they make an
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announcement right about now here good
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afternoon
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oh it looks like this is the cast member
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preview for Tron that's happening over
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there it says event check-in I will not
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be doing cast member preview I'm not a
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cast member I'm going to take this and
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walk still got a little time I'm gonna
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walk over to the poly because I got
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about a half hour before I can scan into
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Magic Kingdom that's what I'm gonna do
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this kind of works out walking this way
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so I can go by Captain Cook's Quick
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Service and get some of Waltz chili it's
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one of the few places on property that
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you can get Waltz chili in a bowl and
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not in a bread I am not a bread bowl not
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on fries and not on a hot dog
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I do like some chili so I think I'm
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gonna get some of Walsh chili in a
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bottle of water need a little hydration
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and I really do like mobile ordering if
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you can just mobile order and then by
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the time you get over here your meal
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well I ordered two of them so I guess
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I'm gonna say like a bulky snack of
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chili which will be prepared momentarily
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yeah I do find this kind of interesting
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to do not sell this this is the only
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placement property that I've seen they
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will give it to you just in a bowl while
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it's chilly in its own bowl and they're
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kind of small so I'm getting two of them
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if we're heading over to MK have a
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little time to waste so I get chillied
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up boy that new DVC Wing is really
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coming along over there they're starting
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to go kind of even starting to go
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vertical I'm going to take this boat
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over to Magic King not gonna take the
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money I'm gonna take this boat across
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it's kind of nice in the back there is
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bit of a shaded area
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front there's no shade and let me tell
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you the Florida sun right now even
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though it's not scorchingly hot outside
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it's pretty permeating as far as the the
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temperature goes when you're out in the
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sun if you're hearing the shade it's
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really nice not too bad but it's
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going to take us over to Matt
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's cross Seven Seas Lagoon
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man-made Lagoon
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adjacent to Bay Lake which is not
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man-made it's a real Lagoon they just
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the man-made the seven seas
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prior to 71.
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well it opened in 71.
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we'll have time to fill all the same
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with water and dig the hole
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as I walked in I went ahead and grabbed
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a guide map this is the first time I
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have seen a non-slash mountain over in
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frontierland and now says coming soon
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2024 Tiana's Bayou Adventure dags Splash
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is officially erased by Walt Disney
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World from existence I mean I knew it
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was but just interesting to see it on
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the guide map there is a lot going on
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here now the Disney 100 Years of Wonder
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just kicked off as well as the 50th
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anniversary of Magic Kingdom and Walt
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Disney World which ends in just like
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five or six weeks from right now the end
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of March the last day of March no more
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50th this has been going on for 18
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months and this is ending so the 100th
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of the company is kicking off and the
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50th of Walt Disney world is coming to
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an end also known as the world's most
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magical celebration now sometime before
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then or now and then I need to come in
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here and get some merchandise not yet
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though I'm gonna wait I got I got six I
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got five wait five weeks or so for the
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50th field all right gonna make my way
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now over to Frontier Lane and see what's
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happening over there with not only
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Splash but see if Big Thunder is open
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today I looked on the app and it said it
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wasn't open but maybe it's just down for
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the moment all right it does appear as
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if Big Thunder is back up I guess the
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app earlier said that it was down but it
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is not down it is it is up and running
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but the entire area over here looks
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completely different the train is
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pulling in and then in front of Splash
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Mountain they kind of they definitely
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have a lot of the scrim up and whatnot
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that you can
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that you can kind of see the workers are
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already up there taking care of business
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and getting everything they are really
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moving forward this whole thing pretty
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dang quickly in all honesty yeah it's
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like obviously no logs I mean why would
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they have any water and logs but it's
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pretty obvious that it's closed and they
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have this wall up here it says Tiana's
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Foods employee owned coming soon and
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they have a little thing here says
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Southern Dome Salt Company right here on
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the walls please keep dry
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I would imagine they probably got got
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rid of all the brayers the sculpture of
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all the brayers in fact right here they
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got rid of the
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the sign right there that had a very
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rabbit on it it's all gone
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I never noticed that these clothes pins
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there's a clothespin thing here and
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candles I never noticed any of them
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right around the corner here was where
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the penny press machine was that they
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get rid of that too yep the penny press
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machine was right there or it's still
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behind that wall because it was right up
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against this little pylon right here but
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I'm not seeing it or maybe it was could
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have been right over here and there was
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this little area over here that was the
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Laughing place and they used to have a
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sign right here for the Laughing plate
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but that's been removed too nothing to
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say laughing place across here wait a
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second look at this
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you could still get the Press pennies
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this was like a two or three hour wait
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on the the last day everybody was lined
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up here to get these press pennies the
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machine is still here anybody could just
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walk right up and get these with like no
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weight at all there's another one in the
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gift shop oh thanks so the one in the
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gift shop still open it's all the way
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it's like in the corner over there
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because this was like a three hour wait
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on the last day
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all right it's not in the gift shop in
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fact the gift shop is closed and this is
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where the entrance was oh I can sell
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super air up there oh I can still see
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brayer in the Splash Mountain signage
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s are still open over there also the
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Train's just about ready to take off
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they have moved the Press penny machine
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so there was one press penny machine
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over here that has different breath
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pennies but the one that was in the gift
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shop over here has been removed right
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beside where I'm standing now okay it's
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moving forward oh you can see the scrim
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from up here too you see the scrim right
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up there the one that was inside the
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gift shop is now located over here so
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you have the three here that you could
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get this was in the gift shop so there's
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no wait for any of this
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foreign
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this one here obviously has Timothy from
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Dumbo so you got two different Splash
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Mountain items here and I think four or
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five at the other one
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it is going to be interesting to see the
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progress of what is taken down and what
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is removed like obviously the very tippy
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top up there that will probably be
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changed
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that'll probably be taken down
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bro
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the fictional
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state of Louisiana yeah with the train
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I'm gonna take the trainer back over to
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Main Street where I go over to Epcot but
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just definitely kind of a kind of a
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weird vibe you can see one of the like
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the bird houses right there too that
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last day of this is one of the just like
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a Monumental day where everybody came
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here to kind of pay their regards to be
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in the Splash Mountain at Walters it
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wasn't as a day I will never forget
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sitting here waiting for the train to
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take off definitely looking back down
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into that Cube I don't think that oh
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they removed everything from the queue
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oh wow so now I'm seeing all the little
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like Splash we also have a fire
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assortment of Splash items have all been
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removed from down in there it's just
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it's just the queue itself and there's
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no theming down in there like there was
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in the Splash Mountain day so that's all
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been kind of kind of ripped out as well
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accepted a sign on the front of the door
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yeah the sign on the front of the doors
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the same I showed that a moment ago and
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it was a random pallet down there too
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let's wait for the train to take off
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quicker than that construction update oh
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I even see the gift shop over there the
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the wooden partitions on the windows are
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taken down
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uh fortunately dinner we would have no
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dinner Service as there is no Dining Car
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whatsoever so we apologize it should be
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about a five minute trip to meet you USA
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yes
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all right we're gonna go through prawn
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now
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oh undertron
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the side Tron
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and just like that monorail now
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approaching gonna head back over
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the GTC and to Epcot Center
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all capitalization Epcot
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experimental prototype Community or city
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of tomorrow while called it both he
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called them both
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over a transportation Ticket Center
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there's a timer that says 56 minutes and
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25 seconds
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I also like this futuristic well it's
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like a 80s version of a futuristic
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gold Tower this right here
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Transportation Ticket Center
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I do miss being able to ride in the
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front also I used to let you
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but years ago they stopped by that at
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Disney World only at Disneyland now
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maybe I don't even know if they still
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let you do it at Disneyland
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over here I'm not parking take a look at
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this
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flattening out some land there too as
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well
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pulling around the Epcot they've been
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working on this for a heck of a long
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time babe this has been under
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construction in this middle section for
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a
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I don't say as far back as I can
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remember but for quite a while they
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found the Nations is gone the old Club
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pool has been moved from over there the
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Starbucks has been moved it is
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definitely a lot different in this area
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than it was and I I kind of call it's
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all going to be done referring to it as
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Epcot 2.0 I just called it up top 2.0
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even though it's probably more of like a
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7.0 but it's like a total complete
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renovation of Epcot that they are doing
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right now I've gotten back inside the
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park over here now and I'm standing
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directly underneath spaceship earth with
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the fountain years years ago they
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removed the little like uh what they
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call the spiers or the pylons and the
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crystals in the fountain I'm glad they
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have brought them back and I am now
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going to head over to Guardians of the
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Galaxy Cosmic rewind this morning at 7
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A.M I ended up uh woke up right at 6 50
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and then 7 A.M I ended up getting a
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reservation for a mobile for mobile
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boarding pass and it didn't it was until
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now that I was able to to go and get on
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it so now I'm heading over there and
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gonna do guardians awesome surprised I
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even got one but like seven seven
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minutes seven a.m and one second I
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attempted it and it was a success
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now even with having the virtual cue now
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lightning Lane is pretty fast as far as
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the cue goes when you kind of get it on
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and out in and on but if you have the
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virtual cue I probably still waited
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close to probably 45 minutes maybe even
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an hour let's see I don't say an hour
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but like probably a good 45 minutes in
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the standard queue oh wait all right
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okay I thought maybe I thought maybe the
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ride broke down for a second it got
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really quiet in here
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I think the kids are here it's really
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cool
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I always like the back road backwards
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launch too backwards launch is great it
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kind of blasts you off goes backwards
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zooming through and then you get the
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sometimes you can definitely get motion
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sickness on this thing though definitely
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a motion sickness type of ride I don't
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know what the secret is to look forward
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look to the side I never really have an
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issue with it but I could see if someone
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is sensitive emotion sickness they could
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definitely feel a little under the
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weather after this especially if you're
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looking at the planet intently all right
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to celebrate I didn't get Everybody
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Wants to Rule the World of God I ran
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which is probably my second favorite
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which is pretty good but they were out
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of Beverly which is good because that
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would be the Beverly challenge anymore
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but my favorite one here is Country Club
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so I'm gonna get a little country club
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to celebrate
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a successful Guardian song I don't even
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know I think I've lost track how many
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times I've been on Guardian oh dang look
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at this but not the plastic popcorn
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pigment but this one's all completely
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out
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look every single one of these flavors
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try another flavor try another flavor
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try another flavor just pull it all out
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the Beverly's out of all of them
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this is this is my favorite country club
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Dominican Republic that's what I'm
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walking along here so electric umbrella
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used to be right over here look at these
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trees and I wonder if these trees going
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to be permanent are they just placed
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there kind of just for looks and a lot
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of way because once this wall gets
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dropped down well these trees still be
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here planted here I wonder there are
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some flower petals on the ground well
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tree petals I should say I'm over here
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near the living sea so I'm gonna go into
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the aquarium
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and walk around the living seats not
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even gonna go on the Nemo ride just
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gonna go into
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the living Seas
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Sans Nemo ride check out the little
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Sunburst there I feel like Blowfish up
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there you can kind of see the sun
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peeking around fish there the sign is
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still up in here too the living Seas
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Circa 1987.
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American Society of civil engineers
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place this year they were founded in
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1852 with the plaque went up with 87. I
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always love the vibe in here so cool
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with all the aquariums and the fish and
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I think they even brought the divers
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back now if you have your sort of diver
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certification you can dive into the into
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the aquariums and down in here is a more
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Ray eel M
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m-o-r-a-y-e-o you kind of see them
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they're hidden in the little shadows and
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if the Moray eel comes to you snapping
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it's the jaw don't be scared it's just
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the way it breathes their names are blue
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and little Joe it's a cast member
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they're kind of explaining how they
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ended up hearing there's like there's
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specifications even have a little chalk
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whatever says little and little Joe to
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manatees
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I only see one of them now if the other
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one might have went in there I kind of
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wonder if that is little Joe or if
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absolute
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oh that's Luke she just answered the
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question Lou is
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1940 pounds
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incoming
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oh that was cool
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I think that dolphin did that on purpose
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round two
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and there's a big old school of fish
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right here look at all those kind of
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swimming by
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yeah
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I was so peaceful back in here watching
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the fish swim down below look at the
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size of this one
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that's a pretty good size that's like
23:01
one of the ones that like goes along the
23:04
bottom of the tank it's a huge and a big
23:08
uh Turtle over there or a tortoise
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probably a turtle flat going while
23:12
flying but swimming around and a
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hammerhead shark swimming by there
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ah look at this turtle is so cool
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guys
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right now
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it's time to start heading out now from
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Epcot Center I always like this angle of
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the monorail where the monorail just
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kind of goes by
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from that particular angle where it's
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like
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get to get the spaceship earth in there
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and you got the monorail beam and you
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got the full on
24:01
monorail going by
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and out here in the parking lot you can
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see the sun
24:07
starting to set down the sun is like a
24:09
little Sunburst there it's about to go
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down over
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The Horizon
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it was a good day a little Park hopping
24:17
Magic Kingdom first I went to spring
24:19
training and I went to Magic Kingdom
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then I went to Epcot and the day's not
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over yet I'm still going back to
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Celebration
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it's a random duck sometimes the
24:26
celebration Hotel Marquis is spinning
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around
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but right now it's not spinning around
24:32
this used to be called the celebration
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Bohemian Hotel
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they changed owners
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I don't know maybe a couple months ago a
24:39
month or two before I left town
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so I was gone about a month and a month
24:44
before that they dropped the name they
24:46
used to say Bohemian Hotel on the side
24:48
of the Marquee where it says
24:50
celebration on the other but right now
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it's not spinning around
24:53
for whatever reason
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it is that time and night I guess I
24:57
guess it's a little past magic hour but
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yeah you could just call it magic hour
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we have everybody a lot of people are
25:03
out walking their dogs they're on their
25:05
scooters the fountain's on the sunset is
25:09
glistening across the water
25:10
it is such a nice area being down here
25:14
looks pretty awesome right now at this
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hour
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it's almost Nightfall is pretty much
25:18
rear to Ted but there's still a little
25:20
bit of light silhouetted out there above
25:23
top of the lighthouse above the hotel
25:24
you've got the fountain off in the
25:27
distance and if you look really closely
25:30
you got the decoy duck Howard the Duck
25:32
right here not a real duck you can also
25:35
see the reflection
25:36
of the theater
25:38
there as well
25:39
that's gonna do it for today
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a beautiful
25:43
ending of the Eve celebration Florida
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it was a fun day
25:49
I should check my steps what happened I
25:51
wonder how many I walked today
25:53
probably not as many as I think I did
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but it feels like I walked a pretty
25:55
healthy amount
25:57
spring training Magic Kingdom
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walked over to Polynesian
26:02
devoted to Magic Kingdom
26:04
Epcot now back to Celebration wander
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around let me check how many steps I did
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I'll see you in the next video the Vlog
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is
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thanks for watching
26:14
I appreciate it
26:16
is that surprisingly not as many as
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I thought I would have
26:21
only sixteen thousand I was thinking
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maybe 20. and again I have my phone off
26:25
and then my little fanny pack
26:28
for a little for a little bit of the day
26:29
I don't know if that affects it probably
26:31
doesn't affect anything let's just say I
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walked 16 000 steps
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let's get him out
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man
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I love living down here so dang awesome
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right