My Last Day At 48 - Staying At Disney’s Bay Lake Tower / Room Tour & Rooftop Magic Kingdom Fireworks
Disney's Bay Lake Tower
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Wednesday
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August 9th 2023 I have some light bags
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packed
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for the evening
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because I am heading I'm having trouble
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talking
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it is my final day as a 48 year old
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when I wake up in the morning
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this is a song that starts off like that
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not Saved by the Bell but when I wake up
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tomorrow I will be
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49 years old tomorrow's my birthday
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today is the recording of this the last
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day I will be 48 years old four decades
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and eight years the last time
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I got some plans I'm inviting you to
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join them shall you it's a nice day but
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you want to stay in the shade because it
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is scorchingly
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summer humid and hot here in Central
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Florida so I have my backpack on also
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have
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a few items in here toiletries
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change of clothes
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for tomorrow because I am staying
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at Bay Lake Tower
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BBC tonight
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if you want to tag along grasshopper
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big old grasshopper right there look at
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that it's beautiful that's
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cool that's a beautiful bug look at that
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thing
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all right
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take care of grasshopper take care
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excessive heat warning
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got the AC and the car on cooling it
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down
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heading over on a Disney property
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stopped off at the Art Deco 7-Eleven on
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the way up town got a case of water I
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would like to have some few bottles of
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water in the room and it's a little
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cheaper to buy a case and take your own
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water to the resorts than it is to buy
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individual bottles there
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it's a hack thankfully I will not be
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getting on I-4 Westbound at 3 23 P.M
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over to the Bay Lake Tower at
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contemporary
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how far at all yeah it's just always a
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good habit to keep a case of water in
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the car whenever I travel sometimes I
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forget but I usually try to have a case
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and then just
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whenever I'm going up to a room take a
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few bottles with me there it is up on
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the horizon the Contemporary and next to
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the contemporary
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Bay Lake Tower
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what a sight
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and the tail end there it goes
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Space Mountain and the minivans are back
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maybe back for a while but this is
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called the minivan because it's a van
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that gets your takes you around the
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resorts and it looks like Minnie
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all right gotta go through the
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checkpoint
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and then go see which room I got
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I couldn't do online check-in for some
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reason it was down so I gotta gotta go
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to the front desk now I believe I'm
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gonna be on the lake side today and you
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can see at this time of the afternoon
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there are still some parking spots open
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and I was kind of surprised I got my
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Waters in there so I got the Aquafina to
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buy any Dasani get my bags and go in
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also because it is so sunny and hot out
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here
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there's no one playing basketball
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there's no one playing tennis I mean
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it's more of a morning fan because it's
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very very very very toasty I like to
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listen to the radio on the way in there
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were news reports saying the people's
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shoes like workers who are working on
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roofs that their soles of their shoes
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were melting
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because the heat index is like 115. it's
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really like 99 degrees 98 Degrees
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some are saying it's one of the hottest
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floor summers in Florida in a long time
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ah check this out this is like the
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Disney version of Large Marge
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caravanning around the world Chip and
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Dale have signed it Pluto signed it
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Daisy signed it Mickey signed it think
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all the characters are in there
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possibly
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driver's got the sun visor up do not
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want the
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so I'm not going to be on this side as
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far as I know I have booked a a room on
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the Lakeside I was really surprised when
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I checked day before yesterday
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just kind of impulsively oh I wonder if
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I could stay here the night before my
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birthday
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and I'd be in close proximity to the
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parks and there was a room available
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because I'm a DVC member I was really
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kind of surprised also
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the Contemporary which is adjacent to
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Bay Lake recently was called one of the
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ugliest don't quote me on that but it
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was it was stated to be one of the most
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hideous buildings I think in the US or
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in the world I completely disagree I
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love the Contemporary in fact I consider
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it to be one of my favorite resorts to
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stay at I do love Bay Lake but also
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uh probably a year or two that probably
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two years ago when I hit 500 000
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subscribers I booked a Theme Park View
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room at the Contemporary those are not
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DVC rooms you have to buy those on their
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own
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maybe one day I'll stay there again
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since I stayed there they have remodeled
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the rooms now there are incredible
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themed rooms for the Pixar movie
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Incredibles yeah just kind of surprising
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that whatever article it was stated that
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the Contemporary was an ugly choice but
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I think it's just I think I think it's
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just like a pretty fantastic I'll walk
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over there a little bit later I'm gonna
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go I'm gonna go see what room I got
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checking written across the front we're
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on the road yeah they're flashers off
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standing in the shade
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I'm a big advocate of shade areas
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I'm gonna Walk This Way go to the front
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desk check in find out what room I'm in
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and from here you can really see Space
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Mountain off in the distance in this van
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is a Grand Floridian van I see the GF on
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this oh you didn't even see the castle
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over there look at the castle all
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checked in one floor above the full Sky
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Deck with a little walkway across
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to the main section
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got a little artistic rendering of
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Minnie Mouse right here
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and see if we can look out at the board
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but the pool is hopping today because it
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is
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scorchingly toasty out there
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you got the chest set down below you got
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the pool over there
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and I believe my room is going to face
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the lake over there not Seven Seas
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Lagoon but face Bay Lake hence the name
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of the tower Bay Lake Tower room is now
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usually when I do a room tour start off
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put a little clamp on
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and then showcase my accommodations for
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the Eve I got the lights turned on I
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turned them on
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before I started recording just to show
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The View momentarily this is the bed
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looks like a queen size a queen size not
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a king but a queen size just me in here
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so plenty of room
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look at this little towels
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got the wall quote I only hope that we
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don't lose sight of one thing it was all
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started by a Hidden Mickey
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towel
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right there and you got Mickey up there
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always looks like he's like chowing down
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on some cherries
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right there he likes cherries so there's
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a pull out couch here
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which no one's going to be utilizing
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that because it's just me in here
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but this is the bed
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and this is the looks like Mickey is
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going at a very rapid Pace almost like
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Tomorrowland Style on a spaceship
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right there got the TV down here got the
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table where I put my DVC bag and my
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raised bag full of the few things that
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I'm going to need
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and you got the mirror here
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and I wonder if this is one of the
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resorts that has a DVD player some of
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them do oh yeah look at this there's a
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DVD player Hilton Head also has this at
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the DVC Hilton Head where you can go
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down and rent yeah if you get a hanker
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in for watching a Disney flick and you
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don't want you don't have Disney plus
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and you want to tether to the phone you
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can just go down and go old school with
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getting a DVD
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down on the bottom level and it's kind
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of a neat thing you can run a DVD and
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just sit up here and watch it and then
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look out at the view of Bay Lake off in
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the distance take a look over there
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you'll see one of the boats going by see
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the pontoons down below
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you can see look at the lifeguards down
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there having a meeting there in between
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the little Archway of that building
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and then you got the contemporary
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off in the distance and then they got
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these to kind of block out the sun if I
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was in the mood for toast got a little
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Sunbeam there I got the microwave it's
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now 402 check-in now if something was
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wrong with the online system sometimes
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if you go ahead and this is the ice
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thing too
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the check-in is usually four but there's
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been times I've checked in at like noon
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or one you just go early in the morning
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you go on the app and you say this is
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this is what I'm gonna be arriving
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sometimes you get lucky but I couldn't
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do that for some reason the mobile
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system was down at the fridge
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right here
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kind of very unique stylings
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pattern there on the side he thinks I'm
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I got the dishes right up there
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got some some ceramic coffee cups also
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no Keurig full Mr Coffee there full size
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and safe to say I would imagine yep
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there it is this is in here
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just a joke I always make it's kind of
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run its course but with pretty much
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everything all my little nuances they've
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all run their course so it's just kind
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of a habit at this point still got some
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H2O Plus
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the Resort Ocean stuff
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I always like the flavor sea salt is
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really good
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got the bath salt
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just a regular basic shower here
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and I like this so Hotel I was a couple
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hotels I've been staying at recently
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I'll hit the gym and then I hit the pool
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after the gym
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a lot of them don't have this this is
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kind of a neat thing that goes across
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and you can put your bathing suit on it
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attaches to there and then your bathing
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suit and towels dangle right there and
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notice how it is pushed in so the water
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will Splash in the tub
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where if that is not there
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put your wet bathing suit over this this
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is going to drip down onto the floor
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genius yeah I'm kind of getting settled
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here just giving a little room tour and
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I think I'm going to walk over the
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Contemporary myself a coffee
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over at the Contempo
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hello it's a Contempo Cafe
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oh cameras kind of shattered out there
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we go hello uh that is the former
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Discovery Island there over on Bay Lake
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and River Country used to be right here
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they were going to build a DVC Resort
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but then after 2020 they kind of shut
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that down not sure if I'm gonna pop into
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MK tonight I mean I might I want to
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definitely check out some of the
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Halloween merchandise so I could go over
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to the Emporia but I believe there's
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also Halloween merchandise I checked the
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Halloween merchandise when I was out in
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Anaheim the Disneyland Halloween
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merchandise but let's see how that
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compares to the Walt Disney World
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merchandise and pretty par for the
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course they have the little end table
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that goes in between the two chairs a
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lot of pretty good balcony room though
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some of the resorts don't have a lot of
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balcony space
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but Bay Lake you got a pretty good chunk
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of area
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for the balcony all right I'm gonna head
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and there's also a Take Along hate take
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your take a long Guide to the magic I
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guess if you wanted to bring your own
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DVD collection you got this entire
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section here you can put all your DVDs
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on here so you're gonna be staying here
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a couple weeks I'm gonna bring like 45
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of my favorite DVDs and throw it in
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there next to the television
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Chester drawers with a Gideon
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oh there's got to be one in here
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where would it be there's nothing over
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maybe there's not
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oh wait a second holder holder hold on
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there it is right there every hotel room
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placed Here by The Gideons
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one thing about staying at all these
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Resorts or going to the park just always
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hitted Mickey's and a not so hidden
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little Courtyard down there that has
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some interesting trees and a little fat
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lengthy Fountain okay you need to go to
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the fifth floor in order to get to the
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bridge I could take the stairs but show
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the elevator here we're on six I go down
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to five
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fifth floor
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going up
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and right here is look at this there's a
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monorail piece of artwork I always love
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that very unique little seating area
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here again Bailey Tower is a Disney
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automatic doors Disney Vacation Club
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and then walk out
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onto the walkway oh my gosh thank you
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automatic just like that if you turn
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over to the right
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and over into the Contemporary proper
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this is where Bob Hope back in 71 did a
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little stand-up routine when the park
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opened up there yeah I love the
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structure this Resort
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it's just in the history of it at the
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Mary Blair mural up there at Contempo
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Cafe at the base of the Mary Blair mural
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they have coffee I also have these
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little
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little Donald what are they called candy
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corn candy not a big candy corn guy I
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mean I'll eat if it's in front of me but
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definitely not something I go out of my
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way to purchase but there's like a
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little lanyard connected to this Donald
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candy cord all right on this side of the
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berry Blair mural they have decaf which
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I do not want put a little cream in
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there and going with the dark roast
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Resort blend right here all the
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different resorts are featured
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oh double monorail crossing the streams
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you take the monorail
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all you got to do is walk and I've never
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noticed these before but there are
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imprints of Mickey himself a not so
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Hidden Mickey right here along the
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walkway
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look at that
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these are these are new or at least new
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to me I've never seen them before these
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are on the walkway in
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facing back the other way
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we got the resort right there and you
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got Mickey right there leading the way
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to MK so I got plus transportation out
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of here and then of course
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review of the train here getting a
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little honkitch a little steampunk
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okay where all the 50th Anniversary
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stuff used to be is now for all the
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Halloween decor is at wdw I checked all
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this out at Disneyland see if they
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haven't I don't think they have this uh
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this mug right here at Disneyland if
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they did they got all the pins over here
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which I'm kind of kind of waiting until
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the parties begin before I start buying
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the pens but I do love
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collectible pins
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goofy right there I really like this one
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there's two different ones that aren't
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really in like adult sizes I guess they
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are but I have to really slim down even
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more than I'm already
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slow me down this is kind of neat too
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this mini like vampire bat
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right there
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I don't think I saw these in Disneyland
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this must be only a wdw exclusive
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obviously in Anaheim it would just say
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Disneyland not the Walt Disney World but
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I don't think I don't think I recalled
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seeing that right there what is this it
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looks like a baseball cap a little
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candle over here with Minnie this is the
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same one that's on the shirt vampire
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mini I'm noticing the the characters are
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in a little bit more of a an evil mood a
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Halloween
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mood here's like a countdown to
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Halloween this is one I wish they had in
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a t-shirt style and not a sweatshirt
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because I love that it says hayrides
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because I do love going on a good
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hayride the Griffith Park LA haunted
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hayride that's a good that's a good one
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in California and if I had they had this
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in a regular t-shirt and not but a not a
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sweatshirt like that I would wear that
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to that event these canisters are not
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for sale but these are really neat got
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spooky creepy Hallows Eve I really like
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that right there
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I feel like they need to sell
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to sell Holly Halloween the black hack
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at the Sanderson sisters over here
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a lot of the sisters three it's a lot of
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the stuff they have at Disneyland but
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there are a few things that are only
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exclusive for here and obviously all the
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wording here says Disney World not
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Disneyland now there is a heavy rumor
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that the Hat Box ghost will be
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materializing very soon here on the east
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coast in a different well obviously it's
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already been released that he's going to
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be in a different position than the
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attic in Anaheim but no one really knows
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when the official first date
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Patty will be appearing this is exactly
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what I need in a Florida summer
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this right here
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probably not selling a whole heck of a
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lot of these today all right gonna walk
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back over to the contemporary
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and I'm going to Mobile order some food
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from the Contempo Cafe I was just
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checking the mobile app and they do have
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some healthy option they have some
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grilled chicken options
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salad grilled chicken sandwich grilled
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chicken do you like some grilled chicken
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short little walk all right now over at
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the Contempo Cafe with a monorail going
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by and you can kind of see out the
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window the sun is slowly starting to
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descend and I end up getting a salad
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grilled chicken salad that was uh in the
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case got that and then I got a little
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chicken noodle soup
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chicken noodle soup and a grilled
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chicken salad it's a pretty good meal
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for the evening get some nutrients on my
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body and before back up to the room kind
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of looking off towards Magic Kingdom and
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pretty neat to see it with a
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to see the monorail going by with the
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sun setting off in the distance over the
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castle and Space Mountain and all of
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that and that is on the opposite side of
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the room and this is this is looking out
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so you got the sun setting on the
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opposite side of Bay Lake Tower and
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where Bay Lake proper is is where the
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sun is glistening off the side of the
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clouds off of the distance so the sunset
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is happening and at some point make my
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way up to the top of Bay Lake Tower to
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watch the fireworks the happily ever
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after fireworks I guess you could call
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this magic hour of Source right there
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should go look over there
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see so that over that direction is
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looking toward magic key and we can see
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the sun set over there also reflecting
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off
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the windows right there and the next
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Chateau next door
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I think one of my spots when I'm not in
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the park that's becoming my favorite is
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up at the villains Lair the villains
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Lounge I should say you don't have to be
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in the villains Lounge per se you can
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just be on the very top floor of the
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roof of Bay Lake Tower and there's also
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a tower and a restaurant on top of the
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Contemporary proper but basically the
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closer of the two is the one that is
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going to be at Bay Lake and you can kind
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of just stand here you can watch the
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monorails go by you can see everything
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happening over there you see the castle
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you see the fireworks you see the Tinker
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Bell going by you see Tomorrowland you
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see Main Street USA it really is quite
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an experience watching all the fireworks
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or the current fireworks show right now
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is happily ever after which some say is
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one of the better ones uh it's
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definitely definitely a good one the the
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choice of music and the songs is really
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good kind of heartfelt emotion and
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pretty good and definitely can see it
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you really get a good perspective on
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where the fireworks are launched off
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from both behind the castle and then
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over near where the Monorail station is
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outside of the park behind Tron those
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was pretty cool pretty cool to see to
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see all that from up there and if you're
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staying at one of the hotels or your DVC
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member you can usually always get up
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there and there was there was definitely
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a lot of people up there tonight but
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definitely not capacity and it was
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basically right there I was standing
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right up there also fun fact over here
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let me show something too I never
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noticed this but you can see the Mary
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Blair mural at night even from the
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parking lot if you look in closely to
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get past this tree and you get kind of a
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better view to go over this one yeah
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take a look at that there is the one
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side of it isn't that awesome I think
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it's pretty dang cool during the day you
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can't see it because of the sun the sun
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glare and everything but at night it's
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all illuminated in there it's nice that
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is so awesome why did I never not notice
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that until now yeah way off over on Bay
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Lake is the electric light parade on the
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water inspiration for the Main Street
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Electrical Parade at Disneyland came out
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beforehand and they used it and we're
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like you know what let's do that at
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Disneyland on Main Street and on this
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level it's kind of interesting there's a
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Nixon room over here I mentioned where
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I'm not a cook room through that door
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where Nixon was here back in the day and
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said that famous now famous quote take a
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look at this this carpet it's a
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different color but that is The Shining
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Overlook Hotel carpet
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right here at Disney just this is
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scattered all around inside contemporary
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right come and play with us Danny
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forever and ever just Danny Torrance
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there with his toys
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and then put your Nixon right over there
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inside this inside those doors
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and also the skinniest escalators in
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existence I mean this is only like
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one body width wise and now off in the
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distance back on the bridge going back
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to my room
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see in the castle over there
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seeing Space Mountain over there see a
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Tron over there
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head up to the room now call it a night
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leaving the Contemporary proper off in
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the distance
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Bay Lake right here of course Bay Lake
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Tower where I'm staying in that room
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right over there well kind of like right
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there and that's gonna do it for today
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from Bay Lake Tower
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I'm gonna turn in and when I get up in
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the morning I will be no longer 48.
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49 years old
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you can barely even see over there
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Discovery Island and that's gonna do it
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for today thanks for watching I'll see
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you in the next video the Vlog
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over