An Unusual Day at EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival 2022 - Spring Break Ride Breakdowns & Long Lines
EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival 2022
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today's adventure begins by looking at
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the mickey power pole as the recording
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of this monday
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march 21st
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2022
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bye for westbound moving kind of slowly
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i'm heading to my fifth
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disney theme park of the year and my
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first visit to epcot center
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for flower and garden festival 2022.
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i'm excited welcome everyone
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adam the woo here also tagging along for
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southern california daphne
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oh do i hear monorail wait wait hold on
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hold on one second
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i hear yep
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it's like a sixth
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sense for me
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there goes
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oh that's a thing of beauty right there
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flower and garden festival 2022 it's
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been going on for a couple of weeks
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but now it's my time
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now it's your time it's our time to eat
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some treats
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see some
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see some flowers
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see some flowers and an assortment
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of other things i
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am wearing an appropriate
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figment shirt i also have my umbrella
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for the sun
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you are looking very festive because it
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is
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like how like we're staying in the shade
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a little bit well you're kind of like in
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the monorail beam shade you're looking
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very springy
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thank you
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let's get in there yes
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i'm inviting you to join me
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shall you and even though trams are back
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at ttc transportation ticket center
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magic kingdom they are not back at epcot
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or studios
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this new tram route they built over here
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hasn't been utilized yet so far oh i
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gotta say goofy looking very tall and
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impressive they are a topiary goofy in
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front of spaceship earth a thing of
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beauty and we have picked up our
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festival guides this goes on through
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july 4th and also there's us underneath
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space almost spaced out spaceship earth
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anything you're looking forward to as
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far as food food wise that you really
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want out of the book oh my gosh the
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honey boo that we went to last year so
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excited to revisit that and then there's
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a new croissant in the france pavilions
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i'm excited to try that too all right
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honey booth and croissant and then
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whatever else i'm in the app i would
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like to consume i'm gonna i'm gonna have
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some some snacks today lots of snacks
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cheers and i will never turn down the
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opportunity
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to show
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a monorail
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there he is the man of the hour figment
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himself look who was there on the little
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berm over there is pooh
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trying to get some butterflies we're
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gonna go in the butterfly tent a little
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later too
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one thing you and i share is a love of
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figment
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one of the really fantastic things
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about this festival are the topiaries
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and always nice to see it under the the
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shroud of spaceship earth oh yeah and
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kind of a perfect beginning
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showing the monorail going by kind of
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like the this is a this is like the
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perfect angle there with the topiaries
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and with the flowers in the background
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and the lagoon and the water and
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everything
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a little waterway with the monorail
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going by spaceship earth off in the
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distance
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oh yeah and next to my very salty dasani
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water is this flat because they're salt
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and dasan is this flat bread lavender
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honey mustard marinated chicken
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flatbread
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with whipped honey ricotta cheese
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vegetables and goat cheese
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so i'm excited about i usually don't eat
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this early it's like only like well 10
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45 right now or 10 30 something like
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that and what did you end up getting i
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got the cornbread this is my favorite
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things from last year so i'm so excited
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to try it again cornbread is that bacon
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on top yeah oh my gosh
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just as good as last year
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right over there it says honey bistro
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garden
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you know where there are where there's
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honey there's probably going to be
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bees
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so one could say
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this is a real beehive of activity
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here's another reflection of us we are
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standing over near the ratatouille i
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have not been on ratatouille you have
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not been on ratatouille we're hoping we
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can procure a reservation with the
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lightning lane
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as well and behind me is
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the ratatouille remy
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topiary i'm noticing not only well this
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one's always here but
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some of the other topiaries have some
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there are some newer ones that i have
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not seen before
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including tick-tock i've never seen the
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tick-tock topiary
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before i've seen pan and hook but
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they're usually in different areas a lot
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of the topiaries are kind of switched
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around to other areas but there are a
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couple topiars i've never seen before so
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they've added some new topiaries and
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moved some topiaries
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around as well so it's pretty deep it's
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kind of the same as former years but a
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little bit different a little a little
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different flavor
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because there's different foods too the
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standby is 105 for ratatouille there's a
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little sign right over there
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however this is not popping up or and
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frozen's also not popping up no
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on the lightning line i wonder why it's
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a it's a little bit past 11 we were
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waiting for 11.
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so lightning lane might not be
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accessible for some of the key
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attractions
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right now is just available for hotel
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guests maybe possibly not sure all right
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i just went up to guest services and
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asked about the lightning lane as the
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friendship boat goes by and it appears
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as if certain attractions are not
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included in the 15 lightning lane like
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test track and frozen consider those
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like kind of the old-timey paper fast
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pass first come first serve so miss
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missed out on those didn't realize how
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to jump on those quickly but ratatouille
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is an additional fee on top of the 15
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and those for resort guests not staying
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in resort today go on at 7 00 a.m those
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were all booked up and then like an hour
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later for other guests i did not realize
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that so basically no chance on getting
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any sort of fast pass even though we got
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lightning laying today for about a two
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so kind of confusing i shouldn't do my
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homework but
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them is the facts yeah you never know
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though maybe 105 minutes moves quickly
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might have to wait in the standby i'll
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give it some thought and come back by a
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little bit later oh it looks like
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jasmine is out today enjoying the
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flower and garden festival as well good
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to see i've been seeing jasmine in quite
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a while out here it's very fitting
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because she's named after a flower she
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is named that's a good point she is
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named after a flower
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yes the days of the cavalcades around
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world showcase are over the characters
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are out
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once again in full force made it over to
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the japan pavilion now where the
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drummers are back for a while of the the
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entertainment here was not around but
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the drummers are back
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here at the japan pavilion i think i'm
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also kind of in the mood for some frushy
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wind flower and gardens
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not when in rome but when at flower and
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garden try some frushie and there it is
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in all its glory
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fruit mixed
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with sushi it's the style of sushi
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but it's really fruit on the inside
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there is no seaweed in there there is no
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fish in there only fruit whipped cream
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and a little strawberry flavoring
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on top and it's not food and wine
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festival but you know a food festival in
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epcot here
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you always get you always want to have a
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trash can eat on top of a trash can just
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like this
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all right go ahead cheers
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pretty good
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do you think you're going to be eating
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regular sushi you don't like it yeah
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there's a nice mixture of items down in
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here i kind of like it though i don't
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know it's like it's kind of hit or miss
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with with different flavor pallets but i
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like it and inside the gift shop here
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they have bonsai tree 101 essential tips
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for bonsai and these rice cakes through
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here smell really really good quite an
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assortment of what are these called
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mochi it's uh mochi
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it's um rice
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they're just like little like rye
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flavored rice it's like a rice paste
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yeah it's really good i like the ones
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that's filled with red bean inside but
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they don't have any oh i really like
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this little mascot here this potato this
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fried potato chip
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right there
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that little guy you know what's kind of
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funny the other day as we saw a gator in
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the celebration pond and you name the
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gator cool
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because of the singer from
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cool in the gang who sings the song
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celebration this was unplanned tonight
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late well yeah later tonight i guess
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today's the 20th right wait what is the
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day today today is the twenty those are
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recording on the 21st
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yeah today is the 21st monday the 21st
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cool and again that's what are the odds
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crazy that's pretty pretty random that's
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later tonight but yeah what are the
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weird odds it's too bad that cool the
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alligator at celebration you deemed him
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named cool singer cool the gang thinks
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it's like celebration yeah is not a
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gator inside this lagoon we were we were
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just wondering are there gators in here
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and over here at magnolia terrace
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there's a couple you see anything on
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here that looks kind of appetizing in
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any way yeah we got these
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cajun butter grilled oysters and they
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also have let me get the chicken gumbo a
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couple other awesome topiaries here we
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got chip and dale got pluto over here
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and not too long of a line for a
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magnolia terrace at this hour so gonna
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get some more chat okay here's the
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boudin bites
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let me see this
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they got the
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gumbo there the boudin bites and there
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they are in all their glory so what kind
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of oysters are these grilled grilled
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oysters any kind of flavoring or just
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standard grill cajun flavor cajun
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flavored and they give you one of these
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little
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cutest little tabasco sauce right there
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so this is what we're dealing with right
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here these are better than the ones last
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year
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pretty good yeah
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yeah how they shucked them right there
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they're super fresh for 99 you can get a
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miniature version of these little uh
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statues of
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pigment right there and looks as if the
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voices of liberty have moved back inside
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american adventure here
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for a while they were
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for a while they were out at the main
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stage but they're back inside american
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adventure one of my favorite
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favorite shows
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i really like this display case
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louis armstrong this is a trumpet circa
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1964
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that was once held and played
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by
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louis armstrong
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pretty neat i feel like this is kind of
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a i don't say underrated but under
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appreciated gym here at the back of
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world showcase and epcot center getting
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ready to open the doors about to go in
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i highly recommend this it's kind of an
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animatronic marvel not really allowed to
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film inside but i always like to mention
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how much i enjoy it
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all the flags are here the escalators
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what up the escalators
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you know i should really keep a tally of
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how many different escalators we've gone
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through we've gone on in our day all the
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different scenes
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no just in general about the course of
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our friendship a friendship oh god
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well if you count the escalator at
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universal studios hollywood
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the sheer magnitude of it and the level
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of it that counts as like 96 escalators
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all by itself okay there are technical
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difficulties
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they got to the scene where he's walking
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up the stairs pretty awesome and then
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she came back over the over the
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microphone and said that they're having
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technical difficulties so
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we only got about five minutes
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we only got about five minutes of
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the american adventure i've never had
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that happen i've never been evac off of
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the american adventure before all right
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gonna continue walking around we're
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doing the loop around we'll showcase and
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a quick peek inside the mexico pavilion
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where it always looks like nighttime
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even during the day in here kind of
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reminds me a little bit of how you know
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when you go inside pirates of the
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caribbean and blue bayou and all that
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very similar to that type of experience
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where it's night for day not day for
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night but night
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per day but don't let this fool you it
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is still sunny and daytime
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outside and before heading in here
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noticing that
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like i said it's definitely kind of nice
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to see that there are some familiar
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topiaries around back again once again
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but i'm also noticing that they've added
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a few more like over with dopey and snow
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white here's if they've added in these
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six other dwarfs
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as well before walking over to the
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mexico pavilion you got to meet anna and
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elsa
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walking into there last time you met
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elsa it was outside she was standing
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outside by the tree but this time you
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got to get up close and personal and
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talk to her how are you feeling i'm
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still reeling from it that was so
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magical and there was this little girl
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in front of us who sang let it go to
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elsa and that was the most precious
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thing i've ever seen it was it was
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pretty it was it's it's pretty awesome
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to see you so giddy meeting
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elsa you you wanted to meet anna kinda
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sorta but you really wanted to meet elsa
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elsa yeah it's like you're meeting on it
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but elsa oh my gosh elsa said she's
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going to make you a ice dress
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and so she was talking about her because
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she's wearing her white dress from the
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second movie and then her blue dress who
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said this was going to make me want to
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so you're gonna be wearing an ice dress
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soon yeah we're gonna match she's just
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gonna mail it to you
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ship it
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snow flurried over now this is
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interesting they have disposable cameras
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in here too there's 19 for 16 photos and
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gonna get on board a boat for the grand
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fiesta tour starting with three cabo
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gyros and i'm kind of surprised they
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still have up the little funhouse top
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style maze
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through here with a little this is a
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very tight squeeze through here oh yes
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going by the smoke stack of the volcano
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over there
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it's always been said that there's a
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hidden mickey in the smokestack you just
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gotta really look carefully okay we did
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end up getting a lightning lane one
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popped up four frozen ever after so
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heading in yeah i got lucky with frozen
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no luck yet for ratatouille but this did
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pop up so pretty thankful to be and
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we're also first row so can't beat that
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this supposed to be us yeah i found the
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first trolls
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there this is the troll version of us
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just realized ratatouille just reopened
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it was down for about an hour
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and right now it says it's only a 60
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minute wait so it ran back over here and
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this looks like it could work out if
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this is only an hour that would be
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pretty awesome and it seems like even
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since getting over here the line has
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grown considerably even behind where
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we're standing yeah everyone's
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everyone's the news is out that
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ratatouille is back open after a couple
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hours of being closed for a technical
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difficulty now they just made an
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announcement that's going to take a
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little longer than expected i don't know
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if that means the ride went down again
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or what but they said it's gonna take a
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little longer due to unforeseen
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circumstances been waiting probably
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about 45 minutes and i'd say maybe
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halfway in the line to even just get in
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the door so a little longer than an hour
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but
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we're in it to win it but as i stand
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here thinking of how many times i went
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by on the skyliner and this is being
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constructed so pretty neat to pretty
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easy to think that it is open now for
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guests to go in it's been open for a
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while this will be my first time if it
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happens my first time ever going on
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ratatouille's adventure experiencing
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wait times that are longer than
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originally anticipated we apologize for
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the inconvenience and thank you for your
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patience also noticing the standby wait
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time is up to 150 minutes now i think
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it's good we've been in line for about
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75 all right after some discussion
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decided to go ahead after an hour and 45
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minutes well we watched a watch through
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online to see how much more of the cue
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there was kind of guesstimated it
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probably took an hour and 45 minutes to
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get to this point such slow moving
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probably gonna take another two hours so
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we decided just to bail and after all
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that definitely can enjoy some fish and
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chips
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i think the food is one thing
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but the sitting down
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is probably another we were sit we were
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in line for an hour and 45 minutes
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pretty much went like not too far we
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moved more in the first half hour than
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we did the last hour and 15.
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we just pretty much we cut our losses i
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do i'm not a mathematician i do not know
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a lot about the lightning lane i don't
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know because the ride was down for two
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hours prior but the people showing up
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for the lightning lane maybe that's why
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it was moving so slow but goodness
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gracious this right here sounds a lot
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more appetizing than waiting in line for
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remy's ratatouille adventure this right
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here this this is a much better
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experience okay i got myself a piping
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hot caffeinated beverage
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after our fish and chips meal which is
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pretty nice we sat there for probably a
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good hour
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because we were on our feet for an hour
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and 45 minutes not moving
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we heard part of cooling the gang off
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across the way at the american adventure
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but standing for an hour and an hour and
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45 minutes and not moving and then
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realizing we were not going to get on
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ratatouille in a timely fashion meeting
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probably by the end of the night
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now it's a soothing spot here not the
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back side of water
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but the back side of canada pavilion
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this is the front side of the waterfall
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kind of an unknown gem well it's not
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really
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super unknown but some might not realize
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that this is back here
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tucked away and you can walk
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through the little corridor of rocks
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there you can also stand up top and get
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a better view up there
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but you can walk all the way down here
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which is really deep
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this is beautiful
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and i niagara falls is there is some on
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the u.s side but also the canada side so
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you were saying maybe this has
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some symbolism to that
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and inside one of the gift shops of
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course the orange bird looks like to be
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the mascot of this year's festivities
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2022 good old orange burger and also
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figment as well his figment's winking
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there and there he is up there holding a
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basket of fruits and veggies and can't
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forget about spike to be here also a
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mascot they have quite an assortment of
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mascots this year got some ostriches out
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here also got sorcerer mickey over there
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from fantasia right here directing the
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the broom splashing the water around and
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with the sun starting to set these are
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kind of silhouetted out here
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yeah nightfall isn't too far away
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so that's us waving down there
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give it a little way but you'll notice
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also where the reflection of us is
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waving
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over here see the bubbling up water
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looks like there's some sort of a sea
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creature
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down in the water yeah
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i'm not really sure exactly
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why the water is bubbling up like that
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but what i'm waiting on
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is the monorail
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oh no way
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no edit there at all perfect
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timing there it is i knew you had a
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sixth sense about them you said you know
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i'll go over here and try to get the
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monorail angle you go well you have a
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sixth sense
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for all things transportation devices
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at disney world
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especially the monorail and there it is
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sea creature down there oh wow here's
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timon and pumbaa over here as well kind
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of tight i didn't see them when we first
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walked in earlier over to the lion king
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area now i didn't think the butterfly
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tent would be open this late in the
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evening
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but it is
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i thought maybe at five o'clock that
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they would close but right now it's like
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it's almost seven and the butterfly tent
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appears
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oh it's it's called bambi's butterfly
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house this year because bambi's here
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this is bambi's butterfly house maybe
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that's why it's open a little later than
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four more years in the past this has
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always been go go squeeze
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is the sponsor but now go go squeeze is
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not the sponsor this year
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it's bambi
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this is cool yeah there's like a half a
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dozen down there look at all those
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fluttering around
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that is so cool
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basically just have this netting around
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so the butterflies don't get out
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because they might head over and try to
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get on ratatouille only to be
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disappointed that they would be waiting
21:10
and not get on the ride now take a look
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at this pop oh wait a second
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i was going to point out the futuristic
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popcorn cart you know they make
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miniatures of ride vehicles like
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monorails and skyliners i wish they'd
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make a miniature of this popcorn car to
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purchase i would purchase this popcorn
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card in metroburg and now inside the
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land pavilion i'm glad we waited because
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earlier though on the app it showed the
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wait time for living with the land was
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pretty lengthy
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and
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wanted us to do lightning like suggested
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to do lightning lane but right now it's
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like walk-on it's like 10 minutes
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oh take a look we are now on another
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escalator going back out of the land all
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right it is now time to see figments and
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journey to imagination straight ahead
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look at that look at the sun setting on
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those clouds over there yep no weight at
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all here comes the ride vehicle
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and looking back at the sunset from this
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angle
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now as i'm showing it from this angle i
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put the camera down on a tripod from the
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reverse angle on the opposite side of
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the pvc found upside down fountain over
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there
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and got a got a good video of us
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standing along the little railing here
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with the monorail going back by and
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spaceship earth in the distance and it
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worked out well that there was nobody
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else in the frame the other guest just
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just walked out of frame in order for us
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to get this uh worked out perfectly
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pretty dang cool this one's for
23:59
posterity stopped inside club cool now
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i'm gonna get the philippines royal
24:04
watermelon which one are you going to
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choose
24:07
are you going to try the beverly hills
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probably stay away from the beverly any
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of these striking uh striking a little
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bit of your taste bud fancy
24:14
from russia
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well cool
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the newly opened and newly renovated and
24:31
completely different club cool than it
24:33
was on the other side of the former
24:35
future world oh as we're exiting holy
24:38
cow look at that i just sat down what
24:41
did i say like 25 seconds ago literally
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ten seconds ago you just turned the
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cameras late
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but i said wouldn't it be if the monitor
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went by
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and it did it just did you're the
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monorail whisperer monorail whisperer
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and there's no way we cannot go on
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spaceship earth to close out the evening
24:59
especially after that just happened even
25:01
though we were already planning on doing
25:02
it anyway but yeah
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thank the phoenicians the phoenicians
25:07
need some thinking and at this hour
25:10
five minute standby not too bad only a
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couple of rows of folks
25:14
going in all right
25:16
first time
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and that's gonna do it for today
25:22
from epcot center i also refer to it as
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epcot center
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my first time visiting
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this theme park here in 2022
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a fun evening
25:35
well fun day a full day what time do we
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get here
25:38
like 10. 10 a.m it is now
25:41
nine the park is closed
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at 9 00 pm as we're exiting harmonious
25:46
fireworks are going off
25:48
it is a full day not quite rope drop to
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close but pretty close
25:52
park opened at 8 30 this morning it's
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been opening early but we didn't get
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here until 10. so 10 to 9 a full day
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of food
25:59
fun
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and not getting on ratatouille but you
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know what
26:04
i'm frozen we got them frozen and seeing
26:06
spaceship earth all illuminated like
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this makes the night pretty magical
26:12
i'll see the next video the vlog
26:29
what the heck i was doing the voiceover
26:29
from the parking lot
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and there it is
26:34
another magic moment of the monorail
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going by there goes
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the monorail you want to do the outro
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yeah