Christmas Time In Celebration Is AMAZING - Snow On Market Street / Jeater Bend Lights & Art Walk
Christmas Time in Celebration Florida
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welcome everyone out of the woo here has
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a recording of the Saturday December 3rd
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2022 it's about 4 30 4 40 give or take a
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couple minutes p.m in the evening hours
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and I'm going to be walking around
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downtown celebration that includes
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Market Street I'm gonna put some steps
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in because I'm going to go from here
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over to Market Street and then all the
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way over to Jeter Bend where this is
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their last year decorate supposedly
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their last year they will be decorating
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for the full extent of taking that whole
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Road and really just going overboard one
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of the best holiday light
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streets I believe yeah award-winning in
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the U.S so I'm gonna check that out
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there's also an art show happening
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downtown
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I'm just saying local I'm inviting you
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because I live here to join me it's
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Christmas time December is upon us shall
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you they're also doing a thing today
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which I did not
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I didn't really jump on board with it
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but it's called the holiday home tour
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where you pay an admission price and you
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can go into select houses
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around town and look at the inside of
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their house all adorned for Christmas
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thought about doing it but
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I just I don't know something about
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filming inside of bunch of people's
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houses just I figured I'd see it from
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the outside yeah so this is definitely
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the day
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to go for Christmas
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right A lot of people out and about
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we're in their Christmas outfits getting
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pictures
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I'm gonna walk down Water Street
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head downtown
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a lot to see and lots to do tonight
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and I live close enough where it's not
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too far of a walk to get down to
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everything because parking down here is
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really something else for these events
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especially for the snope
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which is snow and soap that falls from
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Market Street and of course the art show
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and Jeter Bend all that it gets really
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really busy down here and tough to find
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parking so
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I'm not I'm not going to be driving
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anywhere
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right on the tick well not necessarily
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it's 501 now it was five and now it's
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501 here on Market Street got the road
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closed signage up and also there's a
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train over here they're gonna have a
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little miniature train that takes you
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around and three okay there's two trains
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there's a train here another train past
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the three horse drawn characters
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okay I stand corrected one two three
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horse-drawn carriages and a fourth
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horse-drawn carriage over there four
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horse-drawn carriages yeah it is going
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to be a real beehive of activity down
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here
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to say the least right right down
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through here three three horse trunk
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carriages here and a fourth right over
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there has that Cinderella Carriage type
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of vibe
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right here there's two Cinderella style
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and then there's all this also this one
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here the other Cinderella style right
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over here that's like almost like the
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you know the after midnight
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carriage and as the evening progresses
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the lights will be illuminated right
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down basically celebrations version of
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Main Street USA Market Street and the
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light in the tree will be turned on this
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is almost kind of the Calm before the
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storm if you will
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just the horses are just waiting around
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oh they even have a little washboard
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over here in preparation for the world
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famous now snowing event the streets
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close at 2 p.m of course that was three
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hours ago the streets closed even though
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I think a lot of it's a lot of the areas
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close even even before that especially
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Market Street
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I'm gonna go over get myself a coffee at
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Starbucks decided to embrace Christmas
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of the holidays with a little peppermint
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flavor
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tonight I put a little peppermint in
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this latte usually I'll get vanilla or
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hazelnut but I asked if they had a
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peppermint and they said yeah so
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we're going with a little peppermint see
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the sun
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will be starting soon and according to
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this sign Santa is going to be in town
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Santa is that direction you can see
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quite a few of the boots are setting up
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for the little Street Market well not
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with a Street Market but the art fair
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that's happening down there and even
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though a little later I think it starts
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at seven o'clock where they're going to
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have the snow falling from the heavens
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they've already got some of it down here
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on the ground itself but over there
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where the tree is of this whole Olive
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Market Street is going to be engulfed in
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snow from the heavens a little bit later
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yeah take a look at this booth there is
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a lot of Christmas decor here all the
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wreaths and whatnot I always love how
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they really Embrace celebration as a
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whole so you got over there you got some
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artwork with the post office on it
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here's the celebration movie theater the
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artist's name is Hawk here okay here's
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the accurate name for it celebration art
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walk and it goes tonight up until 9 p.m
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so I'm getting here right when I started
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I actually own this piece I bought this
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from this gentleman here Hubert he was
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set up
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up down here a few months ago at a
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different different well like a year ago
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at a different event and I got this one
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here which I really like kind of like
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depicts Market Street and whatnot you
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got the oranges here and I like this one
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over here you see a lot of Disney stuff
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here because Disney built the town so
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I see a lot of artistic renderings of
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Disney Disney items I'm just realizing
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here near Disney this is so these are
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not these are not paintings these are
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photographs that you do so these are
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actual photos here you're saying that
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there were boats at one time in the
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water across the world it's probably
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after probably the first four or five
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years so they had the little paddle
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boats all right you confirmed it I
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always wonder if there were boats are
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there excellent yes they did yeah this
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stretches pretty much the entirety of of
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the road this direction in front of the
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spiers of the former celebration theater
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theaters still there it's just not open
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theater's been closed for like a decade
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one thing I really love about living in
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this town is just how many different
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events there's always a sense of
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community and events that are taking
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place down here in downtown celebration
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this is no exception this is another big
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one I'm taking a look at this little pop
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art place here
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Jill Keller is that how you pronounce
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your last name yeah this is Marilyn over
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here this is all hand drawn with a
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little tiny used pencils or yes colored
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pencils colored pencil there's Michael
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Myers over here in the corner
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and then a little I guess that's Marilyn
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blowing a bubble there
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yeah and then Superman Action Comics oh
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look at this us wasn't expecting to see
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an us Jordan peel thing at a Christmas
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event but here we are
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I like it that one took 18 hours yeah
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all right
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okay that's like a Star Wars John
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Williams yeah and then I'll like not all
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obviously okay some of his work got Indy
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in there you got Jurassic in there you
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got Jaws Home Alone Superman yep nice
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Scarface down there is Pacino
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fresh spot
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Spruce wreaths prepare thy cells for the
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now snowing event not just a snowing
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event but the now snowing event at the
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manger scene here last year uh someone
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had someone had taken uh baby Jesus
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I want to call it the center point of
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Celebration but
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for the whole family over there really
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in the holiday mood
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with their Christmas pajamas on
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I just love seeing the sun over their
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setting also got the sun kind of
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glistening there across the water
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looking to see if there are any Gators
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up near
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invisible view yeah take a look at that
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alligator going right by right there
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I don't think the crying is because of
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the Gators just kind of coincides
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coincides them with the gator look at
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the aren't the arms of the skater are
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like kind of slim line going across
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right down there in the water okay the
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arms are out now must have heard me
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talking about how the arms were not
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extended but this is how close to the
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shore it is just right here
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right here along the along the shoreline
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but this is a flamingo right here this
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is kind of what you specialize in is
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flamingos I own the trademark flamingo
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life flamingo life I do I own the
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trademark Flamingo knife so I like to
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paint a lot of flamingos okay a lot of
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flamingos and then you got a swan over
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here like swans the town of Celebration
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has like a story about some Swan does it
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yeah what's the story the story I'm not
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sure the whole story but there was a
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couple swans that lived in the little
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Lake here okay and then they would get
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eaten by the alligators I think oh I
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just saw an alligator yeah what if it's
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hopefully his belly's not full of swan
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right so we don't have them here anymore
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see if there's like uh oh that's why
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they got rid of this one right the
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alligators go I also just discovered
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that today the guy in the booth next
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horse confirmed that there used to be
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Swan Boats here for like a couple years
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I did not know that so there's a
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flamingo there's a bird so I'm learning
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all kind of stuff about swans today yes
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and this is your art name here yes
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Rachel Michelle Rachel Michelle my art
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is featured at Wyland galleries okay and
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that's actually Wyland right there right
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here yes that's a piece of digital art
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that I just did and it has actually four
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more uh three more that goes with it
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there what is it what is digital art
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digital art is when you use the computer
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to make art oh gotcha okay and so
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they're these are nautical aliens is
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what I'm calling them and these are
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going to be a limited edition prints
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okay and so I'm waiting on the samples
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that is a plastic Flamingo this is metal
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legs he has metal legs oh like a like a
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PCR like like lawn ornaments yeah
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something John Waters would be proud of
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exactly now I had originally thought
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that the snope which is I just call it
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snow because it's snow and snow snow and
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soap mixed snow because it doesn't snow
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in Central Florida the best thing you
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could do is sometimes theme parks and
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celebration and other towns will do like
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like snow and soap mix making snow I
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thought it was gonna start at 7 pm but
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in all reality started at 6 p.m so it
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runs every hour
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for that's about 10 minutes they play a
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couple songs they do the snow from the
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heavens out on Market Street they have
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the tree all lit up people are kind of
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you know dancing in it taking photos
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things like that there's an ice skating
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rink which is basically not even real
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ice either because you can't keep the
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ice here but it's like a plasticky
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rubbery thing that kind of resembles
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so you got fake snow you got fake highs
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you gotta love Central Florida
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and definitely on the weekends they do
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this I can't confirm if during the week
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days they do the snow the fake snow or
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not but definitely on the weekends up
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through Christmas it is very very busy
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down here it is so many people
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especially with the art thing going on
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it's about a mild give or take down to
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Jeter Bend from
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downtown celebration the good thing is
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there'll be plenty of lit up houses
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classic car alert
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lurking in the shadows here this thing
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is all
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christmas-eyed out it's got
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inside there it's got some little
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Christmas decor some lights on the
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dashboard
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and then along this pathway people have
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their her porches all lit up
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a nice little stroll the weather's nice
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the decor is out
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tis the season there's the Grinch
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it's not the season for you Grinch
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because the naughty and not only crossed
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out nice lesson wrote naughty list on it
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and just like I do during the Halloween
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time you know with hot events and
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whatnot just want to give a little bit
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of a strobe light like a warning for
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strobe lights is going to be a lot of
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flickering lights different effects
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you know some noises and things like
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that nothing scary like it is during the
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Halloween season but definitely going to
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be you know a lot of strobe lights and
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things like that so if you're sensitive
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to that just be just kind of be weary
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that that will or be aware not weary but
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be aware that that will be the case
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gonna start from here it's really gonna
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get thick with a lot of the lights
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heading over to Jeter bed in fact
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look at this motorcycle right here is
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all lit up as well
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I love it maybe he's going to jitterbahn
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he's going the other way
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foreign
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corner of Waterside Drive and
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celebration Ave
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this house sets up for every single
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holiday including Easter Valentine's Day
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Halloween and of course the Christmas
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season and it just stretches all the way
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down the road with this house always has
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Inflatables and lights all year long
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whoa
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startle me oh some gummy gummy gumdrops
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Tiffany I don't know if Clark Griswold
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was a Disney fan or not but if he was I
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feel like he would really Embrace
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celebration
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because they do it Up full on look at
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Mickey over here give it a little wave
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and Minnie over there by the tree
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waiting for a presence to show up we got
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Donald
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Pluto over here goofy
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gingerbread folk up there on the porch
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nice little inflatable Mickey look at a
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little Eeyore down here
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I love it
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got all the cast and characters from
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Winnie the Pooh
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some houses go pretty mellow with their
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Decor oh Santa Claus is just going down
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the chimney going to deliver some
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presents there
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it's like this house you know not too
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extravagant and those other houses go
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all out with the flickering lights the
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little lights aren't twinkling you know
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it's another Christmas Vacation quote
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yeah this one definitely are twinkling a
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lot
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if you look at the
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amount of cars that here a little bit of
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congestion with the traffic
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definitely getting closer to Jeter Bend
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now I recommend if you go to Jeter Bend
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try out to go right up to it try to park
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at least a couple blocks away kind of
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like people in a parallel parking over
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you could go from downtown and walk in
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it's about a nice amount of mile walk if
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you just want to get a little closer try
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to park a block or two away from Jeter
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so a little easier to try to get right
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up to it you can see down there they do
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not let traffic go down you have to Veer
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off through a side alley and then off to
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the side but you can drive up to it then
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they have the cone set up and then pass
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the cones you have to kind of do a
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U-turn to get right back on the main
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onto the main road you cannot drive down
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through Jeter Bend so gotta find parking
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or walk it and then you will just
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basically walk down through Jeter Bend
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itself and see all the lights that are
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Illuminating flickering and whatnot but
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you cannot drive I think maybe in former
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years before it got really really
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popular you could drive through here but
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now nowadays 2022 which as I said they
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are saying this is the very very last
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year the Jeter bin will be doing the
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light presentation which is kind of a
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shame that they're going to kind of get
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rid of it or maybe some of the maybe
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some of the people through here will
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have it maybe not all the houses will be
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lit up but I'm really kind of crossing
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my fingers this continues to be a
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tradition in some of the other
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homeowners just kind of step to the
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plate and say let's just keep doing it
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keep doing it here on Jeter Ben because
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it's very very popular it makes a lot of
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people happy not just locals but it's
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become it has become well I don't say
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internationally now but I guess with the
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internet and you know the the World Wide
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Web you kind of stuff like this starts
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to get around and people that are here
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at Walt Disney World Go tourists or
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people that are just from the area
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and people that aren't from the area
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will stop off here and and check out
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Jade or Ben so I hope it continues to be
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a tradition because it brings it brings
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a lot of people to this area maybe
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that's part of the reason that they
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don't want to do it anymore maybe it's
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just becoming too congested down here I
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would imagine owning a home on Jeter
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Bend would be probably pretty difficult
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with the Halloween stuff and the
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Christmas stuff that takes like a good
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three or four months out of your life
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you always have to be setting up
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decorations so maybe that's part of the
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reason maybe the homeowners are just
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over it maybe they're just over it and
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this is about a block over well it's
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where Jeter Ben connects with a
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different Road
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this is a lot quieter and less well this
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is kind of extravagant
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with the lights but
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less people over in this area
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is that a leaf blower I'm hearing oh no
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it's an inflatable it's a
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generator and inflatable maybe it is a
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leaf blower
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this is a tremendous buildup of snow
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look at all this right here it's just
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like smoke everywhere
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they're making an announcement now
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they're saying that there are 11 houses
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all lit up right now I didn't realize
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exactly how many participating in the
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event it's not or stay puf owner
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belongs to but look at all this look at
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that oh look at the bubbles over here
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that's pretty cool that's awesome really
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is quite an experience out here to say
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the least here's a snowman over here and
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then check out Santa over here rocking
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out the get fiddle the guitar a lot of
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flickering life that's Santa with the
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guitar these bubbles that are up in
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there really are something so they're
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like smoke-filled bubbles look the smoke
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just like they're coming out of that
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machine right there so they got the
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snoke machine over here and then you got
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the bubble machine
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really have quite a few different
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machines so you have the bubble machine
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permeating bubbles full of smoke up in
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the air then you have like a snow
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machine pushing it out onto the streets
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of Jeter Bend right in front of Stay
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Puff dramatically pushing up towards
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Stay Puft is getting us full of snope
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and then they really expanse a bubble
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which everyone kind of like jumps inside
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of in fact you can't even I can't even
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get a clear spot to jump inside with all
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the snow that is like being emitted from
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this pile this snow piling mechanism
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that's right here and then of course
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there's one that's coming off the Sparks
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and stuff coming off the top of the
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house lots of sparkling right next to
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the Sparks another snow machine just
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started but I think I'm gonna get inside
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that I'm going to play in the snow
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snow itself
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and completely immerse myself in the
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Jeter Bend last year experience
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got full soap
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oh man I just kind of wandered into this
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I was like letting the mood of it wow
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yes I think you go you ever really fully
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experienced Jeter Ben unless you have
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snope all over your torso your face your
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forehead and Camera
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walking back I see Sully over here
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and an elf on a speaking of women goes
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with flamingo reindeer that's right in
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Florida
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you got the dog down here with the Santa
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suit on and
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I think I got some I think I got some
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soap
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clear my throat I got some soap in my
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my mouth
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lots of minions in this yard
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some small minions some oversized
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minions
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look at that minion
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oh I got the Santa caps on there is an
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overload of minions they've taken over
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this Homestead
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but they're all in the holiday mood
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the Santa caps on
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this one right here is climbing into the
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mailbox
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instead of sending a letter that minion
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sending itself
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just look at all the cars that are going
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over to Jeter
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so you got this little corner piece here
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very popular neighborhood this time of
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year back over into downtown celebration
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where they have all these little
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washboard signs upside no through
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traffic on authorized Vehicles will be
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towed
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pretty much all the spots down here are
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really really full
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you got the car down there directing
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traffic
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and Market Streets that way
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but all these Lots
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street parking and the Lots all filled
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up during these there's also some
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Christmas carolers down here
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amen
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Merry Christmas
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now I'm noticing uh inside the
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Cornerstone Market there is quite a line
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to use the restroom facilities and a
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reason for that there's not a lot of
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bathrooms down here and there are no
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porta potties this year in previous
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years they'll be over there so you see
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where the horse strong Carriage is going
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up they blocked this little area off
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they'll have 10 or 12. I haven't seen
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one this year so I went in and got a
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water inside the Cornerstone let's talk
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to the employee in there and she was
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kind of surprised they don't have any
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out here as well but it covers up a
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little smart water here hopefully it
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makes me a little more a little more
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intelligent
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just resting my feet for a brief moment
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I walked about probably two miles give
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or take
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over to Jeter from here by the fountain
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just resting for a brief moment drinking
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my water and even more snow is falling
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on Market Street it's a lot darker out
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here now so you kind of see the the snow
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with the lights of the illumination of
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the snow but I also wanted to notice too
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now that the snow has now just kind of
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finally started to stop over here at one
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of the vendor booths take a look at this
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it's a shirt of the Mickey power pole
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right here celebration of Florida
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established 1996 by the Walt Disney
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Company I can't tell if that's a moon or
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the sun there in the middle of maybe
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it's the sunset right there that's the
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Mickey power pole right over here yeah
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the snope for the for whatever hour this
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is eight or nine o'clock hour has
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subsided I see this booth at a lot of
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events sometimes we'll be at like horror
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conventional stuff but like they're
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horror Wares and whatnot but of course
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now because it's the holidays they have
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Tim Allen Santa Claus here Christmas
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story of course this won't be Christmas
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Vacation
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fire Club of course stranger things and
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It's a Wonderful Life and Jingle All The
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Way Arnold
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anything good in there Ryan I'm seeing I
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mean
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the wet Bandits I can get Daniel Stern
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on a flannel well this one's not a
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flannel though
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I mean it's it's pop culture which is
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looking flannel it's a mogwa here
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it is a Mogwai pretty good so what
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happens if it's on a piggy Bundy shirt
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too look at that
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there's Yogi one thing you see around
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here a lot of the homeowners will have
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these little golf carts that they go
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around instead of having driving their
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own personal vehicle they have these
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golf carts this is a Pirates of the
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Caribbean one there's like the skull
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there that's pretty fancy look at the
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Kraken too oh there you go yeah
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right inside that door that open door to
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the side
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is where Kris Kringle Santa Claus is
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meeting people
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there is a lot of people down here on
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got everyone ice skating well kind of
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sort of ice skating on on a rubbery
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plastic substance we got the Christmas
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tree you got the fake snow
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we got the horse strong carriages the
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Plenty
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never been out here for this right right
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Ryan it's your first time uh I was down
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here years ago before there was much
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here but nothing nothing like this a lot
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more people than you thought oh this is
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crazy this is absolutely crazy
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I'm surprised you found a parking spot I
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shouldn't have how long did you drive
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around before you found it uh 25 25
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minutes that's not bad no but it was
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sheer luck that I found what I did
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great place right time
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I think that's gonna do it for today
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from downtown celebration and the
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Christmas tree the snope
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temporarily not happening because really
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happens on the hour
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it happens every hour on the hour
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through the Christmas season
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definitely on the weekends I'm not
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really I'm not sure about the weekdays
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but yeah I'll see you in the next video
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did Jeter Bend looked at some horses saw
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some snoke got soaked in fake bubbly
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snow a Jitter Bib and looked at some art
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it was a good night
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see the next video the Vlog