Disney Springs Day With My Mom - Eating At The Boathouse & Riding in Amphicar / Renting Surrey Bike
Disney Springs Day
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Morning has began the sun is rising
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here at Saratoga Springs Resort
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very beautiful off in the distance
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got some squirrels here in these trees
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right off our balcony
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I see one right there
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it's a couple there's another one up
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here too
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I'm the squirrel Whisperer
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that's all yeah getting a little
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breakfast for the squirrels
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won't take long before the beauty of
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that sunrise
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is gone
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gotta catch it when you can
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and even at this early hour the balloon
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over at Disney Springs is already up in
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the air we're gonna be heading over
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there a little bit later
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because I have a reservation for
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Boathouse and we might do a couple other
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things over at Springs but that'll be
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a little bit later reservations not till
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4 50 for a Boathouse now I've always
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heard the terminology like a moth to the
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flame this is a moth
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to the horse light
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welcome everyone Adam de Wu here has a
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recording of this Thursday October 13th
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2022 I am wearing an appropriate
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backpack which is my DVC backpack
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because I have some water stored in here
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I also have my mom's phone
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some other accessories we're going on a
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starting off the deck with a bike ride
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gonna rent a bike they open up at 10 A.M
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next to the pool house and we're just
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gonna do a little Grand Tour Grand
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Circle Tour if you will even though
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there's going to be some weaving in and
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out
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of the property here at Saratoga Springs
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Resort our second day invited my mom to
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tag along she loves the pools and things
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so we're gonna hit the pool
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and then later gonna walk over to Disney
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Springs which is walkable as well I'm
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inviting you to join me for day two of
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this two-day staycation with my mom
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DVC stay
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shall you and just to give a little
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layout of the land you are here so I am
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right here the bike rentals are down
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here they don't open for about another
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10-15 minutes next to the bus depot but
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our plan is to just bike ride all around
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grandstand Carousel Paddock the Springs
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Congress Park and all that and then
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later we either take the boat or we'll
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walk over
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to Disney Springs
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you know I don't even know if you could
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rent
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rooms here it might just be specifically
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DVC
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what are you thinking about your DVC
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experience so far
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wonderful you loving it
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being treated like a queen and located
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right here at horsing around rentals or
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is it horsing rentals around nonetheless
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they have the tandem style bikes where
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you can get up to six people four
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comfortably six yeah you probably get
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six on there and then two on this one
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let's just say two on this one four on
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this one and these are the prices over
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here and because I'm a DVC member this
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would be the price of a regular bicycle
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so we're opting for the 8.63 cents per
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hour per person and we're gonna go with
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the bikes that are located right over
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there just the traditional style bikes
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and since we have a couple minutes just
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grab a table over here at the pool area
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on the high back chairs
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a little bit later we'll be popping in
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here or maybe one of the other pools
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okay we just went in and we were
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informed that because mob did not bring
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any tennis shoes she only brought
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flip-flops and sandals that there's no
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back strap on it we're not allowed to
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rent one of the bikes here but we can
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rent the Surrey bike so we're not going
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to do the single bikes but it's a
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manufacturer thing so we're going to
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rent one of the two-seater Suri bikes so
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future reference if you want to rent the
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regular bikes you got to have tennis
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shoes if you're staying there
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guess we're going with the green one
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there's the four-person purple one and
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then there's the green one over here
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wonder how many people are going to be
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following us to Saratoga Springs we have
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to follow me on it if we're going to
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release
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this must be the path there's a
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restricted area but horsing around
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rentals can go all around the Lagoon
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there and the break but you're gonna be
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doing everything no well either one of
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us can steer I think no that one does a
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steering wheel do you want to drive no
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okay so I'm steering yes so basically
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what this is this unlocks it so you pull
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this down
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like that and then that unlocks it and
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then we can go forward so you're going
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to help pedal yes with your un well
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tennis shoes
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wait a minute let me
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okay okay all right we're good to go and
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they said to stay on the sidewalks and
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don't run over nobody don't run that
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that's probably a good that's a good
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rule of thumb okay you're the leader
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here so I'm not I'm not I'm not managing
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this thing
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we're on the downhill
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foreign
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good thing we got this break here
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okay so there are also some signs here
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that say Surrey bike
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traffic it's kind of hard to steer in
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all right this is cool we're getting the
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hang of it
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and first little pit stop right over
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here
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with springs off in the distance and our
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bike
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right here is this lovely gazebo
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got the balloons up
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on maintenance follow me everywhere just
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this is how it goes I'm attempting to do
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a three-point turn here so I don't know
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if that's even possible I can't go
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backwards
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bike the longer you can justify sitting
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in the hot tub later yes I can oh we're
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losing it that's what I'm afraid of
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former Downtown Disney now called Disney
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Springs
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and we'll get to check out some of the
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other pools that are on property over
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so just to clarify I'm steering so
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really the passenger which is you Mom
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you're just helping pedal that's all but
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I can't you can't steer or hit the brake
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even though you probably could lean over
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and utilize a break
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how's my drive is it good it's good
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you're doing great thank you don't have
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a heart attack or nothing when I had to
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do it
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oh we can't take the I think we gotta
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like turn around but The Boathouse is
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right over there so we're gonna see
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right over there to the right
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look to the right that's The Boathouse
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okay now what you're looking at I know
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you're very distracted Mama because
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you're seeing these signs that says the
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Surrey bikes are now prohibited
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from this point so we cannot go cruising
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around
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Disney Springs so I gotta do another
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three-pointer and turn around yes I feel
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like
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getting pretty good at this
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you get the two you get the three-point
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turn here hopefully I can do it in a
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three-pointer cut the wheel hard like
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that
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go into here
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can I do it in three points
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here we go it's going to be a four
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pointer
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or maybe a five point turn
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all right we're good
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maybe six point turn
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all right 12 point turn
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got this okay and at some point today
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either before or after dinner I want to
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do one of these amplicars as well take
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you on one of the amphicars over there
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which is a half boat half car takes you
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right out into the water it went take a
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look down here there's even a little
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warning for the flip-flops there you
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just got to be really careful see that
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right there is a that's an artistic
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rendering of your football I know like
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that's I don't know how they knew that
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was your foot but
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that's enough okay I think the
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restricted area is the bridge you can't
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take this over no no wooden bridge
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pay the total I think we're only on
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there for what maybe 40 minutes now they
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do have a preview Center over here at
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this time of the day or maybe today in
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general says welcome home Disney
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Vacation Club preview Center is
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currently closed please visit during
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business hours but take a look at this
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RV 50th Anniversary most magical
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celebration of Walt Disney World RV who
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the heck is driving this Bobby C
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baby maybe he cruises around in this bad
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boy it's a possibility and we have
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decided in today's pool swimming
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will take place across over there at the
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paddock pool
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swim with the other one yesterday and
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then we're gonna swim with this one
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today
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and there's no one in the hot tub at the
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moment the pool itself is a little
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smaller setup than the one yesterday so
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this is a kind of a little smaller pool
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area nice and cozy and they do have a
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water slide and it's kind of set up in
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the same fashion as a beach where you
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walk in from the shallow end
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kind of like be there's no sand in this
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seat mom is already
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you're already camped out over in here
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I'm bubbling up
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you're bubbling up
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going in
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oh it's warm feels great we have the hot
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tub completely to ourselves
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we're noticing the pool over here is a
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little warmer than the pool yesterday
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too
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of course a lot of bubbles in this one
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yeah
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back to the room so the pool we were at
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over here The Paddock pool pretty close
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in proximity within eye view of the pool
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we went to yesterday which is just past
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the geyser and over there past the bike
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rentals and the main pool's right over
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there so both of them close proximity
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especially since we're staying in this
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building so either or we could have
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chosen and just like in textbook Florida
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afternoon fashion look at that ominous
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Cloud that is rolled I can't imagine the
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balloon being operational for too much
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longer so we kind of left the pool at
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the right time we think there's supposed
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to be a storm
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rolling out and we are about to board
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one of these boats here not the one
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that's pulling away from the station
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this uh
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saskagoula Steamboat company is pulling
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away but there's another of the sasko
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Gula steamboats pulling in this the
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Delta lady will take us over to Disney
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Springs it is the only place where you
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can catch a boat when it looks like that
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will take you back to Saratoga Springs
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or the treehouse
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arms
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and we're not eating here but stopping
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in the T-Rex restaurant because the ice
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storm the ice age is happening through
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here so the dinosaurs are really all
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kind of frightened as they should be
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because
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distinction might be on the horizon this
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happens every so often and it never
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actually eaten inside the T-Rex
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restaurant which I've heard is always
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part of the same owners and franchise as
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rainforest
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pretty neat the ice storm is rolling in
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you got the mammoth over there
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the other dinos
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win above the bar
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we have decided to do the amphi car in
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fact we're going to be getting in that
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one that they're about to exit out of
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the green amphicar here at the launch
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it's half boat half car into the Lagoon
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into the water it's kind of neat it's on
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a circular little turn here so it's
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gonna like it pulls in and then it turns
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around and then it's going to launch us
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back down there into the water giving it
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a hawk
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we're doing this
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we're going in the Water Mama going in
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the water right now believe this is
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happening here's the splash down
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going in the water
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look at the balloon look how windy it is
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with the balloon
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anything like this before no I've seen
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it many many times but I've never been
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able to able to do it
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pretty interesting these are all
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national antiques from the 1960s all
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built West Germany by a company called
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Dan McCartney named after the original
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name of the car was called for 7-77
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maybe we'll get lucky in the Rainforest
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Cafe we'll
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go up the way
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I always find it interesting that you'll
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wave at someone just because a little
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water separates you or a little bit of
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distance if you're on a vehicle but if I
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was standing on that bridge 10 feet from
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them walking towards them they would
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think I was some kind of a weirdo but if
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there's a distance for me to hear you
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could do the wave and get away with it
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but if I was sitting at that bar 10 feet
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from someone and waving they say you
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might know that person
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so this is where we're staying over here
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Saratoga Springs
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there's the T-Rex when we walked in I'm
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not sure
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and I can also give this opportunity to
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talk about what we got at The Boathouse
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right in The Boathouse probably three or
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four times
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wanted to bring my mom there and we
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ended up eating there before we got on
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the boat this amphicar
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and just kind of showing the menu and my
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two favorite appetizers are the
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asparagus asparagus is amazing and the
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mac and cheese
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and she got the shrimp Royal
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the shrimp boy was like we kind of
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shared it shrimp broiled and I got the
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crab cake the jumbo crab cake highly
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recommend The Boathouse and the driver
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the captain right here is also
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confirming what we just found out while
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I found out again my mop out for the
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first time it's the number one rated
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restaurant
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at Disney Springs he said it's the
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number one rated restaurant at Disney
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Springs correct
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and it's owned by the same people that
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did
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your T-Rex
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see it by the owner of that created
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T-Rex and Rainforest Cafe okay so I knew
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those two were Affiliated but I didn't
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realize The Boathouse was awesome right
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now
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um
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The Landry Brothers awesome they are the
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ones that go into the records
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you think of your meal off
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liked it
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it's a little spicy though the sausage
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was a little spicy for you so tell me
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what that was I got you got a shrimp
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Royal
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this is where I had to turn around
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the bike earlier right here
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bye
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oh we're getting the sunset too kinda
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sort of
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and the balloons going up even though
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it's windy the balloon's going up
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how many of these vehicles are there uh
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there's a come up here collectively just
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totally you guys out eight of them
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this is number two
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now you were a little hesitant to get on
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this do you feel more comfortable now
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that you're on it
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pull out
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because you were kind of like we don't
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have to do that if you don't mind but
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it's not bad right not bad did you think
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you'd be closer to the water than you
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are even though we're right here oh
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we're pretty close we're pretty close
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but you'd rather do this than the
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balloon right yeah yes you were I
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mentioned going up with a blue and
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you're like no we're okay we don't have
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to do that
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that's the boat we rode in on right over
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there
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it's true good point
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doing a lot of boats today
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it's a nice wrap up to our two-day
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staycation here
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Saratoga Springs this is the last step
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in two days
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we're kind of staying way over that way
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the hole it does look like a snake it's
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in the water and then jumps up on shore
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to tell it's a bird
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huh we're gonna get some top whoa
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oh Living Dangerously a little bit
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dangerously that's why you were you were
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waiting on purpose for that to go by
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e
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it was great
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yeah if we were to go up on the balloon
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right now you would definitely
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be feeling some wind up there look at
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that thing swaying
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there must be a concert tonight there's
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quite a bit of a line
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over here
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everyone's sitting along the shoreline
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behind House of Blues
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all lined up for the entry whoever I'm
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not sure who's playing but someone is
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that balloon swaying
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pull it back up to the port
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I didn't realize or I had forgotten I
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did realize but over here at the Indiana
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Jones theme park Jacques Lindsey's
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there's a boat there too
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gas here
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oh
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we did it that was fun we made it Mom
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and we opted to walk back to our room
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got the balloon up in the air over here
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and the fountain and we are just gonna
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sit right over here in these chairs
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and enjoy the duskness
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of the sky looking across
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at Disney Springs on The Boathouse where
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we just ate and picked up a couple
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little souvenirs as well from The
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Boathouse which is also affiliated with
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the amphicars great food waterfront
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dining and dream boats there's there are
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small ships and there are big ships but
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the best ships of all are friendships
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with this as we went with these two
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photos to choose and there's the
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Splashdown
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and there's
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my mom and I we got some little
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souvenirs here we'll take homes
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for posterity
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it's a pretty good one
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like how the water's going up over the
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front of that thing
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and if you turn it around to the back
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of the photo op
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on the little well the little item it's
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stored in it gives a little information
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about the amplicar top speed is about
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seven miles an hour on a water 70 on
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land
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thus it was dubbed model 7700 total
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production of 3878 nearly all products
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sold in the U.S market out of the 3046
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imported we're between 61. 67 and all
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amplicars are convertibles originally
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offered four colors Beach white we got a
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red Regatta red Lagoon blue and Fjord
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fjord
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green aqua and the Apple car is a rear
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engine design
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uses a reliable four-cylinder British
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built
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Triumph Harrell motor producing 43
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horsepower
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I float
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oh yeah that one's pulling up there
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going in are those bats up there
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the Hitchcock would be proud and that's
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gonna do it for today Saratoga Springs
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Disney Springs The Boathouse
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the amphicar
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I'll see you next video the Vlog the
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balloon's going down
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and this Vlog is in fact