My First Helicopter Ride EVER - Flying Over Disney World On Touristy Hwy 192 Leading Edge Chopper
Helicopter Ride Over Disney World
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welcome everyone added the woo here as
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the recording of This is Tuesday August
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22nd 2023 standing here at Celebration
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in Florida I'm going to be going over to
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Highway 192 and going to be doing
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something that I got to be completely
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honest with you I really I've never done
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it before and I'm a little
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slightly
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uh afraid of doing and that is going up
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in a helicopter now I have gone up in a
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small three-person plane before which is
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similar in size to a helicopter but I
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have never in my entire life
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gotten on a helicopter tourist
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helicopter or non
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non-tour tourism
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copter and flown over anything I've been
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thinking about doing it for a while and
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I wanted to get a bird's eye perspective
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of not only Central Florida but this
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General neck of the woods
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there are a few different ones ones that
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you can just do 15 20 take you up for
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like five or ten minutes but I want to
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do the lengthier one
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I'm inviting you to join me shall you so
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I was looking some of them up and
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obviously living in this area and
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driving up and down highway 192. I've
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seen a lot of them
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over the time of me being here
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I think the one I'm going to do is
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located next to the motel hotel that was
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used in the Florida project in fact you
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can see those helicopters going by in
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that movie that was filmed
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here in Kissimmee so I think I'm going
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to do that one now there are different
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options that you can do you could do a
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short one that just takes you up for
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like five minutes
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10 minutes 20 minutes and there are
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different ones that take you to
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different areas and show different
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things but there is one that will take
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you to all according to them all of the
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Central Florida well Kissimmee area
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theme parks Sea World Walt Disney World
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wealth Magic Kingdom Epcot Studios
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Animal Kingdom Disney Springs
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Universal I think I'm gonna do that one
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once I get over there I'll decide what
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the price is and I'm just going to do it
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I'm not going to try to overthink it
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there's been a couple times in the past
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I thought about doing it and your mind
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kind of gets the best of you and says
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maybe you shouldn't do that well you
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know what
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I'm just gonna do it I'm doing it today
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I feel like I've flown in enough jet
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airliners enough
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to where Heights really aren't a thing
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for me anymore
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current time it's just about 5 30
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actually it is 5 30 at the moment
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and I would imagine they do run a little
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later in the afternoon so it should
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still be one running and if this one
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goes well who knows maybe over time
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I'll do more of them but for now I'm
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going to the one
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it's located right by the hotel from
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Florida project it used to be called The
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Magic Castle now it's called something
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else this thing ever gonna go
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come on bicycle
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I'm delayed I'm I'm hesitating
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I'm I'm I guess so if this is open
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I will have gone 49 years you know when
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I go on it I just turned 49.
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49 years it took me to finally go on a
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helicopter
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should be all right
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I think it'd be all right
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should be okay and get a little caffeine
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in the system before doing this over
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here at Duncan
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not the Duncan I usually go to another
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one down 192. used to be a restaurant
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here for years they finally tore it down
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for years all right so there's just like
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a little trailer here I know there is a
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neon sign blinking open but it seems
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like over here there's one plane that
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are not playing but there's one
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helicopter sitting there that is not
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spinning around and then there's another
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one over here that is not spinning
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around so I need to go inside and see a
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hundred percent also this is
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I guess the sun will probably be setting
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in about an hour so probably not going
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to get any sunsets but evidently one
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lands here there might be one out
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and then there's another one over here
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this is one of these places I've seen
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countless times and I've filmed on the
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outside of it before but I've never been
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inside this trailer before and I have
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never been up in the copter I am the
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first ones here
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first swans here and it's located next
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to the formic Magic Castle which is
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being renovated and this was screen used
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in the movie The Florida project a great
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film
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about Central Florida and Highway 192 it
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kind of definitely gives you the vibe of
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a lot of the motels around here and
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people that live in the motels and the
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whole backstory but in that movie you
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see a lot of the helicopters go up and
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down from here so I'm going to fly in
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those helicopters I thought somebody was
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standing up there on that little ledge
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but really it's just a swirly plant
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yeah there's like nobody here at least
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on the outside
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anybody inside
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yeah
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spectacular it's also seven to eight
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minute ride okay and uh it'll be 89 per
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person
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and that's the green line it takes you
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to the major hotels Resorts and theme
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parks if you just want for the
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experience and we did Disney Springs
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we'll take pictures that's the 50 one
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that is the correct and that's the blue
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one right there it takes you to Disney
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Springs in fact and those red one and
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the yellow one over here all too long is
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right
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and it'll take you all the way to the
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yellow one will take all you to
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Universal Studios and right back to the
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major Hotel okay all right that is about
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15 to 16 minutes per right and
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we do have a requirement minimum two
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people maximum four per helicopter
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That's not including the pilot the
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including fight will be three okay well
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I won't be doing it today then yeah okay
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all right no go on that one evidently
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they want to fill up the entire the
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entire copter
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to make it worth their while I'm
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guessing that's the reason I don't know
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if it's a weight issue
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so not going on it
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I guess the fact that it was slow means
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they're just not going to go up unless
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you have at least two other people
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well that stinks my plan was to take the
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one that took you to all the parks I
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think it was like 150 or 170 dollars it
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kept you out for a pretty good amount of
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time it took you to
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all the spots
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but I guess they just won't let one
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person up even if it's just you and the
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pilot you can't go up now there is
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another option about a mile down highway
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192. it sits next to this structure
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which used to be a maze it was a
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Roadside Attraction called The Amazing
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maze in the 90s and has not been open
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for a long time a couple decades
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probably late 90s early 2000s but
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there's another helipad right over here
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that offers fifteen dollar helicopter
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drawers it probably just takes you up
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maybe over old town and then back so it
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doesn't go as far as the other ones if
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they have one maybe I'll do it 15
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helicopter tours leading uh childcare
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pilot is pointing to the helicopter
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right there now it's not a good sign
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that there aren't any landing and taking
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off
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so I might be the same same fate as the
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other spot at first I thought the engine
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was running but it's the car wash over
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there in the distance
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all right I'm gonna go in choir maybe
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there is someone else here that is going
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to be going on this one I would imagine
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that's probably the same policy
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I was kind of hoping to do the one that
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took you over all the parks and not just
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a little one minute up one minute down
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but I'm gonna go in choir so where the
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amazing maze was there's like a wind
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sock right there
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you need a good wind sock
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I mean I'm not a pilot I'm not an
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aviator I'm not but I know like a wind
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sock is good you want to know if the
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wind's blowing too much
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which one which color is it the one I'm
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doing it's the orange one the orange one
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I suppose the Disney one is going to go
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all over this
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so it was double the price of 85 so I
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had to pay for two people
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in order to do it so I paid like 150.
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another time I'll do this but I didn't
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feel like coughing up 300 today so I'm
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going to do two times the 85 and I gotta
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let me fly alone with the pilot so I'm
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gonna go from here
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all around there look at this I still
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have the old Epcot logo so basically I
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asked like should I ask this at the
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other place too
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but I just said what if I just pay for
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two tickets and they're like oh that's
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fine I mean I get it they have to like
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pay for the gas they have to pay for the
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pilot to be going up and all that so I'm
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going to be riding alone
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with the pilot
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but I did have to pay for two tickets
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probably should have invited someone but
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I'm already here
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so side note yeah if you ever
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I kind of had this in my mind I didn't
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want to not not do it or I feel like I
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would have taken that as a sign to never
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do it again
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so I'm gonna just take the first
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experience where they wouldn't let me do
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it and just kind of knock it out of the
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park here and just go ahead and get it
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done I'm going to be going over the
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Disney parks about a 15-20 minute ride
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so I've got some warnings here before
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approaching make sure pilot sees you
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establish eye contact I always watch all
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those TV shows and movies with
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the propellers and the
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on the top of the copter and I'm always
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just like man that is
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kind of makes me so worried so no
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smoking in or near the helicopter there
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are latches kind of like you have on an
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airplane
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as well
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approach and depart only on the downhill
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side that makes sense because you don't
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want to get too close to the propeller
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stay low as you walk under main kind of
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like reminds me of mash you gotta like
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get a little kid low avoid the tail
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rotor obviously hold on firmly the hats
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or any loose articles or best remove
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them never reach up or chase anything
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which is blown away and never throw
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objects out of oh
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startling
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never throw any articles out of the
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I'm actually gonna do this it's happened
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and just like that my 15 helicopter ride
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at this spot has turned into like 170
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dollars of attacks here at the amazing
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maze the 15 one just takes you up a
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little quick Mike but
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that's all right I don't mind paying for
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the experience
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but don't be fooled you will not get a
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full lengthy good view helicopter ride
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for 15 this is also per person they will
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not let you ride alone so the cheapest
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would be thirty dollars but even that
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one they pretty much just go up
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like a minute they bring you right back
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down you really pretty much won't see
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anything except Highway 192.
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which I could have started off my first
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Ride Like That
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but I really wanted to see the Disney
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parks from up high because I feel like
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maybe after I do this one time it might
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be a one and done or maybe I'll just not
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be fearful of it anymore and maybe I'll
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do more at different areas
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you know across the country or
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it could end up being a thing or it
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could just be a one one and done and I
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will also give
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little mention that I do not know how
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loud it's going to be on there probably
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won't be able to hear me talk I think
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they give you headsets to listen but
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you're not going to be able to hear what
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the Pilot's saying to me but obviously
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if you're familiar with the parks and
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I'll try to kind of talk into the mic on
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my camera and just kind of let every let
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anyone that's watching know what I'm
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seeing but it might be a little loud and
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I'm going to try to give The Full
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Experience
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and just to kind of have it how it would
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be if you were to ride on this if
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someone chooses
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to do this if they've never been on it
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what the what the sound would be like
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and the experience would be like
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form that I there will be another person
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another worker who's sitting in the back
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that way I can sit in the front seat
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the other guy that's up there is going
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to be riding in the back to provide
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something called counter balance
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but I am going to be sitting in the
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front seat according to the guy about
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the ticket from man that is
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oh
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why am I doing this
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I mean I know why I'm doing it I want to
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get the good view but
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oh goodness
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walking up here they're gonna get a
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photo of me I guess if I go any closer
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here
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holy Lord
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hi there how's it going leave the door
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open okay reach over there grab your
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seat belt
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okay
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all right and then I've got a headset
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right here for you to put on so we can
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talk okay
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right here dude
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's been on a helicopter before I never
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have no it's your first time first time
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all right since it's both our first time
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let's see if I can figure out how to do
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this sound good I think this does
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something right here let's try it
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I did it a wonderful experience and
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great company and I have to admit it was
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not as bad
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as I was expecting it to be
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so here is
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myself and the pilot and then the other
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worker in the back just to give a some
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weight to her that way the whatever the
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terminology that they had was to
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to disperse the weight completely
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man that was really cool
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kind of wish I could have stayed up a
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little bit longer but I got some pretty
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good views of all the Disney parks one
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day I'll have to return
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or maybe do the other one
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now I would imagine because I do fly on
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regular
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planes a lot uh the the fear of heights
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doesn't affect me like it would have
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years ago because in the last series of
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years I've really have been on a lot of
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planes
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and I thought it was going to be a
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little more Rocky with the wind but I
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guess it's kind of a nice day there's
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not a lot of wind the pilot was saying
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there's not a whole heck of a lot of
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wind out so it could have been a little
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bit rougher than it was but all in all
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also was not 15 it was like 170 dollars
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I had to pay for two people which is
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makes sense a little bit of a bummer but
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it does make sense because they don't
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want to have the plane go up with no you
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know only one person on it when they
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could fill it and make more to cover the
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fuel and cover the the employees costs
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and all that so had no problem paying
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the double but just keep in mind if this
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is something you want to do that is
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going to be the case if you show up show
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up alone show up at the group
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which is probably something I should
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have should have planned ahead of time
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even though I don't probably know
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anybody else ever wanted
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there's a shopping cart right there
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right here at the amazing maze maybe one
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day I'll do the place that I originally
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had in mind that wasn't able to do but
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it could be another time yeah pretty
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pretty happy with myself that I did it I
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thought after the first
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the first spot when it wasn't going to
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happen that
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maybe I should just kind of bail on the
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idea but I'm glad I went to the second
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spot it ended up working out
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I am now officially
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first time ever in my life
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took a helicopter and I got to see some
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some of the scenic views of Central
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Florida