I Finally Bought Into DVC - Becoming Disney Vacation Club Member / My Home Resort & WDW Lounge Perks
Buying into Disney Vacation Club Membership
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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today's adventure begins in celebration
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florida as of the recording of this it
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is easter sunday
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and they are having the weekly sunday
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farmers market down the road here into
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the downtown section of celebration
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i have been considering purchasing into
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dvc
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disney vacation club for a couple years
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now
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and i think today is the day i'm going
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to make that decision the only thing
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that would stop me from
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doing so is there's no one there's no
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cast members on staff
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because it is technically easter sunday
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but if i am able to do so today is the
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day
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and if it doesn't happen then i will
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just talk about
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why i'm going to do it and try to give a
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step-by-step detailed
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account of why i want to and how that's
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going to work
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so i'm going to depart from here and
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drive oh i have
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procured a reservation for hollywood
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studios so i'm going to
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tap my magic oh i get my magic band tap
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my magic band there
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and then take the skyliner over to the
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boardwalk view some rooms
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and then maybe park hop to epcot later
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after two
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i'm inviting you to join me it's gonna
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be a good day shall you looks as if they
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repainted this archway
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entrance as well i've done a little
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research on the subject matter but i am
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in no way
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an expert so this will be a learning
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endeavor for me as well
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and the reason i'm park hopping is not
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to go on any attractions or rides by the
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way you can see spaceship earth
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over there in the distance because i
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want to show the proximity to where i'm
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looking at to be
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my home resort if it works out
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and just to show the distance commute
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wise
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on the skyliner to studios and to epcot
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all scanned in stopped off at starbucks
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they are preparing
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a piping hot caffeinated beverage
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for me and i talked to one of the dvc
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stands here and they said to head over
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to the riviera by the way vanilla
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latte head over to the riviera they said
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that is where the most cast members
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from dvc will be to not only answer all
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the questions but to
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draw up the contract show the rooms et
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cetera now i'm not looking at the
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riviera
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but that is where most of those who can
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answer my questions and
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take care of the business are during
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these times so off to the riviera
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now i do not want to i don't want that
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to be what they call
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a home resort and what that means is
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that's the one that you have the most
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options to check in through throughout
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the tenure
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of your membership that's not i'm not
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looking at riviera i'm looking at the
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boardwalk
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but then again i have not made any final
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decisions
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on what i'm going to do so you know all
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bets are off at this point
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i was going to take the connecting
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gondola station
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over there however it is a very lengthy
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line you can see all that stretching up
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there
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and they recommended it would be quicker
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to walk
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if i continue up this way i can walk
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over to the riviera it doesn't look like
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it's going to be too far
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that is it kind of protruding up over
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the top there now this is caribbean
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beach
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just because you have a home resort i'm
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just calling it that because that's a
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technical term for it
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doesn't mean you can't stay at other
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accommodations
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similar to this one and the
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gosh how many are there now 20 25
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plus resorts out here it's just the one
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that you're choosing and it's all based
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on price
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so if i'm at the boardwalk it's going to
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be less in the grand scheme of things
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than if my home resort was the riviera
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which you see over there i think that's
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how it works
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some people fishing over here on a
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pontoon
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yeah you can fish at disney
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pretty neat now there are a few
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different reasons on why i'm just
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deciding to do this and have been
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thinking about it
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i'm currently 47 years old
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looking at it as a 30-year investment
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now i might not live to be 77
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but if i do i can balance that out you
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know the
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the fees and whatnot as well as the the
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monthly fees
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tally them all up i'm looking at maybe
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getting 125 points which is the minimum
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that you can get starting off
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and i kind of figured it out to be it
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would be about 200
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a room if i went that route
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over the next three decades to stay at
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some of these resorts that are
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you know three four hundred dollars a
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night sometimes if you were to pay for
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them
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singly without have without being dvc
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you know give or take it's just rough
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estimate
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a big part also of the decision was
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based on my availability
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i would not be staying at any of these
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you know in prime summer time or
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christmas week
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new year's eve any time that it would be
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very busy
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the points go up so i'm looking at 125
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points
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to stay at some of these spots and in
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the off season certain days
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some of the points for regular single
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rooms with just one or two beds which is
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what i would i would not be getting any
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sweets
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or anything of that nature just basic
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nothing too drastic or extravagant could
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be eight
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to nine let's say 10 points
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per evening so i can get bare minimum in
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the off season
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10 stays maybe even 11 stays
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a year all this could change
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when i get more information once i get
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over there if i did not have that
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availability and i had to
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to come out here during and stay during
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prime
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times i don't know if i would do it or
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if i had
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a rather large family it's just me so it
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makes it a lot easier
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all that factors into why i want to do
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this and
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i can document and film videos you know
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and
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give room reviews and resort stay
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experiences
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which would help out not only the
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channel but you know it'd also be fun
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for me
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over the 10-year of the rest of my life
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you know just a few times a year let's
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say
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8 to 10 to 12 stays a year on average
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during off time
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i know it's very confusing in fact it's
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very confusing for me as well
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it is not something that really makes a
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whole heck of a lot of sense but i have
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done a little bit of research and
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the questions that i need to be answered
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will be answered momentarily
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once i go in talk to the dvc
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cast members and make it happen
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and they assure me that it can be done
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today when i was in the studios
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i went to the little vestibule they said
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oh yeah go to riviera
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there's someone there that can take your
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money and make it happen
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so this might this might come to
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fruition the very near future
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for the course of the end of the day
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skyliner station which this is
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this is one of the other benefits you
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know if i was to be at the riviera which
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i'm not i'm looking at
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a boardwalk or one of the lesser
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inexpensive ones
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on the skyliner path i could go to epcot
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i go to caribbean beach i go to art
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animation i go to pop century and i can
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go to hollywood studios
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all of which are currently on the
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skyliner path that is here
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at the moment very beneficial
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it is a lot of money and i completely
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understand that and i have come to
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grips with that scenario but i'm looking
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at it with a lot of things
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that i've done in my life as an
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investment
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take the invest take a chance on an
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investment and over time it will
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it will pay itself off because it's an
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and it's also something i want to do so
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it's kind of a it's kind of a twofer
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you got the investment aspect and you
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have you know
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for my own mental happiness aspect
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it sounds like it's a good decision in
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my opinion all right it's happening
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sitting here they have some snacks they
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are providing and
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some beverages i got a
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coca-cola here and they're working on
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the contract now and i'm going to end up
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getting my home resort will be riviera
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and this is just they're utilizing one
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of these rooms as the office
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i'll explain more on this later but it's
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happening
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as of sunday april 4th which just so
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happens to be
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easter sunday i am officially
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a disney vacation club
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member and as part
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of what happened i was given this
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lithograph here
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my home resort
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someone is yelling with excitement is
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the riviera does not mean i always have
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to stay here
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but if i so choose i can book 11
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months out that's how it works i get the
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option to book any of the rooms
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i so choose 11 months out any of the
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other rooms anywhere on property
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or in vero beach or in hawaii at aulani
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six no seven months out so seven months
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out
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at my non-home resorts
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11 months out at my home resort which is
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riviera i am
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excited pretty dang excited i've wanted
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to do this for many many years
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and it happened i'm going to celebrate
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by taking the skyliner over to epcot
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center
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and go to the dvc lounge
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which i now have access to
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on top of journey to imagination
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pavilion
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and for those following along who know
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anything more than i do about this
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i have purchased 150
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points that are good every year for the
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next 49 years
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and i will i don't know if i'll live to
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be 97.
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hey fine that's all for you could watch
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yourself and remain here
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hero 02. this is the first time i've
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ever
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gotten on the skyliner from this
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position over here from this
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side now i did want my home resort
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to be boardwalk however boardwalk was
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210 dollars
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per point where riviera was 201 dollars
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per point and since i can
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book at other resorts it just made more
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sense to pay a little bit less
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so you do the math 201 times 150 points
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that was the total the total combined
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you know over the time period there is
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financing available
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there is a down payment you have to pay
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but that was a total you can do the math
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on that figure all that out
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i am very happy with this decision and
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now i'm heading
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on the skyliner over to celebrate
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and i can go up in that lounge which
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really had it was a big factor
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of why i wanted to do this the resource
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days are great but it's going to be nice
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every time
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as an ap in epcot to go up to the top of
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the
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journey to imagination pavilion and have
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a soda charge my phone
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and just look out over epcot
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for the rest of existence yes
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just to kind of give an example of what
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the point system is
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certain times of the year during the off
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seasons the the most inexpensive points
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let's say 17 would be
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grand floridian and that that's a little
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high so grand california you know over
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in southern california 17
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so i could use 17 of my 150 points a
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year
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and stay at grand cal now they do get
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better
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like let's say i wanted to stay at vero
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beach only 10 points
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so i could do 15 nights a year
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at vero i'm not going to do that but if
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i wanted to i do have the option of only
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staying
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one night at in the athletics they want
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to stay one night at saratoga
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you know film it do a room tour do a
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property tour or not even film at all
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just enjoy
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a little staycation certain times of the
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year during the off season only 11
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granted during summer and you know peak
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christmas and holiday times it would be
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a little more but riviera
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if it's just like a little one-room
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studio with one bed
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11 points which is my home resort poly
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16. now the point systems do go up like
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right now during spring break there are
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a lot higher these are during
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the lowest points which would be around
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september
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early december that's when i could take
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advantage of the 10
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points per night at old key west even if
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i wanted to go up to hilton head
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six points six point that's that's a
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pretty good deal
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10 points for boardwalk which i wanted
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to be my home resort but opted out of
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that
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beach club 15 11 points i could stay at
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animal kingdom villas during the off
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season which i have full availability
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any time i can always kind of book in
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advance
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non-home resorts i can book up to seven
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months in advance
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and i would only be utilizing 11 of my
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150
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points per year even nine nine
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points it really averages out when i
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kind of did the math on it
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to be about half what you would pay in
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cash
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and the cast member the gentleman that
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helped me out
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he was telling me that it pays itself
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off in about seven years now there's
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probably going to be some downsides some
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disadvantages
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and i'm looking forward to learning
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about all of those
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over time but for my situation
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i think this is a heck this is a heck of
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a good deal
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if i do say so myself making it to epcot
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i see ratatouille
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up in the distance ratatouille which is
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going to be opening
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october 1st
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man i am i i'm pretty giddy about
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all of this i should also mention that
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i probably would not have done i may
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have mentioned it before but i reiterate
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i probably would not have done it if i
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did not have
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a little more accessibility to choose
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on the calendar when those points that i
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was showing are so low
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because sometimes those points can be
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three times as high
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as the lowest tier i was just showing so
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if that's the case
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and if i wasn't doing a studio if i only
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only if i needed more than one or two
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beds if i needed
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you know a one bedroom with a side bed
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with the pull out or maybe
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a two or three you know kind of
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sweet it would probably not be
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economical so this is just for my
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situation
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might not be for everyone's situation
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but for my situation
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i think it's going to work and that you
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can see down there kind of the only
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thing that can make this moment a little
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more emotional is if the monorail
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was cruising by there
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and for those who've been following me
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for quite some time there is a lot of
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history
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when it comes to that upper level of
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this attraction so
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it is it's kind of hitting home a little
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bit
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inside inside the the fields that
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i am going to be properly welcomed
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up there now i've been invited by i have
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a few
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friends and acquaintances who are dvc
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members who have said hey you want to
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come to the upper lounge
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up there on top of imagination and i
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have accepted but now officially
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i can do this on my own with open arms
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i can be i can walk back up to up there
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to the top of that glass pyramid
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is it there's a deep history isn't that
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right ducks you remember
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you remember back then years ago
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many many years ago yep
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things have changed since then
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some learning was done and
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it's a new era man that monorail was
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going by i'd probably
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probably shed a cheer right now thinking
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about the history
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my history and how grateful and thankful
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i am though
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okay enough enough of that discussion
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let's go up there let me go up there
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easter sunday 2021
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mark this day down for posterity
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because i did mentally
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oh so stoked now this sign states disney
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vacation
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club members only and as i turn and walk
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up this stair very familiar staircase
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leading to the top pinnacle you see the
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glass up at the top
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you can see the pyramid up at the
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section there and then pulling along
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here you see this tarp i think this
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might be like a monorail
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placed along the side here of this tarp
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when you turn the corner and go back up
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towards the top of the pyramid and the
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lounge now when everything gets back to
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the usual you'll be able to see the
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monorail over there but you still
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can see spaceship earth off in the
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distance that beautiful sphere
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oh we got some snacks here got some
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cheez-its and there's two cheez-its
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because michael k
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i have invited him as a guest you're my
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first guest up here
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i'm honored to be your first you can
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have some cheez-its this is amazing
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i'm glad you were here to share every
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time enjoy the cheez-its
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and you have mr pibb we do yeah so you
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can't
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normally you can do this on your own but
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the cast member is going to give us a
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little complimentary beverages
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what are you going to get same thing
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that sounds good you're going to get a
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pip let's do it
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kind of resembles like the design of
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spaceship earth there on this little
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the design well i guess it could be part
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of the pyramid as well but that kind of
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has like a spaceship earth vibe
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doesn't it it kind of looks like a
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rocket as well look at the sun directly
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overhead
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pretty amazing with the clouds up there
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i could just sit here all day
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want to sit here all day i'm down seeing
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spaceship earth over there that'll
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that'll never get old this is open every
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day i think they said eleven to six
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right
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eleven to six or eleven to seven now
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walking over to get a refill like this
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little swirl here
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i like the way the carpet is set up all
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through here like the design
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of the carpet is pretty amazing the
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table it's the table
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right there they do have some distancing
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going on obviously during this time
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period but
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yeah pretty nice also from this angle
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you can see the pvc
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fountain as well just kind of wanted to
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show that now if the monorail was
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quite operational you get a really good
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view of the monorail going across the
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beam there
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you see test track in the distance and
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the former wonders of life pavilion
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and the guardian new guardians
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attraction that's happening over there
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it's kind of about as far back as i can
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get to show the whole
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top portion of the pyramid as well if
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you're wondering the correlation to
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where the
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the rainbow tunnel was it was over in
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that corner
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over there back behind this little
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cylinder item
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it's closed off but there's a second
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section to the pyramid
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and that's where the rainbow tunnel
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where michael jackson walked through
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that famous photo was taken
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and it wasn't just the king of pop that
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stood in that rainbow tunnel which is
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just off to the side of where i'm
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sitting
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but also the dream finder and figment
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himself
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and then heading back down you know what
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i think i'm going to take i'm going to
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take the elevator back down
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i've never taken the elevator before so
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we'll take the elevator oh let's do it
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take the elevator which has this very
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unique looking
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it says there it goes we're going down
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to level one
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we're on level two but we're gonna go
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down to level one
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at any moment okay now it says level two
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i don't know when it's gonna work check
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out that there it is
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oh my gosh look at this okay this looks
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pretty cool look at this
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nice i think there's like a keypad here
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this is like so rich it's definitely
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like 82 right here
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okay we gotta go down to one this is the
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same pattern it has to be the same path
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but back in the day i would say look at
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see look at the ceiling wow we are in
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old school epcot right now this epic
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is it like blowing your mind yeah oh
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yeah yeah
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great didn't change this at all and i
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love it
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oh where are we wait where the heck are
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we not just accommodations and not just
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being able to go up in the dvc lounge
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here at epcot but there's also a dvc
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lounge i believe on top of
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bay lake tower which we asked there
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there is not
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open yet over there but down the road
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that will happen
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as well as special moonlight madness
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events and you know other certain
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activities that will take place that are
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good with the card that i have that i've
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just gotten as of
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as of today but i'm a member okay all
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that all that in time
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in time remind me if i've forgotten
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anything what are some of the other
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events that dvc does i brought up the
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moonlight madness
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and what else it's like magic which is
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really really moonlight
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magic that's awesome at the water parks
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i love that oh it's at the water parks
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yeah
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they had one at magic kingdom a couple
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years ago too right right they have some
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of the uh the parks sometimes at the
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water parks i went to one with a friend
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of the water park so that's a nice
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little
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they're actually like dumping rubber
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ducks into the lazy river oh that sounds
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pretty cool it was
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awesome as i depart you can see tower
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over there in the distance
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studios that's where i'm heading back to
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my car
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an eventful exciting day one for the
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books
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not too far of a commute up there
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is the the new accommodations the
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i would say nine times out of ten i
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won't even be staying
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at what has designated my home spot
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i'll probably say they're on occasion
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but there's so many so many places i
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want to so many dvc locations
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here at wdw i would like to stay out and
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not in the immediate future because the
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points are very high this time of year
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but as time goes on during the slow
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seasons
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it'll happen now i have that ability
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i've taken it out of the bubble wrap but
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i purchased this says welcome home and
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then on the other side says
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disney vacation club member that's going
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to do it for today i always enjoy
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walking down this tram route because
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there will there will come a time
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in the future well i don't know if it's
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the near future but the not so distant
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future where i will not be able to
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peruse and walk down
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the tram route because the tram will be
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back
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running again oh this is a good day
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i am happy the vlog
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yeah it's just something i always wanted
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to do and i did it
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a new era the vlog is over