Disney World Gears Up For ReOpening After Hurricane - Monorail Testing & Modified Steakhouse 71 Food
Staying at Contemporary Resort
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today's adventure begins with a little
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rain on my lens
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as a recording of us Thursday September
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29 2022 my night at the Contemporary
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weathering the hurricane
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is pretty much completed the storm has
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passed by and it is a little north of
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Central Florida and Orlando there are
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some outer bands welcome everyone Adam
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the woo here behind me
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got some rain coming down there it's
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still a lot of outer bands and a lot of
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rain Space Mountain over there in the
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distance you can kind of see
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I am just basically going with the flow
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today flow of water the flow of wind a
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lot of outer bands are still out there
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I'm gonna just see how the day
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progresses I'm inviting you to join me I
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need coffee
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shall you uh where the Contempo Cafe
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with Chef Mickey off in the distance I
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have acquired
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a coffee here
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I'm gonna go down here and relax on a
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couch and kind of contemplate the plan
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for the day if there is one right next
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to the ballrooms of Americus which is
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where Richard Nixon
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right inside there was where Richard
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Nixon's did the I am not a crook speech
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pretty interesting
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yeah the doors are open the cast members
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are in there yeah kind of congregating
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that's right
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pretty cool see I am not a crook room
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and what I think that is I think that
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are those are meals for the cast members
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who were talking to a cast member last
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night Disney put them up in the resort
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for two straight days and even though if
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they were off the clock they were still
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getting paid for 48 hours talking to the
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cast member last night so they were able
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to stay here in a kind of a safe sturdy
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environment so right now that is
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them being fed breakfast
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which I think is pretty awesome the
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Disney did that
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she said 70 hours
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oh yeah so not 40. not Bobby Brookie's
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here hey guys 70 hours she told us okay
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70 something hours she was on Stafford
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and she was pumped excited to get that
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birthday money going and just random
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thought I noticed the lighting in here
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it's kind of very unusual on my face it
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was like
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kind of an unusual Lighting in this
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little kind of corridor up on the second
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to top floor you can see there's been a
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little bit of damage here from some of
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the the top of over here I get the
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installation a rooftop also some
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flooding up here but we walked up to
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kind of get a bird's eye perspective of
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our Overlook over here you got Tron got
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Space Mountain you got the castle Big
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Thunder splash
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Park's not open today either it was
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closed yesterday and today no word if it
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will be open tomorrow as recording of a
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Thursday I'm not sure if it's going to
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be open on Friday yet or not and no
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monorails will be running today either
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in fact I think the monos are probably
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still parked inside I'll go into the
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lobby and kind of show that as well but
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it'd be nice to have a at some point
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have the monorails back once the Park's
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reopen
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I realized I did not bring a jacket or a
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windbreaker or a poncho with me so I
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think I'm going to purchase one of those
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things here either at Fantasia or at bvg
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gifts and I think we're gonna take a
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little walk I don't really feel like
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driving around because there is some
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flooding out there we're gonna see if we
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can walk
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over to
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Polynesian and the Grand Floridian and
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possibly in front of MK I'm not sure if
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that walking path is available but I
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need to purchase something as the
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weather has cooled down dramatically
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outside and it's you know obviously
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still windy all right accomplished I
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went ahead and purchased this
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got my AP discount as well I think it
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was like 46 or something with the AP
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discount kind of a little windbreaker
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whoop I just dropped it on the ground
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so yeah good to go this should just it's
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not a hoodie so there I thought maybe
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there was a hoodie in the zipper though
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but I think it's just more for kind of
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decoration but yeah this will help a
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little bit with uh
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with the slight rain I also brought my
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umbrella with me
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I stand corrected there is a hoodie on
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the top of this also came out here the
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parking lot to check on my car a lot of
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debris tree limbs and things my car is
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good
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gonna take a little bit of a walk see
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what I can see don't really want to be
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on the roads so just kind of hoof it
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around see what can be found and saw
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some movement on the monorail Beam by
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the you know construction vehicle that
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was on there and I also see one of the
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buses over here has cranked up and is on
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so they might start shifting some of the
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buses around later today too that's a
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good sign and I'm sure this will not be
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the only thing that was blown down last
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night this light pole here in the
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parking lot probably the first of many
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this is kind of nice that there is a
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sidewalk here too
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and I've driven Under the Water Bridge
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I've taken a boat Across the Water
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Bridge never my entire life have I been
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able to walk Under the Water Bridge it's
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happening
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I can't tell if this tree fell over
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because of the wind or if it was cut
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down
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that looks like it was cut down
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so where would the pilot be on that are
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they inside there like a like a
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submarine
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you got to be inside there
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so basically they're just going all
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around the monorail track
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probably checking to see if any of it's
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damaged and they're going to be poppy
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pulling back in and parking back inside
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the contemporary
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got the birds out over there now this is
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not a lake
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this is flooding here
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and then over there is another kind of
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fallen tree as well some cones and there
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he is not the back side of water but the
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back side of heavy metal Mickey down
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there
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never seen him from this perspective
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before right here on this bridge looking
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down at heavy metal Mickey
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and made it over to the poly Disney's
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Polynesian Village Resort
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hello okay that was kind of interesting
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so basically what happened is we walked
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all the way over
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and they said that unless we were a
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guest of that particular Resort they
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said during this time there is no resort
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hopping as we continue to stroll we were
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kind of discussing I think the fact that
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we were walking was almost a little more
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confusing if we were just drove my car
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out and said oh we're here to just grab
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something something to eat
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I think it probably would have been
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better if I would have just drove over I
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thought the roads were going to be
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flooded that's why I didn't want to get
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in the car but looking at them now the
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streets are pretty drivable yeah you
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know it was only like it's not like a
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mile walk I just can't believe that they
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don't have all of this more connected a
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parked Loop people would love to be able
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to walk
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it's a whole family of ducks over there
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kind of waiting in the
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standing water
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luckily it's not raining too hard it's
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actually kind of a nice walk it's not
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hot out
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get to see some wildlife
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stretching the legs what's up buddy hey
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how you doing oh wait a second
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our bus is running
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yes
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all right walking back up these steps
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gonna go back inside I've kind of worked
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up a little bit of an appetite yeah
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inside the contemporary
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have a bite to eat
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it feels really nice out
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cool crisp and slightly rainy I gotta go
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down to Steakhouse 71 now which is doing
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mobile orders and we kind of walked by
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here yesterday said if you place a
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mobile order you can eat inside there
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but the restaurant itself it's not
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technically open but you can't eat in
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there if you get them over okay went
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ahead and place our our order over at
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the bar over there and they said that
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after you get the order to go even
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though the restaurant is not open you
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can utilize the seating area at the
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restaurant so we have chosen not to sit
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at a table but we are going full Booth
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over here I went with the waffle fries
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here I went with the burger we went with
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a side of onion rings
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what is that right there that mac and
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cheese oh we got the they had like it
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was like a spicy mac and cheese loaded
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loaded mac and cheese and you also went
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with yeah the burger the burger and we
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even there's only two of us they gave us
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four sets of utensils probably because
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we ordered an appetizer five sets of
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utensils as well and one thing that's
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really cool about this is the Retro Vibe
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some of the Retro photos that are in
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here I'll show something four oh I don't
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need to catch up maybe some mustard if
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they got it but right over here so you
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got a cat you got a picture of the
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castle here and then over here in this
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corner check out Fantasyland kind of
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tucked away over here in the corner as
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well as well as some of the seven dwarfs
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over here that's Snow White and the
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Seven Dwarfs and oh the teacup with
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Goofy as well now here's a photo of the
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sky buckets back when they would go
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across Magic Kingdom over in front of
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small world was where a pylon was so you
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went from Fantasyland by small world
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kind of way Rapunzel's tower is near
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Haunted Mansion and it would go over
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near the restrooms at Tomorrowland by
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Space Mountain between Space Mountain
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and Carousel AT progress is where it
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would end it's been long gone though now
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in order to eat over here this is for
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today only most likely the restaurant
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will probably be open tomorrow with
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table service but in order to eat over
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here to get it yet to get it in the
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to-go boxes so luckily we asked and they
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said just getting into go boxes and you
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can walk over here also as of right this
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moment they are doing a phased reopening
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starting tomorrow is it of the parks
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yeah so they're gonna I don't know what
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that means probably won't be a rope drop
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situation but
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they said that later on today they're
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going to put out the announcement okay
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the different times that all the parks
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are reopening tomorrow so it looks like
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they're probably trying to figure it out
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right now yeah all right that's exciting
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hopefully I can get a reservation or
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maybe not I don't know
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see what happens take a bite of this
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loaded mac and cheese
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oh yeah
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it's definitely loaded because there's a
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lot of stuff in it I think there might
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be some bacon and ham in there some
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chives
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oh it's loaded it's just a loaded full
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of stuff
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oh in the water ornament Coca-Cola
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it went down the wrong pipe
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also Brookie was noticing my hat
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matches my jacket and that was
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unintentional perfect just worked out
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coordinating
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and one of my favorite things about
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Steakhouse 71 is this little Corridor
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the entrance in and the entrance out
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that has a lot of the original Walt
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Disney World History you know with the
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castle and the sky buckets and the
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Contemporary and Walt and Roy and just
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everything kind of leading up to the
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opening and then a little bit after
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opening opening day this was the
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steakhouse 71 referring to 1971 which is
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when Walt Disney World first opened to
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the public and the day has kind of
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gotten away from a sun has set a little
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bit ago it's now 7 45 P.M
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I was kind of half tempted to get in my
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car drive around and just survey what
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the scenario was around central Florida
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Osceola and Orange County today and also
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go by my place in celebration just to
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make sure everything is okay but I
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decided to do that tomorrow instead
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just because according to what I was
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reading is frowned upon to be
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kind of in a vehicle going out and about
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so continue to what some of the
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newscasters say hunker down
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so I continue to do that and did not
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leave
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the property here even though I kind of
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just strolled around
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so I'm going to finish off the night
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just kind of walking around the property
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here at the Contemporary Bay Lake Tower
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and finish off the day with a nice
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little stroll
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the rain has subsided and the wind has
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stopped and I could even see some cast
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members readying the pool and areas over
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there now last night we had a coffee and
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a cocoa mix a mocha yeah and I've kind
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of been craving getting another so I
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think we're going to go back up to the
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Contempo Cafe and get a mocha and head
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in that says please use other doors and
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I had to change my shoes because my
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shoes got so wet from walking earlier
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shooting socks I put the other pair on
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all right it's Moka Thai all right so
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the hack is you get the Nestle rich
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chocolate you put in the bottom of this
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little thing here and then you use the
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50th Anniversary joffreys right over
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here and then you put that in there good
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you taught me this hack last night I'm
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not going to get this but check out this
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cupcake here that has the little
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monorail on the side of it that would go
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really good with my little mocha coffee
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but yeah I think I'm gonna I'm gonna
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stay away from that and this is kind of
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where we were sitting last night they
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have the little shop vac Wet Vac over
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here and it was the rain was pouring in
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and they have removed all the little
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coverings here to kind of sop up the
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water so it looks as if it is dried up
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they have used the Machinery to get rid
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of the water because last night it was
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just pouring down the other side of this
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the smoke was kind of leaking over here
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but it looks like it's all all dried up
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now the storm has passed it is now
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officially offshore
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and out in the ocean once again going
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through Florida
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and I love on the Styrofoam cup here
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there is a Monterey there's also Mickey
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ears but there's a monorail there and
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then directly above is a monorail right
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up there
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as well which means oh I also
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I don't think I mentioned this yet but
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they just announced not too long ago
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like an hour ago if they're going to
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reopen the parks tomorrow it was it was
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a rumor but now it's official the park
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the parks all four parks are going to be
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opening tomorrow so this monorail could
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be moving
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maybe or maybe not maybe that's how
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people walk oh look at this the lights
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on the monorail have just turned on
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right here the monorail lights are on
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I'm curious to see are they gonna take
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this back to where the Monorail station
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is over this direction back behind it's
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where the monorail doors close are they
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going to take it back over to the little
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Corral that's over there
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very curious to see if it's going to
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head that way or not
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the Corral is act back behind Magic
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Kingdom where they usually will store
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them but two of them have been stored
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inside the Contemporary for a while but
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it appears as if it's going back to the
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crowd maybe they're just going to test
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it by going around the monorail platform
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itself it could just be that they're
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just testing it out and kind of getting
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it warmed up for in the morning spending
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a lot of time in this place for the last
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two days you know a lot more the most
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time I've ever spent in here in the last
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48 hours
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not seeing the monorails kind of
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stationed here it's kind of kind of
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different because they've just gotten so
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used to them just being parked here
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oh yeah pulling into the station
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now there is a lot of reflection on this
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window
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that just confirms it was not just one
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Loop the blue monorail is continuing
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around for a second Loop
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the peach one is now pulling into the
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station
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as well for its first completed Loop
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stepping outside now the bus stop over
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here and the current time at the bus
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stop according to the site you see here
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it's 9 48 p.m and it's interesting to
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kind of very rarely where you see where
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every single park it says closed here on
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the thing oh nice don't cross the
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streams don't cross the streams I really
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like for the 50th Anniversary how they
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have the Neons underneath them so you
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got the the peach there you got the blue
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there very rarely do you see a crossing
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of the monorails and I am here for it
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okay we walked over here to this corner
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and check it out pulling out of the
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station around back the train yard if
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you will
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I don't know the technical name for it
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where they store the monorails around
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the back
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of space
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they're bringing out the other monorails
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preparing for the next morning the park
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opens at 10 A.M in the morning to get
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for gas Magic Kingdom does all four
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Parks will be open what would you call
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that back there the train train yard
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train yard train depot yeah
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I think it has another word but
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nonetheless it is a rare sight to see
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the monorail pulling around the back of
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Space Mountain
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because you can see it's going to match
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up over here so it's going to meet the
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switch track
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rarely will you see one on this
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but it's now being loaded on it's
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probably going to park over at either
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TTC or the Magic Kingdom train station
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up there at Monorail station that's
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pretty awesome when they put them away
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at night it goes this way it goes in
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reverse and then goes and gets put away
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time that pretty good to see that also
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space Mountain's not lit up which is
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kind of unusual now the word I'm looking
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for is Roundhouse or am I thinking of
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the train station at Disneyland It's
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called The Roundhouse
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yeah I don't know there's like train
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world has its own very specific
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vocabulary and if you get anything wrong
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train guys are like actually Napoleon
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Dynamite the guy that you ever seen
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Napoleon Dynamite yeah yeah the guy
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wearing the American flag pants yeah
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when he's like would you like to get a
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double roundhouse kick at a place where
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these bad boys that's why I think a
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roundhouse hey Adam I could throw this
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football over that Space Mountain
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all right update since the last time I
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was over here it said close all across
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but now they've added Transportation
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will restart in the morning so it is
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confirmed 20 minutes after oh where's it
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going now it is a little later in the
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evening let's see right now time wise is
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10 18. but the last two days they have
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had the little what they call a hacky
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sack over here another called cornhole
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they had all the cornhole stations over
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here they had movies being played in
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here they had dance party parties with
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the characters all the characters were
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in here and it was really a whole
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beehive of activity the last two days
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so it's kind of interesting you know
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being here for 48 hours where you don't
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really see all this happening in here so
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I guess that's kind of it the hurricane
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party has come to an end ready for
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normal operation starting tomorrow I
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always remember the cornhole here yeah
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yeah we'll always have cornhole speaking
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of remember we walked here so much that
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I can tell you this door PG or a Jeep PG
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movies right
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this door was the big party room and the
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last door was the more adult movie pj-13
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PG-13 yeah so G the Touchstone era yeah
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I'm remembered what was each of these
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doors
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this will definitely be a time that I
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remember every time I'm back in the
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Contemporary I will always think of
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these two days
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that I was in here
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I will not look at the Contemporary the
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same ever again the gates have been
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pulled down bvg Fantasia and Fantasia
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Market will be closing at 10 pm it's a
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little after 10 and going back to the
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room Fantasia's over here close got a
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little snackage and calling this one a
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day or a night
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two days to remember
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very interesting two dice do you know
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what day of the week it is right now I
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don't even know what is it I think it's
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Thursday it's Thursday you're right
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Thursday but forever I felt like it was
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Friday
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and that's gonna do it
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for today
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from the Contemporary it is kind of
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interesting that Space Mountain is not
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illuminated and the castle was
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illuminated earlier but now the Castle's
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been turned off
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astral orbiters lit up another monorail
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is pulling over there you see the bus
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that's it for you but that's gonna do it
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I have my magic band on I forgot I found
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my signal magic fan off the park wasn't
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even open today
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but it will be tomorrow
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maybe I could wear this tomorrow if I
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get in there
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see what happens
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I haven't even booked a reservation yet
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I should probably get on that maybe I
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should try to get a reservation
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there was someone walking through the
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little Corridor over there and you could
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see their Shadow going by that was
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pretty neat now there's no one going by
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to show that example remember last night
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we were running through there because
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the hurricane was approaching tropical
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storm winds blowing through that okay
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cast member's about to walk through
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Gusty honestly it's still a little gonna
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stay out here
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I'll see you in the next video the Vlog
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I didn't work out as well I thought
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there goes the shadow
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the Vlog
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is over
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can you even hear me with this wind
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it's over
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bonus footage
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we got Splash Mountain over there and
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I'm just kind of wondering what this
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monorail is doing on the beam
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it's just moving along very slowly back
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this direction