[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, and welcome to very amusing.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're one stop shop for the story secrets and shenanigans of a popcorn field theme park journalist.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Curley Waisalyn.
[SPEAKER_01]: As you can tell, as you can probably tell, this is not the dolly wood episode I promised you.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you follow me on social media, you already sort of kind of know what happened.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was fully booked to go to Hollywood.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was spent four nights there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had a cabin.
[SPEAKER_01]: We had plans.
[SPEAKER_01]: We had a schedule.
[SPEAKER_01]: We had really difficult to get dinner reservations.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Delta Airlines just simply would not have guessed past the threshold.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was wild.
[SPEAKER_01]: I will tell you about it later in this episode.
[SPEAKER_01]: But what's so funny is that I call this casually a call at our chaotic girls trip Our annual girls trip and the chaos is following me home as though my life has been lived through the haunted mansion The chaos just keeps coming because today I was like, okay, I have all day.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna record
[SPEAKER_01]: episode of the morning only and we have a huge plumbing issue and so now a plumber is coming back like stick a camera through the shower head.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got all like dressed up this morning.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like oh I'm gonna remember my podcast.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna feel like an adult lady.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pearl hadn't accident on my brand new jeans and now I'm just wearing slop.
[SPEAKER_01]: Slop is my-
[SPEAKER_01]: Hanson T-shirt, forever as a child that was down to my knees and is now an actual fitted T-shirt, which by the way, I almost saw them in Epcot and I didn't, and we will get into it in this episode.
[SPEAKER_01]: But what I want you to know before I tell you about my non-dollywood week and not-dollywood, is that if you...
[SPEAKER_01]: Feel like you want, you know, maybe you live with a partner, maybe you live with your family, maybe you're like, I really need to carve out some time to get some time for myself.
[SPEAKER_01]: I recommend him gathering a few friends together, calling it an annual trip after the first one, and then
[SPEAKER_01]: You're basically socially green lit to keep going and doing dumb things every year.
[SPEAKER_01]: My friends and I went to Galveston, Texas, and went to Denver, Colorado last year.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are listening to the podcast regularly.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know that's when we went to Casa Bonita.
[SPEAKER_01]: We went to the rainforest cafe with the river ride inside.
[SPEAKER_01]: And by basically being like, yeah, it's our annual trip.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're now baked in to do something silly stupid every year.
[SPEAKER_01]: And my family can't feel like no we need your help doing all of the many things in the house.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh-uh, I was the way two weeks ago, but I'm sorry it was our annual trip.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that is a hack that I highly recommend in your life.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I don't want to make it sound like I'm not enough to go out to town, I go out to town every two weeks.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just saying if you want like a baked-in reason to be like, got to get the gang together, it works perfectly.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm talking about this here because I don't think my husband listens to the podcast That'd be more.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he used to and now his drive Which is when he listens to stuff is entirely conference calls because he's an executive I get it he's like a grown adult and I'm literally wearing my childhood hands and t-shirt and some QD little socks from that company sock candy from my friend Jamie gave me I got little dogies on them They're adorable anyway.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't identify as adult on purpose, but he doesn't really listen to it So I'll have to get away with it, but truly like
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, how to call the chaotic trip or I'm sorry Don't call the chaotic trip because you know what happens when we call the chaotic.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're gonna have men on the roof and sewage coming through your pipes.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a whole mess calling an annual trip and then you are good to go
[SPEAKER_01]: I shouldn't have called to the chaotic trip because we didn't even get to our destination, that's okay, I don't think it was, and I'm about to tell you everything, because let me tell you, this was not a normal week in Disney World, this was unlike anything I've ever experienced, and I can't wait to tell you all about it, so stick around, stay tuned for some deals, deals, deals from our deals, deals captain, Becky Minkin, and I'll see you on the other side!
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, bye!
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, happy 20th anniversary too, MEI Mouseman traveled 20 years!
[SPEAKER_01]: They've been slaying the game!
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, incredible, okay, I'll see you on the other side, bye!
[UNKNOWN]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hello and welcome back to our what would have been a dolly wood episode now you need to know before we get into the chaos of it all The dolly wood has been on my bucket list for probably 15 years even before I really did this as a job I've always wanted to go there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I heard the dolly partens tour buses there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I heard dolly parten had a whole
[SPEAKER_01]: Towns surrounding her themed park of all these other attractions, it was just so up my alley as a Wisconsin-Dell's kid, as someone who loves state fairs and silly sightseeing.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was just this place I had always wanted to go, but never really got to.
[SPEAKER_01]: Every time I'd go to Nashville, I'd be like, oh wait, oh dolly went to Tennessee and I'd look it up on the map and be like, oh yeah, not a casual day trip.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can't really drive five-ish hours there and back, not gonna work.
[SPEAKER_01]: And every time I'm like, oh, I'm going to have to make a dedicated trip.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so close, but I'm just going to have to find a time to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Finally, this year was the time we were going to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was going with three of my friends, Kelsey, Heather, and AJ.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kelsey is no very online, but has worked in the Disney Spectrum of Companies.
[SPEAKER_01]: I will say.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to blow up her like semi-private spot.
[SPEAKER_01]: Heather, as many of you know, is my friend who lives, I was going to say, lives at Disneyland, that's not true.
[SPEAKER_01]: She does not live in Walt's apartment.
[SPEAKER_01]: She lives in the area.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know her from covering media events because she runs dining in Disney, like the OG great Disneyland food account.
[SPEAKER_01]: And AJ, the AJ of Disney Food Blog, who has been on our podcast, yeah, AJ and I Loki go on wacky vacations together, and this one was going to be pretty wacky.
[SPEAKER_01]: We had the best itinerary guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: We like the day I announced a music producer was also the day I booked the cabin, and I was more stressed about getting the cabin that we wanted, than announcing the trip.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like we have put so much effort
[SPEAKER_01]: had put so much effort.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, into finding the time for this trip, scheduling it like we found this pocket of time when everyone was free.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Heather would just come back from Japan.
[SPEAKER_01]: My husband had a work conference who was like, just this one week that we can make it happen and we locked in and we got it done.
[SPEAKER_01]: We were gonna do two days at the park.
[SPEAKER_01]: we were going to do a dinner show.
[SPEAKER_01]: We were going to have a meal at this restaurant.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really, really wanted to go to that I watched many TikToks about dining in that area in pigeon forage, and I think it has another name, like C.C.
[SPEAKER_01]: Vervil, and that area, you basically, the smoking mountains in your Hollywood.
[SPEAKER_01]: had all these plans.
[SPEAKER_01]: This restaurant's wanted to go to.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had a whole Google Doc with every single tourist attraction that we were going to do one of the days.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to do the thing called Goats on the roof.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll never know what that is until next year.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope we had coffee shops.
[SPEAKER_01]: We were going to hit donut shops.
[SPEAKER_01]: Taffy shops.
[SPEAKER_01]: Candy shops.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like we had a whole plan and it was architected perfectly.
[SPEAKER_01]: But then Delta Airlines
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, people online were kind of like, wait, what exactly happened here where you couldn't get to dollywood?
[SPEAKER_01]: We could have gotten to dollywood, but it would have taken almost two days to get there and we didn't really want to go all the way to dollywood to lose a day of theme park to not be able to do everything we wanted to do because just simply planning this and finding the time to go for long enough was so complicated.
[SPEAKER_01]: We really wanted three full days there, and when that immediately became impossible, we were kind of like this just isn't gonna work.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now AJ, our AJ flew out of a different airport, which is why things got a little wonky.
[SPEAKER_01]: I showed up to meet Heather and Kelsey at LAX at 530 in the morning.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah, anybody who's ever told you that the first flight out of the day will definitely get you to your destination has not flown Delta Airlines during a government shutdown.
[SPEAKER_01]: We arrived.
[SPEAKER_01]: The plane was there.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was at the gate for our 715 AM flight.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that plane did not leave until closer to 4pm that day.
[SPEAKER_01]: We were getting into Delta's hub so late that even our 1015pm flight to Knoxville, which was an hour from our cabin, even that flight, there was no way for us to catch.
[SPEAKER_01]: So our five of delays, I'm like, guys!
[SPEAKER_01]: Spirits up, you know, if we can't make it to Dollywood, we can always just go to Orlando.
[SPEAKER_01]: They had a couple flights on other airlines, there was even an afternoon delta flight that the gate was across from where I was eating my sad, covable in the airport.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, guys, we can just hop on the plane, we just go to Orlando.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now Heather and I both have annual passes for Disney World AJ, obviously a Disney World vet, and Kelsey goes all the time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, all three of us were actually there recently, so it wasn't out of the question that we
[SPEAKER_01]: And we're like ha-ha funny, but like we're going to dollywood.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then dollywood became impossible.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was in the customer service line with them.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're texting AJ, like, okay, we're going to try to see what we can do to maybe hop on this other flight.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we heard the announcement and the flight got pushed so late that while I was texting AJ, I was like, uh, I don't think we're coming.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we floated like I basically said like the bad news is we can't get to dolly when the good news is do you want to go to Orlando and it worked out where AJ was like I'm just gonna go blast through dolly when do this stuff I was gonna do and then we're all gonna try to go again next year
[SPEAKER_01]: I in line for customer service grabbed some of the last three seats on the plane.
[SPEAKER_01]: There were only like two middle seats and then three aisle windows and I was like, I'm getting up and I just bought them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nope, just bought them.
[SPEAKER_01]: They ended up being like cheaper than our dollywood flight, which was great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, we have like a full mobile comms unit at this airport.
[SPEAKER_01]: Heather was on text.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kelsey was researching flight changes, um, get like gathering details to send a delta.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was booking a rental car, which by the way was a third of the price of the rental car.
[SPEAKER_01]: We were going to book from Atlanta to Dollywood, which is another reason where we were like, and this, like, the stars are not aligning for us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even though the plane was at the gate, uh,
[SPEAKER_01]: but we're sitting there and like the spontaneity of it all on a self-reclamed chaotic girl strip just really carry this through we were just like oh my god we're doing this we all carried on suitcases had there was going to check and didn't and that's the only reason this was possible but we were like we have stuff we have annual passes we can get Kelsey to take it like the parks aren't that busy it's during the week
[SPEAKER_01]: Heather texted a friend who generously offered us their home.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Heather was like, I got lodging and I was like, I got a car.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got tickets and it's like, okay, guess, I guess this is happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we ended up going and AJ did not come with, but don't worry.
[SPEAKER_01]: I did have a publicist that I work with reach out and be like,
[SPEAKER_01]: hey so was your friend okay and it's like oh my god yes yes yes yes yes yes everything was fine it was very much like we were like are you sure it's okay if we go to Orlando and AJ was like are you sure it's okay if I just stay in Dollywood and just kind of do the Dollywood thing before our group trip and it worked out fine everyone's happy like no one's upset about it I probably made it sound like we strand in AJ and Dollywood would take
[SPEAKER_01]: technically we did, but it was not without her approval at all.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we ended up just pivoting at the airport and decided to go to Disney World.
[SPEAKER_01]: And while we didn't pack for Disney World by any means, we did pack for a theme park.
[SPEAKER_01]: So all of us did have a pair of walkable shoes.
[SPEAKER_01]: We all did have a few different layers.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Kelsey and I had to buy clothes while we were there because
[SPEAKER_01]: I like longer sleeves shirts and kind of like more nighttime mountain clothes, but again, once we booked the Orlando trip, everything just kind of worked out in this very strange,
[SPEAKER_01]: because I showed up with a bag of healed boots, a suede jacket, long sleeve shirts, and Disney World's temperature was as heavenly as I have ever experienced it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't one of those cold snaps, as they call it, where it was too cold.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no, no, it was perfect.
[SPEAKER_01]: I, I don't want to say this out loud because it truly feels like a dream.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't sweat the entire time I was there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't sweat the entire time I was there, and keep in mind, I was in Orlando two weeks ago.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sweating through my clothes, straight up melting, is it rain throughout the day?
[SPEAKER_01]: No rain.
[SPEAKER_01]: No heat.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just perfect, like, 70 degrees, the entire time, I wore a long sleeve shirt and caught off.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wore a swayed jacket on a colder night.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was...
[SPEAKER_01]: truly meant to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: And these things just kept happening on this unplanned trip where, again, my full-time job is to help people plan a trip to Disney World.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was doing the opposite of what I ever tell people to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: And granted, we go a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: All three of us had been within the past like six to eight weeks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Heather truly just came from Tokyo Disney.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, we are seasoned Disney parks people.
[SPEAKER_01]: And still like,
[SPEAKER_01]: The freedom, we have the ability to go and not do all the, you know, the e-ticket rides not do all the main things not do all the big sight seeing like we were able to just go and chill and hang and treat it like a mall and that was kind of more of a spa relaxing vacation than I had ever anticipated.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, do we cram a lot into?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that we did, did your girl wake up really early on the last day to get a little taste?
[SPEAKER_01]: Just to get a little taste?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I absolutely did.
[SPEAKER_01]: But showing up to Disney World with no plans, just being an open book really opens yourself up to so many opportunities that we did not anticipate what happened.
[SPEAKER_01]: And those I cannot wait to tell you about today.
[SPEAKER_01]: Truly, things were so good, and the vibe was so nice, that I just kept saying, if I was asleep and dreaming of a tripped Disney world, it would be this trip.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was just like, oh, a friend's gonna come to dinner.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we're gonna run into so-and-so, it just all worked out, really, and I cannot wait to tell you about how our chaotic girl's tripped a dolly word turned into a really wholesome trip to the most magical place on Earth.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's this weird sort of cognitive dissidence that happens when you think you are going one place and you immediately travel to another.
[SPEAKER_01]: The other place being the greatest place that you like to visit in the entire world.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a Disney World girl, I love going to Disney World and it's kind of silly that all of us Disney World heads didn't originally plan a trip there.
[SPEAKER_01]: together.
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess because usually for me while I adore going to Disney World, it's my job.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is my work and when I'm there, I do kind of feel a little pressure to like capture videos of everything I'm eating, making sure I'm taking photos because I will need those in the future.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll need, you know, like assets to make videos if I ever have to.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like there is a bit of work brain happening even on a casual trip.
[SPEAKER_01]: But because this wasn't planned, I wasn't intentional, I was just like, okay, I was able to really vacation at Disney World in this kind of bonus brain space that I never usually am.
[SPEAKER_01]: And to really emphasize that point, I was editing the, so this month, as you know, every month, we recorded a new MEI mouse fan travel interstitial, like a little intro, like a little deals deals deals, like a little thing that's beginning a little thing at the end with Becky who runs the travel agency about all the discounts.
[SPEAKER_01]: I recorded that, so we left for ArcTrip.
[SPEAKER_01]: on Tuesday.
[SPEAKER_01]: We left last Tuesday.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you're listening to this one, it comes out.
[SPEAKER_01]: I recorded all those ads with Becky Monday evening.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I was recording those in my brain being like, great, when we wrap this up, I'll edit it on the plane tomorrow to Tennessee and then we'll be done done totally fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was now in root to Disney World editing.
[SPEAKER_01]: And like a little interstitial about Disney World being like the brain space I was in 24 hours ago was so far from where I am right now like I never thought yesterday I said these words being like Disney World just thinking like oh man, I'm not going to be there until I'm using a polusa.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope I end up there someday now on the way to Orlando
[SPEAKER_01]: We got into Orlando so late.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think we landed maybe 1230.
[SPEAKER_01]: We rented a car, which in the end we didn't totally need, but we really wanted the freedom and it paid off when we went on a little excursion, which I will tell you about shortly, but we got once we got the car, we got our stuff, we checked out we got to the house we were staying at about two in the morning.
[SPEAKER_01]: which is quite late when, you know, you've been at the airports in five, 30 in the morning.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was one of the longest travel days of my life, but we landed utterly bewildered as the fact that we were there.
[SPEAKER_01]: waking up going to see dolly partens everything in a place you've never been and instead looking down and your little comrad compression socks and worn through plastic Birkin stocks are clump clumping on the MCO carpet was too much for my brain to handle.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was like
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd accidentally somehow wield this to happen by the day before just dreaming and wishing of Disney World and all of a sudden we were there and not only were we there we were there with no itinerary no itinerary and my brain was a little on overload I was trying to be chill around my friends was trying to be calm but I immediately was like we should schedule that we should do that we should book that we should do that and I did book two things on the way
[SPEAKER_01]: the first being a departure day breakfast at the Four Seasons Orlando.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, if you haven't been to that breakfast at the Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World Resort, that is the full name and my journalism brain won't let me forget it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is a really, really nice meal.
[SPEAKER_01]: They have it on Thursdays, Saturdays, and then select.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tuesdays, I think that's maybe only like holiday seasons and peak dates.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can definitely check with them if you want to book that, but it's in their restaurant revelo and it's just great and it's really nice to just be in like a, I don't know like a little like a little luxury bubble when you're there while you're basically paying a very similar price for a meal.
[SPEAKER_01]: You'd be getting any Disney hotel anyway.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you weren't don't park admission, you need something to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: You want to see a character.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think this one really delivers and we'll get into that in a minute because the other thing I have to tell you,
[SPEAKER_01]: You guys don't even know where this episode is going at.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's so much wacky stuff about to go down.
[SPEAKER_01]: The other restaurant I booked when I was like, all right, like, where I guess we're gonna have dinner with them.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna do this, and we're gonna do this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess this night we'll do this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I booked a dinner at Cake Big Shop.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had actually exchanged words, spinning in my ears, just going, you really got to find your own cake, you really should try it, you really should go to the restaurant, and I was like, you know what, I have no excuse not to this trip, we have no plans.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I booked it, and I'm going to tell you, I like really, I'm going to have to, I'm going to have to, I'm going to have to eat so much crow for this, oh my god.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't even want to say it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't even want to say it because if you listen to podcasts You know how I feel about cake big shop.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the kinks are expensive I think it's going to force prices to raise around Disney world because people are okay with it And I've eaten cake there and I simply didn't love it But you know what I have the time in my life.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had an unbelievable time at the restaurant So I really think I think the cake so I always viewed cake big shop I know I know I can't believe I'm praising cake big shop on here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ashley knew it
[SPEAKER_01]: I, okay, so the way I, okay, I'm getting, I'm trying that to talk in circles, okay, okay, so I view cake big shop as like a to-go shop with a sit-down restaurant.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was incorrect.
[SPEAKER_01]: Cake big shop is a
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I can't believe I'm seeing these words glorious sit-down restaurant that also Let's you partake in the cakes to bring home with you would like this is not a to go place first And we have really at least I have really been viewing it as that that the two are just kind of separate No, if you are going to partake in cake bake you need to go to the restaurant
[SPEAKER_01]: And I had really been reluctant.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, oh my god, this is going to be so expensive.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is going to be so annoying.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not only was the pricing, yeah, exactly on par with Disney pricing, like possibly even less.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got to do the math, but like, well, the experience of being there, I can't believe I'm saying this, was exceptional.
[SPEAKER_01]: We shut down the restaurant.
[SPEAKER_01]: We ate dinner for three and a half hours.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just gabbing and laughing with friends.
[SPEAKER_01]: Having a ball, the waiter came over and joined in.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, we were having the time of our lives.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I thought the glitter of it all would be like, oh, the glitter of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, it was fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was whimsical.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was like the way you want to feel when if you go to Bibby Babby boutique and they like dump that glitter on your head and you're like, wow, it's like, I don't find that process magical.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here I found it kind of magical, we're all cheers and surely temples that are all just swirling with beautiful glitter We're eating food that honestly didn't expect it to be that good didn't expect it to be the second coming of poem freed from cafe or leans in Disneyland I was told by my new friend Christo who I met on this trip.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got to get into it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god I've so much to say but I was told like oh those truffle fries are banging you got to get them we got the trouble fries for the table We devoured them they were delicious and the chicken soup
[SPEAKER_01]: The chicken soup that everyone is talking about!
[SPEAKER_01]: It was excellent!
[SPEAKER_01]: I know, I've been embarrassing!
[SPEAKER_01]: I know!
[SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately for me, and I guess my ego is slapped.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was fantastic.
[SPEAKER_01]: But let me roll it back today one because I am getting ahead of myself.
[SPEAKER_01]: We arrive, we absolutely crash, and we wake up around 11 am Eastern.
[SPEAKER_01]: Rockham's in California, so that's pretty normal.
[SPEAKER_01]: But waking up in Disney World and being like, oh my gosh, it's lunchtime already is a feeling,
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think I've ever had there, also partially because we were in a house and weren't woken up by nature's alarm clock, aka other people's children running through the hallways.
[SPEAKER_01]: We decided to begin our day by flopping over to the four seasons because we, you know, wanted to treat ourselves to just feeling, ooh, as luxurious as possible.
[SPEAKER_01]: And another scenario we probably would have gone Monorail Resort, but we just wanted to feel calm and ease.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we had absolutely no plans.
[SPEAKER_01]: My two friends had not been, and I was like, let's just go and get a very chill outdoor waterfront lunch, which you can do there.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can just go there and dine.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we weren't fully ready to jump into the theme park of it all, while still kind of...
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm honestly being shell shocked by the shift of our trip.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just kept sitting there and lunch being like, what happened?
[SPEAKER_01]: How are we here?
[SPEAKER_01]: And I just needed to reset in kind of a vacation mentality.
[SPEAKER_01]: We made a PBNG, which is essentially a restaurant that is the sit-on restaurant that's poolside between the adult pool and their family friendly pool.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I gotta tell ya.
[SPEAKER_01]: Part of the reason I went is because I wanted a good meal after eating airport junk the entire day.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this place delivered.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was one of the best meals of our trip.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll be very real with you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Disney World has gotten exponentially more expensive.
[SPEAKER_01]: We all know that.
[SPEAKER_01]: But weirdly, the perk of Disney being more expensive and being priced the way it is now is that other expensively places don't seem as expensive.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we went here and an appetizer of three delicious pretzel sticks with dip was 14 bucks.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you go to like Grand Floridian Cafe, a soup is 13, almost the same price.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is an appetizer that was hardy that we split between three people.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got a salad with salmon, my body was desperate for a vegetable and a fish.
[SPEAKER_01]: But everyone loved what they got and on the side we got these onion rings, which may be the best onion rings I've ever had.
[SPEAKER_01]: We would love those, and they were delicious, and if you're going to go onto a launch in your on vacation, this is a perfect spot.
[SPEAKER_01]: I highly recommend keeping this in your mind when you're thinking about places to time when you are off campus, because it really felt like we got that jolt of luxury vacation without actually taking one.
[SPEAKER_01]: And after lunch, we just dilly dallyed with the best of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: They have these two stores at four seasons.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is not a four seasons ad, though, listen, they could give me $4 and I would spout off about how good it is real talk.
[SPEAKER_01]: There was once a four seasons Orlando, Resort, Disney World, and the whole thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: There was once an event like a media event at
[SPEAKER_01]: Like the Four Seasons in LA and I attended because obviously it's one of my favorite hotels in the entire world if not the whole world and Other media was there like some influencers and reporters who hadn't been and I fully like took charge in this meeting and Was like stood up and was like you all need to understand there is no hotel like this walking in is like a breath of fresh air of So relaxing compared to the parks like I just held court and how good it is and that's how I feel in my everyday life So anytime you can spend time just walking through there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ooh
[SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of like when you smell a ride smell like when you smell the contemporary or the monorail It's like, whoa, it gives me life kind of like that They have these two stores one is like a luxury boutique like if I was a little lady and I showed up and I guess in this situation I would write like didn't have anything for a trip and was like, oh, I don't have all the things that I wanted for Florida You could just like if you're a fancy fancy lady go there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you get a little scour you get a little
[SPEAKER_01]: that are like a misony bathing suit.
[SPEAKER_01]: You just charge it to the room.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't live like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I still feel like a knife to the gut anytime I buy a latte that costs more than $6, which is basically everywhere now.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we just went and we're like, we're just going to just kind of look juryate and touch everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: We weren't like running late to a reservation.
[SPEAKER_01]: We weren't trying to get anywhere.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're just like, let's just shop and look around and enjoy these objects like they are a beautiful luxury museum.
[SPEAKER_01]: the buyer at one of those stores.
[SPEAKER_01]: So there's like the adult store and then the more kid general hotel store.
[SPEAKER_01]: The buyer at the like fashion chic store is incredible at their job so much so that I told an employee to like please pass along the note that all of us were talking about how good your buyer is.
[SPEAKER_01]: That store is stocked with whimsical, strange, glorious desire things, that for someone like me who usually walks into store and hates everything, every corner was filled with a new surprise.
[SPEAKER_01]: They had on-year-hand mark bags, which are those fun, like, looks like a coaxero, like looks like a box of cereal, like these fun, fun bags.
[SPEAKER_01]: They had really stylish accessories.
[SPEAKER_01]: They also have stuff like all price points, and I personally didn't find anything to bring home that day in that shop.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I did try on the Coperny Hills.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you have seen these online, Disney and this brand Coperny did a collaboration that was a fashion show at Disneyland Paris.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was such a vibe.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was so great.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I've never seen any of these in store.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I've never seen the items in store.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they had the purse and they had key chains.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they had the heels.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the heels look like, you know, imagine like a high heel.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, ooh, like you're gonna get a heel.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then you got your toes and it's like round.
[SPEAKER_01]: Instead of that, it's like round with Mickey ears.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it looks like you're walking in little Mickey ears.
[SPEAKER_01]: And usually it'd be like, those are amazing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to spend the time to try them on.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, you know what, why not?
[SPEAKER_01]: And the person working the store was like, yeah, try them on.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I tried them on.
[SPEAKER_01]: They are impossibly.
[SPEAKER_01]: So walk in I was modeling.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was truly like I felt like Okay, this is kind of gross when you're saying the way I walked in them felt like a toddler with a dirty Diby just trying to like walk while they're right through they're very difficult to walk in But it was so nice to just I don't know just like look jury ain't and how the other
[SPEAKER_01]: After that we went to the other shop which is chock full of incredible kid stuff and just regular vacation Where's I bought my Marvis toothpaste, which you can listen to our souvenir episode You know whenever I'm overseas, I really like to buy different flavors of Marvis toothpaste
[SPEAKER_01]: Marvel's toothpaste is like $13 at this point, probably.
[SPEAKER_01]: So much more than a drugstore toothpaste, but it gives you luxury every night of your life.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's such a relatively low price point.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's why I love to use it also.
[SPEAKER_01]: Colgate, two minty for me, burns my whole mouth and very sensitive, and their stuff is so great.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they had travel bottles of the whitening one, which is hard to find.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I picked up that as my, you know, souvenir of the day.
[SPEAKER_01]: But this shop had so much stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: They had a,
[SPEAKER_01]: Steif, you know, like the really fancy we've talked about this years ago because there was Steif Shrek Years years years years years years ago, but there had like a Steif Bambi, which we guessed the price on and I think it ended up being like something around $2,600 It was huge.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was like you put this in the corner of a room like that stuff giraffe that a lot of people get they had these elegant luxury
[SPEAKER_01]: Princess gowns, the bell one had like the roses that you could take on and off for children So beautiful.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it was like $450.
[SPEAKER_01]: My mom's like pick it up.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll get it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like girly.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, you won't It is extremely expensive, but it was so nice to look and so nice to be there and to just spend time Just really calming ourselves in all of the glory that is a four seasons Orlando
[SPEAKER_01]: After that, we just kind of farted around back at the house and we decided for our nighttime excursion.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did we even go to Disney's Fort Wilderness?
[SPEAKER_01]: They're campgrounds because truly, why not?
[SPEAKER_01]: This was two-fold.
[SPEAKER_01]: One are luggage necessitated it.
[SPEAKER_01]: There was a little bit of a crisp breeze in the air and we had to wear all the things that we were gonna wear are looks for the dolly-part and stampede.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're just gonna be wasted and so we had to wear them somewhere if the weather was providing an opportunity.
[SPEAKER_01]: but really the secondary purpose was something that I've always, always wanted to do with Disney World and just had never ever found the time or had the reason or really had a night free to be able to do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's the thing that I've had in the back of my mind for so long and was finally going to pull off with the campfire sing along with Chip and Dale.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was a bucket list thing that I've never made time for, but I knew it was here nightly, and this was going to be the night I did it.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you arrive by Uber, by bus, whatever you get dropped at the front of Fort Wilderness, and then there is an internal bus that will drop you off at basically the hub of where everything is.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's where Hoopty do is, which we will be going to as part of Music Belusa.
[SPEAKER_01]: I cannot wait, people were a lot of like opt-in if they wanted to for a bonus coming night early and we'll go to hoop and I'm so excited.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's so many of us going, it is going to be Rockus Fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's where Hoopty do is, that is next to trails and which is essentially the go-to place for food while you are staying at Fort Wilderness.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a playground over there.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's where the boat launch is for if you take boat transportation in the Magic Kingdom.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's also a souvenir shop, but it's this really nice little hub filled with vacationers and campers and golf carts because so many people there are driving golf carts around.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because of the timing of our trip, which again was unintentional, all of the golf cards were decorated like Halloween, and some of the campsites and the RVs were decorated like Halloween.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was just so nice to peek a little bit just the world that exists here because there is so much going on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right over there also is try circle d ranch, which is where so many of Disney's horses live.
[SPEAKER_01]: It honestly might be all I am not sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not well versed on this because once I enter it, my brain goes completely and it just turns to jello and I'm like, there's horses.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now you can get real close to him.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't touch?
[SPEAKER_01]: you can't touch and there was even a moment there was a moment on our multiple trips here yeah we came back i need to see the horses again i had an urge i had an urge to see a horse we were like so close and there was a handler who's talking to us we were talking about the horse and it was like oh my god we could tell this horse like really wanted a little scratch you just really wanted a little scratch behind his ear and we were so close and it felt like the cast member might be like yeah it's
[SPEAKER_01]: but they didn't, because those are the rules, and you have to follow the rules, and there's passive aggressive signs everywhere that are like, we thank you for not touching the horses.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you're near these beautiful horses, and all you words was touch them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Regardless, you get to see them, we had to get their hair braided, they have pony rides, there's carriage rides with the horses, they're so much there.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is so cool, it's all walking distance, right in that little clump.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we experienced a lot of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: We had dinner at trails and we sat outside at like a picnic table.
[SPEAKER_01]: everything I wanted it to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: The person who checked us out at Trails End was immediate cast compliment.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even though within 30 seconds, you're like, oh, I'm a bee.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll be filing a cast compliment about you later today.
[SPEAKER_01]: You just know and truly, that happened throughout the entirety of the trip.
[SPEAKER_01]: We had such top tier cast experiences.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think because probably part of it was the energy we brought, which was like, we're just having to be here.
[SPEAKER_01]: We thought we'd be going home sobbing that our trip got canceled.
[SPEAKER_01]: We were just in such a good mood and we just got along and met so many cool, wonderful people.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Trails End is not a place I thought that I would be on Mike yelling at you about.
[SPEAKER_01]: The wallard dinner was really great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everything was remarkably fresh.
[SPEAKER_01]: The mashed potatoes had skins in them.
[SPEAKER_01]: The mac and cheese was actually not very good.
[SPEAKER_01]: But everything else was quite good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe even great.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there was one item we got on a whim that altered our brain chemistry.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now keep in mind, again, we were supposed to be in Dollywood.
[SPEAKER_01]: We were looking forward to cinnamon bread so much so that I made us commemorative chaotic girls trip hats that talk about cinnamon bread.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was on our head.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's how much we were excited to have the famous Dolly cinnamon bread.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there was something that I peaked at, oh behind the display.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, hey, what's that?
[SPEAKER_01]: And I hit Heather and was like, how'd I?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because it was such a Heather treat.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was called Bucker Rube Red.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you know, you know, if you know, you know, you know, you know, and if you don't, oh, my Lord, I'm about to enlighten you about one of the best ever Disney desserts I've ever had.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I did not have high expectations for Bucker Rube Red.
[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't the type of thing that came to our table when our buzzer went off.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was in like a heated, grab-in-go fridge thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know those things where it's like warm food and you just like grab a plastic box or something and you go?
[SPEAKER_01]: When I saw that it was there, I was like, oh, this is gonna sting, oh, it's not gonna be good.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just gonna be like, look, putting, no, no, my friend.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was, I guess you call it like cinnamon monkey bread.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was like a cinnamon roll and monkey bread had a beautiful child and we were allowed to enjoy it all to ourselves.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was like a family-style dessert.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't really get this for one person.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you can.
[SPEAKER_01]: But put it in a fridge after or find a friend because it's too much food for one.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it was gooey and it was sticky and it was sweet but even in this plastic box, the edges were crispy and crunchy.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we ate this and I had to pee so bad and this was the one thing we took with us because again it was a grab and go we were raining for the rest of our food to be brought to our table and we were eating this and I was walking away going in the bathroom and I ran back for one more bite it was that good
[SPEAKER_01]: I googled it recently and it was like, why is nobody talking about fucker rubred?
[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, of course, Disney Food Blog has a whole thing on it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it is excellent.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is like, I can't actually like, I don't, I don't.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to just be like, it's mushy, it's good, it's good, it's cinnamon, it's sugar.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is so unfathomably good.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was probably the best thing we had the entire trip.
[SPEAKER_01]: The entire trip.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you find yourself, you know,
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe a little you want a little treat after whoop do you do which would never happen because you're going to have so much strawberry shortcake go pop But if you ever wanted to have a little night a little night want to make a little night like we did even though like it's legal the like it feels like it's not We went we had this buckaroo brand.
[SPEAKER_01]: We had a great night and then we went to these sing along
[SPEAKER_01]: The structure of this Chippendale sing along, which actually, and I, if you can hear me in a typing with my long nails that are so long right now, Chippendale's campfire sing along, oh yeah, that's exactly what it's called, I don't know why, yeah, that isn't a name, why did I doubt myself?
[SPEAKER_01]: So they do this sing along and it's followed by a movie, and I never really want to watch a movie at a different hotel because I feel like, I feel like that's off limits, that's for guests only.
[SPEAKER_01]: But we were there, we were there, we were having dinner, we had a nice time, and we just mowsied on over.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the second is different than they tell you about on the website.
[SPEAKER_01]: The website has a photo which is a ton of people, just a ton of people sitting around a campfire roasting marshmallows with chip and tail directly behind them, like, like, fun, how like they're going to poke in and maybe roast a marshmallow and take a turn.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not what this is.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a song leader, a musician comes out and plays, then chip and Dale join him on stage.
[SPEAKER_01]: They kind of get into it.
[SPEAKER_01]: They guys make it a lot of jokes.
[SPEAKER_01]: And a lot of jokes were like you guys aren't laughing at these jokes.
[SPEAKER_01]: And,lessly, he was just kind of heckling the crowd, which I loved, but children were probably very confused by it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, he did a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: They went back and then Chibindale eventually returned to do the hokey, pokey with everyone.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everyone's hot and involved.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a really good time.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they sell smarts, kits, popcorn, Mickey, Practzels, all these yummy snacks out of a, kind of like fake converted RV.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is so cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is such a unique offering.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so glad I got to see it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And to experience characters doing something like this, basically dinner theater without paying the cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: for you know any sort of meal or character interaction was fantastic.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was fantastic.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I'm sure after I say this they'll like check that you're staying there but they don't right now and we went for dinner and it's hard to get to so I'm sure it's not too slammed.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was bliss.
[SPEAKER_01]: I believe it's nightly.
[SPEAKER_01]: We had so much fun and after that I realized oh it was at 8 o'clock.
[SPEAKER_01]: It lasted about 40 minutes and then I was like guys we're guys we can guys let's go to the beach lots of fireworks.
[SPEAKER_01]: So then unexpectedly because I didn't think we were going to see Magic Kingdom fireworks this trip because there were two count of two holiday parties right in the row on the two days we had park admission.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I say we meaning Kelsey only had two days of tickets.
[SPEAKER_01]: We had any old passes we were going to go without her except I kind of did we'll get to that in a second.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's not as cruel as it sounds to prefer sleeping in.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like waking up and going to Magic Kingdom anyway.
[SPEAKER_01]: We went, we saw the fireworks, they played in the music, feet in the sand, angle boots, and tended for Dollywood, full of Disney World Beach sand, just so lovely.
[SPEAKER_01]: And one of those moments where I just sat and really tried to absorb the weight of how wonderful it was, just to randomly be back in my favorite place in the entire world with my friends, having a great time with so much fun ahead of us.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll tell you about our wacky wild time in the parks
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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back and I very quickly have to correct myself because when I sent on the first day that I was just oh, you know, so chill we hung at the house Yeah, we did that, but I also forgot that we went to Disney Springs to get a Gideon's cold roots of the Kelsey goodbye new clothes because we didn't have clothes for this trip We ended up both buying Zara T-shirts and when I tell you
[SPEAKER_01]: I was there two weeks ago, they had the full set up.
[SPEAKER_01]: They worked out into a rack of women's and a rack of men's clothing.
[SPEAKER_01]: And each found T-shirts, I got a men's T, she got a lady's T. Like we just were like, oh, we need clothes.
[SPEAKER_01]: We didn't have clothes for this trip and we were able to buy them at Disney Springs.
[SPEAKER_01]: I picked up some Gideon's cookies and I was actually like so satin from the ones I got recently that I didn't know to be eating them.
[SPEAKER_01]: I brought them and froze them.
[SPEAKER_01]: I brought them home, frozen, put them in the freezer.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I had some buttercream, which was great and oh, I had a Gideon's cold brew,
[SPEAKER_01]: always hits.
[SPEAKER_01]: I also bought, I'm gonna post it about this already.
[SPEAKER_01]: I bought a little strawberry keychain, a little strawberry keychain, a little strawberry chip keychain.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was the trip that really got me love and chip in day all in a way I did not expect.
[SPEAKER_01]: To buy that little strawberry, like QD, a little keychain is a little face as well as I posted on the Instagram if you haven't seen it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the QD's keychain I've seen in years.
[SPEAKER_01]: I never buy Disney merch, I never go in stores and I'm tempted, I'm just not.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I saw this in the window, like a puppy in a children's book, and I was like, oh, I'm so happy.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I went in and bought it on the spot, put it on my backpack, and it has been there ever since.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is so cute, and it's a little tail stick out of the back.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's probably caused me so sweet.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, we really got a lot done that first day, but we are talking about our park
[SPEAKER_01]: We began the first day with Magic Kingdom.
[SPEAKER_01]: We woke up a little early.
[SPEAKER_01]: We just kind of wanted like, you know, really hit the ground run in no stress, but still wanted to see what we can get done.
[SPEAKER_01]: We did not purchase lightning lanes for this trip.
[SPEAKER_01]: We did not purchase single pass or multi pass.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll tell you, we would have bought single pass.
[SPEAKER_01]: Heather, you know,
[SPEAKER_01]: really wanted to go on seven dwarfs mine train.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got a sweet spot regarding the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just do.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would have splurge and surprise everyone because it was the other two girls' birthdays.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it was the day we got home, but in honor of it, I was going to get it for them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing was available.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when I tell you nothing, I mean, not a single lightning-linked single pass for any ride that has it throughout the duration of our entire trip, not a one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not a one, not even like an 845 PM guardians, not even a random 3 PM 7 dwarvesmind train.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not a random tron, nothing, zip zero and it was actually strange because the parks were not that busy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Magic Kingdom we went on a party day, which we were handsomely rewarded for.
[SPEAKER_01]: Magic Kingdom was pretty chill when we were there to the point where we wouldn't have even really needed
[SPEAKER_01]: We wouldn't need it for the two coasters that have it, but we showed up and just were like, let's let it ride.
[SPEAKER_01]: We took some castle pictures, and after that, the wait for space mountain was so low.
[SPEAKER_01]: I checked it as we were like walking into the park.
[SPEAKER_01]: There I was like, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, we gotta go, we gotta go, we gotta go, we gotta go.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was 15 minutes, a 15 minute wait, for space mountain over an hour after the park opened.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is how lucky we got.
[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't done the left track in a really long time.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what, we're right track early.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've talked about this in earlier episodes.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, oh, my gun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Delta, I believe.
[SPEAKER_01]: But we did the one I'm not used to.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I didn't really anticipate the left turn to the right turn.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, it was opposite to what I'm used to.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it jostled me around.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll tell you, I'm reaching the point.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not 40, but I am reaching the point in my body.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're like, that might be my space mountain cut off.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because I was on it, like, oh, this might be one of the last five times I get on.
[SPEAKER_01]: And once you start,
[SPEAKER_01]: troll it out of the birth that is that vehicle just like throwing your stuff on the walkway and then pulling yourself out like you are like climbing out of a submarines for survival.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's when you know oh your space Mountain days are numbered and I really felt that way even though I work out all the time and like I think I'm physically I wouldn't call myself fit but I'm not on fit oh it's hard to get in and out of that and I've reached that age unfortunately maybe there's a certain amount of like yoga I can do to make it happen maybe there's a way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now you might remember earlier I said that things just worked out for us, having no plan, having no intention, anything that just came up and to surprise us brought us so much joy, more than we probably would ever have in a regular trip.
[SPEAKER_01]: Seeing Space Mountain was a teeny tiny weight.
[SPEAKER_01]: Gleeful, just truly exuberant.
[SPEAKER_01]: Earlier that day, Kelsey, one of my friends, who was with me, was like, and with them, I want to meet Chip and Dale.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, oh man, I don't know where that would happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: And imagine, King done like, we can definitely plan to see them in another park, but I just don't know where it's going to get done.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then, as we exited space mountain, who was there?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, just Chip and Dale wandering around to Marland in little to Marland costumes.
[SPEAKER_01]: I did not know this was a character thing they had there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess I don't really dilly down during the day.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm more of like a like a people mover at night time kind of girl.
[SPEAKER_01]: But they just appeared and we got to see them.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got to hug them.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was so exciting that it was so random and just a random character appearance is really unlike anything else.
[SPEAKER_01]: I waited in our longest line in the day, which was for Joffrey's.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got my shake and Jamaican.
[SPEAKER_01]: I met up with friends of Heather, who now are our friends.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've kissed, I don't know if you listen to podcasts, but hello.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we all went on people mover together.
[SPEAKER_01]: We went to the hub, and they waited for me while I got my favorite popcorn.
[SPEAKER_01]: I posted that video just truly unclouded nine.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, this is the happiest I think I'll ever be.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need to capture it.
[SPEAKER_01]: unexpectedly in Magic Kingdom, my favorite coffee, and my favorite food, in perfect weather, not sweating, hanging out with friends, no responsibilities.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was heaven, because we had opened ourselves up to do and whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: The next stop was something I've been wanting to do on many, many trips that just never ended up happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: And finally, it happened.
[SPEAKER_01]: We all went to go see the
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I've put it off enough.
[SPEAKER_01]: It can't be that good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like people said it was fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like it opened.
[SPEAKER_01]: People talked about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: No one's out here raving about country bear jamboree, what like a year after it's opening, except for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am that person raving about it because holy heck guys, country bear jamboree is so good.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is the thing that I keep talking about with Disney parks.
[SPEAKER_01]: I talked about this extensively with test track.
[SPEAKER_01]: The difference is that when Disney updates in attraction now, when they do it correctly, it honors the source material while also modernizing it for a new audience.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is why I'm holding any critique of some announced updates, because I really feel like they have been doing a pretty good job.
[SPEAKER_01]: Test track is amazing.
[SPEAKER_01]: They really honored.
[SPEAKER_01]: the essential history of that attraction while also making it something new and fun that new audiences will want to go on.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that is precisely what they did with country bear jamboree.
[SPEAKER_01]: I sat there, a gong!
[SPEAKER_01]: I just kept turning over to Heather being like, this is so good!
[SPEAKER_01]: The way that they incorporated modern Disney songs in it is something that I had pause about to say the least.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was worried and even though they brought in
[SPEAKER_01]: Top tier talent.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I am a Chris T. Lee Stan.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have seen that man perform live many times because he is so talented.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's like the best man mandolin player to ever exist if you're not familiar.
[SPEAKER_01]: Listen to Nickel Creek listen to punch brothers.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is so this man is so deeply talented.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm such a fan forever.
[SPEAKER_01]: And to hear him sing in country bear jamboree should have been this moment where my brain was like, no, you don't fit, but even hearing, try everything like the perfect example.
[SPEAKER_01]: They, they do try every, I'm not going to spoil the show for you if you haven't seen it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But try everything from Zootopia, the Shakira song is, I say one of the essential songs in the new country bear jamboree.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm sure many of you have seen it by now.
[SPEAKER_01]: So please, I will get over this quickly.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I just, I have to talk about it because I haven't seen it yet.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm sorry if you have.
[SPEAKER_01]: But,
[SPEAKER_01]: Try everything is part of the core show.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's one of the main moments you remember from the show when you exit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I am someone who does not like that song, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't like that song.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you told me it's fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not drawn to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not like buying anything judy hops.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I'm not interested.
[SPEAKER_01]: That song in that show resonated with me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Somebody who actively doesn't like it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So much that I came home.
[SPEAKER_01]: played it for my kid because I couldn't stop, I had the song in my head, I couldn't get out of my head.
[SPEAKER_01]: Played it for my kid.
[SPEAKER_01]: She loved it so much that now Zootopia is one of the movies that she will allow me to play for her because it is a short list.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is Frozen, Frozen 2, and the two goofy movies.
[SPEAKER_01]: She, like, just that song, in that show, set off a chain that has truly brought that music to a new generation, Vezovie, the country bear jamboree.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am so impressed with what they did.
[SPEAKER_01]: I, the costuming, the pace of the show.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you haven't done it like me, if you've been like, I'll do it whenever you know it's raining when I have time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Prioritize it on another trip and you might be amazed by it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because I think that when Disney updates things for a new audience,
[SPEAKER_01]: it's not always a hit.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not always a hit.
[SPEAKER_01]: But this is kind of indicative of what they can do when they update things like carousel of progress.
[SPEAKER_01]: When they update things that we know are coming, this is a great example of maybe we shouldn't freak out because they might nail it.
[SPEAKER_01]: They might give us what we want and give other people who weren't expecting to like this what they want.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was
[SPEAKER_01]: Phenomenal I was like I was I was I mean, I was a I don't even have words I don't even have words.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was so so good So if you have time in your next trip definitely definitely check it out if you haven't yet and if you have I'm sorry it took me so long I'm just trying to rectify that for other people who are also like, I don't know man about it And I should have been like, yeah, man, because it was great
[SPEAKER_01]: We went out haunted mansion, quick wait, I rarely go on that one, it was so nice.
[SPEAKER_01]: We had a bite with our friends, and then we finished up the day, a quick day, we went back to take a break and just like have snacks and whatever, but we finished the day with the most exciting interaction I had had.
[SPEAKER_01]: We were in the firehouse because I'm like, oh, I never go in the firehouse.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why don't we do that?
[SPEAKER_01]: So a bunch of cool patches that I'd never seen, including which city a name for Salem, which I will be joking about for the rest of my days.
[SPEAKER_01]: And these two women walked up and kind of shoved something in our hand.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we were like, what was happening?
[SPEAKER_01]: And it was a little baggy with a little stuffed elephant that was in all of Dumbo that said, you've been pixie-dusted.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's my 97 birth day.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they were there with Vicente.
[SPEAKER_01]: who was celebrating his 97th birthday.
[SPEAKER_01]: He had a sash on, we took photos within, we talked in, we heard some of his stories, and it was like the parallel of Disney magic being among people we never met, who were now becoming instant friends, and truly with this stranger with Heather's friends, now becoming my friends, and just spending the day they're seeing them update attractions, just walking around, doing whatever we wanted, that is what Disney world is supposed to be, and it was really nice to get out of the mentality of the scheduling,
[SPEAKER_01]: Enjoy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Later that day, we went to Epcot where we immediately bought and matching necklaces, again, this was the trip that merch got me.
[SPEAKER_01]: They got me, I never buy merch, but the merch was good, and it was different from two weeks ago somehow, and I was kind of on a roll because, again, I didn't, usually I pack like, a Disney keychain, I pack my stuff, I didn't have any of my stuff, and so I was kind of craving my Disney stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: I bought a birthstone ring, now my month, I didn't like the Jun option.
[SPEAKER_01]: but it's like a little diamond wraparound adjustable Mickey that's so glittery and a sunlight or my necklace and we're that and keeping with the theme of trying new things oh try everything i guess that is wow that's the theme song of the trip in it i went to um... the gelato shop in the France pavilion i don't know why i'm blinking on its name what is its name oh here i go again reading non-English words not my strong suit
[SPEAKER_01]: Diglass, I think it's called, you guys know the place I'm talking about and I was like, you know what?
[SPEAKER_01]: We're opening ourselves to new possibilities.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna get that brief ice cream sandwich because I haven't had it in nine years like I truly haven't had it in a millennia and I'm like today's the day and it wasn't hot out so we didn't melt quickly I got it with caramel sauce and the flavor of ice cream I got was this they had some funky flavors.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got cinnamon and caramelized pecan
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why I said P can like that caramelized pecan and there was another one I was between them is cinnamon caramelized apple and crumble crunch crumple crunch is a bit Crumple crunch is a bit repetitive But I asked the person at the checkout as the cast member I was like should I do the pecan one or the apple one and they were like pecan do the pecan one and we all split it It was so night it was like a delicious treat not something I would probably order for myself again, but still Really great which all of you know
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, then I went to caramel kush and I got some caramel corn and I got a little chocolate-covered caramel to bring home to Pearl And from there, we just kind of milled them out.
[SPEAKER_01]: We had no plans and about an hour and a half an Epcot before the nighttime show So we watched some glass blowing.
[SPEAKER_01]: We went on the Mexico boat ride and then it was super dinner And I was obviously steering my friends Torn's a Mexico pavilion.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you know, I like to get my quick service beans, but
[SPEAKER_01]: If you were kind of tired, like we were pretty exhausted at this point and I was like, oh, why don't we go to La Sienna to send an hell and see if they have a reservation.
[SPEAKER_01]: I pulled up that little, you know, in the app like the wake walk-up waitlist function.
[SPEAKER_01]: boom there was a table almost immediately and there was a long line and we just booked it from our phone by the time we got to the front of the line to the check and desk our table was ready it was fantastic we sat down we had case so we had chips we had guac which is my go-to order around the corner at the quick service but then I got a dish
[SPEAKER_01]: It was essentially like deconstructed tacos, served in a hot skillet, and I got to make my own little tacos with chicken and peppers and put some cilantro on there.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a wonderful dinner, and I never go to that place enough because I'm always going to quick service.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you want to sit and if you want to be served, that place is good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now the plan was, the plan was to see the nighttime show, because if you remember from two weeks ago when I was just here, oh my lord, I was pretty wild by it,
[SPEAKER_01]: But right before dinner, I was like, oh, we should try to go on test track in a single rider line.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we kind of like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, like mozied over there, got on the single rider line.
[SPEAKER_01]: The single rider line was almost all the way to the ride entrance.
[SPEAKER_01]: To which I was like abandoned, we are not doing this.
[SPEAKER_01]: It could be 30, 40 minutes, no freaking way are we doing this.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we went, we had dinner.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I might be in shell, I'm being common vacation, I'm being very cool and relaxed.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I realize it's 836, and I see that there is a window, there is a window of possibility to be able to go on test track tonight.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's kind of like we're wrapping up, we're done eating, we haven't asked for the check yet, but I know I know Disney Math, I know Disney Time, and I know that there's a world.
[SPEAKER_01]: where we can run to the bathroom, pay our check, get our stuff, go, and get there by the 49 PM to be able to get the single rider line.
[SPEAKER_01]: And hopefully it will be shorter.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I go to the bathroom, I come back, and I'm like, guys, if I don't go on test track tonight, it will be a failure for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I just, I've been calm this whole trip, and the Disney Itch and me is like, we gotta go.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they're like, all right, let's do it, of course, because my friends of them,
[SPEAKER_01]: Fast and I love them.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're always down.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we pay.
[SPEAKER_01]: We get out.
[SPEAKER_01]: We get to test track with like four minutes to spare.
[SPEAKER_01]: We get in line because, you know, you have to be in line before the park ends.
[SPEAKER_01]: Park ends.
[SPEAKER_01]: For the park closes at nine, but you can get a line anytime before nine.
[SPEAKER_01]: We forego the nighttime show.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we did see fireworks the night before.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we all get to ride test track and it was amazing.
[SPEAKER_01]: My other two friends actually ended up the same vehicle, which is the miracle of single rider.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the line took, it was busy at that night.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think because Magic Kingdom was a party night and I think because kind of as you get closer to the weekend, the nighttime crowds at Epcot are there for the festivals.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot more single riders than there would be.
[SPEAKER_01]: When I went the last time, which was middle of the day, whenever one's kind of, you know, there's not as many people going out at night.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's more like people on vacation in groups.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we got to go on the ride.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was such a wonderful, wonderful end to the night.
[SPEAKER_01]: The person that I was sat next to was so funny.
[SPEAKER_01]: And during it it was like the first like herky jerky moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were like, oh, hope you didn't have a big meal today.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, actually, I just ate so much food at dinner that I don't feel well, but we're gonna be good.
[SPEAKER_01]: I kept it, I kept it in control even as the the car felt really fast.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, really fast.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I still, I laughed it down.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was good.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it was a perfect perfect end to our first night.
[SPEAKER_01]: It really, it really was great.
[SPEAKER_01]: And while our first park day was full of relaxing bliss, our second park day had me a little like, this is our last park day.
[SPEAKER_01]: We went from our first park day to our last park day.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like that, it was so quick that I was like, oh, we got a, we got a jam and all in.
[SPEAKER_01]: We woke up and I decided that we were going to go on an excursion to Jeff's bagel run.
[SPEAKER_01]: Another thing that I always want to do on every trip and never get to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, you can order delivery from Jeff's bagel run.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can schedule an advance.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can get it delivered to your hotel, which I have done before, but I've never been to one of his brick and mortar locations.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I first had Jeff's bagels when he was just doing drops outside of his house.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had a rental car and I drove to his home and picked up a bag of bagels.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I, at this point, was like, I got to see a story in person.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got a, we drove to celebration, which was lovely, just like the lovely little mall.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also as we were pulling out, there was just an utterly gorgeous 7-Eleven.
[SPEAKER_01]: That town is, oh, that town is cuter than Hollywood Studios.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll tell you that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we got to experience Jeff's bagel run in the flesh.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I gotta tell you, what a nice place to go with friends where you're split in cream cheeses.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're dunking your dip in your try and all the different things.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got to be a sweet bagel to share a cinnamon sugar with banana pudding cream cheese, which was tough.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got my favorite Rosemary Salt, because not a lot of people do a salt bagel right and Jeff knows salt bagels.
[SPEAKER_01]: We had George Fierre, he is the best.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got that, I got jalapeno cream cheese, Heather had veggie cream cheese, which was knocked us out.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was so good.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got flavored little coffees.
[SPEAKER_01]: We had our little breakfast, we sat outside, it was glorious, and then we drove to Animal Kingdom.
[SPEAKER_01]: we walk in the door.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm holding my coffee from from an off-campus location.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am living my life.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really like coffee as a huge motivator in my day and because you have noticed.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we walk in.
[SPEAKER_01]: And who is basically at the front of the park?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I'm talking wilderness explorer, booth on your right.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know where that is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Before the merchandise shops, Kevin.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kevin and all of her colorful glory is that far to the front of the park, and I've never seen her that far.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've just seen her on like the side, like the walkway coming from Asia by the tree, walking all the way towards like where the bone yard was.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's where I've seen Kevin.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've never seen Kevin that up close and we were shocked and delighted and it was heaven.
[SPEAKER_01]: From there, our goal was to go on dinosaur before we had lunch, it tiffens later that day.
[SPEAKER_01]: But again, Kelsey's one thing was like, I really want to see Chip and Dale in their dinosaur costumes.
[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't done it yet.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it was pretty hidden, actually.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's past a daisy meet and greet.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we realized the line was a little long.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're like forget dinosaur.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got to get this done for Kelsey.
[SPEAKER_01]: We met them in their costumes, and it was heaven, because again, I'm a chipendale girlie now.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's two chipendale encounters in like 36 hours.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm all in on them.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love my goof, but I saw I'm in animal kingdom too later that day, and it just wasn't the same.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love goofy, but oh no, I think I think chipendale are new entrants into my character obsession.
[SPEAKER_01]: We ate lunch at Tiffins with my friend Ali who I have not seen it in so long.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was so good to see Ali and we ordered land salads.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, what does that mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, just, you know, produce from living with the land.
[SPEAKER_01]: just produce and they broke a plucked from living with the land in a salad.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had to get it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And my friends didn't love it as much.
[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't calling a non-traditional lettuce.
[SPEAKER_01]: It had a lot of stick to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was pretty bitter.
[SPEAKER_01]: I ate every morsel.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was stoked about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they're going to hold it against me because I said I didn't want a ride living with the land on this trip because I ride it every time.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm always on living with the land and wanted to do stuff I don't usually get to do, like just me and with my friends.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then they, of course, razzed me because I was like, we almost got living with the land salads.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it was great.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was served with like your choice of protein and shrimp.
[SPEAKER_01]: They had steak, they had chicken, heaven.
[SPEAKER_01]: We had a very long lunch.
[SPEAKER_01]: And our plan for the day was originally like, okay, we'll wake up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jeff's big old run.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll go down looking down then we'll like run some errands.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll go to I think we had to go get like groceries or something I don't remember there was something I was going to buy a toll pass because I've never did and I really need one I know I know I know I I got to get on the toll thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know we've had calls about this I know I've talked about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know there's this thing you can buy that you told me about I got to do it We were going to have her in the by something else.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Kelsey wanted to share I don't remember what the reason was we were going to do that and then we were going to go anti shopping before we went out to dinner that night
[SPEAKER_01]: None of that happened.
[SPEAKER_01]: We gabbed it lunch for so long that we were like, oh, we might not have time to do this stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: We wanted to do an animal kingdom, which was, morning the train to go to Rafiki's planet watch.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have not been there in many, many moons.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have not been to affection section, the pennies, you I've not been to conservation station.
[SPEAKER_01]: They kind of like rehab facility for animals.
[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't been there in forever, ever, ever.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it was so nice.
[SPEAKER_01]: To just have a casual day where we head over there, we make the trip, it's not boiling hot, truly like the joy of this trip is mostly colored by the fact that it was not boiling hot.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we got to pet animals and talk to the people who work there and just like, pet a pig!
[SPEAKER_01]: I got to pet a pig!
[SPEAKER_01]: Not pet a pig!
[SPEAKER_01]: I got to pet a pig!
[SPEAKER_01]: And it was nice, just a nice little escape for the day.
[SPEAKER_01]: We ended up going, I think it's called Xerries Sweet Shops, like the candy, the kind of confectionary store in the Africa section.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we got a few different treats.
[SPEAKER_01]: Number these two like chocolate and Mickey shapes that they got, which stuck.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were those were bad.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were just like melted chocolate in a mold.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was not worth it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I got this like banana.
[SPEAKER_01]: Grant like banana chocolate covered small and I think the chocolate was like white chocolate banana flavored It was kind of dry on the inside, but again a real banana pudding of a day.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was it was quite good.
[SPEAKER_01]: I ate most of it It the chocolate was great, but it was a very banana flavor like a lunch banana so if that if eating that with a smaller and a dry crumbling mouth isn't for you then
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe you wouldn't like it.
[SPEAKER_01]: We walked some of the paths we saw guerrillas.
[SPEAKER_01]: We saw so many guerrillas.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, shame on my husband for telling me that I didn't need the iPhone 16 Pro, and I could just get the regular one because I did that 8x zoom, and I was right there with the animal.
[SPEAKER_01]: The photos I have, it's like, I was just like hanging out with them at lunch.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're like, it's so crisp.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're right there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm looking at them right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then we went on an end of day safari.
[SPEAKER_01]: We had almost as much luck as I had last time.
[SPEAKER_01]: We didn't see everything we saw last time.
[SPEAKER_01]: We saw a lot of animals.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a really, really good safari.
[SPEAKER_01]: We ended the day by exiting through Rainforest Cafe.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because again, this was chaotic girl's trip.
[SPEAKER_01]: We had gone to Rainforest Cafe, Galveston takes this, we had to see it.
[SPEAKER_01]: My friend Kelsey is like, Loki obsessed with Rainforest Cafe, brought all of us Rainforest Cafe safari hats that she picked up in the one in California recently.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me tell you, perfect travel hat.
[SPEAKER_01]: I will be wearing this for the rest of my life.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we went through and took photos and shopped in the store and did her own little sneaky solo tour of the restaurant.
[SPEAKER_01]: multiple fish tanks which they don't always do and a lot of the fish tanks at the other locations don't efficient them and these these all had fish also people still be going there it was bumping like it was pretty packed and for that I'm grateful because I'll also say it's well good it's well good in there and I would have been like y'all wish to stay for dinner if we didn't have our reservation at cake bake shop
[SPEAKER_01]: Now I kind of, you know, I kind of spoiled what my review of this was going to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: But again, a lot of the food was really, really, really good.
[SPEAKER_01]: The best thing I had was that chicken soup.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of like, I'll go lemma know if you're familiar with the Greek kind of like creamy chicken soup.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a little bit like that, but more just like cream of chicken soup.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was just
[SPEAKER_01]: divine it was served with a piece of baguette and oh my gosh they're baguette was so good i was not expecting somewhere on property to be making like fancy bakery level baguette bread but this place was to the point where i'm like i would come here for a cute little drink i would come here for soup and i would come here for dessert like that is a perfect meal to have here
[SPEAKER_01]: I ordered a Caesar salad with salmon, um, it was fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Caesar dressing was great.
[SPEAKER_01]: They didn't have enough of it on the salad.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got it on the side and then could finally taste it and it was really good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, one of our friends got a shrimp po-boy, which was on that bread.
[SPEAKER_01]: That apparently was great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, Heather got a croc-moncier, which I think she also liked.
[SPEAKER_01]: There was just everything pretty happy with their dishes, but nothing, nothing was like that chicken soup.
[SPEAKER_01]: uh, then it was time for dessert.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, I think my friend Kelly agrees with the chicken soup.
[SPEAKER_01]: She had a spoonful of it, but I think she, Kelly, I think you also thought that the chicken soup was great.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm pretty sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, then it was time for dessert.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Ashley's words again, ringing in my ears, being like, you gotta find your cake.
[SPEAKER_01]: You gotta find your cake.
[SPEAKER_00]: Actually, let me just have her say it herself.
[SPEAKER_00]: you have to find the cake that's right for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you have to find your favorite.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it might take a couple of different tries to be like, oh, this is my cake.
[SPEAKER_00]: But my goodness, when I found my cake, which is multiple pieces at this point, multiple different flavors, I literally stood in my kitchen and like cried.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was so good.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was literally the best chocolate cake
[SPEAKER_01]: I found my cake and we ordered two of them for the table.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got the pixie fettie That's trademark pixie fettie.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: We had the pixie fettie birthday cake, which was vanilla confetti cake with a hint of almond honey There was more than a hint They had I guess vanilla almond buttercream and it had confetti on top That is the one that other people ordered and I was like I got to get a bite of that and I thought that was gonna be my cake But it was not
[SPEAKER_01]: I had heard forever of the millionaire cake, and I just didn't, I'm not at that much of a chocolate girl to be honest, so I didn't want to order that myself to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: But here was a good opportunity we could all take a little bite if I didn't like it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure there was a chocolate haul at the table that would enjoy it, but no, I became a chocolate haul like that night.
[SPEAKER_01]: The millionaire cake is a chocolate cake filled with there's a lot of brands here I'm just going to omit them fancy chocolate cake with fancy Belgian chocolate ganache homemade salted caramel sauce vanilla buttercream and homemade butter shortbread cookies topped with a Belgian chocolate fudge shortbread and salted caramel sauce.
[SPEAKER_01]: This one rocked.
[SPEAKER_01]: This cake rocked and I know a lot of people were saying when they first opened like, oh, you got to get the millionaire cake.
[SPEAKER_01]: I never in my days thought that I would be raving about a chocolate cake.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a vanilla cake girl and yet and yet it was exceptional.
[SPEAKER_01]: And here is really where dining in is so different from taking out.
[SPEAKER_01]: $22 for a piece of cake that you were going to share with a whole table of people is a completely different scenario than a $22 slice of cake that you take out into the boiling hot Florida sun and eat standing on a trashcan.
[SPEAKER_01]: Doing that, eating it, Epcot food festival style, just sitting at the boardwalk at a boiling hot table, not knowing where to sit, eating it with the plastic fork, that is not how this cake should be served ever.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that is what so many of us are kind of used to when it comes to cake bake shop.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sitting down at the end of a lovely meal, which again, I could have just eaten the soup.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was filling a lovely meal enjoying it with friends, having the waiter come over and there's a whole backstruck these characters, which I I had a third of a cocktail.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't remember.
[SPEAKER_01]: I also wasn't paying attention because I was eating too much food.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there's like you get handed like a handful of glitter and you get to blow it, which COVID should have taught us not to blow on any one else's food, but the last here we are, it was cute.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it was fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was such like a magical fun moment with friends so silly, so goofy, so fucked, so different from what I usually do with Disney World that I was eating it up literally and figuratively.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a lovely experience.
[SPEAKER_01]: I will be coming back here many times.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need to take back all of the things I said about it and last but not least, I gotta tell you guys, the prices?
[SPEAKER_01]: were not as bad as what I originally thought.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know there was a point when they lowered prices after they initially opened because people were shocked myself included.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when you're kind of like like looking at this straight up, the prices can be pretty high.
[SPEAKER_01]: But compared to other Disney restaurants at this level, the pricing actually makes a lot of sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: Depending on what you get, you could be spending a lot more.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they have a stake-free that's $60 almost because you're having a stake, but a lot of the entrées are in the like 24 to 30 something range.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there's a lot of options there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm now seeing my salad was $25.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was not worth that.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the chicken soup 13 bucks for a filling beautiful soup paired with delicious baguette sharing fries having dessert that is the way to do it and that is how you should be doing cake bake shop because I unbelievably
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm telling you to go to K-Bakeshop and every thought would happen, but I also never thought I'd stay there for almost four hours having so much fun that I didn't want to leave.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was glorious.
[SPEAKER_01]: I get it now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you to Ashley.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you to anyone else who told me I needed to go back.
[SPEAKER_01]: I apologize for the things I've said, but also a cake slice to go out of a paper box with a plastic fork is not the way to do this place.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you are like, mmm.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm interested but I don't want to commit to a whole meal have like just going it like a cake Get the soup split split a little fry like just have a casual little meal I think that is the way to do this and oh my god.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to go back from practice Again, I've cake that early, but oh Oh, I did not think I would be loving cake big shop, but I am
[SPEAKER_01]: We stayed there so late that we got back and we're so tired and it was our last park day that was it for our trip the next day we did have character breakfast at the Four Seasons the Goofy and Powell's breakfast which I will tell you about in a second we had a 1015 reservation and a normal person like my friends who are traveled with were like okay we stayed up late i'm gonna sleep in a little i'm gonna finish packing i'm gonna like get all the laundry ready at this friend's house that we stayed at put it in the laundry room and then we'll head to breakfast
[SPEAKER_01]: But my brain is broken, and it does not work like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: My brain instead was like, so you're saying, so you're saying there's a way that I could get to magic kingdom, have some jollies, and then get out of there in time for breakfast.
[SPEAKER_01]: There was a way!
[SPEAKER_01]: There was a way I was able to do it!
[SPEAKER_01]: And I had to do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had to do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I woke up so early.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got everything together.
[SPEAKER_01]: I stayed up late packing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I woke up and was like, I cannot be here with an annual pass burning a hole in my pocket and not say goodbye to the park on my park day.
[SPEAKER_01]: If there is a window where I can go to the park, I have to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I didn't teach my friends, they were sleeping, they were relaxing, they were packing, they didn't want to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I needed a little more kids in my chaotic girl's trip.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had to get it done.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I raced, I raced a magic kingdom and I was able to visit in time.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the clock was ticking and I walked in the gate and I went,
[SPEAKER_01]: What am I gonna do?
[SPEAKER_01]: I had no plan, no agenda, no goal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Usually in my mind, I have something I wanna do, nothing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just let my legs take me where they wanted to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the moment I walked in, I saw meet Mickey and I went, that's what we're doing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now I was exhausted, I had not yet had my job freeze, I was very tired and forgot that,
[SPEAKER_01]: I was literally meeting Mickey a few hours later at this character breakfast.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're kind of totally forgot about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I just really, really needed to meet Mickey in that moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: I needed to hug Mickey.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just wanted to wait in the line, chill out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not worried about like wrangling a child in that line, because I don't love that line when you're there with children.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was just like, yeah, I want to meet Mickey.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the line ended up being a little over the I thought, but it was still such a nice way to start the day.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the minute I walked out, I was kind of like, okay, let's see what the weights are.
[SPEAKER_01]: The weeks were not as low as when I was there the other day.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was a Saturday morning.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my gosh, I can't I recording this like 48 hours after I can't play, I was just there.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's wild.
[SPEAKER_01]: I scroll through my phone.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everything's pretty long.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing's nothing's looking easy to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm like, I guess we'll just settle for another people mover.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I see it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I see it out of the corner of my eye speaking to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: A 10-minute wait.
[SPEAKER_01]: Unastro Orbiter.
[SPEAKER_01]: never have your prioritizing astral orbiter?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not something I'm caring about.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I'm never like, you know what I want to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wait in an outdoor line and then take a small elevator up to a roof.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's never a priority.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the 10 minute wait, and the views, it was big of me.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's big of a thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was going to get a little rocket onto myself, and that's exactly what?
[SPEAKER_01]: And I gotta tell you, we are sleeping on the Astro Orbiter because you can often catch it when the weights are low.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a brilliant vantage point that you don't often get.
[SPEAKER_01]: You get to see all of the sites.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can see the castle.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can see this face mountain building.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can just see it all.
[SPEAKER_01]: You get to whirl around and it's not too dizzying.
[SPEAKER_01]: You get to just really enjoy a space mountain vehicle without feeling your knees creak as you try to get out of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was such a blissful minute and a half of just soaking in magic kingdom all alone, randomly, not expecting to be there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not even supposed to be there that day.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what's in there at all, just enjoying.
[SPEAKER_01]: the majesty that is the magic kingdom from there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had to run my little errands.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got my job.
[SPEAKER_01]: I went and I got my popcorn.
[SPEAKER_01]: I brought a Ziploc bag, put it in that Ziploc bag.
[SPEAKER_01]: I ran to a store on Main Street because Kelsey wanted me to grab a pair of ears.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was able to secure those and then I had
[SPEAKER_01]: About 10 minutes left over to myself and I was like, oh my gosh, I'm gonna do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna do something I never get to do in vacation because it's hot because I'm busy because I got things to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna go chill on the hub grass and I chilled.
[SPEAKER_01]: I sat on the hub grass like it was the dawn of Disney Instagram in 2016 just hanging out, sitting popcorn, coffee, staring at castle, taking in the jams and then in the distance.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I heard it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I heard the
[SPEAKER_01]: The Dabernet's just coming down main street in a vehicle, singing, mic'd everyone could hear them perfectly, enjoying my snack, enjoying my view, enjoying my coffee, enjoying the Dabernet's, and just really bathing in the joy that is this place.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because I, again,
[SPEAKER_01]: I was not supposed to be here in the sense of this trip, I was supposed to be a doll you would, but in a larger sense, I really wasn't supposed to be here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not supposed to be hosting a podcast about theme parks.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is now what my life was supposed to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how I got so lucky to fall into this accidentally, to end up on a bachelor-ret trip for my own bachelor-ret party in February of 2015, simply because I don't want to go to Mexico and I don't want to go to Vegas.
[SPEAKER_01]: I couldn't think of anywhere to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: My husband said go to Disney World and I said okay dogs and my friend Jenna helped me plan it because she was a VIP tour guide at the time.
[SPEAKER_01]: She was guest services and she knew what to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I shouldn't have been a Disney World in 2015.
[SPEAKER_01]: I shouldn't have been doing this job.
[SPEAKER_01]: I shouldn't know these friends that I traveled across the country with.
[SPEAKER_01]: I shouldn't have been a Disney World because I supposed to be a dolly one.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like nothing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everything is so random and you think you're in control of your life and you're kind of not
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I never anticipated that I would drag a bunch of people to Florida in 2015 and be like this was the hardest trip to plan of my life And I need to know more and that search and that hunt for needing to know more.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me do freelance for all these years and then let me to freelance so hard
[SPEAKER_01]: that I was like wait I want to stop writing stories and other people's voices I want to tell stories in my voice and then I would post on social media about theme parks which at the time remember I was like a New York reporter people were like why are you talking about these theme parks all the time what happened to her what's going on I like fully shifted my life because I just was seeking fun and joy and just loving these spaces and I
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, five years ago was like, I guess I'll launch a podcast.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why not?
[SPEAKER_01]: I just want to talk about things in my own voice and like the time I did think it was going to be easier than writing it is not writing is way easier, but the last I still love doing it regardless it takes a lot of time, but I had care about quality and that's my own that's my own bag and deal with is that I won't put out anything that isn't I think excellent and I hope you recognize that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so, I just was like, I guess yeah, I'll start a podcast, and now it's my job.
[SPEAKER_01]: And now my job is to go to these places, and I was sitting there in this hubgress, drinking this coffee that I hadn't had until my friend Alan said he was picking one up for Molly, and I didn't know about it, and was like, what's a shaken Jamaican, and now I'm obsessed, eating popcorn that my mom and these many, many trips is deduced, is the best popcorn, is the hub popcorn cart to the right-hand side, that's the best popcorn Disney world, just like the institutional knowledge and the random luck and the
[SPEAKER_01]: chance and the chaos that brought me to this moment that the morning before I leave for a flight I am sitting here listening to music that I love staring at something that I adore and a place that I was not supposed to be and over and over and over and over again and it was just the perfect summation of why I love this place because there's nowhere else on earth I can go and feel that way there's nowhere else then I travel I like going to cities I like going to different restaurants I like
[SPEAKER_01]: so content.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just be so content and so happy.
[SPEAKER_01]: And for me, it was in that moment, just perfect weather, perfect food, perfect coffee, perfect location, perfect sounds, perfect sights.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was absolutely perfect.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was not anything I intended for it to be, which life often is, and yet it just delivered more than I ever thought it would.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that was our chaotic girls trip to Disney World.
[SPEAKER_01]: We hopefully will be returning to Dollywood.
[SPEAKER_01]: It may be April with next year.
[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't even started to think about dates.
[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't honestly haven't even told my husband that we're going back.
[SPEAKER_01]: But we're trying to repurpose some of the things that we had paid for to try to get a credit to be able to do it again next year.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't wait to go to Dollywood, but I am just very grateful for everything I got to experience in Disney World.
[SPEAKER_01]: deeply unexpected week full of snacks full of friends full of new friends and old friends full of horses I don't think it's too much or is this we did so much we shopped we ate we drink coffee we don't really drink alcohol we drink a like I drink coffee they had nice tea it was just it was lovely and it's just really one of the reasons why I love Disney World so much
[SPEAKER_01]: If you have any questions about visiting Disney World, without planning a trip, let me know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Otherwise, I will be back with a new episode next week.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not hopefully the one I have scheduled, but again, I will go go go where the seas take me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I really did not, did not think I'd be sitting here not talking about Hollywood, so I don't want to jinx anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll be back next week.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for listening, and, yeah, Disney World forever.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alright, I guess nobody, oh my name's Paul, I'm from California, so I'm going to call him how crappy and how terrible Hollywood studios is, we went there, it was at, for some
[SPEAKER_04]: a really good park and then we were there in the early September and we didn't have the day in left it would have to the show there's like nothing it was terrible and we had dinner at VR guests and it would be for the field of our trip by blue bar and grill Sebastian.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, wait.
[SPEAKER_01]: Cheers!
[SPEAKER_01]: Bye!
[SPEAKER_01]: Keep that in mind that if you get if you are going and you will be getting a survey like the next probably four-ish weeks when I finalize it You will be asked about your hot take and it might be made public not even if you don't want it to be don't worry You don't have to be nervous.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just if you want you can you can say what your hot take is if you would like to I won't be pressuring you into saying anything You don't want this is not a senior quote situation you don't have to feel like oh, this is what my life is writing on do not worry anyway I digress the second thing I wanted to say
[SPEAKER_01]: is that I think I figured it out.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I figured out one of the main reasons why Hollywood studios is a bad vibe because you are right and I am not glad you lived it but I'm glad you said something because you go there and you're like really?
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think I know what it is because on this trip my friend Kelsey was like again we showed up no schedule, no itinerary, no plans.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kelsey and I have tickets until her plane landed and
[SPEAKER_01]: Kelsey was like the only thing her only thing was that she did not want to go to Hollywood Studios.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, yeah, my friends are truly above and beyond.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm obsessed with them.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it was like the only thing we didn't want to do was go to this park.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think I know part of the reason why.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the layout of Hollywood Studios is working against itself.
[SPEAKER_01]: And as they continue to build new lands based on specific IP, it is making that layout feel worse
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, think about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You walk past Star Wars to get to Star Wars.
[SPEAKER_01]: Something viscerally is confusing about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: You take a right and we've talked about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: That whole Pixar Toy Story, like, we're not right into a right then.
[SPEAKER_01]: It just feels weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everything feels like not a hub with spokes.
[SPEAKER_01]: But kind of like, I don't know, like, an apple that worms are crawling in and out of.
[SPEAKER_01]: It makes no sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: You also can't really, there's no weanies.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, there is tower of terror.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is kind of a really good one.
[SPEAKER_01]: But otherwise, Galaxies Edge is like a hallway away.
[SPEAKER_01]: You have rock and roller coaster, which you can easily miss.
[SPEAKER_01]: Fantastic water in the park and you don't see it is bananas, but most importantly, and this is what I think the argument settles on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is that the exterior?
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, formerly the great movie ride.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now make you minis right away, railway.
[SPEAKER_01]: Groundman's theater.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't remember the proper name that it goes by now, because the original name I'm a little like, is that okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: The theater exterior blocks the view from the entire park, and it's not welcoming the same way the other main icons of the park are.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you walk into abcontte you see that ball and you just know there's something beyond it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You walk to the sides and you really can see it from 360 degrees.
[SPEAKER_01]: same at the castle, you can see it from 360 degrees.
[SPEAKER_01]: Animal Kingdom, perfect example.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can see that from 360 degrees, and that is a concept that has worked for Disney over and over and over.
[SPEAKER_01]: The fact that you can be in different lands and different experiences, but still find your way by seeing that icon.
[SPEAKER_01]: It didn't use Hollywood Studios.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nah, it's just a wall.
[SPEAKER_01]: It basically is a permanent construction wall because you can't walk around and admire that building from 360 degrees.
[SPEAKER_01]: If Tower of Terror was in the middle you could, but here it's just kind of a wall and you go left and right.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think it really cuts off the park in a way that in your bones, you know it's not right.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why this hasn't occurred to me before, but you know, animal kingdom just knowing like, oh, there's the tree, something beautiful in the middle at all of these parks that just shines from far away.
[SPEAKER_01]: And here, unless you're facing it dead on, it doesn't really have that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I really think that paired with the haphazardness of the park at this point, honestly, even though I like the new experiences in there, it's just a little, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: So putting those all together and not having that emblem in the middle that you can see from around
[SPEAKER_01]: It has a totally different layout than a standard Disney park, like just not having it this way feels bad.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I, this kind of started to click on this trip when we went to ride dinosaur and dinosaur if you haven't been to the park in the last six and days.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have been almost twice, but so you walk, you don't want back the normal way.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Bony Art is gone, which is,
[SPEAKER_01]: Ooh, upsetting.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you walk through kind of all the way around towards finding Nemo, the, what is it called, the big blue and beyond.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then you hang a right and you walk through a walled pathway.
[SPEAKER_01]: And not being able to see dinosaurs feels weird, like not being able to breathily go that way, feels a little like, eh eh, feels a little off.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that off feeling is informing the poor identity of Disney's Hollywood studios at this moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's how I feel.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've never been more passionate about anything in my life.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for calling about Hollywood Studios.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, let me know if you feel the same because I do think that that is really setting it up to not be successful.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I vibe, sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also I'm so sorry about beer guests and I gotta go to that restaurant at the New Tower.
[SPEAKER_01]: I gotta go.
[SPEAKER_01]: I gotta go next trip.
[SPEAKER_01]: The next time I show up and don't have plans.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for calling Paul.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you all so much for listening to not a dolly wood episode and also I just want to mention if you were like Wow the intro to this chaotic episode sure felt chaotic.
[SPEAKER_01]: I should have mentioned explicitly the reason I talked about a plumber is because I'm recording this and like a recording the intro in the outro between When a plumber is like I got to come back with a big boy camera.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I I was like I don't know when this this kind gentleman is coming back to like
[SPEAKER_01]: Put a camera through the pipes like a house colonoscopy, but I'm like, I gotta record this little bit before he comes back.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you see him a little more than usual, that is why.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Hi, honey.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's mom.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I never did the radiators brings racers at Disney, California, adventure car land that you talked about.
[SPEAKER_02]: I never did guardians of the galaxy, mission break out, I'm not that fast enough.
[SPEAKER_02]: I never went on a tower of terror, which I never will go on.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I never did Luigi's relic, relic game, roadstones, I don't know what that is.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he owned by you adventure and credit coaster.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what anything this stuff is,
[SPEAKER_02]: I think we need to go check out some of this stuff, but I do know Star Wars Rise of the Resistance, because I was there before that opened, remember?
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm happy for all the new guys that are coming and I think it'll be fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: You are so funny, when we say, we go away, you said, what are the two things you want to do?
[SPEAKER_02]: What parts do you want to go to?
[SPEAKER_02]: So now I have answers.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now I have answers.
[SPEAKER_02]: But my favorite thing in the world is going to Disneyland, seeing the characters because they're everywhere.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I always talk about this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love when I see them on rise and I love that a regular people on rise, they don't like do it by themselves, they walk around and they talk to everyone.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love that so much, that's my favorite, next to popcorn, of course.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I am a popcorn girl and if I'm going to eat it, I patiently wait until a fresh batch is made or that's just been made, there's nothing like the hot fresh popcorn.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's so good.
[SPEAKER_02]: And in a pinch, if I'm hungry and don't want to spend time in waste in the restaurant,
[SPEAKER_02]: I will walk around eat my popcorn, go on rides, and that is my meal for the one for breakfast.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's so delicious, my favorite.
[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, what is this poison apple freezing ever told me about?
[SPEAKER_02]: I never heard of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sounds wonderful, especially when it's a really hot day.
[SPEAKER_02]: Never had a fried pickle ever.
[SPEAKER_02]: It sounds great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, you're hiding me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I need to go to these places.
[SPEAKER_02]: Laps or not shells.
[SPEAKER_02]: What have you been?
[SPEAKER_02]: So honey, we need to take.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mom, but all these foods, I mean that I've never tried that I would love to try and poo-poo-platter.
[SPEAKER_02]: How do you go for poo-poo-platter?
[SPEAKER_02]: We need an eating vacation.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Great episode.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love you so much, Carrey.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I love you so much, Pearl.
[SPEAKER_02]: See you next time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bye.