Post-Trip Report: Adam’s Park Hop to Disneyland (March 2024)

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VIRGINIA: Speaking of Instagram, you may know today's guest from Instagram.

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VIRGINIA: It's Adam from Diz or That.

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VIRGINIA: If you didn't listen to the pre-trip episode, I get it, some people prefer just to get down to business in the post-trip.

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VIRGINIA: So to catch you up, Adam was traveling to Disneyland with his wife, his five-year-old daughter, and his two-year-old son.

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VIRGINIA: Adam hadn't been to Disneyland since he was five years old himself.

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VIRGINIA: And this trip was actually inspired by his five-year-old daughter, who was curious to see how it was different from Walt Disney World, which she has been to twice.

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VIRGINIA: Since Adam is all about comparisons on his Instagram page, he was on board and off they went.

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VIRGINIA: And with that, off we go.

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VIRGINIA: Here's Adam.

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VIRGINIA: Welcome back, Adam.

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ADAM: Hey, how are you doing?

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VIRGINIA: I'm doing well, but probably not as well as you are, because you recently got back from the happiest place on earth.

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ADAM: Yes, it was a great trip down to California.

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ADAM: Can't wait to dive into what we did.

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VIRGINIA: So many questions.

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VIRGINIA: This was a first trip for both of your children, but it sort of was a first trip for you too, because you have not been to Disneyland since you were five years old, if I remember correctly.

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ADAM: That's correct.

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ADAM: Yeah, I would quantify it as a first trip, especially with me planning everything.

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ADAM: So yeah, definitely new sights and sounds for all of us.

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ADAM: It was pretty exciting.

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VIRGINIA: Yes, and for listeners who maybe didn't get a chance to listen to Adam's pre-trip interview, Adam is from the Instagram handle underscore DizOrThat.

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VIRGINIA: So at the end of our talk about your trip, I'm gonna have some of this or that sort of questions for you because there's lots to compare between Disneyland and Disney World.

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VIRGINIA: So let's get right into it.

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VIRGINIA: How was your travel from Omaha via Las Vegas to LAX?

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ADAM: Yeah, it was actually pretty smooth.

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ADAM: We had to wake the kids up at 4 a.m.

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ADAM: So that was probably the toughest part of it.

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ADAM: But yeah, pretty smooth flight to Vegas, and we actually landed in LAX before 10 a.m.

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ADAM: So, yeah, we had maybe 40-minute layover.

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ADAM: So with a two and a five-year-old, that's preferred.

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ADAM: So you don't have to wait in the Las Vegas airport all that long.

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ADAM: So yeah, we got there, landed, picked out our car.

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ADAM: And the unfortunate part is a drizzly day in California when we got there, which I lived there for a summer and it didn't rain one drop.

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ADAM: So it was a little bit new in that aspect, but headed down the 405 down to Anaheim after that.

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ADAM: So it was pretty smooth travel as far as that was concerned.

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VIRGINIA: So did the kids sleep on the flight?

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ADAM: No.

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VIRGINIA: So how did you keep them busy?

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VIRGINIA: Because you have a five-year-old and a two-year-old.

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ADAM: Yes, so we have Kindle fires that they don't get to use unless they're on a plane or a really long car ride.

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ADAM: So as I mentioned in the pre-trip report, our son is obsessed with cars.

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ADAM: So he probably watched that twice.

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ADAM: And then our daughter watched a little bit of a movie, then she played a little bit of games on her.

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ADAM: So they're usually pretty good.

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VIRGINIA: Okay, next question.

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VIRGINIA: You said you got to choose your rental car.

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VIRGINIA: So what kind of car did you end up choosing?

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ADAM: We ended up choosing a Jeep Wrangler, which we thought was gonna be really fun.

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ADAM: But then it doesn't have a lot of cargo space, so we couldn't take the roof off or anything.

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ADAM: Plus it was raining.

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ADAM: And then it just turned out to be really loud and not as cool as we thought it'd be, but it got the job done.

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VIRGINIA: It feels like a very California thing to rent.

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VIRGINIA: Like, I don't know.

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ADAM: And we've always thought they looked cool with the roof off and all that, but it's all right.

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ADAM: It still fit us all and got us all down to Anaheim.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah, you'll have to try it another time under better conditions.

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ADAM: Sunny circumstances, yes.

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VIRGINIA: Yes, exactly.

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VIRGINIA: All right, so for this trip, you were going to be staying at the Spring Hill Suites, which is about a mile away.

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VIRGINIA: So first impressions of the hotel and the check-in process.

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ADAM: Yeah, I got to check in a couple of days before with my Marriott status, but the rooms weren't quite ready when we got there because we didn't get, I mean, we got there at noon.

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ADAM: So that's pretty early for, especially for a tourist destination.

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ADAM: But lobby was great.

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ADAM: They let us hang out there until our stroller arrived, which we rented from a company down there.

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VIRGINIA: What company was it?

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ADAM: It was City Stroller Rentals.

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ADAM: And basically what you do is you go on their website and say, I'm gonna be here from, for us obviously it was Saturday to Wednesday.

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ADAM: And a lot of the good neighbor hotels, they just dropped the stroller off at the hotel and then they come pick it up from the hotel.

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ADAM: So when we were in Florida, we picked it up from the airport and delivered it back to the airport, but this was basically just as smooth.

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ADAM: So I'd put an arrival time of one, we got there a little bit early, so we waited a little bit on that.

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ADAM: But as soon as we got that stroller, we walked to downtown Disney while we waited for our room to be ready.

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VIRGINIA: Are you required to be there when they drop off the stroller for this particular company?

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ADAM: Not at this hotel.

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ADAM: I think on the on property you are, but not a lot of the off property.

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ADAM: But the only one I know for sure is this one.

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ADAM: And we didn't have to be, we just happened to be standing there when they delivered it, so.

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VIRGINIA: Okay, all right.

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VIRGINIA: And Downtown Disney.

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VIRGINIA: So what did you do in Downtown Disney?

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VIRGINIA: I imagine probably visited the world of Disney.

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ADAM: Yes, we did.

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ADAM: So the main part of that was to see how far of a walk it was for the next morning and to prepare.

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ADAM: It took about, well, to the security was going to be, it was going to be about a 12-minute walk and then another seven minutes to the gates.

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ADAM: First impressions, it was obviously a lot smaller than the Walt Disney World one.

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ADAM: There was a lot of construction, a lot of construction walls up at that time, but one of the fun things that we got to do was, there was an Easter egg hunt because it was Easter week.

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ADAM: So kind of like they do at Epcot, they have the Easter egg finding that you can buy a souvenir sticker pad and then get a prize at the end.

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ADAM: They had that at Downtown Disney.

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ADAM: Then they had one in the Magic Kingdom and also in California Adventure.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, cool.

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ADAM: Yeah, so there's three different ones.

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ADAM: We just did the one at Downtown Disney so that we could pass some time.

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ADAM: And then my wife, she bought a Pandora charm.

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ADAM: She wanted a park exclusive one, so she did that.

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ADAM: And then, yeah, we just walked around a little bit and my daughter loved the Lego, the Lego store.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, yeah.

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VIRGINIA: Did you happen to do the design your own minifigure experience?

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ADAM: No, it was pretty chaotic in there, but they have an awesome model of the genie in Aladdin and Jasmine flying on a carpet up there that she loved.

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ADAM: And then she just liked playing with the Legos sets that they had set up, so.

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ADAM: Didn't do a minifig, because there was about 50 people here on that spot, but pretty much checked out the rest of the store.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah, we did the design your own minifigure in Orlando, and we were able to make an appointment for it online, so we had like a reserved spot, and it was a lot of fun.

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VIRGINIA: It's something to consider for future trips.

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VIRGINIA: Anything else you checked out in Downtown Disney?

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ADAM: Not really.

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ADAM: We just walked through all the stores, did some browsing, needed to get the kids back pretty quickly so that they could, as we mentioned before, they didn't take a nap, so we had to make sure they needed to get fed and rested and prepared for the next day.

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VIRGINIA: How late was your room ready?

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VIRGINIA: What time were you able to get in?

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ADAM: It was ready right when we left to go to Downtown Disney, basically.

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ADAM: So we were about, I would say, 2 o'clock.

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ADAM: They do a pretty good job if you check in to get it turned pretty quickly, and they even text me and said, hey, it's ready, I didn't have to keep checking or anything like that, so it was nice.

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VIRGINIA: Nice.

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VIRGINIA: And for Spring Hill Suites, the word suite is in the name.

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VIRGINIA: Did you have a suite experience?

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VIRGINIA: Was there a kitchen or anything like that in your room?

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VIRGINIA: What was that like?

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ADAM: Yeah, so the Spring Hill Suites usually typically has a little living room when you walk in with the desk separating the living room from the bed area.

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ADAM: We upgraded to a, we got a free upgrade to a Firework View, which if you pay for that upgrade, I definitely would not do that.

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ADAM: But since we got it for free, it's fine.

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ADAM: So just a desk in between the bed area, and then not a full kitchen, but there's a microwave and a fridge, most other hotel rooms.

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ADAM: But we had two queens, and the kids had a trundle bed, which is their couch in the living room area.

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ADAM: There was another full-size bed that pulled out from under that, so they thought that was pretty cool.

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VIRGINIA: So if it was a Firework View room, could you see...

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VIRGINIA: I want to call it the Wonder Wheel, because that's what we call it here in Coney Island.

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VIRGINIA: But in Disneyland, I tend to call it Mickey's Wheel of Death because of the moving cars.

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VIRGINIA: Like, could you see anything tall like that from here?

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ADAM: No, there's actually like a tree line in front of us.

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ADAM: I believe I have a picture that I can share with you that shows that room, because I want to make sure, okay, this is what they call Firework View.

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ADAM: So our kids watched the fireworks for about two minutes from there.

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ADAM: They're like, okay, we're done.

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ADAM: So whenever you get the free upgrade, may as well try it.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, sure.

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VIRGINIA: If it's free, yeah, bring it on.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: Well, let's get into your park time.

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VIRGINIA: So Sunday, March 24th was your first park day, and you had anticipated doing early entry.

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VIRGINIA: So what time did you actually end up making it over there?

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ADAM: So the park order that we did was Disneyland, then California Adventure Disneyland for the three.

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ADAM: When you're off-site, you can't do early entry there, but you can get in line at security with the three hotels on-site.

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ADAM: The on-site ones are the only ones that get it.

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ADAM: So you get in line at security, which is at the beginning of downtown Disney.

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ADAM: That opens at 7.30, an hour before the park opened.

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ADAM: And we got there at about 6.55 or 7, and we were probably 50 yards from the front of the security.

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ADAM: So pretty good size line for that time.

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ADAM: Right after that, the line just exploded.

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ADAM: So you go through security about 7.30, then you've got about another five to seven minute walk, depending on how fast you walk to the gates.

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ADAM: And what's cool about Disneyland is, I know most people know this, but the two parks are 100 yards apart.

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ADAM: So we stood in line for Disneyland that day.

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ADAM: And one more thing before, so I don't forget to mention it, at Disneyland, the hotels flip-flop, which parks that get early entry for, they don't get it for every park like Disney World.

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ADAM: So that park, I wasn't aware of before we went.

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ADAM: The first day, California Adventure had early entry, and Disneyland did not.

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ADAM: So we all walked in at 730.

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ADAM: I was kind of surprised that nobody was going on rides, but then I learned the next day that they flip-flop.

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ADAM: So like, okay, that makes more sense.

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ADAM: We scanned in at 730 at Disneyland.

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ADAM: Right when you scan in there, their Genie Plus isn't like Disney World as well.

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ADAM: You have to wait till you scan your ticket in to pick your first ride.

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ADAM: So as soon as we scanned in, we booked Mickey and Minnie's Runway Railway, and then we stood in the hub until official park opening.

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ADAM: So that's different because everything else at Disney World, you can book at 7 a.m.

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ADAM: and then two hours after that.

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ADAM: But this, you have to scan your ticket, and then you get to pick your first experience.

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VIRGINIA: And how do you feel about that?

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ADAM: As an offsite guest, it was great.

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ADAM: I like their Genie Plus.

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ADAM: We'll get into a lot more, but I like the way that they do it as far as how much you get to experience.

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ADAM: With us getting up early, usually I don't mind the 7 a.m.

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ADAM: The only bad part is doing the virtual queue and the first lightning light at the same time.

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ADAM: That's the toughest part.

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ADAM: But with us being there and beating the crowd, most of the crowd, and being second family on the gate, I think that's a positive for us.

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ADAM: Those people that like to sleep in probably like the 7 a.m.

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ADAM: and then go back to sleep.

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VIRGINIA: I don't know.

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VIRGINIA: People like me, I get up at 7 a.m.

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VIRGINIA: and then I have a really hard time getting back to sleep because I'm so excited and I just want my day to start.

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VIRGINIA: Even though I would love to sleep more.

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ADAM: We're always going to be on the rope anyway, so scanning the ticket is probably a better way for us.

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VIRGINIA: All right, and so what was the first experience you went towards when you got into the park?

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VIRGINIA: What time was your Mickey and Minnie Genie Plus scheduled for?

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VIRGINIA: Did you do something before that?

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ADAM: Yeah, so it was at 8.30, and we got into the park at 8.

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ADAM: The rope dropped at the hub at 8.

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ADAM: We did Mickey and Minnie's first, and there was no line, so we just walked on it.

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ADAM: The kids loved that ride.

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ADAM: We knew they loved that ride.

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ADAM: Then they asked to do it again, so we had the lightning lane for that.

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ADAM: So we did that two and a go.

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ADAM: And the setup of the ride is so much cooler out there.

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ADAM: Like the beginning, I was walking through the queues and all that.

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ADAM: You're in Toontown, and they actually built it for that, not just fit it into an old ride.

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ADAM: So we thought that was really cool, but the ride, virtually the same.

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ADAM: So we rode that twice, and then Zoe and I, we headed over to Roger Rabbit's Spin.

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ADAM: Right after that.

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ADAM: That's something my wife doesn't like, is spinning.

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ADAM: So I'm like, well, we'll check this one out.

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ADAM: And see how it is before you guys ride it.

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ADAM: And it was a one and done for my daughter and me, too.

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ADAM: So luckily she's in there.

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ADAM: She didn't ride it either.

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ADAM: So those are the first two we did.

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VIRGINIA: I don't think I did the Roger Rabbit ride either of the times that I've been to Disneyland.

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VIRGINIA: Is it like a teacup type experience?

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ADAM: So it's like kind of a dark ride experience, but then you can steer the car and it spins randomly.

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ADAM: So it's kind of like on a track and then just spins you out of nowhere.

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ADAM: But it's really, really jerky.

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ADAM: Not a new ride, so not the newest technology.

00:14:14.937 --> 00:14:15.437
ADAM: It's smooth.

00:14:17.257 --> 00:14:19.677
VIRGINIA: I don't know how I missed riding that.

00:14:19.857 --> 00:14:21.637
VIRGINIA: I mean, maybe I rode it and I just forgot.

00:14:21.657 --> 00:14:22.117
VIRGINIA: I don't know.

00:14:22.137 --> 00:14:27.337
VIRGINIA: I'll have to do a little YouTube action to see if I remember anything about it.

00:14:27.357 --> 00:14:28.517
VIRGINIA: But I don't think I've ridden it.

00:14:28.937 --> 00:14:31.357
ADAM: I will miss riding it the next time we go out there, too.

00:14:38.057 --> 00:14:43.517
ADAM: Yeah, so we right outside in Toontown, they have this awesome play area for the kids.

00:14:44.317 --> 00:14:45.097
ADAM: It's massive.

00:14:45.377 --> 00:14:48.217
ADAM: And they played on that for 20, 30 minutes.

00:14:48.497 --> 00:14:50.877
ADAM: And so whenever we needed a break, that's somewhere we headed.

00:14:50.877 --> 00:14:56.457
ADAM: So not something that I've seen at Disney World, where they have that good of a playground right in the middle.

00:14:56.557 --> 00:14:57.877
ADAM: So they did that.

00:14:57.897 --> 00:15:01.797
ADAM: And then we stood in line for Chippendales roller coaster right after that.

00:15:02.897 --> 00:15:03.357
ADAM: Okay.

00:15:03.597 --> 00:15:06.257
ADAM: So that was technically our son's first roller coaster was.

00:15:06.537 --> 00:15:07.037
VIRGINIA: Oh, really?

00:15:08.517 --> 00:15:11.277
VIRGINIA: How would you compare that to, say, the barnstormer?

00:15:11.917 --> 00:15:13.997
ADAM: So again, the queue is really cool.

00:15:14.497 --> 00:15:18.797
ADAM: One thing I'll say about Disneyland is standing outside is great.

00:15:19.637 --> 00:15:22.597
ADAM: You're not getting beat in the sun and the humidity.

00:15:22.617 --> 00:15:23.797
ADAM: So that was really good.

00:15:23.937 --> 00:15:25.557
ADAM: The ride's pretty much the same.

00:15:25.577 --> 00:15:28.217
ADAM: I would say I probably like the barnstorm a little bit better.

00:15:29.277 --> 00:15:31.097
ADAM: But pretty similar, I would say.

00:15:31.457 --> 00:15:35.997
VIRGINIA: The Chibb and Dale coaster is not one that I think I've done either.

00:15:36.277 --> 00:15:41.517
ADAM: I don't know when you went there with your kids, but that's kind of an area of the park that, you know, they have Mickey and Minnie's.

00:15:41.617 --> 00:15:44.717
ADAM: If you don't have little kids, you probably get in and get out and leave.

00:15:44.737 --> 00:15:46.737
ADAM: So that kind of makes sense.

00:15:46.757 --> 00:15:48.977
ADAM: It's kind of the same way that the barnstorm is tucked in the way back.

00:15:50.077 --> 00:15:52.517
ADAM: You probably don't even look for it on the map if you don't know it's there.

00:15:52.797 --> 00:15:53.057
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:15:53.077 --> 00:15:58.537
VIRGINIA: I feel like I focused when we were in that area, we were focused on meeting Mickey in his house.

00:15:59.037 --> 00:16:00.797
ADAM: Yes, that makes sense too.

00:16:01.297 --> 00:16:03.377
ADAM: We happened not to do that this trip, which was interesting.

00:16:03.397 --> 00:16:09.057
ADAM: I mean, we had great lines with the lightning lines, so just never fit in.

00:16:09.117 --> 00:16:13.057
ADAM: But we had met him before, so we waved at him a few times on the street.

00:16:13.457 --> 00:16:14.997
ADAM: We never stopped there and did that.

00:16:15.057 --> 00:16:18.297
ADAM: So, oh, but hey, I forgot walking into the park.

00:16:18.317 --> 00:16:29.617
ADAM: I totally spaced this out on my notes because the stroller mad dash, I don't know how I blacked that out, but when the rope dropped, we had a mad dash through the castle, and Peter Pan is right there.

00:16:29.937 --> 00:16:36.137
ADAM: The line was already queuing really long, so I took the stroller and the two kids, I told my wife, hey, just stay in line, we'll find you.

00:16:36.317 --> 00:16:40.877
ADAM: So hustled and parked the stroller, my son started freaking out because he thought we were leaving mom behind, of course.

00:16:41.297 --> 00:16:41.677
VIRGINIA: Oh, no.

00:16:43.037 --> 00:16:51.937
ADAM: And then we found her in line right when she was getting to the beginning of the actual queue, and I waited five minutes for Peter Pan, but by the time we got off, it was up to 55 minutes.

00:16:53.137 --> 00:16:58.077
ADAM: Again, pretty much same ride and the same queue builds, and it's the same slow load and unload.

00:16:58.097 --> 00:17:04.257
ADAM: So I'm glad we knocked that out first before we got to our relaxing part, the Toontown that we just talked about.

00:17:04.277 --> 00:17:16.337
VIRGINIA: I will say that the version in Walt Disney World, when you're flying over London, does have the three-dimensional buildings, and you can see the cars moving.

00:17:16.497 --> 00:17:20.117
VIRGINIA: And if memory serves, that is not the case in Disneyland.

00:17:20.317 --> 00:17:21.057
ADAM: That's correct.

00:17:21.277 --> 00:17:26.957
ADAM: The last time we were in Disney World, we rope-dropped Peter Pan with our kids being three in one, or four in one.

00:17:27.277 --> 00:17:28.877
ADAM: As soon as we got to the front, it broke down.

00:17:28.897 --> 00:17:31.197
ADAM: So I actually did it right the last time I was there.

00:17:31.217 --> 00:17:33.497
ADAM: So it's a little foggy for me.

00:17:33.657 --> 00:17:35.357
ADAM: So yeah, but that's true.

00:17:35.377 --> 00:17:37.437
ADAM: There's no moving cars, Disneyland version.

00:17:37.517 --> 00:17:42.357
VIRGINIA: That's really, I'm going to go as far as to say, what makes it my husband's favorite ride in Disney World.

00:17:42.617 --> 00:17:47.577
VIRGINIA: Like he loves flying over the city and seeing all the little things.

00:17:47.597 --> 00:17:51.477
VIRGINIA: And I don't know, I guess he just has memories of it from when he was young.

00:17:52.777 --> 00:17:59.577
VIRGINIA: Okay, so you said you didn't make time to meet Mickey, but I remember you mentioned that your daughter has an autograph book.

00:17:59.597 --> 00:18:02.557
VIRGINIA: So did she end up using that on this trip?

00:18:03.097 --> 00:18:08.297
ADAM: No, we're in the process of moving, so that actually is in storage right now, unfortunately.

00:18:08.317 --> 00:18:15.837
ADAM: But it actually turned out to be okay because another different thing about Disneyland compared to Disney World is they're just kind of out roaming around the characters.

00:18:17.337 --> 00:18:21.517
ADAM: There's a few like Minnie and Mickey and some princesses, there's a few spots there.

00:18:21.537 --> 00:18:27.217
ADAM: But with the way we had our lightning lines lined up, you know, those lines were much longer wait than we had time for.

00:18:27.237 --> 00:18:29.257
ADAM: So we packed our day in a different way.

00:18:29.257 --> 00:18:34.157
ADAM: They got to meet a few characters walking around throughout the day and, you know, Mickey's walking around everywhere.

00:18:34.177 --> 00:18:36.437
ADAM: So they felt like they saw him and met him too.

00:18:36.437 --> 00:18:37.757
ADAM: So it's fine, worked out fine.

00:18:38.357 --> 00:18:51.857
VIRGINIA: Yeah, and I think it makes it for sort of a more spontaneous experience, but it also means that even if you have an autograph book, it's harder to get an autograph because they don't really want to stop and make a line form.

00:18:52.177 --> 00:18:57.397
VIRGINIA: It's more of like a hello, maybe a hug, and then kind of move on situation.

00:18:57.417 --> 00:19:06.437
ADAM: Yeah, and so like on the second or third day, our daughter, she walked with Merida from Brave like a hundred yards, just had a conversation with her.

00:19:06.457 --> 00:19:08.777
ADAM: Got some great pictures of that.

00:19:08.917 --> 00:19:13.157
ADAM: And then right after that, they ran into the Genie and they both took pictures with him.

00:19:13.177 --> 00:19:20.037
ADAM: You just don't have those kind of long connections at Disney World, unless you get lucky.

00:19:20.697 --> 00:19:22.317
VIRGINIA: All right, well, what was next in your day?

00:19:23.077 --> 00:19:25.157
ADAM: Most of these are Lightning Lane Booking.

00:19:25.177 --> 00:19:33.117
ADAM: So we had, I mean, the first day we did 12 Lightning Lanes, so I'm not gonna, I can't mention them all, but the next ride was It's A Small World, Lightning Lane for that.

00:19:33.417 --> 00:19:36.617
ADAM: Some of your this or that questions might be, what ride do you like compared to the other one?

00:19:37.697 --> 00:19:42.437
ADAM: Again, I think I like the Disneyland version of this because it's the original, first of all.

00:19:43.157 --> 00:19:48.817
ADAM: And then I like the little scavenger hunt you get with the characters of the movies.

00:19:49.357 --> 00:19:50.297
VIRGINIA: Oh yeah.

00:19:50.317 --> 00:19:52.497
ADAM: That's a cool added touch that they do.

00:19:52.977 --> 00:20:00.597
VIRGINIA: I know, I wish they would add that in Florida because to me that just makes it even more fun to spot those characters throughout.

00:20:00.877 --> 00:20:05.737
ADAM: Yeah, the kids could point them out and say who they are and they get more excited for that too.

00:20:06.217 --> 00:20:06.517
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:20:06.957 --> 00:20:08.617
VIRGINIA: All right, what was next?

00:20:08.637 --> 00:20:12.677
ADAM: Next we went and retrieved our stroller and snacks right by Peter Pan's.

00:20:12.697 --> 00:20:14.117
ADAM: So we walked the whole way without that.

00:20:14.497 --> 00:20:19.437
ADAM: Kids wanted to do the carousel and actually Mary Poppins was riding around the carousel when we got there.

00:20:19.457 --> 00:20:25.817
ADAM: So another character roaming around that the dapper Dan's were singing and she was riding along with them.

00:20:25.837 --> 00:20:31.677
ADAM: So did that and then headed off to Tomorrowland and drove cars at Autopia.

00:20:31.917 --> 00:20:39.617
ADAM: So it's our son's first driving experience and our daughter has driven out in Walt Disney World before.

00:20:39.657 --> 00:20:41.997
ADAM: So they love that too.

00:20:42.437 --> 00:20:43.057
VIRGINIA: How do you do?

00:20:43.077 --> 00:20:45.437
ADAM: He hit the rails quite a bit.

00:20:45.997 --> 00:20:46.497
VIRGINIA: I'm sure.

00:20:46.737 --> 00:20:51.417
ADAM: So he likes, he prefers riding rides with his mom over me.

00:20:51.557 --> 00:20:59.197
ADAM: So she took some good videos of that and I got to ride with him a few times the next day when he drove and he still hadn't learned, still had a bunch of rails.

00:21:01.157 --> 00:21:01.877
VIRGINIA: He's got time.

00:21:01.897 --> 00:21:02.577
VIRGINIA: He's got time.

00:21:04.437 --> 00:21:08.417
VIRGINIA: Did you stop at all on this day for naps for the kids?

00:21:09.137 --> 00:21:11.657
ADAM: So right after this ride, he was looking pretty tired.

00:21:11.677 --> 00:21:12.857
ADAM: So we like, we'll ride.

00:21:12.877 --> 00:21:15.177
ADAM: We had a Lightning Lane for Buzz, which is right by it.

00:21:15.197 --> 00:21:16.417
ADAM: So we're like, well, we'll do that.

00:21:16.637 --> 00:21:18.017
ADAM: And then he'll take a nap.

00:21:18.217 --> 00:21:22.597
ADAM: So we got in the Lightning Lane for Buzz and he'd slept in the stroller for two hours.

00:21:22.757 --> 00:21:23.837
ADAM: So, oh, wow.

00:21:24.097 --> 00:21:24.697
ADAM: It was great.

00:21:24.917 --> 00:21:25.497
ADAM: Maybe more.

00:21:25.917 --> 00:21:27.537
VIRGINIA: So what did you do while he was sleeping?

00:21:27.697 --> 00:21:33.897
ADAM: This is kind of the cool part of Disneyland and Disney World is the rider swap, which we talked about on our pre trip.

00:21:33.917 --> 00:21:37.937
ADAM: But the first one we did Lightning Lane, Zoey and I for Smuggler's Run.

00:21:38.237 --> 00:21:40.077
ADAM: So she's tall enough to do that.

00:21:40.517 --> 00:21:42.597
ADAM: My wife doesn't like simulator rides that much anyway.

00:21:42.617 --> 00:21:46.277
ADAM: So she's like, take her and I'll stay out here with our son while you guys ride that.

00:21:46.297 --> 00:21:49.037
ADAM: So she got to be a gunner.

00:21:49.057 --> 00:21:49.877
ADAM: I got to be a gunner.

00:21:49.897 --> 00:21:51.097
ADAM: We rode with another family.

00:21:51.117 --> 00:21:53.557
ADAM: So awesome ride for her.

00:21:53.617 --> 00:21:55.757
ADAM: She thought we were actually flying, which is pretty cool in space.

00:21:57.397 --> 00:22:02.557
ADAM: But then after that, we had a Lightning Lane for Big Thunder Mountain.

00:22:02.577 --> 00:22:07.877
ADAM: And cool thing, even with Lightning Lane and individual Lightning Lane is my daughter rode with my wife first.

00:22:08.497 --> 00:22:09.517
ADAM: We did a rider swap.

00:22:10.257 --> 00:22:12.557
ADAM: They let our daughter ride with me the second time too.

00:22:12.577 --> 00:22:16.737
ADAM: So even though we had only three Lightning Lanes, she got to ride twice, which is really cool.

00:22:16.757 --> 00:22:18.977
ADAM: So she got to end up doing all the good rides twice.

00:22:19.637 --> 00:22:20.017
VIRGINIA: Nice.

00:22:20.417 --> 00:22:21.797
ADAM: So we did that.

00:22:22.377 --> 00:22:23.797
ADAM: And she loved that roller coaster.

00:22:23.957 --> 00:22:31.797
ADAM: So at first, what I forgot to mention about Chipman Dale is she was worried about going on that roller coaster and how scary it was going to be.

00:22:31.817 --> 00:22:34.297
ADAM: Like it's just like Goofy's, it's her favorite ride out there.

00:22:34.637 --> 00:22:35.497
ADAM: This was even better.

00:22:35.517 --> 00:22:37.257
ADAM: So I think we got her back on track.

00:22:37.837 --> 00:22:39.017
VIRGINIA: Good, good, good, good.

00:22:39.997 --> 00:22:40.517
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:22:40.577 --> 00:22:41.677
VIRGINIA: So what was next?

00:22:41.757 --> 00:22:46.817
VIRGINIA: And at what point did your son end up waking up within all of these adventures?

00:22:47.337 --> 00:22:49.697
ADAM: He doesn't wake up for a while.

00:22:49.717 --> 00:22:52.997
ADAM: So we actually had a Lightning Lane to Indiana Jones.

00:22:53.817 --> 00:22:55.437
ADAM: My wife and I just ride or swapped on that one.

00:22:55.697 --> 00:22:57.957
ADAM: Didn't think her daughter would appreciate that very much.

00:22:57.977 --> 00:23:03.277
ADAM: So she went first, and I took our daughter to go get a lollipop on Main Street because she'd been asking for one all day.

00:23:03.297 --> 00:23:05.517
ADAM: We're like, hey, when your brother's sleeping, we'll get you on.

00:23:06.377 --> 00:23:07.397
ADAM: So that was good timing.

00:23:07.717 --> 00:23:12.277
ADAM: And then right when I walked back with them to get on my ride, that's when he woke up and they went.

00:23:12.637 --> 00:23:15.437
ADAM: So they had to go get him a lollipop while I was on the ride.

00:23:15.437 --> 00:23:17.997
ADAM: So that was a good two hours.

00:23:18.017 --> 00:23:23.397
ADAM: We got basically five rides in because two riders swaps and smugglers for us.

00:23:23.397 --> 00:23:25.857
ADAM: So pretty healthy nap.

00:23:25.877 --> 00:23:31.057
ADAM: So after that, I had been looking at Lightning Lanes for the other park because they're so close together.

00:23:32.097 --> 00:23:37.637
ADAM: We went over to California Adventure for about 2.30 in the afternoon, pretty much walked straight in.

00:23:38.277 --> 00:23:41.217
ADAM: And we talked about how much he likes cars.

00:23:41.237 --> 00:23:43.137
ADAM: So that was our first stop was Cars Land.

00:23:43.397 --> 00:23:45.257
ADAM: He's not tall enough to ride Greater Erie Springs.

00:23:45.277 --> 00:23:46.577
ADAM: He's about an inch and a half short.

00:23:46.697 --> 00:23:49.137
ADAM: But luckily for that, you can't see the ride at all.

00:23:49.857 --> 00:23:54.297
ADAM: So he saw the Toemators dance or whatever it's called.

00:23:54.317 --> 00:23:55.737
ADAM: Yeah, whatever that one's called.

00:23:55.757 --> 00:23:56.857
ADAM: He saw that when we were walking.

00:23:56.877 --> 00:23:58.017
ADAM: So we had paid.

00:23:58.037 --> 00:24:01.557
ADAM: It was a $21 individual lightening for Greater Erie Springs.

00:24:01.577 --> 00:24:04.997
ADAM: So we did ride our swipe with that with our daughter again.

00:24:05.017 --> 00:24:10.597
ADAM: And he got to ride that Toemators junkyard jamboree two or three times while we all did that.

00:24:10.697 --> 00:24:12.417
ADAM: So that ride is really cool.

00:24:13.077 --> 00:24:14.597
ADAM: So much better than Test Track.

00:24:14.917 --> 00:24:15.717
VIRGINIA: Oh, my goodness.

00:24:15.717 --> 00:24:16.817
VIRGINIA: Yes, exactly.

00:24:16.977 --> 00:24:20.397
VIRGINIA: But I did just hear that they're going to be doing some renovations to Test Track.

00:24:20.417 --> 00:24:22.537
VIRGINIA: So it will be exciting to see what it becomes next.

00:24:22.797 --> 00:24:23.617
ADAM: I'm excited to see that.

00:24:23.637 --> 00:24:26.157
ADAM: That ride is just so well done out in Disneyland.

00:24:27.237 --> 00:24:31.497
ADAM: You see all the characters and that race up the end is pretty long and it's fun.

00:24:31.797 --> 00:24:34.237
ADAM: After that, we saw Toemator driving down the street.

00:24:34.257 --> 00:24:37.497
ADAM: So that was exciting for our son.

00:24:37.517 --> 00:24:39.337
ADAM: He was excited about that.

00:24:39.357 --> 00:24:42.777
VIRGINIA: Were you over in that area when the sun started to go down?

00:24:43.117 --> 00:24:44.197
ADAM: So we went there a lot.

00:24:44.297 --> 00:24:47.337
ADAM: We were there during the day and at night later in one of our days.

00:24:47.577 --> 00:24:50.137
ADAM: So it's a much different experience, obviously.

00:24:50.157 --> 00:24:58.077
ADAM: I was like, we have to go check it out at night so that we can see what it's like in both places or both times of the day.

00:24:59.117 --> 00:25:01.717
ADAM: After that, we had a Lightning Lane for Soarin.

00:25:01.937 --> 00:25:03.417
ADAM: It was Soarin over California.

00:25:03.437 --> 00:25:05.397
ADAM: I hadn't done that in at least 10 years.

00:25:05.657 --> 00:25:09.477
ADAM: So I would say there is a lot of wonky CGI in that one too, though.

00:25:10.877 --> 00:25:13.937
ADAM: Everybody complains about the Eiffel Tower being crooked.

00:25:15.137 --> 00:25:17.557
ADAM: The Golden Gate Bridge right out of the gate is pretty wonky.

00:25:17.577 --> 00:25:23.517
ADAM: But I do like this one better, and I don't know if they're fixing that, and that there's a lot of scents when you fight through California.

00:25:23.537 --> 00:25:24.897
ADAM: You just have a lot of different smells.

00:25:25.437 --> 00:25:26.637
ADAM: That's cool, and it adds to it.

00:25:26.897 --> 00:25:28.777
ADAM: Our daughter got to ride that one again twice.

00:25:29.177 --> 00:25:30.677
ADAM: I think that might be her favorite ride.

00:25:30.697 --> 00:25:33.337
ADAM: So we walked over to Little Mermaid after that.

00:25:33.357 --> 00:25:35.097
ADAM: Our son, he's tall enough to ride that one.

00:25:37.437 --> 00:25:43.457
ADAM: One funny story is our daughter was dressed as Elsa that day, and one of the cast members said, Hey, Elsa.

00:25:43.477 --> 00:25:45.397
ADAM: She's like, I hope they know I'm not the real Elsa.

00:25:47.957 --> 00:25:48.777
VIRGINIA: That's cute.

00:25:48.797 --> 00:25:50.877
ADAM: I think they know.

00:25:53.797 --> 00:25:54.597
ADAM: So we did that.

00:25:54.617 --> 00:25:58.737
ADAM: And then we were going to do it in Credit Coast, but then it started raining.

00:25:59.037 --> 00:26:03.717
ADAM: So obviously they shut that down because it was outdoors.

00:26:04.297 --> 00:26:07.557
ADAM: So we got an any ride, Lightning Lane, and we used it on...

00:26:07.777 --> 00:26:08.977
ADAM: There was a Monsters, Inc.

00:26:09.397 --> 00:26:11.817
ADAM: actual ride out there that we used that on.

00:26:12.737 --> 00:26:16.637
ADAM: The line was an hour long with the rain, and it's not an hour long type of ride.

00:26:16.657 --> 00:26:19.517
ADAM: So luckily we had the Lightning Lane for that.

00:26:19.817 --> 00:26:23.757
ADAM: After that, so Philhar Magic is right outside there.

00:26:23.797 --> 00:26:27.137
ADAM: My wife and I actually got super lucky and got Guardians Lightning Lane.

00:26:27.677 --> 00:26:36.517
ADAM: So what I do, I don't know if people have heard of this, but as soon as on your Lightning Lane, if you just modify the time, you can get lucky and just keep refreshing the time.

00:26:37.217 --> 00:26:42.637
ADAM: So if I'm sitting there by myself and they're on a ride or whatever, if our ride's at eight, I can just keep refreshing.

00:26:42.657 --> 00:26:44.917
ADAM: And sometimes one right in front of you pops up.

00:26:44.937 --> 00:26:46.237
ADAM: So I did that several times.

00:26:46.257 --> 00:26:51.577
ADAM: We just did ride or swap on the Guardians ride, and that ride's awesome as well.

00:26:52.837 --> 00:26:55.277
VIRGINIA: And you had debated taking your daughter on it.

00:26:55.297 --> 00:26:56.517
VIRGINIA: You didn't think you were going to.

00:26:56.857 --> 00:26:57.997
VIRGINIA: That turned out to be the case.

00:26:58.017 --> 00:27:00.097
VIRGINIA: It was just the two grownups.

00:27:00.377 --> 00:27:06.937
ADAM: Yes, we rode it all three days, and I asked her on the last day if she wanted to do it, and I told her what it did, and she asked if it would be scary.

00:27:06.957 --> 00:27:09.477
ADAM: I'm like, yeah, it'll probably be scary for you.

00:27:09.697 --> 00:27:10.457
ADAM: She's like, no, I'm good.

00:27:11.217 --> 00:27:12.497
ADAM: So we rode it the first two times.

00:27:12.637 --> 00:27:13.977
ADAM: Definitely wasn't going to take it the first time.

00:27:14.717 --> 00:27:16.237
ADAM: Second time, I didn't think so either.

00:27:16.257 --> 00:27:20.057
ADAM: I'm like, I'll ask her the third time, because she kind of rocked out everything else.

00:27:20.257 --> 00:27:25.157
VIRGINIA: Well, I'm going to guess that she's very close to going on those sorts of things.

00:27:25.177 --> 00:27:30.997
VIRGINIA: Yes, it sounds like she's definitely a little bit of a thrill seeker, and maybe a cautious thrill seeker.

00:27:31.197 --> 00:27:33.077
VIRGINIA: But yeah, well, we have it.

00:27:33.097 --> 00:27:36.177
ADAM: There's a story on day two that we'll get to that she she did pretty well.

00:27:36.197 --> 00:27:41.197
ADAM: So after that, we hopped back over to Disneyland, because we had one last lightning lane for pirates.

00:27:41.457 --> 00:27:42.237
ADAM: That ended our night.

00:27:42.257 --> 00:27:44.377
ADAM: We walked back to our hotel about eight o'clock.

00:27:44.437 --> 00:27:47.637
ADAM: So OK, kids fell asleep on the way back on that one.

00:27:48.117 --> 00:27:50.737
VIRGINIA: Oh, I bet that was a busy first day.

00:27:50.997 --> 00:27:51.457
ADAM: Yes.

00:27:51.557 --> 00:27:54.017
ADAM: So we did 18 rides that day.

00:27:54.677 --> 00:27:56.457
ADAM: And 12 of them were lightning lanes.

00:27:56.737 --> 00:27:57.517
VIRGINIA: Well worth it.

00:27:57.797 --> 00:27:58.717
ADAM: Yeah, definitely.

00:27:58.737 --> 00:28:01.137
ADAM: So it was 30 bucks a day when we prepaid.

00:28:01.517 --> 00:28:04.097
ADAM: I didn't look up what it cost a day without prepaying.

00:28:04.197 --> 00:28:05.917
VIRGINIA: OK, technical question.

00:28:06.697 --> 00:28:11.297
VIRGINIA: So your son is two and therefore did not need to pay for a ticket.

00:28:11.457 --> 00:28:14.517
VIRGINIA: Do you have to pay for Jeannie Plus for him?

00:28:14.677 --> 00:28:18.197
VIRGINIA: Or is he just included if the other three people in the family get it?

00:28:18.697 --> 00:28:19.677
ADAM: Yeah, he's just included.

00:28:21.617 --> 00:28:26.897
ADAM: So like with all the ones that he met the higher requirement, he did not have to pay.

00:28:26.917 --> 00:28:27.997
ADAM: He just got along with us.

00:28:28.417 --> 00:28:29.337
VIRGINIA: OK, perfect.

00:28:29.377 --> 00:28:29.817
VIRGINIA: Perfect.

00:28:29.977 --> 00:28:31.157
ADAM: Yeah, pretty great deal.

00:28:31.177 --> 00:28:33.777
ADAM: That's why we wanted to go before he was three.

00:28:33.797 --> 00:28:35.057
ADAM: Just it's a cheaper trip.

00:28:35.477 --> 00:28:37.517
VIRGINIA: Yeah, get it in there while you can.

00:28:38.137 --> 00:28:39.277
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:28:39.297 --> 00:28:44.337
VIRGINIA: So Monday, March the 25th, you were heading over into California Adventure first.

00:28:45.057 --> 00:28:47.557
VIRGINIA: Did you head straight back for Cars Land?

00:28:47.577 --> 00:28:53.637
VIRGINIA: Because I'm imagining that maybe your son was itching to get back over there after he knew what it was.

00:28:53.837 --> 00:28:54.157
ADAM: Yeah.

00:28:54.237 --> 00:28:57.757
ADAM: So this is when I realized that they flip-flopped early entries.

00:28:58.637 --> 00:29:00.577
ADAM: But the first two days were California Adventure.

00:29:00.777 --> 00:29:04.277
ADAM: So this was a California Adventure early entry for onsite guests.

00:29:05.117 --> 00:29:06.117
VIRGINIA: So was it busier?

00:29:06.877 --> 00:29:07.637
ADAM: Yeah, it was.

00:29:07.657 --> 00:29:10.717
ADAM: I was kicking myself like, how did I mess that up?

00:29:10.837 --> 00:29:16.577
ADAM: But it ended up working out because, again, we scan our ticket at 7.30.

00:29:16.597 --> 00:29:18.077
ADAM: All the early entries get to go at 7.30.

00:29:18.097 --> 00:29:19.037
ADAM: We have to wait till 8.

00:29:19.577 --> 00:29:22.017
ADAM: But as soon as we scan in, we get our first lightning lane.

00:29:22.617 --> 00:29:28.537
ADAM: So if we would have waited, all the good lightning lanes would have been gone, if we wouldn't have hopped.

00:29:28.557 --> 00:29:33.077
ADAM: And then I was able to sit there and look at wait times for the first half hour to see where we should go.

00:29:34.017 --> 00:29:36.897
ADAM: And Radiator Springs didn't open until like noon that day.

00:29:36.917 --> 00:29:40.777
ADAM: So changed our whole plan, but luckily we were watching.

00:29:41.197 --> 00:29:45.377
ADAM: So our first ride was actually a web slingers with a lightning lane.

00:29:46.157 --> 00:29:47.177
VIRGINIA: How did you do on that?

00:29:47.317 --> 00:29:49.057
VIRGINIA: Cause I know you were excited to try that one.

00:29:50.057 --> 00:29:51.117
ADAM: My arms are really tired.

00:29:51.137 --> 00:29:58.557
ADAM: I think I got, if I remember right, I got 250,000 or 300,000, something like that.

00:29:59.357 --> 00:30:08.997
ADAM: Our car got like 500,000, but it was pretty funny watching the little kids figure it out and do their little Spider-Man motion.

00:30:09.477 --> 00:30:13.977
ADAM: Our son was doing it the wrong way, so it wasn't working, but they were all psyched.

00:30:13.997 --> 00:30:20.157
ADAM: They kept their 3D glasses on, but I'd read that again in a heartbeat without, but you don't need an arm workout after that.

00:30:23.137 --> 00:30:25.857
ADAM: But after that, we went straight to Toy Story Mania too.

00:30:25.877 --> 00:30:27.237
ADAM: So another arm workout.

00:30:27.857 --> 00:30:30.957
ADAM: We got there pretty quick, so we didn't have to use our Lightning Lane for that.

00:30:31.197 --> 00:30:34.177
ADAM: We had a Lightning Lane set up right after that, so we did it twice in a row.

00:30:34.697 --> 00:30:36.317
ADAM: I did break down, but I got that one.

00:30:36.337 --> 00:30:40.177
ADAM: I got 179,000 on that, and I was riding with my son.

00:30:40.197 --> 00:30:42.137
ADAM: He got zero, so beat him.

00:30:44.257 --> 00:30:46.117
VIRGINIA: So he's got some room for improvement.

00:30:48.737 --> 00:30:55.357
ADAM: So, and then, like I said, we did that one, had a Lightning Lane that was about 15 minutes away, so we rode the...

00:30:55.617 --> 00:30:59.817
ADAM: Jesse's got a little carousel on there we rode while we waited.

00:31:00.497 --> 00:31:01.677
ADAM: Pretty cool area back there.

00:31:02.077 --> 00:31:04.177
ADAM: I think the Pixar theme, they did right.

00:31:05.297 --> 00:31:06.617
ADAM: Just to make it all feel uniform.

00:31:06.857 --> 00:31:11.857
ADAM: After that, we had a rider swap for a credit coaster, which we didn't get to ride it the day before.

00:31:12.197 --> 00:31:13.897
ADAM: Obviously, the kids were too short.

00:31:14.017 --> 00:31:15.917
ADAM: That's a 48-incher, I believe.

00:31:17.337 --> 00:31:24.537
ADAM: So we just did a rider swap, just my wife and I, and we were in and out in 25 minutes with both of us riding.

00:31:24.897 --> 00:31:29.737
ADAM: So it was like 11 minutes per person to go wait through the line.

00:31:29.757 --> 00:31:31.537
ADAM: So that roller coaster was pretty fun, too.

00:31:31.957 --> 00:31:32.617
VIRGINIA: Oh, I love it.

00:31:32.877 --> 00:31:33.477
VIRGINIA: I love it.

00:31:34.637 --> 00:31:37.977
ADAM: And so I've been looking forward to ride that one for a long time.

00:31:37.997 --> 00:31:39.997
ADAM: Unfortunately, that was the only time we got to ride it.

00:31:40.017 --> 00:31:44.177
ADAM: I was looking forward to ride it again, but just to work out with nobody else being able to ride it.

00:31:44.617 --> 00:31:49.077
ADAM: After that, we rode Inside Out Emotional Whirlwind.

00:31:49.797 --> 00:31:50.997
ADAM: That one will get you dizzy, too.

00:31:51.137 --> 00:31:55.477
ADAM: So if you have any motion sickness, don't ride that one.

00:31:55.677 --> 00:31:57.257
ADAM: That was just me and the two kids on that one.

00:31:57.277 --> 00:32:03.017
ADAM: I don't know what it was before the remake, but it makes sense what they did with it, I guess, for the Pixar pier.

00:32:03.837 --> 00:32:06.897
VIRGINIA: It's nice to see Inside Out get a little bit of representation.

00:32:07.337 --> 00:32:09.197
ADAM: Yeah, especially with the new movie coming out.

00:32:10.237 --> 00:32:10.557
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:32:10.957 --> 00:32:12.917
ADAM: We got another Guardians right after that.

00:32:14.297 --> 00:32:21.337
ADAM: It started to get hot that day, so it was actually pretty chilly, about 60 degrees most of the day, and when the sun went away, it got chilly.

00:32:22.297 --> 00:32:30.057
ADAM: So we had pants and not shorts on the kids, and our daughter said she was hot, so maybe an ice cream would cool her down.

00:32:30.077 --> 00:32:32.877
VIRGINIA: Oh, I see what she's doing there.

00:32:34.617 --> 00:32:39.577
ADAM: So we were like, oh, perfect timing anyway, because we had our rider's spot for Guardians, and they couldn't ride it.

00:32:39.597 --> 00:32:41.817
ADAM: So then after she ate it, she was cold.

00:32:41.877 --> 00:32:43.757
ADAM: So I don't know what to do for you.

00:32:46.417 --> 00:32:50.177
ADAM: Then the days started kind of repeating themselves after that.

00:32:50.197 --> 00:32:55.677
ADAM: We did Soarin again, paid for Radiator Springs Racers again, did a rider's swap on both of those.

00:32:56.017 --> 00:33:01.177
ADAM: So again, our son did the Mater's Jamboree, or John Kerry Jamboree during that time.

00:33:02.157 --> 00:33:04.557
ADAM: After that, we bounced back over to Disneyland.

00:33:04.817 --> 00:33:10.857
ADAM: We got to Lightning Lane for Autopia again, and they didn't scan our Lightning Lane, so we got to use it twice, which was a bonus.

00:33:11.717 --> 00:33:14.217
ADAM: They told us to go through the gate, and then nobody was scanning.

00:33:14.237 --> 00:33:14.897
ADAM: We rode it twice in a row.

00:33:15.717 --> 00:33:19.577
ADAM: After that, we were standing in line for Autopia, and then I was asking our daughter.

00:33:19.597 --> 00:33:22.757
ADAM: She wanted to do Space Mountain, and that was the first time she asked.

00:33:22.777 --> 00:33:23.597
ADAM: It was going to be scary.

00:33:23.617 --> 00:33:24.497
ADAM: I go, yep, it's scary.

00:33:24.517 --> 00:33:25.057
ADAM: It's dark.

00:33:25.077 --> 00:33:25.777
ADAM: It's fast.

00:33:26.357 --> 00:33:27.517
ADAM: It's a roller coaster in the dark.

00:33:28.217 --> 00:33:29.397
ADAM: And she's like, yeah, I'll try it.

00:33:29.437 --> 00:33:29.897
VIRGINIA: Oh, wow.

00:33:30.037 --> 00:33:30.477
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:33:30.797 --> 00:33:31.457
ADAM: We're like, okay.

00:33:31.517 --> 00:33:32.777
ADAM: So we had Lightning Lane for that.

00:33:32.977 --> 00:33:38.897
VIRGINIA: Well, if you're going to try Space Mountain for the first time as a younger kid like that, Disneyland is the way.

00:33:39.997 --> 00:33:42.517
VIRGINIA: Well, because you get to sit side by side.

00:33:42.597 --> 00:33:44.917
ADAM: Yes, and that's why I was thinking too.

00:33:45.117 --> 00:33:46.657
ADAM: It is a cooler ride, I think, out there too.

00:33:46.657 --> 00:33:51.757
ADAM: But yeah, I was like, if it would have been the Disney World version, I would have probably not taken her because of that reason.

00:33:51.917 --> 00:34:03.797
VIRGINIA: When my son went for the first time and he was five, he rode it, and I spent the entire time with my arms over the seat in front of me, trying to sort of like feel his shoulders so that he would know I was there.

00:34:03.817 --> 00:34:05.757
VIRGINIA: It was not easy.

00:34:06.357 --> 00:34:10.937
ADAM: Well, I feel your pain because I'm 6'3, and I did that for Matterhorn.

00:34:12.157 --> 00:34:14.377
ADAM: It was not comfortable for me, and I could reach her pretty easy.

00:34:15.537 --> 00:34:17.937
VIRGINIA: Yeah, I'm 5'3, so it was a challenge.

00:34:19.737 --> 00:34:23.297
ADAM: So, unfortunately, we get to the front of the line, and it breaks down.

00:34:23.777 --> 00:34:24.497
VIRGINIA: Oh, no.

00:34:24.737 --> 00:34:26.777
ADAM: So she was all pumped to go, and it broke down.

00:34:26.777 --> 00:34:33.777
ADAM: So we got an Anywhere, Lightning Lane, went to Matterhorn, that broke down.

00:34:34.317 --> 00:34:35.177
VIRGINIA: Oh, gosh.

00:34:35.517 --> 00:34:38.417
ADAM: Then we got, they're like, what do we do from there?

00:34:38.477 --> 00:34:54.217
ADAM: So we went to a green umbrella, not a blue umbrella out there, and they gave us an Anytime Lightning Lane that we used for Mickey Minis again, because that Lightning Lane had been sold out for the rest of the day, so we were like, well, we may as well get it for that, because the two we were going to use it for broke down.

00:34:54.437 --> 00:35:05.577
ADAM: So in between that time, we rode Small World again, and we actually got on the railroad for the first time out there, which our kids love trains, and the last two times we were at Walt Disney World, the train was non-existent.

00:35:06.157 --> 00:35:08.057
VIRGINIA: I know, it's only recently started back.

00:35:08.577 --> 00:35:10.477
VIRGINIA: But Disneyland Train is different.

00:35:10.497 --> 00:35:14.037
VIRGINIA: You get to see dinosaurs on your train journey.

00:35:14.837 --> 00:35:16.617
ADAM: Yeah, it was an interesting ride.

00:35:16.637 --> 00:35:17.997
ADAM: It was definitely not what I was expecting.

00:35:18.997 --> 00:35:24.737
ADAM: But yeah, we had one of those where it was seated sideways, so you got to see the whole parking after crank your neck or anything like that.

00:35:24.837 --> 00:35:26.577
VIRGINIA: Yeah, yeah.

00:35:26.857 --> 00:35:27.897
ADAM: We rode the whole way around.

00:35:28.137 --> 00:35:30.497
ADAM: So pretty cool experience that they haven't done yet.

00:35:30.677 --> 00:35:34.217
ADAM: They did think that Mickey Minis was an actual train, so they got to ride a lot of trains.

00:35:36.897 --> 00:35:39.997
VIRGINIA: Was there any nap happening on this day as well?

00:35:40.197 --> 00:35:41.317
ADAM: Yeah, he actually slept for...

00:35:41.337 --> 00:35:44.537
ADAM: I didn't mark it down this day, but he slept for three hours this day.

00:35:44.937 --> 00:35:45.617
VIRGINIA: Oh, wow.

00:35:45.957 --> 00:35:47.097
VIRGINIA: That is a good nap.

00:35:47.317 --> 00:35:48.757
ADAM: So we got a lot done.

00:35:48.777 --> 00:35:50.437
ADAM: I can't even remember when that would have been.

00:35:50.457 --> 00:35:53.697
ADAM: But yeah, I remember him sleeping for a long time that day, which was nice.

00:35:54.097 --> 00:35:55.777
VIRGINIA: It's good that he can sleep in the stroller.

00:35:56.277 --> 00:35:58.077
ADAM: Yes, he can sleep anywhere.

00:35:58.117 --> 00:35:58.877
ADAM: She cannot.

00:35:59.037 --> 00:36:01.677
ADAM: So it's good that she came first.

00:36:04.517 --> 00:36:07.757
ADAM: After the Mickey Minis, we went to Buzz Lightyear again.

00:36:07.777 --> 00:36:10.957
ADAM: We got there about five minutes after Lightning Lane, and they let us on.

00:36:11.877 --> 00:36:15.057
ADAM: So I got $729,000 there.

00:36:15.557 --> 00:36:15.997
VIRGINIA: Wow.

00:36:16.837 --> 00:36:19.557
ADAM: Not quite galactic here, but it was a good one.

00:36:19.577 --> 00:36:20.617
VIRGINIA: Very close, very close.

00:36:21.817 --> 00:36:26.397
ADAM: After that, we face-mounted, we did a rider swap again with my daughter and I going on.

00:36:27.397 --> 00:36:29.197
ADAM: And then my wife was supposed to go on.

00:36:29.417 --> 00:36:34.017
ADAM: Well, that rider swap was still showing up in our app after a couple hours.

00:36:34.857 --> 00:36:36.877
ADAM: So like, well, we may as well go try our rider swap.

00:36:37.557 --> 00:36:41.477
ADAM: And the rider swap worked after it was back up and running.

00:36:41.497 --> 00:36:46.557
ADAM: So we used the rider swap that my daughter and my wife were supposed to ride on after we rode.

00:36:47.557 --> 00:36:50.477
ADAM: And our daughter went on with me on Space Mountain finally.

00:36:50.697 --> 00:36:53.977
ADAM: So got her all pumped up again, and she loved it.

00:36:54.637 --> 00:36:57.377
VIRGINIA: She did.

00:36:58.637 --> 00:37:01.857
ADAM: So we're, like, the stars are so cool when you're going up.

00:37:01.877 --> 00:37:03.377
ADAM: And it's pretty loud.

00:37:03.397 --> 00:37:08.077
ADAM: So we gave her her noise canceling headphones, our earmuffs, whatever you call them.

00:37:10.297 --> 00:37:12.017
ADAM: We did that because it was pretty loud.

00:37:12.957 --> 00:37:14.957
ADAM: The funny thing was, I'm holding her the whole time.

00:37:14.977 --> 00:37:16.237
ADAM: Like you said, he was sitting next to her.

00:37:16.257 --> 00:37:20.397
ADAM: So I'm just like bracing her because it's pretty fast ride for a little kid.

00:37:20.417 --> 00:37:23.757
ADAM: And halfway through, she's like, this is just like the goofy roller coaster.

00:37:23.877 --> 00:37:25.337
ADAM: I'm like, no.

00:37:27.117 --> 00:37:29.277
ADAM: If that's what you got to sell it as, then yes, it is.

00:37:29.477 --> 00:37:31.717
ADAM: So I'm glad she got to ride it.

00:37:31.737 --> 00:37:33.817
ADAM: And she's like, can we tell mom that I loved it?

00:37:33.837 --> 00:37:34.797
ADAM: Like, yes, you can.

00:37:35.037 --> 00:37:37.017
ADAM: So she did great.

00:37:37.317 --> 00:37:43.817
ADAM: And that was our last ride at Disneyland before we headed back to California Adventure to see Cars Land at night.

00:37:44.117 --> 00:37:47.737
ADAM: So rode the Tomaters again and got dinner at Flo's.

00:37:47.997 --> 00:37:48.837
VIRGINIA: Oh, I love Flo's.

00:37:49.137 --> 00:37:50.497
VIRGINIA: The theming is amazing.

00:37:51.037 --> 00:37:55.037
ADAM: Yeah, I mean, it's right out of the movie.

00:37:55.057 --> 00:37:58.897
ADAM: So they have right now, they have a Tomater kids meal bucket that's in the shape of it's huge.

00:37:59.297 --> 00:38:02.597
ADAM: And it's like the biggest Tomater you'll see and it's only 16 bucks.

00:38:02.617 --> 00:38:05.877
ADAM: So yeah, best souvenir they could get.

00:38:06.077 --> 00:38:07.297
ADAM: So cool.

00:38:07.997 --> 00:38:08.857
ADAM: That was the end of the day.

00:38:08.877 --> 00:38:12.857
ADAM: Then again, we got 19 rides in that day and 11 of them were lightning.

00:38:12.877 --> 00:38:13.517
ADAM: Wow.

00:38:14.117 --> 00:38:14.497
VIRGINIA: Wow.

00:38:14.597 --> 00:38:14.757
VIRGINIA: OK.

00:38:14.777 --> 00:38:17.797
VIRGINIA: I would say numbers are speaking for themselves.

00:38:17.797 --> 00:38:19.957
VIRGINIA: I mean, get Jeannie Plus if you're going to Disneyland.

00:38:21.077 --> 00:38:21.477
ADAM: Yeah.

00:38:21.557 --> 00:38:27.517
ADAM: And so it's kind of like out in Disney World where you only get to ride the ride once per day.

00:38:28.137 --> 00:38:29.537
ADAM: You can't book more than once.

00:38:30.337 --> 00:38:34.477
ADAM: And at, I believe in Disneyland, there's 11 rides that qualify.

00:38:34.697 --> 00:38:36.037
ADAM: California Adventure, there's seven.

00:38:37.277 --> 00:38:40.937
ADAM: So we did 12 of the 18 and 11 of the 18.

00:38:42.777 --> 00:38:48.577
ADAM: Throughout this whole trip, our longest wait that we had was that Chippendale rollercoaster for 25 minutes.

00:38:48.937 --> 00:38:49.837
ADAM: That's the longest we waited.

00:38:51.557 --> 00:38:52.837
ADAM: Just because of G+.

00:38:53.217 --> 00:38:54.337
VIRGINIA: Yeah, that's amazing.

00:38:55.017 --> 00:38:55.437
ADAM: Yeah.

00:38:55.477 --> 00:38:58.277
ADAM: And this was with Haunted Mansion and Splash Mountain weren't even running.

00:38:58.517 --> 00:39:01.497
ADAM: So all that capacity was in the parks, too.

00:39:01.937 --> 00:39:05.397
ADAM: I would say overall, the lines were much tamer than Disney World.

00:39:06.697 --> 00:39:10.357
ADAM: It kind of tricks your mind because you're like, man, this line's out the door.

00:39:10.377 --> 00:39:11.157
ADAM: It's got to be long.

00:39:11.177 --> 00:39:12.717
ADAM: But all the lines are outside.

00:39:12.937 --> 00:39:13.217
ADAM: So.

00:39:13.317 --> 00:39:13.657
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:39:13.817 --> 00:39:15.457
VIRGINIA: So all you're seeing is the line.

00:39:16.497 --> 00:39:16.857
ADAM: Yeah.

00:39:16.877 --> 00:39:19.257
ADAM: And it's it's I mean, it was 65 degrees.

00:39:19.277 --> 00:39:20.637
ADAM: So you're not sweating or anything.

00:39:20.657 --> 00:39:23.457
ADAM: You're just kind of enjoying the scenery and not waiting that long.

00:39:23.477 --> 00:39:24.157
ADAM: So it was nice.

00:39:24.857 --> 00:39:25.297
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:39:25.317 --> 00:39:31.057
VIRGINIA: So your last park day, Tuesday, March the 26th, you had intended to start in the Disneyland site again.

00:39:31.697 --> 00:39:45.577
VIRGINIA: And I also noted that you had made plans to stay at a different hotel that night that was closer to the airport just so that you didn't have to deal with LA traffic on a weekday, which I thought was super smart.

00:39:46.017 --> 00:39:53.977
VIRGINIA: So on Tuesday, March 26th, before you headed off to the parks, I imagine you needed to be packed up and have everything in the car.

00:39:54.277 --> 00:39:59.697
ADAM: Well, actually, we didn't because I had booked originally the whole stay at the same hotel.

00:40:00.917 --> 00:40:05.937
ADAM: And this is a crazy part about rebooking hotels.

00:40:05.957 --> 00:40:14.577
ADAM: So I was I tried to modify my stay to take a night off and they were actually going to charge me like double of what I had paid.

00:40:14.597 --> 00:40:18.457
ADAM: Oh, we booked it a long time ago when I was modifying my stay.

00:40:18.477 --> 00:40:22.977
ADAM: And they're like, well, you got to go to today's rates then if you're going to modify your stay.

00:40:22.977 --> 00:40:24.277
ADAM: But I'm just taking a night off.

00:40:24.337 --> 00:40:26.437
ADAM: We just kept that night at that hotel, too.

00:40:26.837 --> 00:40:27.457
VIRGINIA: So perfect.

00:40:27.477 --> 00:40:29.877
VIRGINIA: You could leave your stuff and not even worry about it.

00:40:30.357 --> 00:40:35.457
ADAM: So so we did pack most of the stuff before, but we didn't have to pack in the car or anything like that.

00:40:35.477 --> 00:40:40.337
ADAM: And that plan was a good one because these I mean, as you as you saw, we're leaving the park at eight o'clock anyway.

00:40:40.357 --> 00:40:43.177
ADAM: It's not like staying for fireworks or anything like that.

00:40:43.197 --> 00:40:46.097
ADAM: The kids are still on Central Time, so they're exhausted.

00:40:46.597 --> 00:40:50.017
ADAM: Yeah, we still drove up after this park day.

00:40:50.037 --> 00:40:52.357
ADAM: So yes, we had most of it packed.

00:40:52.377 --> 00:40:56.037
ADAM: But luckily enough, we didn't have to move our car to the Disney park or anything like that.

00:40:56.457 --> 00:40:57.057
VIRGINIA: That's perfect.

00:40:58.097 --> 00:41:05.657
ADAM: And that's the funniest part about our hotel is the only thing you walk by from our hotel to the beginning of Downtown Disney is Disney parking.

00:41:06.877 --> 00:41:07.877
ADAM: That's all you walk around.

00:41:08.357 --> 00:41:13.597
ADAM: So we would have had to park, wait for a tram, and then be behind all that traffic anyway.

00:41:13.617 --> 00:41:17.077
ADAM: So the walk was 15 minutes, so it was definitely worth it.

00:41:17.437 --> 00:41:18.637
VIRGINIA: Not bad at all.

00:41:18.657 --> 00:41:19.737
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:41:19.757 --> 00:41:21.957
VIRGINIA: Well, what did you do first on Tuesday morning?

00:41:22.297 --> 00:41:28.457
ADAM: Our daughter loves Space Mountain so much that we booked Lightning Lane first for her and my wife because my wife didn't get to ride it.

00:41:28.757 --> 00:41:29.557
ADAM: And she hated it.

00:41:31.197 --> 00:41:32.377
VIRGINIA: Wait, your wife hated it?

00:41:32.397 --> 00:41:33.717
ADAM: No, our daughter hated it.

00:41:34.057 --> 00:41:36.157
VIRGINIA: She hated it the next time.

00:41:36.517 --> 00:41:38.477
ADAM: Yes, she did not like it that time.

00:41:38.497 --> 00:41:41.097
ADAM: So we're like, okay, whatever.

00:41:41.577 --> 00:41:48.317
ADAM: Yeah, so it must have been just that first thing of the day, energy, opposed to last day excitement.

00:41:48.377 --> 00:41:51.177
ADAM: I don't know, but that's how toddlers work for you.

00:41:52.957 --> 00:42:00.717
ADAM: So I took our son on Autopia while they did that, and then I swapped and I ended up doing Space Mountain by myself, and those three did Autopia.

00:42:01.357 --> 00:42:06.697
ADAM: One cool thing about that ride is if you're a parent with two kids, they do driver swap.

00:42:06.717 --> 00:42:13.157
ADAM: So our son drove a lap, and then they let them just switch seats while my wife sat in the middle.

00:42:13.657 --> 00:42:14.897
ADAM: They didn't have to go wait in line again.

00:42:14.917 --> 00:42:15.877
ADAM: They just swapped drivers.

00:42:16.237 --> 00:42:17.417
VIRGINIA: Oh, that's really nice.

00:42:17.877 --> 00:42:21.497
ADAM: Yeah, so they did two laps in a row with both kids getting to drive, which was cool.

00:42:22.057 --> 00:42:22.797
VIRGINIA: That's really nice.

00:42:23.497 --> 00:42:25.377
VIRGINIA: Do you know if they do that in Orlando?

00:42:26.137 --> 00:42:26.577
ADAM: I don't.

00:42:28.057 --> 00:42:30.637
ADAM: We weren't planning on her being alone with the two kids on the ride.

00:42:30.637 --> 00:42:32.237
VIRGINIA: It just happened that way.

00:42:32.277 --> 00:42:41.037
ADAM: It just happened because she didn't want to ride Space Mountain again, and our daughter didn't want to ride Space Mountain again, and they can all three fit in the car, and we're like, oh yeah, here you go.

00:42:41.257 --> 00:42:45.917
ADAM: So I like when they do things like that to make it easier on parents.

00:42:47.697 --> 00:42:48.377
VIRGINIA: What was next?

00:42:49.177 --> 00:42:51.737
ADAM: So we did, this was the first time we rode Matterhorn.

00:42:51.757 --> 00:42:54.977
ADAM: I had never ridden it since I had been there since I was five.

00:42:55.757 --> 00:43:03.717
ADAM: One of those rides where the Yeti, like this Yeti works as opposed to Everest, and I wish this one didn't because it was unnecessary, so loud.

00:43:05.257 --> 00:43:09.737
ADAM: But that's another ride like you think you're going to miss out on something that you really don't, in my opinion.

00:43:10.277 --> 00:43:11.177
VIRGINIA: It's a rough ride.

00:43:11.437 --> 00:43:12.437
ADAM: Yeah, it's very rough.

00:43:12.457 --> 00:43:17.377
ADAM: And that's where I was holding my hands through the chair, holding her daughter, make sure she knew I was there.

00:43:18.417 --> 00:43:20.457
ADAM: So that was a one and done for me.

00:43:20.477 --> 00:43:22.437
ADAM: And if we went back, I probably wouldn't do it again.

00:43:23.437 --> 00:43:32.577
ADAM: Like we were saying before, the days, this is the one thing about Disneyland as opposed to Disney World, is your days kind of are similar once you get going because they're so close together.

00:43:33.937 --> 00:43:35.417
ADAM: Like I said, we did the Lightning Lanes.

00:43:35.677 --> 00:43:41.897
ADAM: You kind of ride the same rides all three days, which is cool, but they all kind of, the days kind of run together a little bit.

00:43:41.917 --> 00:43:47.177
ADAM: So, you know, we did Mickey Minis, we did Pirates and Buzz.

00:43:47.537 --> 00:43:49.017
ADAM: Park Top, this is an interesting one.

00:43:49.037 --> 00:43:52.297
ADAM: We Park Top, we ended up having to park up at 1130 a.m.

00:43:52.317 --> 00:43:54.317
ADAM: and the park parking opens at 11.

00:43:55.197 --> 00:43:58.137
ADAM: The line was like 25 minutes to get into California Adventure.

00:43:58.957 --> 00:43:59.517
VIRGINIA: Oh, wow.

00:43:59.977 --> 00:44:11.017
ADAM: Yeah, so I don't know if that was just the day or what, but I would have, somebody told me they walked in at noon and there was no line, so maybe we just got unlucky, but maybe wait a little bit after the 11 a.m.

00:44:11.357 --> 00:44:12.277
ADAM: to go back over.

00:44:12.697 --> 00:44:13.777
ADAM: Our son took another nap.

00:44:14.877 --> 00:44:17.177
ADAM: We did all the rides over there, like Soarin again.

00:44:17.197 --> 00:44:22.677
ADAM: Her wife and I did Guardians for the last time, and that's where I told or asked our daughter if she wanted to ride.

00:44:22.697 --> 00:44:23.837
ADAM: She said, no, thank you.

00:44:27.477 --> 00:44:32.557
ADAM: This day, we Park Hopped five times because we just kept getting lightning legs back and forth.

00:44:33.417 --> 00:44:38.497
ADAM: And when our son was sleeping, we wanted to take advantage of rides that he couldn't do that we could ride or swap.

00:44:38.977 --> 00:44:40.557
ADAM: So we did Big Thunder.

00:44:40.997 --> 00:44:45.057
ADAM: We went over and did Big Thunder once and then ran into the Three O'Clock Parade, which was cool.

00:44:46.257 --> 00:44:47.417
ADAM: They have some really cool floats.

00:44:47.437 --> 00:44:51.437
ADAM: We haven't really, you know, when we were in Disney World, they had the cavalcades and no parade.

00:44:51.457 --> 00:44:53.357
ADAM: So it was really the first one that our daughter had seen.

00:44:54.637 --> 00:44:59.737
ADAM: We went back to do Radiator Springs one more time, and the kids got to meet Lightning McQueen.

00:44:59.977 --> 00:45:03.257
ADAM: So we got a really cute picture of her son with Lightning McQueen.

00:45:03.277 --> 00:45:04.757
ADAM: He was super stoked.

00:45:05.117 --> 00:45:06.317
VIRGINIA: Dream come true for him.

00:45:06.737 --> 00:45:08.237
ADAM: Yeah, he wouldn't leave.

00:45:08.337 --> 00:45:15.037
ADAM: He got his picture taken, then he just, when my daughter and I were riding Radiator Springs, he's like, I need to go tell him I love him and goodbye.

00:45:15.657 --> 00:45:18.157
VIRGINIA: Oh, that is so sweet.

00:45:19.137 --> 00:45:20.157
ADAM: So then we got him to leave.

00:45:20.177 --> 00:45:30.117
ADAM: So after that, we got some dessert at Jack Jack's back in Pixar Pier before heading back to do Jungle Cruise.

00:45:30.137 --> 00:45:33.717
ADAM: We wanted to, that was the one ride we were like, we'll wait in line for Jungle Cruise.

00:45:34.437 --> 00:45:36.497
ADAM: That's one that obviously we wanted to see the difference of.

00:45:36.757 --> 00:45:40.297
ADAM: So we waited probably 20 minutes for that ride, but not too bad.

00:45:41.937 --> 00:45:46.417
ADAM: Our last ride was going to be Autopia, but so we did that one more time, but we forgot.

00:45:46.437 --> 00:45:51.577
ADAM: We told the kids we'd ride the boat that went through the whale's mouth, right, when we got to the park the first day.

00:45:51.857 --> 00:45:52.197
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:45:52.497 --> 00:45:53.297
ADAM: So we were going to leave.

00:45:53.317 --> 00:45:54.857
ADAM: We were like, oh, we forgot to do that ride.

00:45:54.877 --> 00:45:56.977
ADAM: So we waited to do that.

00:45:57.417 --> 00:45:58.797
ADAM: And that was the last ride we did.

00:45:59.077 --> 00:46:00.537
VIRGINIA: So I love that one.

00:46:00.557 --> 00:46:08.037
VIRGINIA: I love seeing all the little kingdoms of the different lands within Disney, Disney stories.

00:46:08.797 --> 00:46:09.737
ADAM: Yeah, it was.

00:46:09.897 --> 00:46:10.997
ADAM: It was a pretty cool ride.

00:46:11.017 --> 00:46:13.057
ADAM: Usually no wait.

00:46:13.077 --> 00:46:16.277
ADAM: So it was fine that we held out till last.

00:46:17.477 --> 00:46:24.617
ADAM: One note I'll put in there is we were going to ride the monorail back to downtown Disney because we wanted to ride that before the trip was over, but it was like a 30 minute wait.

00:46:25.297 --> 00:46:28.117
ADAM: And it's like, I can wait 30 minutes.

00:46:29.417 --> 00:46:33.457
ADAM: So we walked back to the hotel and then drove up to LA.

00:46:35.357 --> 00:46:38.017
VIRGINIA: And everything went well the next morning with your return flight?

00:46:38.657 --> 00:46:39.157
VIRGINIA: No issues?

00:46:39.437 --> 00:46:45.297
ADAM: Yeah, so we landed in Las Vegas again, and we were actually on the same plane, but we had to be plane and board.

00:46:45.317 --> 00:46:47.597
ADAM: So we only had 20 minutes in between this time, which was even better.

00:46:48.937 --> 00:46:55.857
ADAM: But at LAX, we have TSA pre-check, and they made the pre-check go with the normal security line.

00:46:55.937 --> 00:47:00.937
ADAM: So we had to take out all of our electronics and take off our shoes, which isn't a big deal.

00:47:01.477 --> 00:47:06.857
ADAM: But when you have three iPads and a computer and you're not planning on it, it's like, oh, okay.

00:47:06.877 --> 00:47:07.817
VIRGINIA: I wonder why they did that.

00:47:08.157 --> 00:47:12.257
ADAM: Just the one spot in LAX, like, oh, well, we have another line downstairs that you could have went to.

00:47:12.277 --> 00:47:13.457
ADAM: I'm like, oh, whatever.

00:47:13.597 --> 00:47:16.817
ADAM: So for the toddlers, it adds another adventure.

00:47:16.857 --> 00:47:19.837
ADAM: So I know that the flight back home was good.

00:47:20.137 --> 00:47:24.277
ADAM: Our son napped for the first flight and then not for the second flight.

00:47:24.297 --> 00:47:26.317
ADAM: So overall, it was a good trip.

00:47:26.337 --> 00:47:29.137
ADAM: Really no headaches or temper tantrums or anything.

00:47:29.157 --> 00:47:29.737
ADAM: So we got lucky.

00:47:30.257 --> 00:47:30.657
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:47:31.357 --> 00:47:34.257
VIRGINIA: Well, it sounds like you guys had an amazing time.

00:47:34.557 --> 00:47:43.557
VIRGINIA: And now I have to ask you, just a couple of them, because some of you have mentioned which one you prefer, but I'm going to call these the big five.

00:47:44.177 --> 00:47:49.957
VIRGINIA: So Rapid Fire, Disneyland, Disney World, or just say you didn't write it if you didn't write it.

00:47:49.977 --> 00:47:50.737
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:47:50.757 --> 00:47:51.317
VIRGINIA: Space Mountain.

00:47:51.557 --> 00:47:52.077
ADAM: Disneyland.

00:47:53.117 --> 00:47:53.837
VIRGINIA: Big Thunder Mountain.

00:47:53.917 --> 00:47:54.677
ADAM: Disneyland.

00:47:55.297 --> 00:47:55.897
VIRGINIA: Peter Pan.

00:47:56.097 --> 00:47:56.677
ADAM: Disney World.

00:47:57.837 --> 00:47:58.817
VIRGINIA: Pirates of the Caribbean.

00:47:58.937 --> 00:48:00.497
ADAM: Disneyland for sure.

00:48:00.517 --> 00:48:02.637
VIRGINIA: And Tower of Terror slash Mission Breakout.

00:48:02.837 --> 00:48:03.477
ADAM: Mission Breakout.

00:48:04.137 --> 00:48:08.117
VIRGINIA: Okay, so it sounds like Disneyland is the clear winner.

00:48:11.817 --> 00:48:18.297
ADAM: You know, I was thinking about that the whole time is if you put up the ride side by side, I'd probably prefer the Disneyland rides better.

00:48:19.257 --> 00:48:22.137
ADAM: But overall experience, I'd still probably take Disney World.

00:48:22.397 --> 00:48:27.157
ADAM: Kind of like what we were touching on, like at Disneyland, your days kind of turn out to be kind of the same every day.

00:48:27.677 --> 00:48:31.057
ADAM: At Disney World, like you're there for a week, you can have a different day every day.

00:48:33.177 --> 00:48:35.957
ADAM: So, individual rides, yeah, maybe Disneyland wins.

00:48:35.977 --> 00:48:42.597
ADAM: I would say if you're planning on not waiting in line and knowing how to use the Genie Plus, go to Disneyland for a day or two or three days.

00:48:42.617 --> 00:48:44.997
ADAM: And overall, I'd probably still say Disney World.

00:48:45.437 --> 00:48:47.297
VIRGINIA: Yeah, 100% agree with you.

00:48:47.317 --> 00:48:48.237
VIRGINIA: 100%.

00:48:49.217 --> 00:48:52.517
VIRGINIA: Well, Adam, it has been a pleasure getting to talk with you.

00:48:52.537 --> 00:49:03.497
VIRGINIA: I hope that that listeners will go over to your Instagram page, which is linked in the show notes, and give you a follow and participate in all of your, I don't know what to call them there, antics.

00:49:04.397 --> 00:49:04.757
ADAM: Yeah.

00:49:04.777 --> 00:49:10.917
ADAM: What we do is, on our story, we do votes like, what do you prefer, this or that, kind of like what we just did.

00:49:10.937 --> 00:49:20.317
ADAM: And for this week, when this podcast comes out, we'll do what you and I just did with what do you prefer, this one over Disneyland or Disney World, just in honor of this podcast.

00:49:21.017 --> 00:49:24.737
ADAM: So we'll do that for a couple of days this week and see what people prefer and we'll get back to you.

00:49:25.857 --> 00:49:26.197
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:49:26.217 --> 00:49:28.577
VIRGINIA: So everybody go over there and vote and let's see.

00:49:28.597 --> 00:49:31.517
VIRGINIA: Do you agree with Adam on his choices?

00:49:32.217 --> 00:49:33.217
VIRGINIA: So all right.

00:49:33.297 --> 00:49:34.757
VIRGINIA: Well, thank you again.

00:49:35.077 --> 00:49:40.877
VIRGINIA: And I look forward to continuing to follow you on Instagram and I hope that maybe we'll talk again in the future.

00:49:41.397 --> 00:49:41.757
ADAM: Awesome.

00:49:41.777 --> 00:49:44.117
ADAM: Thanks for the opportunity and have a great week, everybody.

00:49:45.937 --> 00:49:48.777
VIRGINIA: Thank you again to Adam for taking the time to chat with me.

00:49:48.797 --> 00:49:52.597
VIRGINIA: I had such a good time and I can't wait to participate in those polls this week.

00:49:53.037 --> 00:49:55.237
VIRGINIA: I hope everyone listening will do the same.

00:49:55.757 --> 00:50:00.817
VIRGINIA: You can find Adam's Instagram handle in the show notes or link to it from the podcast Instagram page.

00:50:01.377 --> 00:50:07.937
VIRGINIA: And with that, I hope everyone has a wonderful week and that you'll all keep daydreaming about where you long to be.