Post-Trip Report: Amy’s Mother/Daughter Birthday Miracle Trip (March 2024)

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VIRGINIA: When I started the show a year ago, coming up on April 9th, I didn't know anything about podcasting.

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VIRGINIA: So with all that being said, what do you say we get into this final episode of season one?

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VIRGINIA: If you didn't get a chance to listen to the pre-trip interview, today you will hear my post-trip interview with Amy Belfey.

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VIRGINIA: Amy is a travel planner who specializes in Disney, and if you're interested in working with Amy, you can find her information in the show notes.

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VIRGINIA: Her services are free since Disney pays her commission, so it's a great way to get personalized service and to help support a small business at the same time, all without paying an extra dime for that extra service.

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VIRGINIA: This trip you'll hear about today was a first mother-daughter trip in honor of her daughter Evelyn's upcoming fifth birthday, and they were planning to stay at the Yacht Club.

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VIRGINIA: That should be enough to catch you up, so let's get to it.

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VIRGINIA: Here's Amy.

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VIRGINIA: And we are back with Amy.

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VIRGINIA: Amy, thank you for coming back from Disney.

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VIRGINIA: I know you probably wish you were still there.

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VIRGINIA: I know.

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AMY: We have my daughter both, but, you know, it's kind of nice to be home.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: Well, for listeners who maybe didn't get a chance to listen to the pre-trip report, Amy headed down to Walt Disney World for a mother-daughter trip in honor of her daughter's upcoming fifth birthday.

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VIRGINIA: So I know that you had mentioned you were going to get a birthday button for her while you were there.

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VIRGINIA: Were there any other special birthday related observances, celebrations, anything like that?

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AMY: Absolutely.

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AMY: I mean, you know, I kind of felt like the whole entire trip was a celebration.

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AMY: So she wore the button everywhere, got lots of happy birthday, you know, people, random people saying happy birthday to her the entire time.

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AMY: You know, we had, I didn't have any special like cakes or room decorations.

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AMY: I've done stuff like that in the past, but this time I was just like, this is our first time doing a just me and her trip.

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AMY: And so I kind of saw like the entire trip is the birthday celebration.

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VIRGINIA: Well, let's get into all of the details and I should say that your daughter's name is Evelyn, correct?

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AMY: Yes.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: So we will refer to her by name from this point forward.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: So you all landed in Orlando on Friday, March the 1st, and you were supposed to be landing around noon.

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VIRGINIA: Were you on time?

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AMY: It worked all perfectly as planned.

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AMY: Yes, we were right on time.

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VIRGINIA: And you were coming from the St.

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VIRGINIA: Louis area, is that correct?

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AMY: Yes.

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AMY: St.

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AMY: Louis, flying on Southwest.

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AMY: Thank you, Southwest.

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AMY: I'm not, I mean, I don't know if I can mention brands on this, but they are my favorite airline.

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VIRGINIA: Everyone has their favorite.

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VIRGINIA: I don't get the opportunity to fly Southwest because there just aren't as many options out of New York for Southwest for some reason.

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VIRGINIA: So, I'm always looking into it as an option and comparing prices, but then there are just so few flights going the places that I like to go, namely Orlando from New York City.

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VIRGINIA: But I know people really seem to like them.

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VIRGINIA: And I think a lot of it has to do with, don't they have free luggage included?

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AMY: Yes, yes.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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AMY: I have a long story about trying to fly Spirit and having all kinds of problems.

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AMY: Honestly, like after that, I didn't check bags on that, but if I had, I would have like not gotten my stuff.

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AMY: You know, anyway.

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AMY: I try to avoid checking bags at all possible, if at all possible.

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AMY: But Southwest does give you free check bag.

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AMY: So if you're the type of person who checks bags, it's nice perk.

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VIRGINIA: Definitely because, you know, depending on how much you're bringing with you, that can really add up if you're having to do $30, $35 a bag.

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AMY: For sure.

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VIRGINIA: After landing in Orlando, you were utilizing the Happy Limo car service, which I know you had used in the past and you definitely said that you would recommend it.

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VIRGINIA: I am assuming everything went fine with that service for this trip as well.

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AMY: Yeah, that was all great.

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AMY: It's just so easy.

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AMY: You know, you come down to baggage claim and there's like a guy holding a sign and you just go with him to the car, go straight to your resort.

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AMY: I was just like, to me, time is of the essence.

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AMY: This is a short trip.

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AMY: I want to make the most of my time.

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AMY: I don't want to be on a bus or waiting on anything.

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AMY: I just want to get there as soon as possible.

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VIRGINIA: And there for this trip was Yacht Club.

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VIRGINIA: So how was the check-in process and where was your room located?

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VIRGINIA: Were you happy with the location?

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AMY: The check-in was so great.

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AMY: So I did the mobile check-in, like the online check-in, but I always, when I get there, tell them in person that I'm there because I ideally like my room to be ready early.

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AMY: And they were like, well, we don't know if your room is going to be ready early.

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AMY: I was like, that's fine.

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AMY: So I go over to Bell Services because I did a stroller rental.

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AMY: I mean, my daughter is almost five.

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AMY: She definitely needs a stroller at Disney.

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AMY: So go to Bell Services, pick up the stroller.

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AMY: While I'm waiting on the stroller, I get a text that says my room is ready.

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AMY: And I was like, this is like a birthday miracle.

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AMY: There are so many times in this trip where my daughter and I were like, this is a birthday miracle.

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AMY: So the room was ready early.

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AMY: Location, I'm not ideal, but it was on the ground floor, which was kind of nice.

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AMY: The furthest possible room you could get, basically from the lobby, it was almost like I was looking into the Dolphin, basically, hotel.

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AMY: Like I was all the way from there.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.

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AMY: Which actually worked out okay, because one time I did decide that I was like, we're just going to leave from our room through the patio sliding door and go walk to Hollywood Studios, because we were like all the way over there on that side of the hotel.

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AMY: But I mean, it was fine.

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AMY: It wasn't bad.

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AMY: It was just we had to go through a lot of kind of maze of corridors to get back to the room, but really no complaints.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: And how did you feel about the Yacht Club overall in terms of amenities and everything?

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AMY: Yeah, I really liked it.

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AMY: My travel agent friends will laugh because they know that my favorite hotel is a contemporary.

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AMY: I stayed at the contemporary multiple times.

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AMY: I stayed in all three buildings, the Bay Lake Tower, Garden Wing, and Main Tower of Contemporary.

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AMY: I just love the location.

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AMY: I love that hotel.

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AMY: And so I kind of compare this to that.

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AMY: And it's obviously different and the location is great in a different way.

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AMY: Like this, like Yacht Club is close to Epcot and Hollywood Studios.

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AMY: And I picked that because I kind of wanted to focus on different experiences than what my daughter and I've usually had, which is like doing a lot of heavy Magic Kingdom trips.

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AMY: And Epcot, she'd been to, but she's never been to Hollywood Studios before.

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AMY: So that's why I kind of wanted to try a different location.

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AMY: Being on the boardwalk is nice.

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AMY: We use every single mode of transportation that Disney offers this trip.

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AMY: Boat, bus, monorail, walking, and skyliner for various different things.

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AMY: So anyways, it is a versatile location, nice rooms.

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AMY: We didn't use the pool, which I know is like a big reason why you'd stay there.

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AMY: But next trip, I want to go back in the summer.

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AMY: It's just, it wasn't quite warm enough for me to want to stay.

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AMY: We did a park-heavy trip.

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AMY: But I was totally pleased with Yacht Club, would stay there again, would recommend it.

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AMY: Yeah, it was great.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: Well, your plan in terms of park time for that first day was to go to Hollywood Studios and like you already mentioned, this was Evelyn's very first time in Hollywood Studios.

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VIRGINIA: So as a new Star Wars fan, because I remember you said she had recently gotten into that.

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VIRGINIA: What was her overall impression of Hollywood Studios?

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AMY: Oh my gosh, loved it.

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AMY: Yeah, when I first planned this trip, I thought we'd do a lot of time in Toy Street Land, but then she just discovered Star Wars.

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AMY: So I had stacked a bunch of rides on Genie Plus in that morning, and it really worked out perfectly.

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AMY: We walked in, the first ride we did was Mickey Minnie's runway railway.

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AMY: That's her number two now favorite ride.

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AMY: She absolutely loved it.

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AMY: I had never done that ride before actually myself.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, you hadn't?

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VIRGINIA: It's so cute.

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AMY: It was great.

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AMY: I was almost tearing up walking into that just in the queue.

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AMY: I became a travel agent almost exactly a year ago.

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AMY: And when I first started doing this, my goal was I want to be able to pay for a birthday trip for Evelyn with my earnings.

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AMY: And I did.

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AMY: And I was just like, I couldn't believe that I got to this is just so special.

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AMY: And to start off our trip with the Mickey ride was just amazing.

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AMY: So we did that first and then we went straight over to Rise of the Resistance.

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AMY: And like her mind was blown.

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AMY: Like she was just walked off.

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AMY: That's her number one favorite ride now.

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AMY: Like she just loved it.

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VIRGINIA: She must have felt like she was really in the movie.

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AMY: Yeah, she was just like, oh my God.

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AMY: Like when you walk into where all the Stormtroopers are, she was just like, this is amazing.

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AMY: Like, and she likes the bad guys.

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AMY: Like she likes she was wearing a Darth Vader dress.

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AMY: So, oh my gosh, she loved it.

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AMY: And then just walking around, you know, like walking around, you see like the Mandalorian walked by and like this when she saw the Stormtroopers wandering around, she just screamed like Stormtroopers.

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AMY: She bolted out of the stroller, was like going up to the Stormtroopers.

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AMY: Like she's like, oh, they talk to me like so, so, so excited.

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AMY: So, so that was that was like she just lost it.

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AMY: She was so pumped to see all those characters.

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AMY: And then we had a lightning lane for Slinky Dog Dash, which I thought that was going to be like the highlight.

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AMY: But so we were like walking to Slinky Dog Dash and we walked by.

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AMY: It's like a store, like a gift shop.

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AMY: And it's like Storm Trooper, like all these Storm Trooper helmets.

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VIRGINIA: I know which one you're talking about.

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AMY: She saw that and she was like, I need that.

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AMY: I need that helmet.

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AMY: I need that mask.

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AMY: Like, I was like, we don't want to get that right now.

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AMY: We're going to do a couple more rides.

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AMY: We can go back and get that right later.

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AMY: But like her mind was like on that.

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AMY: And so Slinky Dog, it was so funny.

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AMY: Slinky Dog, she enjoyed it.

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AMY: She likes roller coasters.

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AMY: But she was like, that was kind of short.

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AMY: Big Thunder Mountain Railroad is way longer than that.

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AMY: And I like longer rides.

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AMY: I was like, okay, okay.

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AMY: And then like at the end of the trip, she was like, you know, I was, I was, I don't know what I was thinking the other day, because I said I didn't like Slinky Dog Dash, but I really did like it.

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VIRGINIA: I mean, it's a really fun ride.

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VIRGINIA: She's right.

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VIRGINIA: It's kind of short.

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AMY: But it's not that short.

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VIRGINIA: It's not as short as Tron.

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VIRGINIA: Yes.

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AMY: Yeah.

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AMY: So we did Slinky Dog.

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AMY: She liked that.

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AMY: And then we did Toy Story Mania, which was, of course, always fun.

00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:54.260
AMY: We didn't, oh, this is another thing.

00:13:54.280 --> 00:13:59.300
AMY: We didn't even eat lunch because she ate a huge bunch of snacks that we bought in the airport.

00:13:59.660 --> 00:14:00.600
AMY: And we were in the car.

00:14:00.620 --> 00:14:03.040
AMY: And I was like, well, we're going to get lunch at our resort first.

00:14:03.060 --> 00:14:04.080
AMY: We'll just get quick service.

00:14:04.100 --> 00:14:05.620
AMY: And she was like, no.

00:14:05.780 --> 00:14:07.040
AMY: She's like, I want to go straight to the park.

00:14:07.060 --> 00:14:09.640
AMY: And I was like, to be honest, I kind of want to go straight to the park too.

00:14:09.660 --> 00:14:13.500
AMY: So let me finish off your snack and eat a granola bar.

00:14:13.520 --> 00:14:14.340
AMY: So we hadn't eaten anything.

00:14:14.360 --> 00:14:18.540
AMY: So after Slinky Dog, before Toy Story Mania, I was like, we got to eat something.

00:14:18.560 --> 00:14:20.260
AMY: So we had Mickey Mickey ice cream bars.

00:14:20.800 --> 00:14:24.200
VIRGINIA: Yeah, because you had a dinner reservation at Woody's Roundup.

00:14:24.220 --> 00:14:24.580
AMY: Yes.

00:14:24.860 --> 00:14:27.000
VIRGINIA: What time was that reservation going to be for?

00:14:28.300 --> 00:14:31.440
AMY: 5.15, I think, or 5.30, something like around there.

00:14:31.460 --> 00:14:35.160
AMY: Not too late, but it was like three at this point.

00:14:35.180 --> 00:14:37.040
AMY: And I was like, we got to have something.

00:14:37.060 --> 00:14:38.460
AMY: So we had a Mickey bar.

00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:39.340
AMY: We did Toy Story Mania.

00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:44.080
AMY: Then we went back and bought the Storm Trooper thing and got a bunch of pictures with the Storm Troopers.

00:14:44.160 --> 00:14:49.920
AMY: And then we went over to meet Darth Vader and Chewie, waited in line for those.

00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:51.360
AMY: And by that point, it was time for the dinner.

00:14:51.380 --> 00:14:55.140
AMY: So we went over to our Woody's Roundup barbecue dinner.

00:14:55.780 --> 00:14:57.040
VIRGINIA: And how was that?

00:14:57.120 --> 00:14:59.020
VIRGINIA: Because I have not eaten there yet.

00:14:59.340 --> 00:15:00.160
AMY: I thought it was great.

00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:00.740
AMY: I'm from St.

00:15:00.760 --> 00:15:01.020
AMY: Louis.

00:15:01.040 --> 00:15:01.720
AMY: I love barbecue.

00:15:01.740 --> 00:15:02.720
AMY: We have good barbecue here.

00:15:02.740 --> 00:15:04.880
AMY: I thought some of the meats were better than the others.

00:15:04.900 --> 00:15:05.960
AMY: I thought the chicken was good.

00:15:05.980 --> 00:15:07.900
AMY: I wasn't so into the brisket or the ribs.

00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:08.480
AMY: I mean, St.

00:15:08.500 --> 00:15:09.800
AMY: Louis, we have really good ribs here.

00:15:10.660 --> 00:15:12.280
AMY: But I thought it was good.

00:15:12.300 --> 00:15:13.440
AMY: I would definitely eat there again.

00:15:13.460 --> 00:15:14.720
AMY: The sides were really good.

00:15:15.460 --> 00:15:16.920
AMY: Evelyn, it was fun.

00:15:17.240 --> 00:15:19.400
AMY: The decor is very cool.

00:15:19.800 --> 00:15:23.400
AMY: They're like, when we walk in, they're like, remember, when Andy comes, you have to freeze.

00:15:24.220 --> 00:15:28.240
AMY: Over the speakers, there'll be like, Andy is coming or whatever.

00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:29.480
AMY: She thought that was so fun.

00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:32.080
AMY: She was just flopped down on the table like a toy.

00:15:32.100 --> 00:15:38.400
AMY: She was just like, I wish that they had characters there, but the characters were outside.

00:15:38.520 --> 00:15:39.840
AMY: Everybody wants to meet Buzz.

00:15:39.860 --> 00:15:43.580
AMY: We would have loved to meet Buzz and Woody and Jesse, but we just didn't want to stand in line for them.

00:15:44.560 --> 00:15:47.920
AMY: I wish it was a character meal, but it was still a fun meal.

00:15:47.940 --> 00:15:58.580
VIRGINIA: Then you had mentioned that you were going to take her to make one of the build your own plastic lightsabers.

00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:00.020
VIRGINIA: Did you end up doing that?

00:16:00.660 --> 00:16:01.560
AMY: We did.

00:16:01.860 --> 00:16:03.100
AMY: We shifted plans a little bit.

00:16:03.140 --> 00:16:07.080
AMY: After dinner, I was like, let's just go back to the hotel.

00:16:07.100 --> 00:16:10.360
AMY: I was like, she's been up, she got up early, let's try and go to bed early.

00:16:10.540 --> 00:16:11.700
AMY: She didn't really go to bed.

00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:13.480
AMY: I mean, she went to bed early, but not early for her.

00:16:13.520 --> 00:16:19.840
AMY: It was like 8.30 or something, and then I had a patio in the room, so I just sat out there by myself while she was asleep.

00:16:20.540 --> 00:16:21.280
AMY: She goes to bed early.

00:16:21.300 --> 00:16:22.380
AMY: She's 9.5.

00:16:22.640 --> 00:16:31.420
AMY: So the next morning, I was going to go to Epcot in the morning, but she really wanted to go back to Hollywood Studios because we didn't get to this lightsaber, because I didn't want to rush the lightsaber.

00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:34.080
AMY: I didn't want to do it when she was tired at the end of the night.

00:16:34.440 --> 00:16:38.880
AMY: I didn't want her to have a lightsaber that she wanted to play with when it was time to go to bed.

00:16:39.260 --> 00:16:43.300
AMY: She's like, let's go back in the morning and do Rise the Resistance and Mickey Minis again in the morning.

00:16:43.320 --> 00:16:45.560
AMY: I was like, that's a good plan, actually.

00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:49.040
AMY: The next morning, we went back to Hollywood Studios.

00:16:49.060 --> 00:16:53.240
AMY: We did Mickey Minis first, and then we did Rise the Resistance again, and then we built the lightsaber.

00:16:54.100 --> 00:16:55.300
AMY: We did that day too.

00:16:55.760 --> 00:16:56.200
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:16:56.260 --> 00:16:57.080
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:16:57.420 --> 00:17:05.780
VIRGINIA: Rewind slightly, because I know that you had a makeover scheduled for that second morning for a Lightning McQueen makeover.

00:17:05.800 --> 00:17:10.980
VIRGINIA: This actually works out because of going back to Hollywood Studios for photos.

00:17:11.420 --> 00:17:12.240
VIRGINIA: How was the makeover?

00:17:12.820 --> 00:17:13.820
AMY: It was amazing.

00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:14.740
AMY: We used this woman.

00:17:14.760 --> 00:17:17.120
AMY: Her business name is Coco's Pixie Dust.

00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:18.860
AMY: She's on Facebook.

00:17:19.080 --> 00:17:20.100
AMY: She's on Instagram.

00:17:20.120 --> 00:17:22.120
AMY: She's probably, if you just Google Coco's Pixie Dust.

00:17:22.180 --> 00:17:23.680
AMY: She was amazing.

00:17:23.700 --> 00:17:25.400
AMY: I sent her a picture of the dress.

00:17:25.420 --> 00:17:26.940
AMY: I've gotten Evelyn on Etsy.

00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:28.280
AMY: It's like a Lightning McQueen dress.

00:17:31.020 --> 00:17:33.720
AMY: She brought different hair extension colors.

00:17:33.740 --> 00:17:35.560
AMY: She was like, do you want red, black, and white?

00:17:35.580 --> 00:17:36.180
AMY: Or do you just want red?

00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:37.120
AMY: Evelyn's favorite color is red.

00:17:37.140 --> 00:17:37.960
AMY: So she just wanted red.

00:17:38.320 --> 00:17:43.440
AMY: So she did a long red braid extension, and then she makes hair accessories.

00:17:43.700 --> 00:17:58.100
AMY: She made this big bow that said, like, kachow on it and had ribbon, like black and white checkered ribbons that she braided into the long extension and clips that had, like, Mater was one and Route 66 sign or whatever.

00:17:58.120 --> 00:18:01.200
AMY: So then she would clip that into the long braids, and then she does the makeup.

00:18:01.220 --> 00:18:02.600
AMY: She did red eyeshadow.

00:18:02.620 --> 00:18:03.460
AMY: Everything was red.

00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:04.400
AMY: It's like, Evelyn's favorite color.

00:18:04.420 --> 00:18:04.940
AMY: She loved the red.

00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:12.160
AMY: So my original plan was to do that in the morning, do Epcot in the morning, then go to Hollywood Studios in the afternoon because we had to go to Lightning Queens Racing Academy.

00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:18.440
AMY: But instead, we went straight to, we did the makeover, we went straight to Hollywood Studios in the morning.

00:18:19.800 --> 00:18:21.960
AMY: The makeover was amazing.

00:18:21.960 --> 00:18:23.580
AMY: She got so many comments.

00:18:23.740 --> 00:18:29.820
AMY: So many people were stopping her, like, ka-chow, saying that, or just like, I love Lightning McQueen, I love Lightning McQueen.

00:18:29.840 --> 00:18:35.000
AMY: And she just was so excited to have her Lightning McQueen Cars makeover.

00:18:35.040 --> 00:18:36.540
AMY: It was amazing.

00:18:36.560 --> 00:18:37.720
AMY: That was a highlight for sure.

00:18:38.060 --> 00:18:39.360
VIRGINIA: Well, it's so unique.

00:18:39.420 --> 00:18:43.840
VIRGINIA: I mean, you see so many people dressed as the same characters over and over again.

00:18:43.840 --> 00:18:49.880
VIRGINIA: And I don't recall ever seeing someone doing Lightning McQueen as a Disney bound or anything like that.

00:18:49.940 --> 00:18:51.520
VIRGINIA: So, oh, that's so cool.

00:18:51.540 --> 00:18:53.420
VIRGINIA: I can't wait to see photos of that.

00:18:53.540 --> 00:18:55.320
AMY: Yes, I want to send you some pictures.

00:18:55.320 --> 00:18:56.460
AMY: I have a lot of great ones.

00:18:56.780 --> 00:18:57.540
VIRGINIA: Oh, fantastic.

00:18:57.620 --> 00:19:00.580
VIRGINIA: What time did you wrap that up and head over to the park?

00:19:00.580 --> 00:19:03.480
VIRGINIA: And did you do breakfast before you left for the park?

00:19:03.500 --> 00:19:05.800
VIRGINIA: Or did you have breakfast in Hollywood Studios?

00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:12.620
AMY: So another thing I did, oh, I don't remember the name of the business, but I found these allies, people on the ear for each other Facebook group.

00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:16.280
AMY: But I got like a breakfast box delivered to my resort.

00:19:16.300 --> 00:19:22.160
AMY: So like we basically never eat breakfast other than just like a muffin or something in our room.

00:19:22.180 --> 00:19:26.420
AMY: So we just had like donuts from that or muffins or whatever, you know, for breakfast bread.

00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:27.520
AMY: So we just ate in the room.

00:19:29.320 --> 00:19:33.560
AMY: Before the makeover was at 730, we just ate like right before that.

00:19:33.580 --> 00:19:38.500
AMY: And then after the makeover, that's when I was like, let's just skedaddle right out of our back door.

00:19:39.780 --> 00:19:43.440
AMY: Which, whatever, I guess we didn't lock the door when we left, like the sliding door.

00:19:44.600 --> 00:19:48.660
AMY: But it was like in the back, in this like wooded area by the dolphin.

00:19:49.280 --> 00:19:51.680
AMY: And so we just like out of that walked.

00:19:51.940 --> 00:19:58.260
AMY: The people at the Yacht Club, when I said I was going to walk to Hollywood Studios, the cast member I talked to was like, that's a far, far walk.

00:19:58.620 --> 00:19:59.420
AMY: It really wasn't.

00:19:59.440 --> 00:20:01.340
AMY: It was like 15 minutes.

00:20:01.360 --> 00:20:02.500
AMY: They're like, the bubble is much quicker.

00:20:02.520 --> 00:20:04.820
AMY: And I'm like, but you're not factoring how much time you have to wait for the boat.

00:20:04.840 --> 00:20:06.200
AMY: So we just walked over.

00:20:06.220 --> 00:20:07.500
AMY: So we got to Hollywood Studios.

00:20:07.840 --> 00:20:08.860
AMY: The makeover was like an hour.

00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:12.860
AMY: It was a little before nine, you know, when we got 845, probably when we got there.

00:20:13.160 --> 00:20:17.860
VIRGINIA: People's perception of the walk, like it's really all relative.

00:20:17.880 --> 00:20:19.880
VIRGINIA: I mean, but we had talked before.

00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:24.360
VIRGINIA: You spent some time living in New York City, like walking 15 minutes is not that big a deal.

00:20:24.380 --> 00:20:27.000
VIRGINIA: So no, no, no.

00:20:27.020 --> 00:20:31.640
VIRGINIA: And I would always rather have control over how long it's taking me to get somewhere.

00:20:31.720 --> 00:20:37.940
VIRGINIA: Whereas with the boat, you're standing there waiting for forever when I could just be walking and making progress.

00:20:38.220 --> 00:20:38.880
AMY: Exactly.

00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:44.620
AMY: Like the first day, when we went over that first afternoon, we took the boat because I got scared off by this cast member.

00:20:44.800 --> 00:20:46.880
AMY: And then the second day, I was like, no, I'm worried.

00:20:46.900 --> 00:20:48.960
AMY: Because then I was like, I saw the path.

00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:50.480
AMY: I knew what it was going to be.

00:20:50.660 --> 00:20:51.520
AMY: We walked over there.

00:20:51.760 --> 00:20:53.000
AMY: We did Mickey Minis.

00:20:53.020 --> 00:20:54.520
AMY: Then we did Rise of the Resistance.

00:20:54.540 --> 00:20:57.260
AMY: Then we made the lightsaber, the plastic one, which was really cool.

00:20:57.620 --> 00:20:58.220
AMY: She loved that.

00:20:58.240 --> 00:20:59.160
AMY: She got a red one, of course.

00:20:59.180 --> 00:21:00.040
AMY: Of course.

00:21:01.120 --> 00:21:03.500
AMY: And the cast member who helped us was also from St.

00:21:03.520 --> 00:21:04.560
AMY: Louis, so that was cool.

00:21:06.420 --> 00:21:09.340
AMY: Then we went over and did Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy.

00:21:11.160 --> 00:21:12.040
AMY: That was really fun.

00:21:12.060 --> 00:21:16.300
AMY: Then that was it for our Hollywood Studios.

00:21:16.320 --> 00:21:21.880
AMY: Then we were going to go over to Epcot because we had lunch at 1130 at Space 220.

00:21:22.220 --> 00:21:24.680
AMY: I was like, well, let's take the Skyliner.

00:21:24.700 --> 00:21:25.240
AMY: That's fun.

00:21:25.260 --> 00:21:26.560
AMY: She's never been on the Skyliner.

00:21:26.680 --> 00:21:32.440
AMY: Then we took the Skyliner over to Epcot from Hollywood Studios and then booked it over.

00:21:32.740 --> 00:21:34.720
AMY: That took quite a bit of time.

00:21:34.740 --> 00:21:39.540
AMY: It took almost an hour from Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy to Space 220.

00:21:41.500 --> 00:21:48.980
AMY: Just walking from Lightning McQueen's Race Academy all the way to the Skyliner, taking the Skyliner, then walking all the way.

00:21:49.080 --> 00:21:50.300
AMY: Actually, I made the mistake.

00:21:50.320 --> 00:21:56.060
AMY: I was like, we were thinking about stopping in Japan to look at...

00:21:56.360 --> 00:21:58.320
AMY: Evelyn also really likes Pokemon.

00:21:58.340 --> 00:22:01.140
AMY: I was like, oh, let's go into Japan and the World Showcase and look and see.

00:22:01.160 --> 00:22:03.600
AMY: I think they probably have some Pokemon stuff.

00:22:03.760 --> 00:22:08.620
AMY: We went that way around the World Showcase, but it was really crowded and we just didn't have time to stop.

00:22:08.740 --> 00:22:10.100
AMY: Then I was like, let's just go straight.

00:22:10.120 --> 00:22:12.880
AMY: Then we got to Space 220 right on time.

00:22:13.840 --> 00:22:16.600
VIRGINIA: They do have Pokemon stuff there, side note.

00:22:16.700 --> 00:22:19.780
VIRGINIA: We spent many a dollar on Pokemon things there.

00:22:20.180 --> 00:22:24.360
VIRGINIA: I don't see that they have anything particularly that you couldn't get somewhere else.

00:22:24.380 --> 00:22:29.200
VIRGINIA: It's like the gift box, what I'm going to call a gift box with the variety packs or whatever.

00:22:29.220 --> 00:22:32.240
VIRGINIA: All right, let's talk about Space 220.

00:22:32.540 --> 00:22:34.700
VIRGINIA: How did you like that for lunch?

00:22:34.900 --> 00:22:36.820
VIRGINIA: Was this your first time at Space 220?

00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:38.680
AMY: Yes, this is my first time there.

00:22:38.940 --> 00:22:41.660
AMY: Evelyn has always wanted to be an astronaut when she grows up.

00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:44.400
AMY: Actually, she recently had a firefighter visit her school.

00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:46.620
AMY: Now she said, Mom, I want to be a firefighter.

00:22:46.620 --> 00:22:47.520
AMY: I said, okay, well, fine.

00:22:47.580 --> 00:22:48.860
AMY: She likes outer space.

00:22:50.060 --> 00:22:51.340
AMY: She just thought that was so cool.

00:22:51.360 --> 00:22:53.480
AMY: She was like, are we really going into space?

00:22:53.500 --> 00:22:54.740
AMY: There's no gravity in space.

00:22:54.760 --> 00:22:56.940
AMY: How are we going to eat lunch if there's no gravity in space?

00:22:56.960 --> 00:23:05.280
AMY: I was like, trying to, you know, it's this balance of like trying to play into the fantasy of it, but also being like realist.

00:23:05.880 --> 00:23:07.380
AMY: Anyway, she thought it was so cool.

00:23:07.980 --> 00:23:09.720
AMY: And she, this was another thing.

00:23:09.740 --> 00:23:13.300
AMY: So there's, I said everything kind of like, it was a birthday miracle.

00:23:13.320 --> 00:23:17.720
AMY: So the one thing we talked about leading up to the trip, she was like, I showed her pictures of Space 220.

00:23:17.740 --> 00:23:20.100
AMY: She said, I really want to sit by the window.

00:23:20.120 --> 00:23:24.100
AMY: And I was like, you know, we can ask, but there's no guarantees that we're going to be able to sit by the window.

00:23:24.720 --> 00:23:26.380
AMY: So I asked when we checked in, can we sit by the window?

00:23:26.400 --> 00:23:27.140
AMY: And they put us by the window.

00:23:27.160 --> 00:23:29.080
AMY: And she was like, it's a birthday miracle.

00:23:29.100 --> 00:23:29.560
AMY: We sat by the window.

00:23:29.580 --> 00:23:33.860
AMY: And the other thing she wanted was when I showed her videos of Slinky Dog, she's like, I really want to sit in the front.

00:23:34.120 --> 00:23:36.920
AMY: And I was like, I have no, I don't know if we're going to sit in the front.

00:23:37.220 --> 00:23:38.600
AMY: And we ended up being able to sit in the front.

00:23:38.620 --> 00:23:41.640
AMY: So by the time we got to Space 220, she was like, I just can't believe it.

00:23:41.940 --> 00:23:45.780
AMY: We got to sit in the front of Slinky Dog, and we got to sit by the window at Space 220.

00:23:46.060 --> 00:23:47.560
AMY: Everything is just working out perfectly.

00:23:47.800 --> 00:23:49.060
AMY: I was like, it really is.

00:23:49.840 --> 00:23:53.880
AMY: So I just loved watching all the things float by on the window at Space 220.

00:23:53.900 --> 00:23:55.520
AMY: That was very, very fun.

00:23:55.540 --> 00:23:56.680
AMY: We really enjoyed ourselves.

00:23:57.140 --> 00:23:58.340
VIRGINIA: How did you feel about the food?

00:23:58.660 --> 00:23:59.620
AMY: I thought the food was good.

00:23:59.640 --> 00:24:08.260
AMY: It was a little, I don't know, kind of fancy for me to have for lunch in the middle of the day at a theme park, but I enjoyed it.

00:24:08.280 --> 00:24:12.200
AMY: I had tuna and I don't remember what I had for obrata for my appetizer.

00:24:12.340 --> 00:24:13.420
AMY: Yeah, I thought it was good.

00:24:13.460 --> 00:24:17.580
AMY: And Evelyn had chicken strips, which are always good, chicken strips.

00:24:18.100 --> 00:24:27.580
VIRGINIA: Yeah, I remember liking whatever I had there, but it wasn't so spectacular that it stood out in my mind to be like, oh yeah, I had this thing when I was there and I will recommend that.

00:24:27.760 --> 00:24:29.920
VIRGINIA: I just remember it like not being disappointed.

00:24:29.940 --> 00:24:36.640
AMY: Yeah, I thought it was good and I thought like I was paying more for the experience of the restaurant.

00:24:36.660 --> 00:24:37.160
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:24:37.540 --> 00:24:41.720
AMY: I was like, I wanted to just try the restaurant regardless of whether I was going to like the food or not.

00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:42.520
AMY: I liked the food.

00:24:42.540 --> 00:24:44.920
AMY: It wasn't like the most amazing thing ever, but yeah.

00:24:45.160 --> 00:24:45.580
VIRGINIA: Alright.

00:24:45.800 --> 00:24:48.220
VIRGINIA: I know you had a dinner reservation originally at Garden Grill.

00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:51.160
VIRGINIA: You mentioned that you were likely to cancel it.

00:24:51.340 --> 00:24:53.100
VIRGINIA: Did you or did you hold onto it?

00:24:53.500 --> 00:24:53.920
AMY: I did.

00:24:53.940 --> 00:25:05.840
AMY: It worked out perfectly because again, what I had thought is I thought we were going to rope drop Epcot and I thought we were going to try and rope drop Frozen and then get a lightning lane for Test Track and do Epcot in the morning.

00:25:06.380 --> 00:25:10.020
AMY: And then I was like, well, if we're doing Epcot in the morning, we might not be there all day and we might not go to Garden Grill.

00:25:10.080 --> 00:25:18.480
AMY: But since Evelyn had this genius idea in her four-year-old mind to do Hollywood Studios in the morning, then we went in the afternoon to...

00:25:18.620 --> 00:25:21.460
AMY: So we got to Epcot at 11.30, had our lunch.

00:25:21.920 --> 00:25:24.980
AMY: We did lunch at Saiso 20.

00:25:25.180 --> 00:25:30.320
AMY: And then we had a Test Track lightning lane, but that was at like 2.30.

00:25:30.380 --> 00:25:34.440
AMY: And so I had got another lightning lane for Soren.

00:25:34.460 --> 00:25:37.640
AMY: So we went across and did Soren after lunch.

00:25:38.160 --> 00:25:39.240
AMY: That was another highlight.

00:25:40.540 --> 00:25:41.720
AMY: I love that ride as a kid.

00:25:41.740 --> 00:25:43.160
AMY: I hadn't ridden that ride since I was a kid.

00:25:43.180 --> 00:25:45.680
AMY: And I just remember loving it.

00:25:45.820 --> 00:25:48.860
AMY: Because the last time I went with Evelyn, she was too short to do it.

00:25:48.900 --> 00:25:50.860
AMY: So we went to Epcot, but we didn't do it.

00:25:51.220 --> 00:25:52.300
AMY: And so this time we did it.

00:25:52.300 --> 00:25:53.960
AMY: She absolutely loved that.

00:25:54.380 --> 00:25:57.700
AMY: And then I was like, well, let's just do Living with the Land since we're here.

00:25:57.720 --> 00:25:59.600
AMY: And that was my one miss up.

00:25:59.620 --> 00:26:03.280
AMY: We got off Living with the Land and she goes, Mom, that was quite boring.

00:26:03.420 --> 00:26:04.240
AMY: I'm like...

00:26:05.180 --> 00:26:07.160
VIRGINIA: Oh, those are fighting words, Evelyn.

00:26:07.400 --> 00:26:08.880
VIRGINIA: That is one of my favorites.

00:26:09.460 --> 00:26:10.000
AMY: That's what it is.

00:26:11.220 --> 00:26:13.700
AMY: So she was just like, it was just plants.

00:26:13.700 --> 00:26:14.140
AMY: It was just...

00:26:14.140 --> 00:26:15.840
AMY: I was like, it was a relaxing boat ride.

00:26:15.860 --> 00:26:17.020
AMY: I was like, you like, it's a small world.

00:26:17.040 --> 00:26:18.540
AMY: She's like, it's a small world, so colorful.

00:26:18.740 --> 00:26:19.980
AMY: There's fun things to look at.

00:26:20.100 --> 00:26:20.980
AMY: This is just plants.

00:26:21.000 --> 00:26:22.800
AMY: I was like, okay.

00:26:22.820 --> 00:26:24.880
AMY: So she didn't love Living with the Land.

00:26:24.900 --> 00:26:26.220
VIRGINIA: Fair enough.

00:26:26.240 --> 00:26:26.720
VIRGINIA: Fair enough.

00:26:26.740 --> 00:26:28.260
VIRGINIA: I mean, she's a kid.

00:26:28.280 --> 00:26:35.400
VIRGINIA: I don't know many adults that at least I'm friends with that don't like it because there's something so relaxing about it to us.

00:26:36.580 --> 00:26:46.400
VIRGINIA: But I get how as a four-year-old, maybe she would not have nearly as entertained to see, you know, like an agape plant or you know, whatever.

00:26:46.420 --> 00:26:48.400
AMY: She's a little adrenaline junkie.

00:26:48.420 --> 00:26:49.300
AMY: So she got off that.

00:26:49.320 --> 00:26:50.080
AMY: That was quite boring.

00:26:50.100 --> 00:26:52.880
AMY: And I was like, okay, Evelyn, I've got something for you that's not going to be boring.

00:26:53.240 --> 00:26:54.860
AMY: Let's go over to do test tracks.

00:26:54.880 --> 00:26:59.500
AMY: So then we go over to test track and she's dressed up like a car.

00:26:59.620 --> 00:27:02.060
AMY: This is perfect for her with her car as makeover.

00:27:02.080 --> 00:27:04.280
AMY: And she loved designing the car.

00:27:04.300 --> 00:27:06.040
AMY: She made the most weird looking car.

00:27:06.060 --> 00:27:09.020
AMY: You know, it's just like this weird looking car thing.

00:27:09.020 --> 00:27:13.560
AMY: And then we get there and then we're like close to the front of the line and they're like we are delayed.

00:27:13.580 --> 00:27:16.720
AMY: You know, they have like a guy coming over and we're like, oh no, oh no.

00:27:16.740 --> 00:27:18.680
AMY: And she's like, oh no, I really want to do this.

00:27:18.700 --> 00:27:19.260
AMY: I really want to do this.

00:27:19.280 --> 00:27:19.700
AMY: What do we do?

00:27:19.720 --> 00:27:20.640
AMY: What happens if we can't do it?

00:27:20.660 --> 00:27:22.000
AMY: All nervous.

00:27:22.380 --> 00:27:23.580
VIRGINIA: You need a birthday miracle.

00:27:23.600 --> 00:27:25.080
VIRGINIA: Where's your birthday miracle?

00:27:25.100 --> 00:27:25.780
AMY: We came through.

00:27:25.800 --> 00:27:26.400
AMY: It came through.

00:27:26.420 --> 00:27:27.480
AMY: It was all good.

00:27:27.500 --> 00:27:30.120
AMY: They let it went through fine.

00:27:30.140 --> 00:27:31.500
AMY: So we did the ride.

00:27:31.560 --> 00:27:32.700
AMY: She loved the ride.

00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:38.700
AMY: She loved the after the ride, how there was like those all those Chevys there that you could look like real cars.

00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:40.280
VIRGINIA: She started car shopping.

00:27:40.780 --> 00:27:41.140
AMY: Yes.

00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:42.660
AMY: She's like, can we go in those cars?

00:27:42.680 --> 00:27:44.620
AMY: I'm like, no, I don't have money for those cars.

00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:46.560
AMY: I'm not trying to buy one of the real cars.

00:27:46.580 --> 00:27:48.720
AMY: We took pictures in front of the cars.

00:27:48.740 --> 00:27:50.360
AMY: Like she loved all of that.

00:27:50.380 --> 00:27:54.240
AMY: And then she had seen a souvenir at the Lightning McQueen Racing Academy that morning.

00:27:54.260 --> 00:27:55.620
AMY: She wanted a Lightning McQueen toy.

00:27:56.280 --> 00:27:58.240
AMY: And I was like, I don't want to carry on this toy all day.

00:27:58.260 --> 00:28:01.860
AMY: But then I was like, I'm sure there'll be cars toys at the test track.

00:28:02.240 --> 00:28:11.800
AMY: And so we got the same, the Lightning McQueen toy at the test track and we paid $7 for the little card that has her car that she designed on it.

00:28:12.060 --> 00:28:15.380
AMY: And so after that, that was like, it was like 3 o'clock.

00:28:15.500 --> 00:28:18.840
AMY: And so I was like, let's just go back and rest in the room.

00:28:18.860 --> 00:28:21.100
AMY: And she just played with her Lightning McQueen toy.

00:28:22.140 --> 00:28:28.340
AMY: It's very entertaining to her to watch TV on a TV that's not streaming, that's like whatever's on is on.

00:28:29.440 --> 00:28:30.400
AMY: So she's not used to that.

00:28:30.420 --> 00:28:34.180
AMY: So we went back to the room and that was like, we got back to the room at like three-ish.

00:28:35.040 --> 00:28:36.840
AMY: And then we just rested for a while.

00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:38.280
AMY: And then I was like, oh, this is perfect.

00:28:38.300 --> 00:28:40.560
AMY: Because our hotel is so close to Epcot.

00:28:40.580 --> 00:28:42.260
AMY: We can just go back to Garden Girl for dinner.

00:28:42.280 --> 00:28:47.120
AMY: So I'm so glad I didn't cancel it because Garden Girl, I think, was probably her favorite restaurant that we went to.

00:28:47.140 --> 00:28:47.480
VIRGINIA: Really?

00:28:47.520 --> 00:28:51.880
VIRGINIA: Were you like, that boring ride you hated is right down there?

00:28:51.900 --> 00:28:56.140
AMY: She was so excited to see Living with the Land.

00:28:56.160 --> 00:29:00.120
AMY: She liked Living with the Land so much more from Garden Girl than she liked it when she was on it.

00:29:00.680 --> 00:29:03.320
AMY: She loved that the floor rotated.

00:29:03.400 --> 00:29:06.520
AMY: She thought that was so cool, and she was looking over.

00:29:06.860 --> 00:29:07.860
AMY: She kept running up.

00:29:08.220 --> 00:29:10.420
AMY: I was like, you're going to bump into the waitstaff.

00:29:10.620 --> 00:29:14.160
AMY: I was like, but she wanted to just stand there and look over and as it moved.

00:29:14.680 --> 00:29:15.940
AMY: And she loves character meals.

00:29:16.180 --> 00:29:20.000
AMY: She was like, one character meal, but I was like, I want to try some different things.

00:29:20.220 --> 00:29:21.420
AMY: She just loves Mickey.

00:29:22.360 --> 00:29:26.620
AMY: She will never eat any food at a character meal because she's so excited looking for the characters.

00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:30.240
AMY: But Garden Girl was really, she really, really enjoyed that meal.

00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:32.680
AMY: So yeah, we went back and did Garden Girl.

00:29:32.700 --> 00:29:34.980
AMY: And then, oh, we did one ride before Garden Girl.

00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:37.520
AMY: We did the Nemo ride, which she had done before, before Garden Girl.

00:29:37.540 --> 00:29:41.880
AMY: And then we were going to go back, but we walked out and it was dark outside.

00:29:42.020 --> 00:29:45.180
AMY: And I had never done the Moana Journey of Water before.

00:29:45.300 --> 00:29:46.860
AMY: And that was all lit up at night.

00:29:46.880 --> 00:29:48.140
AMY: And I was like, do you want to go see that?

00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:48.700
AMY: And she's like, yeah.

00:29:48.760 --> 00:29:49.920
AMY: So I was like, we got to go see that.

00:29:49.940 --> 00:29:53.180
AMY: So then we walked through that, which was really cool at nighttime, really beautiful.

00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:56.200
AMY: And then we went back to the, just back to our hotel afterwards.

00:29:56.220 --> 00:29:58.580
AMY: And it was super crowded at that point.

00:29:58.600 --> 00:29:59.240
AMY: I didn't think about it.

00:29:59.260 --> 00:29:59.800
AMY: It was Saturday.

00:29:59.820 --> 00:30:01.600
AMY: It was the first weekend of Flower and Garden Festival.

00:30:01.620 --> 00:30:03.720
AMY: It was absolutely a madhouse in Epcot.

00:30:04.100 --> 00:30:06.060
AMY: So I was like, let's just go back and go to bed.

00:30:06.240 --> 00:30:07.480
AMY: So that was our day two.

00:30:08.180 --> 00:30:12.080
VIRGINIA: I didn't even think about the fact that it was, you know, the first days of Flower and Garden.

00:30:12.860 --> 00:30:13.660
VIRGINIA: That makes a difference.

00:30:13.980 --> 00:30:15.780
AMY: It was completely packed.

00:30:15.800 --> 00:30:16.400
AMY: It was crazy.

00:30:16.420 --> 00:30:20.620
AMY: But I mean, it didn't really, we didn't spend basically any time in the World Showcase.

00:30:20.960 --> 00:30:27.620
AMY: So other than getting into and out of Epcot, and that was what was really just like totally wall to wall people.

00:30:27.640 --> 00:30:28.500
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:30:28.780 --> 00:30:31.740
VIRGINIA: Let's go to Sunday, March the 3rd.

00:30:31.880 --> 00:30:40.660
VIRGINIA: So you were supposed to start off your day in Magic Kingdom, and you mentioned that normally you go to Magic Kingdom early in the trip.

00:30:40.980 --> 00:30:47.440
VIRGINIA: So just out of curiosity, how did it feel to kind of be reserving it for your last park day?

00:30:47.460 --> 00:30:49.420
AMY: It felt kind of good.

00:30:49.640 --> 00:30:57.040
AMY: When I was a kid, when we'd go, we'd always do the first and last day at Magic Kingdom to start the trip and to end the trip.

00:30:57.060 --> 00:31:00.240
AMY: And so I kind of had that ending the trip, and we got there.

00:31:00.600 --> 00:31:02.160
AMY: So I wasn't sure how we were going to get there.

00:31:02.180 --> 00:31:03.240
AMY: It was raining in the morning.

00:31:03.260 --> 00:31:07.580
AMY: And so we were up early enough to get there well ahead of early entry.

00:31:08.340 --> 00:31:10.760
AMY: But I was like, oh, the rain, I don't know.

00:31:10.780 --> 00:31:12.200
AMY: So we kind of dilly dallyed a little bit.

00:31:12.220 --> 00:31:14.780
AMY: And then it started lightening up a bit.

00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:18.740
AMY: And so I went out and I was like, OK, well, maybe we'll take the bus.

00:31:18.900 --> 00:31:21.080
AMY: And so the bus said 15 minutes till the bus came.

00:31:21.100 --> 00:31:21.820
AMY: And I was like, I don't want to wait.

00:31:21.840 --> 00:31:22.620
AMY: So then I called the minivan.

00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:23.860
AMY: And then a bus just pulled up.

00:31:23.880 --> 00:31:25.600
AMY: And the lady was like, oh, I'm an extra bus.

00:31:25.620 --> 00:31:26.460
AMY: I'm not on the schedule.

00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:27.080
AMY: I was like, OK, great.

00:31:27.100 --> 00:31:30.180
AMY: So we canceled the minivan, got on the bus, took the bus over.

00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:30.660
AMY: We got there.

00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:33.220
AMY: We walked in shortly after the early.

00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:34.260
AMY: It was still early entry.

00:31:35.560 --> 00:31:37.660
AMY: And just like, you know, that feeling like walking on Main Street.

00:31:37.880 --> 00:31:39.580
AMY: Wow, you know, we're on Main Street.

00:31:39.600 --> 00:31:40.920
AMY: And like Evelyn was like skipping.

00:31:40.940 --> 00:31:41.740
AMY: She was so excited.

00:31:41.760 --> 00:31:43.120
AMY: Didn't want to be in the stroller at all.

00:31:43.140 --> 00:31:44.320
AMY: I was just so happy to be there.

00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:48.860
AMY: So we we always do like Winnie the Pooh first, like during early entry.

00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:50.660
AMY: That's like the ride we go to.

00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:53.240
AMY: So we did Pooh, which we just love that ride.

00:31:53.280 --> 00:31:54.940
AMY: And then I had a Lightning Lane.

00:31:54.960 --> 00:32:02.440
AMY: I didn't really need a Lightning Lane for it, honestly, because we basically just road dropped it for Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, because that's Evelyn's favorite ride.

00:32:02.740 --> 00:32:05.220
AMY: So we went all the way over back to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.

00:32:05.240 --> 00:32:06.760
AMY: We were like the first people on that ride.

00:32:06.780 --> 00:32:08.360
AMY: And then we just did that.

00:32:08.380 --> 00:32:09.220
AMY: We did Pirates of the Caribbean.

00:32:09.240 --> 00:32:12.620
AMY: We did Aladdin all while we were over there.

00:32:13.580 --> 00:32:16.960
AMY: And then we did Haunted Mansion.

00:32:16.980 --> 00:32:18.800
AMY: I had my next Lightning Lane for us.

00:32:18.820 --> 00:32:20.300
AMY: We did Haunted Mansion on the way back.

00:32:20.320 --> 00:32:22.600
AMY: So it kind of worked out nice to like have those things in a row.

00:32:22.620 --> 00:32:27.840
AMY: And then I bought an individual Lightning Lane for Seven Dwarfs Mind Train, which is another one of our favorites.

00:32:27.860 --> 00:32:32.300
AMY: So we did that and it was actually when we walked in, it wasn't raining, but we got on the ride, it was raining.

00:32:32.320 --> 00:32:35.980
AMY: And so it was like raining while we were on the ride, which is kind of interesting.

00:32:36.280 --> 00:32:38.040
AMY: Just like never had that happen before.

00:32:38.060 --> 00:32:38.620
AMY: So we did that.

00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:40.320
AMY: And then we did, oh, I don't even remember.

00:32:40.340 --> 00:32:43.120
AMY: We did a ton of, we did Mickey's Fella Her Magic, which we really like.

00:32:43.140 --> 00:32:44.340
AMY: We did It's a Small World.

00:32:44.360 --> 00:32:48.200
AMY: We did Lunch at Cosmic Ray's, which is, you know, Cosmic Ray's.

00:32:48.220 --> 00:32:54.540
AMY: We did, I think we did every ride in Tomorrowland except, you know, the ones that were too tall, like Evelyn's not tall enough to do.

00:32:55.120 --> 00:32:56.420
AMY: We didn't do Astro Orbiter, actually.

00:32:56.580 --> 00:32:59.060
AMY: I hate waiting for Astro Orbiter, so we didn't do that.

00:32:59.160 --> 00:32:59.580
VIRGINIA: I know.

00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:00.880
VIRGINIA: It's the worst wait.

00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:01.480
AMY: It is.

00:33:01.500 --> 00:33:04.340
AMY: It's, I kind of like the ride and Evelyn really likes the ride.

00:33:04.360 --> 00:33:12.280
VIRGINIA: The ride's cool, which I, because of the wait, I don't ride it very often, but we did it on this most recent trip because my nephew is obsessed with space.

00:33:13.080 --> 00:33:16.580
VIRGINIA: And I was like, we just have to do it because he'll love it.

00:33:16.740 --> 00:33:25.320
VIRGINIA: And when I do it, I'm reminded, like, oh, this is actually one of the going in a circle rides that I actually like because it's so high up.

00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:29.500
VIRGINIA: It feels a little bit more exciting and the views are nice and everything like that.

00:33:29.500 --> 00:33:37.840
VIRGINIA: But you just have to catch it at the right time of day, because if you wait too long, it really backs up there because the only way in and out are the elevators.

00:33:37.860 --> 00:33:39.280
AMY: The elevators is terrible.

00:33:39.300 --> 00:33:41.360
AMY: Yeah, I've done it during early entry.

00:33:41.380 --> 00:33:46.180
AMY: I've done it during, like we did it during the Halloween party this past year, which wasn't too bad.

00:33:47.400 --> 00:33:49.920
AMY: But yeah, so we didn't do that, but we did like the Monsters Inc.

00:33:49.940 --> 00:33:51.560
AMY: laugh for, which we never done before.

00:33:51.580 --> 00:33:53.040
AMY: That was really funny.

00:33:53.060 --> 00:33:59.320
AMY: Actually, we did People Mover, the Tomorrowland Speedway, which I don't particularly like, but she really likes.

00:34:00.360 --> 00:34:03.060
AMY: So we did a bunch of that stuff.

00:34:03.160 --> 00:34:09.360
AMY: And then it was like I had a lightning lane for Peter Pan at like 2.30, which Evelyn really liked.

00:34:09.600 --> 00:34:12.780
AMY: I really like Peter Pan too, but it was like 2 o'clock.

00:34:13.340 --> 00:34:14.700
AMY: We were kind of getting tired.

00:34:14.760 --> 00:34:18.440
AMY: And I was like, do you want to wait for Peter Pan or do you just want to go?

00:34:18.460 --> 00:34:19.660
AMY: She was like, let's just go.

00:34:19.680 --> 00:34:22.860
AMY: And she said she was like, we haven't taken the monorail this trip.

00:34:23.020 --> 00:34:24.140
AMY: I want to ride on the monorail.

00:34:24.160 --> 00:34:25.260
AMY: I was like, okay, fine.

00:34:25.280 --> 00:34:26.480
AMY: So let's take the monorail back.

00:34:26.820 --> 00:34:27.980
AMY: So then we took the monorail.

00:34:28.160 --> 00:34:30.960
AMY: We weren't going to go to Epcot this day, but I was like, let's just do it.

00:34:30.980 --> 00:34:32.420
AMY: So we took the monorail back to Epcot.

00:34:32.520 --> 00:34:37.400
AMY: I had gotten a lightning lane for Soarin again because as soon as we got to Soarin the day before, she was like, can we go again?

00:34:37.420 --> 00:34:38.760
AMY: And I was like, no, we can't go again.

00:34:39.100 --> 00:34:40.360
AMY: But now I was like, well, now we can.

00:34:41.300 --> 00:34:42.680
AMY: So we took the monorail over to Epcot.

00:34:42.700 --> 00:34:43.460
AMY: We get to Epcot.

00:34:43.460 --> 00:34:46.000
AMY: It just like absolutely starts drenching us with rain.

00:34:46.420 --> 00:34:46.880
VIRGINIA: Oh, no.

00:34:47.200 --> 00:34:48.100
AMY: But that was fine.

00:34:48.120 --> 00:34:49.140
AMY: It was fine.

00:34:49.160 --> 00:34:51.080
AMY: So then we go and we do Soarin.

00:34:51.720 --> 00:34:54.920
AMY: And then I was like, I was so tired by that point.

00:34:54.940 --> 00:34:56.560
AMY: It was like three something.

00:34:56.580 --> 00:34:57.960
AMY: I was like, let's go back to the hotel.

00:34:57.980 --> 00:34:59.480
AMY: So we went back to the hotel and rested.

00:34:59.500 --> 00:35:06.380
AMY: And then we had dinner at Beaches and Cream, which she was like, that's the one dinner that was just normal.

00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:08.040
AMY: There was nothing exciting about that.

00:35:08.040 --> 00:35:10.540
AMY: It was just a regular restaurant, except the ice cream.

00:35:10.560 --> 00:35:12.440
AMY: She's like, the ice cream was the only exciting thing.

00:35:12.460 --> 00:35:15.860
AMY: She likes the theme, the characters, you know, all that stuff.

00:35:16.840 --> 00:35:23.620
AMY: I was like, this close to having to go back to Hollywood Studios after because there was another Lightning Lane for Mickey and Minis that I had gotten for like $7.30.

00:35:23.720 --> 00:35:25.060
AMY: And I was like, so cool.

00:35:25.080 --> 00:35:26.960
AMY: I was like, oh, it'd be so fun to end the trip before we started it.

00:35:26.980 --> 00:35:30.320
AMY: But like, the stroller was, first of all, completely drenched.

00:35:30.600 --> 00:35:33.300
AMY: And I was just like, I don't want to walk.

00:35:33.560 --> 00:35:34.640
AMY: I don't want her to walk.

00:35:34.660 --> 00:35:35.800
AMY: You know, we could have taken the boat.

00:35:35.800 --> 00:35:38.500
AMY: But like, I was so tired.

00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:43.540
AMY: So I was just like, okay, no, we just played at the arcade because the arcade is right next door to Beaches and Cream.

00:35:43.560 --> 00:35:45.200
AMY: And like, she and I both love arcades.

00:35:45.220 --> 00:35:47.860
AMY: So we played in the arcade a little bit and then and then went to bed.

00:35:47.880 --> 00:35:49.120
AMY: And that was the last night of the trip.

00:35:49.260 --> 00:35:51.940
VIRGINIA: Did your stroller rental not come with a rain cover?

00:35:52.180 --> 00:35:53.120
AMY: No, I did not.

00:35:53.140 --> 00:35:54.120
AMY: I think you can.

00:35:54.140 --> 00:35:54.420
AMY: I did.

00:35:54.440 --> 00:35:55.540
AMY: I rent through ScooterBug.

00:35:55.560 --> 00:36:01.360
AMY: So I like ScooterBug because it's the only stroller rental company that can drop off at your resort without you being present.

00:36:01.520 --> 00:36:06.100
AMY: So that's like to me, ScooterBug is 100% what I recommend to everyone.

00:36:07.200 --> 00:36:08.540
AMY: You can get a rain cover.

00:36:08.560 --> 00:36:11.220
AMY: I didn't just because I was like, eh, it's fine.

00:36:11.240 --> 00:36:11.980
AMY: I got ponchos.

00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:12.520
AMY: We wear ponchos.

00:36:12.540 --> 00:36:14.440
AMY: Well, Evelyn's like, I don't like wearing this poncho.

00:36:14.460 --> 00:36:15.260
AMY: I'm like, okay, fine.

00:36:15.980 --> 00:36:17.860
AMY: So the stroller was totally drenched.

00:36:19.300 --> 00:36:20.240
AMY: And I was so tired.

00:36:20.260 --> 00:36:23.620
AMY: I'm so glad we didn't go back because like 8 o'clock, Evelyn went to bed, I went to bed.

00:36:23.680 --> 00:36:26.560
AMY: I was in bed at 8 o'clock.

00:36:26.860 --> 00:36:34.460
VIRGINIA: Well, you had an early flight, a relatively early flight considering how much time you have to allow to get over to the airport.

00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:40.200
VIRGINIA: So you probably could really have used that sleep, so good for you.

00:36:40.700 --> 00:36:42.860
VIRGINIA: So no luminous that night.

00:36:43.140 --> 00:36:43.940
AMY: No, no.

00:36:43.940 --> 00:36:48.760
AMY: And actually last night when she was at home, she was like we forgot to do the fireworks.

00:36:48.780 --> 00:36:50.260
AMY: I was like, we didn't forget.

00:36:50.800 --> 00:36:52.640
AMY: I didn't forget.

00:36:52.660 --> 00:36:53.580
AMY: That was purposeful.

00:36:53.840 --> 00:36:58.400
AMY: Yeah, I thought about but I was just, I mean, it was an amazing, amazing fun trip.

00:36:58.420 --> 00:37:00.600
AMY: I will cherish the memories of this trip.

00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:02.500
AMY: But by the end of it, I was just so wiped out.

00:37:02.520 --> 00:37:04.000
AMY: I was like, we'll do this another time.

00:37:04.120 --> 00:37:06.660
AMY: She had kind of had a cold the week before.

00:37:06.680 --> 00:37:09.260
AMY: I think on the previous one, I was saying I had kind of gotten over a cold.

00:37:09.280 --> 00:37:11.320
AMY: She had kind of had a little bit of a cold.

00:37:11.340 --> 00:37:13.060
AMY: I was just like, I don't want to push it.

00:37:13.080 --> 00:37:14.320
AMY: I don't want to make her get sick.

00:37:15.520 --> 00:37:16.240
AMY: We're tired.

00:37:16.260 --> 00:37:17.080
AMY: Let's just go to bed.

00:37:17.580 --> 00:37:22.140
AMY: She was asleep instantly and I was asleep like five seconds after her, I think.

00:37:23.060 --> 00:37:23.500
VIRGINIA: Alright.

00:37:23.600 --> 00:37:29.440
VIRGINIA: Well, how was the trip back to the airport and the return flight?

00:37:29.880 --> 00:37:33.120
AMY: Trip back was fine.

00:37:33.540 --> 00:37:34.420
AMY: We had a 10 a.m.

00:37:34.440 --> 00:37:37.900
AMY: flight back and so I had Happy Lemon picking us up at 730.

00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:39.440
AMY: I like to get there two hours before.

00:37:39.460 --> 00:37:40.620
AMY: I think that's plenty of time.

00:37:40.640 --> 00:37:42.420
AMY: I've pre-checked.

00:37:42.440 --> 00:37:56.980
AMY: We just grabbed cereal and muffins from the quick service at Yacht Club and we were sitting in the lobby eating and then a cast member came over and brought a little crown for Evelyn so she got pixie dust to this crown which was great and now she's like, this is a very special crown.

00:37:58.200 --> 00:37:59.180
AMY: So that was very sweet.

00:37:59.660 --> 00:38:01.360
AMY: And then, yeah, they took us back to the airport.

00:38:01.560 --> 00:38:02.280
AMY: All good.

00:38:02.440 --> 00:38:03.740
AMY: Got off without a hitch.

00:38:03.780 --> 00:38:05.520
AMY: Flight went all on time.

00:38:05.540 --> 00:38:06.140
AMY: Got home.

00:38:06.520 --> 00:38:18.760
AMY: It was every, like literally, I don't think anything could have gone, aside from Evelyn really just not enjoying living with the land, every other thing went literally as perfectly as it could have possibly gone.

00:38:18.800 --> 00:38:20.340
AMY: It was like an amazing trip.

00:38:21.440 --> 00:38:22.700
VIRGINIA: It's a birthday miracle.

00:38:23.080 --> 00:38:24.040
AMY: It really was.

00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:26.880
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:38:26.900 --> 00:38:32.180
VIRGINIA: Well, thank you, Amy, for sharing all of the magical details of your trip.

00:38:32.200 --> 00:38:42.020
VIRGINIA: I can't wait to share the photos that you'll share with our listeners so they can see for themselves the Lightning McQueen makeover and all of that.

00:38:42.600 --> 00:38:48.280
VIRGINIA: Thank you so much for taking the time and I hope that we will talk again sometime in the future.

00:38:48.300 --> 00:38:49.340
AMY: Definitely.

00:38:49.360 --> 00:38:50.060
AMY: Thanks for having me.

00:38:50.080 --> 00:38:50.560
AMY: It was fun.

00:38:52.300 --> 00:38:54.820
VIRGINIA: Thank you again, Amy, for joining me on the show.

00:38:55.180 --> 00:39:01.200
VIRGINIA: Amy's information is in the show note, so please reach out to her if you would like some help planning your own Disney adventure.

00:39:01.720 --> 00:39:04.420
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00:39:04.680 --> 00:39:07.900
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00:39:08.280 --> 00:39:10.720
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00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:12.140
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00:39:12.760 --> 00:39:17.540
VIRGINIA: Remember, there will be no new episode next week as I take a week off between seasons.

00:39:17.900 --> 00:39:24.100
VIRGINIA: But I will be back on April 15th and I hope until then, you'll keep daydreaming about where you long to be.