Post-Trip Report: Bambi’s Walt Disney Studios Tour Trip (January/February 2025)

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VIRGINIA: Welcome back to another episode of Where I Long To Be, A Magical Trip Report Podcast.

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VIRGINIA: I'm your host, Virginia.

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VIRGINIA: If you are taking a magical trip this year, I would love to hear from you.

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VIRGINIA: I'm currently looking for guests who will be traveling in June and beyond.

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VIRGINIA: So what are you waiting for?

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VIRGINIA: The sooner you submit your trip for consideration, the better.

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VIRGINIA: On today's episode, as a heads up, you're going to hear some of the results of my bronchitis based on the date that we recorded.

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VIRGINIA: I sound a bit like a preteen boy at times with my voice cracking.

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VIRGINIA: So if it was really bad, I did take a bead and I was able to edit out the crack.

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VIRGINIA: But other times it really just was not worth stopping for.

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VIRGINIA: So I kept calm and carried on.

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VIRGINIA: And I hope that you will also keep calm and carry on when you hear my voice crack.

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VIRGINIA: So let's get into the heart of this episode.

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VIRGINIA: On today's show, I am welcoming back my longtime friend Bambi.

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VIRGINIA: Bambi and I went to high school together growing up in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

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VIRGINIA: Then we went to college together at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

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VIRGINIA: She was even in my wedding and I have been dying to get her on the show.

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VIRGINIA: So when she had this work trip come up that would allow for a few days at Disneyland, I jumped at the chance to sit down with her.

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VIRGINIA: Bambi and her husband Michael are Disney World folks since they live in Charleston, South Carolina.

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VIRGINIA: And that isn't too far from there.

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VIRGINIA: But they don't often get the chance to go where the magic all began.

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VIRGINIA: On this trip, their niece Rachel, a cast member at Walt Disney World, was joining them for the Disneyland fun.

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VIRGINIA: I think that's all you need to get caught up if you did not listen to the pre-trip episode.

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VIRGINIA: So with that, here's Bambi.

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VIRGINIA: Welcome back to the podcast, Bambi.

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BAMBI: Thank you.

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BAMBI: Great to be here.

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VIRGINIA: I mean, you were gone a while because you had other things going into this trip.

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VIRGINIA: So I feel like it's been a while since we've talked.

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VIRGINIA: I can't remember when the original pre-trip interview was.

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VIRGINIA: But nonetheless, how are you feeling?

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BAMBI: Exhausted.

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BAMBI: Just got back and we were gone for two weeks total, and the Disney experience was only three of those days.

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BAMBI: So I need a vacation from the vacation.

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VIRGINIA: I mean, that's always the case, right?

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VIRGINIA: So in leading up to the Disney portion of your trip, you were going to San Diego.

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VIRGINIA: We briefly talked about the Hotel Coronado.

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VIRGINIA: Did you happen to get over there on your San Diego days?

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BAMBI: I did not, but I could see it from my hotel room.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: So for those who didn't listen to the pre-trip, the Hotel Coronado is the inspiration hotel for the Grand Floridian.

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VIRGINIA: So it's really cool to see.

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VIRGINIA: If you're ever in San Diego, I recommend getting out there to see it because it's just beautiful.

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VIRGINIA: Has a totally different feel on the inside from the Grand Floridian.

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VIRGINIA: It's like lots of darker woods, but Grand Floridian is obviously nice and light.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: Another follow up to the trip as a whole.

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VIRGINIA: How did the weather turn out?

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VIRGINIA: Because you thought it was going to be in the 60s.

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VIRGINIA: I know we had a bunch of fluctuations in the time that you've been gone on the East Coast.

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VIRGINIA: So what did it do out West?

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BAMBI: It was actually what I would consider perfect weather.

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BAMBI: So it was in the mid to upper 60s during the day, and then it got down into the 50s at night.

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BAMBI: So we got along with Capri, or I did.

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BAMBI: My husband didn't wear Capri pants.

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BAMBI: But Capri pants and a light three-quarterling sleep top, and it didn't sweat.

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BAMBI: It wasn't like Florida.

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BAMBI: There's no humidity.

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BAMBI: So it was kind of surreal and wonderful to be at Disney and not sweating.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: Now I was there a couple of, well, I was in Disney World a couple of weeks ago, and it's very odd to be in a place like that in what essentially is a winter coat for most places in the country.

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VIRGINIA: For me, it was like a light winter coat compared to what we normally wear.

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VIRGINIA: But yeah, it's, it's different.

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VIRGINIA: And I think in California, there's more of a steadiness to it out there.

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VIRGINIA: Like it's consistently just like pleasant weather.

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VIRGINIA: It doesn't seem to get too hot.

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VIRGINIA: It doesn't seem to get too cold.

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VIRGINIA: And I think my perception growing up of California was that it was just a hot state.

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VIRGINIA: I don't know.

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VIRGINIA: Like I guess because I didn't understand geography at the time.

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BAMBI: And yeah, well, and when we were growing up, the Beach Boys were popular.

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BAMBI: So I made it sound like it was hot.

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VIRGINIA: That's true.

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VIRGINIA: That is true.

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VIRGINIA: Well, I mean, now you're making us sound even older than we are.

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VIRGINIA: The Beach Boys, the Beach Boys with John Stamos, I just want to clarify.

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VIRGINIA: Not like the original.

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BAMBI: For sure.

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VIRGINIA: I mean, we're old, but we're not that old.

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VIRGINIA: We're talking like full house times.

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BAMBI: Yeah, 100%.

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BAMBI: Mullets had just come in.

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VIRGINIA: Yes, yes.

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VIRGINIA: And I hope that they don't ever come back in again.

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VIRGINIA: Although I think they kind of are right now.

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VIRGINIA: I've seen a lot of these like pop stars, they're rocking a mullet and a mustache.

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VIRGINIA: And it's, you know, it's a thing.

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VIRGINIA: It's a thing.

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VIRGINIA: All right, so let's talk through the Disney portion of your trip.

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VIRGINIA: So you thought that on the day of your arrival, which I think was Thursday, January 30th into Anaheim, that you might get there in the afternoon and probably head down to Downtown Disney, maybe for dinner.

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VIRGINIA: So walk us through how that evening turned out.

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BAMBI: Yeah, that's exactly what we did.

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BAMBI: We ended up, we changed hotels, so no offense to the hotel where we were booked, but it was like 20 minutes away, which is like dog years away from Disneyland and Anaheim.

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BAMBI: So we ended up being at a Marriott property.

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BAMBI: It was literally like right across the street from Disney.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: Did you do this change before you went or you went and checked in to your property or were about to and then made the switch?

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BAMBI: No, actually, this is why you don't let your husband book vacation plans.

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BAMBI: So he booked a really, really bad, far, far away, land far, far away hotel.

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BAMBI: So we checked in, went upstairs and then I was like, nope.

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BAMBI: And so we found another hotel right across the street, booked it and came downstairs and checked out.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, you mean right across the street from Disneyland.

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VIRGINIA: Got it.

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BAMBI: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: Was it, and I'm asking for personal reasons, was it the Marriott that is at the Convention Center?

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BAMBI: No, it was a Springhill Suite.

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VIRGINIA: Got it.

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BAMBI: Which is also a Marriott property.

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BAMBI: Yeah, just down the road.

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VIRGINIA: Okay, because I'll be staying in that Marriott in June.

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BAMBI: It looks nice.

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BAMBI: It does look nice.

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BAMBI: I don't know.

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VIRGINIA: Well, we'll see.

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VIRGINIA: It's right across the street.

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VIRGINIA: So that's all that matters to me.

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VIRGINIA: So the new one, how was that hotel?

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BAMBI: It was great.

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BAMBI: It was within walking distance of everything.

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BAMBI: It was a run weekend.

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BAMBI: So it was nice to be able to walk places because the roads were blocked off early in the morning.

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BAMBI: Yeah.

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BAMBI: I mean, it was clean.

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BAMBI: It was a suite.

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BAMBI: There were three of us staying in there, so it was nice to have room to move around and have a fridge to put water in, stuff like that.

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VIRGINIA: Am I recalling correctly that you're Marriott Rewards member?

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VIRGINIA: Yes.

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VIRGINIA: So was it easy to do the switch without anybody giving you a hard time?

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BAMBI: It was.

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BAMBI: I mean, we did have to pay a penalty since we checked in, of course.

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BAMBI: We paid the hotel for the first night.

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BAMBI: We wasted the first night's hotel on the extra one, but it was worth it.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: I think when we spoke before, you thought it was about a 10-minute drive.

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VIRGINIA: So 20 minutes is a lot farther than you thought.

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BAMBI: Yeah.

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BAMBI: And it was not, you kind of drive up and you're like, well, the property looks nice.

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VIRGINIA: Something feels off.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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BAMBI: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: What did you end up doing for dinner that night?

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BAMBI: So we didn't have reservations and being a race weekend, anywhere with reservations was booked and no wait lists allowed.

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BAMBI: So we actually just kind of walked around at first, went into their, what's the name of their, I think it's the Trading Post, their Star Wars store, which is far superior to the one at Disney Springs in Florida.

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BAMBI: I think they definitely win on that one.

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BAMBI: So we just kind of went through the stores, checked out the Lego store, just looking for things that were different.

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BAMBI: And we ended up at a burger joint that I can't remember the name of, but it was really good.

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BAMBI: We both got burgers.

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BAMBI: Michael got a shake and ate and enjoyed ourselves.

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VIRGINIA: And it was right there in Downtown Disney.

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VIRGINIA: The burger joint?

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BAMBI: Yes.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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BAMBI: And Downtown Disney, I had forgotten this, but it connects the two parks.

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BAMBI: So if you, I mean, which is, that's kind of nice because you're not having to like ride a tram or, you know, figure out a way to get to and from.

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BAMBI: Everything is just right there.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: So, yeah, which is, which is funny to me because of the monorail.

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VIRGINIA: I look at their monorail, I'm like, it doesn't go very far.

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VIRGINIA: It's not like ours where I feel like ours is real transportation.

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VIRGINIA: And I use that in quotes.

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BAMBI: Oh, for sure.

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BAMBI: No, I'm with you.

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BAMBI: Yeah, 100%.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: Did you do anything after dinner that night?

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BAMBI: No, by the time we had gotten checked in and moved around and done all the things, we just, we just went to bed.

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BAMBI: We knew it was going to be a long, good, but long day in the next few days.

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BAMBI: So got some sleep.

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VIRGINIA: Right.

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VIRGINIA: And you had a very early morning planned because your niece was arriving at LAX at 8 a.m.

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VIRGINIA: ish, which Disneyland and LAX are quite a bit of a drive from each other.

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VIRGINIA: I think if I'm remembering correctly, like 30, 40 minutes or so with minimal traffic.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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BAMBI: And rush hour made it much worse.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: So what time did you, what time did you leave the hotel to head to the airport?

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BAMBI: I think it took us, I think it took us an hour and our app said it would take between an hour and an hour and a half.

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BAMBI: So we left an hour and a half before.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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BAMBI: And we're a shower in the morning people.

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BAMBI: So it was a very early day.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, wow.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: You got to make that switch.

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VIRGINIA: I used to be a shower in the morning person and I switched and life is so much easier as a shower at night person.

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BAMBI: I'm a zombie.

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BAMBI: I'm a zombie if I don't take a shower first thing in the morning.

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BAMBI: I have to.

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VIRGINIA: Understandable.

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VIRGINIA: We all have something that we have to do to wake us up.

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VIRGINIA: And some people's the shower, some people's coffee, sometimes both.

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BAMBI: Yes.

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VIRGINIA: Did her flight arrive on time?

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BAMBI: It did.

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BAMBI: It actually arrived early, believe it or not.

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BAMBI: So she was waiting on us a few minutes by the time we navigated through all the terminals.

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BAMBI: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: And remind me of her name.

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BAMBI: Rachel.

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VIRGINIA: Rachel.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: And Rachel is currently doing the college program.

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BAMBI: No, she graduated from the college program and now she's a cast member.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, yes.

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VIRGINIA: Yes.

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VIRGINIA: But she recent, sometime recently did the college program.

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BAMBI: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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BAMBI: Yes.

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BAMBI: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: Man, I wish I had done that when I was in school.

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VIRGINIA: Did you even know about it?

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BAMBI: I did.

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BAMBI: I did.

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BAMBI: But it was one of those things where I was going to have to do it over the summer, ran the numbers and it just wasn't cost-effective for my poor little college self.

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BAMBI: So I didn't do it.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: No, I remember knowing somebody who did it, but it just felt like something that was for somebody else.

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VIRGINIA: Like it didn't feel like, oh, this is a possibility for you just in the same way that I didn't go through college thinking like, oh, I could study away.

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BAMBI: Yeah, same.

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BAMBI: Yeah, I didn't just study abroad until grad school.

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BAMBI: Undergrad, it was like, no, I'm here.

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BAMBI: I'm supposed to be on campus all the time.

00:11:13.017 --> 00:11:13.977
VIRGINIA: Right, right.

00:11:14.417 --> 00:11:24.157
VIRGINIA: I had this very strict notion of college was going fall spring, never going summer, and then just always going to school on the actual campus.

00:11:24.157 --> 00:11:26.957
VIRGINIA: And I had the opportunity to study abroad in grad school.

00:11:26.957 --> 00:11:30.677
VIRGINIA: And unfortunately, at that point in my life, I was the mom of a toddler.

00:11:31.177 --> 00:11:36.577
VIRGINIA: So because I waited 13 years between undergrad and grad school to start.

00:11:36.577 --> 00:11:39.077
VIRGINIA: So anyway, I wish I had done the college program.

00:11:39.077 --> 00:11:39.457
VIRGINIA: I didn't.

00:11:39.457 --> 00:11:44.777
VIRGINIA: So I'm a little bit envious of people like Rachel, who took that opportunity and did it.

00:11:44.777 --> 00:11:49.057
VIRGINIA: And now is, in my opinion, living the dream and gets to be a cast member.

00:11:49.097 --> 00:11:51.277
BAMBI: 100% for sure.

00:11:51.277 --> 00:11:51.797
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:11:51.797 --> 00:12:02.797
VIRGINIA: So after you grabbed Rachel, you mentioned that you might be getting some special donuts that were near the airport, that you were excited about.

00:12:02.797 --> 00:12:05.657
VIRGINIA: Did you end up at Randy's Donuts?

00:12:05.657 --> 00:12:14.517
BAMBI: So what's funny is we had full intent of stopping there on the way out, and we actually ended up having to, I missed the exit, so we drove literally past it.

00:12:14.517 --> 00:12:17.777
BAMBI: So we got a picture driving past it to go pick Rachel up.

00:12:17.777 --> 00:12:20.477
BAMBI: And then we picked her up and completely forgot to stop there.

00:12:20.477 --> 00:12:23.257
BAMBI: Oh, because you were so excited.

00:12:23.317 --> 00:12:25.597
BAMBI: Yeah, yeah, so completely missed the donuts.

00:12:25.597 --> 00:12:29.277
BAMBI: But we did go to Pinks, Pinks with a P.

00:12:29.277 --> 00:12:29.837
VIRGINIA: I don't know Pinks.

00:12:29.837 --> 00:12:40.777
BAMBI: And if you're not familiar with Pinks, apparently it's like this little like old school mom and pop, just kind of beat up looking hot dog shack.

00:12:40.777 --> 00:12:48.537
BAMBI: But it's close enough to where a lot of the studios are that there's pictures of every celebrity with their Pinks hot dogs.

00:12:48.537 --> 00:12:53.157
BAMBI: And if you go there, they actually have a paint like, they have like a Barbra Streisand hot dog.

00:12:53.157 --> 00:12:58.717
BAMBI: And it's all these different hot dogs, like based on where they're from or different things.

00:12:58.717 --> 00:13:02.017
BAMBI: So yeah, so it was kind of cool to take her there.

00:13:02.017 --> 00:13:09.357
VIRGINIA: And this afternoon, you were not going to one of the parks, you were doing a special tour of the Disney Studios.

00:13:09.357 --> 00:13:15.357
VIRGINIA: So tell us everything about it because I am dying to do this myself.

00:13:15.357 --> 00:13:16.557
BAMBI: You have to do this.

00:13:16.557 --> 00:13:22.517
BAMBI: So I didn't realize how like quote unquote exclusive it is until we did it.

00:13:22.517 --> 00:13:28.577
BAMBI: But only cast members and or members of D23 can get the tour.

00:13:28.577 --> 00:13:32.037
BAMBI: So it's not like the Warner Brothers one where just anybody can do it.

00:13:32.037 --> 00:13:35.757
BAMBI: And you can only get two reservations per D23 membership.

00:13:35.757 --> 00:13:41.177
BAMBI: So Michael and I both joined D23 so that we could, you know, get three tickets for the three of us.

00:13:41.177 --> 00:13:44.557
BAMBI: And when we got there, so it's actually the Burbank Studios.

00:13:44.557 --> 00:13:46.197
BAMBI: And if you've seen Saving Mr.

00:13:46.197 --> 00:13:48.717
BAMBI: Banks, yes, which I would hope everybody's seen that.

00:13:49.977 --> 00:13:52.397
BAMBI: It is, I mean, it is, that is where they filmed it.

00:13:52.397 --> 00:14:02.077
BAMBI: And it is the same studio that Walt, you know, walked every day and his office and the piano where the Sherman Brothers wrote all the songs and all the things is there.

00:14:02.077 --> 00:14:02.997
BAMBI: And I know, right?

00:14:02.997 --> 00:14:03.537
VIRGINIA: I just got chills.

00:14:03.537 --> 00:14:19.377
BAMBI: So it is, it's, it's just really crazy to, to just kind of walk around where, you know, Dick Van Dyke and I mean, Julie Andrew, just all the, the fames, like, you know, built this dynasty, right?

00:14:19.377 --> 00:14:25.737
BAMBI: I don't remember the exact price, but it was, I want to say it was like 120 or 130 bucks a person.

00:14:25.737 --> 00:14:28.457
BAMBI: And our tour group was eight people.

00:14:28.457 --> 00:14:30.717
BAMBI: So we basically, I mean, it was very intimate.

00:14:30.717 --> 00:14:35.317
BAMBI: We had the cast member that showed us around was phenomenal.

00:14:35.317 --> 00:14:49.117
BAMBI: What's really cool about it is, it's so close to where they film so many things that pretty much everybody that works there as a cast member, no matter their, I mean, the people that worked in the, in the store where you could buy swag and stuff like that, were like in the background of Saving Mr.

00:14:49.117 --> 00:14:49.337
BAMBI: Band.

00:14:49.337 --> 00:14:58.297
BAMBI: They've all had been in some kind of like parade or motion picture or something like that, which is just, it really kind of feels like what you would think old Hollywood would feel like.

00:14:58.297 --> 00:14:59.897
VIRGINIA: Yeah, that's so cool.

00:14:59.897 --> 00:15:01.517
BAMBI: So, yeah.

00:15:02.177 --> 00:15:08.337
BAMBI: And so they just kind of take you around and there's a cafe and it's where Walt would eat his chili every day.

00:15:08.337 --> 00:15:16.117
BAMBI: And, you know, they take you through and they just, I guess, in the past year or two, fairly recently opened up his office.

00:15:17.457 --> 00:15:22.837
BAMBI: So they re-created his office as it was when he last stepped in it.

00:15:22.837 --> 00:15:29.757
BAMBI: And so, you know, of course, you put all your recording devices and all the things in a box and you can still take pictures, which is nice.

00:15:29.757 --> 00:15:34.077
BAMBI: But yeah, I mean, it's like, I mean, it's the little tchotchkes behind his desk.

00:15:34.077 --> 00:15:39.077
BAMBI: You can kind of see, like, how certain things were inspired to other things.

00:15:39.077 --> 00:15:41.637
BAMBI: Like, there was a little cage in the corner that had a bird in it.

00:15:41.697 --> 00:15:45.337
BAMBI: And she said that was, you know, he was sitting in his desk and he would stare at that.

00:15:45.337 --> 00:15:50.837
BAMBI: And that kind of was the initial inspiration for the Tiki room and, you know, different things like that.

00:15:50.837 --> 00:15:52.677
BAMBI: So it's phenomenal.

00:15:52.677 --> 00:15:53.817
BAMBI: Absolutely worth it.

00:15:53.817 --> 00:15:55.637
VIRGINIA: How long was the tour?

00:15:55.637 --> 00:15:57.317
BAMBI: It was an hour and a half.

00:15:57.317 --> 00:15:58.477
VIRGINIA: OK.

00:15:58.477 --> 00:16:01.377
BAMBI: And we were the last slot on a Friday.

00:16:01.377 --> 00:16:03.697
BAMBI: So but I mean, nobody was rushing you.

00:16:03.697 --> 00:16:07.717
BAMBI: And it was kind of cool because, you know, people are like leaving and walking by.

00:16:07.717 --> 00:16:16.057
BAMBI: And I mean, there's literally like the production studio for like, Lucas was right there and you walk by like the door for Marvel and all that.

00:16:16.057 --> 00:16:19.017
BAMBI: And there's people in there collaborating and stuff.

00:16:19.757 --> 00:16:28.437
BAMBI: And they say, you know, like, you just kind of forget sometimes like, you know, Thor will walk by just, you know, because he's coming in to check something out for the day or whatever.

00:16:28.437 --> 00:16:31.077
BAMBI: And it's just normal, normal for them.

00:16:31.077 --> 00:16:32.397
VIRGINIA: That's so cool.

00:16:32.397 --> 00:16:35.717
VIRGINIA: And you went to the store.

00:16:35.717 --> 00:16:38.097
VIRGINIA: Did you end up buying anything special?

00:16:38.877 --> 00:16:39.117
BAMBI: Yeah.

00:16:39.117 --> 00:16:49.137
BAMBI: So there's only two for those of us again, the 90s children, the Disney store, you know, in the mall with the big pile of, right, you know, plush dolls in the middle.

00:16:49.137 --> 00:16:51.897
BAMBI: So there's only two left in the country and one of them is there.

00:16:51.897 --> 00:16:54.077
VIRGINIA: And the other one is in Times Square.

00:16:54.077 --> 00:16:55.457
BAMBI: That, yep.

00:16:55.457 --> 00:17:02.217
BAMBI: And so, I mean, this one was very small and it's, you know, really only for the cast members and the folks at the studios.

00:17:02.217 --> 00:17:04.717
BAMBI: But it was, I mean, it was cool.

00:17:04.717 --> 00:17:13.077
BAMBI: It had some specific swag to to Burbank, but then at the back of that is a true kind of cast member store.

00:17:13.077 --> 00:17:15.837
BAMBI: And so as part of the tour, you could also buy swag from there.

00:17:15.837 --> 00:17:20.177
BAMBI: And so, you know, I didn't go nuts on swag.

00:17:20.177 --> 00:17:24.377
BAMBI: My niece, of course, got a cool t-shirt and I'm a hat person.

00:17:24.377 --> 00:17:27.277
BAMBI: So I bought a, you know, a hat to wear to the parks and stuff.

00:17:27.277 --> 00:17:35.117
BAMBI: And I got my dad like a little, you know, those like man sweatshirt things that you, it's like the, kind of like this thing right here.

00:17:35.117 --> 00:17:38.897
BAMBI: It's like an athletic long sleeve.

00:17:38.897 --> 00:17:42.057
VIRGINIA: Like a three-quarters zip fleece?

00:17:42.057 --> 00:17:43.277
BAMBI: Yeah, but it wasn't a fleece.

00:17:43.277 --> 00:17:46.377
BAMBI: It's like the new Trinity material because that's what they had there.

00:17:46.377 --> 00:17:48.797
BAMBI: So, yeah, anyway, I'm not in style.

00:17:50.077 --> 00:17:50.577
BAMBI: I don't know.

00:17:50.617 --> 00:17:53.237
VIRGINIA: I don't know what you're talking about.

00:17:53.237 --> 00:18:04.237
BAMBI: So, but yeah, it was, it was just kind of cool to walk around and and even the cast members in the store were like, they were very friendly and they were telling us stories of different people they had seen.

00:18:04.237 --> 00:18:12.557
BAMBI: And one of them popped his phone up and showed pictures of like Julie Andrews when she was there and Emma Thompson when they were filming Saving Mr.

00:18:12.557 --> 00:18:13.697
BAMBI: Banks and stuff like that.

00:18:13.697 --> 00:18:15.237
VIRGINIA: I would die to meet Emma Thompson.

00:18:15.237 --> 00:18:17.277
VIRGINIA: I love her so much.

00:18:17.277 --> 00:18:17.737
BAMBI: It was cool.

00:18:17.737 --> 00:18:23.797
BAMBI: And they had like the recording studio still for all the Pixar movies and everything is there.

00:18:23.837 --> 00:18:27.337
BAMBI: And so like it's where Robin Williams recorded the Genie's Voice.

00:18:27.337 --> 00:18:31.257
BAMBI: And it's just really cool to be there.

00:18:31.257 --> 00:18:31.617
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:18:31.997 --> 00:18:33.797
VIRGINIA: I'm going to make it over there one day.

00:18:33.797 --> 00:18:37.017
VIRGINIA: I feel certain it's part of my Disney journey.

00:18:37.237 --> 00:18:38.337
VIRGINIA: My Disney future.

00:18:38.337 --> 00:18:39.817
VIRGINIA: OK.

00:18:39.817 --> 00:18:42.497
VIRGINIA: What did you end up doing after the tour was over?

00:18:43.557 --> 00:18:45.597
BAMBI: Well, so Rachel wanted to go downtown.

00:18:45.597 --> 00:18:50.457
BAMBI: So we drove back at rush hour on a Friday, drove back across.

00:18:50.457 --> 00:18:51.497
BAMBI: It took a pretty good while.

00:18:51.537 --> 00:18:56.277
BAMBI: I think it took about an hour and 45 minutes at that point to get back.

00:18:56.277 --> 00:19:03.057
BAMBI: But we went back down to Anaheim, went down to Downtown Disney and showed her what it looked like so she could see it.

00:19:03.057 --> 00:19:04.257
BAMBI: Oh my gosh, I can't remember.

00:19:04.257 --> 00:19:05.597
BAMBI: It wasn't anything noteworthy.

00:19:05.597 --> 00:19:07.977
BAMBI: We ate somewhere, but it wasn't earth-shattering.

00:19:07.977 --> 00:19:10.397
BAMBI: It was like, oh, I know what it was we bought.

00:19:11.577 --> 00:19:16.597
BAMBI: There's a stand there that sells corndogs, similar to the one that's at Boardwalk.

00:19:19.597 --> 00:19:21.757
BAMBI: It's got the pickle corndog and all that.

00:19:21.757 --> 00:19:23.257
BAMBI: I just got a regular corndog.

00:19:23.257 --> 00:19:27.917
BAMBI: If they had had the footlong mozzarella stick, I would have done it if they didn't have it.

00:19:27.917 --> 00:19:30.197
VIRGINIA: I don't think I could do a footlong mozzarella stick.

00:19:30.637 --> 00:19:33.797
VIRGINIA: That's too much cheese even for me and I love cheese.

00:19:33.817 --> 00:19:35.297
BAMBI: Oh dude, you haven't lived.

00:19:35.297 --> 00:19:35.817
BAMBI: I've done it.

00:19:35.817 --> 00:19:36.837
BAMBI: It's good stuff.

00:19:38.017 --> 00:19:42.977
VIRGINIA: There's something that's like a corndog and mozzarella stick combination, I think.

00:19:43.757 --> 00:19:48.857
BAMBI: I've not done the combination, but I've done the straight up mozzarella stick and the pickle dog is actually-

00:19:48.857 --> 00:19:50.277
VIRGINIA: That sounds good to me.

00:19:50.277 --> 00:19:51.077
BAMBI: It's really good.

00:19:51.077 --> 00:19:52.777
BAMBI: It actually sounds gross, but it's good.

00:19:52.777 --> 00:19:55.217
VIRGINIA: It sounds good to me, but I really love pickles.

00:19:55.217 --> 00:19:56.917
BAMBI: Yeah, you would like it.

00:19:56.917 --> 00:20:00.357
VIRGINIA: You know what does not sound good to me is the thing they had.

00:20:00.897 --> 00:20:03.417
VIRGINIA: Was it for food and wine, the pickle milkshake in Walt Disney World?

00:20:03.417 --> 00:20:06.997
BAMBI: Oh, it's not as bad as you would think.

00:20:06.997 --> 00:20:08.277
BAMBI: Sounds gross.

00:20:08.277 --> 00:20:11.017
BAMBI: I couldn't drink a whole one, but a few swigs is not bad.

00:20:11.177 --> 00:20:13.417
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:20:13.417 --> 00:20:21.377
VIRGINIA: It seems like it would sit there for a while and separate based on whatever the brine was and then the ice cream.

00:20:21.377 --> 00:20:22.317
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:20:22.317 --> 00:20:29.217
VIRGINIA: So let's get into your first park day, which was Saturday, February 1st, and you were heading over to Disneyland.

00:20:29.217 --> 00:20:35.297
VIRGINIA: And you've been before, but this was Michael, and it sounds like it was Rachel's first time as well.

00:20:35.297 --> 00:20:35.717
VIRGINIA: Is that true?

00:20:35.717 --> 00:20:36.877
BAMBI: Yes.

00:20:36.877 --> 00:20:38.757
BAMBI: Michael had been as well, but Rachel had not.

00:20:38.757 --> 00:20:39.597
VIRGINIA: Oh, got it.

00:20:39.597 --> 00:20:39.797
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:20:40.437 --> 00:20:42.457
VIRGINIA: So walk us through the day.

00:20:42.457 --> 00:20:55.757
BAMBI: I am not a morning person, but we were shooting for Rope Drop, and we would have made it that we walked from the hotel because the race was kind of winding up, and we came in kind of a side entrance from a security perspective.

00:20:55.757 --> 00:20:58.037
BAMBI: So the security line was really long.

00:20:58.037 --> 00:21:02.117
BAMBI: So we missed Rope Drop by like 15 minutes, but it was still amazing.

00:21:02.117 --> 00:21:09.817
BAMBI: Like we walk in, the monorail and the train were both under construction, or refurb right now.

00:21:09.817 --> 00:21:15.897
BAMBI: So we couldn't, you know, when you see the entrance, but to me, it's always just a little bit more special when the train's there.

00:21:15.897 --> 00:21:19.997
BAMBI: And it's just, it's always so funny to me because I'm such an Orlando girl.

00:21:19.997 --> 00:21:25.657
BAMBI: You know, you walk up and it's like this little bitty castle at the end, you know, and you're like, where is it?

00:21:25.657 --> 00:21:26.977
BAMBI: Somebody took it, you know.

00:21:26.977 --> 00:21:27.417
BAMBI: So it's-

00:21:27.417 --> 00:21:29.537
VIRGINIA: Bitty, bitty living space.

00:21:29.537 --> 00:21:30.637
BAMBI: Yeah, for sure.

00:21:30.637 --> 00:21:34.617
BAMBI: Like it's, it just never, it's just so shocking every time you see it.

00:21:34.657 --> 00:21:35.377
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:21:35.377 --> 00:21:37.417
VIRGINIA: And I know I've said that before on this podcast.

00:21:37.417 --> 00:21:45.197
VIRGINIA: And if you are somebody who's listening, who's never been to Disneyland, you probably are like, why do people always say that it can't be that big a deal?

00:21:45.197 --> 00:21:45.917
VIRGINIA: It is.

00:21:45.917 --> 00:21:47.777
VIRGINIA: You walk in and you're like, what?

00:21:47.777 --> 00:21:49.517
VIRGINIA: Is that it?

00:21:49.517 --> 00:21:51.137
BAMBI: It's, yeah, it's really weird.

00:21:51.137 --> 00:21:57.537
BAMBI: And we'll talk about the fireworks because we actually weren't expecting fireworks because they don't do them every night there.

00:21:57.537 --> 00:22:00.737
BAMBI: And when I did pre-research, it didn't look like they were going to, but they did have them.

00:22:01.657 --> 00:22:09.297
BAMBI: So for those that are used to seeing it in the Magic Kingdom, to see it on that little bitty castle, it's still a cool show.

00:22:09.297 --> 00:22:15.037
BAMBI: I don't know, we found ourselves throughout the entire day, like scoring Disneyland versus Disney World.

00:22:15.037 --> 00:22:20.937
BAMBI: And the castle, I mean, there's a lot of things, believe it or not, where I actually think California wins.

00:22:20.937 --> 00:22:22.497
VIRGINIA: Oh, for sure.

00:22:22.497 --> 00:22:31.097
BAMBI: But the majority, I mean, I'm still a Orlando girl at heart, but there's just something extra magical, I think, about Disneyland.

00:22:32.337 --> 00:22:36.557
BAMBI: You know, the characters are still kind of walking around the park.

00:22:36.557 --> 00:22:42.617
BAMBI: You don't have, like, the, I mean, if they have pre-established cues, it's not as prominent there.

00:22:42.617 --> 00:22:55.657
BAMBI: And I think that there's just a little bit extra attention to detail, to things that kind of brings that original magic, that, you know, it's not that the Magic Kingdom doesn't have it, but I think they just do it a little better at Disneyland.

00:22:55.657 --> 00:23:08.557
VIRGINIA: I think it's also a matter of, Walt Disney World, they have so many more people in terms of volume and lots of people coming from all different places, whereas Disneyland is known as more of like a local spark.

00:23:08.557 --> 00:23:17.917
VIRGINIA: So, yes, you have people visiting from other places and from far away, but not nearly as many as you would have at Disney World.

00:23:17.977 --> 00:23:18.957
BAMBI: Yeah, absolutely.

00:23:18.957 --> 00:23:20.757
BAMBI: 100% agree.

00:23:20.757 --> 00:23:23.317
BAMBI: Yeah, it's kind of like a culture thing, I think there.

00:23:23.317 --> 00:23:25.777
BAMBI: Yeah.

00:23:25.777 --> 00:23:26.837
BAMBI: So what did we ride first?

00:23:26.837 --> 00:23:29.377
BAMBI: We rode, we did do the Lightning Lane.

00:23:29.377 --> 00:23:31.117
VIRGINIA: And you purchased that in advance, right?

00:23:31.117 --> 00:23:31.497
BAMBI: Yes.

00:23:31.497 --> 00:23:35.637
VIRGINIA: So did you get to pre-book any rides in advance?

00:23:35.637 --> 00:23:40.837
VIRGINIA: Because in Orlando, you get to do three in advance for each day that you have it.

00:23:40.837 --> 00:23:47.057
BAMBI: So the way that we did it, and it's based on our understanding of it is, no, you can't do it in advance there.

00:23:47.157 --> 00:23:51.817
BAMBI: You have to be through admission, and then you can book things.

00:23:51.817 --> 00:23:53.697
BAMBI: Just one at a time?

00:23:53.697 --> 00:23:55.237
BAMBI: No, you can do two at a time.

00:23:55.237 --> 00:23:59.277
BAMBI: So it's like weird space-time continuum math.

00:23:59.277 --> 00:24:07.937
BAMBI: It's like, you can have like two, but then when you use one, it still has to be within an hour before you can, but it's like some kind of weird math.

00:24:07.937 --> 00:24:11.817
BAMBI: So I just let Rachel do that, because she's young and likes math.

00:24:11.817 --> 00:24:13.397
BAMBI: I don't know.

00:24:13.397 --> 00:24:14.537
VIRGINIA: You used to like math, too.

00:24:15.637 --> 00:24:16.537
BAMBI: Yeah, yeah.

00:24:16.537 --> 00:24:17.697
VIRGINIA: Not anymore.

00:24:19.417 --> 00:24:21.717
BAMBI: Oh, my goodness.

00:24:21.717 --> 00:24:22.457
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:24:22.457 --> 00:24:23.797
VIRGINIA: You know, it just occurred to me.

00:24:23.797 --> 00:24:35.377
VIRGINIA: I don't even know if I want to share this on the podcast, but Bambi and I did lots of math classes together growing up, and there was one class where we got extra credit for bringing in performances.

00:24:35.377 --> 00:24:43.297
VIRGINIA: I don't know why, but we would change the words to Disney songs and make them about math and then get a couple points of extra credit.

00:24:43.657 --> 00:24:46.897
VIRGINIA: It sounds ridiculous as I'm saying it, but it was a lot of fun.

00:24:46.897 --> 00:24:54.697
BAMBI: It's funny you say that because I think the next day at DCA, that we were passing by something and the Pocahontas song was playing.

00:24:54.697 --> 00:24:56.297
VIRGINIA: How high does infinity go?

00:24:56.297 --> 00:24:58.017
BAMBI: How high does infinity go?

00:24:58.017 --> 00:25:07.817
VIRGINIA: I have Pocahontas, so I'm not even going to have to sing it right now, but that was instead of how high does the sycamore grow, ours was how high does infinity go.

00:25:07.817 --> 00:25:10.417
BAMBI: Can you pass the class and still fail all the tests?

00:25:10.417 --> 00:25:12.417
VIRGINIA: Yes, that was the course.

00:25:12.637 --> 00:25:15.657
VIRGINIA: Can you pass the class and still fail all the tests?

00:25:15.657 --> 00:25:16.277
VIRGINIA: Oh my God.

00:25:16.277 --> 00:25:19.977
BAMBI: Yeah, I thought of you in the parks when that happened, it made me laugh.

00:25:19.977 --> 00:25:24.037
VIRGINIA: Anything for extra credit and for a laugh as far as we're concerned.

00:25:24.037 --> 00:25:25.997
BAMBI: Oh, for sure.

00:25:25.997 --> 00:25:27.277
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:25:27.277 --> 00:25:29.877
VIRGINIA: What were we even talking about?

00:25:29.877 --> 00:25:31.797
BAMBI: First ride, so we did the Lightning Lane.

00:25:31.797 --> 00:25:33.137
BAMBI: Yeah.

00:25:33.137 --> 00:25:38.637
BAMBI: And so the first ride we rode was Pirates, which absolutely wins.

00:25:38.677 --> 00:25:39.017
BAMBI: For sure.

00:25:40.297 --> 00:25:46.837
BAMBI: I'm envisioning like a point system, so like cue little graphic with a little mini castle.

00:25:46.837 --> 00:25:47.977
BAMBI: One point for these.

00:25:47.977 --> 00:25:51.317
VIRGINIA: If this were a video podcast, I would totally superimpose that.

00:25:51.317 --> 00:25:51.757
VIRGINIA: For sure.

00:25:51.757 --> 00:25:54.717
BAMBI: In your minds, guys, close your eyes and envision.

00:25:55.997 --> 00:26:06.097
BAMBI: Yeah, it's just so cool that the boats come through the audience and you've got such a pre-story that it's just so much cooler.

00:26:06.097 --> 00:26:07.297
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:26:07.297 --> 00:26:13.397
VIRGINIA: I can't wait to get on that again, because I haven't done it in so long, and I know I liked it much better.

00:26:13.397 --> 00:26:18.417
VIRGINIA: But because I go to Orlando so often, I'm like, well, I have that version memorized.

00:26:18.417 --> 00:26:22.697
VIRGINIA: Maybe when I go back, I'll actually be able to tell what the differences were.

00:26:22.697 --> 00:26:26.817
VIRGINIA: Because last time I rode it, all I knew is like, oh, this is a longer ride.

00:26:26.817 --> 00:26:30.637
VIRGINIA: It has, I think, a second drop and it was better.

00:26:30.657 --> 00:26:32.697
VIRGINIA: That's all I remember.

00:26:32.697 --> 00:26:32.917
BAMBI: Yeah.

00:26:33.217 --> 00:26:33.937
BAMBI: You'll love it.

00:26:33.937 --> 00:26:35.117
BAMBI: The food is better there too.

00:26:36.437 --> 00:26:39.157
BAMBI: We're food people and so we snacked our way.

00:26:39.157 --> 00:26:45.857
BAMBI: We didn't do the long-term sit-down restaurants because we wanted to make sure we maximized ride and show times.

00:26:45.857 --> 00:26:52.257
BAMBI: So there's a little restaurant right there and we just grabbed snacks along the way and everything was just phenomenal.

00:26:52.257 --> 00:26:57.777
BAMBI: Which is not, I never say that, sorry Disney, Magic Kingdom, but I never say that about the Magic Kingdom.

00:26:57.777 --> 00:27:01.457
VIRGINIA: Magic Kingdom is a bit of a food desert.

00:27:01.457 --> 00:27:01.617
BAMBI: Yeah.

00:27:01.857 --> 00:27:05.837
VIRGINIA: I mean, there's little hidden gems every once in a while.

00:27:05.837 --> 00:27:09.057
VIRGINIA: But overall, not the best place to eat.

00:27:09.057 --> 00:27:09.637
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:27:09.637 --> 00:27:11.777
VIRGINIA: What was after Pirates?

00:27:11.777 --> 00:27:21.837
BAMBI: We did a little bit of the zigzag thing, which I'm not usually a big fan, but we wanted Rachel to make sure she hit all the things that she really wanted to hit.

00:27:21.837 --> 00:27:29.357
BAMBI: So we walked around, we did pass the D33, the exclusive club, so we had to get our picture next to the door.

00:27:29.397 --> 00:27:30.897
VIRGINIA: Oh, Club 33.

00:27:30.897 --> 00:27:31.837
BAMBI: Club 33, yeah.

00:27:31.837 --> 00:27:34.397
VIRGINIA: Yes, B23 Club 33.

00:27:34.397 --> 00:27:35.737
BAMBI: Okay, the rich people club.

00:27:35.737 --> 00:27:36.957
VIRGINIA: Right, yes, yes.

00:27:36.957 --> 00:27:40.997
BAMBI: The rich and elite, so we were very jealous of what they were doing behind those doors.

00:27:40.997 --> 00:27:42.157
BAMBI: Oh my gosh, yes.

00:27:42.157 --> 00:27:43.437
BAMBI: So we got our picture there.

00:27:43.437 --> 00:27:45.617
VIRGINIA: I know people who have been there before.

00:27:45.617 --> 00:27:46.057
VIRGINIA: Because-

00:27:46.057 --> 00:27:46.657
BAMBI: Really?

00:27:46.657 --> 00:27:57.217
VIRGINIA: Yeah, because you can go as a guest of somebody, and then there are a number of, it's not just individuals that are members, a lot of times companies are members.

00:27:57.757 --> 00:28:10.057
VIRGINIA: And so I know somebody who had the opportunity to go with her friend whose uncle or somebody worked for some company, I want to say it was like General Motors or something, where they have a membership there.

00:28:10.057 --> 00:28:19.757
VIRGINIA: And so they're able to sort of wine and dine people, which, you know, if anybody has a membership and they want to take me in, if they want to take Bambi in, like we will volunteer.

00:28:19.757 --> 00:28:21.937
VIRGINIA: I'll, I don't know, I'll get you something.

00:28:21.957 --> 00:28:22.937
BAMBI: We'll entertain you.

00:28:22.937 --> 00:28:23.797
BAMBI: Oh, we're funny.

00:28:23.797 --> 00:28:24.757
BAMBI: We're funny people.

00:28:24.757 --> 00:28:25.117
BAMBI: Totally.

00:28:25.117 --> 00:28:27.757
BAMBI: Yeah.

00:28:27.757 --> 00:28:28.817
BAMBI: But let's see, what do we do now?

00:28:28.817 --> 00:28:32.877
BAMBI: Yeah, so we kind of walk around there and then we went over to Indiana Jones.

00:28:32.877 --> 00:28:36.297
BAMBI: So, yeah, which is, which is really fun.

00:28:36.297 --> 00:28:38.577
BAMBI: So enjoyed that one.

00:28:38.577 --> 00:28:44.157
BAMBI: And then there's like this little, in Adventureland, there's this skewer place that's like right there.

00:28:44.157 --> 00:28:45.157
BAMBI: And those are phenomenal.

00:28:45.157 --> 00:28:46.397
BAMBI: Those are like change your life.

00:28:46.437 --> 00:28:48.397
BAMBI: Good, good Disney food.

00:28:48.397 --> 00:28:54.017
BAMBI: Yeah, they've got like a chicken and a pork belly and like all these different little skewers.

00:28:54.017 --> 00:28:57.897
BAMBI: And those are definitely, we smelled them.

00:28:58.957 --> 00:29:01.797
BAMBI: We smelled them from all the way over at the Pirates.

00:29:01.797 --> 00:29:03.677
BAMBI: And we're like, you've got to figure out what that is.

00:29:03.677 --> 00:29:05.197
VIRGINIA: You followed your nose.

00:29:05.197 --> 00:29:06.177
BAMBI: We followed our nose.

00:29:06.177 --> 00:29:08.457
BAMBI: And after Indiana Jones, we had some skewers.

00:29:08.497 --> 00:29:10.217
VIRGINIA: So, okay.

00:29:10.217 --> 00:29:11.457
BAMBI: Yeah, it was good.

00:29:11.457 --> 00:29:14.497
VIRGINIA: Did you have any churros while you were there?

00:29:14.497 --> 00:29:15.517
BAMBI: Because we did.

00:29:15.517 --> 00:29:16.137
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:29:16.137 --> 00:29:23.577
VIRGINIA: I know you said that based on Michael's background, he knows what a churro, like a real churro should taste like.

00:29:23.577 --> 00:29:28.897
VIRGINIA: So I'm interested to hear what his opinion was of the Disneyland churros.

00:29:28.897 --> 00:29:34.297
BAMBI: So the Disneyland churros are infinitely better again than our Magic Kingdom brethren.

00:29:35.257 --> 00:29:42.317
BAMBI: He felt that they were like the ones in Disney World are sometimes dry, you know, and a little bit more hard.

00:29:42.317 --> 00:29:45.217
BAMBI: And these are just very soft, almost kind of melt in your mouth.

00:29:45.217 --> 00:29:47.637
BAMBI: So highly, highly recommend.

00:29:47.637 --> 00:29:56.097
BAMBI: And we actually we started joking about it because I am a crazy person when it comes to the Disney, Mickey Mouse original ice cream bars.

00:29:56.337 --> 00:30:01.057
BAMBI: So I have to have at least one on a good day, too.

00:30:01.057 --> 00:30:03.597
BAMBI: And we could not find like the churros were everywhere.

00:30:03.737 --> 00:30:05.957
BAMBI: Like you could sneeze and a churro would pop out.

00:30:05.957 --> 00:30:09.437
BAMBI: Like, I mean, everywhere you go, there were churros.

00:30:09.437 --> 00:30:11.277
VIRGINIA: I am suffering from churroitis.

00:30:11.277 --> 00:30:14.037
VIRGINIA: I sneeze and churros pop out of my nose.

00:30:14.037 --> 00:30:15.257
BAMBI: Yeah, it was amazing.

00:30:15.257 --> 00:30:17.397
BAMBI: But like no Disney ice cream.

00:30:17.397 --> 00:30:19.897
BAMBI: And then we finally found a Disney ice cream.

00:30:20.617 --> 00:30:26.057
BAMBI: And so I got one and the cast member was like, make sure you give it five minutes because they're frozen solid.

00:30:26.057 --> 00:30:27.897
BAMBI: And, you know, used to going to Florida.

00:30:27.937 --> 00:30:29.817
BAMBI: I'm like, ha, ha, ha, little paddle.

00:30:29.817 --> 00:30:31.637
BAMBI: And I know how to eat a Mickey ice cream.

00:30:31.637 --> 00:30:33.177
BAMBI: I almost broke my tooth.

00:30:33.177 --> 00:30:42.917
BAMBI: It was like it literally when you took it out of the wrapper, like it was like smoking because it was like cold and it wasn't that hot outside.

00:30:42.917 --> 00:30:44.077
BAMBI: It was incredible.

00:30:44.077 --> 00:30:46.777
BAMBI: So, yeah, you literally had to wait for it to soften.

00:30:46.777 --> 00:30:47.217
VIRGINIA: Wow.

00:30:47.217 --> 00:30:49.557
VIRGINIA: That is that's a different world because you're right.

00:30:49.557 --> 00:30:49.977
BAMBI: Yeah.

00:30:49.977 --> 00:30:54.977
VIRGINIA: In Orlando, you are fighting for your life to eat before it falls off the stick.

00:30:59.097 --> 00:30:59.617
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:30:59.617 --> 00:31:01.557
VIRGINIA: What was next?

00:31:01.557 --> 00:31:02.177
BAMBI: What was next?

00:31:02.857 --> 00:31:10.357
BAMBI: So then we walked over to the castle because at Disneyland, they've got the Sleeping Beauty story throughout the inside.

00:31:10.357 --> 00:31:11.797
BAMBI: It was really cool.

00:31:11.797 --> 00:31:14.317
BAMBI: I'm sure it was on the map, but we didn't see it.

00:31:14.317 --> 00:31:22.497
BAMBI: So right when we got there, there was a band that was dressed up in very colorful colors and they were playing all the Mary Poppins songs.

00:31:22.497 --> 00:31:31.837
BAMBI: Again, it's really weird to see this because the castle is so small that you have a band of like eight or nine people, and it really kind of covers the entire front of the castle.

00:31:31.837 --> 00:31:34.477
BAMBI: Like, I mean, it's just the way they were spaced out.

00:31:35.917 --> 00:31:39.577
BAMBI: And there was a Mary Poppins and Burt were there.

00:31:39.577 --> 00:31:47.677
BAMBI: And they were, I mean, even from a facial expressions perspective, they mimicked the original Mary Poppins and Burt.

00:31:47.677 --> 00:31:54.997
BAMBI: And it was just really magical to watch that with just a band and no big microphones and big hoopla show.

00:31:54.997 --> 00:31:56.417
BAMBI: And they went on for like 20 minutes.

00:31:56.417 --> 00:31:58.997
BAMBI: So we watched that and then walked through the castle.

00:31:58.997 --> 00:32:00.237
VIRGINIA: Wow.

00:32:00.237 --> 00:32:01.117
VIRGINIA: Amazing.

00:32:01.117 --> 00:32:01.577
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:32:01.577 --> 00:32:03.377
VIRGINIA: Did you see them hop onto the carousel?

00:32:03.377 --> 00:32:05.977
VIRGINIA: Cause I've seen them on the carousel before there.

00:32:05.977 --> 00:32:07.657
BAMBI: Ooh, I haven't, but that would have been cool.

00:32:07.657 --> 00:32:08.057
BAMBI: Yeah.

00:32:08.057 --> 00:32:09.117
VIRGINIA: They just get on and ride.

00:32:09.117 --> 00:32:14.417
VIRGINIA: And it's so weird because like, I just don't think you can get away with that in Orlando.

00:32:14.417 --> 00:32:18.257
VIRGINIA: It is very hard to be a roaming character with that many people.

00:32:19.117 --> 00:32:32.457
VIRGINIA: So it's really cool to get that experience in Disneyland and see so many free roaming characters and have the ability to just enjoy their presence, walk up, get a photograph or whatever you want to do.

00:32:32.457 --> 00:32:33.557
BAMBI: Yeah, for sure.

00:32:33.557 --> 00:32:36.197
VIRGINIA: All right, what was after that?

00:32:36.197 --> 00:32:36.797
BAMBI: Let's see.

00:32:36.797 --> 00:32:44.417
BAMBI: After that, we went through, basically we went through Fantasyland and we tried to focus on rides that we didn't have here, home is what we call it.

00:32:44.417 --> 00:32:51.877
BAMBI: So we didn't ride like Peter Pan and those, what we rode, Pinocchio and Snow White and Mr.

00:32:51.877 --> 00:32:57.097
BAMBI: Toad, and we kind of, they're all grouped together just like they would be at Fantasyland in Florida.

00:32:57.097 --> 00:33:01.437
BAMBI: So we rode through all of those and just kind of soaked in.

00:33:01.437 --> 00:33:03.897
BAMBI: It's always fun when you get like a new ride in the park.

00:33:03.897 --> 00:33:11.337
BAMBI: And so it was kind of like a half day of newish rides because we don't have the memorized Disneyland.

00:33:11.337 --> 00:33:12.597
BAMBI: So that was really cool.

00:33:12.597 --> 00:33:14.837
VIRGINIA: Were you using your lightning lanes for all of these?

00:33:16.437 --> 00:33:17.837
BAMBI: Some of them, yes, some of them, no.

00:33:17.837 --> 00:33:21.877
BAMBI: Most of the like Pinocchio and Snow White and those, you didn't really need it.

00:33:21.877 --> 00:33:26.057
BAMBI: So the wait times were about 20 minutes.

00:33:26.497 --> 00:33:28.357
BAMBI: So not bad at all.

00:33:28.357 --> 00:33:31.017
BAMBI: Indiana Jones was really bad.

00:33:31.017 --> 00:33:34.137
BAMBI: Haunted Mansion was bad, it always is.

00:33:34.137 --> 00:33:38.517
BAMBI: But the Pirates wasn't too bad, but we went ahead and knocked it.

00:33:38.517 --> 00:33:39.597
BAMBI: It's my favorite ride always.

00:33:39.597 --> 00:33:41.657
BAMBI: So we had to ride that first.

00:33:41.657 --> 00:33:42.837
BAMBI: And then I think we use Roger.

00:33:43.017 --> 00:33:44.977
BAMBI: They have a Toontown there.

00:33:44.977 --> 00:33:48.757
BAMBI: And we used the Lightning Lane for the Roger Rabbit ride.

00:33:48.757 --> 00:33:50.657
VIRGINIA: Okay, how did you like that?

00:33:50.657 --> 00:33:51.237
BAMBI: It was good.

00:33:51.237 --> 00:33:53.597
BAMBI: And I did not remember that one.

00:33:53.597 --> 00:33:57.617
BAMBI: So it was kind of cool to see that.

00:33:57.617 --> 00:34:01.357
BAMBI: That movie was really popular, I think when I was in like eighth grade or seventh grade or something.

00:34:01.357 --> 00:34:02.137
VIRGINIA: So popular.

00:34:02.137 --> 00:34:06.317
VIRGINIA: I had it on VHS and we watched it constantly.

00:34:06.317 --> 00:34:07.377
BAMBI: Obsessed with that movie.

00:34:07.377 --> 00:34:13.117
BAMBI: Yeah, so it was kind of cool to see that and see people still get excited about it because it's not really a movie you hear about as much.

00:34:13.117 --> 00:34:16.997
VIRGINIA: Yeah, I mean, I still quote it on a fairly regular basis.

00:34:18.757 --> 00:34:24.497
VIRGINIA: You can't say the word cigar without me following up and going, Cigar, cigarette, Eddie, variant.

00:34:27.697 --> 00:34:29.457
VIRGINIA: It is a really great movie.

00:34:29.457 --> 00:34:33.557
VIRGINIA: Listeners, if you haven't seen Who Framed Robbed A Rabbit, it is well worth watching.

00:34:33.557 --> 00:34:34.537
VIRGINIA: It is so good.

00:34:34.537 --> 00:34:35.837
BAMBI: Yeah, it's awesome.

00:34:35.837 --> 00:34:38.077
BAMBI: And it'll make it come alive when you go.

00:34:38.077 --> 00:34:39.037
VIRGINIA: Yes, for sure.

00:34:39.377 --> 00:34:40.897
VIRGINIA: For sure.

00:34:40.897 --> 00:34:44.037
VIRGINIA: Did you go into any of the Toontown houses?

00:34:44.037 --> 00:34:49.377
VIRGINIA: Because we have not had that in Orlando for quite a while.

00:34:49.377 --> 00:34:50.637
BAMBI: We didn't go into the houses.

00:34:50.637 --> 00:34:52.097
BAMBI: We walked around outside of them.

00:34:52.097 --> 00:34:56.017
BAMBI: At that point, it was after five, so it was getting a little bit dark.

00:34:56.017 --> 00:34:58.057
BAMBI: But there is a little section where you could walk through.

00:34:58.057 --> 00:35:01.217
BAMBI: There's like a fake jail, like a Toontown jail.

00:35:01.217 --> 00:35:04.597
BAMBI: So we took funny pictures through there and everything.

00:35:05.097 --> 00:35:07.277
BAMBI: And then what was it we did?

00:35:08.357 --> 00:35:16.057
BAMBI: We ran over and we wanted to make sure that we rode the old 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, now Nemo.

00:35:16.057 --> 00:35:16.637
BAMBI: Did?

00:35:16.637 --> 00:35:17.217
BAMBI: Yeah.

00:35:17.217 --> 00:35:18.177
BAMBI: Oh my gosh.

00:35:18.177 --> 00:35:18.637
VIRGINIA: Never.

00:35:18.637 --> 00:35:20.317
VIRGINIA: I'm not doing that.

00:35:20.317 --> 00:35:21.157
BAMBI: It's not bad.

00:35:21.157 --> 00:35:22.597
VIRGINIA: It's so fun.

00:35:22.597 --> 00:35:26.277
VIRGINIA: All I think when I see that is claustrophobia.

00:35:27.857 --> 00:35:28.237
BAMBI: Yeah.

00:35:28.237 --> 00:35:32.697
BAMBI: So my husband, Michael gets very claustrophobic and he was fine.

00:35:32.697 --> 00:35:34.117
BAMBI: I mean, it's very well ventilated.

00:35:34.197 --> 00:35:37.317
BAMBI: It's air-conditioned, so it's not hot.

00:35:37.317 --> 00:35:39.277
BAMBI: He just, I think, magically lucked out.

00:35:39.277 --> 00:35:42.057
BAMBI: So he was on the seat at the very end next to the stairs.

00:35:42.057 --> 00:35:45.377
BAMBI: So it was probably a little bit more room for him.

00:35:45.377 --> 00:35:46.017
BAMBI: But I don't know.

00:35:46.017 --> 00:35:48.877
VIRGINIA: And a sense that he could get away.

00:35:48.877 --> 00:35:50.757
BAMBI: Well, because they don't fully submerge.

00:35:51.797 --> 00:35:53.557
BAMBI: The top of them was always sticking out.

00:35:53.557 --> 00:35:55.297
BAMBI: So it's not bad.

00:35:55.377 --> 00:35:56.257
BAMBI: It's kind of cool.

00:35:56.417 --> 00:35:59.017
VIRGINIA: You're not going to convince me I'm not doing it.

00:35:59.017 --> 00:35:59.697
BAMBI: I would get you there.

00:35:59.697 --> 00:36:01.737
BAMBI: If we were there together, I would get you there.

00:36:02.817 --> 00:36:06.717
VIRGINIA: I mean, maybe, maybe if it was you, maybe if it was you.

00:36:08.037 --> 00:36:08.557
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:36:08.557 --> 00:36:12.637
VIRGINIA: So I haven't heard you mention Matterhorn yet.

00:36:12.637 --> 00:36:14.357
VIRGINIA: Did you make it over there?

00:36:14.357 --> 00:36:15.077
BAMBI: We did do that.

00:36:15.077 --> 00:36:15.377
BAMBI: Yeah.

00:36:15.377 --> 00:36:16.697
BAMBI: So right after.

00:36:16.697 --> 00:36:18.477
BAMBI: So I guess I skipped a little section.

00:36:18.477 --> 00:36:22.797
BAMBI: So before we went over to Toontown, you know, Matterhorn is right there next to it.

00:36:22.797 --> 00:36:25.737
BAMBI: So we did use the lightning lane for that.

00:36:26.757 --> 00:36:28.297
BAMBI: And it was actually really cool.

00:36:28.297 --> 00:36:30.977
BAMBI: Like I'd written it before, but didn't remember much of it.

00:36:31.037 --> 00:36:31.737
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:36:32.017 --> 00:36:35.697
BAMBI: And I would say it's kind of like an old school version of Everest.

00:36:36.157 --> 00:36:39.457
BAMBI: But the Yetis are actually there and they work.

00:36:42.057 --> 00:36:45.237
BAMBI: And it's got a little bit of that like space mountain jerky around to it.

00:36:45.237 --> 00:36:45.397
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:36:45.397 --> 00:36:48.477
BAMBI: So it was really fun.

00:36:48.477 --> 00:36:50.637
BAMBI: Like I thought it was a lot more fun than I thought it would be.

00:36:50.637 --> 00:36:53.977
BAMBI: I thought it would just be kind of cheesy, but it was a good time.

00:36:53.977 --> 00:36:54.717
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:36:54.717 --> 00:36:55.437
VIRGINIA: I think it's cool.

00:36:55.437 --> 00:36:56.117
BAMBI: For sure.

00:36:56.117 --> 00:37:02.917
BAMBI: And there's also like right across from it, there's it's like a little boat ride, but not like an indoor boat ride.

00:37:02.917 --> 00:37:05.097
BAMBI: It's like a legit boat.

00:37:05.097 --> 00:37:07.537
BAMBI: And you go through this giant whale.

00:37:07.537 --> 00:37:08.897
BAMBI: It's right across from Pinocchio.

00:37:08.897 --> 00:37:11.357
VIRGINIA: It's like the little mini towns.

00:37:11.357 --> 00:37:11.977
BAMBI: Yeah.

00:37:11.977 --> 00:37:14.657
BAMBI: It's got like a little mini Aladdin section.

00:37:14.657 --> 00:37:16.917
BAMBI: And I did not remember that at all.

00:37:16.917 --> 00:37:18.317
VIRGINIA: I love that.

00:37:18.317 --> 00:37:19.737
BAMBI: It was one of the original rides.

00:37:19.737 --> 00:37:24.037
BAMBI: I mean, I'm sure obviously they've enhanced it because Aladdin wasn't around back then.

00:37:24.037 --> 00:37:27.037
BAMBI: But like, it was one of the originals and I had no clue.

00:37:27.337 --> 00:37:28.997
BAMBI: So that was kind of neat to ride.

00:37:28.997 --> 00:37:29.237
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:37:29.237 --> 00:37:36.297
VIRGINIA: It's a lot of fun and it's just a nice little chance to sit down and chill for a bit if you've been on your feet all day.

00:37:36.297 --> 00:37:37.697
VIRGINIA: Yeah, for sure.

00:37:37.697 --> 00:37:38.237
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:37:38.237 --> 00:37:43.457
VIRGINIA: What else did you get done before the fireworks, which I know you've mentioned already?

00:37:43.457 --> 00:37:47.397
VIRGINIA: So what else did you have time for?

00:37:47.397 --> 00:37:48.617
BAMBI: Let's see.

00:37:50.497 --> 00:37:52.737
BAMBI: So of course we would have written It's a Small World.

00:37:52.737 --> 00:37:59.137
BAMBI: The one out there to me is like really, it's a little again, they win on the It's a Small World competition.

00:37:59.137 --> 00:38:00.957
BAMBI: But it was it was closed for refurb.

00:38:00.957 --> 00:38:03.217
BAMBI: They were decrismising it.

00:38:04.257 --> 00:38:07.537
BAMBI: So the decrismification has begun.

00:38:08.937 --> 00:38:09.937
BAMBI: So we skipped that.

00:38:09.937 --> 00:38:13.017
BAMBI: I think we just kind of walked around a little bit from there.

00:38:14.617 --> 00:38:14.977
BAMBI: What else?

00:38:15.177 --> 00:38:17.617
BAMBI: Oh, we rode that's we did ride.

00:38:17.617 --> 00:38:19.757
BAMBI: We didn't get the Space Mountain.

00:38:19.757 --> 00:38:23.917
BAMBI: We did want to ride that one because the cars there are side by side versus in front of each other.

00:38:24.177 --> 00:38:25.577
BAMBI: Right.

00:38:25.577 --> 00:38:27.117
BAMBI: But we did ride Buzz Lightyear.

00:38:27.117 --> 00:38:41.217
BAMBI: And I will say, I think you had told me about this in the last podcast, but it is it is very much different ride when you can take the guns out of the holster versus like having it's, you know, like the game was on.

00:38:41.217 --> 00:38:41.517
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:38:41.517 --> 00:38:42.637
VIRGINIA: Like who won?

00:38:42.697 --> 00:38:45.237
BAMBI: You know, I did, of course.

00:38:47.417 --> 00:38:49.817
BAMBI: I have 300,000 points on that bad boy.

00:38:49.817 --> 00:38:51.957
VIRGINIA: Oh Bambi, you're so cute.

00:38:51.957 --> 00:38:54.217
VIRGINIA: You know, I was in Orlando two weeks ago.

00:38:54.217 --> 00:38:55.597
VIRGINIA: I had 700,000.

00:38:57.837 --> 00:38:59.557
BAMBI: Yeah, but I didn't know what to target.

00:38:59.557 --> 00:39:01.037
BAMBI: You probably know what to target now.

00:39:01.037 --> 00:39:02.217
VIRGINIA: I do.

00:39:03.297 --> 00:39:07.857
VIRGINIA: And I'm also competing against a kid who gets Galactic Hero like every time.

00:39:07.857 --> 00:39:08.657
BAMBI: Have you ever gotten it?

00:39:08.817 --> 00:39:09.477
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:39:09.477 --> 00:39:13.557
VIRGINIA: The one time we got it both at the same ride.

00:39:13.557 --> 00:39:16.917
VIRGINIA: But listeners who are regular know this.

00:39:16.917 --> 00:39:18.057
VIRGINIA: This is just a fact about me.

00:39:18.057 --> 00:39:20.537
VIRGINIA: I did it when I was on my girl's trip two weeks ago, too.

00:39:20.537 --> 00:39:22.477
VIRGINIA: I ride alone.

00:39:22.477 --> 00:39:26.317
VIRGINIA: I do not ride with somebody else because I don't want to blame anybody.

00:39:26.317 --> 00:39:29.457
VIRGINIA: If I'm competing, it sounds like I'm super competitive.

00:39:29.457 --> 00:39:30.197
VIRGINIA: I am not.

00:39:30.197 --> 00:39:32.337
VIRGINIA: I'm competitive against myself.

00:39:32.337 --> 00:39:37.317
VIRGINIA: And so I want to do my best and I don't want to feel like I get off the ride.

00:39:37.457 --> 00:39:41.777
VIRGINIA: And I'm like, if only they hadn't been turning the car or whatever.

00:39:41.777 --> 00:39:48.497
VIRGINIA: Like if I do poorly, I've got no one to blame but me or possibly a defective shooter.

00:39:48.497 --> 00:39:49.997
VIRGINIA: But that's just our thing.

00:39:49.997 --> 00:39:56.097
VIRGINIA: Like as a family of three, we get up and all three of us are like, single rider, single rider, single rider.

00:39:56.097 --> 00:39:59.177
VIRGINIA: And I went through with my girlfriends the other day for our girl's trip.

00:39:59.177 --> 00:40:02.117
VIRGINIA: And I was like, well, I'm riding by myself.

00:40:02.117 --> 00:40:03.877
VIRGINIA: I don't know what you ladies are doing.

00:40:03.877 --> 00:40:11.197
VIRGINIA: And of the five of us, three of us rode single and then two people who really could care less rode together.

00:40:11.197 --> 00:40:12.957
VIRGINIA: And that's just the way we did it.

00:40:12.957 --> 00:40:17.497
BAMBI: So, oh my gosh, like I feel like I need to ride this ride with you now.

00:40:17.497 --> 00:40:19.377
VIRGINIA: No, I don't ride with anybody else.

00:40:19.377 --> 00:40:20.837
BAMBI: No, I'm going to make it.

00:40:20.837 --> 00:40:21.477
BAMBI: We're going to go.

00:40:21.477 --> 00:40:22.757
BAMBI: We're going to go together.

00:40:23.137 --> 00:40:24.937
BAMBI: And I'm just going to turn it the whole time.

00:40:24.977 --> 00:40:27.417
VIRGINIA: No, no.

00:40:27.417 --> 00:40:29.637
VIRGINIA: Oh, anyway.

00:40:29.637 --> 00:40:31.697
VIRGINIA: Well, I'm glad you beat Michael.

00:40:33.037 --> 00:40:35.577
VIRGINIA: I'm glad you're the champion of your family.

00:40:35.897 --> 00:40:36.797
VIRGINIA: Does he even care?

00:40:37.357 --> 00:40:39.297
VIRGINIA: Is he competitive in that way with you?

00:40:39.677 --> 00:40:42.477
BAMBI: It's very frustrating because I'm a very competitive person.

00:40:42.477 --> 00:40:44.617
BAMBI: And so I think he's not.

00:40:44.617 --> 00:40:47.077
BAMBI: And so I think he's not just to make me mad.

00:40:47.077 --> 00:40:48.177
BAMBI: He's like, whatever, I don't care.

00:40:48.177 --> 00:40:49.677
BAMBI: And I'm like, it's just not as fun.

00:40:49.677 --> 00:40:51.877
VIRGINIA: I just want you to care a little.

00:40:51.877 --> 00:40:55.337
BAMBI: Yes, please argue with me.

00:40:55.337 --> 00:40:56.337
VIRGINIA: How did Rachel do?

00:40:56.337 --> 00:40:56.857
BAMBI: She did well.

00:40:56.857 --> 00:41:00.397
BAMBI: I mean, she knows exactly what targets to hit back home.

00:41:00.997 --> 00:41:02.837
BAMBI: She didn't know on this one.

00:41:02.837 --> 00:41:06.017
BAMBI: So she was very shocked and sad that I beat her, which made me happy.

00:41:08.517 --> 00:41:10.297
VIRGINIA: Oh, all right.

00:41:10.297 --> 00:41:12.317
VIRGINIA: Anything else before the fireworks?

00:41:12.317 --> 00:41:14.037
BAMBI: I think that was the bulk of it.

00:41:14.037 --> 00:41:16.837
BAMBI: I'm sure that I mean, we're we only snacked that day.

00:41:16.837 --> 00:41:20.357
BAMBI: So when I'm talking about a skewer, it's not like I had like half a pound of meat.

00:41:20.357 --> 00:41:22.717
BAMBI: It was like skewers have three bites.

00:41:22.717 --> 00:41:23.937
BAMBI: We each had a bite.

00:41:23.937 --> 00:41:26.697
BAMBI: So we we snacked around a bit more, but I can't.

00:41:26.697 --> 00:41:28.717
BAMBI: Oh, there was a there was a pretzel.

00:41:28.717 --> 00:41:29.277
BAMBI: That's what we had.

00:41:29.337 --> 00:41:32.677
BAMBI: We had it was a cheesy over near the Matterhorn.

00:41:32.677 --> 00:41:35.377
BAMBI: It was like a cheesy pretzel dog.

00:41:35.377 --> 00:41:35.877
VIRGINIA: OK.

00:41:35.877 --> 00:41:37.637
BAMBI: And it was it was really good.

00:41:37.637 --> 00:41:38.077
BAMBI: Really good.

00:41:38.077 --> 00:41:40.117
VIRGINIA: That does sound good.

00:41:40.117 --> 00:41:40.477
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:41:40.477 --> 00:41:41.737
VIRGINIA: How were the fireworks?

00:41:41.737 --> 00:41:50.057
VIRGINIA: You alluded to the projections being like not quite as impressive because of the comparison.

00:41:50.057 --> 00:41:50.917
BAMBI: It was a huge.

00:41:50.917 --> 00:41:51.837
BAMBI: I'll get to be honest.

00:41:51.837 --> 00:41:56.997
BAMBI: Like that was the only thing that day that was disappointing because you know how it is like your your feet are tired.

00:41:57.077 --> 00:41:58.697
BAMBI: You know, you're you kind of run in.

00:41:58.697 --> 00:42:06.377
BAMBI: But like the to me, the fireworks show, it's usually like really good music and it kind of gets that Disney nostalgia going and all that.

00:42:06.997 --> 00:42:09.197
BAMBI: And again, I'm probably showing my age here.

00:42:09.197 --> 00:42:12.977
BAMBI: But you know, you've got the short little castle.

00:42:12.977 --> 00:42:14.177
BAMBI: You've got projections on it.

00:42:14.177 --> 00:42:18.757
BAMBI: But even if you're close, like you can only you can't see as much because it's not tall.

00:42:18.757 --> 00:42:18.977
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:42:18.977 --> 00:42:19.457
BAMBI: Right.

00:42:19.457 --> 00:42:22.617
BAMBI: Like, I mean, even, you know, if you get a tall person in front of you, forget it.

00:42:22.617 --> 00:42:22.857
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:42:24.397 --> 00:42:29.537
BAMBI: And then it was like it was like a hip hop remix, but it wasn't even like real Disney.

00:42:29.537 --> 00:42:31.377
BAMBI: Like the music, it was just like, who did it?

00:42:31.377 --> 00:42:32.457
BAMBI: Who came up with this?

00:42:32.457 --> 00:42:36.437
BAMBI: You know, so I was not a big fan of of the music.

00:42:36.437 --> 00:42:38.777
BAMBI: Like we were actually like, is this ever going to end?

00:42:38.777 --> 00:42:39.537
BAMBI: Like we were.

00:42:39.537 --> 00:42:40.497
BAMBI: That's how bad it was.

00:42:40.497 --> 00:42:42.817
BAMBI: And I've never been like with it that with a Disney show.

00:42:42.817 --> 00:42:46.497
BAMBI: So but I'm also not a hip hop person.

00:42:46.497 --> 00:42:47.137
BAMBI: I am.

00:42:47.137 --> 00:42:48.097
BAMBI: Give me some Chicago.

00:42:48.097 --> 00:42:49.417
BAMBI: Give me some James Taylor.

00:42:49.417 --> 00:42:51.317
BAMBI: So if that tells you anything, you know.

00:42:52.277 --> 00:42:53.417
VIRGINIA: Yes, I hear you.

00:42:53.417 --> 00:43:00.797
VIRGINIA: You're a North Carolina girl born and bred in spite of your current South Carolina homestead.

00:43:00.797 --> 00:43:01.017
BAMBI: 100%.

00:43:02.797 --> 00:43:03.817
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:43:03.817 --> 00:43:07.557
VIRGINIA: Did you do anything else in the park after the fireworks or you made your way back to the hotel?

00:43:07.557 --> 00:43:09.497
VIRGINIA: Because that was a really long day.

00:43:09.497 --> 00:43:10.397
BAMBI: Yeah, that was a long day.

00:43:11.117 --> 00:43:14.937
BAMBI: We went shopping, of course, bought some Disney swag and then just went home.

00:43:14.977 --> 00:43:15.837
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:43:15.837 --> 00:43:16.117
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:43:16.117 --> 00:43:20.157
VIRGINIA: So the next day, very exciting, of course, California Adventure.

00:43:20.157 --> 00:43:24.937
VIRGINIA: And this was the one, I think, that Michael had never been to, right?

00:43:24.937 --> 00:43:25.377
BAMBI: Correct.

00:43:25.597 --> 00:43:25.937
BAMBI: Correct.

00:43:25.937 --> 00:43:26.257
BAMBI: Yeah.

00:43:26.257 --> 00:43:26.697
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:43:26.697 --> 00:43:30.977
VIRGINIA: Well, I'm interested in what he thought of it as a newbie.

00:43:30.977 --> 00:43:31.997
BAMBI: It was phenomenal.

00:43:31.997 --> 00:43:38.717
BAMBI: I think we could have all stayed in the marble lands for like days at a time.

00:43:39.237 --> 00:43:41.137
BAMBI: Really thoroughly enjoyed DCA.

00:43:41.137 --> 00:43:42.357
BAMBI: It was awesome.

00:43:42.357 --> 00:43:43.697
VIRGINIA: What did you do first when you got there?

00:43:44.257 --> 00:43:48.437
VIRGINIA: And what time did you get there after such a long day the day before?

00:43:48.437 --> 00:43:49.757
VIRGINIA: Were you rope dropping?

00:43:49.757 --> 00:43:50.557
BAMBI: We were right there.

00:43:50.557 --> 00:43:51.957
BAMBI: Yeah.

00:43:51.957 --> 00:43:58.457
BAMBI: We were probably in same thing within about probably 20 minutes we were up dropped and we walked in.

00:43:58.457 --> 00:44:01.517
BAMBI: So there's a trolley that comes to the front of the park there.

00:44:01.517 --> 00:44:04.137
BAMBI: And then it goes just a couple of different paths.

00:44:04.137 --> 00:44:07.097
BAMBI: And I guess apparently they're getting rid of that trolley.

00:44:08.577 --> 00:44:10.217
BAMBI: I think that might have been the last week.

00:44:10.457 --> 00:44:13.057
BAMBI: It's either the last week or this is the last month of that trolley.

00:44:13.257 --> 00:44:19.237
BAMBI: So we didn't like it was one of those things we were like oh we need to ride that just to say we did and then we ran out of time.

00:44:19.237 --> 00:44:31.077
BAMBI: Yeah, but it was it was really kind of neat to watch it go through and what was even cooler again same theme in DCA like characters everywhere but Oswald was there.

00:44:31.077 --> 00:44:42.497
BAMBI: So I mean, you know, and so like that was really cool to kind of see him and see him in front of like the old school trolley and all that and then they've got some really cool like statues of Walt and stuff like that.

00:44:42.557 --> 00:44:45.457
BAMBI: They're just different, you know, if you're not from over there.

00:44:45.457 --> 00:44:50.557
BAMBI: So, you know, we took kind of entrance pictures and just kind of soaked it in a little.

00:44:50.557 --> 00:44:59.717
BAMBI: And then we went straight to our first lightning lane, which was Guardians of the Galaxy, which is their Tower of Terror.

00:44:59.717 --> 00:45:02.457
BAMBI: So that was our first ride of the day.

00:45:02.457 --> 00:45:05.537
VIRGINIA: Oh, how did you enjoy that?

00:45:05.537 --> 00:45:07.457
BAMBI: It was it was awesome.

00:45:07.457 --> 00:45:09.397
BAMBI: So I'm not a big fan of heights.

00:45:09.397 --> 00:45:11.537
BAMBI: And so the drops always kill me.

00:45:11.837 --> 00:45:16.197
BAMBI: And no matter how tight I make that daggum seatbelt, I always hover.

00:45:16.197 --> 00:45:20.877
BAMBI: I don't know if anybody else does this, but I always hover when it goes down and nobody else seems to do that.

00:45:20.877 --> 00:45:24.177
BAMBI: But it was it was a really good.

00:45:24.177 --> 00:45:28.217
BAMBI: It's one of those like you're kind of like dreading it and looking forward to it at the same time rides.

00:45:28.217 --> 00:45:30.037
BAMBI: And it was awesome.

00:45:30.037 --> 00:45:35.757
BAMBI: Like it's it's different because it doesn't go off the track, so to speak, like the Tower of Terror does.

00:45:35.757 --> 00:45:36.897
BAMBI: It's just an up and down.

00:45:36.897 --> 00:45:37.417
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:45:37.417 --> 00:45:42.237
BAMBI: But not knowing how many times it's going to drop, I think, just adds to the suspense.

00:45:42.237 --> 00:45:42.757
BAMBI: Yeah.

00:45:42.757 --> 00:45:49.637
VIRGINIA: And I think the music makes a difference too, because Tower of Terror has that scary element.

00:45:49.637 --> 00:46:05.577
VIRGINIA: And I think the drops are more to scare you, whereas the Guardians is more, I think, supposed to be just fun because I've heard it described as they wanted the bouncing to feel like you were like a baby being thrown up in the air.

00:46:05.577 --> 00:46:08.657
BAMBI: I mean, I don't think I throw my baby like that.

00:46:12.457 --> 00:46:23.357
BAMBI: So I mean, it's, yeah, I mean, it's not the music definitely helps because it's, and you know, when you get to the top before it drops each time, like there's a scene, you know, with like Star-Lord and all the things.

00:46:23.357 --> 00:46:25.137
BAMBI: But yeah, I don't know.

00:46:25.137 --> 00:46:29.517
BAMBI: It's still plummeting that far, just still kind of puts your stomach in your mouth.

00:46:29.517 --> 00:46:31.017
VIRGINIA: Do you recall what song was playing?

00:46:31.017 --> 00:46:33.297
VIRGINIA: Because I think they have a rotation.

00:46:33.297 --> 00:46:35.397
BAMBI: They do have a rotation.

00:46:35.397 --> 00:46:39.737
BAMBI: I'm sure Rachel could tell you on demand, but I don't remember which one it was.

00:46:39.737 --> 00:46:41.117
BAMBI: All right.

00:46:41.117 --> 00:46:45.917
VIRGINIA: Let's move on to whatever happened next in your day.

00:46:45.917 --> 00:46:49.037
BAMBI: Well, so we made the mistake of going to Marble Land next.

00:46:50.037 --> 00:46:56.457
BAMBI: So we did do other things in the park, but it was just we're all big Marvel nerds anyway.

00:46:56.457 --> 00:47:01.677
BAMBI: And so you kind of walk over there and Avengers are literally all over the campus.

00:47:01.677 --> 00:47:03.857
BAMBI: Like, I mean, Ant-Man is just wandering around.

00:47:03.917 --> 00:47:12.457
BAMBI: And I mean, we we had interactions, just casual interactions with Captain America, Ant-Man and Doctor Strange.

00:47:12.457 --> 00:47:16.257
BAMBI: And then there's like a show with Black Widow.

00:47:16.257 --> 00:47:20.457
BAMBI: I mean, it's just completely magical the whole time you're there.

00:47:20.457 --> 00:47:23.777
BAMBI: You really do kind of feel like you're in the middle of the Marvel universe.

00:47:24.197 --> 00:47:26.017
BAMBI: So that's it's awesome.

00:47:26.017 --> 00:47:33.597
BAMBI: So our second Lightning Lane was for the Spider-Man ride, which is epic.

00:47:33.597 --> 00:47:35.357
BAMBI: So have you ridden it?

00:47:35.357 --> 00:47:38.637
VIRGINIA: I have not because it did not exist the last time I was there.

00:47:38.637 --> 00:47:41.057
VIRGINIA: So how did you do?

00:47:41.057 --> 00:47:42.697
BAMBI: So I did well.

00:47:42.697 --> 00:47:44.797
BAMBI: Apparently, I'm really good at the video games.

00:47:44.797 --> 00:47:50.617
BAMBI: But I guess for those who don't know what it's like, so you're in a car.

00:47:50.617 --> 00:48:03.277
BAMBI: The car doesn't look anything at all like the Toystorm Mania, but it's similar in that you're going through the ride in a four or five seater, and you're shooting at things, shooting at targets.

00:48:03.277 --> 00:48:14.037
BAMBI: But you don't have anything in your hands, and so it's like you're Spider-Man, and you just do the Spider-Man thing with your hands, and somehow the technology picks up on what you're shooting at.

00:48:14.037 --> 00:48:15.657
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:48:15.657 --> 00:48:16.617
BAMBI: It's crazy cool.

00:48:18.137 --> 00:48:19.377
VIRGINIA: Were you sore after?

00:48:19.377 --> 00:48:25.357
VIRGINIA: Because I've heard a lot of people say that because of the continuous motion, they got off and they're like, oh my God, my arm hurts.

00:48:26.397 --> 00:48:30.017
BAMBI: I wasn't, but Michael and Rachel totally were.

00:48:30.017 --> 00:48:32.257
BAMBI: I could see how you would be.

00:48:33.397 --> 00:48:36.637
BAMBI: It's incredible, and we actually ended up writing it three times that day.

00:48:36.637 --> 00:48:37.177
VIRGINIA: Oh, wow.

00:48:37.177 --> 00:48:37.837
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:48:37.837 --> 00:48:39.837
BAMBI: So, yeah, it's that good.

00:48:39.837 --> 00:48:40.057
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:48:40.057 --> 00:48:46.997
VIRGINIA: My friend Ashlee, who is AshleeEverAfter on Instagram, I think she was the one that gave me the tip.

00:48:46.997 --> 00:48:52.197
VIRGINIA: Was it either her or Daina at 999 Happy Haunts here?

00:48:52.197 --> 00:48:58.717
VIRGINIA: One of them told me that if you do finger guns, it also senses you correctly.

00:48:58.717 --> 00:49:05.117
VIRGINIA: So, if you want to put in less effort and still score well, just do finger guns the whole time.

00:49:05.117 --> 00:49:05.717
BAMBI: Finger guns?

00:49:05.717 --> 00:49:06.377
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:49:06.377 --> 00:49:07.797
BAMBI: That's cool.

00:49:07.797 --> 00:49:09.037
BAMBI: That's cool.

00:49:09.097 --> 00:49:10.817
BAMBI: No, we actually kind of looked out.

00:49:10.817 --> 00:49:12.937
BAMBI: You don't normally say this when a ride goes down.

00:49:12.937 --> 00:49:17.857
BAMBI: But right when our lightning lane time started, the ride went down.

00:49:17.857 --> 00:49:21.937
BAMBI: And so when we walked up to use our lightning lane, they were like, yeah, sorry.

00:49:21.937 --> 00:49:25.797
BAMBI: And so when that happens, you can rebook that one.

00:49:25.797 --> 00:49:29.017
BAMBI: And then you also get a free one for the day for your trouble.

00:49:30.177 --> 00:49:32.417
BAMBI: And so we were like, oh.

00:49:32.417 --> 00:49:34.657
BAMBI: And then literally we turned to walk away.

00:49:34.657 --> 00:49:36.977
BAMBI: And then they're like, just kidding, because the ride reopened.

00:49:37.097 --> 00:49:43.617
BAMBI: So we basically didn't have to use our Lightning Lane because we were the first in the line to get to the ride when it was opening back up.

00:49:43.617 --> 00:49:44.317
VIRGINIA: Oh, OK.

00:49:44.317 --> 00:49:50.057
BAMBI: And so that's why we got to ride it three times, is because the system just kind of worked in our favor that day.

00:49:50.077 --> 00:49:50.437
BAMBI: Yeah.

00:49:51.417 --> 00:49:51.677
BAMBI: Yeah.

00:49:52.077 --> 00:49:52.537
BAMBI: It was cool.

00:49:52.537 --> 00:49:55.977
VIRGINIA: Three times in a row or you did other things and came back to it?

00:49:55.977 --> 00:49:56.517
BAMBI: We did.

00:49:56.517 --> 00:49:57.677
BAMBI: We did other things in between.

00:49:57.677 --> 00:49:58.017
VIRGINIA: OK.

00:49:58.017 --> 00:50:02.137
BAMBI: And we were kind of saving that like golden ticket one in case there was something else.

00:50:02.137 --> 00:50:05.057
BAMBI: And then towards the end of the day, we were like, no, we're going to do Spider-Man again.

00:50:05.057 --> 00:50:05.297
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:50:05.657 --> 00:50:06.577
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:50:06.577 --> 00:50:06.877
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:50:06.877 --> 00:50:12.677
VIRGINIA: After you wrapped up your marvelous time, where did you go next?

00:50:13.937 --> 00:50:15.697
BAMBI: We actually did one more thing.

00:50:16.177 --> 00:50:17.537
BAMBI: There's a Spider-Man show.

00:50:17.537 --> 00:50:18.477
BAMBI: It's like a five-minute show.

00:50:18.477 --> 00:50:19.337
VIRGINIA: Oh, I've seen that one.

00:50:19.337 --> 00:50:21.677
VIRGINIA: It was all over the Internet when it first started.

00:50:21.677 --> 00:50:22.717
BAMBI: Yes.

00:50:22.857 --> 00:50:25.437
BAMBI: I didn't do my homework, so I didn't know anything about it.

00:50:25.437 --> 00:50:26.637
BAMBI: And that's cool.

00:50:26.637 --> 00:50:28.297
BAMBI: And it's cool to know.

00:50:28.297 --> 00:50:33.397
BAMBI: So my niece told me that, I guess, when Spider-Man floats in the air, it's actually an animatronic that does that.

00:50:33.397 --> 00:50:34.317
BAMBI: It's not a real person.

00:50:34.457 --> 00:50:35.097
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:50:35.097 --> 00:50:36.617
BAMBI: So that's, it's insane.

00:50:36.617 --> 00:50:37.597
BAMBI: So we did that.

00:50:37.597 --> 00:50:42.137
BAMBI: And then we went over to Cars Land and and check that out.

00:50:42.137 --> 00:50:45.357
BAMBI: So I love Cars Land.

00:50:45.357 --> 00:50:46.297
BAMBI: Cars Land was really cool.

00:50:46.817 --> 00:50:48.137
BAMBI: I've only seen Cars once.

00:50:48.137 --> 00:50:52.737
BAMBI: It's not on my list of favorites, but it was her favorite as a little kid.

00:50:52.737 --> 00:50:53.277
BAMBI: Yeah.

00:50:53.277 --> 00:50:56.097
BAMBI: She's still a kid to me, but as a little kid.

00:50:56.097 --> 00:50:57.757
BAMBI: And so she just lit up.

00:50:57.757 --> 00:50:59.617
BAMBI: She was all about some Cars Land.

00:50:59.617 --> 00:50:59.937
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:50:59.937 --> 00:51:00.917
VIRGINIA: It's really cool there.

00:51:00.917 --> 00:51:06.677
VIRGINIA: And I especially love the street area where you've got sort of the diner, I think at the end.

00:51:06.677 --> 00:51:09.477
VIRGINIA: It's just so cute.

00:51:09.477 --> 00:51:09.677
BAMBI: Yeah.

00:51:09.677 --> 00:51:14.237
BAMBI: Apparently, I think it's like right at dusk, whatever time there is.

00:51:14.237 --> 00:51:18.877
BAMBI: I guess there's a scene in the movie where they play like a specific song.

00:51:18.877 --> 00:51:20.217
BAMBI: You probably know what it is.

00:51:20.217 --> 00:51:22.877
BAMBI: And there you go.

00:51:22.877 --> 00:51:24.497
BAMBI: So that's apparently a big thing.

00:51:24.497 --> 00:51:26.197
BAMBI: So we had to go over there to see that.

00:51:26.197 --> 00:51:29.157
BAMBI: And it was pretty, it was cute when it happened in the park.

00:51:29.157 --> 00:51:31.117
VIRGINIA: Did you do both of the rides in that area?

00:51:32.477 --> 00:51:38.177
BAMBI: We only did the car, the one on the test track type.

00:51:38.177 --> 00:51:38.697
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:51:38.697 --> 00:51:39.417
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:51:39.417 --> 00:51:40.757
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:51:40.757 --> 00:51:41.097
VIRGINIA: Cool.

00:51:41.097 --> 00:51:43.117
VIRGINIA: And you can't even do test track in Orlando right now.

00:51:43.117 --> 00:51:45.237
VIRGINIA: So you got your full.

00:51:45.237 --> 00:51:46.737
BAMBI: And this is way better.

00:51:46.737 --> 00:51:47.437
VIRGINIA: It is.

00:51:47.437 --> 00:51:48.597
VIRGINIA: It's so much better.

00:51:48.597 --> 00:51:49.397
BAMBI: So cool.

00:51:49.397 --> 00:51:49.597
BAMBI: Yeah.

00:51:49.597 --> 00:51:49.997
BAMBI: Yeah.

00:51:50.517 --> 00:51:50.697
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:51:50.697 --> 00:51:51.957
VIRGINIA: I mean, essentially the same thing.

00:51:51.957 --> 00:52:02.517
VIRGINIA: Like when you're in the inside part of test track and you're coming upon the big truck and stuff, like I think that's Mac in the car version.

00:52:02.517 --> 00:52:08.077
VIRGINIA: And there's a place where you see the tractors that kind of tip back and all of that.

00:52:09.617 --> 00:52:15.197
VIRGINIA: If you ride that and then you go back and write test track, you're like, oh, this equals this, because it's all sort of the same thing.

00:52:15.197 --> 00:52:18.837
VIRGINIA: But just the theming makes it so cool.

00:52:18.837 --> 00:52:19.057
BAMBI: Yeah.

00:52:19.057 --> 00:52:28.817
BAMBI: It makes you wonder why they didn't just do that as a rethame and Epcot and then not tear up the whole area back there where there are little.

00:52:28.817 --> 00:52:36.457
VIRGINIA: I mean, I would say sure, except that the theme would feel very weird and whatever that's called now.

00:52:36.457 --> 00:52:37.097
BAMBI: Valid.

00:52:37.097 --> 00:52:37.517
BAMBI: True.

00:52:37.517 --> 00:52:40.497
VIRGINIA: World celebration, world domination.

00:52:40.497 --> 00:52:41.817
VIRGINIA: I don't know.

00:52:44.317 --> 00:52:45.257
VIRGINIA: Oh, my goodness.

00:52:45.257 --> 00:52:53.297
VIRGINIA: But yeah, it will be interesting to see what the cars thing is that they're going to do in Magic Kingdom, because I'm having a really, I'm excited about change.

00:52:53.297 --> 00:52:54.257
VIRGINIA: I like change.

00:52:54.257 --> 00:52:55.097
VIRGINIA: I like new things.

00:52:55.397 --> 00:53:03.597
VIRGINIA: I'm having a really hard time imagining Liberty Square and potentially being able to see something like that in the distance.

00:53:03.597 --> 00:53:04.397
BAMBI: Yeah, same.

00:53:04.397 --> 00:53:06.317
VIRGINIA: How is that going to work?

00:53:06.317 --> 00:53:06.497
BAMBI: Yeah.

00:53:06.497 --> 00:53:08.797
VIRGINIA: They're going to have to really hide it back there.

00:53:08.797 --> 00:53:10.897
BAMBI: I'm sure they'll do it, but I just can't see it.

00:53:10.897 --> 00:53:12.057
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:53:12.057 --> 00:53:13.737
VIRGINIA: They'll amaze us, I'm sure.

00:53:13.737 --> 00:53:15.617
BAMBI: Yes, for sure.

00:53:15.617 --> 00:53:16.137
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:53:16.137 --> 00:53:26.797
VIRGINIA: After Cars Land, did you make it over to the other side of the lake into the San Fransokyo and the Encrita Coaster area?

00:53:26.797 --> 00:53:30.097
BAMBI: We actually, from there, it was the Lunar Festival.

00:53:30.097 --> 00:53:30.717
BAMBI: Oh, yeah.

00:53:30.717 --> 00:53:36.277
BAMBI: They had kind of like a little mini, I would say definitely an abbreviated Epcot type festival.

00:53:36.277 --> 00:53:41.037
BAMBI: So we stopped at some of those food booths and kind of checked those out.

00:53:41.037 --> 00:53:56.377
BAMBI: One thing that I think was really cool is somebody who frequents all the various festivals at Epcot is the first stop that you go, you can order what you want from all the other booths and yeah, and then you get a receipt.

00:53:56.377 --> 00:54:03.497
BAMBI: So it's like, so imagine going to Epcot and saying, and saying, okay, here's the 10 booths that I'm going to get grabbed from today.

00:54:03.497 --> 00:54:06.677
BAMBI: You place the order for everything you want, you get the receipt, you pay for it.

00:54:06.677 --> 00:54:08.257
BAMBI: And then there's a, there's a line for you.

00:54:08.257 --> 00:54:12.597
BAMBI: And then you just go straight to the pickup line and hand them your receipt and they hand you your food as you go through.

00:54:12.597 --> 00:54:15.497
VIRGINIA: How did they mark that you've picked it up?

00:54:15.497 --> 00:54:17.457
BAMBI: They, they just put a line through it.

00:54:17.457 --> 00:54:18.057
BAMBI: I think it is.

00:54:18.057 --> 00:54:19.497
VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.

00:54:19.537 --> 00:54:19.817
VIRGINIA: Wow.

00:54:19.817 --> 00:54:21.617
VIRGINIA: Yeah, that's really cool.

00:54:21.617 --> 00:54:21.997
BAMBI: Yeah.

00:54:21.997 --> 00:54:24.917
BAMBI: And they also had a pass.

00:54:24.917 --> 00:54:26.757
BAMBI: I think it was like 80 bucks or something.

00:54:26.757 --> 00:54:33.937
BAMBI: Like you got six different food items at any of the booths for like 80 bucks or something like that.

00:54:33.937 --> 00:54:39.477
BAMBI: And so you had like this really cool, like, you know, take home necklace thing that you wore.

00:54:39.477 --> 00:54:46.137
BAMBI: And then they would, you know, when you paid for it, of course, we just did the one-time pay, so there wasn't anything special.

00:54:46.137 --> 00:54:46.317
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:54:46.317 --> 00:54:51.017
BAMBI: But, you know, it was definitely more economic to do that way.

00:54:51.017 --> 00:54:51.537
VIRGINIA: Oh, yeah.

00:54:51.537 --> 00:54:58.217
VIRGINIA: And when you, sometimes when you're wandering around the booths at a festival like that, you're just like, oh, I'll try that, I'll try that.

00:54:58.217 --> 00:55:02.877
VIRGINIA: And it's like you do not realize how many you're ordering and adding up.

00:55:02.877 --> 00:55:11.117
VIRGINIA: So if you could pay for what you wanted at the get-go, you'd be able to plan how much you actually wanted to spend before you got started.

00:55:11.117 --> 00:55:12.177
VIRGINIA: So yeah, I like that.

00:55:13.337 --> 00:55:16.817
VIRGINIA: What stood out to you in terms of the food items that you were able to try?

00:55:17.877 --> 00:55:22.617
BAMBI: Well, I'm a crazy bow bun person, so anytime bow buns are involved, it's a yes, please.

00:55:22.717 --> 00:55:26.117
BAMBI: So those were really good.

00:55:26.117 --> 00:55:33.597
BAMBI: And then they had a lo mein type noodle dish that I think Rachel got that, and it was good.

00:55:33.597 --> 00:55:39.997
BAMBI: One of the things that really stood out is the food over there was really spicy.

00:55:40.217 --> 00:55:43.117
BAMBI: So you could get, I mean, they had like actual flavor.

00:55:43.117 --> 00:55:53.897
BAMBI: Yeah, like flavor flavor, you know, which was not what you're usually used to at maybe in Animal Kingdom, but outside of maybe Animal Kingdom, you don't really see it much in Florida.

00:55:53.897 --> 00:56:04.357
VIRGINIA: If it says spicy on the menu in Orlando, I'm kind of like, okay, it's rare that you actually get something that describes itself as spicy and it is.

00:56:04.357 --> 00:56:11.077
BAMBI: Yeah, they had like these Asians hot wings and they were legit, like, yeah, for sure.

00:56:11.077 --> 00:56:15.137
BAMBI: Yeah, so it was kind of cool to have like flavorful food.

00:56:15.137 --> 00:56:19.317
BAMBI: I mean, it's not gourmet, it's still finger food, so to speak, but it's fun.

00:56:19.357 --> 00:56:20.777
BAMBI: It's fun to try the different stuff.

00:56:20.797 --> 00:56:28.337
VIRGINIA: All right, well, take us through everything else you got up to on your Disney California Adventure Day.

00:56:28.337 --> 00:56:31.137
BAMBI: Let's see, try to remember what's at the front of the park.

00:56:31.137 --> 00:56:36.637
BAMBI: So we did go back to the California Adventure side and kind of walked around back there.

00:56:36.757 --> 00:56:40.897
BAMBI: We didn't, we did not ride the Incredicoaster.

00:56:40.897 --> 00:56:43.257
BAMBI: I could not convince Michael or Rachel to ride with me.

00:56:43.257 --> 00:56:45.737
BAMBI: And I was like, I'm not going to wait in that one by myself.

00:56:46.117 --> 00:56:47.917
BAMBI: So that'll be in next time.

00:56:49.197 --> 00:56:54.057
BAMBI: But we just kind of walked around and enjoyed seeing different things.

00:56:54.057 --> 00:56:58.237
BAMBI: We were going to get the Dole Whip shot.

00:56:59.417 --> 00:57:00.577
VIRGINIA: What is the Dole Whip shot?

00:57:01.397 --> 00:57:06.357
BAMBI: Oh, so, gosh, there's a restaurant.

00:57:06.357 --> 00:57:10.197
BAMBI: So right as you go across the bridge, you're facing the credit coaster.

00:57:10.197 --> 00:57:14.077
BAMBI: Right as you go over the water, there's a little restaurant to the right hand side.

00:57:14.157 --> 00:57:20.337
BAMBI: I can't remember the name of it, but they have, there's an item that is not on the menu.

00:57:20.337 --> 00:57:22.057
BAMBI: And it is a Dole Whip shot.

00:57:22.057 --> 00:57:26.117
BAMBI: And so it's a shot of liquor with Dole Whip in it.

00:57:26.157 --> 00:57:26.977
BAMBI: That can't go wrong.

00:57:26.977 --> 00:57:30.657
VIRGINIA: No, I mean, a rum thing, I'm imagining.

00:57:30.657 --> 00:57:32.417
BAMBI: Yeah, I believe so.

00:57:33.197 --> 00:57:41.697
BAMBI: But we just, the wait list, everything, we didn't plan appropriately and didn't want to dedicate an hour plus to just taking a shot.

00:57:43.117 --> 00:57:44.097
BAMBI: So we passed on that.

00:57:44.097 --> 00:57:48.617
BAMBI: But you should totally look into it and see if you can get a quick run in there for that.

00:57:48.617 --> 00:57:49.617
BAMBI: Cause that sounds pretty cool.

00:57:49.617 --> 00:57:50.597
VIRGINIA: Yeah, it does.

00:57:50.597 --> 00:57:51.477
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:57:51.477 --> 00:57:53.657
BAMBI: Yeah, we just kind of walked around through there.

00:57:53.657 --> 00:57:55.577
BAMBI: We went back and rode Spider-Man.

00:57:55.717 --> 00:58:00.757
BAMBI: And then we went back and gosh, I can't remember the ride that was at the front of the park.

00:58:00.757 --> 00:58:03.237
BAMBI: There's another, there's a ride.

00:58:03.237 --> 00:58:05.557
VIRGINIA: Soarin?

00:58:05.557 --> 00:58:06.737
BAMBI: We did not ride Soarin.

00:58:06.737 --> 00:58:08.017
BAMBI: It was on our list.

00:58:08.017 --> 00:58:17.337
BAMBI: There's another ride over there that I can't remember for the life of me what it was, but it was, must not have been the best ride ever because I can't remember what it was.

00:58:17.337 --> 00:58:19.517
BAMBI: Marvel just really stood out for the day.

00:58:19.517 --> 00:58:27.517
VIRGINIA: I think there's like almost like a like a Colley River Rapids type ride over there too.

00:58:27.517 --> 00:58:30.277
BAMBI: Yeah, that there is that was closed.

00:58:30.277 --> 00:58:32.597
BAMBI: I can't remember what it was.

00:58:32.597 --> 00:58:38.637
BAMBI: It'll come to me the minute we get off this podcast, but we rode that and then we just kind of walked around.

00:58:38.717 --> 00:58:44.837
BAMBI: There was a couple of shows like there's a dance-off, the Guardians of the Galaxy dance-off at nighttime.

00:58:44.837 --> 00:58:48.597
BAMBI: They do it several times in front of the Guardians ride.

00:58:48.797 --> 00:58:50.497
BAMBI: So we watched that.

00:58:50.497 --> 00:58:55.857
BAMBI: We grabbed our dinner was there's a Pym's Particles Restaurant.

00:58:55.857 --> 00:58:58.317
BAMBI: So it's a quick service place.

00:58:58.317 --> 00:59:07.137
BAMBI: If you haven't been there, it's pretty cool because they have like, things are either super ginormous, so they've got a pretzel bigger than my torso, which is pretty big.

00:59:07.297 --> 00:59:14.197
BAMBI: Then they've got a chicken sandwich and the chicken is really big, but then they have a little bitty slider type bun on it.

00:59:14.197 --> 00:59:17.437
BAMBI: So the food was good and it was also really cute presentation.

00:59:17.937 --> 00:59:22.117
BAMBI: So we just ran in there for dinner and Rachel got her picture with Ant-Man.

00:59:22.237 --> 00:59:24.237
BAMBI: She's not Ant-Man, Iron Man.

00:59:24.237 --> 00:59:29.317
BAMBI: So that one took a line because there were a lot of people that wanted a picture with him.

00:59:29.317 --> 00:59:36.157
BAMBI: Then we just went over and set up shop at Wonderful World of Color so that we could see that.

00:59:36.157 --> 00:59:36.737
BAMBI: It was weird.

00:59:36.737 --> 00:59:42.417
BAMBI: It seemed like that day, even though we didn't ride as many things, it just went by so fast.

00:59:42.417 --> 00:59:52.577
BAMBI: I think because we were just absorbing, it wasn't just about the rides, it was about absorbing the scenery and the vibes.

00:59:52.577 --> 00:59:55.777
BAMBI: But my feet were absolutely positively killing me by the end of that day.

00:59:55.777 --> 00:59:57.157
BAMBI: But it was worth it.

00:59:57.157 --> 00:59:58.757
BAMBI: It was totally worth it.

00:59:58.757 --> 01:00:07.957
VIRGINIA: When it comes to the Lightning Lanes at both Disneyland and California Adventure, as your day went on, how was the availability for them?

01:00:07.957 --> 01:00:11.097
BAMBI: There were certain rides that booked up really fast.

01:00:11.197 --> 01:00:22.157
BAMBI: So we paid, I think, for Cars Land for the Cars Ride, you had to pay extra if you wanted to, in addition to the Lightning Lane, if you wanted to get to the front of that one.

01:00:22.157 --> 01:00:27.297
BAMBI: Disneyland, Indiana Jones was booked up earlier on in the day.

01:00:27.297 --> 01:00:35.497
BAMBI: So, I mean, just like Disney World, there's certain really popular rides that book up fast, and others that are available a little bit later on.

01:00:35.497 --> 01:00:39.497
BAMBI: You're kind of left with the scraps at the end of the day, you're still looking for something.

01:00:41.357 --> 01:00:44.497
BAMBI: But the crowns were not for a race weekend.

01:00:44.497 --> 01:00:47.017
BAMBI: I mean, it was busy, but it wasn't unbearable.

01:00:47.017 --> 01:00:53.617
BAMBI: And a lot of the rides outside of just, the hot ticket ones would be 20, 30 minutes, which is not bad.

01:00:53.617 --> 01:00:54.697
VIRGINIA: No, that's not bad.

01:00:54.697 --> 01:01:02.057
VIRGINIA: I mean, once it gets past 30 minutes, I'm like, how worth is it to wait when there's so many other things to do?

01:01:02.057 --> 01:01:18.077
VIRGINIA: Because I'm like you, I get so much pleasure out of just sitting and absorbing what's going on around me and I love all of the details that go into it and I could just be happy sitting there, people watching.

01:01:18.077 --> 01:01:20.137
BAMBI: Yeah, for sure.

01:01:20.137 --> 01:01:22.097
BAMBI: There's some funny people.

01:01:23.237 --> 01:01:25.137
BAMBI: That makes it even better.

01:01:25.137 --> 01:01:26.237
VIRGINIA: Oh my goodness.

01:01:26.237 --> 01:01:29.637
VIRGINIA: How was Wonderful World of Color?

01:01:29.637 --> 01:01:31.537
BAMBI: It was wonderful.

01:01:31.537 --> 01:01:32.957
VIRGINIA: It was a world of color.

01:01:32.957 --> 01:01:35.477
BAMBI: It was a world of color.

01:01:35.477 --> 01:01:36.497
BAMBI: It was actually really good.

01:01:38.477 --> 01:01:41.357
BAMBI: Again, I'm more into the nostalgic music.

01:01:41.357 --> 01:01:46.477
BAMBI: If you want to change the tempo a little bit, that's fine, but keep it to the traditional Disney stuff.

01:01:46.737 --> 01:01:47.997
BAMBI: I'm a Wishes girl.

01:01:47.997 --> 01:01:50.817
BAMBI: Wishes is definitely my favorite fireworks show.

01:01:51.957 --> 01:02:03.937
BAMBI: And so it was very, just I would say true to Walt and kind of true to kind of the more nostalgic and bring a tear to your eye type music, which was really cool.

01:02:03.937 --> 01:02:06.037
BAMBI: And then they project onto the water.

01:02:06.357 --> 01:02:09.237
BAMBI: So similar to Phantasmic.

01:02:09.237 --> 01:02:15.497
BAMBI: But, you know, of course, they have scenes like, you know, the Star Wars music starts playing.

01:02:15.497 --> 01:02:16.897
BAMBI: And of course, everybody goes nuts.

01:02:16.897 --> 01:02:19.677
BAMBI: And it's, I don't know, it's just really cool.

01:02:19.677 --> 01:02:25.637
BAMBI: And kind of like a mini, if you've ever been to Las Vegas, you've got the water show in front of the Bellagio.

01:02:25.637 --> 01:02:34.377
BAMBI: It's almost like a miniature Bellagio type show, but with the backdrop of the, you know, the Incredicoaster and the Mickey Ferris wheel.

01:02:34.617 --> 01:02:36.557
BAMBI: So it was, it was really good.

01:02:36.557 --> 01:02:40.477
BAMBI: It was a 180 from the Disneyland Fireworks show.

01:02:40.477 --> 01:02:42.697
BAMBI: This one was definitely worth the wait.

01:02:42.697 --> 01:02:51.757
VIRGINIA: I think that there is a documentary or something on Disney Plus I saw about the wonderful world of color, because somehow, somewhere, I think it was there.

01:02:51.757 --> 01:02:57.837
VIRGINIA: I saw sort of like a, what's the opposite of slow motion?

01:02:58.137 --> 01:03:02.017
VIRGINIA: Like a fast forward, like a time lapse, like a time lapse.

01:03:02.017 --> 01:03:09.777
VIRGINIA: Them putting all of the things into that body of water that they needed to, to be able to shoot up the water, to make the screens.

01:03:09.777 --> 01:03:10.517
VIRGINIA: So they drained it.

01:03:10.517 --> 01:03:18.997
VIRGINIA: And it's like, if they drained it right now, there's like, it is full of stuff and how deep it has to be to make all that happen.

01:03:18.997 --> 01:03:22.497
VIRGINIA: I just remember seeing them being like, wow, this is really impressive.

01:03:22.497 --> 01:03:28.677
VIRGINIA: So if I can find a link to it on Disney Plus, I'll put it in the show notes for anybody who's curious about seeing that.

01:03:28.677 --> 01:03:30.457
BAMBI: Yeah, that's cool.

01:03:30.457 --> 01:03:31.597
BAMBI: That's awesome.

01:03:31.597 --> 01:03:34.117
VIRGINIA: And that must have been the end of that day.

01:03:34.117 --> 01:03:39.717
VIRGINIA: Did you do any last-minute shopping or any other activities before you headed out for the night?

01:03:39.717 --> 01:03:40.097
BAMBI: No.

01:03:40.097 --> 01:03:43.397
BAMBI: I mean, we always peeked through the stores.

01:03:44.417 --> 01:03:49.497
BAMBI: But I mean, we pretty much closed it down and it was fairly late.

01:03:49.817 --> 01:03:51.377
BAMBI: And then it was like, oh, we did eat.

01:03:53.077 --> 01:03:59.237
BAMBI: But we did grab a sandwich, an Earl sandwich, as we were heading back towards the hotel.

01:03:59.237 --> 01:04:06.077
BAMBI: So we just grabbed a sandwich and split it as a, you know, because we were kind of hungry, but not like, hey, it's late.

01:04:06.077 --> 01:04:07.817
BAMBI: I don't want to have to come old.

01:04:07.817 --> 01:04:09.277
BAMBI: I don't want to have to have Tums all night.

01:04:09.277 --> 01:04:20.157
BAMBI: So we just grabbed a turkey sandwich and then went back and packed everything up because we had to have Rachel back at the airport early the next day, so.

01:04:20.157 --> 01:04:21.317
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:04:21.317 --> 01:04:24.937
VIRGINIA: And the next day was Monday, February 1st.

01:04:24.937 --> 01:04:28.777
VIRGINIA: And I think you had to have her to the airport by 10 a.m.

01:04:28.777 --> 01:04:38.977
VIRGINIA: So with the rush hour traffic that now we know you have to deal with to get over there, I'm imagining that you had to leave quite early to make that happen.

01:04:38.977 --> 01:04:47.337
BAMBI: Yeah, it was, you know, for people, for a person who's not a morning person, I think I saw six o'clock pretty much every day, but it was, it was worth it.

01:04:47.397 --> 01:04:48.037
BAMBI: It was all right.

01:04:48.037 --> 01:04:48.377
VIRGINIA: Right.

01:04:48.377 --> 01:04:54.757
VIRGINIA: And then from there, you were moving on to other parts of California for, for work purposes and that sort of thing.

01:04:54.757 --> 01:05:00.797
VIRGINIA: So everything go okay, like once your whole trip was over with your travel back to Charleston.

01:05:00.797 --> 01:05:02.457
BAMBI: Yeah, everything, everything was fine.

01:05:02.457 --> 01:05:04.157
BAMBI: It was, it was a random road trip.

01:05:04.157 --> 01:05:05.977
BAMBI: We actually ended, ended the trip.

01:05:05.977 --> 01:05:10.337
BAMBI: We ended up driving across from, with work stops in between.

01:05:10.337 --> 01:05:13.437
BAMBI: We flew out of Las Vegas because my in-laws are out there.

01:05:14.077 --> 01:05:20.977
BAMBI: And so, yeah, so we had a little bit of fun mixed in with the work trip and the air travel was good, pretty smooth.

01:05:20.977 --> 01:05:21.677
VIRGINIA: Good.

01:05:21.677 --> 01:05:27.737
BAMBI: The plane was really hot one of the legs, which is never fun, but other than that it was, it was good.

01:05:27.737 --> 01:05:33.037
VIRGINIA: All right, I'm gonna ask you what I ask most people when I finish up a trip report interview.

01:05:33.037 --> 01:05:34.877
VIRGINIA: When are you going back to a Disney park?

01:05:34.877 --> 01:05:45.917
VIRGINIA: So I know it might be a while for Disneyland, just because it's a little bit of a further jaunt from where you are, but do you have any plans already booked for a Disney trip or thoughts of plans?

01:05:45.917 --> 01:05:54.177
BAMBI: Well, I'm sure with Rachel being down in Orlando, I'm sure we'll end up at the Magic Kingdom and Epcot and everything at some point before the end of the year.

01:05:54.177 --> 01:05:57.697
BAMBI: So her contract is up, I think, in the June timeframe.

01:05:57.697 --> 01:06:01.517
BAMBI: And so we're trying to blackmail her into staying in cast member.

01:06:01.517 --> 01:06:08.797
BAMBI: And so we've told her that if she decides that she's gonna stay, then our next trip together as the three of us will be to Disneyland Paris.

01:06:11.637 --> 01:06:14.557
BAMBI: But she hasn't decided what she's doing yet.

01:06:14.557 --> 01:06:16.077
BAMBI: So we'll have to see how that goes.

01:06:16.077 --> 01:06:17.817
VIRGINIA: That's quite an incentive.

01:06:17.817 --> 01:06:20.737
BAMBI: I mean, you know, it's fun to travel with a cast member.

01:06:21.297 --> 01:06:22.897
BAMBI: You wanna keep that going as long as you can.

01:06:22.897 --> 01:06:29.717
VIRGINIA: Yeah, and I interviewed somebody recently and Disneyland Paris, it just sounded so doable.

01:06:29.717 --> 01:06:32.217
VIRGINIA: And I had never thought about it that way before.

01:06:32.217 --> 01:06:42.077
VIRGINIA: But it almost, to me, being somebody who's on the East Coast, it almost sounded easier, or at least as easy as going to Disneyland.

01:06:42.077 --> 01:06:42.857
BAMBI: I can see that.

01:06:42.857 --> 01:06:49.977
BAMBI: I mean, flying across the country is no picnic, you know, flying across the oceans, same thing, you know, so, yeah.

01:06:49.977 --> 01:06:56.077
VIRGINIA: Right, and there you can hop on a train at the airport and get off at the Disneyland stop.

01:06:56.077 --> 01:06:56.997
BAMBI: Well, that's super cool.

01:06:56.997 --> 01:06:58.937
VIRGINIA: Right, it's even easier, yeah.

01:06:59.097 --> 01:07:00.297
VIRGINIA: It's gonna be in my future too.

01:07:00.957 --> 01:07:03.717
BAMBI: I'll have to listen to that podcast, so I know what to do.

01:07:03.977 --> 01:07:04.577
VIRGINIA: You should.

01:07:04.577 --> 01:07:24.257
VIRGINIA: In fact, because we're talking about it, I will link the episode in the show notes for anybody who's interested, and that will just inspire everybody to want to go and check out Disneyland Paris, because not only did it sound doable, but it also sounded affordable, which sounds really crazy.

01:07:24.257 --> 01:07:27.097
VIRGINIA: So anyway, that was Rebecca that did that trip.

01:07:27.097 --> 01:07:34.817
VIRGINIA: I'll link her episode in the show notes, and everybody should go good for listen, because believe me, when you finish listening to it, you're going to be like, I could do that.

01:07:35.957 --> 01:07:36.597
BAMBI: That's awesome.

01:07:36.597 --> 01:07:37.297
BAMBI: That's great.

01:07:37.297 --> 01:07:38.337
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:07:38.337 --> 01:07:40.337
VIRGINIA: All right, Bambi, it has been a pleasure.

01:07:40.337 --> 01:07:42.097
VIRGINIA: It's always a pleasure to see your face.

01:07:42.097 --> 01:07:48.557
VIRGINIA: I don't get to see it nearly enough, but hopefully at some point, I will get you up here to New York.

01:07:48.557 --> 01:07:49.337
BAMBI: Absolutely.

01:07:49.337 --> 01:07:50.217
BAMBI: We've talked about it.

01:07:50.217 --> 01:07:52.237
BAMBI: We've talked about it in the near term.

01:07:52.237 --> 01:07:52.877
VIRGINIA: I hope you do.

01:07:52.877 --> 01:07:53.597
VIRGINIA: I hope you do.

01:07:53.597 --> 01:07:57.637
VIRGINIA: I would be so happy to gallivant around town with you.

01:07:57.897 --> 01:07:58.697
BAMBI: It would be awesome.

01:07:58.697 --> 01:07:59.177
BAMBI: I miss you.

01:07:59.177 --> 01:08:00.557
VIRGINIA: I miss you too.

01:08:00.557 --> 01:08:00.957
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:08:00.957 --> 01:08:04.857
VIRGINIA: I will talk to you again soon and have a great rest of your evening.

01:08:04.857 --> 01:08:05.417
VIRGINIA: I love you.

01:08:05.437 --> 01:08:06.057
BAMBI: Love you too.

01:08:06.057 --> 01:08:06.477
BAMBI: Thank you.

01:08:06.477 --> 01:08:08.777
BAMBI: Bye.

01:08:08.777 --> 01:08:12.117
VIRGINIA: Thank you again Bambi from the bottom of my heart.

01:08:12.117 --> 01:08:15.577
VIRGINIA: Let me know when you're going to make it up here to New York.

01:08:15.577 --> 01:08:18.457
VIRGINIA: Thank you all listeners for listening.

01:08:18.457 --> 01:08:28.737
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01:08:30.077 --> 01:08:31.877
VIRGINIA: That will be all for today.

01:08:31.877 --> 01:08:35.737
VIRGINIA: Have a magical week and keep daydreaming about where you long to be.