Post-Trip Report: Beccy’s WDW Fantastic Friendship Fair (January 2024)

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VIRGINIA: Today is Presidents Day.

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VIRGINIA: And as we speak, I am in Walt Disney World, sharing the magic of Disney with my sister and her family for the first time.

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VIRGINIA: Today, I'm joined by Beccy, who you may know as A Hufflepuff in Disney on Instagram, to hear all of the details of her recent trip that I'm referring to as a fantastic friendship fair.

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VIRGINIA: If Beccy had a theme song, it would be You've Got a Friend in Me.

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VIRGINIA: Beccy is a friend to everyone she meets.

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VIRGINIA: She is all about inclusion and lives by the motto, the more the merrier.

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VIRGINIA: If you didn't catch her pre-trip report, this was a split stay with the first half at Disney's Pop Century Resort and the second half at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort.

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VIRGINIA: During the pre-trip, Beccy expressed that she thought she was a value resort kind of person.

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VIRGINIA: Will that hold true after this Coronado experience?

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VIRGINIA: You'll have to listen through to the end to find out.

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VIRGINIA: Beccy's plans for this trip included a lot of time at Epcot because Festival of the Arts is a favorite of hers.

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VIRGINIA: Also, it wouldn't be a trip for Beccy if she didn't connect with as many of her Disney Circle of Friends as possible.

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VIRGINIA: You'll find the links to all of the friends mentioned throughout the episode in the show notes, and I encourage you to give them all a follow.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: Enough chit chatting.

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VIRGINIA: Here's Beccy.

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VIRGINIA: Welcome back, Beccy.

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VIRGINIA: Hello.

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VIRGINIA: Hello.

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VIRGINIA: You are back from a friendship fun fair, I'm going to call it, because you had a trip planned for January 15th through the 21st for Festival of the Arts.

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VIRGINIA: And when we talked for your pre-show interview, or pre-trip interview, rather, we talked through all of the people you plan to meet up with.

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VIRGINIA: So there's, you know, as a way of setting the scene for listeners, there are going to be lots of friends mentioned, and I will put as many as I can into the show notes so that people can follow the ones that are public and probably want to be followed.

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VIRGINIA: So, overall, how would you sum up this trip?

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BECCY: Um, I would give it an A plus, 100 score.

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BECCY: I think there was, I don't think one thing went wrong.

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BECCY: It was mostly ad-libbed.

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BECCY: We had fun.

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BECCY: Everything was somewhat unplanned, just kind of went with the flow, and we just had fun the entire time.

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VIRGINIA: Mm-hmm.

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VIRGINIA: Well, that's the best kind of trip.

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BECCY: It is the best kind of trip.

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VIRGINIA: This was a split stay, too, so between Pop and Coronado.

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VIRGINIA: So we're going to get two different sides of the Disney world.

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VIRGINIA: All right, so let's start at the very beginning and ask about your flight.

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VIRGINIA: So did everything go okay with your travel?

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BECCY: Yeah, nothing really ever goes wrong.

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BECCY: I go southwest.

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BECCY: It's a direct flight.

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VIRGINIA: Mm-hmm.

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BECCY: Not even three hours.

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BECCY: And I didn't check a bag.

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BECCY: I went for seven days and I challenged myself to not check any luggage.

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BECCY: And it was not that bad going down.

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BECCY: I'm glad I didn't pack my pillow because on the way back it was a little bit of a challenge, but I made it work.

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VIRGINIA: Mm-hmm.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah, whereas I never travel only by carry-on and I bring a duffel bag wadded up into my luggage in case I need to bring extra things home with me.

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VIRGINIA: It's a real problem.

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BECCY: Yeah, I'm not going to lie.

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BECCY: I also did that, but I ended up doing a huge ship home before I left the prop.

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BECCY: So like all the big items that I would have either had to put in like a duffel to put on top or in my like checked luggage, I ended up just like shipping home because as long as you have the receipt, you can ship it home.

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BECCY: So not like just random things.

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BECCY: So like things that you buy, as long as you have the receipt for them, you can ship it home.

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BECCY: And my nephew ended up wanting some stuff, my sister ended up wanting some stuff.

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BECCY: But fun fact, you cannot ship home the popcorn buckets because popcorn buckets are third party.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, that's interesting.

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VIRGINIA: All right, so let's learn how to do this for those of us who don't know.

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VIRGINIA: Because I know I've shipped things like at the register before, but what you're saying is save the receipts and then do one shipment of all of your little things you want to ship.

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BECCY: Yeah, you can.

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BECCY: I mean, you can ship at the register, which is sometimes what I do, depending on if I feel like carrying things or if I like go to the Emporium or the creation store and I buy a huge thing and I'm like, I don't really feel like carrying this at all.

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BECCY: Let me just ship it home now.

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BECCY: But if you buy like little things here and there, and a lot of times too, because it was a lot busier than I thought it was going to be, so I use the mobile checkout a lot on the My Disney Experience app because it automatically gives you your percentage offer, annual pass holder, so you can kind of just like you know, ring it up, show your phone the QR code and like grab a bag and go.

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BECCY: This way you don't have to wait in the line.

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BECCY: So then as long as you have the receipt, the physical receipt or if you did a QR code like you have to show up the QR code, you can go to the the hotel store and just show all your receipts for all your items and they just put it all in one big box for you.

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BECCY: It's only supposed to be a maximum of $35.

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VIRGINIA: No matter how much you're shipping.

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BECCY: No matter how much it is.

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BECCY: So it goes by price.

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BECCY: So it the minimum is like $7 to ship.

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BECCY: The maximum is $35 to ship no matter how much you spend.

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BECCY: But it was $56 and I didn't catch it until afterwards.

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BECCY: I'm not sure if it's because it was multiple different purchases or if the person who was doing it wasn't quite sure like how to make it because it's supposed to cap out at $35.

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BECCY: But I was like such in a hurry at that point that I didn't even catch it until after I had left and I looked at the shipping receipt and I was like, ah, whatever.

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BECCY: It's not that huge of a deal.

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VIRGINIA: Well, that is really good to know because I don't think I would have considered that.

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VIRGINIA: When I thought in my head of, oh, what if I need to ship things after the fact, after the purchase, I thought I guess I would look for like a FedEx or something nearby, but that's a hundred times more convenient.

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VIRGINIA: So I'm glad to know that exists.

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BECCY: Yeah, as long as you buy it in Disney.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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BECCY: So if you go to Character Warehouse, the Character Warehouse will ship too.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, really?

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BECCY: Yes.

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BECCY: So it's the same amount as if you would ship like from Disney, but you can't take things from the Character Warehouse and bring it back to the resort.

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BECCY: Like if you go to the Character Warehouse and you want to ship stuff out, you have to ship it at the Character Warehouse.

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VIRGINIA: Well, that's also good to know.

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BECCY: Follow me for all the shopping tips.

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VIRGINIA: Sometimes I see like bigger things at Character Warehouse that I'm like, oh, I would get that, but it's heavy or it's big or whatever.

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VIRGINIA: I don't want it to break.

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VIRGINIA: So I think that's going to open up a whole new world of possibilities of things I might purchase in the future.

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VIRGINIA: So thank you.

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VIRGINIA: Alright.

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VIRGINIA: So let's all remind ourselves as we go through this that the day that Beccy landed, it was Martin Luther King Jr.

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VIRGINIA: Day.

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VIRGINIA: So I'm guessing that is partly what contributed to maybe how it was busier than you had expected.

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BECCY: Here's the thing.

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BECCY: So I think a lot of colleges don't start until the end of January.

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BECCY: So I don't know if that had anything to do with it.

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BECCY: I also never really go until the very last week of January, like going into February.

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BECCY: So the past two years before that, it was like January 25th, 27th, whatever, into the first few days of February when the Skyliner was up and running again.

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BECCY: So I've never gone during this particular week.

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BECCY: Danny has said that in the past it's been kind of busy like this, but not to the...

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BECCY: This was almost like Christmas level crowds busy when we got there.

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BECCY: It was like...

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BECCY: And it wasn't just the first day.

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BECCY: I mean, like it was all week.

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BECCY: It's Disney though.

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BECCY: So...

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VIRGINIA: Right.

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VIRGINIA: I mean, it's hard to find non-busy times anytime lately.

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VIRGINIA: So you've mentioned the first friend of the trip.

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VIRGINIA: So Danny is the person that you were staying with at Pop and you were both from Rhode Island, correct?

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BECCY: Yep.

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BECCY: Her name is Danny in Disney, D-A-N-N-I, period, in period Disney.

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VIRGINIA: Yes.

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VIRGINIA: So henceforth, when you mentioned friends, you can mention their Instagram handle and you don't need to worry about spelling it out.

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VIRGINIA: I will have it in the show notes for everyone.

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VIRGINIA: So Danny was staying with you at Pop Century.

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VIRGINIA: What time did you end up getting to the resort and what time did you end up meeting her over at your first part of the day, which I believe was Hollywood Studios.

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BECCY: Yep, it was Hollywood Studios.

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BECCY: I ended up getting to the resort for around probably 920.

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BECCY: She was still there because she had a headache.

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BECCY: So she was up early so she was just trying to rest.

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BECCY: So I actually met her in the room.

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BECCY: The Skyliner was still running at that point so around maybe 10 o'clock or so we kind of headed over to Hollywood Studios from the Skyliner and went from there.

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VIRGINIA: What day was the Skyliner scheduled to stop for their renovations or updates or whatever they were doing?

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BECCY: It was Tuesday.

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BECCY: It was the 16th because I think they wanted to keep it open for the holiday.

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VIRGINIA: That makes sense.

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VIRGINIA: Alright.

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VIRGINIA: So, Hollywood Studios, what did you all get into in that park?

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BECCY: It was busy.

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BECCY: I don't even think we went into Star Wars.

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BECCY: I think it was so busy we didn't even try.

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BECCY: We had the Lightning Lane.

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BECCY: We did Tower of Terror, Rock and Roller Coaster was down.

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BECCY: We did Mickey and Minnie's.

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BECCY: We did do Star Tours.

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BECCY: We did do Toy Story Mania.

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BECCY: I think it was warm too.

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BECCY: Not warm, hot.

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BECCY: A lot of it was muggy warm just because most of the weather for that week was just overall crappy.

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BECCY: It was one of those things where we got there at 10, I think probably around between 2 and 3 o'clock.

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BECCY: It was like the crowds were so ridiculous and people were still coming into the park.

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BECCY: People weren't even leaving.

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BECCY: We had already planned on going to Epcot.

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BECCY: I think at that point it had already sprinkled a few times.

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BECCY: We went back to the room.

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BECCY: Before we left Hollywood Studios, we were talking about how much Epcot has great food and how Epcot really needs to share the wealth between the country foods and the festival booths.

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BECCY: We were talking about where have we not been in Epcot?

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BECCY: Where's a place that we have both not eaten at?

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BECCY: So she took out her app and was like, oh, hey, there's a Biergarten reservation for 730.

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BECCY: Do you want to do it?

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BECCY: And I was like, sure.

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VIRGINIA: Now you're talking.

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VIRGINIA: I love Biergarten.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah, I think I like all of the side type things that they have there.

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VIRGINIA: And I think that nowadays the kids call it girl dinner.

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VIRGINIA: So that's what I enjoy at the buffet, which I recognize it's a steep price to pay for that.

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VIRGINIA: But I'm all about the little salads like the potato salad and the coleslaw and that sort of thing.

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VIRGINIA: But mostly what we like about it is the entertainment and just the atmosphere.

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VIRGINIA: There's something about eating in a restaurant where it feels like you're outside even though you're not.

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VIRGINIA: And it feels like it's nighttime even though maybe it's not.

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VIRGINIA: And so we just as a family find ourselves continuing to go back to Biergarten.

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VIRGINIA: So what did you think of it if it was your first time?

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BECCY: We actually really enjoyed it.

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BECCY: She's a vegetarian so I think that her options were limited but she actually found quite a bit of stuff to get.

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BECCY: I think that the sides were probably the best part and I had their fish and it was phenomenal.

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BECCY: We had the dessert.

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BECCY: Everything was great.

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BECCY: Her birthday was five days prior.

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BECCY: The cast member that was serving us was from Germany.

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BECCY: She was so nice.

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BECCY: So, so nice.

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BECCY: When I was coming back from getting a plate of dessert, I happened to catch her and I whispered in her ear, hey, it's her birthday.

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BECCY: The person I'm with, it's her birthday.

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BECCY: She didn't really I'm not going to say she didn't acknowledge but she just kind of looked at me and did the nod.

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BECCY: She heard me but she didn't want to say anything out loud and about 15 minutes later she came back to the table with a cupcake and a candle and a certificate.

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BECCY: She sang in German, happy birthday.

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BECCY: And then she had the certificate who had the old Epcot symbols like the flags around it.

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BECCY: It said happy birthday from Biergarten Germany Pavilion Epcot.

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BECCY: It had her name on it.

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BECCY: It was really nice.

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BECCY: It was a really good gesture.

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BECCY: I'm actually really glad that I said something because now she has this keepsake take home.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, wow.

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VIRGINIA: That's really cool.

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VIRGINIA: They are just every experience I've had with the cast member at Biergarten specifically has always been phenomenal.

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VIRGINIA: We have always had really great servers.

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BECCY: I will also say, so we ended up going to Cosmic right after that.

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BECCY: We were like screw it, let's just buy some Cosmic.

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BECCY: I mean the Cosmic Lightning Lane.

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BECCY: So, of course, we got off the Skyliner and all the way to Germany we're hitting up the booths and I had bought probably like, I'm not going to lie, I bought like 10 of those like, not like paintings, but the postcards leading up to it and I had them in a little bag because I didn't want to crush them in my backpack.

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BECCY: And I had put them down on the table and put my ears on top of them to think like oh, I'll remember these.

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BECCY: Well, I didn't because we got to talking as I was gathering my stuff, put on my ears, I walked out and I left my things there and within, I don't know, maybe five minutes we got a call from a 407 number for Orlando and she answered it and they called and said, oh, because the reservation was in her name and they said, we think you left your stuff here and they held on to it for us.

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BECCY: It was, yeah, like really good.

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BECCY: I mean, that was me, you know, scatterbrained sometimes.

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VIRGINIA: That is excellent service though.

00:15:16.874 --> 00:15:17.794
VIRGINIA: So, yeah.

00:15:17.894 --> 00:15:18.374
BECCY: Oh, yeah.

00:15:18.734 --> 00:15:21.494
VIRGINIA: You know when you see a 407 number, I will answer it no matter what.

00:15:22.934 --> 00:15:27.154
VIRGINIA: Did you do anything else in Epcot in terms of Festival of the Arts?

00:15:27.654 --> 00:15:37.514
BECCY: When we came in from the Skyliner, because of course we were at Pop, we, you know, we went along the World Showcase, hit up a bunch of, like, probably every single booth, all the way up until Germany.

00:15:37.714 --> 00:15:40.674
BECCY: Then when we left Germany, we went through the Odyssey building.

00:15:40.694 --> 00:15:46.614
BECCY: Of course, we were like twofold to like eat anything, even though I was like, oh wow, that cake looks really good, but I had that cake last year.

00:15:46.834 --> 00:15:48.934
BECCY: No, they went to like Cosmic and then Creations.

00:15:49.214 --> 00:15:53.174
BECCY: After that, we went like doubled back to Germany.

00:15:53.874 --> 00:15:58.754
BECCY: And we went and got a spot for Illuminations, not Illuminations, but Luminations.

00:15:59.534 --> 00:16:00.714
BECCY: Like couldn't find a spot.

00:16:00.874 --> 00:16:04.974
BECCY: I mean, so I was there on like day one of Illuminations on December 5th.

00:16:05.554 --> 00:16:10.354
BECCY: And people were lined up around the World Showcase at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

00:16:11.074 --> 00:16:11.734
BECCY: No joke.

00:16:12.494 --> 00:16:15.994
BECCY: So yeah, that's what I like attributed it to.

00:16:16.014 --> 00:16:26.914
BECCY: So she ended up finding a spot in case you're ever looking for like a random little spot behind the UK Pavilion where the fish and chips like the to go fish and chips are.

00:16:28.194 --> 00:16:34.414
BECCY: If you go behind the building, there's like a little like patio area that overlooks the lake.

00:16:34.614 --> 00:16:42.694
BECCY: And she ended up finding a spot like right against the wall for us because we weren't just going to be on the bridge and like make a beeline for the Skyliner.

00:16:42.714 --> 00:16:46.194
BECCY: But we were like still kind of like behind people and we're both pretty short.

00:16:46.594 --> 00:16:49.994
BECCY: Except for it was so muggy.

00:16:50.014 --> 00:17:02.454
BECCY: The air was so that when the fireworks went off because there's a lot of fireworks that are like close to the water, instead of the smoke dissipating, it stayed on the water.

00:17:02.674 --> 00:17:08.974
BECCY: So within five minutes of the show starting all we could see was like like illuminated smoke.

00:17:10.214 --> 00:17:12.494
BECCY: And just kept growing.

00:17:12.574 --> 00:17:14.674
BECCY: So it first went toward the ball.

00:17:15.214 --> 00:17:21.014
BECCY: To the point where as soon as the first fireworks went off, if you were toward the ball area, you couldn't see a thing.

00:17:21.634 --> 00:17:25.734
BECCY: Because the it was already going that way.

00:17:25.754 --> 00:17:28.754
BECCY: And then you could see it as it was like at the ball.

00:17:28.974 --> 00:17:31.694
BECCY: Then it was just filling up this way.

00:17:31.834 --> 00:17:39.094
BECCY: So by time it was over, the smoke was literally coming into like where we were standing in the pavilion.

00:17:39.514 --> 00:17:40.914
BECCY: We made a beeline out of there.

00:17:40.934 --> 00:17:45.794
BECCY: By time we got to the skyliner, it was already, the smoke was actually like coming toward us.

00:17:45.874 --> 00:17:48.654
BECCY: But then at that point, I think it was more than just the smoke.

00:17:48.674 --> 00:17:55.194
BECCY: I think it was also just the humidity and the mugginess in the air causing like a fog, obviously.

00:17:55.214 --> 00:18:01.234
BECCY: Because then by time we got back to pop, like the whole courtyard where the pool was, was just like foggy.

00:18:01.454 --> 00:18:02.354
BECCY: You could hardly see.

00:18:04.254 --> 00:18:04.654
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:18:05.034 --> 00:18:06.674
VIRGINIA: That sounds very apocalyptic.

00:18:07.334 --> 00:18:08.674
BECCY: Except for Make It Disney.

00:18:09.114 --> 00:18:11.274
VIRGINIA: Yes, apocalyptic, but Make It Disney.

00:18:11.314 --> 00:18:11.774
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:18:12.914 --> 00:18:16.214
VIRGINIA: So on to Tuesday, January 16th.

00:18:16.234 --> 00:18:25.874
VIRGINIA: So in our pre-trip, we talked about that you were going to be going to Magic Kingdom and that you might hop back to Epcot that day, but you weren't sure.

00:18:26.274 --> 00:18:28.694
VIRGINIA: And you didn't have any specific plans set in stone.

00:18:28.714 --> 00:18:30.754
VIRGINIA: You all were going to go where the wind took you.

00:18:30.934 --> 00:18:31.774
BECCY: Yeah, pretty much.

00:18:31.794 --> 00:18:33.594
BECCY: We actually did the same thing again.

00:18:33.594 --> 00:18:35.834
BECCY: So we did go to Magic.

00:18:36.754 --> 00:18:39.794
BECCY: It was again, it was like just a really muggy day.

00:18:39.814 --> 00:18:41.794
BECCY: It was just really packed.

00:18:42.014 --> 00:18:51.534
BECCY: We had pretty much did everything that we wanted to do with the Lightning Lane and I think around five o'clock and it had already like rained at some point.

00:18:51.814 --> 00:18:57.834
BECCY: We had gone back to the room probably around two just to kind of like rest our feet right as it was like downpouring.

00:18:58.214 --> 00:19:00.494
BECCY: You know, I hate wet feet, but I had like shoe covers.

00:19:00.874 --> 00:19:03.554
BECCY: But we would like went back to the room just as it was downpouring.

00:19:03.574 --> 00:19:05.014
BECCY: As soon as it was done, we went back.

00:19:05.234 --> 00:19:09.194
BECCY: It was just like it was so crowded and we had already done Tron.

00:19:09.354 --> 00:19:11.934
BECCY: But I will say because this is I'm a little proud of myself.

00:19:11.954 --> 00:19:19.214
BECCY: So when Tron opened last year in April of last year, my legs could not fit in the bike.

00:19:19.234 --> 00:19:25.814
BECCY: So like I technically probably could have fit, but my calves were too big for the bar to go over them.

00:19:26.174 --> 00:19:28.994
BECCY: So this trip my legs fit in Tron.

00:19:29.474 --> 00:19:37.094
BECCY: So I rode Tron on the bike for the first time because I had to ride the light rover last year, but now I rode the bike.

00:19:37.854 --> 00:19:38.854
VIRGINIA: So what did you think about it?

00:19:39.054 --> 00:19:43.194
BECCY: So I will say from the light rover, it is so anti-climactic.

00:19:43.454 --> 00:19:46.474
BECCY: Because you're just kind of like riding it like a roller coaster.

00:19:46.674 --> 00:19:58.334
BECCY: I will say I do think that they should have at least one train that has regular roller coaster seats for people who don't want to ride on the bike, but also it's, you know, it's short.

00:19:58.354 --> 00:20:01.034
BECCY: It's like shorter than mine train, I'm pretty sure.

00:20:01.054 --> 00:20:08.314
BECCY: So you buy a lightning lane for $20 and it's a minute and 15 seconds, I think.

00:20:10.294 --> 00:20:14.814
VIRGINIA: Now it's so hard because do I think it's worth that much money?

00:20:15.234 --> 00:20:16.354
VIRGINIA: No, it's a good ride.

00:20:16.374 --> 00:20:17.334
VIRGINIA: It's just so short.

00:20:17.334 --> 00:20:21.654
VIRGINIA: But at the same time, when you do the virtual queue, you have to wait so much longer.

00:20:21.854 --> 00:20:25.854
VIRGINIA: So at that point, does it become worth the money just not to have to wait?

00:20:26.834 --> 00:20:28.054
VIRGINIA: And at that point I say yes.

00:20:28.214 --> 00:20:28.834
VIRGINIA: Yes, it does.

00:20:30.154 --> 00:20:33.634
BECCY: That first day we only did the virtual queue because she was like, oh, do you want to buy a Tron?

00:20:33.694 --> 00:20:36.034
BECCY: And I hadn't tried the outside one at that point.

00:20:36.054 --> 00:20:38.314
BECCY: And I was like, well, we got the virtual queue.

00:20:38.374 --> 00:20:39.514
BECCY: I don't fit into it.

00:20:39.534 --> 00:20:42.314
BECCY: So it's not something that I want to spend money on to just sit in the back.

00:20:42.614 --> 00:20:49.154
BECCY: And then when I realized I actually fit into it, then the next time we were in Magic, we actually bought one.

00:20:49.154 --> 00:20:49.954
BECCY: So that was nice.

00:20:50.394 --> 00:20:54.834
BECCY: So then probably around five o'clock, we were like, hey, you want to buy a Cosmic Lightning Lane?

00:20:54.974 --> 00:20:55.454
BECCY: Okay.

00:20:55.474 --> 00:21:01.414
BECCY: So we bought a Cosmic for probably between 630 and 7.

00:21:01.434 --> 00:21:04.754
BECCY: We were on the People Movers, so we just like left, went over to Epcot.

00:21:05.094 --> 00:21:16.834
BECCY: We did a few things in the front, like Spaceship Earth, Figmen, Cosmic, just kind of like hung out there because we didn't want to go too far into the World Showcase because of the...

00:21:16.994 --> 00:21:25.174
BECCY: Oh no, I think we did end up going into the World Showcase because I ended up buying a coat at Norway and she bought a painting that she regretted not buying the day before.

00:21:25.834 --> 00:21:30.274
BECCY: But I'll tell you what though, we had dinner at not Creations, Connections.

00:21:30.954 --> 00:21:34.654
BECCY: They have a Margarita pizza that is literally to die for.

00:21:34.674 --> 00:21:35.854
VIRGINIA: Really?

00:21:35.894 --> 00:21:37.554
BECCY: And they're like they're huge.

00:21:37.674 --> 00:21:45.114
BECCY: And it comes with two slices for $11 and I swear to God, it's like this entire, like it could fit across my face.

00:21:45.494 --> 00:21:50.574
BECCY: So we split the pizza because it was two pieces of pizza and it was like the best thing ever.

00:21:51.414 --> 00:21:51.974
VIRGINIA: Good tip.

00:21:53.874 --> 00:21:55.754
VIRGINIA: Can we go back to Cosmic?

00:21:55.774 --> 00:21:58.574
VIRGINIA: Because you've written it twice now at this point in our story.

00:21:59.414 --> 00:22:01.974
VIRGINIA: And I have yet to ask you what songs you got.

00:22:01.994 --> 00:22:04.034
VIRGINIA: So do you recall what songs you got?

00:22:04.554 --> 00:22:06.034
BECCY: We got Konga once.

00:22:06.554 --> 00:22:07.824
BECCY: And we got...

00:22:07.824 --> 00:22:09.414
BECCY: Konga was on Monday.

00:22:09.434 --> 00:22:10.814
BECCY: What did we get on Tuesday?

00:22:10.834 --> 00:22:12.954
BECCY: Oh, oh, I got September.

00:22:12.974 --> 00:22:15.654
BECCY: I got the elusive September.

00:22:15.894 --> 00:22:19.414
BECCY: And I'll tell you why, because it's the first time I have ever gotten September.

00:22:19.974 --> 00:22:24.934
VIRGINIA: You are not the first person who has told me that it has taken them forever to get September.

00:22:25.034 --> 00:22:25.534
BECCY: Yes.

00:22:25.874 --> 00:22:27.334
VIRGINIA: So I don't know what that's about.

00:22:27.434 --> 00:22:31.374
VIRGINIA: I feel like I've maybe gotten it once and I've gotten everything else more.

00:22:31.434 --> 00:22:32.084
VIRGINIA: So I don't...

00:22:32.084 --> 00:22:35.094
VIRGINIA: you would think they'd be evenly distributed, these songs.

00:22:35.114 --> 00:22:35.534
VIRGINIA: I don't know.

00:22:35.714 --> 00:22:37.054
BECCY: Maybe it's just like luck of the draw.

00:22:37.434 --> 00:22:40.774
BECCY: Maybe they just play them in order and it just happens to be the train that you get on.

00:22:41.034 --> 00:22:42.754
BECCY: I will say that's definitely not my favorite.

00:22:42.774 --> 00:22:44.294
BECCY: Tears for Fears is my favorite.

00:22:44.314 --> 00:22:48.474
BECCY: It's one of my favorite songs ever, even before Cosmic Rewind.

00:22:48.494 --> 00:22:49.034
BECCY: So I...

00:22:49.234 --> 00:22:54.534
BECCY: Whenever I get that song, and that was the very first song that I ever got on Cosmic back like...

00:22:55.094 --> 00:22:55.874
BECCY: Really, was it?

00:22:55.894 --> 00:22:56.874
VIRGINIA: Oh my god.

00:22:56.894 --> 00:22:57.474
BECCY: So that just like...

00:22:57.494 --> 00:22:59.854
BECCY: That just brings up a whole flood of memories for me.

00:22:59.874 --> 00:23:01.434
BECCY: So that's still my ultimate favorite.

00:23:01.574 --> 00:23:12.874
VIRGINIA: Yeah, it's one of our family's sentimental songs because it's the very first song that Charles played for Alex when he came from the hospital because it starts off, Welcome to Your Life, There's No Turning Back.

00:23:12.914 --> 00:23:16.694
VIRGINIA: And so he was like, this has to be the first song he ever hears.

00:23:17.214 --> 00:23:18.234
VIRGINIA: And so that's what we did.

00:23:18.254 --> 00:23:23.434
VIRGINIA: And when we got on Cosmic Rewind and got that for the very first time, we died.

00:23:23.754 --> 00:23:24.514
VIRGINIA: It was amazing.

00:23:24.614 --> 00:23:27.074
BECCY: Did you know that was a song possibility or no?

00:23:27.354 --> 00:23:27.894
VIRGINIA: We did.

00:23:27.994 --> 00:23:32.834
VIRGINIA: In fact, we were sitting there with our fingers crossed and we were just like, please, please, please.

00:23:32.994 --> 00:23:38.114
VIRGINIA: And then it happened and we screamed the loudest screams you will ever hear.

00:23:38.234 --> 00:23:44.274
VIRGINIA: And I'm quite certain the other person in the car with us was not nearly as excited to hear that song as we were.

00:23:48.514 --> 00:23:54.334
VIRGINIA: anyway, anything else at Magic Kingdom or Epcot that day to note?

00:23:54.814 --> 00:23:56.074
BECCY: Not that day.

00:23:56.494 --> 00:24:01.094
VIRGINIA: So then the next day, Wednesday, January 17th.

00:24:01.714 --> 00:24:02.014
BECCY: Yep.

00:24:02.174 --> 00:24:08.654
BECCY: So we were at Animal Kingdom and then we ended up going to Magic just because we didn't get a full day at Magic.

00:24:08.674 --> 00:24:14.314
BECCY: But we were hoping that maybe because it was a Wednesday that it would be a little bit less busy.

00:24:14.334 --> 00:24:22.494
BECCY: So we had heard from my sister and I had read a thing online that said when people usually go, they go like Sunday to Saturday.

00:24:22.894 --> 00:24:24.534
BECCY: So Sunday is a travel day.

00:24:24.614 --> 00:24:30.734
BECCY: Monday, almost everybody goes to Magic first and then Epcot and then Hollywood Studios and then Animal Kingdom.

00:24:31.134 --> 00:24:34.934
BECCY: So generally speaking, if you go to Animal Kingdom at the beginning of the week, it's less busy.

00:24:35.614 --> 00:24:41.634
BECCY: And if you go to Magic at the end of the week, it's a little less busy because a lot of people have already done Magic at that point.

00:24:42.874 --> 00:24:44.934
BECCY: So we did do Animal Kingdom.

00:24:45.194 --> 00:24:47.534
BECCY: It was the first day that it was like freezing.

00:24:47.754 --> 00:24:51.574
VIRGINIA: Totally opposite end of the muggy that you had to go to.

00:24:51.594 --> 00:24:59.754
BECCY: Yeah, I mean like the air was still pretty thick, but it was like cold and it didn't rain like it did the first two days.

00:24:59.914 --> 00:25:02.814
BECCY: It was just cold, like raw cold.

00:25:02.834 --> 00:25:16.054
BECCY: I ended up, because it was getting so cold at night, I ended up buying a rain jacket, like a thick rain jacket, Mickey one, not just like the poncho, but like an actual rain jacket the day before at Epcot.

00:25:16.374 --> 00:25:28.754
BECCY: And it was big enough, like wide enough that I could have my backpack on underneath the jacket so that like nothing of me would get wet and I had like a huge hood and like it went down past my butt.

00:25:29.094 --> 00:25:37.874
BECCY: So like I didn't really get wet, but I ended up, I had like a short sleeve shirt, a thick sweatshirt and that jacket on because it's a windbreaker too.

00:25:37.914 --> 00:25:39.914
BECCY: And I was like still chilly.

00:25:40.154 --> 00:25:44.414
VIRGINIA: Yeah, it's surprising how chilly it can get in Orlando.

00:25:44.754 --> 00:25:55.154
VIRGINIA: And I think if you are not somebody who's come down at that time of the year, you might be under the illusion that you can wear shorts the entire time and that is not always the case.

00:25:55.534 --> 00:26:03.374
BECCY: Every single store, especially Animal Kingdom that day, it's almost like they had just racks of sweatshirts out.

00:26:03.474 --> 00:26:11.914
BECCY: They had just brought it out from the back and just had like a metal rack of like five different kinds of sweatshirts and it was going.

00:26:11.934 --> 00:26:12.834
BECCY: People were buying them.

00:26:13.854 --> 00:26:15.474
VIRGINIA: They know exactly what they are doing.

00:26:16.734 --> 00:26:18.334
VIRGINIA: I would say same thing on rainy days.

00:26:18.354 --> 00:26:24.914
VIRGINIA: Rainy days there are the ponchos and the rain jackets and umbrellas and things like that.

00:26:25.054 --> 00:26:29.374
VIRGINIA: Mysteriously just show up in multiple quantities at the fronts of stores.

00:26:29.934 --> 00:26:38.514
VIRGINIA: I wanted to ask you when we spoke before you said that you were hoping that you might be able to do the Wild Africa Trek if there's room.

00:26:38.854 --> 00:26:43.314
VIRGINIA: Did you just throw that plan to the side or did you try to get it and you couldn't?

00:26:43.574 --> 00:26:45.734
BECCY: We couldn't get it so I ended up getting it too late.

00:26:45.754 --> 00:26:54.934
BECCY: We had talked about doing it back in like September or October shortly after our last trip and she was like, oh yeah that would be really cool.

00:26:54.994 --> 00:26:55.854
BECCY: Let's look into it.

00:26:57.094 --> 00:27:04.094
BECCY: And even though her and I live probably like 10 minutes apart, we're the only time we hang out is when we go to Disney.

00:27:04.174 --> 00:27:09.574
BECCY: And it's not because we don't like each other but our work schedules are insane.

00:27:09.594 --> 00:27:15.914
BECCY: She's a figure skater instructor and she does online social media for our company.

00:27:16.334 --> 00:27:23.654
BECCY: So she constantly, even while we were out she was just like, oh I just posted it for them and they just asked me to post this and I just did this.

00:27:24.514 --> 00:27:33.114
BECCY: And she has like a really strict schedule with her figure skating which is, she works all weekend and I mean I kind of work six, seven days a week too.

00:27:33.134 --> 00:27:34.374
BECCY: So we just don't see each other.

00:27:34.754 --> 00:27:41.594
BECCY: So by time I had like remembered it again back in December when I had looked it was already past the 60 days and it was sold out.

00:27:41.614 --> 00:27:44.814
BECCY: So I just kept looking for it but we couldn't get it.

00:27:44.834 --> 00:27:47.974
BECCY: So I think eventually I will try to do it May.

00:27:48.734 --> 00:27:54.594
BECCY: I'm gonna go again in May and I'm hoping that maybe I can do it because I already looked for my March trip and it's already sold out.

00:27:54.614 --> 00:27:57.674
BECCY: Because I missed the 60 day window for that one too.

00:27:57.694 --> 00:28:00.234
BECCY: So it sells out super quick I guess.

00:28:00.854 --> 00:28:02.214
VIRGINIA: Yeah, I bet it does.

00:28:02.234 --> 00:28:03.934
VIRGINIA: I mean it looks so cool.

00:28:04.554 --> 00:28:08.094
VIRGINIA: It's one that we definitely will plan to do in our family at some point.

00:28:08.114 --> 00:28:17.394
VIRGINIA: It's just a matter of like you said remembering to try to book it in enough time for a trip and also picking a trip where it makes sense to take the time to do that.

00:28:18.394 --> 00:28:21.354
VIRGINIA: Because depending on your plans, it's not always possible.

00:28:21.554 --> 00:28:24.214
BECCY: Well, it happened rain or shine.

00:28:24.474 --> 00:28:35.274
BECCY: So to me personally, I would only do that for a winter trip just because of the weather is usually more stable in the winter than in the summer.

00:28:35.774 --> 00:28:36.954
BECCY: I know, I know.

00:28:38.254 --> 00:28:42.134
VIRGINIA: This year is very up and down, very strange.

00:28:42.314 --> 00:28:43.334
BECCY: Very global warming.

00:28:43.814 --> 00:28:44.234
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:28:44.854 --> 00:28:47.074
VIRGINIA: So you hopped back over to Magic Kingdom.

00:28:49.014 --> 00:28:54.234
VIRGINIA: attractions did you do over at Magic Kingdom that you had not been able to do the previous day?

00:28:54.994 --> 00:29:06.294
BECCY: So we had done everything that we had wanted to do, more or less, except for Peter Pan, because even with a genie plus Lightning Lane, it was just going to be insane.

00:29:07.714 --> 00:29:13.354
BECCY: The whole time I was there, I think the wait was above 80 minutes, like 65 to 80 minutes.

00:29:13.894 --> 00:29:24.154
BECCY: I found out it's not because necessarily it's more popular, but the ride goes slower and there's less cars, so it's just they have less people per minute than other rides.

00:29:24.834 --> 00:29:27.274
BECCY: We kind of did some repeats.

00:29:27.294 --> 00:29:37.274
BECCY: Tomorrowland, Space Mountain, People Mover, we did Duetron again, a Lightning Lane, an individual Lightning Lane for Tron, Jungle Cruise, Quanted Mansion, Pirates.

00:29:37.714 --> 00:29:39.434
BECCY: I don't think we did anything in Fantasyland.

00:29:39.454 --> 00:29:41.474
BECCY: Fantasyland was like a madhouse.

00:29:42.794 --> 00:29:46.714
BECCY: Part of the Jungle Cruise queue is getting redone right now.

00:29:46.734 --> 00:29:52.774
BECCY: So the Lightning Lane for Jungle Cruise was actually out into Adventureland.

00:29:52.994 --> 00:29:54.574
BECCY: You know how it goes down the hill.

00:29:55.254 --> 00:29:57.334
VIRGINIA: So it looks really intimidating.

00:29:57.354 --> 00:30:06.214
BECCY: Yeah, so we got in line and I could hear right away the party before it and already we're in the Lightning Lane.

00:30:06.234 --> 00:30:11.814
BECCY: So you know what, stop complaining because obviously the other people, I think it was up to almost a two hour wait.

00:30:11.834 --> 00:30:16.954
BECCY: I think it was like an hour and fifty minutes or an hour, I mean a hundred and fifty minutes.

00:30:17.094 --> 00:30:18.494
BECCY: Oh yeah, so that's more than two hours.

00:30:18.914 --> 00:30:21.194
BECCY: So like stop complaining first of all.

00:30:21.214 --> 00:30:29.074
BECCY: But like they were so rude behind us and finally Danny turped up and was like so they're renovating part of the queue, which is I think why we're so far.

00:30:29.094 --> 00:30:30.414
BECCY: It didn't even take that long.

00:30:30.434 --> 00:30:31.954
BECCY: It was like not that big of a deal.

00:30:32.374 --> 00:30:32.774
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:30:33.354 --> 00:30:34.994
VIRGINIA: Well, I'm glad to know that in advance.

00:30:35.014 --> 00:30:36.794
VIRGINIA: I wonder how long they'll be doing that.

00:30:36.814 --> 00:30:40.654
VIRGINIA: Like will it still be going on when I'm there in a couple weeks?

00:30:40.834 --> 00:30:41.374
BECCY: Oh, maybe.

00:30:41.414 --> 00:30:41.954
BECCY: I don't know.

00:30:41.974 --> 00:30:46.394
BECCY: I don't, it didn't, I think they had basically like stripped up the floors.

00:30:46.414 --> 00:30:49.494
BECCY: It looked like they were probably just redoing the wood or something.

00:30:49.514 --> 00:30:54.634
BECCY: Like in the fencing, not fencing, but like the little makeshift walls that they have.

00:30:55.014 --> 00:30:55.574
BECCY: Right.

00:30:55.594 --> 00:30:58.674
BECCY: It didn't look like that intense, but just enough to like make it nice again.

00:30:59.054 --> 00:30:59.494
VIRGINIA: Alright.

00:30:59.574 --> 00:31:01.814
VIRGINIA: So Thursday, January 18th.

00:31:01.814 --> 00:31:12.314
VIRGINIA: This is the day that Danny actually had to leave and you anticipated that she'd be heading out around 4 o'clock and other friends were arriving around 2 o'clock.

00:31:12.874 --> 00:31:15.854
VIRGINIA: So who was joining up with you that day?

00:31:16.214 --> 00:31:18.734
BECCY: So Danny actually didn't leave until Friday morning.

00:31:18.794 --> 00:31:25.294
BECCY: So she did hang out right up until I met up with Rae and Tanisha, who is Disney Rainbow.

00:31:26.854 --> 00:31:29.534
BECCY: So they did come in around 2 o'clock.

00:31:29.554 --> 00:31:35.794
BECCY: We didn't meet until our we had a reservation for the Broadway series, Disney Broadway.

00:31:36.814 --> 00:31:37.634
VIRGINIA: Garden Grill.

00:31:37.814 --> 00:31:39.314
BECCY: Yep, we went to Garden Grill.

00:31:39.334 --> 00:31:42.274
BECCY: So I did do Cosmic one last time with Danny.

00:31:42.314 --> 00:31:47.154
BECCY: We did get Tears for Fears because I remember that because I was in a really good mood.

00:31:47.654 --> 00:31:49.414
BECCY: And then I shot right over to Garden Grill.

00:31:50.454 --> 00:31:52.754
BECCY: And I always think that the food there is phenomenal.

00:31:53.034 --> 00:31:54.114
VIRGINIA: I like that a lot too.

00:31:54.254 --> 00:31:54.734
BECCY: Oh, yeah.

00:31:54.914 --> 00:31:55.474
BECCY: Oh, yeah.

00:31:55.494 --> 00:31:58.274
BECCY: It's the whole atmosphere too and the characters are just great.

00:31:58.294 --> 00:31:59.934
VIRGINIA: I think it's underrated, honestly.

00:32:00.394 --> 00:32:01.694
BECCY: It is very underrated.

00:32:01.834 --> 00:32:04.134
BECCY: I got the same server this time as I did last time.

00:32:04.434 --> 00:32:05.554
BECCY: And his name was Joe.

00:32:05.834 --> 00:32:08.274
BECCY: And he was just like so outstanding.

00:32:08.594 --> 00:32:11.014
BECCY: I recently became allergic to soy.

00:32:11.634 --> 00:32:16.554
BECCY: That was like weird because you don't realize how much things soy is in.

00:32:16.694 --> 00:32:17.094
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:32:17.194 --> 00:32:19.994
BECCY: So he brought like a separate dish out for me.

00:32:20.934 --> 00:32:21.294
VIRGINIA: Uh-huh.

00:32:21.434 --> 00:32:26.314
VIRGINIA: It's amazing how these allergies can just come on when you're an adult.

00:32:26.334 --> 00:32:29.014
VIRGINIA: And I'm going to say this to give you hope.

00:32:29.594 --> 00:32:33.514
VIRGINIA: I at some point could not have dairy.

00:32:34.054 --> 00:32:39.474
VIRGINIA: I became lactose intolerant in my, I guess, late 30s.

00:32:40.534 --> 00:32:51.914
VIRGINIA: And it lasted probably, I don't know, maybe like four years where I would carry lactate in a little silver pill thing on my key ring.

00:32:51.934 --> 00:32:54.054
VIRGINIA: So I would always have lactate with me everywhere I went.

00:32:54.454 --> 00:32:56.714
VIRGINIA: And somehow I have grown out of that.

00:32:56.974 --> 00:32:58.814
VIRGINIA: So I don't know how that works, but...

00:32:58.894 --> 00:33:00.094
BECCY: That's interesting.

00:33:00.114 --> 00:33:01.474
BECCY: That is really interesting.

00:33:01.494 --> 00:33:02.394
BECCY: I mean, good for you.

00:33:02.414 --> 00:33:03.354
BECCY: You can have ice cream now.

00:33:03.934 --> 00:33:04.274
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:33:04.294 --> 00:33:05.754
VIRGINIA: And that's the thing is I can have ice cream.

00:33:05.774 --> 00:33:10.334
VIRGINIA: I still feel a little weird getting like a latte that's made with milk.

00:33:10.354 --> 00:33:14.134
VIRGINIA: So when I order a latte, I'll usually get almond milk or whatever.

00:33:14.234 --> 00:33:15.674
VIRGINIA: But I'll have ice cream.

00:33:15.694 --> 00:33:17.574
VIRGINIA: I'll have cheese, whatever.

00:33:18.614 --> 00:33:19.514
VIRGINIA: I don't really think about it.

00:33:19.534 --> 00:33:23.274
VIRGINIA: It's just, I don't know, there's something about ordering the coffee.

00:33:23.294 --> 00:33:27.654
VIRGINIA: But if I have like a regular coffee, I'll put like a splash of half and half in it.

00:33:27.914 --> 00:33:33.154
VIRGINIA: I just won't order a full out beverage that's mostly milk anymore.

00:33:33.214 --> 00:33:38.294
VIRGINIA: But man, what a relief that was because missing out on cheese and everything.

00:33:38.834 --> 00:33:39.634
BECCY: Oh my god.

00:33:40.254 --> 00:33:43.594
BECCY: I really, I could not live without cheese.

00:33:44.434 --> 00:33:46.734
BECCY: I feel like if I had to, I could do without milk.

00:33:46.754 --> 00:33:47.714
BECCY: I can't do without cheese.

00:33:47.954 --> 00:33:48.594
BECCY: I can't do it.

00:33:48.714 --> 00:33:49.154
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:33:49.374 --> 00:33:49.794
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:33:50.554 --> 00:33:50.934
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:33:50.954 --> 00:33:52.534
VIRGINIA: So they brought you out something special.

00:33:52.554 --> 00:33:58.054
VIRGINIA: I'm trying to think what in the lunch menu at Garden Grill had soy in it?

00:33:58.794 --> 00:34:01.014
BECCY: So the lunch and the dinner are technically the same.

00:34:01.034 --> 00:34:04.974
BECCY: The first time I went, they had, oh no I'm sorry.

00:34:04.994 --> 00:34:06.454
BECCY: So for lunch it's slightly different.

00:34:06.474 --> 00:34:22.134
BECCY: So instead of like bread bread, your cornbread is your bread and I couldn't have the cornbread so they sent me out special bread with butter and this bread was like holy crap, hearty dense.

00:34:22.534 --> 00:34:27.654
BECCY: I literally took both my hands and put my thumb into it to squeeze it open.

00:34:27.854 --> 00:34:29.834
BECCY: It was such good bread and it was warm.

00:34:30.494 --> 00:34:32.994
BECCY: I swear to God they freshly baked it there.

00:34:33.014 --> 00:34:36.074
BECCY: It was like this nice warm fresh bread.

00:34:36.094 --> 00:34:36.934
BECCY: It was really nice.

00:34:38.674 --> 00:34:41.794
BECCY: And I couldn't have the mac and cheese because there was no alternative.

00:34:41.994 --> 00:34:48.714
BECCY: And they had a pepper like a red pepper, green pepper, onion bean mix.

00:34:49.494 --> 00:34:52.474
BECCY: And I had I think zucchini instead.

00:34:52.494 --> 00:35:02.634
BECCY: So whatever bean mixture must have had like soybeans in it I'm assuming maybe or possibly could have been contaminated.

00:35:02.854 --> 00:35:04.074
VIRGINIA: Yeah, that's true.

00:35:04.214 --> 00:35:06.934
VIRGINIA: So what I've learned from this is soy is very sneaky.

00:35:07.074 --> 00:35:09.594
BECCY: It is even like a later date.

00:35:09.834 --> 00:35:19.254
BECCY: I went back to the Connections and she got a salad and you just have to I have to learn to read every ingredient now.

00:35:20.114 --> 00:35:21.234
BECCY: Like tofu is soy.

00:35:21.994 --> 00:35:24.334
BECCY: Wasabi is soy.

00:35:24.354 --> 00:35:26.374
BECCY: Like edamame is young soy.

00:35:26.394 --> 00:35:30.854
BECCY: So like just like certain verbiage I just have to be careful for now.

00:35:31.294 --> 00:35:33.754
BECCY: And like if it says tofu, it's automatically soy.

00:35:33.774 --> 00:35:35.034
BECCY: So just have to be careful.

00:35:35.614 --> 00:35:35.954
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:35:36.114 --> 00:35:36.634
VIRGINIA: Alright.

00:35:36.714 --> 00:35:47.714
VIRGINIA: Well, dining reservation done and you your Disney on Broadway experience was going to be the ladies from the Broadway show Frozen.

00:35:47.854 --> 00:35:49.254
VIRGINIA: So how was it?

00:35:49.434 --> 00:35:50.334
BECCY: It was phenomenal.

00:35:50.674 --> 00:35:53.254
BECCY: I have seen Patti Mirren before.

00:35:53.274 --> 00:35:54.634
BECCY: I love her.

00:35:54.654 --> 00:35:56.434
BECCY: Casey Levy was there.

00:35:56.934 --> 00:35:58.454
BECCY: She was amazing.

00:35:58.834 --> 00:36:00.614
BECCY: They did some of their own songs.

00:36:00.634 --> 00:36:02.354
BECCY: They did a lot of Frozen songs together.

00:36:02.374 --> 00:36:03.914
BECCY: We found out while we were there.

00:36:03.914 --> 00:36:08.934
BECCY: It was the very first time for Disney on Broadway that they had two ladies headlining together.

00:36:10.774 --> 00:36:14.934
BECCY: Normally, it's a man and a woman that do it together.

00:36:14.954 --> 00:36:18.494
BECCY: A lot of the songs are cohesive that way.

00:36:18.514 --> 00:36:21.174
BECCY: A lot of the songs are meant for a man and a woman to sing.

00:36:22.074 --> 00:36:27.134
BECCY: Which they did do one that I think was meant for other people.

00:36:27.154 --> 00:36:28.574
BECCY: I can't remember which one.

00:36:28.774 --> 00:36:29.614
BECCY: Everything was beautiful.

00:36:29.634 --> 00:36:30.674
BECCY: Everything was so beautiful.

00:36:31.054 --> 00:36:32.014
VIRGINIA: Did you have good seats?

00:36:32.274 --> 00:36:33.154
BECCY: Oh my god.

00:36:33.594 --> 00:36:34.594
BECCY: We were front row.

00:36:35.174 --> 00:36:36.554
BECCY: Legitimately front row.

00:36:36.774 --> 00:36:37.194
BECCY: Yes.

00:36:37.514 --> 00:36:46.334
BECCY: So I was actually really nervous because we didn't get there until by time we got done, by time we like sat down and got done with our dinner reservation.

00:36:46.354 --> 00:36:50.594
BECCY: I think it was a 345 seating.

00:36:50.654 --> 00:36:52.314
BECCY: We didn't sit down until probably four.

00:36:52.334 --> 00:36:53.934
BECCY: We didn't get out of there until almost six.

00:36:54.174 --> 00:36:58.414
BECCY: Which is another reason why I don't necessarily like sit down restaurants, but it was really nice.

00:36:58.894 --> 00:37:03.954
BECCY: You know, Rae and Tee and I got to like talk and hang out and we took pictures with the characters.

00:37:03.974 --> 00:37:09.734
BECCY: But by time you're like really done with a family style dining reservation like that, it can take up to two hours.

00:37:09.754 --> 00:37:15.634
BECCY: So we didn't get up there until like around six and it was starting at 645 and I was like oh my god, I'm really nervous.

00:37:15.654 --> 00:37:16.974
BECCY: I really hope we can get good seats.

00:37:17.294 --> 00:37:27.514
BECCY: But I guess the Disney on Broadway, not that it's not popular, but because it's not intended to bring as big of a crowd as like Rock the Beat.

00:37:27.734 --> 00:37:28.394
VIRGINIA: Eat to the Beat.

00:37:28.914 --> 00:37:29.294
VIRGINIA: Thank you.

00:37:30.474 --> 00:37:33.834
BECCY: As Eat to the Beat and Candlelight Processional is...

00:37:34.294 --> 00:37:37.614
BECCY: Oh no, Garden Rocks is the flowering garden.

00:37:38.314 --> 00:37:40.754
VIRGINIA: Oh yeah, Eat to the Beat is for food and wine.

00:37:41.074 --> 00:37:42.194
BECCY: For food and wine, yeah.

00:37:42.394 --> 00:37:46.374
BECCY: So like Garden Rocks is bringing in a lot of big names.

00:37:46.514 --> 00:37:48.734
BECCY: Eat to the Beat always brings in a lot of big names.

00:37:48.754 --> 00:37:52.054
BECCY: Candlelight Processional is like sold out to the max.

00:37:52.074 --> 00:37:55.954
BECCY: Like if you don't get your tickets the first day, you're not getting tickets.

00:37:56.874 --> 00:38:02.134
BECCY: And I guess crowds are never really that big during this time.

00:38:02.154 --> 00:38:10.474
BECCY: So like the first, probably third of the theater was roped off specifically for the dining reservations.

00:38:11.054 --> 00:38:17.654
BECCY: And we just happened to get there and we got, you know, left stage, left side of the stage or our left.

00:38:17.674 --> 00:38:20.014
BECCY: So stage right, I guess, or stage left.

00:38:20.034 --> 00:38:20.754
BECCY: I don't know how it's called.

00:38:21.434 --> 00:38:25.214
VIRGINIA: Stage right, house left.

00:38:25.434 --> 00:38:26.354
BECCY: Stage right, house left.

00:38:26.374 --> 00:38:28.594
BECCY: So we weren't all the way in the center.

00:38:28.614 --> 00:38:29.834
BECCY: We were toward the edge.

00:38:29.854 --> 00:38:34.874
BECCY: But I kind of liked it that way because we could like take pictures and video and move around.

00:38:34.894 --> 00:38:36.034
BECCY: We were kind of dancing a little bit.

00:38:36.054 --> 00:38:37.014
BECCY: So it was nice.

00:38:37.034 --> 00:38:42.954
BECCY: It was, I was so shocked that we got front row because I was like, oh my God, the line's going to be like forever.

00:38:42.974 --> 00:38:44.314
BECCY: We're not going to get good seats now.

00:38:44.334 --> 00:38:45.614
BECCY: But no, it was nice.

00:38:46.014 --> 00:39:00.334
VIRGINIA: Yeah, that's really nice to hear because I know that I was surprised as I was interviewing different people throughout the holiday season that having the dining reservation for Candlelight Processional did not give you a dedicated section.

00:39:00.374 --> 00:39:05.554
VIRGINIA: So that's amazing that you get a dedicated section for this series.

00:39:06.214 --> 00:39:10.294
BECCY: I will say that if you have a dining reservation, those people are let in first.

00:39:10.994 --> 00:39:14.674
BECCY: So obviously because this had a designated section, other people were coming in.

00:39:14.694 --> 00:39:15.954
BECCY: You just couldn't go in front of the rope.

00:39:16.394 --> 00:39:23.974
BECCY: But for the Candlelight Processional especially, anybody who has a dining reservation gets in first and gets their seat first.

00:39:24.754 --> 00:39:27.434
BECCY: And then they let the other people in to fill in the notes and the credits.

00:39:27.454 --> 00:39:28.734
BECCY: You can sit literally wherever you want.

00:39:28.754 --> 00:39:31.174
BECCY: It's not like sit down, push all the way over.

00:39:31.194 --> 00:39:32.914
BECCY: No, it's like literally sit wherever you want.

00:39:32.934 --> 00:39:34.754
BECCY: The rest of the people can kind of figure out their way.

00:39:35.454 --> 00:39:38.494
BECCY: And I will say really briefly, I did do Disney and Broadway last year.

00:39:38.514 --> 00:39:40.194
BECCY: I did not have a reservation.

00:39:40.214 --> 00:39:42.294
BECCY: I tried to get into the first show.

00:39:42.314 --> 00:39:45.494
BECCY: It was canceled for technical malfunctions like the wires.

00:39:45.934 --> 00:39:51.394
BECCY: So anybody who was in line got a bracelet to be kind of in the front for the next show.

00:39:51.894 --> 00:40:03.014
BECCY: So in the front, one of the benches that went right in front of the stage that kind of stuck out to the front where they walk through the stage.

00:40:03.334 --> 00:40:04.634
BECCY: Oh my God, it was such a good seat.

00:40:04.654 --> 00:40:08.074
BECCY: I mean, last year and this year, I guess the seats were just incredible.

00:40:08.314 --> 00:40:09.494
BECCY: I love Disney and Broadway.

00:40:10.354 --> 00:40:11.674
BECCY: The series, it's so good.

00:40:12.194 --> 00:40:13.654
VIRGINIA: Yeah, no, it is.

00:40:13.894 --> 00:40:14.854
VIRGINIA: I didn't catch.

00:40:15.254 --> 00:40:18.454
VIRGINIA: You said Dani ended up leaving on Friday morning.

00:40:18.874 --> 00:40:24.294
VIRGINIA: So does that mean that she was with you for Garden Grill and for Disney on Broadway?

00:40:24.634 --> 00:40:31.334
BECCY: No, we did extend the invite, but it was her last night, so she wanted to try to get as much in as possible.

00:40:32.494 --> 00:40:34.694
BECCY: She just changed her flight from like 6 p.m.

00:40:34.694 --> 00:40:37.054
BECCY: Thursday to like 6 a.m.

00:40:37.054 --> 00:40:37.674
BECCY: on Friday.

00:40:37.694 --> 00:40:43.834
BECCY: So she went in and ate at Connections and I think just like chilled out at the front of the park.

00:40:44.114 --> 00:40:48.474
BECCY: I ended up meeting up with her again after the Disney on Broadway.

00:40:48.794 --> 00:40:50.054
BECCY: So we met up with each other.

00:40:50.074 --> 00:40:51.534
BECCY: We did a few more of the booths.

00:40:51.714 --> 00:40:55.514
BECCY: She went and met up with someone else that was there from Instagram.

00:40:55.534 --> 00:40:56.694
BECCY: I don't know who that person was.

00:40:57.154 --> 00:40:59.094
BECCY: So I went to the front of the park.

00:40:59.774 --> 00:41:07.134
BECCY: And you know how on the Epcot and on Spaceship Earth they have like every 20 minutes, it'll be like a whole big thing.

00:41:07.154 --> 00:41:12.354
BECCY: So like it'll be the regular music and then they'll do the Rainbow Connection with Muppets.

00:41:12.374 --> 00:41:14.794
BECCY: And then it's like more regular music again.

00:41:14.814 --> 00:41:18.194
BECCY: And then it's like the figment thing and then more regular music.

00:41:18.214 --> 00:41:27.894
BECCY: So I kind of just hung out up there for like 20 minutes and watched all like all of the the song slash shows on the ball play out.

00:41:27.974 --> 00:41:34.634
BECCY: The Festival of the Arts is just my favorite time of the year to watch everything and to listen to the music, just the atmosphere.

00:41:34.654 --> 00:41:36.334
BECCY: So kind of hung out there for a while.

00:41:36.354 --> 00:41:37.494
BECCY: I went back to Kill Time.

00:41:37.514 --> 00:41:38.914
BECCY: I like went back to Creations.

00:41:39.214 --> 00:41:51.634
BECCY: Actually, that might have even been when we went to Norway and for her to get the jacket because I ended up I haven't bought myself a new winter jacket since like 2015, 2016 rather when my husband and I first started dating.

00:41:52.294 --> 00:41:57.214
BECCY: And I was like, I'm going to buy a heli this year because I can actually fit into it now.

00:41:58.474 --> 00:42:00.674
BECCY: So I bought myself a heli Hansen jacket.

00:42:01.894 --> 00:42:02.414
VIRGINIA: Nice.

00:42:02.674 --> 00:42:05.494
VIRGINIA: I'm so tempted every time I walk through there to get one.

00:42:05.514 --> 00:42:09.374
VIRGINIA: But then I'm like, no, don't buy it while you're at Disney.

00:42:09.694 --> 00:42:13.434
VIRGINIA: But then I think, don't you get your your discount on it?

00:42:13.494 --> 00:42:14.594
VIRGINIA: Does the 20 percent?

00:42:14.774 --> 00:42:15.454
BECCY: We do.

00:42:15.454 --> 00:42:19.114
BECCY: So that's actually one of the only pavilions that you do get 20 percent.

00:42:19.574 --> 00:42:25.234
BECCY: So I know for a fact at the UK pavilion, you only get 10 percent unless it's like Disney related.

00:42:25.454 --> 00:42:28.194
BECCY: So like every time I go, I get my husband.

00:42:28.614 --> 00:42:33.674
BECCY: So I always get him a Monty Python shirt every time I go, because they usually like have new ones all the time.

00:42:33.694 --> 00:42:37.634
BECCY: Like at least twice, two to three times a year, they like get new new shirts.

00:42:37.654 --> 00:42:39.794
BECCY: And so that you only get 10 percent.

00:42:39.814 --> 00:42:41.494
BECCY: But Norway, you do get 20 percent.

00:42:41.514 --> 00:42:43.094
BECCY: So I was pretty happy about that.

00:42:43.234 --> 00:42:45.134
VIRGINIA: 20 percent makes a big difference.

00:42:46.394 --> 00:42:46.874
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:42:47.174 --> 00:42:48.314
VIRGINIA: Anything else that night?

00:42:48.634 --> 00:42:51.054
VIRGINIA: Or was that sort of the the end of your evening?

00:42:51.634 --> 00:42:52.394
BECCY: Nope, that was it.

00:42:52.414 --> 00:42:52.714
BECCY: We did.

00:42:52.954 --> 00:42:57.254
BECCY: So I did the show, met up with her, watched the ball shopping.

00:42:57.274 --> 00:43:00.634
BECCY: Then we went back because by this time we couldn't go on the Skyliner.

00:43:00.654 --> 00:43:01.814
BECCY: We had to go get the bus.

00:43:01.834 --> 00:43:07.594
BECCY: And of course, all of the Skyliner resorts are like the furthest away for the bussers.

00:43:07.974 --> 00:43:09.074
VIRGINIA: Now, it's frustrating.

00:43:09.094 --> 00:43:32.174
VIRGINIA: I was talking about this with someone else who was there during the time that the Skyliner was down, which is that when the Skyliner is down because of weather, they put buses that run along the Skyliner route that you can catch over outside the International Gateway that it's like a little sidewalk that goes down next to the Skyliner.

00:43:32.194 --> 00:43:35.754
VIRGINIA: And that's where the bus picks you up to take you to the Skyliner resorts.

00:43:35.754 --> 00:43:44.814
VIRGINIA: But I learned from her and I'm hearing also from you that it sounds like you have to go to the front when it's down for its annual maintenance.

00:43:45.294 --> 00:43:52.794
BECCY: I will say that I have gone all the way to the Skyliner to go home before, like for inclement weather, not home, back to the resort.

00:43:53.174 --> 00:43:56.374
BECCY: And I have been turned away and told to go to the front of the park before.

00:43:56.494 --> 00:43:57.734
BECCY: This was probably like two years ago.

00:43:57.754 --> 00:44:00.914
BECCY: They had someone like at the bridge and they were like the Skyliners down.

00:44:00.934 --> 00:44:01.734
BECCY: You have to go to the front.

00:44:02.134 --> 00:44:06.794
BECCY: So probably since then, they've had it where the buses are in the back.

00:44:06.854 --> 00:44:21.014
BECCY: And I think the reason why they do it and the read the thing that Danny and I have been saying since day one and we say this every time we're there, there needs to be something on the app on the MDE app that tells you if the Skyliner is up or not.

00:44:21.634 --> 00:44:25.494
BECCY: Because it's not just if it's if it's raining, it's OK if there's no lightning in the area.

00:44:25.514 --> 00:44:28.994
BECCY: But if there's lightning within six miles, they shut it down.

00:44:30.154 --> 00:44:32.934
BECCY: And then they continue to shut it down for at least another 30 minutes.

00:44:33.414 --> 00:44:40.734
BECCY: So I've literally been stuck on the Caribbean Beach platform before waiting to go back to pop.

00:44:40.754 --> 00:44:41.934
BECCY: But that's a whole nother story.

00:44:41.954 --> 00:44:45.454
BECCY: But again, and it didn't bother me because I was safe and I was dry.

00:44:45.474 --> 00:44:46.854
BECCY: So like whatever.

00:44:47.254 --> 00:44:55.154
BECCY: But there needs to be something on the app that says when it's up and running, obviously not for maintenance, but I mean like in general when it's not going to run, they really need to do that.

00:44:55.734 --> 00:44:56.174
VIRGINIA: I agree.

00:44:56.194 --> 00:44:56.974
VIRGINIA: That's a great idea.

00:44:57.474 --> 00:45:03.734
VIRGINIA: So Disney, if you are listening, then we demand a status update for Skyliner.

00:45:03.894 --> 00:45:04.774
BECCY: Come on, Bob Iger.

00:45:05.134 --> 00:45:06.314
VIRGINIA: You're supposed to do us good.

00:45:08.494 --> 00:45:08.994
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:45:09.114 --> 00:45:14.494
VIRGINIA: So Friday, January 19th, is the day that you were switching over to Coronado.

00:45:14.834 --> 00:45:27.034
VIRGINIA: So in my notes, I show that you planned to use a lift to move your things instead of using the Bell Services so that you could make sure that you knew where your things were and that they would be ready and waiting for you.

00:45:27.194 --> 00:45:29.374
VIRGINIA: And then you had another friend coming in that day.

00:45:29.794 --> 00:45:33.694
VIRGINIA: So how did the beginning of that day start with your things getting moved?

00:45:33.954 --> 00:45:34.254
VIRGINIA: Yep.

00:45:34.274 --> 00:45:35.774
BECCY: So I did take a lift.

00:45:35.854 --> 00:45:37.314
BECCY: It was $7.

00:45:37.994 --> 00:45:42.914
BECCY: So by that time, you know, I told her I was going to meet her at Coronado anyways.

00:45:42.994 --> 00:45:45.534
BECCY: So I may as well have just taken my stuff with me.

00:45:45.554 --> 00:45:46.794
BECCY: And I didn't have a lot of stuff with me.

00:45:47.594 --> 00:45:50.654
BECCY: So we met there probably around 9.

00:45:50.674 --> 00:45:52.994
BECCY: I shipped out my stuff at Pop before I left.

00:45:53.414 --> 00:45:57.094
BECCY: So I probably got there around probably like 9.30.

00:45:57.394 --> 00:45:58.834
BECCY: She was landing at 9 o'clock anyway.

00:45:58.854 --> 00:45:59.894
BECCY: So it ended up working out.

00:45:59.974 --> 00:46:02.754
BECCY: My friend Cassy, who is Adventures with Flowers.

00:46:04.874 --> 00:46:11.974
BECCY: So we met up and we went to actually we went to Hollywood Studios and we took the bus.

00:46:12.654 --> 00:46:19.154
BECCY: And I'm going to say this because I found out this trip that I am completely a value resort person.

00:46:19.174 --> 00:46:22.594
BECCY: I think a lot of it is like I feel like I'm low maintenance.

00:46:22.594 --> 00:46:24.314
BECCY: I don't need a lot of the frills.

00:46:24.674 --> 00:46:28.954
BECCY: I go back to the room to sleep and shower and you know snack if I want to.

00:46:29.574 --> 00:46:31.814
BECCY: I don't need the fancy restaurants.

00:46:31.854 --> 00:46:37.434
BECCY: I don't need the air of about me that I'm you know fancy and whatever.

00:46:37.434 --> 00:46:45.014
BECCY: So the buses take forever at moderate and deluxe resorts because I have stayed at a deluxe resort too.

00:46:45.034 --> 00:46:46.774
BECCY: And you just like you wait forever.

00:46:47.474 --> 00:46:52.134
BECCY: And especially when there's multiple bus stops like I thought that Port Orleans was bad.

00:46:52.634 --> 00:46:53.734
BECCY: Like holy crap.

00:46:53.934 --> 00:46:54.994
BECCY: So is Coronado.

00:46:56.294 --> 00:46:59.394
VIRGINIA: Well, first of all, where was your room within the resort?

00:46:59.914 --> 00:47:07.514
BECCY: We were in the Casitas building 4, but our room wasn't ready so we hadn't even gone to the room yet at this point.

00:47:07.854 --> 00:47:16.554
BECCY: So we were really just up at the front like filled up our actually I didn't even know where to fill up my water bottle because it was in the Casitas and we were in the tower is like where you come into.

00:47:17.134 --> 00:47:22.134
BECCY: So we just like left and I have my next horror story.

00:47:22.154 --> 00:47:26.514
BECCY: So I have only ever left my phone in somewhere else in Disney twice ever.

00:47:27.014 --> 00:47:29.914
BECCY: One of them was in 2021.

00:47:30.034 --> 00:47:34.794
BECCY: Actually, for my January trip with my sister, I left it at the corner at the at the counter.

00:47:34.814 --> 00:47:41.294
BECCY: We were like resort hopping and I bought something and then like made it all the way back to Disney strings before I realized that my phone was there.

00:47:41.314 --> 00:47:42.834
BECCY: So I had to take the bus all the way back again.

00:47:42.854 --> 00:47:44.054
BECCY: So that was fun.

00:47:44.354 --> 00:47:47.734
BECCY: So I always, always, always wear leggings with pockets.

00:47:48.334 --> 00:47:55.354
BECCY: Always had like one pair of leggings that did not have pockets because they were capris not like the long pants and it was just the brand.

00:47:55.374 --> 00:47:59.974
BECCY: So anyway, so I was on the bus with Cassy on the way to on the way to Hollywood.

00:48:00.874 --> 00:48:01.494
BECCY: It got warm.

00:48:01.514 --> 00:48:03.174
BECCY: So I wanted to take off my spare jersey.

00:48:03.194 --> 00:48:08.714
BECCY: So I put my sunglasses, my ears and I think my ears were already on the ear holder on my backpack.

00:48:09.034 --> 00:48:11.774
BECCY: So my sunglasses in my phone, I put it on the seat next to me.

00:48:12.234 --> 00:48:19.574
BECCY: My brain must have thought that I put them like in my pocket, took off my jersey, folded it up, put it in my backpack, continued the conversation.

00:48:20.174 --> 00:48:23.594
BECCY: Bus stopped, picked up my backpack left as soon as I got off the bus.

00:48:24.414 --> 00:48:29.254
BECCY: The minute, I don't even think the minute, within two seconds of getting off the bus, I said, I forgot my phone.

00:48:29.574 --> 00:48:34.334
BECCY: And before I could turn around as I was like stepping off the bus, the bus was already taking off.

00:48:34.934 --> 00:48:36.634
BECCY: And I like had a mini freak out.

00:48:37.234 --> 00:48:41.114
BECCY: And she was like, let's go ask this other bus driver if he can like get in contact with him.

00:48:41.394 --> 00:48:44.674
BECCY: So he got in touch with the dispatcher and they were basically like, just stay here, he'll be back.

00:48:45.014 --> 00:48:47.714
BECCY: So I went around to the other side where they like pick people up.

00:48:48.294 --> 00:48:54.474
BECCY: And as soon as he pulled up, I recognized him and I was like, oh, hey, hey, and I was wearing this like bright pink shirt.

00:48:54.474 --> 00:48:55.474
BECCY: So he knew it was me.

00:48:55.814 --> 00:49:00.554
BECCY: And he like, he looked at me, obviously knew it was me with my bright pink shirt, like pointed at me.

00:49:00.574 --> 00:49:07.494
BECCY: And then, you know, did the one minute sign, parked the bus and did it again, like pointed at me and then said one minute.

00:49:07.514 --> 00:49:12.614
BECCY: And he like went into this like little box thing and pulled out my sunglasses and my phone.

00:49:12.634 --> 00:49:13.254
BECCY: I don't even care.

00:49:13.274 --> 00:49:16.874
BECCY: I would have not even cared about the sunglasses at that point, but like my phone is my lifeline.

00:49:17.174 --> 00:49:21.694
BECCY: My poor husband, I like text him and call him so often when I'm away.

00:49:22.294 --> 00:49:23.554
BECCY: He's like, just expects it.

00:49:23.954 --> 00:49:29.814
BECCY: And in the meantime, I had called him from my work phone that is technically not my work.

00:49:30.134 --> 00:49:30.954
BECCY: It's not connected.

00:49:31.254 --> 00:49:32.814
BECCY: I use it as like a tablet for my work.

00:49:32.834 --> 00:49:35.374
BECCY: So like my work information and my work app is on here.

00:49:35.394 --> 00:49:36.614
BECCY: So it connects to Wi-Fi.

00:49:36.954 --> 00:49:40.514
BECCY: So I tried calling him on Instagram and I was crying a little bit.

00:49:40.534 --> 00:49:44.354
BECCY: And I was like, I lost my phone, but he couldn't hear me because my connection was so bad.

00:49:45.254 --> 00:49:47.394
BECCY: So he started to call my regular phone.

00:49:47.594 --> 00:49:51.774
BECCY: I laugh now it was probably not a good situation for him at the time.

00:49:53.054 --> 00:49:54.574
BECCY: And I always call him boyfriend.

00:49:54.634 --> 00:49:56.514
BECCY: So like his nickname is boyfriend.

00:49:57.034 --> 00:50:01.614
BECCY: And ever since we started dating, even though he's my husband, I still call him boyfriend.

00:50:01.634 --> 00:50:02.374
BECCY: I go, hi, boyfriend.

00:50:02.734 --> 00:50:12.834
BECCY: So I could tell he was like not angry, but a little upset because when I finally did get my phone back, he was like, so you're not going to do that again, right?

00:50:12.854 --> 00:50:17.374
BECCY: Because your husband got very nervous and he called himself husband.

00:50:17.394 --> 00:50:21.834
BECCY: So I knew that I knew that he was a little a little frazzled.

00:50:22.094 --> 00:50:31.274
BECCY: But just another reason that the the cast members do really go above and beyond to make sure that they can help you out is that he like he put the phone away for me right away.

00:50:31.294 --> 00:50:32.894
BECCY: So that's how I started my day on Friday.

00:50:32.914 --> 00:50:36.834
BECCY: But you know, stuff happens and we move on from that.

00:50:37.434 --> 00:50:46.194
VIRGINIA: Yeah, I will say when I I don't normally wear my phone on a lanyard except when I'm at Disney.

00:50:46.214 --> 00:50:50.674
VIRGINIA: So I get the lanyard type of thing that is long enough to wear crossbody.

00:50:50.694 --> 00:50:58.034
VIRGINIA: And then I take it and put it in my back pocket of my jeans or my shorts or whatever and then pull it out to use it.

00:50:58.034 --> 00:51:04.054
VIRGINIA: And then that way when I'm done with it, even if I just drop it, it just goes back to hanging next to my body.

00:51:04.774 --> 00:51:12.674
VIRGINIA: And I feel so much more secure knowing like it's always across my body unless I get on a ride, in which case I have to usually take it off.

00:51:12.774 --> 00:51:14.334
BECCY: That's actually a really good idea.

00:51:14.354 --> 00:51:16.934
BECCY: I was wearing a crossbody.

00:51:16.954 --> 00:51:29.534
BECCY: I have like this little tiny crossbody purse that could literally only fit like a phone and a wallet, like not even a second phone or nothing like it's just a little and I don't even necessarily need my wallet in there.

00:51:29.554 --> 00:51:35.194
BECCY: But like sometimes it's good to have just in case you like you know like that's where these things are.

00:51:35.554 --> 00:51:37.474
BECCY: But I need a better one.

00:51:37.514 --> 00:51:38.774
BECCY: You have to send me the link.

00:51:38.774 --> 00:51:41.534
VIRGINIA: I wear this lanyard like in addition to my backpack.

00:51:41.674 --> 00:51:43.134
BECCY: And I always wear a backpack.

00:51:43.174 --> 00:52:00.514
BECCY: I have no idea how people can go into a park like for a whole vacation and not have a backpack like water bottle, raincoat, boot covers like the whole like I have no idea like I could never do it.

00:52:00.794 --> 00:52:03.094
VIRGINIA: Yeah, I don't understand how people do that either.

00:52:03.314 --> 00:52:17.054
VIRGINIA: And I would love to be the type of person who can just walk in with nothing or just like a tiny little like I've got a couple of cute little like cross body doonies that are big enough for your phone and a wallet and like maybe your sunglasses.

00:52:17.814 --> 00:52:21.254
VIRGINIA: And I would love to walk in and just be like, this is all I have.

00:52:21.634 --> 00:52:29.114
VIRGINIA: But the only time I've ever done that is when we have gone back to a resort and it's like, oh, we're just going for the last hour or two of the day.

00:52:29.754 --> 00:52:32.154
VIRGINIA: Let's just go over for a nighttime thing.

00:52:32.474 --> 00:52:42.754
VIRGINIA: Otherwise, if I'm there during the day, I need to know that I have access to my water, to my sunscreen, to everything that I could possibly need on my back.

00:52:42.774 --> 00:52:44.454
VIRGINIA: I'm just used to carrying it with me.

00:52:44.454 --> 00:52:48.794
VIRGINIA: I would feel kind of naked if I went, I think, during the day without my backpack.

00:52:49.114 --> 00:52:52.334
BECCY: I swear to God, my legs are stronger from walking around Disney with a backpack.

00:52:53.134 --> 00:52:53.494
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:52:53.974 --> 00:52:55.374
VIRGINIA: My backpack is not big.

00:52:55.394 --> 00:53:01.754
VIRGINIA: It's not huge, but it's the perfect size to carry everything that I personally need.

00:53:02.254 --> 00:53:02.614
VIRGINIA: Oh, yeah.

00:53:02.754 --> 00:53:03.594
VIRGINIA: And I've always had it.

00:53:03.614 --> 00:53:07.434
VIRGINIA: I know that sometimes I see parents and they're wearing giant backpacks.

00:53:07.934 --> 00:53:16.174
VIRGINIA: And I will tell you that since the very first time we took Alex, it has been our policy since that very first trip that we each carry our own backpack.

00:53:16.554 --> 00:53:20.114
VIRGINIA: So he carries his own hat, his own jacket, his own...

00:53:20.134 --> 00:53:21.594
VIRGINIA: And of course he does now because he's 13.

00:53:21.614 --> 00:53:23.954
VIRGINIA: But even when he was five, I was like, carry your own.

00:53:24.114 --> 00:53:24.414
BECCY: Yeah.

00:53:24.434 --> 00:53:24.834
BECCY: Oh, yeah.

00:53:24.854 --> 00:53:25.614
BECCY: You have to.

00:53:25.634 --> 00:53:26.654
BECCY: It's like it's too much.

00:53:26.674 --> 00:53:32.114
BECCY: And, you know, the first time that my sister went with my nephew and my brother and that's what ended up happening.

00:53:32.954 --> 00:53:35.574
BECCY: He's also on the spectrum, so he can't have a lot of stuff on him.

00:53:35.594 --> 00:53:40.714
BECCY: But honestly, we just get a wheelchair for him now because he's 10 and he's taller than me.

00:53:41.294 --> 00:53:48.054
BECCY: And with his spectrum disorders, he has sensitivities and sensory disorders.

00:53:48.074 --> 00:53:52.914
BECCY: We just pop him in a wheelchair with headphones on and we can just keep going about our day instead of having.

00:53:53.074 --> 00:54:00.214
BECCY: I know this sounds selfish, but instead of having to like stop every half hour to an hour to like kind of take a breather, now we can just stick him in there and just keep going.

00:54:00.634 --> 00:54:01.774
BECCY: So it's a lot easier.

00:54:01.814 --> 00:54:05.594
BECCY: But that's for a whole other story because I do enjoy going with my family as well.

00:54:06.034 --> 00:54:07.634
VIRGINIA: I'm sure it makes his day easier too.

00:54:08.334 --> 00:54:13.454
BECCY: Oh, absolutely easier because then he doesn't, he's not frazzled by the end of the day.

00:54:13.474 --> 00:54:20.994
BECCY: So he can keep going with us and, you know, still do the fun things and he can kind of just like chill out with his headphones on if he needs to.

00:54:21.014 --> 00:54:22.734
BECCY: So, you know, good for us.

00:54:22.754 --> 00:54:24.174
BECCY: So sorry, I got off topic.

00:54:24.194 --> 00:54:26.174
BECCY: So we'll go back to Friday in Hollywood Studios.

00:54:28.354 --> 00:54:30.614
VIRGINIA: So what else did you do in Hollywood Studios?

00:54:30.674 --> 00:54:34.614
VIRGINIA: And did Rae and Tanisha meet you over there?

00:54:34.814 --> 00:54:36.414
VIRGINIA: I think they were originally planning to.

00:54:37.094 --> 00:54:37.414
BECCY: Yes.

00:54:37.414 --> 00:54:42.834
BECCY: So Cassy and I did start off the day in Batuu, the Star Wars area.

00:54:43.314 --> 00:54:46.834
BECCY: And, you know, we're both just like super go with the flow people.

00:54:46.834 --> 00:54:48.714
BECCY: So she hadn't eaten breakfast yet.

00:54:48.774 --> 00:54:49.874
BECCY: I hadn't eaten breakfast yet.

00:54:49.894 --> 00:54:55.914
BECCY: So we went and got the like the cold brew black calf thing, coffee with the cocoa pebbles.

00:54:56.354 --> 00:54:57.314
VIRGINIA: How do you like that?

00:54:57.314 --> 00:55:15.114
VIRGINIA: Because I was just talking, actually, if you listen to the episode that just went live today with Jeanette and Marin, they were talking about having that over in Disneyland and how much they loved it, but that at Disney World, it is sort of more hit and miss as to whether it's good or not.

00:55:15.374 --> 00:55:16.994
VIRGINIA: So have you had it before?

00:55:17.014 --> 00:55:23.614
BECCY: I have not had it before because I'm not usually like a big buy food in the park person.

00:55:23.674 --> 00:55:30.854
BECCY: Like I have no shame bringing in a sandwich and granola bars and like a refillable water bottle because you're spending so much money there.

00:55:30.874 --> 00:55:32.234
BECCY: Like, why spend more money on food?

00:55:32.254 --> 00:55:33.934
BECCY: But I was like, whatever, I'm with friends.

00:55:33.954 --> 00:55:35.094
BECCY: Like, let's just have fun.

00:55:35.114 --> 00:55:37.794
BECCY: So I do not put sugar in my coffee.

00:55:38.134 --> 00:55:40.934
BECCY: And but I do like the cold foam stuff.

00:55:41.274 --> 00:55:42.994
BECCY: It was more like a cream cheese.

00:55:43.014 --> 00:55:48.214
BECCY: It almost tasted like cream cheese or like something really rich like that.

00:55:48.334 --> 00:55:49.554
BECCY: It was it was different.

00:55:50.274 --> 00:55:51.254
BECCY: But I did drink it all.

00:55:51.694 --> 00:55:53.114
BECCY: It was you know, it was coffee.

00:55:53.134 --> 00:55:53.794
BECCY: So it was good.

00:55:53.814 --> 00:55:58.354
BECCY: And we went and got those Ronto wrap things.

00:55:58.374 --> 00:56:00.754
VIRGINIA: Ronto wrap.

00:56:00.774 --> 00:56:01.194
VIRGINIA: Yeah, yeah.

00:56:02.154 --> 00:56:03.634
BECCY: Yeah, I got the zucchini one.

00:56:04.834 --> 00:56:08.274
BECCY: Just because I knew that that one did not have any soy in it because I looked at it.

00:56:10.174 --> 00:56:13.254
BECCY: And I will say that they are I was like, how spicy is this?

00:56:13.274 --> 00:56:15.634
BECCY: Because I'm such a baby with like spice.

00:56:15.974 --> 00:56:17.814
BECCY: And I shouldn't be because I'm Syrian.

00:56:17.934 --> 00:56:19.494
BECCY: And like I grew up with spice.

00:56:20.094 --> 00:56:27.154
BECCY: And but my mother was like French Canadian bland, not like bland, but like not spicy.

00:56:27.174 --> 00:56:32.014
BECCY: So when she would make like our Syrian food her way, she didn't do any spice.

00:56:32.034 --> 00:56:37.694
BECCY: But like when I was with my dad and my my tete and my my grandmother, everything had spice on it.

00:56:37.714 --> 00:56:41.834
BECCY: So but I'm like not a spicy, like hot spicy person.

00:56:41.854 --> 00:56:45.354
BECCY: And it was a little bit more spicy than I thought it was going to be.

00:56:45.374 --> 00:56:46.494
BECCY: But it was still really good.

00:56:46.514 --> 00:56:49.954
VIRGINIA: I like the regular breakfast rondo wrap.

00:56:49.974 --> 00:56:53.234
VIRGINIA: I got one of those last time I was there and it was delicious.

00:56:53.854 --> 00:56:58.114
BECCY: I did find out recently that there is soy protein in hot dogs.

00:56:58.594 --> 00:57:05.314
VIRGINIA: So I mean, I can't say I'm surprised because I'm going to say this and I hope nobody feels grossed out by it.

00:57:05.314 --> 00:57:06.794
VIRGINIA: What is not in a hot dog?

00:57:06.834 --> 00:57:07.494
VIRGINIA: Seriously.

00:57:07.814 --> 00:57:09.154
BECCY: That is correct.

00:57:09.754 --> 00:57:16.414
BECCY: So I can't eat hot dogs anymore, which, you know, we're in America.

00:57:16.434 --> 00:57:19.814
BECCY: So, you know, what goes more with America than hot dogs?

00:57:19.854 --> 00:57:23.054
BECCY: So who hasn't, you know, who hasn't enjoyed a hot dog?

00:57:23.074 --> 00:57:24.894
BECCY: So but now I can't anymore.

00:57:25.074 --> 00:57:33.714
BECCY: So I didn't that's why that's the main reason why I didn't get it because I wasn't sure if it was a sausage or a hot dog that was on the wrap.

00:57:34.334 --> 00:57:37.334
BECCY: So although I'm probably the sausage has it too.

00:57:37.354 --> 00:57:38.454
BECCY: I have no idea.

00:57:38.874 --> 00:57:40.314
VIRGINIA: Probably, probably.

00:57:40.534 --> 00:57:40.874
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:57:41.674 --> 00:57:42.274
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:57:42.274 --> 00:57:47.634
VIRGINIA: Well, you're going to have to start asking to look at the allergy menus at every restaurant you go to.

00:57:47.674 --> 00:57:48.574
BECCY: I definitely am.

00:57:49.134 --> 00:57:51.794
VIRGINIA: Because it says right on there exactly who it's good for.

00:57:52.054 --> 00:57:53.634
VIRGINIA: And it's really helpful.

00:57:54.034 --> 00:58:02.314
VIRGINIA: I've been examining all the menus in the lead up to my February trip because I will be traveling with my sister who has celiac and can't have gluten.

00:58:02.694 --> 00:58:05.334
VIRGINIA: And then her fiance has a walnut allergy.

00:58:05.334 --> 00:58:07.274
VIRGINIA: So we're dealing with two different allergies.

00:58:07.294 --> 00:58:20.294
VIRGINIA: And so I've never had to deal with that really before because when I when I had my lactose intolerance time period, you know, it was pretty easy to identify what I what I couldn't eat and what I could eat.

00:58:20.494 --> 00:58:25.594
VIRGINIA: And frankly, if I really wanted to eat something, I just popped some lactate and went for it.

00:58:26.534 --> 00:58:27.714
BECCY: Hope for the best, right?

00:58:27.734 --> 00:58:28.114
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:58:28.114 --> 00:58:28.414
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:58:28.434 --> 00:58:29.834
VIRGINIA: I'm like, it'll be what it will be.

00:58:33.054 --> 00:58:36.434
VIRGINIA: So what happened the rest of the day in Hollywood Studios?

00:58:36.614 --> 00:58:42.354
BECCY: We did have a lightning lane for Rise of the Resistance.

00:58:42.374 --> 00:58:43.234
BECCY: So we went and did that.

00:58:44.414 --> 00:58:51.114
BECCY: We did the single rider lane for Smuggler's Run, which we ended up getting on the ride within five minutes.

00:58:51.294 --> 00:58:52.814
BECCY: And we both got on the same thing.

00:58:53.434 --> 00:58:59.074
BECCY: And the family that we were with, the little kid who was probably like five or six, did not want to be a pilot.

00:58:59.094 --> 00:59:00.614
BECCY: So they were like, do you guys want to be pilot?

00:59:00.634 --> 00:59:02.214
BECCY: And we were like, let's do this.

00:59:03.474 --> 00:59:07.114
BECCY: So we actually had like a really good morning in Star Wars.

00:59:07.154 --> 00:59:13.594
BECCY: And I feel like even though the lightning lane for Rise, although no, I feel like it's not that I feel like it wasn't that bad.

00:59:14.414 --> 00:59:18.414
BECCY: It didn't start to get busy there until probably around noon.

00:59:18.434 --> 00:59:22.814
BECCY: Like as we were leaving the Star Wars area, a lot of people were coming into it.

00:59:23.734 --> 00:59:27.634
BECCY: And then around that time is when we met up with Rae and Tanisha.

00:59:27.654 --> 00:59:31.294
BECCY: They ended up meeting us there because they had a breakfast reservation that morning.

00:59:32.374 --> 00:59:34.034
BECCY: So they met up with us later.

00:59:34.054 --> 00:59:36.714
BECCY: And we did we did a few things together.

00:59:36.734 --> 00:59:37.874
BECCY: Although no, I'm sorry.

00:59:37.894 --> 00:59:45.534
BECCY: So Cassy and I got pictures with Goofy and Max and did Muppets before we met up with Rae and Tanisha.

00:59:45.734 --> 00:59:49.374
BECCY: And the four of us ended up doing Mickey and Minnie's together.

00:59:49.394 --> 01:00:02.174
BECCY: But Cassy and I had a reservation with Molly and her husband Ben at Shiki-Sai, which was the new restaurant in the in the Japan Pavilion.

01:00:02.174 --> 01:00:07.394
BECCY: So by time that happened, we had like an unexpected downpour.

01:00:07.554 --> 01:00:09.514
BECCY: It was not supposed to rain on Friday.

01:00:09.534 --> 01:00:12.134
BECCY: And it came all of a sudden and hard.

01:00:12.194 --> 01:00:16.394
BECCY: And I didn't bring my foot cover, my shoe covers with me because it wasn't supposed to rain.

01:00:16.834 --> 01:00:21.414
BECCY: And my shoes got soaked and my pants got soaked even like through my jacket.

01:00:21.434 --> 01:00:23.894
BECCY: So we ended up in our room was ready.

01:00:23.914 --> 01:00:24.854
BECCY: So we just like went back.

01:00:24.854 --> 01:00:25.894
BECCY: I changed super quick.

01:00:25.914 --> 01:00:30.454
BECCY: We went then we headed to Epcot and met up with Molly and Ben.

01:00:30.694 --> 01:00:32.034
VIRGINIA: And where do you know them from?

01:00:32.174 --> 01:00:33.914
BECCY: So Molly is Magical Molly 101.

01:00:34.134 --> 01:00:37.954
BECCY: So every time I go into the parks, I have friends who are local.

01:00:37.954 --> 01:00:43.914
BECCY: And if I know that friends are going to be there at the same time as I am, I always make it a point to be like, hey, we're together.

01:00:43.934 --> 01:00:44.714
BECCY: We're in the same park.

01:00:44.734 --> 01:00:46.174
BECCY: Like, let's at least get a photograph.

01:00:46.614 --> 01:00:52.594
BECCY: Even if you're with your family, I'm with people like, let's all get together, do a group photo, and then we can kind of like go about our way.

01:00:52.614 --> 01:00:59.694
BECCY: So every time I'm down there, I see at least someone that I know, whether they're local or they just happen to be there with me.

01:00:59.874 --> 01:01:03.534
BECCY: So Lyndsay, who is local, her name is dancing to Disney.

01:01:04.674 --> 01:01:08.314
BECCY: Back in September, she had created this like Disney Chicks meetup.

01:01:08.454 --> 01:01:14.134
VIRGINIA: Oh, this is what you talked about in your pre-trip, where it was like a gigantor meetup of a ton of people.

01:01:14.394 --> 01:01:17.394
BECCY: Yeah, I think there ended up being like 11 of us total.

01:01:17.754 --> 01:01:26.294
BECCY: And even though all of us were friends on Instagram before that, probably like five of us stayed super, super close.

01:01:27.114 --> 01:01:38.794
BECCY: And not for any other reason other than, you know, our trips happened to align or our interests aligned a little bit more or just our personalities maybe aligned a little bit more.

01:01:38.814 --> 01:01:40.694
BECCY: And that's not just to be, you know, rude to anyone else.

01:01:40.714 --> 01:01:42.094
BECCY: Everybody's got their own thing going on.

01:01:42.114 --> 01:01:44.614
BECCY: So Molly did go to that meetup.

01:01:44.634 --> 01:01:49.574
BECCY: She was actually only there for the beginning part, but she was awesome.

01:01:49.974 --> 01:01:55.594
BECCY: And we had ended up meeting up with her the next day, too, because there was three of us who had like hung out the next day.

01:01:55.614 --> 01:01:56.554
BECCY: Cassy was one of them.

01:01:56.634 --> 01:01:58.794
BECCY: And then like she, Molly was also there.

01:01:58.814 --> 01:02:01.514
BECCY: So and Cassy and Molly were already friends.

01:02:01.794 --> 01:02:04.494
BECCY: So it was just like one of those things that just like solidified.

01:02:06.294 --> 01:02:19.494
BECCY: We all just got along and it was just like this, you know, the people that I do talk to on a daily basis and that I do make trips with and that I do actively try to hang out with are the people that, you know, we just we all talk.

01:02:19.514 --> 01:02:21.254
BECCY: We're actually all part of that same group chat.

01:02:22.554 --> 01:02:32.934
VIRGINIA: So they met up with you to have have dinner specifically at this new restaurant in Japan, which not a lot of people have had a chance to eat there yet because it hasn't been open for all that long.

01:02:33.594 --> 01:02:34.614
VIRGINIA: What did you think about it?

01:02:34.634 --> 01:02:35.414
VIRGINIA: Would you recommend it?

01:02:35.434 --> 01:02:38.114
BECCY: Oh, my God, I would 100 percent recommend it.

01:02:38.114 --> 01:02:39.554
BECCY: It was phenomenal.

01:02:41.134 --> 01:02:45.554
BECCY: And, you know, I actually again, I'm still exploring like my allergies.

01:02:45.554 --> 01:02:50.894
BECCY: So they were super accommodating with me, like super accommodating.

01:02:50.914 --> 01:02:57.434
BECCY: I feel like the prices are pretty reasonable, considering that you are in Disney and it is a Japanese restaurant.

01:02:57.454 --> 01:03:01.394
BECCY: And I feel like even not in Disney, Japanese restaurants can be pretty expensive.

01:03:02.634 --> 01:03:07.534
BECCY: But it was like no more expensive than what you would expect out of a normal Japanese restaurant.

01:03:07.554 --> 01:03:11.034
BECCY: And the food was just absolutely phenomenal.

01:03:11.274 --> 01:03:15.054
BECCY: The cast members there were so nice.

01:03:16.234 --> 01:03:18.794
BECCY: The view is amazing because we were in the front room.

01:03:19.434 --> 01:03:21.774
BECCY: We had a view of Spaceship Earth.

01:03:22.794 --> 01:03:24.014
BECCY: It was such an experience.

01:03:24.034 --> 01:03:25.714
BECCY: It was really nice.

01:03:26.514 --> 01:03:27.474
BECCY: It was very good.

01:03:27.594 --> 01:03:27.874
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:03:27.894 --> 01:03:34.794
VIRGINIA: And you had mentioned when we talked about it before that they have different scenes on the wall based on what season it was.

01:03:35.034 --> 01:03:39.294
VIRGINIA: So did that play prominently into the feel of the restaurant?

01:03:39.434 --> 01:03:39.754
BECCY: Yep.

01:03:39.794 --> 01:03:41.334
BECCY: So I didn't.

01:03:41.794 --> 01:03:45.074
BECCY: I've never been into there before, so I wasn't quite sure.

01:03:45.094 --> 01:03:52.034
BECCY: I did get a video of the wall and pictures of the wall just to kind of show it in case I do go back in other seasons.

01:03:52.914 --> 01:03:56.574
BECCY: And I got some pictures inside the restaurant.

01:03:56.594 --> 01:03:59.154
BECCY: The ambiance was just so nice.

01:03:59.174 --> 01:04:02.194
BECCY: It was just really nice.

01:04:02.654 --> 01:04:07.594
BECCY: Like I said, the cast members were great, the food was great, the atmosphere was great.

01:04:08.214 --> 01:04:10.494
BECCY: The wall was red and with gold.

01:04:11.114 --> 01:04:16.034
BECCY: So I don't know if it's different for other times of the year if they add stuff, I'm not sure.

01:04:16.054 --> 01:04:21.234
BECCY: But it also shares an entryway with the hibachi restaurant.

01:04:21.334 --> 01:04:22.294
VIRGINIA: Yeah, Teppanito.

01:04:22.914 --> 01:04:23.834
BECCY: Yes, there we go.

01:04:23.854 --> 01:04:27.054
BECCY: I knew it started with a T and I couldn't quite picture it.

01:04:27.074 --> 01:04:29.774
BECCY: But yeah, so it shares an entryway.

01:04:30.114 --> 01:04:35.214
BECCY: One way is Shiki-Sai and the other way is Teppanito.

01:04:35.654 --> 01:04:36.734
BECCY: But it was really nice.

01:04:36.754 --> 01:04:37.774
BECCY: It was really nice.

01:04:37.794 --> 01:04:41.574
VIRGINIA: Okay, I'm really looking forward to trying that at some point.

01:04:41.814 --> 01:04:45.014
VIRGINIA: Both of my guys here are huge sushi people.

01:04:45.234 --> 01:04:49.514
VIRGINIA: So I know that they are going to be very much into that.

01:04:49.534 --> 01:04:52.054
VIRGINIA: And I, frankly, want to see the view.

01:04:52.074 --> 01:04:59.674
VIRGINIA: Because with being there in Japan, when you have that, I don't even know what it's called, the red arch thing.

01:04:59.694 --> 01:05:00.754
VIRGINIA: Do you know what I'm talking about?

01:05:00.974 --> 01:05:01.814
VIRGINIA: Right there on the water.

01:05:02.534 --> 01:05:07.714
VIRGINIA: That is one of my favorite views in all of Epcot, is looking through that back at Spaceship Earth.

01:05:08.214 --> 01:05:11.354
VIRGINIA: There's just something that every time it gets me.

01:05:11.454 --> 01:05:17.754
BECCY: Correct me if I'm wrong, because I don't know for 100% certain, but there are people that are up there for the fireworks.

01:05:17.814 --> 01:05:21.074
BECCY: I'm pretty sure that it's a separate thing.

01:05:21.094 --> 01:05:29.314
BECCY: I don't know if they do a dessert party or if you have to have a reservation there in order to be up on top for the fireworks, or if it's even like just first come first serve.

01:05:29.374 --> 01:05:32.314
BECCY: The people who are up there, I'm not sure whatsoever.

01:05:32.774 --> 01:05:44.494
BECCY: But after we were done eating, we did go up and, you know, kind of just view the area and like imagine watching the fireworks from up there would just be absolutely fantastic.

01:05:45.074 --> 01:05:52.814
VIRGINIA: Somebody said something and I cannot remember if it was somebody that says something to me personally or if I just heard it on Instagram or something like that.

01:05:52.814 --> 01:06:03.754
VIRGINIA: But I feel like someone said that they just walked up and watched the fireworks from there because I remember something to the effect of, well, this is my new place to watch the fireworks.

01:06:04.134 --> 01:06:05.754
VIRGINIA: So that led me to believe.

01:06:06.274 --> 01:06:08.694
VIRGINIA: Yeah, it led me to believe it was just kind of first come first serve.

01:06:08.894 --> 01:06:09.874
VIRGINIA: So I don't know.

01:06:09.894 --> 01:06:11.014
BECCY: That's good to know then.

01:06:11.414 --> 01:06:12.434
VIRGINIA: Take it for what it's worth.

01:06:12.574 --> 01:06:18.614
VIRGINIA: Speaking of large meetups, we are now moving into Saturday, January 20th.

01:06:18.654 --> 01:06:21.794
VIRGINIA: And this is the big meetup day for you.

01:06:22.414 --> 01:06:24.274
VIRGINIA: Lots of friends coming together.

01:06:24.294 --> 01:06:26.154
VIRGINIA: This is the Friendship Fun Fair.

01:06:26.954 --> 01:06:29.654
VIRGINIA: So what happened on Saturday?

01:06:30.834 --> 01:06:33.634
BECCY: So Cassy and I did get there probably around 9.

01:06:35.014 --> 01:06:42.614
BECCY: Not necessarily forgetting that nothing's really open for breakfast, but a lot of the World Showcase doesn't open up till 11, just a few things are open.

01:06:42.634 --> 01:06:44.714
BECCY: But in any case, we got there at 9.

01:06:45.154 --> 01:06:51.414
BECCY: We waited up at the front of the park, in front of Spaceship Earth, for most of the people to show up.

01:06:51.434 --> 01:06:54.914
BECCY: So then at this point, Sam and her husband Steve.

01:06:54.934 --> 01:06:57.594
BECCY: Sam is Magic Israel in Parks.

01:06:59.054 --> 01:07:01.074
BECCY: Kerry, who's Carrie's Ohana life.

01:07:02.314 --> 01:07:05.814
BECCY: Sachi, who is Manhattan to Main Street.

01:07:06.014 --> 01:07:08.634
VIRGINIA: Listeners have met Sachi before on a previous episode.

01:07:09.834 --> 01:07:13.774
BECCY: And then Rae and Tanisha, Disney, Rainbow were all there.

01:07:14.314 --> 01:07:17.214
BECCY: We did quite a few pictures in the beginning of the park.

01:07:18.154 --> 01:07:21.294
BECCY: We have now all adopted Sachi's son as our own.

01:07:21.454 --> 01:07:22.914
BECCY: He is now the group child.

01:07:26.554 --> 01:07:34.214
BECCY: Then we collectively decided to go to start doing the World Showcase.

01:07:34.714 --> 01:07:41.274
BECCY: A few of us went and picked out the scavenger hunt for the paintings to start that.

01:07:41.314 --> 01:07:46.074
BECCY: By the time we hit Mexico, Kate ended up showing up who is Kate's Magical Adventures.

01:07:50.394 --> 01:07:54.414
BECCY: She was with us until we probably hit the America Pavilion.

01:07:54.614 --> 01:07:56.794
BECCY: Around that time, Sam had to leave.

01:07:56.814 --> 01:08:02.694
BECCY: They had afternoon plans, but I'm really glad that she came and hung out with us for a while.

01:08:03.674 --> 01:08:07.294
BECCY: Then Kate had to leave because she had something going on with her daughter.

01:08:07.334 --> 01:08:12.174
BECCY: Again, I'm just so glad that people could even take time to come and hang out.

01:08:12.474 --> 01:08:14.474
BECCY: Then Kerry ended up leaving around too.

01:08:14.494 --> 01:08:23.114
BECCY: It's kind of funny because as people were coming and then not dropping off, but going, we kept getting pictures.

01:08:23.134 --> 01:08:31.554
BECCY: We got a picture when Kate came and before Sam left, and then we got a picture when Kate left, and then we got a picture when Kerry left.

01:08:32.014 --> 01:08:36.254
BECCY: Then as Kerry was leaving, Kelly came into the part.

01:08:36.274 --> 01:08:39.274
BECCY: I'm saying that just so people understand my pronunciation.

01:08:39.294 --> 01:08:46.634
BECCY: Kerry was leaving, Kelly came into the part, Kelly is Mission Magic.

01:08:46.654 --> 01:08:49.714
BECCY: She probably met up with us around the Japan area.

01:08:50.614 --> 01:08:57.714
BECCY: Then by time we hit France, Daina and her daughter Ariel met up with us.

01:08:57.734 --> 01:09:03.534
BECCY: Daina is 999 Happy Haunts here, and Ariel is simply meant to be at Disney.

01:09:04.314 --> 01:09:09.554
VIRGINIA: Yes, and Daina is a future podcast guest because we are scheduled, but we haven't done it yet.

01:09:09.834 --> 01:09:10.914
BECCY: Oh, nice.

01:09:11.094 --> 01:09:11.514
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:09:12.194 --> 01:09:13.114
BECCY: That's really awesome.

01:09:13.134 --> 01:09:16.234
BECCY: I'm actually really glad to hear that because everybody is so awesome.

01:09:16.254 --> 01:09:31.434
BECCY: So as soon as they met up, Ariel ended up taking 40 to go get character pictures because that's what he wanted to do, but he also didn't want to leave us because he was having so much fun because I would like to think that we are very inclusive.

01:09:32.434 --> 01:09:34.914
BECCY: I don't ever leave anyone out.

01:09:34.934 --> 01:09:39.194
BECCY: I don't care who you are, if you have a kid, bring them with you, bring your partner.

01:09:39.214 --> 01:09:39.754
BECCY: I don't care.

01:09:39.774 --> 01:09:40.334
BECCY: We're all friends.

01:09:40.354 --> 01:09:41.194
BECCY: We're all friends now.

01:09:41.494 --> 01:09:42.694
BECCY: Your friend is now my friend.

01:09:43.794 --> 01:09:45.834
BECCY: So they went and did character photos.

01:09:45.854 --> 01:09:52.474
BECCY: So then by the time we hit the UK Pavilion, we ended up meeting up with Emma, who is EmmaEnchanted999 and her boyfriend.

01:09:54.134 --> 01:09:57.374
BECCY: And we made our way kind of toward the front.

01:09:58.514 --> 01:10:02.854
BECCY: We got pictures like in front of the Festival of the Arts sign right there.

01:10:03.274 --> 01:10:08.934
BECCY: We made our way to Creation Store just to kind of kill time because we had a lightning lane for Remmys.

01:10:09.334 --> 01:10:13.634
BECCY: So then the kids met up back up with us right before we got to the World Showcase again.

01:10:13.654 --> 01:10:14.454
BECCY: We went to France.

01:10:14.914 --> 01:10:16.274
BECCY: We did the ride.

01:10:16.294 --> 01:10:21.954
BECCY: We got pictures in the back where the fountain is, which is like that huge group photo that you saw.

01:10:22.174 --> 01:10:23.154
VIRGINIA: Really cute photo.

01:10:23.274 --> 01:10:23.614
BECCY: Yeah.

01:10:23.634 --> 01:10:25.234
BECCY: Oh, thank you.

01:10:25.354 --> 01:10:32.434
BECCY: And then Emma ended up parting ways because she had just come back from Paris Disneyland the day before.

01:10:32.454 --> 01:10:34.634
BECCY: And there's like a Paris trip in general.

01:10:34.654 --> 01:10:35.734
BECCY: So she was like super tired.

01:10:35.754 --> 01:10:38.014
BECCY: And I think they had a cosmic lightning lane.

01:10:38.034 --> 01:10:41.474
BECCY: So they were just like, oh, yeah, like absolutely empty.

01:10:41.494 --> 01:10:48.194
BECCY: So they were just going to like go do cosmic and then like go home because I think they were even doing, I want to say she was doing Legoland the next day.

01:10:48.214 --> 01:10:50.634
BECCY: I can't remember with her boyfriend's daughter.

01:10:51.174 --> 01:11:00.794
BECCY: But in any case, so then shortly after that, Daina and Ariel also parted ways because they were meeting up with other people.

01:11:01.214 --> 01:11:10.834
BECCY: And then had I realized like who they were meeting up with, I would have been like, hey, just invite them along because again, I don't ever want people to feel left out.

01:11:10.854 --> 01:11:12.574
BECCY: And it was like other Instagram friends.

01:11:12.594 --> 01:11:14.674
BECCY: So I would have just been like, hey, let's just all hang out together.

01:11:14.694 --> 01:11:15.854
BECCY: But that's okay.

01:11:15.914 --> 01:11:16.354
BECCY: Next time.

01:11:16.594 --> 01:11:18.974
BECCY: I think by that time, we were all so starving.

01:11:19.434 --> 01:11:25.234
BECCY: We ended up getting, we all got a lightning lane for Soren, but we were all so hungry at that point.

01:11:25.394 --> 01:11:31.374
BECCY: And the Land Pavilion food court really does not have much nowadays, unless it's like the middle of the day.

01:11:31.394 --> 01:11:33.474
BECCY: So we ended up back at Connections.

01:11:33.834 --> 01:11:38.094
BECCY: By the time we sat down, we were like, holy crap, we've literally been going since like 9 a.m.

01:11:38.494 --> 01:11:39.654
BECCY: nonstop.

01:11:39.674 --> 01:11:41.674
BECCY: So that we ended up just ending our day right there.

01:11:41.694 --> 01:11:45.534
BECCY: But we all ate and had fun and, you know, talked to with each other for a little bit.

01:11:46.974 --> 01:11:50.654
BECCY: A few people went and did the Moana walkthrough.

01:11:50.674 --> 01:11:51.914
VIRGINIA: Journey of Water?

01:11:52.034 --> 01:11:54.034
BECCY: Yep, the Moana Journey of Water walkthrough.

01:11:54.054 --> 01:11:55.094
BECCY: A few people did that.

01:11:55.914 --> 01:11:57.794
BECCY: I think a few people ended up going shopping.

01:11:58.374 --> 01:12:01.414
BECCY: Rae and I were kind of like at the front of the park for a while.

01:12:01.454 --> 01:12:02.974
BECCY: And then we parted ways as well.

01:12:03.194 --> 01:12:03.794
BECCY: She was at Yacht.

01:12:05.494 --> 01:12:07.334
BECCY: So she just walked through the International Gateway.

01:12:07.334 --> 01:12:10.194
BECCY: And I saw Sachi really, really before she took off.

01:12:10.654 --> 01:12:14.494
BECCY: And I waited for Cassy to come back up to the front.

01:12:15.114 --> 01:12:16.674
BECCY: And then we just left.

01:12:16.694 --> 01:12:21.954
BECCY: But it was just such a big, awesome, packed day.

01:12:22.834 --> 01:12:23.994
BECCY: We looked for paintings.

01:12:24.014 --> 01:12:25.614
BECCY: We hung out.

01:12:26.514 --> 01:12:29.034
BECCY: We didn't even really do any attractions, really.

01:12:29.054 --> 01:12:31.254
BECCY: We were just all hanging out and enjoying each other's company.

01:12:31.274 --> 01:12:34.374
BECCY: And we took pictures and tried some food.

01:12:34.394 --> 01:12:37.414
BECCY: And we just all had a really, really good time together.

01:12:37.434 --> 01:12:38.634
VIRGINIA: That's awesome.

01:12:39.634 --> 01:12:42.654
VIRGINIA: Unfortunately, now we are at your departure day.

01:12:42.894 --> 01:12:49.334
VIRGINIA: So Sunday, January 21st, lots of people heading out on this day.

01:12:49.954 --> 01:12:57.854
VIRGINIA: But I have in my notes that you were having breakfast at Tusker House and it was going to be your first time eating there.

01:12:58.814 --> 01:13:10.434
BECCY: We ended up canceling Tusker House initially because we were going to go get breakfast at Sleepy Hollow, the quick service in Magic Kingdom, because that's like my favorite place to get quick service breakfast.

01:13:10.674 --> 01:13:12.314
VIRGINIA: Yes, the Nutella waffle.

01:13:12.494 --> 01:13:13.774
BECCY: Yeah, to Jutron again.

01:13:13.794 --> 01:13:24.614
BECCY: And I really do feel like that reservation just takes so long, especially on your last day, like when time is so precious that you just want to like get it all in again.

01:13:24.774 --> 01:13:31.634
BECCY: So the two of us ended up deciding to cancel it just because it was like an 8 a.m.

01:13:31.654 --> 01:13:32.374
BECCY: reservation.

01:13:32.394 --> 01:13:35.974
BECCY: You know, we still had to like do our last minute packing that night.

01:13:35.994 --> 01:13:43.434
BECCY: We didn't know like where we're going to be up to getting up at like 630 to check in our bags and probably get an Uber to Animal Kingdom.

01:13:43.454 --> 01:13:48.074
BECCY: I don't even know if the buses would have been going that early to make sure that we got there for 8 a.m.

01:13:48.794 --> 01:13:51.274
BECCY: And we were like, no, we'll just we'll have a chill morning.

01:13:51.294 --> 01:13:55.874
BECCY: We'll go to we'll go to Magic Kingdom and Sachi was actually at Magic Kingdom that morning, too.

01:13:56.634 --> 01:14:00.094
BECCY: But Rae and Tanisha had a Cape May reservation.

01:14:00.114 --> 01:14:05.214
BECCY: I want to say for like 10 and Cassy ended up going with them to that reservation.

01:14:05.234 --> 01:14:06.494
BECCY: Instead, I was invited.

01:14:06.834 --> 01:14:08.514
BECCY: I have gone to Cape May before.

01:14:08.814 --> 01:14:15.714
BECCY: And especially again, especially on like the last day, I wanted to do stuff that like didn't necessarily take up that much time.

01:14:15.734 --> 01:14:22.034
BECCY: But I also respect people as individuals like you want to go have that reservation, like go have at it, like you guys haven't done it before.

01:14:22.334 --> 01:14:24.354
BECCY: Go experience it because it's amazing.

01:14:24.614 --> 01:14:27.394
BECCY: Actually, I think Rae has done it before, but Tanisha and Cassy have not.

01:14:27.854 --> 01:14:30.414
BECCY: So I ended up meeting Sachi in Magic Kingdom.

01:14:31.614 --> 01:14:34.034
BECCY: The both of us did get breakfast at Sleepy Hollow.

01:14:35.014 --> 01:14:36.374
BECCY: I absolutely recommend it.

01:14:37.014 --> 01:14:39.854
BECCY: Everything that they have there is so great.

01:14:40.254 --> 01:14:46.094
BECCY: Actually, Forty had been looking for the Baymax ears, which I think had started in Tokyo.

01:14:48.334 --> 01:14:49.874
BECCY: The big, big white ones.

01:14:51.374 --> 01:15:04.594
BECCY: They were only selling them in one spot in Magic Kingdom, across from the Emporium, where they have a lot of the vault collection, across from the Emporium.

01:15:04.914 --> 01:15:08.234
VIRGINIA: It's the one that looks like it's a movie theater, right?

01:15:08.254 --> 01:15:08.574
BECCY: Yes.

01:15:08.634 --> 01:15:09.694
VIRGINIA: From the outside.

01:15:09.854 --> 01:15:10.134
BECCY: Yep.

01:15:11.174 --> 01:15:17.074
BECCY: A lot of the higher end purses are toward one end, and then they have the vault collection on the other end.

01:15:17.414 --> 01:15:23.014
BECCY: That ear wall, they had one strip of them left.

01:15:23.454 --> 01:15:27.094
BECCY: I knew exactly where to go, so as soon as I got into Magic, I got him those ears.

01:15:28.034 --> 01:15:30.954
BECCY: I said to Sachi, Hey, did you get him those ears yet?

01:15:30.974 --> 01:15:32.134
BECCY: She's like, No, I couldn't find them.

01:15:32.154 --> 01:15:34.554
BECCY: I said, I have them.

01:15:34.594 --> 01:15:36.274
BECCY: Don't tell him, it'll be a surprise.

01:15:36.294 --> 01:15:38.994
BECCY: When I met them, they were just doing poo.

01:15:39.354 --> 01:15:42.974
BECCY: Then we met at Sleepy Hollow, and I surprised him with them.

01:15:43.414 --> 01:15:44.334
BECCY: He was so ecstatic.

01:15:44.354 --> 01:15:47.274
BECCY: It made my day, actually.

01:15:47.414 --> 01:15:48.314
VIRGINIA: That's really sweet.

01:15:50.054 --> 01:15:52.294
BECCY: Sachi ended up leaving around 2 o'clock.

01:15:52.634 --> 01:15:54.414
BECCY: We didn't get to do too much.

01:15:54.634 --> 01:15:55.634
BECCY: We did meet up with Mickey.

01:15:55.654 --> 01:15:56.954
BECCY: I think we did two rides.

01:15:57.894 --> 01:15:58.734
BECCY: Then she had to go.

01:15:58.794 --> 01:16:07.194
BECCY: Then I went over to Animal Kingdom because after Cassy, Tanisha, and Rae did their reservation, they went to Animal Kingdom.

01:16:07.214 --> 01:16:08.294
BECCY: I just met them over there.

01:16:09.254 --> 01:16:17.534
BECCY: We honestly didn't even leave the front of the park because it was so crowded that even when they got there, they didn't even do any rides.

01:16:17.554 --> 01:16:21.234
BECCY: They couldn't even book anything because it was just too much.

01:16:21.374 --> 01:16:23.494
BECCY: We just kind of hung out at the front by the tree.

01:16:23.514 --> 01:16:25.034
BECCY: We did the nature walk in the front.

01:16:27.214 --> 01:16:30.834
BECCY: Almost that whole week, it was so cold that they didn't even really have the animals out.

01:16:30.854 --> 01:16:36.654
BECCY: I was told that even when we did go on Wednesday, the tigers weren't out, I guess, because it was too cold for them.

01:16:36.734 --> 01:16:39.054
BECCY: I guess it was too cold that day for the tigers to be out too.

01:16:40.334 --> 01:16:45.714
BECCY: And I guess if it gets under a certain temperature, they don't even do the flotillas if it's too cold.

01:16:47.014 --> 01:16:47.694
BECCY: Which is good.

01:16:47.874 --> 01:16:48.954
BECCY: That's good for the cast members.

01:16:49.014 --> 01:16:53.154
BECCY: I'm actually happy that they take care of the animals and the cast members that way.

01:16:53.954 --> 01:16:58.114
BECCY: Maybe not in that specific order, but maybe.

01:16:58.334 --> 01:16:58.854
VIRGINIA: Flip that.

01:16:58.874 --> 01:17:00.114
BECCY: Take care of the animals first.

01:17:00.494 --> 01:17:03.994
BECCY: Yeah, I'm totally an animal first.

01:17:04.014 --> 01:17:05.734
BECCY: But yeah, we just kind of hung out the front.

01:17:05.834 --> 01:17:10.474
BECCY: We made a reel just to be funny and walked around a little bit.

01:17:10.514 --> 01:17:11.774
BECCY: Then Cassy and I had to leave.

01:17:11.874 --> 01:17:13.674
BECCY: We left around 4.30.

01:17:14.434 --> 01:17:22.254
BECCY: I will say I was so mad at the lift driver because we paid extra money to have...

01:17:22.594 --> 01:17:25.554
BECCY: It says if you want to lift in two minutes, you pay this amount.

01:17:25.574 --> 01:17:27.534
BECCY: If you want to lift in 10 minutes, you pay this amount.

01:17:27.554 --> 01:17:29.354
BECCY: If you want to lift in 20 minutes, you pay this amount.

01:17:29.714 --> 01:17:34.674
BECCY: So I paid the extra to have it there for two, three minutes thinking, oh, someone must be around the corner.

01:17:35.254 --> 01:17:40.474
BECCY: No, the person who picked it up was actually 20 minutes away and then drove so slow.

01:17:40.674 --> 01:17:46.534
BECCY: Like, we probably could have gotten on the bus and it would have taken shorter than waiting for this darn lift.

01:17:47.074 --> 01:17:54.954
VIRGINIA: I did the same thing recently where it gave me an option and it was supposedly going to save me like 10 minutes or something.

01:17:54.974 --> 01:17:57.234
VIRGINIA: So I was like, okay, it's a few bucks more.

01:17:57.254 --> 01:17:58.254
VIRGINIA: I'll go ahead and do that.

01:17:58.894 --> 01:18:05.434
VIRGINIA: And I ended up having to wait the same amount of time it said it would have had I gotten the regular price and I was like, well, that's a ripoff.

01:18:05.454 --> 01:18:09.154
VIRGINIA: I am never paying extra to get it there sooner ever again.

01:18:09.354 --> 01:18:17.334
BECCY: And I normally don't, but it was just that time that I was like, we're kind of in a hurry now because we were taking too long saying goodbye.

01:18:18.694 --> 01:18:20.394
BECCY: So I was really mad.

01:18:20.434 --> 01:18:33.414
BECCY: And then again, where I think I actually get more spoiled at a value resort than a moderate resort that, you know, you go to pop with your luggage tag, you have your luggage within a minute.

01:18:34.094 --> 01:18:36.374
BECCY: And that's not even an exaggeration.

01:18:36.414 --> 01:18:41.234
BECCY: It took them between 15 and 20 minutes to get our luggage because it's not next to you.

01:18:41.254 --> 01:18:45.974
BECCY: Like the bellhop is just kind of like a random desk in the middle where you like go to check in.

01:18:45.994 --> 01:18:50.814
BECCY: They have to like go to another building, go find your luggage, and then walk back with it.

01:18:51.634 --> 01:18:58.314
BECCY: So and to me, like that, you know, people like, oh, you're staying at a value resort?

01:18:58.334 --> 01:19:00.234
BECCY: Like, yeah, and everything is quick.

01:19:00.254 --> 01:19:10.954
BECCY: The buses are quick, like they have buses one after the other after the other in the morning, especially like if you go to Magic Kingdom, there's like three buses lined up just to take you in the morning from pop.

01:19:11.574 --> 01:19:13.214
BECCY: You know, the luggage is quick.

01:19:13.254 --> 01:19:14.814
BECCY: The service is quick.

01:19:14.834 --> 01:19:16.914
BECCY: Like even like the food is is quick.

01:19:16.934 --> 01:19:21.434
BECCY: The cast members are delightful and everything is quick.

01:19:21.454 --> 01:19:29.134
BECCY: And I think maybe just because I'm from the Northeast and you know that we expect things to happen now, like not in five minutes from now.

01:19:29.214 --> 01:19:30.114
BECCY: We want it now.

01:19:30.174 --> 01:19:38.814
BECCY: And like I have to remember, especially being because Florida technically is the South and like they don't run on the same time as the Northeast does.

01:19:38.834 --> 01:19:40.334
BECCY: Like we do things now.

01:19:40.334 --> 01:19:42.854
BECCY: Like if I want something done, it's getting done now.

01:19:43.114 --> 01:19:52.694
BECCY: So it's like I think I just have to remember to like, I don't know, I didn't give myself enough time to like prepare to get like my stuff to then go to the flight.

01:19:52.714 --> 01:19:54.914
BECCY: So then I thought I was like running a little bit late.

01:19:54.934 --> 01:20:00.954
BECCY: So then Cassy and I were supposed to take the same lift to get to the airport, but her flight was like an hour behind mine.

01:20:01.354 --> 01:20:04.254
BECCY: And initially it was going to work out because she had to check luggage.

01:20:04.274 --> 01:20:06.454
BECCY: But then it's like she wasn't prepared.

01:20:06.474 --> 01:20:12.314
BECCY: Like she wanted to change and get a coffee and like then get into the lift and where I had no time to wait.

01:20:12.334 --> 01:20:13.594
BECCY: Like I had to get in the lift right now.

01:20:14.014 --> 01:20:16.994
BECCY: So by the time we got our luggage, like that was it.

01:20:17.014 --> 01:20:19.874
BECCY: Like I was like, all right, see you later because I have to go.

01:20:20.074 --> 01:20:21.894
BECCY: And I was a little perturbed.

01:20:21.954 --> 01:20:29.094
BECCY: I'm not going to lie, but again, that's the difference between staying at a moderate versus staying at a value.

01:20:30.214 --> 01:20:37.434
BECCY: And also, you know, you go into the bathroom, like the public bathroom at a value resort, there's like 20 stalls.

01:20:37.974 --> 01:20:40.414
BECCY: So there's always a spot for you.

01:20:40.794 --> 01:20:47.214
BECCY: You can take your luggage in, you know, park it in the corner, go in the stall, change and like, no one says a thing.

01:20:47.234 --> 01:20:48.214
BECCY: There's always space.

01:20:48.234 --> 01:20:49.714
BECCY: No one's ever, you don't ever have to wait.

01:20:50.994 --> 01:20:53.634
BECCY: So that's just my story and I'm sticking to it.

01:20:53.654 --> 01:20:55.414
BECCY: And I will only ever do value.

01:20:56.414 --> 01:20:56.954
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:20:57.074 --> 01:21:04.714
VIRGINIA: Well, you know, that's the great thing about Disney is that there is something for everybody, you know, depending on what your preferences are.

01:21:05.374 --> 01:21:12.154
VIRGINIA: And it sounds like you have found your spot where you feel like you get everything you need.

01:21:12.314 --> 01:21:14.514
VIRGINIA: And it also happens to save you some money.

01:21:14.534 --> 01:21:17.414
VIRGINIA: So that's just a bonus on top of all the things you like about it.

01:21:17.774 --> 01:21:18.534
BECCY: Oh, absolutely.

01:21:18.894 --> 01:21:19.194
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:21:19.674 --> 01:21:25.074
VIRGINIA: Did you have any issues once you got to the airport with going through security or anything like that?

01:21:25.074 --> 01:21:30.114
VIRGINIA: Or was that all smooth sailing and you didn't cut it right to the last second of getting on the plane?

01:21:30.134 --> 01:21:30.414
VIRGINIA: Did you?

01:21:31.514 --> 01:21:35.794
BECCY: No, I think I was, again, you know, I was probably just being like nervous Nellie.

01:21:35.814 --> 01:21:39.454
BECCY: I have TSA pre-check and I didn't have to check any luggage.

01:21:40.074 --> 01:21:44.874
BECCY: So the TSA, of course, they take the clear passengers first and then the TSA pre-check.

01:21:44.894 --> 01:21:51.314
BECCY: So I probably waited in line for like 10 minutes and even like the regular TSA, I think was only up to like 30 minutes.

01:21:51.334 --> 01:21:55.594
BECCY: I got to the to the airport about an hour and a half before my flight was taking off.

01:21:55.614 --> 01:21:57.814
VIRGINIA: So that's plenty of time.

01:21:58.094 --> 01:21:58.474
BECCY: Yeah.

01:21:58.714 --> 01:21:59.114
BECCY: Plenty of time.

01:21:59.134 --> 01:22:16.414
BECCY: So like I went through TSA pre-check I was so then by the time I took like the monorail, you know, the last ride that you'll take in Florida to the southwest departure gates, I didn't have time to like situate myself and I did buy one of the popcorn buckets for myself and my sister.

01:22:16.434 --> 01:22:19.614
BECCY: Oh, so this is where the whole popcorn bucket thing comes into play.

01:22:19.634 --> 01:22:23.554
BECCY: So I bought one popcorn bucket for myself and one for my sister.

01:22:23.574 --> 01:22:39.114
BECCY: I put one in my like regular luggage and I was like, you know what, I'm just gonna put one on top because I have like the hard luggage to put on top and then the duffel bag that I had was small enough to go under the seat, but it fit almost as much as like the luggage.

01:22:39.474 --> 01:22:43.714
BECCY: The jacket that I didn't check, that I didn't ship, I mean, was like that Mickey raincoat.

01:22:44.934 --> 01:23:15.774
BECCY: So I kind of spread it out on top of my luggage because I had the other popcorn bucket kind of just like sitting on top of my duffel and normally I wouldn't be nervous about that because people do stuff like that all the time, but the guy at Southwest was like, if I see that you have more than two things, I'm making you get out of line to go check something and I was like, oh my God, please not have this be the day because when you get on the plane for Southwest, it goes by like ABC.

01:23:16.354 --> 01:23:26.794
BECCY: So it's like the pre-board, which is usually like A1 through 15 and then like the rest of the A's and then if you, I'm sorry, pre-board and disabled people will go on first.

01:23:28.714 --> 01:23:38.354
BECCY: So anybody who's in a wheelchair goes on pre-board and then it's the A's and then it's anybody who has, who's traveling with someone who's like disabled or children under five and then it's the B's.

01:23:38.534 --> 01:23:45.094
BECCY: And I ended up with like B4, which normally like leaving Providence, I would have been like, no big deal, B4 is like no big deal.

01:23:45.114 --> 01:23:54.514
BECCY: But leaving Orlando, B4 is like a gamble because by that time, probably half to three quarters of the plane is already there and I was like already kind of stressing out.

01:23:54.534 --> 01:23:56.234
BECCY: So I'm not going to lie.

01:23:56.554 --> 01:24:07.174
BECCY: I ended up paying for an A1 through 15 and I ended up getting A15, which means I was like good thing I got it right then because I was like the last person to get it.

01:24:07.194 --> 01:24:10.554
BECCY: So it was just I but I snuck it on.

01:24:11.174 --> 01:24:15.014
BECCY: I think he saw it, but he didn't say anything, but it literally fit under my seat.

01:24:15.374 --> 01:24:17.014
VIRGINIA: They get really testy about that.

01:24:17.074 --> 01:24:38.114
VIRGINIA: What kills me is when they're yelling that and you'll have let's say you've got a carry on piece of luggage and then you have like your personal item and then maybe you have like a fanny pack or something like that or like a very tiny cross body that will only fit your phone and like a wallet that you just kind of want on your person.

01:24:38.834 --> 01:24:59.654
VIRGINIA: They will make you take it off and put it in like show that it fits into the other back to get onto the plane even though like say for example with a fanny pack you're going to take it right back out because that's my new thing lately is I will put a fanny pack on while I'm sitting in the airplane seat so that like that's where my phone goes and I don't have to constantly be reaching for it.

01:24:59.814 --> 01:25:00.834
VIRGINIA: It's just frustrating.

01:25:00.854 --> 01:25:03.034
VIRGINIA: I'm like I it's the same amount of stuff.

01:25:03.254 --> 01:25:03.694
VIRGINIA: It is.

01:25:03.714 --> 01:25:05.454
VIRGINIA: It doesn't make any sense.

01:25:05.934 --> 01:25:11.894
BECCY: And it literally fit underneath the seat in front of me with that duffle bag with like no questions asked.

01:25:12.374 --> 01:25:12.714
VIRGINIA: Right.

01:25:12.874 --> 01:25:15.334
BECCY: And like you can carry a coat on.

01:25:16.034 --> 01:25:18.154
BECCY: So you know it was just aggravating.

01:25:18.374 --> 01:25:20.454
BECCY: And I think he saw it, but he didn't say anything.

01:25:21.014 --> 01:25:25.494
BECCY: And the stewardesses didn't say anything like the two women.

01:25:26.874 --> 01:25:30.914
BECCY: And they clearly saw that I had it and like it went underneath the seat and it was it was fine.

01:25:30.994 --> 01:25:34.274
BECCY: It was just I feel like it was just more shuffling than it had to be.

01:25:36.514 --> 01:25:37.014
VIRGINIA: I don't know.

01:25:38.174 --> 01:25:39.454
VIRGINIA: You don't want to break the rules.

01:25:39.794 --> 01:25:56.974
VIRGINIA: And you don't also want to try to argue with them about the the reason of the situation like, no, this fits under here or anything, because then, you know, you run the risk of someone videotaping you and then you turn into it like somebody on the Internet just because you're talking about something to try to make it make sense.

01:25:57.774 --> 01:25:58.074
BECCY: Yeah.

01:25:58.174 --> 01:26:00.794
BECCY: No, it's not worth it because everybody's got their cameras out now.

01:26:01.554 --> 01:26:01.954
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:26:02.094 --> 01:26:09.694
VIRGINIA: So, oh, but that that popcorn bucket, that would be hard to put anywhere else because it's all points and edges.

01:26:09.714 --> 01:26:13.214
VIRGINIA: This is the the figment popcorn bucket we're talking about, right?

01:26:13.234 --> 01:26:13.294
BECCY: Right.

01:26:13.694 --> 01:26:24.874
BECCY: I did put one of them in my hard luggage and I finagled it kind of cockeyed and covered it with clothes to protect it.

01:26:24.994 --> 01:26:27.194
BECCY: And then, of course, I had to put ears in there, too.

01:26:27.214 --> 01:26:31.654
BECCY: And then in my duffel, I just shoved it full of clothes.

01:26:31.954 --> 01:26:39.194
BECCY: And I kept a small, actually, no, I kept a large tote bag kind of available.

01:26:39.214 --> 01:26:55.934
BECCY: So I put it at the top of the duffel so that literally when we landed, I put the popcorn bucket that was loose, my coat and the few pairs of ears that I had that were loose, and just shoved it in the tote bag and walked out that way because I'm leaving now.

01:26:55.954 --> 01:26:57.554
BECCY: You can't say anything to me at this point.

01:26:57.554 --> 01:27:00.514
BECCY: I walked on with my, quote, two items.

01:27:00.534 --> 01:27:03.294
BECCY: So if I'm walking out with three, that's on you, that's not on me.

01:27:05.354 --> 01:27:06.094
VIRGINIA: Oh, my goodness.

01:27:06.214 --> 01:27:10.194
VIRGINIA: Well, this has been such fun talking to you, Beccy.

01:27:10.214 --> 01:27:17.694
VIRGINIA: I cannot wait till we get to meet in person and that will be very soon because you have plans to come to New York City in March.

01:27:17.714 --> 01:27:21.614
VIRGINIA: So I'm sure we will be getting some pictures together and having a lot of fun.

01:27:21.854 --> 01:27:25.514
VIRGINIA: And hopefully at some point we'll be down in Disney at the same time.

01:27:25.534 --> 01:27:27.354
VIRGINIA: Oh, yes, absolutely.

01:27:27.374 --> 01:27:27.854
BECCY: I hope so.

01:27:27.874 --> 01:27:28.714
BECCY: Thank you for having me.

01:27:30.334 --> 01:27:34.754
VIRGINIA: Thank you again to Beccy for taking the time out of your busy schedule to sit down with me.

01:27:35.254 --> 01:27:42.774
VIRGINIA: Thank you also for connecting me with so many more Disney friends, a number of whom you all will likely hear in upcoming trip reports.

01:27:43.834 --> 01:27:45.254
VIRGINIA: That will be all for today.

01:27:45.274 --> 01:27:51.154
VIRGINIA: Have a magical week wherever you are, and keep daydreaming about where you long to be.