Post-Trip Report: Beth & Leoni’s Out of this World Orlando Holiday (September 2024)

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

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VIRGINIA: I am your host, Virginia.

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VIRGINIA: In case you missed the pre-trip report, Beth and Leoni are from the UK, and they are future sisters-in-law.

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VIRGINIA: Beth's husband Alex has a sister named Hannah, and Hannah is engaged to Leoni.

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VIRGINIA: Beth usually travels to Disney World with her husband, but as he was working and unable to take a trip right now, she reached out to Leoni, who is also a huge Disney fan.

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VIRGINIA: Leoni has traveled to Disneyland Paris, but had never been to Florida.

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VIRGINIA: Their trip was from September 16th to 30th and they planned to stay at an offsite hotel on I Drive called the Ramada Plaza Resort and Suites because it was a really good deal and also included breakfast.

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VIRGINIA: They bought their tickets through Florida Ticks, which is a website for UK visitors where they got an amazing deal on a 14-day combo pass that included Memory Maker.

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VIRGINIA: US listeners will be jealous because the combo part of the combo pass gave them access to Disney and Universal for all 14 of those days.

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VIRGINIA: If only we had something like that here.

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VIRGINIA: That should be enough to get you caught up.

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VIRGINIA: Here are Beth and Leoni.

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VIRGINIA: Welcome back, Beth and Leoni.

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LEONI: Hello.

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VIRGINIA: You both look glowy and like you've just enjoyed a trip to Orlando.

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LEONI: We have indeed, yeah.

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VIRGINIA: So I guess overall, what would you rate this trip?

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BETH: Leoni, you say.

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LEONI: A million out of 10.

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LEONI: It was so good.

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BETH: It was so fun.

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VIRGINIA: Before we get started, I know that your trip dates were Monday, September 16th and you left on Monday, September 30th.

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VIRGINIA: So presumably, you had some hurricane-related weather while you were there.

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VIRGINIA: So before we get started, because I'm just dying to know, did the hurricane affect you at all?

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VIRGINIA: And this was Hurricane Helene that rolled through.

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LEONI: It did a little bit, but not really.

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LEONI: Off the back of the hurricane, we got some strong winds and some rain came through.

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LEONI: But apart from that, it didn't actually stop us on any day.

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LEONI: There was no day we had to kind of call out for it.

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VIRGINIA: Okay, good.

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VIRGINIA: I was sitting here in the States, concerned about anybody I had of my interview guests who were traveling at that time, and the two of you were included in that group that I was thinking about.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: Now I can relax a little bit, since I know it did not mess with your trip very much, and let's get into all of the details.

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VIRGINIA: You were staying over an iDrive and it was called the Ramada Plaza International Suites.

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VIRGINIA: For the hotel, what were your just overall thoughts about the room, the accommodations, the transportation it offered?

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BETH: We really actually liked the hotel.

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BETH: We read quite a few bad reviews, so we were a little bit nervous, but we just thought it would just be a base to stay and go to the park all day and just come home and have some water to sleep.

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BETH: But we actually really liked it.

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BETH: It was really nice.

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BETH: It was clean.

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BETH: The room was really spacious.

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BETH: There's enough room for us to put our last stuff everywhere, and there wasn't one complaint, I don't think, about the hotel.

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LEONI: Not at all, and the view was great.

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LEONI: We had a really nice view of a lake behind us and of Universal Park, and it was so nice.

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BETH: We could see Epic Universe, what was built there as well.

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VIRGINIA: I know that one of the reasons that you selected this particular hotel was the fact that it had breakfast included.

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VIRGINIA: How was the breakfast?

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LEONI: We booked it because of the breakfast.

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LEONI: We thought, okay, well, that's going to be a cost.

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LEONI: The breakfast was basic, a bit less than basic, which was fine for a couple of days, but we definitely didn't use it as much as we thought we were going to.

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LEONI: I personally misheard what the check-in person told us, and I thought it was open to like half 11.

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LEONI: I thought that even if we had lion days, we could go down and grab food, and that was never the case.

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LEONI: It actually was like half past nine that it closed, which obviously is a more reasonable time.

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LEONI: Yeah, we used it for about two or three days overall out of that 40-night trip.

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LEONI: Apart from that, we never used it.

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LEONI: We couldn't believe it, to be honest, but I thought continental breakfast, it's usually at least a bit of bacon, and it was-

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VIRGINIA: Oh, no, not in the US.

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LEONI: Oh, no.

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LEONI: To be fair, they did have waffles and pancakes, and there was some hot eggs, which is boiled eggs, and that was it.

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LEONI: Most of the time when we got up, we actually just weren't hungry for it, not as much as we thought we would be.

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LEONI: So, yeah.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: So it's not as if you then went out and spent lots of money on breakfasts.

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VIRGINIA: You most of the time just moved along to lunch or to brunch or something like that.

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LEONI: Yeah.

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LEONI: Yeah, exactly.

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BETH: I think because it was so hot as well, the heat just makes you feel hungry.

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VIRGINIA: Right.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: A lot of people say that.

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VIRGINIA: I think that a lot of hotels that include breakfast in the US, they leave a lot to be desired, and having recently in August experienced my trip to London and choosing a hotel because it had breakfast, and seeing that I got a full breakfast with bacon and eggs, and granola, and yogurt, and a waffle station, and it had everything.

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VIRGINIA: I was like, this is how breakfast should be.

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VIRGINIA: They know how to do it here.

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VIRGINIA: So I can totally see that you might have been expecting something like that, and I'm sorry on behalf of America.

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LEONI: Don't you worry.

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LEONI: It's all good.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: But otherwise, it sounds like the hotel was a hit and someplace that you would recommend to others.

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LEONI: Yeah, absolutely.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: What about in terms of transportation?

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VIRGINIA: I know that you were planning to use the shuttle sometimes, Uber sometimes.

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VIRGINIA: How was the transportation situation?

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VIRGINIA: Did you end up Ubering most days?

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LEONI: We did.

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LEONI: Yeah.

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LEONI: So, yeah, every day.

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LEONI: Which we kind of expected, as we knew before we went, that the buses weren't, like the timings weren't as often, or they were later in the day, or you got back really early.

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LEONI: One thing we did end up using that's not necessarily part of the hotel, we were really close to a universal hotel.

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LEONI: So we actually walked around to that hotel and used their shuttle bus more often than actually a Disney shuttle bus.

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LEONI: We did think about using, there's like the Avanti across the road which had a better time, and I don't know if something that you can do, but we definitely thought about using other hotel shuttle buses around, because you could just book, the website was the same for our hotel as well as the one across the way.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.

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VIRGINIA: I wonder if they're all run by the same corporation.

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LEONI: But it was just strange that like across the way, it was all the same booking, but Avanti got so many more times to get to Disney than ours.

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VIRGINIA: Right.

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LEONI: Well, yeah, we just ended up getting Ubers.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: I have to admit, when we spoke before, I was thinking these ladies are probably going to use Uber a lot more than they think they will.

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VIRGINIA: Just something I think for other listeners to be aware of when you're planning a trip and when you're thinking about staying at a place that has a shuttle service, really looking at the times and determining whether you think, I think you have to be honest with yourself because for me, I would always rather pay for the convenience of getting where I want to be faster.

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VIRGINIA: I know that there are plenty of hotels who have really reliable shuttle service that comes very frequently.

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VIRGINIA: I think it's really hit and miss though.

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VIRGINIA: But if you had a clean room and you are pleased with the hotel overall, and I remember that you got quite a good deal on it, so it sounds like in spite of this, it was top tier for you.

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LEONI: For sure.

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LEONI: Absolutely.

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VIRGINIA: What about your flight?

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VIRGINIA: Because I believe I'm correct that neither of you had used Aerolingus before this, so this was your first experience.

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LEONI: Yeah, it was a great flight.

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LEONI: It ended up being shorter on the way there.

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LEONI: We were supposed to be about nine to nine and a half hours flight and we ended up saving around an hour on our journey there.

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LEONI: Oh, wow.

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LEONI: Yeah, a lot more time than we thought.

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LEONI: The food was really nice on there.

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LEONI: The seats are very spacious.

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LEONI: I'm personally someone that worries about seats and space and things, not just with flights, but with the rides and stuff.

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LEONI: I was a bit apprehensive before going.

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LEONI: Yeah, it was very comfortable, a lot more comfortable than I thought with it being, it comes across more like a budget airline.

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LEONI: You expect a bit less, but actually I've used Virgin or American Airlines before and had just the same experience.

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VIRGINIA: Good to know.

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VIRGINIA: Well, let's get into the day-to-day doings of your trip.

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VIRGINIA: I realize that as we've been talking, I have not spoken to either of you in a way that we'll be able to auditorily identify you to the listeners.

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VIRGINIA: So Leoni, can you identify your voice for listeners?

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BETH: Hi.

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BETH: Yeah.

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LEONI: I'm Leoni, so you can hear my voice.

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BETH: This is me.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: And Beth?

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BETH: Hello, everybody.

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BETH: My name's Beth.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: Great.

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VIRGINIA: Normally, I do that at the beginning, and I'm just sitting here going, listeners up to this point are just hearing two voices if they did not listen to the pre-trip, which they should have listened to the pre-trip.

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VIRGINIA: So if you're listening and you don't listen to the pre-trip, go do your homework.

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VIRGINIA: Just kidding.

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VIRGINIA: You're welcome here whether you listen to the pre-trip or not.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: So arriving on Monday, September 16th, and you had thought that you would maybe head over to CityWalk for dinner that night and definitely be picking up your universal tickets because you had to do that in-person at a ticket window.

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VIRGINIA: So how was that first night?

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BETH: Yeah.

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BETH: So we got an Uber over to CityWalk, and then we went to, in CityWalk, they have like, I don't know if it's called a Comfy Urge booth or something like that.

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BETH: And we went over there and she swapped the paper to fix out for the actual ticket.

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BETH: But there was a private event that night because we were thinking, oh, maybe we could go in and maybe go on a few rides, but then we got a private event.

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BETH: So we just went and got a Panda Express and had a little sit down and then walked over to The Globe and had some photos there and then we went to Voodoo Donut.

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BETH: Yeah.

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BETH: Then we went home and I think we just sat at the donut and then went to eat.

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VIRGINIA: Was there a particular donut that stood out to you as being the best?

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BETH: I got the, it was just a really little pink sprinkles one.

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VIRGINIA: Leoni, did you have a donut?

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LEONI: I did.

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BETH: Yeah.

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LEONI: I think I had what the Voodoo itself.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, yeah, yeah.

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LEONI: It's got like a pretzel stick in it.

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VIRGINIA: Yes.

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VIRGINIA: It looks like a Voodoo doll.

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VIRGINIA: It's really cute.

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LEONI: That was so yummy.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: Oh my gosh.

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VIRGINIA: I love donuts so much and I have to really stay away because I will go nuts over there.

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VIRGINIA: So, all right.

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VIRGINIA: So what time did you actually call it a night considering that you were dealing with the time difference?

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LEONI: Well, good question.

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LEONI: We must have got to the hotel around, is it like half four, five-ish?

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LEONI: So we must have got in around nine, maybe half nine.

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LEONI: That sounds about right.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: So nine hour time is what, like 2 AM your time?

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LEONI: Yeah.

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LEONI: We'd probably been awake for nearly 24 hours by that point.

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VIRGINIA: That's actually later than I thought you'd get about it.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: Then because of the time difference, you were probably able to pop up and be ready to go the next morning.

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VIRGINIA: So I noted that you had a 7:30 AM Boma reservation for breakfast.

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VIRGINIA: So how did you like Boma?

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BETH: Loved it.

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BETH: Loved being in Animal Kingdom Lodge.

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VIRGINIA: It's such a beautiful resort.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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LEONI: It is absolutely stunning.

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LEONI: I think Boma was my favorite breakfast that we had there.

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LEONI: That was outstanding.

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LEONI: And it was so because of the theming of it, all the different foods tasted slightly different.

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LEONI: And you could get, you literally got like a warm ham.

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LEONI: Like we call it a carvery in the UK where you can have it like sliced and put on your plate itself.

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LEONI: And you could just go up and grab like a bit of ham.

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LEONI: But it was really nice.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah, it's one I still haven't had yet.

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VIRGINIA: So I am looking forward to getting over there because people rave about it.

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VIRGINIA: So and then this day was spent at Animal Kingdom.

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VIRGINIA: So tell me all of the fun you got into on your Animal Kingdom first full park day.

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LEONI: So when we got there, I mean, I was just in awe because this was my like, obviously, first ever Disney Park, first ever Florida trip.

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LEONI: And as we, you know, you have to walk kind of around and then you'll see the Tree of Life.

00:15:33.377 --> 00:15:36.817
LEONI: I can't tell you how like perfect it was as we came around the corner.

00:15:37.337 --> 00:15:43.417
LEONI: Like the first moment we saw the Tree of Life, the music changed and it went really dramatic.

00:15:43.417 --> 00:15:49.577
LEONI: And then there was like a bird show going on and the birds flew back like it was the end of the show.

00:15:49.577 --> 00:15:53.597
LEONI: But like, all of that happened in just a second and I was just blown away.

00:15:53.637 --> 00:15:55.997
LEONI: I just cried.

00:15:55.997 --> 00:15:58.997
LEONI: It was so beautiful.

00:15:58.997 --> 00:16:00.397
LEONI: I was absolutely blown away.

00:16:00.397 --> 00:16:01.777
LEONI: I could not believe it.

00:16:01.777 --> 00:16:04.197
LEONI: And it's got a key to my heart, that kingdom.

00:16:05.017 --> 00:16:08.477
VIRGINIA: Yeah, that's one thing about animal kingdom and about magic kingdom.

00:16:08.477 --> 00:16:11.797
VIRGINIA: It's like the lead up to look at the park icon.

00:16:11.797 --> 00:16:16.317
VIRGINIA: So to look at the Tree of Life or to look at the castle, it's just like suddenly it's there.

00:16:16.317 --> 00:16:19.397
VIRGINIA: Whereas Epcot, you can see it from such a distance.

00:16:19.397 --> 00:16:24.497
VIRGINIA: And I don't know, Hollywood studios, you just kind of walk in and it's just there.

00:16:25.037 --> 00:16:31.957
VIRGINIA: But Tree of Life and the castle both pack that punch of the anticipation of you're about to see it.

00:16:31.957 --> 00:16:38.477
VIRGINIA: And to see it for the first time as somebody who I think you'd said you'd been to Disneyland Paris, right?

00:16:38.477 --> 00:16:39.017
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:16:39.017 --> 00:16:42.437
VIRGINIA: And so what an amazing first Disney site.

00:16:42.437 --> 00:16:46.937
VIRGINIA: And to be there at that moment when the bird, that's like a commercial, Leoni.

00:16:46.937 --> 00:16:48.817
LEONI: Literally, I felt like I was in a film.

00:16:48.897 --> 00:16:51.817
LEONI: It all just, it fit together perfectly.

00:16:51.817 --> 00:16:53.557
LEONI: It was so cool.

00:16:53.557 --> 00:16:56.657
VIRGINIA: So where did you head first after walking in?

00:16:56.657 --> 00:17:00.977
LEONI: So we went to the dinosaur ride.

00:17:00.977 --> 00:17:01.557
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:17:01.557 --> 00:17:02.717
VIRGINIA: Get it in while you can.

00:17:03.857 --> 00:17:05.477
VIRGINIA: It is going to be closing soon.

00:17:05.477 --> 00:17:05.897
BETH: I know.

00:17:05.897 --> 00:17:07.817
BETH: It's one of my favorite rides.

00:17:07.817 --> 00:17:11.197
VIRGINIA: Beth, have you ever ridden the Indiana Jones ride?

00:17:11.197 --> 00:17:13.817
VIRGINIA: I can't remember if you've been to Disneyland in California.

00:17:13.817 --> 00:17:17.457
BETH: I've never been to Disneyland in California, but is there one in Disneyland Paris?

00:17:17.457 --> 00:17:18.117
BETH: Let's just say no.

00:17:18.617 --> 00:17:22.797
VIRGINIA: Because that's what it's converting to, and it's good.

00:17:22.797 --> 00:17:24.317
BETH: I'm sure it's going to be amazing.

00:17:24.457 --> 00:17:27.177
BETH: But Dinosaur has got that nostalgic factor that I love.

00:17:27.177 --> 00:17:29.237
BETH: Such a 90s video at the start.

00:17:30.277 --> 00:17:33.317
VIRGINIA: The pre-show film with Dr.

00:17:33.317 --> 00:17:37.917
VIRGINIA: Seeker and the Hand Puppet and Felicia Rashad.

00:17:37.917 --> 00:17:39.657
VIRGINIA: That's the best part of it to me.

00:17:39.657 --> 00:17:43.897
VIRGINIA: I just love that pre-show film so much.

00:17:43.897 --> 00:17:45.957
VIRGINIA: What was after Dinosaur?

00:17:45.957 --> 00:17:48.317
LEONI: We went to see It's Tough to Be a Bug.

00:17:48.317 --> 00:17:51.257
VIRGINIA: How did you feel about that, honestly?

00:17:51.257 --> 00:17:53.777
VIRGINIA: Because a lot of people have very strong feelings about it.

00:17:54.857 --> 00:17:58.557
LEONI: Yeah, I didn't dislike it, you know?

00:17:58.557 --> 00:18:01.177
LEONI: I thought it was really enjoyable.

00:18:01.177 --> 00:18:04.197
LEONI: I do have quite a big fear of spiders.

00:18:04.197 --> 00:18:05.717
LEONI: Beth was like, are you okay with spiders?

00:18:05.717 --> 00:18:09.177
LEONI: I was like, yeah, if they're on the screen, of course.

00:18:09.197 --> 00:18:16.517
LEONI: Obviously, this is a spoiler if no one's been, but when they came, they dropped down from the ceiling.

00:18:16.517 --> 00:18:18.397
LEONI: That I really didn't like.

00:18:18.517 --> 00:18:21.397
LEONI: I was like, that's a lot.

00:18:21.717 --> 00:18:24.057
VIRGINIA: Did you scream?

00:18:24.057 --> 00:18:27.757
LEONI: Didn't scream, but I was just like, oh, Beth, don't like that.

00:18:29.337 --> 00:18:30.377
VIRGINIA: Oh my gosh.

00:18:30.377 --> 00:18:30.717
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:18:30.717 --> 00:18:35.737
VIRGINIA: My favorite part of that one is the posters that are in the lead up to it.

00:18:35.737 --> 00:18:37.857
LEONI: Yes, Beth was pointing them out.

00:18:37.857 --> 00:18:39.377
VIRGINIA: So funny.

00:18:39.377 --> 00:18:40.577
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:18:40.577 --> 00:18:43.717
VIRGINIA: What did you get up to in the rest of your Animal Kingdom Day?

00:18:43.837 --> 00:18:48.657
VIRGINIA: I should ask, how did the crowd levels feel on this first day?

00:18:48.657 --> 00:18:49.617
VIRGINIA: Was it busy?

00:18:49.617 --> 00:18:50.777
VIRGINIA: How were the waits for rides?

00:18:51.017 --> 00:18:58.717
BETH: The waits weren't that long, really, but we did use the individual lightning lane and the multi-pass.

00:18:58.717 --> 00:19:04.877
BETH: But basically, we used the passes for the Avatar Flight of Passage, and we used the multiple one as well.

00:19:04.877 --> 00:19:08.717
BETH: So with that, we managed to get on the rides quite quickly anyway.

00:19:08.717 --> 00:19:09.257
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:19:09.257 --> 00:19:09.557
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:19:09.557 --> 00:19:12.017
VIRGINIA: Well, what was After Tough To Be a Bug?

00:19:12.017 --> 00:19:17.377
BETH: We did my favorite ride in the whole of Disney World, Expedition Everest.

00:19:17.377 --> 00:19:18.637
VIRGINIA: That's your favorite?

00:19:18.637 --> 00:19:19.937
BETH: It's my favorite ride, yeah.

00:19:20.997 --> 00:19:21.337
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:19:21.337 --> 00:19:23.477
VIRGINIA: What do you love about it so much?

00:19:23.477 --> 00:19:27.057
BETH: I just love the theming of the queue.

00:19:27.077 --> 00:19:32.877
BETH: And I don't know, because I'm quite scared when it comes to a lot of rides.

00:19:32.877 --> 00:19:35.957
BETH: I feel like that's quite thrilling.

00:19:35.957 --> 00:19:39.137
BETH: I don't know if anyone else would feel that way, but for me, that's sort of like-

00:19:39.137 --> 00:19:40.617
VIRGINIA: Plenty of people do.

00:19:40.617 --> 00:19:41.237
BETH: Yeah.

00:19:41.237 --> 00:19:45.677
BETH: That's like my, oh, this is such a thrill ride.

00:19:45.677 --> 00:19:46.797
BETH: Yeah.

00:19:46.797 --> 00:19:48.717
BETH: And just Leoni never been on it before.

00:19:49.517 --> 00:19:53.157
BETH: It was quite fun to watch her reaction of it going backwards.

00:19:53.157 --> 00:19:56.617
BETH: And so yeah, it was really fun for me to watch.

00:19:56.617 --> 00:19:56.817
LEONI: Yeah.

00:19:56.817 --> 00:19:58.197
LEONI: I had no idea.

00:19:58.197 --> 00:20:02.477
LEONI: We got to the bit, obviously, in the scenery, the track is broken.

00:20:02.477 --> 00:20:05.197
LEONI: And I was like, huh?

00:20:05.197 --> 00:20:06.817
LEONI: What?

00:20:06.817 --> 00:20:08.077
LEONI: What's going on?

00:20:08.077 --> 00:20:10.457
LEONI: I had no clue.

00:20:10.457 --> 00:20:11.337
VIRGINIA: That's fun.

00:20:11.337 --> 00:20:11.877
VIRGINIA: That's fun.

00:20:11.877 --> 00:20:19.017
VIRGINIA: I love being with somebody who hasn't done something before, just because there's so much joy in watching them experience something for the first time.

00:20:19.017 --> 00:20:27.057
VIRGINIA: So I am jealous, Beth, that you got to experience this whole trip with Leoni, watching all of that unfold.

00:20:27.057 --> 00:20:27.877
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:20:27.877 --> 00:20:30.777
VIRGINIA: What else did you do after that?

00:20:30.777 --> 00:20:32.277
LEONI: So we had a bit of a chill.

00:20:32.277 --> 00:20:36.317
LEONI: We tried some ice cream, but it was like Minute Maid lemonade.

00:20:36.317 --> 00:20:39.997
LEONI: So it was like the strawberry and lemon one, which was really nice.

00:20:39.997 --> 00:20:51.677
LEONI: We ended up doing Everest twice, I think, that day because the first time we went on, it was only half an hour and then the second time was the time for the Lightning Lane.

00:20:51.677 --> 00:20:54.877
LEONI: We watched Finding Nemo, the musical show.

00:20:54.877 --> 00:20:56.337
VIRGINIA: I love that one.

00:20:56.337 --> 00:20:57.477
LEONI: So good.

00:20:57.477 --> 00:20:59.817
LEONI: The aircon in there was really nice.

00:21:03.337 --> 00:21:10.937
LEONI: Then we went over to the Avatar section and we did the Navi River Journey and then Flight of Passage.

00:21:10.937 --> 00:21:13.457
LEONI: We also went into Satooli Canteen and had some food.

00:21:15.177 --> 00:21:17.497
LEONI: That pretty much sums up the day in Anamalkkong.

00:21:17.497 --> 00:21:20.917
BETH: We tried the night blossom drink as well, which was really nice.

00:21:20.917 --> 00:21:22.517
VIRGINIA: I get that every single time.

00:21:22.517 --> 00:21:24.437
VIRGINIA: It is so good.

00:21:24.437 --> 00:21:27.737
VIRGINIA: Especially if it was hot, which it sounds like it was.

00:21:27.737 --> 00:21:29.717
VIRGINIA: It's so refreshing.

00:21:29.717 --> 00:21:33.577
VIRGINIA: When you were at Satooli Canteen, do you remember what you got?

00:21:33.577 --> 00:21:36.617
VIRGINIA: Did you make a bowl or did you do the cheeseburger pod?

00:21:36.617 --> 00:21:40.537
BETH: I got the combination bowl, which is beef and chicken.

00:21:41.557 --> 00:21:45.237
BETH: It would be sweet potato and the creamy herb dressing.

00:21:46.637 --> 00:21:51.237
LEONI: Yeah, I think we both had the same but different dressings, but I can't remember what dressing I had.

00:21:51.237 --> 00:21:52.017
LEONI: But it was lovely.

00:21:52.117 --> 00:21:54.057
VIRGINIA: I feel like you cannot go wrong there.

00:21:54.057 --> 00:21:55.797
VIRGINIA: It's so good.

00:21:57.077 --> 00:22:00.437
VIRGINIA: This park closes a little bit earlier than some of the others.

00:22:00.437 --> 00:22:06.717
VIRGINIA: How late did you end up staying and what else did you get into in the evening if you ended up heading out?

00:22:06.717 --> 00:22:09.777
LEONI: I think we left just before closing.

00:22:10.537 --> 00:22:13.157
LEONI: We pretty much been able to do everything.

00:22:13.157 --> 00:22:20.637
LEONI: If I remember rightly, there was only about maybe 45 minutes left of the day anyway before it closed.

00:22:20.637 --> 00:22:24.197
LEONI: We'd felt pretty accomplished that day.

00:22:24.197 --> 00:22:26.417
LEONI: We got an Uber to Walmart.

00:22:26.417 --> 00:22:30.637
LEONI: We just grabbed some snacks and bits because we had a fridge in our room.

00:22:30.637 --> 00:22:32.257
LEONI: It was quite a large fridge as well.

00:22:32.257 --> 00:22:39.017
LEONI: We knew that when we came back from the days, there'd be drinks and snacks ready for us.

00:22:39.277 --> 00:22:40.577
LEONI: That's pretty much it.

00:22:40.577 --> 00:22:42.817
BETH: I think we were in Walmart for about an hour.

00:22:42.817 --> 00:22:49.197
BETH: Because being from the UK, we're not used to that immense size of a shop.

00:22:49.197 --> 00:22:54.597
BETH: Just going around every aisle like, wow, look at all the cereal, and wow, look at all of this.

00:22:54.597 --> 00:22:54.897
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:22:54.897 --> 00:23:04.137
VIRGINIA: I enjoy a lot of UK vloggers, and I do enjoy watching them go to places like Walmart and Target because we're just used to it.

00:23:04.357 --> 00:23:10.377
VIRGINIA: It's like you walk in, you don't think anything of the choices, but seeing it through their eyes, I'm like, yeah, we do have a lot of selection.

00:23:12.217 --> 00:23:13.977
LEONI: So much choice.

00:23:15.217 --> 00:23:29.677
VIRGINIA: Wednesday, September 18th was an Epcot Day, and I know we're wanting to enjoy some food and wine festival, and specifically we're aiming to get on Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind.

00:23:30.737 --> 00:23:32.137
VIRGINIA: Take me through your Epcot Day.

00:23:33.037 --> 00:23:37.197
LEONI: So this was a day we actually had breakfast at the hotel.

00:23:37.197 --> 00:23:39.417
LEONI: So it was the first time.

00:23:39.437 --> 00:23:47.237
LEONI: And I was very proud of myself because I got a virtual queue every time we needed a virtual queue.

00:23:47.237 --> 00:23:50.617
LEONI: So we managed to get a virtual queue for Cosmic Rewind.

00:23:50.617 --> 00:23:57.257
LEONI: Didn't realize how early we got it because sometimes it told you a time or gave you a boarding number.

00:23:57.837 --> 00:24:04.417
LEONI: But for Cosmic Rewind, it just said like 180 minutes, which I didn't know what that was.

00:24:04.417 --> 00:24:09.857
LEONI: I didn't realize that was 180 minutes till you go on to the ride, which at this point it was 10 a.m.

00:24:09.857 --> 00:24:12.937
LEONI: because we did it at 7 a.m.

00:24:12.937 --> 00:24:17.897
LEONI: So then by the time we got there, we're like, Oh, first ride of the day then.

00:24:17.897 --> 00:24:19.457
VIRGINIA: So what song did you get?

00:24:19.457 --> 00:24:22.917
VIRGINIA: Because I know you were hoping for a particular song.

00:24:22.917 --> 00:24:26.997
BETH: I can't remember what we got the first time, but we went on it four times in total.

00:24:27.577 --> 00:24:35.197
BETH: Throughout the holiday, and we got a different song every time, but we sadly didn't get the songs that I would have liked.

00:24:35.197 --> 00:24:37.937
BETH: But it was nice to hear a different song every time.

00:24:37.937 --> 00:24:38.617
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:24:38.617 --> 00:24:42.897
VIRGINIA: So no, I ran for you, but everything else.

00:24:42.897 --> 00:24:43.897
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:24:43.897 --> 00:24:44.577
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:24:44.577 --> 00:24:45.317
LEONI: Yeah.

00:24:45.317 --> 00:24:47.377
LEONI: I'm pretty sure the first one was September.

00:24:47.377 --> 00:24:47.897
BETH: Yeah.

00:24:47.897 --> 00:24:52.237
BETH: And for me having like September about five times last time I went, I just thought.

00:24:53.177 --> 00:24:55.417
VIRGINIA: You're like, Oh, no, it continues.

00:24:58.737 --> 00:24:59.617
VIRGINIA: Oh, my goodness.

00:24:59.617 --> 00:25:02.737
VIRGINIA: Leoni, what did you think about Cosmic Rewind?

00:25:02.737 --> 00:25:04.777
LEONI: Favorite ride of all the trip.

00:25:04.777 --> 00:25:05.197
VIRGINIA: Oh, wow.

00:25:05.197 --> 00:25:06.917
LEONI: We went on it so many.

00:25:06.917 --> 00:25:10.197
LEONI: Like, I'm so glad that we went on it as many times as we could.

00:25:11.077 --> 00:25:18.697
LEONI: Because I think, for me, like, I love the roller coaster, so I love the thrill, but I also love the theming as well.

00:25:18.697 --> 00:25:23.477
LEONI: And so that tops off for me because you are on a roller coaster.

00:25:23.477 --> 00:25:26.397
LEONI: Obviously, a lot of the other theming rides are fantastic.

00:25:26.397 --> 00:25:30.257
LEONI: And like, they blow you out of the park with the theming.

00:25:30.257 --> 00:25:37.257
LEONI: But because it's not quite a roller coaster, there's just a little bit of thrill that I'm kind of waiting for sometimes.

00:25:37.257 --> 00:25:38.817
LEONI: Whereas Cosmic Rewind has got it all.

00:25:39.177 --> 00:25:45.177
LEONI: Like, I couldn't believe the theming of it and the story about it and the songs that you get.

00:25:45.177 --> 00:25:46.317
LEONI: Yeah, my favorite ride.

00:25:46.317 --> 00:25:46.537
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:25:46.537 --> 00:25:53.777
VIRGINIA: And I love that because there's a variety of songs, you can ride it multiple times and feel like you got different experiences.

00:25:54.197 --> 00:25:58.597
VIRGINIA: And it also, for me, it also depends on who else is in my car.

00:25:58.597 --> 00:26:05.417
VIRGINIA: Because if somebody's in your car and they're having a great time too, it really impacts how you feel in the ride.

00:26:05.497 --> 00:26:11.957
VIRGINIA: Like I told a story one time in the podcast where I was in line with a kid that was so hyper, and I was like, this is going to be really annoying.

00:26:11.957 --> 00:26:13.577
BETH: I've listened to that, yeah.

00:26:13.577 --> 00:26:16.497
VIRGINIA: Yeah, we got Disco Inferno and he knew every single word.

00:26:16.497 --> 00:26:18.217
VIRGINIA: And I loved it.

00:26:18.217 --> 00:26:24.077
VIRGINIA: I still think of that as my almost, probably my favorite time I've ever ridden that ride because he was so into it.

00:26:24.077 --> 00:26:27.297
VIRGINIA: And I couldn't believe that a kid knew Disco Inferno.

00:26:27.297 --> 00:26:28.877
VIRGINIA: So I loved it.

00:26:28.877 --> 00:26:30.757
VIRGINIA: I absolutely loved it.

00:26:30.757 --> 00:26:31.457
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:26:31.457 --> 00:26:32.977
VIRGINIA: What else did you get into at Epcot?

00:26:33.117 --> 00:26:38.377
VIRGINIA: And did you have any good food and wine, eats or drinks to report back on?

00:26:38.377 --> 00:26:43.777
BETH: So after Guardians, I'm sure you won't mind me saying, Leoni, that you had a little bit of a headache.

00:26:43.777 --> 00:26:46.737
BETH: So we wanted to get some sort of painkillers.

00:26:46.737 --> 00:26:49.697
BETH: So we went over to the first aid.

00:26:49.697 --> 00:26:52.537
BETH: I spoke to the past members that worked there.

00:26:52.537 --> 00:26:56.977
BETH: And they gave you, I'm not sure what was it they gave you.

00:26:56.977 --> 00:27:05.917
LEONI: They gave me ibuprofen and paracetamol just to take throughout the day, which for me, I didn't realize how easy it was to get.

00:27:05.917 --> 00:27:08.117
LEONI: In the UK, that would never happen.

00:27:08.117 --> 00:27:15.357
LEONI: Any first aid is not allowed to give you any sort of medicine at all, really.

00:27:15.357 --> 00:27:16.757
LEONI: Not that I've known anyway.

00:27:16.757 --> 00:27:21.937
LEONI: So I actually couldn't believe how easy it was to just kind of say, hey, I'm struggling with a headache here.

00:27:21.937 --> 00:27:23.877
LEONI: And they were so nice and helpful.

00:27:23.877 --> 00:27:28.277
LEONI: So and it just meant that the day could be easier.

00:27:28.277 --> 00:27:28.877
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:27:28.877 --> 00:27:38.077
LEONI: And so I was a bit worried because I think it was just because it was, you know, new environments, different hours, heat, and just everything all together.

00:27:38.077 --> 00:27:40.657
LEONI: So it just kind of knocked me a little bit.

00:27:40.657 --> 00:27:40.937
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:27:40.937 --> 00:27:43.317
LEONI: But it just meant that the day was just so much easier then.

00:27:43.317 --> 00:27:43.917
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:27:43.917 --> 00:27:44.917
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:27:44.917 --> 00:27:47.837
VIRGINIA: Well, I'm glad they were able to take care of you there.

00:27:47.837 --> 00:27:50.317
VIRGINIA: Do you mind if I ask, did they charge you for it?

00:27:50.317 --> 00:27:51.897
VIRGINIA: Or they just handed it to you?

00:27:51.897 --> 00:27:52.637
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:27:52.637 --> 00:27:57.877
LEONI: They just handed it to me and they just let me, I just had to sign basically, obviously, to say that I'd received it.

00:27:57.877 --> 00:27:58.597
VIRGINIA: Perfect.

00:27:58.597 --> 00:27:59.417
VIRGINIA: Perfect.

00:27:59.417 --> 00:28:00.437
LEONI: All right.

00:28:00.437 --> 00:28:06.857
VIRGINIA: So did you take a little bit of a rest there for a minute to center yourself and get going?

00:28:06.857 --> 00:28:11.597
VIRGINIA: Or were you just up and at them and ready to hit the next thing?

00:28:11.597 --> 00:28:11.997
LEONI: Yeah.

00:28:12.457 --> 00:28:13.337
LEONI: We just carried on.

00:28:13.717 --> 00:28:21.917
LEONI: I knew that if we just kept going, it would help in being distracted and stuff, and not sure how long we're going to have to queue anyway.

00:28:21.917 --> 00:28:27.717
LEONI: So rather than us waiting, we could wait in a queue if we need to.

00:28:27.717 --> 00:28:28.077
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:28:28.077 --> 00:28:30.517
VIRGINIA: So that puts you over near Mexico.

00:28:30.517 --> 00:28:32.997
VIRGINIA: Did you head into Mexico next?

00:28:32.997 --> 00:28:33.657
LEONI: We did.

00:28:33.657 --> 00:28:35.557
VIRGINIA: How did you like Mexico?

00:28:35.557 --> 00:28:40.977
LEONI: So we went on the three Caballeros.

00:28:40.977 --> 00:28:41.597
VIRGINIA: Caballeros.

00:28:42.637 --> 00:28:45.417
LEONI: Caballeros boat ride.

00:28:47.777 --> 00:28:48.797
VIRGINIA: How did you like that one?

00:28:49.817 --> 00:28:51.437
VIRGINIA: It was so cute.

00:28:51.437 --> 00:28:51.797
VIRGINIA: I love it.

00:28:51.797 --> 00:28:53.837
LEONI: I've seen Donald everywhere.

00:28:53.837 --> 00:28:56.217
LEONI: I resonate with Donald quite a lot, I realized.

00:28:56.217 --> 00:28:56.957
VIRGINIA: Oh, do you?

00:28:56.957 --> 00:28:58.457
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:28:58.457 --> 00:28:59.917
LEONI: So sassy.

00:28:59.917 --> 00:29:01.557
VIRGINIA: He is.

00:29:01.557 --> 00:29:03.517
VIRGINIA: Did you go meet him while you were in Mexico?

00:29:03.517 --> 00:29:05.677
VIRGINIA: Because he meets outside.

00:29:05.677 --> 00:29:06.857
LEONI: Yeah, we saw him.

00:29:07.177 --> 00:29:09.077
LEONI: The queue was quite a long queue.

00:29:09.077 --> 00:29:15.817
LEONI: So when I saw characters or princesses, I kind of just took a picture of them.

00:29:15.817 --> 00:29:17.657
BETH: Yeah, we didn't stay in Mexico too long.

00:29:18.437 --> 00:29:21.377
BETH: So Frozen had about an hour wait.

00:29:21.377 --> 00:29:26.397
BETH: So we just thought if we're in the area, let's just get it done.

00:29:26.397 --> 00:29:29.057
BETH: So obviously the bit outside we had to queue was quite hard.

00:29:29.177 --> 00:29:29.977
BETH: It was so hard.

00:29:29.977 --> 00:29:31.937
BETH: But then once we got into the air, it was nice.

00:29:31.937 --> 00:29:32.297
BETH: Yeah.

00:29:32.297 --> 00:29:33.977
BETH: That ride is so cute as well.

00:29:33.977 --> 00:29:44.097
VIRGINIA: I think there's also when you go into the queue, it's not just the air conditioning, but there's something about being in a fake outdoor night situation that feels cooler as well.

00:29:44.097 --> 00:29:44.977
BETH: Yeah, definitely.

00:29:45.817 --> 00:29:46.797
VIRGINIA: I don't know.

00:29:46.797 --> 00:29:48.217
VIRGINIA: Mentally, it tricks you.

00:29:49.117 --> 00:29:49.697
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:29:49.697 --> 00:29:51.057
VIRGINIA: After Frozen.

00:29:51.057 --> 00:29:57.977
BETH: We, I think we just walked around a little bit, and then we were thinking it's food and wine time.

00:29:58.277 --> 00:30:04.517
BETH: We went into one of the shops and I thought some money on one of those food and wine gift cards.

00:30:04.517 --> 00:30:13.297
VIRGINIA: A good move if you don't want to accidentally overspend on your festival purchases because it is very easy to just walk up and swipe.

00:30:13.537 --> 00:30:18.057
BETH: Yeah, so it was really good because obviously I used the gift card, and then on the receipt, it would tell you how much I had left.

00:30:18.057 --> 00:30:21.337
BETH: So I could plan what I was going to do.

00:30:21.337 --> 00:30:22.677
BETH: I'm with Leoni.

00:30:22.677 --> 00:30:25.197
BETH: We shared everything so we could try everything.

00:30:25.197 --> 00:30:28.857
BETH: So I'd go and buy something and then she'd buy something and then we'd share.

00:30:28.857 --> 00:30:33.077
VIRGINIA: What was your favorite festival food that you ended up trying?

00:30:33.077 --> 00:30:37.997
LEONI: Mine was the Canadian brisket poutine.

00:30:39.277 --> 00:30:40.037
VIRGINIA: Yum.

00:30:40.037 --> 00:30:40.517
BETH: Oh my gosh.

00:30:40.517 --> 00:30:42.497
LEONI: It was so good.

00:30:42.497 --> 00:30:48.577
LEONI: Like there was like a Philadelphia, like a cream cheese on the top.

00:30:48.577 --> 00:30:54.297
LEONI: There was like almost like a peppercorn gravy kind of sauce as well with the chips and the cheese.

00:30:54.297 --> 00:30:55.357
LEONI: It was really good.

00:30:55.357 --> 00:30:55.537
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:30:55.537 --> 00:30:58.517
LEONI: Oh, fries.

00:30:58.517 --> 00:30:59.797
VIRGINIA: I knew what you meant by chips.

00:31:00.457 --> 00:31:00.617
LEONI: Yeah.

00:31:00.617 --> 00:31:01.797
LEONI: Okay.

00:31:01.797 --> 00:31:03.077
VIRGINIA: British chips.

00:31:04.617 --> 00:31:05.777
VIRGINIA: What about you, Beth?

00:31:05.777 --> 00:31:13.537
BETH: I also really liked the poutine, but another one that I really liked was a pork and apple dish.

00:31:13.537 --> 00:31:17.057
BETH: There's like a little booth there that's sort of like all after themes.

00:31:17.057 --> 00:31:19.417
BETH: I forget the name of it now.

00:31:19.417 --> 00:31:21.557
BETH: But that was really nice.

00:31:21.557 --> 00:31:25.437
VIRGINIA: Any cocktails that you tried while you were walking around?

00:31:25.437 --> 00:31:27.117
LEONI: Well, neither of us drink actually.

00:31:27.377 --> 00:31:28.537
LEONI: We don't drink alcohol.

00:31:28.537 --> 00:31:29.937
LEONI: Okay.

00:31:29.937 --> 00:31:32.917
LEONI: But we did, I'm trying to think of the drink that I had.

00:31:32.917 --> 00:31:34.577
BETH: We did try a few different drinks.

00:31:34.577 --> 00:31:37.657
BETH: There was like a small frozen drink we tried.

00:31:37.657 --> 00:31:38.257
BETH: That was nice.

00:31:38.257 --> 00:31:39.957
VIRGINIA: Oh, I heard about this one.

00:31:39.957 --> 00:31:40.237
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:31:40.237 --> 00:31:42.917
BETH: Yeah, it's quite small, but it's nice.

00:31:42.917 --> 00:31:45.817
LEONI: Yeah, it definitely on pictures looks a lot bigger than it is.

00:31:45.817 --> 00:31:52.337
LEONI: And I think for the price that you pay for it, it's probably a bit too expensive because it is just like a little cup.

00:31:52.337 --> 00:31:53.677
LEONI: But yeah, it was really nice.

00:31:53.677 --> 00:31:55.837
LEONI: Yeah, we tried a lot of juices.

00:31:55.977 --> 00:31:58.377
LEONI: I think I tried a pomegranate iced tea.

00:31:58.377 --> 00:32:00.797
LEONI: I think it's from Morocco.

00:32:00.797 --> 00:32:02.657
LEONI: That was really nice.

00:32:02.657 --> 00:32:03.517
LEONI: Nice and refreshing.

00:32:03.517 --> 00:32:06.457
VIRGINIA: Morocco historically has been very good to me during festivals.

00:32:06.457 --> 00:32:10.117
VIRGINIA: Like they seem to always have things that I really enjoy.

00:32:10.117 --> 00:32:13.697
VIRGINIA: All right, I'm looking at our schedule here and we've got a lot of days to get through.

00:32:13.697 --> 00:32:17.637
VIRGINIA: So I don't want to linger too long in any part of any particular park.

00:32:17.637 --> 00:32:20.917
VIRGINIA: So any other highlights from this Epcot day?

00:32:20.917 --> 00:32:24.117
BETH: We did most of the rides this day, like the whole park.

00:32:24.337 --> 00:32:32.037
BETH: And then afterwards we went to Disney Springs because Leoni really wanted a magic band and they didn't really have many options in the Epcot shop.

00:32:32.037 --> 00:32:34.197
BETH: So we went over to the world of Disney.

00:32:34.197 --> 00:32:38.477
VIRGINIA: Yeah, that's one of the best places to look for magic bands for sure.

00:32:38.477 --> 00:32:40.997
VIRGINIA: So what did you end up selecting?

00:32:40.997 --> 00:32:42.737
LEONI: I chose a pride one.

00:32:42.737 --> 00:32:45.997
LEONI: It's like a black one with all of the pride pictures.

00:32:45.997 --> 00:32:47.257
VIRGINIA: Is it like the Mickey heads?

00:32:47.257 --> 00:32:48.257
VIRGINIA: Is it the rainbow Mickey heads?

00:32:49.217 --> 00:32:50.157
LEONI: Yeah, I think so.

00:32:50.157 --> 00:32:52.897
LEONI: Yeah, I had the little hands on as well.

00:32:52.897 --> 00:32:56.197
VIRGINIA: Oh yeah, I think I have that one too.

00:32:56.197 --> 00:32:56.997
VIRGINIA: Oh nice.

00:32:56.997 --> 00:33:00.057
VIRGINIA: Yeah, I got it in the oddest way though.

00:33:00.057 --> 00:33:05.017
VIRGINIA: Because this was recently within the past year.

00:33:05.017 --> 00:33:12.077
VIRGINIA: I was walking in with Alex to go meet one of his friends in Epcot, and his friend had a new magic band and had chosen that one.

00:33:12.077 --> 00:33:17.917
VIRGINIA: For whatever reason, we were connected on My Disney Experience, but it's like I didn't purchase that magic band for him.

00:33:18.937 --> 00:33:20.317
VIRGINIA: I had nothing to do with it.

00:33:20.317 --> 00:33:22.597
VIRGINIA: It was just we happened to be connected as friends.

00:33:23.097 --> 00:33:26.097
VIRGINIA: For some reason, his magic band got associated with me.

00:33:27.397 --> 00:33:29.057
VIRGINIA: They were like, well, we can't fix it now.

00:33:29.057 --> 00:33:32.457
VIRGINIA: This is your magic band for forever and ever.

00:33:32.457 --> 00:33:35.517
VIRGINIA: They gave him a gift card to go get a new magic band.

00:33:35.517 --> 00:33:37.317
VIRGINIA: I unexpectedly got that one.

00:33:37.317 --> 00:33:38.577
VIRGINIA: I was like, this is so cute.

00:33:38.937 --> 00:33:41.257
VIRGINIA: I wasn't expecting to purchase.

00:33:41.257 --> 00:33:43.337
VIRGINIA: I did not need to purchase a new magic band.

00:33:43.337 --> 00:33:45.857
VIRGINIA: I got about a million of them, but you know what?

00:33:46.177 --> 00:33:48.017
VIRGINIA: I'll take it.

00:33:48.017 --> 00:33:48.697
LEONI: I'll take it.

00:33:48.697 --> 00:33:50.077
LEONI: I love that.

00:33:50.077 --> 00:33:52.017
LEONI: It matches my lounge flag.

00:33:52.017 --> 00:33:55.337
LEONI: I brought a pride lounge flag with me.

00:33:55.497 --> 00:33:56.317
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:33:56.317 --> 00:33:57.597
LEONI: I've got to go with it.

00:33:57.597 --> 00:34:01.137
VIRGINIA: I have not opened up the gates because they're so cute.

00:34:01.137 --> 00:34:05.157
VIRGINIA: I just know I would start buying them every time I went.

00:34:05.157 --> 00:34:09.897
LEONI: The one that I have, technically it's not even mine, it's my fiance's but I still took it with me.

00:34:09.897 --> 00:34:14.757
LEONI: I bought it from a website called Vinted, which is second-hand.

00:34:16.417 --> 00:34:22.257
LEONI: I didn't realize it's not in the US, but it's like a marketplace second-hand one.

00:34:22.257 --> 00:34:24.537
BETH: I think in the US it's like cost mark.

00:34:24.537 --> 00:34:26.917
BETH: It'd be like your equipment.

00:34:26.917 --> 00:34:32.917
BETH: When people sell things, they have clothes and stuff and it's like second-hand, you can buy it online.

00:34:34.597 --> 00:34:36.177
LEONI: It was brand new and everything.

00:34:36.177 --> 00:34:41.137
LEONI: I got it for probably over 50 percent than what you would normally buy.

00:34:42.457 --> 00:34:44.297
VIRGINIA: That's really good.

00:34:44.297 --> 00:34:49.797
VIRGINIA: I also have the excuse of I live in New York City, so I just do not have the closet space to have.

00:34:49.797 --> 00:34:50.517
LEONI: Fair.

00:34:50.517 --> 00:34:53.137
VIRGINIA: If I got one, I would have to only get one and that's not going to happen.

00:34:53.497 --> 00:34:58.057
VIRGINIA: Instead, I'm just denying myself for getting any at all.

00:34:59.297 --> 00:34:59.877
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:35:00.477 --> 00:35:02.457
VIRGINIA: You headed over and got your magic band.

00:35:02.817 --> 00:35:04.397
VIRGINIA: Anything else that particular day?

00:35:04.797 --> 00:35:09.637
BETH: No, I just grabbed a quick bite at Earl of Stamford and then just went home.

00:35:09.637 --> 00:35:10.197
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:35:10.197 --> 00:35:11.457
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:35:11.457 --> 00:35:16.657
VIRGINIA: Thursday, September 19th, this was an Islands of Adventure Day.

00:35:16.657 --> 00:35:25.897
VIRGINIA: Leoni, you're a huge Jurassic Park fan, so I know you were super excited about that themed area and especially excited about Velocicoaster.

00:35:25.897 --> 00:35:35.857
VIRGINIA: Beth, I gave you an extremely hard time during the pre-trip about riding Velocicoaster and whether you would have done that by the time we spoke again.

00:35:35.857 --> 00:35:44.437
VIRGINIA: So A, I hope you did it, but B, I want to apologize because I gave you such a hard time and I feel like I put a lot of pressure on you.

00:35:44.437 --> 00:35:46.477
VIRGINIA: So I'm sorry about that.

00:35:46.477 --> 00:35:49.177
VIRGINIA: And did you end up riding it?

00:35:49.177 --> 00:35:51.497
BETH: Suddenly, no.

00:35:51.517 --> 00:35:52.097
VIRGINIA: I didn't.

00:35:52.097 --> 00:35:53.397
VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.

00:35:53.417 --> 00:35:54.117
BETH: I'm so sorry.

00:35:54.117 --> 00:35:54.737
BETH: Don't hate me.

00:35:55.757 --> 00:35:57.797
VIRGINIA: I do not hate you.

00:35:57.797 --> 00:35:59.797
BETH: It just scared me too much to see it.

00:35:59.797 --> 00:36:03.857
BETH: Just like walking in and just seeing it was like, no, this is not good.

00:36:03.857 --> 00:36:04.677
VIRGINIA: It's big.

00:36:05.217 --> 00:36:06.217
VIRGINIA: It's really big.

00:36:06.217 --> 00:36:06.737
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:36:07.177 --> 00:36:15.497
VIRGINIA: I was editing the pre-trip and as I was listening to me talk to you, I was like, wow, I am really laying on the pressure to this lady to ride Velocicoaster.

00:36:15.497 --> 00:36:18.397
VIRGINIA: And I was like, I should not have put so much pressure on her.

00:36:18.457 --> 00:36:20.237
VIRGINIA: You're totally fine.

00:36:20.237 --> 00:36:26.277
VIRGINIA: Maybe one day you'll ride it, but I can fully acknowledge that it is such a tall ride.

00:36:26.277 --> 00:36:28.837
VIRGINIA: It is really intimidating looking.

00:36:28.837 --> 00:36:31.837
VIRGINIA: So Leoni, you wrote it.

00:36:31.837 --> 00:36:33.477
VIRGINIA: What did you think?

00:36:33.477 --> 00:36:34.437
LEONI: I did.

00:36:34.437 --> 00:36:36.577
LEONI: And it was amazing.

00:36:36.577 --> 00:36:41.717
LEONI: I've never gone on a roller coaster and come off and take me back.

00:36:41.717 --> 00:36:42.157
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:36:42.157 --> 00:36:46.717
LEONI: Like I generally was like, well, I actually don't know if I can go back on.

00:36:46.717 --> 00:36:47.197
VIRGINIA: Really?

00:36:47.197 --> 00:36:48.937
LEONI: But I would have done.

00:36:48.937 --> 00:36:50.517
LEONI: We just never had the time to.

00:36:51.837 --> 00:36:54.717
LEONI: I think it's incredible.

00:36:54.717 --> 00:36:57.157
LEONI: The ride itself, absolutely amazing.

00:36:57.157 --> 00:36:59.857
LEONI: But I generally thought I was going to fall out my seat.

00:37:00.037 --> 00:37:02.677
LEONI: I hope that that's the way you're supposed to feel.

00:37:02.677 --> 00:37:04.297
LEONI: But I was slipping and sliding.

00:37:04.297 --> 00:37:05.757
LEONI: I did not feel that way.

00:37:05.757 --> 00:37:06.297
LEONI: You didn't?

00:37:06.297 --> 00:37:07.937
VIRGINIA: No, I felt like, oh my God.

00:37:07.937 --> 00:37:11.517
LEONI: Well, when we went upside down, my thighs like hit.

00:37:11.517 --> 00:37:15.217
LEONI: I literally dropped on the seat when we were upside down.

00:37:16.157 --> 00:37:22.417
LEONI: I was jumping all over the place and I was clinging on to that seat for dear life.

00:37:22.417 --> 00:37:33.257
VIRGINIA: I mean, I'm also the type of person that when you tell me to click my bar into place, I am practically just making it so I can't breathe at all because I'm like, this has to be so tight.

00:37:33.257 --> 00:37:35.257
VIRGINIA: No, I felt very secure when I wrote it.

00:37:35.257 --> 00:37:37.717
VIRGINIA: I felt like I had really locked myself in there.

00:37:37.717 --> 00:37:50.037
VIRGINIA: What I did feel, and I don't think this is at all possible, but I did feel that when you went upside down over the water, it felt like if you raised up your hand, that you could skim the water with your finger.

00:37:50.037 --> 00:37:54.077
VIRGINIA: I know they would not let that happen, but it just felt like you were so close to it.

00:37:54.077 --> 00:37:55.717
VIRGINIA: Such a good ride.

00:37:55.717 --> 00:37:57.117
LEONI: Yeah, it is.

00:37:57.117 --> 00:38:02.597
LEONI: It was one that I was really apprehensive for.

00:38:03.677 --> 00:38:14.577
LEONI: I'm building up the courage to post on some of the Disney pages, but being a plus-size person, I was really insecure and thinking.

00:38:15.777 --> 00:38:27.857
LEONI: I wasn't putting my whole holiday on that ride, but I definitely would have been really disappointed if I couldn't fit on the ride, and especially Universal and Islands of Adventure either park.

00:38:27.857 --> 00:38:35.277
LEONI: I was more nervous about being able to get on the rides, and I was able to ride everything.

00:38:35.277 --> 00:38:40.037
LEONI: It was a bonus, but it was definitely something that I was really nervous about.

00:38:40.037 --> 00:38:50.577
LEONI: But it was really nice to have test seats there, and all the cast members of the parks were so nice about it as well, and Beth was really supportive as well.

00:38:50.577 --> 00:38:55.537
LEONI: Just actually being able to get on the test seat for me was, I've never had to do that before.

00:38:56.497 --> 00:38:58.417
LEONI: But yeah, it was good.

00:38:58.417 --> 00:39:00.797
LEONI: It was a fabulous ride.

00:39:00.797 --> 00:39:05.617
VIRGINIA: Did you do the other Jurassic Park, like the water raft thing?

00:39:05.617 --> 00:39:06.697
VIRGINIA: I don't even know what it's called.

00:39:07.277 --> 00:39:09.497
BETH: Jurassic Park River Adventure.

00:39:09.497 --> 00:39:09.957
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:39:10.657 --> 00:39:12.157
BETH: Yeah, we did that.

00:39:12.157 --> 00:39:13.697
LEONI: Yeah, we did.

00:39:13.697 --> 00:39:20.377
LEONI: The first time we were pretty wet, but I wouldn't say as soaked as we got on Tiana's.

00:39:20.377 --> 00:39:21.457
VIRGINIA: Oh, really?

00:39:21.457 --> 00:39:25.117
LEONI: Tiana's Bio Adventure, we were drenched.

00:39:25.117 --> 00:39:26.057
VIRGINIA: What seat were you in?

00:39:26.057 --> 00:39:26.617
VIRGINIA: Were you at the front?

00:39:26.617 --> 00:39:28.157
BETH: Yeah, the front.

00:39:28.657 --> 00:39:30.057
VIRGINIA: There you go.

00:39:30.057 --> 00:39:32.677
LEONI: Twice, yeah, both times.

00:39:32.677 --> 00:39:42.997
VIRGINIA: While we're on the topic of Universal and their rides, and especially a ride where you know you're going to get wet to some degree on the ride, how did you feel about the locker situation?

00:39:42.997 --> 00:39:49.717
VIRGINIA: Because Universal pretty much makes you put your stuff into a locker before nearly every ride.

00:39:49.717 --> 00:39:55.417
VIRGINIA: Did you find that to be an inconvenience or was it not so bad?

00:39:55.417 --> 00:39:59.937
LEONI: Sometimes it was okay if it wasn't too busy.

00:39:59.937 --> 00:40:05.197
LEONI: But a lot of the times, there's a lot of people trying to put their bags in.

00:40:05.197 --> 00:40:11.177
LEONI: I think that's where frustration comes in because you're trying to get your bag out, which is going to free their locker.

00:40:11.177 --> 00:40:11.817
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:40:11.817 --> 00:40:13.457
LEONI: Like free up a locker in a few minutes.

00:40:13.797 --> 00:40:14.117
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:40:14.117 --> 00:40:20.417
LEONI: And so people get frustrated and kind of climbing over the top of each other or you're standing waiting for someone to open there.

00:40:20.417 --> 00:40:27.417
LEONI: So it can be quite frustrating if it's quiet, whatever time of day you go, then it's not so bad at all.

00:40:27.417 --> 00:40:36.237
LEONI: But if it's busy, especially around like Hagrid's ride, the Harry Potter, the big queues, it can be quite a lot.

00:40:36.237 --> 00:40:36.657
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:40:36.657 --> 00:40:45.217
VIRGINIA: And if you're somebody who carries a bigger bag, then that can be hard because the smaller free lockers, they don't fit some of those bigger backpacks.

00:40:45.217 --> 00:40:48.657
VIRGINIA: If you're using a lounge flight or something, that's fine, that fits.

00:40:48.657 --> 00:40:57.557
VIRGINIA: But I went with my friend who had a slightly bigger bag than I did, and she had to pay for a locker every single time because it just wouldn't fit into the smaller locker.

00:40:59.917 --> 00:41:06.337
LEONI: That I don't think is very fair because you can't, you need the big bags, especially if you're coming with younger children.

00:41:07.937 --> 00:41:17.277
LEONI: So I don't think it's fair to make everyone pay, or at least you should be able to pay once, and whether it's three dollars, five dollars, and then that just gets you the bigger locker throughout the day.

00:41:17.277 --> 00:41:17.737
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:41:17.737 --> 00:41:18.737
VIRGINIA: Yeah, I agree.

00:41:18.737 --> 00:41:20.317
VIRGINIA: That's a good idea.

00:41:20.317 --> 00:41:23.077
VIRGINIA: Universal, if you're listening, which I doubt you are.

00:41:25.777 --> 00:41:26.777
LEONI: It's like a hint.

00:41:26.777 --> 00:41:28.577
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:41:28.577 --> 00:41:29.017
LEONI: All right.

00:41:29.017 --> 00:41:31.837
VIRGINIA: Did you end up staying at Eyelids Adventure until close?

00:41:31.837 --> 00:41:36.637
BETH: I don't think we stayed until close, but maybe like not too soon.

00:41:36.637 --> 00:41:37.697
LEONI: Yeah, I remember it.

00:41:37.697 --> 00:41:44.537
LEONI: Actually, no, I think we did because we went on Hagris twice today.

00:41:46.137 --> 00:41:47.457
VIRGINIA: Oh, did you?

00:41:47.457 --> 00:41:54.557
LEONI: So me and Beth on this trip, I don't know what stars were aligned, but the stars were aligned for us.

00:41:54.557 --> 00:42:01.737
LEONI: There were so many times where just lucky, nice, kind things happened to us.

00:42:01.737 --> 00:42:07.937
LEONI: So going back to test seats and stuff, I wanted to do the test seat for Hagris, just a double check.

00:42:07.937 --> 00:42:09.677
LEONI: I did it on all the rides just in case.

00:42:11.277 --> 00:42:22.317
LEONI: And I asked this attendant that looked, there was a couple of attendants, I thought, okay, that person doesn't look very cooperative, just in general, you just get vibe from people.

00:42:22.317 --> 00:42:29.197
LEONI: And Beth was like, that person over there, who was fanning the fan really fabulously, looked really nice.

00:42:29.197 --> 00:42:33.417
LEONI: And we went over and I said, would you mind helping me with the test seat?

00:42:33.417 --> 00:42:40.077
LEONI: And they were really nice and they covered the light and they were just like, all they needed to do is sit back and pull it.

00:42:40.077 --> 00:42:41.677
LEONI: Just pull as much as you can.

00:42:41.677 --> 00:42:43.777
LEONI: It's not about lights.

00:42:43.777 --> 00:42:46.897
LEONI: It's, you know, whatever happens, you know, it doesn't matter.

00:42:46.897 --> 00:42:48.977
LEONI: We're not going to base everything on a lot of light.

00:42:48.977 --> 00:42:49.577
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:42:49.577 --> 00:42:51.677
LEONI: And then uncovered his hands and it was green.

00:42:51.677 --> 00:42:52.377
LEONI: It was fine.

00:42:52.377 --> 00:42:54.297
LEONI: And they were like, see, there you go.

00:42:54.297 --> 00:42:55.137
LEONI: That was absolutely fine.

00:42:55.137 --> 00:42:56.957
LEONI: I was like, thank you so much for that.

00:42:56.957 --> 00:43:05.537
LEONI: Because he just made it, well, he, they, I'm not 100% sure on their pronouns, but it just made it so much more comfortable.

00:43:06.077 --> 00:43:11.377
LEONI: It wasn't just sit back, let me just see if it fits or try it yourself.

00:43:11.377 --> 00:43:18.237
LEONI: It was a, your life is not, is not to be dealt on a light here.

00:43:18.237 --> 00:43:19.477
LEONI: Like it's much more important than that.

00:43:19.477 --> 00:43:21.177
LEONI: And I really appreciated it.

00:43:21.177 --> 00:43:24.937
LEONI: So then we went to put things in lockers, knowing that we could go on the ride.

00:43:24.937 --> 00:43:29.777
LEONI: We knew it was going to be an hour and a half wait, but we just wanted to get on it.

00:43:29.777 --> 00:43:32.497
LEONI: And he comes up to Beth and gives Beth some receipts.

00:43:33.357 --> 00:43:35.777
LEONI: And Beth was like, what's this?

00:43:35.777 --> 00:43:38.337
LEONI: And he was like, so you don't have to queue up again, girl.

00:43:38.337 --> 00:43:46.597
LEONI: He'd given Beth two fast track tickets so that we could go on two different rides and pass the queue.

00:43:46.597 --> 00:43:48.657
LEONI: And we were like, what?

00:43:48.657 --> 00:43:50.477
LEONI: And he was like, yeah, there you go.

00:43:51.197 --> 00:43:53.577
LEONI: And then before we know it, he disappeared.

00:43:53.577 --> 00:43:57.597
LEONI: So we were able to ride Hagrid's twice and just walk on basically.

00:43:57.717 --> 00:43:59.237
VIRGINIA: Oh, that's amazing.

00:43:59.237 --> 00:43:59.517
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:43:59.517 --> 00:44:01.757
LEONI: I just couldn't believe it.

00:44:01.757 --> 00:44:03.837
LEONI: I was crying so much walking in that queue.

00:44:03.837 --> 00:44:06.597
LEONI: I just couldn't believe how kind somebody was.

00:44:06.597 --> 00:44:12.317
LEONI: And not only just to make me feel comfortable, but just go out of their way and then give us like walk on passes.

00:44:12.317 --> 00:44:13.557
LEONI: And it doesn't exist for Hagrid's.

00:44:13.557 --> 00:44:18.637
LEONI: You can't get, I don't even think you can get a fast pass for Hagrid's at the moment.

00:44:18.637 --> 00:44:19.737
LEONI: Don't think it's included.

00:44:19.737 --> 00:44:26.697
VIRGINIA: No, I think when you get your express pass or whatever, even if you have like the unlimited version, I don't think it works on that ride.

00:44:27.297 --> 00:44:30.157
LEONI: Yeah, so we were able to just walk on it.

00:44:30.157 --> 00:44:30.617
VIRGINIA: That's amazing.

00:44:30.617 --> 00:44:40.797
LEONI: And so at the end of the night, we knew that there's no point in using our second one on any other ride because doing Hagrid's again in the dark would be cool.

00:44:40.797 --> 00:44:42.657
LEONI: And we got on the front row as well.

00:44:42.657 --> 00:44:43.337
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:44:43.337 --> 00:44:44.597
LEONI: For that second time, so it was brilliant.

00:44:44.597 --> 00:44:53.197
VIRGINIA: Since you rode it twice, I have to ask, did you trade seats so that you each got an experience on the bike and you each got an experience on the sidecar?

00:44:54.737 --> 00:44:55.397
LEONI: We didn't.

00:44:55.397 --> 00:44:59.157
LEONI: And that was only because I didn't try the test seat on the other seat.

00:44:59.157 --> 00:44:59.597
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:44:59.597 --> 00:45:05.037
LEONI: So there was almost not a point of risking not being able to sit on it and then having to swap again.

00:45:05.037 --> 00:45:05.457
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:45:05.457 --> 00:45:09.377
LEONI: So just to kind of keep it easier, I was like, well, I know that I can go on that seat.

00:45:09.377 --> 00:45:10.397
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:45:10.397 --> 00:45:16.357
VIRGINIA: Had you watched any POV videos or did you go into a blind?

00:45:16.357 --> 00:45:17.577
LEONI: I went into a blind.

00:45:17.577 --> 00:45:24.357
LEONI: I had seen the obvious, like, thrill bits, but I knew I didn't know anything about the ride.

00:45:24.357 --> 00:45:30.577
LEONI: I've just seen it on like your typical commercials or on the websites, you know, those little snippets that you see.

00:45:30.577 --> 00:45:32.837
LEONI: Well, apart from that, I didn't know anything.

00:45:32.837 --> 00:45:33.957
LEONI: And it was amazing.

00:45:33.957 --> 00:45:43.277
VIRGINIA: So I'm going to assume that most people listening to this have written it or so if you don't want a spoiler, you know, skip ahead a minute.

00:45:44.457 --> 00:45:52.497
VIRGINIA: I am jumping in just to give you enough time to fast forward through in case you've not written Hagrid's yet and don't want to be spoiled.

00:45:52.497 --> 00:45:59.817
VIRGINIA: If that's you, then after you hear this next chime, you'll want to fast forward approximately one minute and 20 seconds.

00:45:59.817 --> 00:46:01.957
VIRGINIA: OK, here we go.

00:46:03.577 --> 00:46:10.997
VIRGINIA: But the moment when it drops, I had gone to without spoilers either.

00:46:10.997 --> 00:46:12.657
VIRGINIA: Yeah, it was amazing.

00:46:12.657 --> 00:46:15.837
BETH: I kept side eyeing Leoni like, oh, it's going to come, it's going to come.

00:46:15.837 --> 00:46:18.197
BETH: And then it's like when it happened, you just screamed really loud.

00:46:18.197 --> 00:46:19.517
BETH: I was like, yay.

00:46:21.277 --> 00:46:23.617
LEONI: I did not expect that.

00:46:23.617 --> 00:46:25.577
LEONI: Like I didn't expect it.

00:46:25.577 --> 00:46:29.297
LEONI: Backwards, I just thought, OK, this looks like a great ride.

00:46:29.297 --> 00:46:34.277
LEONI: Like, because as you're walking around the queue, you obviously can see it going forward and round.

00:46:34.277 --> 00:46:35.937
LEONI: I was like, fabulous.

00:46:35.937 --> 00:46:40.297
LEONI: Then the drop came in and I thought, wait, wait a sec.

00:46:41.717 --> 00:46:42.277
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:46:42.277 --> 00:46:46.557
VIRGINIA: So between Hagrid's and Velocicoaster, what's your ranking?

00:46:46.557 --> 00:46:54.137
LEONI: Oh, I'm going to say Hagrid's because of the different elements in it.

00:46:54.137 --> 00:46:58.437
LEONI: And obviously in the dark, I mean, I know Velocicoaster and the dark would be incredible.

00:46:58.437 --> 00:47:03.297
LEONI: But Hagrid's, yeah, it does have them, just little bits that just make it more exciting.

00:47:03.297 --> 00:47:03.697
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:47:03.697 --> 00:47:09.737
VIRGINIA: While you were over in the Wizarding World, did you do anything else this day?

00:47:10.377 --> 00:47:14.017
LEONI: I tried butter beer, frozen butter beer, for the first time.

00:47:14.017 --> 00:47:20.797
LEONI: So we went to the, I think we ordered them from the three broomsticks, I think is where we ordered them from.

00:47:20.797 --> 00:47:23.017
LEONI: What else did we do that day?

00:47:23.017 --> 00:47:25.837
BETH: We had the Mesa Pidin Journey Ride.

00:47:25.837 --> 00:47:26.917
LEONI: Oh, yeah, of course.

00:47:26.917 --> 00:47:28.017
VIRGINIA: How'd you like that one?

00:47:28.017 --> 00:47:29.857
LEONI: Yeah, I really enjoyed it.

00:47:29.897 --> 00:47:36.077
LEONI: It was one ride that I thought it kind of got me with the motion sickness.

00:47:36.077 --> 00:47:42.757
LEONI: That was one ride I was like, okay, I don't think I can do a motion sickness ride after that one right now.

00:47:42.757 --> 00:47:43.097
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:47:43.517 --> 00:47:44.497
LEONI: It definitely threw me.

00:47:44.497 --> 00:47:45.597
LEONI: It was more towards the end.

00:47:45.597 --> 00:47:49.017
LEONI: I was just like, whoa, my brain is balancing.

00:47:49.017 --> 00:47:54.477
VIRGINIA: Yeah, it's an unusual ride device when you really look at it and what it's doing with you.

00:47:55.137 --> 00:48:05.137
VIRGINIA: I think you can see videos online where you can see the thing moving, and it's basically like a big arm that's just kind of like putting you in front of the screens.

00:48:05.677 --> 00:48:08.457
VIRGINIA: It's weird looking, but that's so much fun.

00:48:08.457 --> 00:48:10.477
VIRGINIA: I love the Wizarding World.

00:48:10.477 --> 00:48:13.857
VIRGINIA: I don't think I asked either of you on the pre-trip.

00:48:13.857 --> 00:48:14.877
VIRGINIA: What house are you?

00:48:14.877 --> 00:48:16.137
BETH: I'm a Hufflepuff.

00:48:16.157 --> 00:48:17.037
BETH: I'm proud.

00:48:17.037 --> 00:48:17.677
VIRGINIA: And proud?

00:48:17.677 --> 00:48:18.597
VIRGINIA: A proud Hufflepuff.

00:48:18.597 --> 00:48:20.837
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:48:20.937 --> 00:48:22.557
LEONI: I'm a Gryffindor.

00:48:22.557 --> 00:48:23.237
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:48:23.237 --> 00:48:23.877
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:48:23.877 --> 00:48:25.017
VIRGINIA: Alex is a Gryffindor.

00:48:25.017 --> 00:48:25.677
VIRGINIA: I'm a Ravenclaw.

00:48:26.097 --> 00:48:26.917
LEONI: Nice.

00:48:26.917 --> 00:48:27.477
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:48:27.477 --> 00:48:29.717
VIRGINIA: And one of my best friends is a Hufflepuff.

00:48:29.717 --> 00:48:36.597
VIRGINIA: And I think she desperately wants to be a Slytherin, but she has to accept her Hufflepuff ways.

00:48:37.777 --> 00:48:39.157
VIRGINIA: She's very loyal.

00:48:41.437 --> 00:48:42.297
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:48:42.297 --> 00:48:43.877
VIRGINIA: Is that all for Thursday?

00:48:43.877 --> 00:48:44.077
BETH: Yeah.

00:48:44.077 --> 00:48:49.777
BETH: I think we just sort of went back and then we ordered some food and then just sort of chilled for the night after that.

00:48:49.777 --> 00:48:56.777
VIRGINIA: So Friday, September 20th, you had plans to do Volcano Bay and do some shopping.

00:48:56.777 --> 00:48:58.597
VIRGINIA: So did you make it over to Volcano Bay?

00:48:58.597 --> 00:48:59.437
LEONI: Yes, we did.

00:48:59.437 --> 00:49:01.117
LEONI: So we were able to have...

00:49:01.117 --> 00:49:06.237
LEONI: Oh, this is the day that we walked to the Endless Summer Universal Hotel.

00:49:06.237 --> 00:49:06.537
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:49:06.537 --> 00:49:12.597
LEONI: So we were able to get a shuttle bus from there to Volcano Bay.

00:49:12.597 --> 00:49:12.977
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:49:12.977 --> 00:49:14.557
VIRGINIA: That was a good idea.

00:49:14.557 --> 00:49:15.557
VIRGINIA: Good idea.

00:49:15.557 --> 00:49:16.497
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:49:16.497 --> 00:49:17.797
VIRGINIA: How did you like Volcano Bay?

00:49:17.797 --> 00:49:19.017
VIRGINIA: I've never been there personally.

00:49:19.377 --> 00:49:20.717
BETH: It was amazing.

00:49:20.717 --> 00:49:21.877
BETH: Yeah, I love that waterpark.

00:49:21.877 --> 00:49:27.617
BETH: It's probably my favorite waterpark in Orlando, having done like the Disney ones and the Universal ones.

00:49:27.617 --> 00:49:32.977
VIRGINIA: They have the bands that you can scan to know when to come back, right?

00:49:32.977 --> 00:49:35.517
BETH: I think it's called a Tapu Tapu.

00:49:35.717 --> 00:49:41.557
BETH: It's like a little watch you can wear, and then you can scan into the ride so you don't have to actually get in a queue.

00:49:41.557 --> 00:49:44.697
BETH: It will just flash up and tell you when you could go and get in the ride.

00:49:44.697 --> 00:49:45.057
LEONI: Yeah.

00:49:45.057 --> 00:49:46.257
LEONI: No, I really liked it.

00:49:47.397 --> 00:49:51.337
LEONI: The water when you get in is really cold, actually.

00:49:51.337 --> 00:49:53.117
LEONI: It's quite an adjustment.

00:49:53.117 --> 00:49:53.777
LEONI: Yeah.

00:49:53.777 --> 00:49:58.617
LEONI: I loved the fact that it was cold, but yeah, it took us a little bit to get used to it.

00:49:59.797 --> 00:50:03.557
VIRGINIA: Did you like the water coasters they had there?

00:50:03.557 --> 00:50:05.997
LEONI: We didn't actually really do any of those.

00:50:05.997 --> 00:50:11.617
LEONI: I think this day in particular was more just for us to relax and soak in the sun.

00:50:12.737 --> 00:50:22.597
LEONI: I know that only from my point of view, I personally didn't want to do many of the water rides because I know that there's also a weight.

00:50:22.597 --> 00:50:25.657
LEONI: I was like, I can do a test seat.

00:50:25.657 --> 00:50:31.557
LEONI: I don't think I can do if someone was to actually weigh me for a ride.

00:50:31.557 --> 00:50:33.437
VIRGINIA: I didn't even know they had that.

00:50:33.437 --> 00:50:33.737
LEONI: Yeah.

00:50:34.037 --> 00:50:41.457
LEONI: I tried to search as they come through and it was like, okay, so a lot of them are like 300 pounds, I think is your max weight for some of them.

00:50:42.497 --> 00:50:46.237
LEONI: And so I'm not 300 pounds.

00:50:46.237 --> 00:50:48.877
LEONI: I mean, it doesn't matter anyway if I wasn't.

00:50:48.877 --> 00:50:51.757
VIRGINIA: But it's just about being on a scale in front of people.

00:50:51.757 --> 00:50:52.257
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:50:52.357 --> 00:50:55.977
VIRGINIA: I was like, I don't even like being way over the doctor's office.

00:50:55.977 --> 00:50:58.737
VIRGINIA: I'm like, no, can I just run away and not look?

00:50:58.737 --> 00:50:59.617
LEONI: Yeah.

00:50:59.617 --> 00:51:00.857
LEONI: I was like, I'm on holiday.

00:51:00.857 --> 00:51:04.817
LEONI: I'm not going to be weighed to go down a wall ride.

00:51:04.817 --> 00:51:07.877
LEONI: So personally, that's why I kind of avoided them.

00:51:07.877 --> 00:51:08.317
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:51:08.317 --> 00:51:10.257
VIRGINIA: Did they have a lazy river?

00:51:10.797 --> 00:51:13.077
LEONI: Yes, we did the lazy river.

00:51:13.077 --> 00:51:14.277
VIRGINIA: How was that?

00:51:14.277 --> 00:51:15.457
BETH: We loved it.

00:51:15.457 --> 00:51:20.177
LEONI: We struggled more with trying to sit in the rubber ring.

00:51:20.177 --> 00:51:25.217
LEONI: But then we sat in it and we were like, it's not as comfortable as I thought it was going to be.

00:51:25.217 --> 00:51:27.737
LEONI: So we just hopped back out again.

00:51:29.017 --> 00:51:32.137
VIRGINIA: I like it when they, I've seen some that have noodles.

00:51:32.137 --> 00:51:38.017
VIRGINIA: And I like the noodle just kind of, because you can kind of like make it into a U shape and almost like sit on it like a little seat.

00:51:38.897 --> 00:51:40.517
VIRGINIA: And float down.

00:51:40.517 --> 00:51:41.477
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:51:41.477 --> 00:51:41.697
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:51:41.697 --> 00:51:50.137
VIRGINIA: But I've so many times tried to sit in an inner tube for a lazy river and totally flipped over and embarrassed myself.

00:51:50.137 --> 00:51:53.777
VIRGINIA: It's a universal problem and a universal pun intended.

00:51:56.837 --> 00:52:00.997
VIRGINIA: Beth is shaking her head like, you're so cheesy.

00:52:00.997 --> 00:52:05.997
BETH: It's not the most classy way to just live, is it like trying to jump into the rubber ring?

00:52:06.297 --> 00:52:08.277
BETH: It's just like no.

00:52:08.277 --> 00:52:12.217
VIRGINIA: No, I don't think there's anybody that can get into one of those gracefully.

00:52:12.857 --> 00:52:14.717
VIRGINIA: It's real hard.

00:52:14.717 --> 00:52:15.137
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:52:15.137 --> 00:52:16.777
VIRGINIA: So what about the shopping?

00:52:16.777 --> 00:52:21.117
BETH: So we went back to the hotel and then we just got ready.

00:52:21.117 --> 00:52:25.417
BETH: Then we got an Uber to the Florida Mall and we went to Primark.

00:52:26.357 --> 00:52:29.177
BETH: Primark is like life for us in the UK.

00:52:29.997 --> 00:52:31.757
BETH: Like we love a Primark here.

00:52:31.757 --> 00:52:35.077
BETH: And sadly, we were quite disappointed, isn't it?

00:52:35.077 --> 00:52:36.657
BETH: And it's a brand new one.

00:52:36.657 --> 00:52:38.277
BETH: It was quite small.

00:52:38.277 --> 00:52:44.657
BETH: And the photos looked like there was a second level and it's all like Disney.

00:52:44.657 --> 00:52:47.097
BETH: But when you got up there, it was quite small.

00:52:47.097 --> 00:52:54.177
BETH: And all the stuff they had was stuff that I'd seen when I was shopping for my holiday in Primark before we came out.

00:52:54.177 --> 00:53:00.297
BETH: And I don't know why I had my expectations so high, but I just thought it's going to be a massive floor full of old Disney stuff.

00:53:00.297 --> 00:53:06.437
BETH: But then when we got up there, we were both like, this is not what we thought it was going to be.

00:53:06.437 --> 00:53:07.337
BETH: Yeah.

00:53:07.337 --> 00:53:08.137
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:53:08.137 --> 00:53:13.737
VIRGINIA: I can understand you come here and a lot of the stores are so big, so I would expect it to be big.

00:53:13.737 --> 00:53:18.237
VIRGINIA: I have not been to the one down there, but I've been to the Primark that we have here in New York City.

00:53:18.237 --> 00:53:21.737
VIRGINIA: And same thing, I thought it was going to go in and it would be big and it was not.

00:53:22.237 --> 00:53:37.317
LEONI: I think also we'd watch some quite a few Disney influencers that had put on that it opened and they had like a Disney event for obviously influencers and their videos looks massive.

00:53:37.317 --> 00:53:41.397
LEONI: Like it looks like there's a whole floor of just pure Disney.

00:53:41.397 --> 00:53:50.337
LEONI: And when we're thinking a floor, we're talking like when a Primark in the UK is you won't get a small one, that's all big ones kind of thing.

00:53:50.337 --> 00:53:58.197
LEONI: So the way we're thinking is like, okay, there's a whole floor of Disney stuff.

00:53:58.197 --> 00:54:02.037
LEONI: And we got up there and I think my face was a picture.

00:54:02.077 --> 00:54:12.437
LEONI: I just looked at Beth and was like, this is like the same size as like a part of a corner in one of our Primarks.

00:54:13.897 --> 00:54:18.237
LEONI: And we were just like, it was a really big kind of, what do you call it?

00:54:18.237 --> 00:54:19.497
BETH: Anti-climax.

00:54:19.497 --> 00:54:21.097
LEONI: Anti-climax, yeah.

00:54:21.097 --> 00:54:24.797
LEONI: Because we were like, up the escalator, we were like, it's happening.

00:54:24.897 --> 00:54:27.777
BETH: We were like, we're about to go down.

00:54:27.777 --> 00:54:29.417
LEONI: We were like, yes.

00:54:32.137 --> 00:54:37.297
LEONI: So we went to then go get Cheesecake Factory to make everything better.

00:54:38.477 --> 00:54:39.477
LEONI: And it made everything better.

00:54:40.697 --> 00:54:42.877
VIRGINIA: Did you make it over to the outlets this day?

00:54:42.877 --> 00:54:45.857
LEONI: Not this day, but we did go.

00:54:45.857 --> 00:54:46.637
BETH: We had a great time.

00:54:46.637 --> 00:54:48.297
BETH: We'll tell you all about it later on.

00:54:48.297 --> 00:54:48.657
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:54:48.657 --> 00:54:49.857
VIRGINIA: We'll get to that.

00:54:49.857 --> 00:54:52.937
VIRGINIA: So thoughts on Cheesecake Factory?

00:54:53.037 --> 00:54:53.497
VIRGINIA: Loved it.

00:54:53.497 --> 00:54:55.397
BETH: My favorite restaurant ever.

00:54:55.397 --> 00:54:57.157
BETH: We only planned to go once.

00:54:57.157 --> 00:55:00.937
BETH: We went twice and we got Gordache another time.

00:55:00.937 --> 00:55:02.997
BETH: So three times in total.

00:55:04.857 --> 00:55:05.577
VIRGINIA: That's so funny.

00:55:06.397 --> 00:55:07.637
VIRGINIA: That's so funny.

00:55:07.637 --> 00:55:13.437
VIRGINIA: We have one here really close to my apartment and I think I've been to it once.

00:55:13.437 --> 00:55:15.017
VIRGINIA: I get so overwhelmed in there.

00:55:15.017 --> 00:55:16.677
VIRGINIA: It's just too many choices.

00:55:16.677 --> 00:55:17.437
BETH: Yeah.

00:55:17.437 --> 00:55:23.917
VIRGINIA: But I do love the Thai lettuce wraps they have on the appetizer menu.

00:55:23.957 --> 00:55:24.877
LEONI: So good.

00:55:24.877 --> 00:55:25.057
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:55:25.057 --> 00:55:25.697
VIRGINIA: If you like Thai food.

00:55:25.697 --> 00:55:27.377
BETH: My favorite thing is the street corn.

00:55:29.037 --> 00:55:35.117
VIRGINIA: See, I don't think I had street corn at the time I went last time, but now I'm obsessed with street corn.

00:55:35.117 --> 00:55:37.877
LEONI: So, yeah, definitely.

00:55:39.457 --> 00:55:45.857
LEONI: And I had the street corn, but I also tried the Thai shrimp for the appetizers as well.

00:55:45.857 --> 00:55:47.197
LEONI: That's really nice.

00:55:47.197 --> 00:55:53.637
LEONI: They also had, I can't think, it's almost like dumplings slash gyozas.

00:55:53.637 --> 00:55:55.897
LEONI: I can't think of what Cheesecake Factory call them.

00:55:56.497 --> 00:55:59.317
BETH: I think they call them like pot stickers or something like that.

00:55:59.317 --> 00:56:01.597
VIRGINIA: Yeah, pot stickers is another name for gyoza here.

00:56:02.877 --> 00:56:03.577
LEONI: Amazing.

00:56:03.577 --> 00:56:05.377
LEONI: Would recommend.

00:56:05.377 --> 00:56:07.817
VIRGINIA: It's making me hungry.

00:56:07.817 --> 00:56:08.457
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:56:08.457 --> 00:56:14.737
VIRGINIA: Let's get into Saturday, September 21st, which was your Hollywood Studios Day.

00:56:14.737 --> 00:56:21.137
VIRGINIA: So I know that you were going to be trying to get an individual lightning lane to Rise of the Resistance.

00:56:21.137 --> 00:56:24.517
VIRGINIA: Did you happen to do any multi-pass action on this day?

00:56:24.897 --> 00:56:28.857
LEONI: I think we did, but I think we were apprehensive.

00:56:28.857 --> 00:56:49.737
LEONI: We thought this day was going to be quite busy because when we got the multi-pass, we noticed that it wasn't the most popular rides available, and then there's obviously only certain rides you can choose one at a time, and then once you've done it, you can then choose, there's a section of three rides.

00:56:49.737 --> 00:56:50.137
VIRGINIA: The tiers.

00:56:51.117 --> 00:56:51.737
LEONI: Yes.

00:56:51.737 --> 00:56:52.237
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:56:53.177 --> 00:56:53.997
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:56:53.997 --> 00:56:54.157
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:56:54.157 --> 00:57:01.557
VIRGINIA: I think you would have been competing with the people who were staying on property and got to make their reservation seven days out.

00:57:01.557 --> 00:57:04.037
VIRGINIA: That's probably why.

00:57:04.037 --> 00:57:08.917
VIRGINIA: Also, there's just not that many rides at Hollywood Studios when you look at the total number of rides.

00:57:08.917 --> 00:57:15.237
VIRGINIA: Did you eventually later in the day, did they come up as options as you made your way through the day?

00:57:15.237 --> 00:57:15.977
LEONI: Yeah, I think so.

00:57:15.977 --> 00:57:24.937
LEONI: I think we ended up getting on either at the time or once you do one, you could obviously then book another.

00:57:25.837 --> 00:57:44.377
LEONI: But this was also another day where a bit of pixie dust was sprinkled on us because we turned up at about quarter past eight and we then just followed the crowd into this queue and the lady asked for our hotel reservation.

00:57:44.377 --> 00:57:49.977
LEONI: Then I looked towards my right and was like, there's a really big queue over there.

00:57:49.977 --> 00:57:56.277
LEONI: Then I clicked in like, this is early hotel entry.

00:57:56.277 --> 00:58:03.077
LEONI: We said, we're on international drive and she went, oh, no, I just need to see your booking.

00:58:03.077 --> 00:58:04.317
LEONI: We were like, oh, okay.

00:58:04.317 --> 00:58:07.817
LEONI: Trying to find it and I was like, but we're not on Disney property.

00:58:08.857 --> 00:58:09.837
LEONI: Do we need to go?

00:58:09.837 --> 00:58:12.277
LEONI: She went, you look pretty cool.

00:58:14.577 --> 00:58:17.617
LEONI: Just show me that you're staying nearby.

00:58:17.757 --> 00:58:20.377
LEONI: Beth showed that we were staying like our booking.

00:58:20.377 --> 00:58:21.897
LEONI: She went, yeah, go on in.

00:58:21.897 --> 00:58:24.397
LEONI: We got in at quarter past eight.

00:58:24.397 --> 00:58:25.157
VIRGINIA: Wow.

00:58:25.157 --> 00:58:25.917
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:58:25.917 --> 00:58:27.477
VIRGINIA: Yeah, that's amazing.

00:58:27.477 --> 00:58:31.137
BETH: We went straight to Life of the Resistance.

00:58:31.137 --> 00:58:33.397
BETH: I only had a 25-minute wait.

00:58:33.397 --> 00:58:35.057
BETH: We were so happy.

00:58:35.057 --> 00:58:37.617
VIRGINIA: See, it pays to be nice and cool.

00:58:42.357 --> 00:58:44.777
VIRGINIA: So how did you like Rise of the Resistance?

00:58:44.777 --> 00:58:47.157
LEONI: Always, and it's so good.

00:58:47.157 --> 00:58:50.477
LEONI: It was, this was what I was talking about with the theming.

00:58:50.477 --> 00:58:53.657
LEONI: The theming is next level.

00:58:53.657 --> 00:58:56.797
LEONI: And the ride is really good as well.

00:58:56.797 --> 00:59:00.557
LEONI: Just from the moment that you're queuing up, all the way until you come out of the ride.

00:59:01.337 --> 00:59:02.357
LEONI: It is fantastic.

00:59:02.357 --> 00:59:12.137
LEONI: And for someone that's not necessarily a Star Wars fan, you know, my favorite is Phantom Menace, and that's because it's the only one I've properly watched.

00:59:12.137 --> 00:59:14.137
LEONI: But it's, yeah, it's amazing.

00:59:14.137 --> 00:59:15.777
LEONI: Really enjoyed it.

00:59:16.817 --> 00:59:19.997
VIRGINIA: Did you do anything else over there in that area while you were there?

00:59:19.997 --> 00:59:24.497
BETH: We went to do Smuggler's Run straight after, which was really short to do as well.

00:59:24.497 --> 00:59:31.637
BETH: And I had really bad anxiety about this ride because I was like, don't put me as a pilot because I can't do that.

00:59:31.637 --> 00:59:36.337
BETH: And we got put as pilots and you just feel like all the pressure is on you.

00:59:36.337 --> 00:59:41.957
BETH: And there's two other ladies behind us that were like, I think you're either gunners or engineers.

00:59:41.957 --> 00:59:43.897
BETH: And I was just like, oh, I'm really sorry.

00:59:44.037 --> 00:59:46.477
BETH: This is going to crash like millions of people.

00:59:46.477 --> 00:59:49.877
VIRGINIA: I don't particularly like being a pilot either for the same reason.

00:59:49.877 --> 00:59:52.977
VIRGINIA: I'm like, this is, no, I just would rather push a button.

00:59:52.977 --> 00:59:55.597
VIRGINIA: But there are a lot of people who want to be pilots.

00:59:55.597 --> 01:00:01.737
VIRGINIA: So, I mean, maybe you could trade with somebody next time or I don't know, or you just crash.

01:00:01.737 --> 01:00:03.697
VIRGINIA: And that's how it is.

01:00:03.697 --> 01:00:04.637
LEONI: Enjoy the crash.

01:00:04.637 --> 01:00:06.057
VIRGINIA: The galaxy was still safe.

01:00:06.057 --> 01:00:07.837
BETH: I think we did quite well actually.

01:00:07.837 --> 01:00:09.217
LEONI: Yeah, we got through it, didn't we?

01:00:09.217 --> 01:00:10.957
LEONI: Like it was all right.

01:00:11.877 --> 01:00:14.457
VIRGINIA: Yeah, I don't think there's a way to lose.

01:00:14.457 --> 01:00:16.857
VIRGINIA: Everybody makes it back.

01:00:16.857 --> 01:00:25.237
VIRGINIA: Maybe there is, but I feel like everybody gets enough coaxium or whatever it's called to say that you completed the mission.

01:00:25.237 --> 01:00:26.577
VIRGINIA: Correct me if I'm wrong, listeners.

01:00:26.897 --> 01:00:33.237
VIRGINIA: If I'm wrong, please comment on my Instagram post and let me know that.

01:00:33.237 --> 01:00:33.817
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:00:33.817 --> 01:00:36.377
VIRGINIA: What else did you do this day in Hollywood Studios?

01:00:36.377 --> 01:00:42.217
LEONI: So we did Slinky Dog Dash, which we just queued up for.

01:00:42.217 --> 01:00:43.637
LEONI: It was Baton Hauer.

01:00:43.637 --> 01:00:46.337
LEONI: It's quite a tough one, I think, to queue up for in the heat.

01:00:46.337 --> 01:00:51.637
LEONI: It was the only one that is not inside, the fans just kind of blow hot air.

01:00:51.637 --> 01:00:52.977
LEONI: But it was a cute ride.

01:00:52.977 --> 01:00:54.037
BETH: It's a good one.

01:00:54.037 --> 01:00:55.657
LEONI: We then did Toy Story Mania.

01:00:55.657 --> 01:00:56.417
VIRGINIA: Who won?

01:00:56.417 --> 01:01:00.537
LEONI: I won, but Beth was very good and very close.

01:01:01.777 --> 01:01:04.117
LEONI: I think, is that the one we did twice?

01:01:04.117 --> 01:01:05.457
LEONI: I think we ended up doing that twice.

01:01:05.457 --> 01:01:06.777
BETH: Yeah, we did it twice.

01:01:06.857 --> 01:01:10.977
BETH: So Leoni won, and I was like, so what kind of tips have you got?

01:01:10.977 --> 01:01:12.037
BETH: How did you do it?

01:01:12.037 --> 01:01:12.757
BETH: Really good.

01:01:12.757 --> 01:01:17.217
BETH: She was telling me the next time, I just took her tips, and then I won.

01:01:17.217 --> 01:01:23.517
BETH: She was like, don't pull it too hard, just pull it a little bit, and then I did that, and then I won.

01:01:23.517 --> 01:01:24.457
BETH: I was like, okay.

01:01:24.457 --> 01:01:25.617
VIRGINIA: Good job.

01:01:27.297 --> 01:01:35.077
LEONI: Then towards the end of the day, I think, I can't think what we did for lunch that day, actually.

01:01:35.717 --> 01:01:40.177
BETH: I think for lunch, we went to, is it called ABC Commissary?

01:01:40.177 --> 01:01:40.997
VIRGINIA: A go-to for me.

01:01:40.997 --> 01:01:43.857
BETH: We went there, and I had a really nice salad.

01:01:43.857 --> 01:01:44.397
VIRGINIA: Really good place.

01:01:44.397 --> 01:01:48.797
VIRGINIA: I think sometimes overlook for more exciting options, but it's a go-to for me.

01:01:48.797 --> 01:01:52.477
LEONI: It's also a good one because the drinks are refillable there.

01:01:52.477 --> 01:01:52.697
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:01:52.697 --> 01:01:57.117
LEONI: I think a lot of the times you presume that they are refillable and that they're not.

01:01:57.117 --> 01:01:59.637
LEONI: That's a good one for especially your waters as well.

01:02:00.557 --> 01:02:01.777
VIRGINIA: Right.

01:02:01.777 --> 01:02:11.397
LEONI: Then we, towards the end of the day before we were going to, we knew we were going to go watch Fantasmic, so we planned to go on Tower of the Terror.

01:02:11.397 --> 01:02:12.877
VIRGINIA: Tower of Terror, yeah.

01:02:12.877 --> 01:02:14.917
LEONI: Tower of Terror.

01:02:14.917 --> 01:02:17.017
LEONI: Sorry.

01:02:17.037 --> 01:02:18.737
BETH: Tower of Terror.

01:02:20.157 --> 01:02:21.377
VIRGINIA: How did you like that?

01:02:21.377 --> 01:02:23.037
LEONI: Oh yeah, I loved it.

01:02:23.037 --> 01:02:23.357
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:02:23.357 --> 01:02:24.097
BETH: Loved that.

01:02:24.097 --> 01:02:24.517
VIRGINIA: I don't know.

01:02:24.517 --> 01:02:27.757
VIRGINIA: I think it's probably my favorite in Hollywood Studios.

01:02:27.757 --> 01:02:28.477
VIRGINIA: So good.

01:02:28.477 --> 01:02:34.817
VIRGINIA: I know that you mentioned that you had a reservation at Oga's at 620 when we spoke before.

01:02:34.817 --> 01:02:36.637
VIRGINIA: So did you make it to that?

01:02:36.637 --> 01:02:38.097
VIRGINIA: We did.

01:02:38.097 --> 01:02:43.557
VIRGINIA: Did you have to stand or did you magically get a sitting table?

01:02:43.557 --> 01:02:47.177
BETH: No, we stood like, you know, like the little DJ booths.

01:02:47.177 --> 01:02:48.917
BETH: We stood in front of that.

01:02:48.917 --> 01:02:50.857
VIRGINIA: Any fun drinks that you had?

01:02:50.857 --> 01:02:52.817
BETH: I had the Jaba Juice.

01:02:52.817 --> 01:02:54.717
VIRGINIA: Is that the one with the popping boba?

01:02:54.717 --> 01:02:56.677
BETH: Yeah, so nice.

01:02:56.677 --> 01:02:58.477
VIRGINIA: Did you try any of the snacks there at Oga's?

01:02:58.677 --> 01:03:00.397
VIRGINIA: Or did you only get beverages?

01:03:00.397 --> 01:03:02.477
LEONI: No, we just wanted to grab a drink.

01:03:02.477 --> 01:03:05.097
LEONI: And then we went for some food at Docking Bay 7.

01:03:05.097 --> 01:03:07.557
LEONI: Then it was the Phantasmac Show.

01:03:07.557 --> 01:03:07.997
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:03:07.997 --> 01:03:10.397
VIRGINIA: What did you think about Phantasmac?

01:03:10.397 --> 01:03:11.817
LEONI: Oh, it's the best.

01:03:11.817 --> 01:03:15.317
LEONI: I was just I was in awe from start to finish.

01:03:15.317 --> 01:03:17.417
LEONI: I cried from start to finish.

01:03:17.417 --> 01:03:24.877
VIRGINIA: Oh, would you say it was your favorite show at Disney of all the stage shows you saw?

01:03:24.877 --> 01:03:26.357
LEONI: Absolutely, of all of them.

01:03:26.357 --> 01:03:27.577
LEONI: I think it's just next level.

01:03:28.177 --> 01:03:30.537
LEONI: I think it's because the characters are there.

01:03:30.537 --> 01:03:36.817
LEONI: You see the characters, you see the princesses, you see the performers, and they are along with the show.

01:03:36.817 --> 01:03:45.697
LEONI: Whereas the fireworks shows, I mean, I'm not 100% sure about Magic Kingdom, but in Epcot, there's no performer.

01:03:45.697 --> 01:03:48.057
LEONI: You see the fireworks, which are fantastic.

01:03:49.197 --> 01:03:55.537
LEONI: But Phantasmac has a water wave that projects on it.

01:03:55.537 --> 01:03:56.657
LEONI: It's fabulous.

01:03:57.177 --> 01:03:58.717
VIRGINIA: Yeah, it's got it all.

01:03:58.717 --> 01:04:00.417
VIRGINIA: It is top level.

01:04:00.417 --> 01:04:01.157
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:04:01.157 --> 01:04:01.577
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:04:01.577 --> 01:04:05.457
VIRGINIA: So which showing of Phantasmac did you go to, the earlier or the later one?

01:04:05.457 --> 01:04:06.717
LEONI: We went to the later one.

01:04:06.717 --> 01:04:07.877
BETH: We went to the later one.

01:04:07.877 --> 01:04:08.737
VIRGINIA: OK.

01:04:08.737 --> 01:04:12.397
VIRGINIA: So ubered back to your hotel?

01:04:12.397 --> 01:04:13.077
LEONI: Yes.

01:04:13.077 --> 01:04:13.977
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:04:13.977 --> 01:04:15.577
VIRGINIA: Lots of ubers happening here.

01:04:15.577 --> 01:04:17.077
VIRGINIA: Lots of ubers.

01:04:17.077 --> 01:04:17.817
LEONI: All right.

01:04:17.817 --> 01:04:24.537
VIRGINIA: Let's talk about Sunday, September 22nd, which was your Magic Kingdom Day.

01:04:24.537 --> 01:04:26.257
VIRGINIA: And it was a party day.

01:04:26.497 --> 01:04:27.057
VIRGINIA: I noted.

01:04:27.057 --> 01:04:30.597
VIRGINIA: So that means that you probably had pretty low crowds.

01:04:30.597 --> 01:04:31.537
VIRGINIA: Is that true?

01:04:31.537 --> 01:04:32.337
BETH: Definitely.

01:04:32.337 --> 01:04:33.057
BETH: Yeah.

01:04:33.057 --> 01:04:34.757
VIRGINIA: Did you use multi pass this day?

01:04:34.757 --> 01:04:36.817
BETH: We didn't, but we used.

01:04:36.817 --> 01:04:39.397
BETH: Is it a virtual queue for Tron?

01:04:39.397 --> 01:04:40.857
BETH: Or is it an individual?

01:04:40.857 --> 01:04:42.797
VIRGINIA: I think you could do both.

01:04:42.797 --> 01:04:43.257
BETH: Oh, OK.

01:04:43.257 --> 01:04:44.757
VIRGINIA: Actually, you know what?

01:04:44.757 --> 01:04:46.057
VIRGINIA: I take that back.

01:04:46.057 --> 01:04:46.677
VIRGINIA: I take that back.

01:04:46.677 --> 01:04:52.517
VIRGINIA: I think recently it went to standby line and then individual Lightning Lane without the virtual queue.

01:04:52.517 --> 01:04:54.677
VIRGINIA: I think that's where we're at in this moment in time.

01:04:55.017 --> 01:04:57.577
VIRGINIA: So it sounds like you paid for an individual Lightning Lane for Tron?

01:04:57.577 --> 01:04:58.057
VIRGINIA: Yes.

01:04:58.057 --> 01:04:58.677
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:04:58.677 --> 01:04:59.637
VIRGINIA: Beth, did you do it?

01:04:59.637 --> 01:05:00.057
BETH: Yeah.

01:05:00.057 --> 01:05:03.057
VIRGINIA: OK.

01:05:03.057 --> 01:05:08.097
BETH: I think for me, the scaredness comes from seeing the ride.

01:05:08.097 --> 01:05:10.057
VIRGINIA: Oh, because it's mostly inside.

01:05:10.057 --> 01:05:16.077
BETH: I can't do the Hulk because the Hulk is massive and I'm like, oh, I can't do that.

01:05:16.077 --> 01:05:21.097
BETH: Same with Philosopher, where it's like Tron because you can't really see what's going on.

01:05:21.097 --> 01:05:28.177
BETH: I mean, I was really scared when we got in the seat and it started to go, I was like, oh no, it's really scary.

01:05:28.177 --> 01:05:29.997
BETH: But you don't really have time to think about it.

01:05:29.997 --> 01:05:33.937
BETH: Once you're locked in, there's no going back really, it's just there.

01:05:33.937 --> 01:05:34.837
BETH: But it was really fun.

01:05:34.837 --> 01:05:36.957
BETH: But it's over so quickly.

01:05:36.957 --> 01:05:41.697
BETH: I feel bad for people queuing for like two hours and it's just over.

01:05:41.697 --> 01:05:42.037
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:05:42.037 --> 01:05:47.297
VIRGINIA: I feel like if it's your only trip, I guess maybe wait that long.

01:05:47.297 --> 01:05:52.277
VIRGINIA: But I'm somebody who if it's a certain length of time, I'm like, I'll just wait and do it later in the day.

01:05:52.397 --> 01:05:54.537
VIRGINIA: Like I'll find another way to ride it.

01:05:54.537 --> 01:05:58.497
VIRGINIA: I don't like to waste my time in a two-hour line.

01:05:58.517 --> 01:06:01.257
VIRGINIA: Usually like 30 minutes is basically my limit.

01:06:01.257 --> 01:06:02.957
VIRGINIA: Like it's longer than 30 minutes.

01:06:02.957 --> 01:06:03.877
VIRGINIA: I will come back to it.

01:06:04.297 --> 01:06:05.837
VIRGINIA: It's not going anywhere.

01:06:05.837 --> 01:06:06.377
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:06:06.377 --> 01:06:08.877
VIRGINIA: Did you get on Tiana's Bayou Adventure this day?

01:06:08.877 --> 01:06:12.517
LEONI: I believe so because we did it twice overall.

01:06:12.517 --> 01:06:15.057
LEONI: So yeah, we would have got on this one.

01:06:15.057 --> 01:06:19.357
LEONI: I think we totally forgot about the seven o'clock virtual queue.

01:06:20.117 --> 01:06:23.317
LEONI: And then we went, oh yeah, oh, there's another one at one o'clock.

01:06:23.317 --> 01:06:27.137
LEONI: So then we were watching one of the shows.

01:06:27.137 --> 01:06:30.337
LEONI: It's like the Friendship Show during the-

01:06:31.357 --> 01:06:32.337
LEONI: Yeah.

01:06:32.337 --> 01:06:34.577
LEONI: That's the one, Friendship Fair.

01:06:34.577 --> 01:06:37.697
LEONI: So whilst we were watching that, I was tapping away.

01:06:39.157 --> 01:06:40.557
LEONI: And yeah, got us on it.

01:06:40.557 --> 01:06:41.757
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:06:41.757 --> 01:06:44.317
VIRGINIA: Did you end up trying the Cheeseburger Spring Rolls?

01:06:44.317 --> 01:06:49.557
VIRGINIA: Because that, I think, was one of the first things you mentioned to me about Magic Kingdom when we spoke before.

01:06:49.557 --> 01:06:54.317
BETH: We did have the Cheeseburger Spring Rolls, but it was on the second time we went to Magic Kingdom.

01:06:54.317 --> 01:06:55.217
VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.

01:06:55.217 --> 01:06:59.377
VIRGINIA: Well, while we're on the topic, just let me know, did they live up to the hype?

01:06:59.377 --> 01:07:00.837
BETH: Yeah, they were so good.

01:07:00.837 --> 01:07:02.557
VIRGINIA: Did you use the dipping sauce?

01:07:02.557 --> 01:07:04.317
BETH: Yeah.

01:07:04.337 --> 01:07:08.917
BETH: I had one of each, so I had a pepperoni one and the Cheeseburger.

01:07:08.917 --> 01:07:09.857
BETH: Just to try both.

01:07:09.877 --> 01:07:10.877
BETH: They were so good.

01:07:10.877 --> 01:07:13.157
VIRGINIA: I feel like maybe we could make them at home.

01:07:13.157 --> 01:07:14.637
VIRGINIA: There's got to be a recipe online.

01:07:14.637 --> 01:07:15.477
BETH: Yeah, definitely.

01:07:15.477 --> 01:07:19.797
VIRGINIA: Especially if you have an air fryer or something, you can make a healthier version.

01:07:19.797 --> 01:07:20.297
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:07:20.297 --> 01:07:21.457
VIRGINIA: Hashtag goals.

01:07:21.457 --> 01:07:24.697
VIRGINIA: What else did you do on this Magic Kingdom Day?

01:07:24.697 --> 01:07:29.357
LEONI: We got some photos outside the castle with the Memory Maker.

01:07:29.357 --> 01:07:31.337
LEONI: We went to Space Mountain.

01:07:34.857 --> 01:07:37.077
LEONI: This one is in Disneyland Paris as well.

01:07:37.077 --> 01:07:40.837
LEONI: But it's more of a roller coaster one.

01:07:40.837 --> 01:07:43.317
LEONI: I'm pretty sure it's over the head.

01:07:44.057 --> 01:07:44.777
VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.

01:07:44.777 --> 01:07:45.917
BETH: Restrain.

01:07:46.597 --> 01:07:49.217
LEONI: You can see it from outside and it shoots you up.

01:07:49.217 --> 01:07:51.417
LEONI: So I thought it was the same.

01:07:51.417 --> 01:07:53.577
LEONI: Obviously, they're called the same, but they're not.

01:07:54.657 --> 01:07:56.657
LEONI: It's so rickety.

01:07:58.077 --> 01:08:02.917
LEONI: It's the only ride that rather than just throughout going like, whoo.

01:08:12.057 --> 01:08:14.457
LEONI: I was absolutely crying.

01:08:14.457 --> 01:08:16.377
LEONI: It was so funny.

01:08:16.377 --> 01:08:16.637
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:08:16.637 --> 01:08:21.497
VIRGINIA: Especially if you're sitting in the back because you get that lift at the end.

01:08:21.497 --> 01:08:21.917
VIRGINIA: No.

01:08:22.377 --> 01:08:31.257
VIRGINIA: I have such nostalgic feelings about Space Mountain, but every time I'm doing it, I'm like, there's going to come a point in time where I'm going to be like, Virginia, you're too old to do this.

01:08:31.257 --> 01:08:32.757
VIRGINIA: Just stop.

01:08:35.657 --> 01:08:36.297
VIRGINIA: I hope not.

01:08:36.297 --> 01:08:37.257
VIRGINIA: I hope not.

01:08:37.257 --> 01:08:38.437
VIRGINIA: But all right.

01:08:38.437 --> 01:08:40.337
VIRGINIA: After Space Mountain.

01:08:40.337 --> 01:08:42.597
LEONI: We did the Buzz Lightyear ride.

01:08:42.597 --> 01:08:45.977
LEONI: We then did Seven Dwarfs, which was 35-minute wait.

01:08:45.977 --> 01:08:47.197
VIRGINIA: Oh, that's not bad.

01:08:47.197 --> 01:08:49.497
VIRGINIA: So party day, working in your favor.

01:08:50.417 --> 01:08:52.617
LEONI: Absolutely.

01:08:52.617 --> 01:08:55.737
LEONI: We then went to Fryers Nook.

01:08:55.737 --> 01:09:01.877
LEONI: I tried the breakfast sandwich and Beth had the cheese and bacon and ranch tarts.

01:09:01.897 --> 01:09:02.917
VIRGINIA: Oh, yeah.

01:09:03.757 --> 01:09:05.557
VIRGINIA: People love those.

01:09:05.557 --> 01:09:08.797
LEONI: I didn't realize the breakfast sandwich comes with tarts either.

01:09:08.797 --> 01:09:13.697
LEONI: I just thought I was just getting the sandwich, but it actually does come with tater tarts, which is very good.

01:09:13.697 --> 01:09:17.417
LEONI: We then did Winnie the Pooh, which is very sweet, very nostalgic.

01:09:18.877 --> 01:09:26.517
LEONI: Then we saw Enchanted Tales with Belle, which is a really sweet show that is quite interactive.

01:09:26.517 --> 01:09:27.457
LEONI: We ended up walking on.

01:09:27.457 --> 01:09:29.557
LEONI: We just had a small group of people.

01:09:29.557 --> 01:09:36.097
LEONI: I think it's a really good way to meet characters, that you're not queuing up to meet them.

01:09:36.097 --> 01:09:38.897
LEONI: It's a really different way to do it.

01:09:39.037 --> 01:09:54.337
LEONI: So I would really recommend for anyone that wants to meet Belle in particular, if your kids are confident enough to join in, if they get picked to join in with the story and the surprise, then they'll get a picture with Belle.

01:09:54.337 --> 01:09:59.937
LEONI: If you're not even involved in the story, you'll just see her and be a part of it, which is also just as good.

01:09:59.937 --> 01:10:02.837
LEONI: It was so cute, but I definitely would recommend.

01:10:02.837 --> 01:10:05.137
VIRGINIA: That's a good one.

01:10:05.137 --> 01:10:06.777
VIRGINIA: Was your breakfast late?

01:10:06.777 --> 01:10:07.837
VIRGINIA: Are we in the middle of the day?

01:10:08.577 --> 01:10:10.837
BETH: No, maybe it was about 11-ish.

01:10:10.897 --> 01:10:14.837
BETH: It's more like a brunch than a breakfast, I'd say.

01:10:14.837 --> 01:10:17.677
VIRGINIA: What was after Enchanted Tales with Belle?

01:10:17.677 --> 01:10:24.917
LEONI: We went on the Little Mermaid ride, and then we went to meet Ariel because she's my favorite princess.

01:10:24.917 --> 01:10:26.257
VIRGINIA: Oh, is she?

01:10:27.677 --> 01:10:29.597
VIRGINIA: Beth, what is your favorite princess?

01:10:29.597 --> 01:10:31.437
VIRGINIA: Or who is your favorite princess, I should say?

01:10:31.437 --> 01:10:33.117
VIRGINIA: Princesses or people too?

01:10:33.117 --> 01:10:34.477
BETH: I'd say Belle.

01:10:34.737 --> 01:10:39.317
BETH: I grew up watching Beauty and the Beast, whereas I think Leoni grew up watching Little Mermaid.

01:10:39.317 --> 01:10:41.637
BETH: Yeah, so Belle's definitely my favorite.

01:10:41.637 --> 01:10:43.717
VIRGINIA: Do either of you have a favorite villain?

01:10:44.137 --> 01:10:45.337
LEONI: Good one.

01:10:45.337 --> 01:10:46.457
BETH: I like Dr.

01:10:46.457 --> 01:10:49.197
BETH: Priscilla, that is named from Princess and the Frog.

01:10:49.197 --> 01:10:50.037
LEONI: Yes.

01:10:50.037 --> 01:10:51.417
LEONI: Probably Ursula.

01:10:51.417 --> 01:10:53.157
VIRGINIA: Ursula is my favorite villain.

01:10:53.157 --> 01:10:54.797
LEONI: Yeah.

01:10:54.797 --> 01:10:56.817
LEONI: I think it's the powerhouse vocals as well though.

01:10:57.117 --> 01:10:57.977
VIRGINIA: Oh, yeah.

01:10:57.977 --> 01:11:00.497
VIRGINIA: For sure, for sure.

01:11:00.497 --> 01:11:01.497
VIRGINIA: Oh my gosh.

01:11:01.497 --> 01:11:10.177
VIRGINIA: Yeah, I have a soft spot for all of the villains, but if you're forced me to pick one, it's going to be Ursula and I think part of it is just her amazing song.

01:11:10.177 --> 01:11:11.697
LEONI: Absolutely.

01:11:11.697 --> 01:11:12.037
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:11:12.037 --> 01:11:13.157
VIRGINIA: What was next?

01:11:13.157 --> 01:11:18.537
LEONI: After that, that was when we did our Tron Lightning Lane.

01:11:18.537 --> 01:11:28.377
LEONI: Then I think we went over to Tiana's Bayou Adventure, and I believe that was one of the last things we did that day.

01:11:28.377 --> 01:11:33.997
LEONI: I think it was about four o'clock and we were just like, we've completed Magic Kingdom.

01:11:35.957 --> 01:11:39.157
LEONI: It was so hot, so we were like, shall we just head?

01:11:39.157 --> 01:11:41.017
LEONI: So then we went back to the hotel.

01:11:41.017 --> 01:11:48.437
LEONI: Obviously, it was early closing anyway, so we thought we'd at least skip some of the traffic later on.

01:11:48.437 --> 01:11:50.577
VIRGINIA: Was it just a relaxing evening at the hotel?

01:11:50.577 --> 01:11:51.317
LEONI: Yeah, pretty much.

01:11:51.677 --> 01:11:57.237
VIRGINIA: So Monday, September 23rd was a Universal Studios Day.

01:11:57.237 --> 01:12:05.657
VIRGINIA: I know you were very excited about the Simpsons section of the park as well as getting into Diagon Alley.

01:12:05.657 --> 01:12:07.217
VIRGINIA: So how did you start your day?

01:12:07.217 --> 01:12:11.157
BETH: So we were quite tired this day, so we've been on the go so much.

01:12:11.157 --> 01:12:18.977
BETH: So we decided to have a little bit of a lie in today, which let me think back to it now, maybe it would have been a bad mistake.

01:12:18.977 --> 01:12:23.117
BETH: Because when we got to Universal Studios, it was so busy.

01:12:23.117 --> 01:12:25.137
BETH: I think maybe there was a Halloween Horror Night.

01:12:25.137 --> 01:12:27.317
BETH: No, maybe it wasn't a Halloween Horror Night.

01:12:27.317 --> 01:12:30.537
BETH: But it was just for some reason, it was just crowded everywhere.

01:12:30.537 --> 01:12:32.397
BETH: We were like, oh, okay.

01:12:32.397 --> 01:12:39.137
BETH: So we did go to the Simpsons' Lancer's, we were like, it's lunchtime, let's go to the Simpsons' food court and have some food.

01:12:39.137 --> 01:12:40.257
BETH: It was so busy.

01:12:40.257 --> 01:12:42.057
BETH: We just were like, no.

01:12:42.197 --> 01:12:54.137
BETH: There was people getting a bit rude, like other guests, because people frustrate the confined tables, and we were just like, let's get ourselves out of this environment.

01:12:54.137 --> 01:13:01.537
BETH: So then we went to Diagon Alley and went to the Leaky Cauldron, so we could sit down and have some food there.

01:13:01.557 --> 01:13:06.857
BETH: I tried the fish and chips because I know you recommended them last time, so I thought I'd give them a try.

01:13:06.857 --> 01:13:07.237
VIRGINIA: What did you think?

01:13:07.237 --> 01:13:07.997
BETH: They were really nice.

01:13:07.997 --> 01:13:08.717
VIRGINIA: Okay, good.

01:13:08.717 --> 01:13:08.977
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:13:08.977 --> 01:13:09.997
BETH: Yeah, they were really nice.

01:13:11.077 --> 01:13:13.137
BETH: And Leoni had a chicken burger.

01:13:13.137 --> 01:13:14.397
LEONI: That was lovely.

01:13:14.397 --> 01:13:21.577
VIRGINIA: Did you make it over to Florian Fortescue because that was something you had mentioned wanting to try the ice cream there.

01:13:21.577 --> 01:13:22.737
BETH: Yeah, you tried one, didn't you, Leoni?

01:13:22.737 --> 01:13:23.957
LEONI: Yes, I did.

01:13:23.957 --> 01:13:27.677
LEONI: Was it the strawberry and peanut butter flavor?

01:13:27.677 --> 01:13:29.277
LEONI: I think I had.

01:13:29.777 --> 01:13:30.657
LEONI: It was lovely.

01:13:30.657 --> 01:13:31.357
LEONI: It was very nice.

01:13:31.357 --> 01:13:32.397
VIRGINIA: Sounds really good.

01:13:32.397 --> 01:13:33.217
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:13:33.217 --> 01:13:37.557
LEONI: It was one of the recommended flavors that they have on the side.

01:13:38.277 --> 01:13:40.237
LEONI: Their sundaes look amazing.

01:13:40.237 --> 01:13:46.697
VIRGINIA: Did you use this chance to walk around Diagon Alley or did you head back out to another section of the park?

01:13:46.697 --> 01:13:48.377
BETH: We walked around a little bit.

01:13:48.377 --> 01:13:51.777
BETH: Did we go on Gringotts?

01:13:51.777 --> 01:13:53.297
VIRGINIA: Oh, yeah.

01:13:53.717 --> 01:13:56.817
LEONI: I don't know if we did any rides that day.

01:13:56.817 --> 01:14:00.297
LEONI: I think we did Gringotts.

01:14:00.297 --> 01:14:01.017
LEONI: Yes, you're absolutely right.

01:14:01.017 --> 01:14:02.137
BETH: That was the only ride we did.

01:14:02.137 --> 01:14:04.597
LEONI: Yeah, you're right because we've queued up for ages.

01:14:06.677 --> 01:14:08.237
BETH: Yeah, that was a long queue.

01:14:08.237 --> 01:14:13.877
BETH: We were playing games in the queue, like little word games for each of us.

01:14:13.877 --> 01:14:15.637
BETH: Yeah, the ride was really good.

01:14:16.357 --> 01:14:27.017
BETH: Then we left and the mega movie Parade, which Leoni was really excited to watch, was about to start, so we stood up in the right area to watch that and we Facetimed.

01:14:27.217 --> 01:14:34.557
BETH: I was on Facetime to my husband Alex, and Leoni was on Facetime to fiancee Hannah, so they could watch the parade.

01:14:35.237 --> 01:14:38.697
VIRGINIA: It's like a double date watching the parade.

01:14:39.497 --> 01:14:40.737
VIRGINIA: That's cute.

01:14:42.517 --> 01:14:43.677
VIRGINIA: Very cute.

01:14:43.677 --> 01:14:44.577
VIRGINIA: How was the parade?

01:14:44.577 --> 01:14:48.937
VIRGINIA: Because I know you had hyped it up of like, oh my gosh, there's this new parade.

01:14:48.937 --> 01:14:51.497
VIRGINIA: Did it live up to the hype?

01:14:51.497 --> 01:14:52.077
LEONI: You know what?

01:14:52.077 --> 01:14:52.877
LEONI: It really did.

01:14:52.877 --> 01:14:54.417
LEONI: I absolutely loved it.

01:14:55.197 --> 01:15:01.457
LEONI: It was such a good like, everything is so different and so well-themed.

01:15:02.517 --> 01:15:06.097
LEONI: Especially when it comes around to the Jurassic Park bit and that is the end of it.

01:15:06.097 --> 01:15:11.977
LEONI: But the animatronics they have are really realistic.

01:15:11.977 --> 01:15:12.497
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:15:12.497 --> 01:15:13.757
LEONI: It's very, very good.

01:15:13.757 --> 01:15:18.657
LEONI: I really would recommend to spend the time to wait.

01:15:18.657 --> 01:15:19.857
LEONI: There's two areas.

01:15:19.857 --> 01:15:23.437
LEONI: So we were in an area where we thought the parade started.

01:15:23.737 --> 01:15:26.857
LEONI: Actually, we were in an area where the parade ended.

01:15:26.857 --> 01:15:28.137
LEONI: Okay.

01:15:28.137 --> 01:15:33.037
LEONI: But it was still fine because we were right there to see everything finish.

01:15:33.037 --> 01:15:33.897
LEONI: Right.

01:15:33.897 --> 01:15:38.597
LEONI: I really would recommend taking the time out to just take a day to just take that in.

01:15:38.997 --> 01:15:40.777
LEONI: It was really good.

01:15:40.777 --> 01:15:50.617
VIRGINIA: So if you didn't ride any other rides besides Gringotts this day, did you fill up your day with other universal activities or did you move along to other things?

01:15:50.917 --> 01:15:59.057
BETH: I think we just, because it was so hot and so busy and we were quite tired, we just sort of like said, should we just go?

01:15:59.057 --> 01:16:02.137
BETH: To be honest, we did say, let's go and get some food from CityWalk.

01:16:02.137 --> 01:16:07.637
BETH: But as we were walking to CityWalk, we both looked at each other and was like, do we just go?

01:16:07.637 --> 01:16:08.977
BETH: Let's not prolong this.

01:16:08.977 --> 01:16:10.057
BETH: Let's just go home.

01:16:10.057 --> 01:16:12.057
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:16:12.057 --> 01:16:14.457
BETH: I think we just went back to the hotel.

01:16:14.457 --> 01:16:17.777
BETH: I mean, I can't remember when we went to the Cheesecake Factory the second time.

01:16:17.777 --> 01:16:18.577
BETH: Maybe it was that day.

01:16:19.897 --> 01:16:21.037
LEONI: It might be.

01:16:21.037 --> 01:16:23.917
BETH: We definitely just had enough.

01:16:23.917 --> 01:16:24.957
BETH: We don't need to walk.

01:16:24.957 --> 01:16:36.417
LEONI: I think because without realizing we had had such a good week at this point with really good timings and stuff that actually we weren't used to a crazy busy day.

01:16:36.417 --> 01:16:40.057
LEONI: We'd come at a good time of year where it was not crazy busy.

01:16:40.057 --> 01:16:42.977
LEONI: The queues had been quite short overall.

01:16:42.977 --> 01:16:56.337
LEONI: So to come to it after being here a week already and it be that jam-packed, it was just we just weren't after that like we were here for two weeks to enjoy it.

01:16:56.337 --> 01:17:02.297
LEONI: So we were taking anything that we could enjoy and then just kind of heading back afterwards.

01:17:02.297 --> 01:17:02.877
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:17:02.877 --> 01:17:08.197
VIRGINIA: Tuesday, September 24th, you were heading over to Kennedy Space Center.

01:17:08.197 --> 01:17:12.417
VIRGINIA: So is this something that you would recommend to others who are visiting the area?

01:17:12.417 --> 01:17:13.077
BETH: Definitely.

01:17:13.077 --> 01:17:14.317
BETH: It was amazing.

01:17:14.317 --> 01:17:15.317
LEONI: Yeah, absolutely.

01:17:15.477 --> 01:17:22.517
LEONI: I think when people have asked me like, oh, what was the, you know, something that stand out from the trip?

01:17:22.517 --> 01:17:26.657
LEONI: And I'm like, I saw spaceships.

01:17:26.657 --> 01:17:29.397
LEONI: Like I saw real life rockets, y'all.

01:17:29.397 --> 01:17:32.937
LEONI: Like it was so cool.

01:17:32.937 --> 01:17:39.457
LEONI: Like I've been stargazing with my Nana, which is my grandma, you know, since I was so young.

01:17:39.457 --> 01:17:48.437
LEONI: And to be able to FaceTime her like next to, you know, spaceships and rockets that we've seen launch, it was next level.

01:17:48.437 --> 01:17:49.877
LEONI: I really would recommend it.

01:17:49.877 --> 01:18:05.297
LEONI: And you get to, so there's like the Kennedy Center and then you get almost like a tour bus over to where they, you know, launch the rockets as like another center you go to.

01:18:05.297 --> 01:18:07.357
LEONI: And they're both, they're both just incredible.

01:18:07.357 --> 01:18:09.697
LEONI: There's actually so much to do.

01:18:09.697 --> 01:18:14.897
LEONI: And it doesn't look like there is because there's all these different buildings that are so spacious.

01:18:16.497 --> 01:18:22.737
LEONI: You kind of have to look and find what door leads to like where and things.

01:18:22.737 --> 01:18:25.797
LEONI: And there's quite a lot of, how do I say it?

01:18:25.797 --> 01:18:28.877
LEONI: They're not rides, but there's, oh, simulators.

01:18:28.877 --> 01:18:31.537
LEONI: So there's like space simulators that you can do.

01:18:31.557 --> 01:18:34.077
LEONI: And yeah, it's fantastic.

01:18:34.077 --> 01:18:39.677
LEONI: I really would recommend something to just kind of tick off that you might not even think that's on your bucket list.

01:18:40.297 --> 01:18:40.857
VIRGINIA: Right.

01:18:40.857 --> 01:18:41.517
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:18:41.517 --> 01:18:45.937
VIRGINIA: Were there any launches during the two-week period that you were in town?

01:18:45.937 --> 01:18:48.657
VIRGINIA: Because when they do those, you can see them from quite far away.

01:18:48.657 --> 01:18:53.637
VIRGINIA: So we've watched some launches from the top of the Contemporary over at Disney before.

01:18:53.637 --> 01:18:54.577
LEONI: Oh, wow.

01:18:54.577 --> 01:19:01.517
LEONI: I looked before we came, before we went on our holiday, and there was no launches booked.

01:19:01.517 --> 01:19:07.957
LEONI: And then as we were there on the tour bus, the lady was like, oh, yeah, there's one scheduled for Thursday.

01:19:08.177 --> 01:19:10.457
LEONI: And I was like, well, say what?

01:19:10.457 --> 01:19:11.777
LEONI: And it was SpaceX.

01:19:11.777 --> 01:19:20.597
LEONI: So I think because it's a bit different than NASA, they can add a lot more quicker than NASA do, is what I've seen.

01:19:20.597 --> 01:19:20.897
VIRGINIA: Right.

01:19:20.897 --> 01:19:23.877
LEONI: I don't know if they're the same or what.

01:19:23.877 --> 01:19:28.237
LEONI: And then I think it was canceled due to the hurricane anyway.

01:19:28.237 --> 01:19:29.797
VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.

01:19:29.797 --> 01:19:30.537
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:19:30.537 --> 01:19:39.957
VIRGINIA: After your Kennedy space time, you thought that you might eat dinner at Toothsums, and that you might go do some karaoke at Rising Star.

01:19:39.957 --> 01:19:42.077
VIRGINIA: So did either of those things happen?

01:19:42.077 --> 01:19:47.417
BETH: We managed to Toothsum, but then we were a bit too tired to do the karaoke.

01:19:47.417 --> 01:19:49.597
BETH: It's a shame because I do love it at Rising Star.

01:19:49.597 --> 01:19:51.097
BETH: It's really fun there.

01:19:51.377 --> 01:19:53.277
VIRGINIA: What did you get at Toothsums?

01:19:53.277 --> 01:19:56.677
BETH: We had the warm chocolate bread, which is lovely.

01:19:56.677 --> 01:20:00.817
BETH: Comes with a caramel butter, gorgeous.

01:20:00.817 --> 01:20:04.697
BETH: And then we shared some pork belly sliders, which has chocolate bacon.

01:20:05.097 --> 01:20:06.917
BETH: And then I had this salmon.

01:20:06.917 --> 01:20:08.837
BETH: I don't even know what you had, Leoni, there.

01:20:08.837 --> 01:20:09.717
LEONI: Good question.

01:20:09.717 --> 01:20:10.157
BETH: You remember.

01:20:10.157 --> 01:20:12.717
LEONI: I will have a photo of it.

01:20:14.697 --> 01:20:17.957
LEONI: I had the chicken and the parmesan fries.

01:20:17.957 --> 01:20:19.997
VIRGINIA: Oh, those fries are so good.

01:20:19.997 --> 01:20:21.817
LEONI: Yeah, they were very good.

01:20:21.817 --> 01:20:26.477
LEONI: And then I had a milkshake because I couldn't not have one.

01:20:27.737 --> 01:20:32.037
VIRGINIA: Was it one of the ones with the crazy slice of cake on the top and all of that?

01:20:32.417 --> 01:20:36.337
LEONI: Yeah, it was the vanilla one with the...

01:20:36.357 --> 01:20:40.777
LEONI: So Beth was like, Oh, I want to try like a dessert.

01:20:40.777 --> 01:20:43.577
LEONI: I want like some of the Funfetti cake.

01:20:43.577 --> 01:20:45.337
LEONI: But it looked like a really big portion.

01:20:45.337 --> 01:20:53.777
LEONI: I was like, well, if I just get the milkshake with the cake on the top, then you can have the cake and I'll just have the milkshake.

01:20:53.777 --> 01:20:54.857
LEONI: So that's what we did.

01:20:54.857 --> 01:20:55.197
VIRGINIA: Yep.

01:20:55.197 --> 01:20:56.557
VIRGINIA: Good compromise.

01:20:56.557 --> 01:20:57.297
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:20:57.297 --> 01:20:57.637
VIRGINIA: Let's see.

01:20:57.637 --> 01:21:00.677
VIRGINIA: Was there anything else that night after your toothsome dinner?

01:21:01.257 --> 01:21:05.037
LEONI: No, we didn't end up doing Wrath and Star.

01:21:05.037 --> 01:21:07.557
LEONI: We were just so full and tired.

01:21:07.557 --> 01:21:12.597
VIRGINIA: Wednesday, September 25th, you were going to do a split day between Animal Kingdom and Magic Kingdom?

01:21:12.597 --> 01:21:13.717
LEONI: Yes.

01:21:13.717 --> 01:21:14.617
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:21:14.617 --> 01:21:16.917
VIRGINIA: What did you get up to this day then?

01:21:16.917 --> 01:21:17.257
LEONI: Yes.

01:21:17.257 --> 01:21:24.497
LEONI: So on this day, we took an over to Animal Kingdom and headed over to Dinosaur again.

01:21:24.497 --> 01:21:27.257
LEONI: But whilst we were on the Dinosaur ride, it broke down.

01:21:29.537 --> 01:21:35.197
LEONI: So it was quite funny because the lights came on, but the dinosaurs were still moving.

01:21:36.557 --> 01:21:40.037
LEONI: We were just stuck in the car for about 10 minutes.

01:21:40.037 --> 01:21:45.357
VIRGINIA: They're not nearly as scary when you can see that it's only half of a dinosaur.

01:21:45.357 --> 01:21:46.417
LEONI: Yeah.

01:21:46.417 --> 01:21:51.517
LEONI: Then when the ride came back on, it was all in the pitch black.

01:21:51.537 --> 01:21:52.257
LEONI: Oh, no.

01:21:52.277 --> 01:21:53.657
LEONI: The lights came on.

01:21:53.657 --> 01:21:56.237
LEONI: It just wanted to get us out of there, but it was really funny.

01:21:57.077 --> 01:21:57.557
LEONI: Yeah.

01:21:57.557 --> 01:21:58.657
BETH: Wow.

01:21:58.657 --> 01:21:59.317
LEONI: Yeah.

01:21:59.317 --> 01:22:02.817
LEONI: This day, we had quite a bit of rain at the beginning.

01:22:02.817 --> 01:22:06.697
LEONI: I think it was due to just last bits of the hurricane.

01:22:06.697 --> 01:22:10.597
LEONI: This was a quite heavy rain morning at least.

01:22:11.517 --> 01:22:15.157
LEONI: We tried to get on Everest, but that had closed.

01:22:16.377 --> 01:22:22.957
LEONI: It took about half an hour, I think, 45 minutes before it came back up again, to which we then did ride it again.

01:22:22.957 --> 01:22:24.677
LEONI: I was trying to do some pin trading.

01:22:25.817 --> 01:22:31.137
LEONI: I think we forgot to mention the day that we went to Universal.

01:22:31.137 --> 01:22:39.037
LEONI: I think in the evening, we actually went to the Character Warehouse in International Drive.

01:22:39.037 --> 01:22:41.117
VIRGINIA: How well did you do there?

01:22:41.117 --> 01:22:42.357
LEONI: Not bad, actually.

01:22:42.357 --> 01:22:48.417
LEONI: I just bought a bunch of pins that were really cheap.

01:22:48.417 --> 01:22:57.637
LEONI: We bought some clothes and things that were, I would say we did better at that one than we did at the one closest to Disney.

01:22:57.637 --> 01:23:05.017
LEONI: Definitely had pretty much the same options, but just like either more sizes or more variety of things.

01:23:05.017 --> 01:23:06.157
LEONI: Right.

01:23:06.157 --> 01:23:09.897
LEONI: It was a lot quieter because we went very close to closing.

01:23:09.897 --> 01:23:11.137
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:23:11.137 --> 01:23:17.857
LEONI: But yeah, I wanted to try pin trading, so I bought a bunch of cheap pins and then started to trade.

01:23:17.857 --> 01:23:20.717
LEONI: I also did the Wilderness Explorers activity.

01:23:21.237 --> 01:23:21.757
VIRGINIA: Oh, did you?

01:23:22.077 --> 01:23:23.037
LEONI: Yeah, I did, yeah.

01:23:23.037 --> 01:23:24.577
VIRGINIA: You take your oath.

01:23:24.617 --> 01:23:26.157
LEONI: I did, yes.

01:23:27.637 --> 01:23:33.097
LEONI: I was collecting stickers, so we went to the Rafiki Planet Watch.

01:23:33.097 --> 01:23:40.857
LEONI: We did the animation class and drew, I think it's the dog from Coco.

01:23:40.857 --> 01:23:42.177
VIRGINIA: Oh, Dante.

01:23:42.177 --> 01:23:44.477
LEONI: Yes.

01:23:44.477 --> 01:23:45.037
LEONI: What else did we do?

01:23:45.357 --> 01:24:09.737
LEONI: We watched The Lion King Show, which has got quite a place in my heart, that one, because the first time I watched Lion King was in Disneyland Paris with my family as a child, and then I've seen it in New York with my family as well on Broadway, and then I've seen it in London, and now I've seen it in Disney World, so good luck collection.

01:24:10.337 --> 01:24:11.237
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:24:11.237 --> 01:24:12.857
LEONI: What else did we do?

01:24:12.857 --> 01:24:25.497
LEONI: We went to Flight Passage again, so we paid for the Lightning Pass for that one, and then we did Everest three times.

01:24:26.577 --> 01:24:27.117
VIRGINIA: Oh my gosh.

01:24:27.117 --> 01:24:28.697
VIRGINIA: Wait, three times in a row?

01:24:28.697 --> 01:24:29.777
LEONI: Yeah, three times in a row.

01:24:29.777 --> 01:24:31.737
LEONI: It was a walk on every time.

01:24:31.737 --> 01:24:32.757
VIRGINIA: Uh-huh.

01:24:32.757 --> 01:24:34.497
VIRGINIA: And you felt okay after?

01:24:35.517 --> 01:24:36.217
LEONI: Yeah.

01:24:37.657 --> 01:24:41.997
LEONI: We figured out where the camera was, decided to give ourselves like challenges.

01:24:42.157 --> 01:24:43.377
LEONI: While we were on the ride.

01:24:43.377 --> 01:24:47.177
LEONI: So it was a different pose for the first ride.

01:24:47.177 --> 01:24:52.977
LEONI: Then the second one, we decided to do the whole ride with our eyes closed, which was a bad idea.

01:24:52.977 --> 01:24:53.817
VIRGINIA: Oh yeah.

01:24:53.817 --> 01:24:55.677
LEONI: The photo was good.

01:24:55.677 --> 01:24:57.477
BETH: Yeah.

01:24:57.477 --> 01:24:58.237
BETH: Yeah.

01:24:58.237 --> 01:24:59.297
VIRGINIA: Then we just did it a third time.

01:24:59.297 --> 01:25:01.757
VIRGINIA: All of us have made that mistake before.

01:25:04.097 --> 01:25:04.817
VIRGINIA: Oh my gosh.

01:25:06.777 --> 01:25:12.917
LEONI: And then this is where we got a bus to Epcot and-

01:25:12.917 --> 01:25:14.757
VIRGINIA: Oh, you ended up going to Epcot first.

01:25:14.757 --> 01:25:15.917
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:25:15.917 --> 01:25:16.577
LEONI: Did we?

01:25:16.577 --> 01:25:17.057
LEONI: Oh yes.

01:25:17.057 --> 01:25:17.717
LEONI: Oh yeah.

01:25:17.717 --> 01:25:21.137
LEONI: We did Animal Kingdom and then Epcot, right?

01:25:21.137 --> 01:25:21.937
LEONI: In the same day.

01:25:21.937 --> 01:25:22.217
LEONI: Yeah.

01:25:22.217 --> 01:25:22.877
LEONI: Yeah, it was Epcot.

01:25:23.917 --> 01:25:24.917
LEONI: Sorry about that.

01:25:24.917 --> 01:25:25.157
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:25:25.977 --> 01:25:28.997
LEONI: And we did Guardians of the Galaxy again.

01:25:30.357 --> 01:25:30.897
LEONI: Oh yeah.

01:25:30.897 --> 01:25:37.417
LEONI: So on this day, we went to Epcot to watch the fireworks.

01:25:37.437 --> 01:25:42.917
LEONI: So we actually changed some of our structure because of the hurricane.

01:25:42.917 --> 01:25:44.117
LEONI: We thought-

01:25:44.137 --> 01:25:45.237
VIRGINIA: Oh, got it.

01:25:45.237 --> 01:25:45.477
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:25:45.477 --> 01:25:49.817
VIRGINIA: Because you originally had a Skipper Canteen dinner reservation this night.

01:25:49.817 --> 01:25:50.577
LEONI: Yes.

01:25:50.577 --> 01:25:51.497
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:25:51.497 --> 01:25:51.777
VIRGINIA: Got it.

01:25:52.097 --> 01:25:57.337
LEONI: So we changed some of it to try and watch the fireworks.

01:25:57.337 --> 01:26:00.337
LEONI: But that's where we ended up in Epcot.

01:26:00.337 --> 01:26:02.837
LEONI: We tried the wings and fries.

01:26:02.837 --> 01:26:09.937
LEONI: So the peanut butter and jelly wings and the garlic and parmesan ones, which I really enjoyed.

01:26:11.957 --> 01:26:14.277
BETH: Beth, what did you think?

01:26:14.277 --> 01:26:16.637
BETH: I don't really like eating meat on the bone.

01:26:16.637 --> 01:26:17.317
VIRGINIA: Me neither.

01:26:17.317 --> 01:26:18.097
VIRGINIA: Oh my gosh.

01:26:18.097 --> 01:26:18.857
VIRGINIA: Kindred spirit.

01:26:18.857 --> 01:26:21.317
BETH: It makes me feel a bit, no.

01:26:21.517 --> 01:26:21.897
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:26:21.897 --> 01:26:22.997
VIRGINIA: Primitive.

01:26:22.997 --> 01:26:26.357
BETH: Uncomfortable.

01:26:26.357 --> 01:26:28.357
BETH: But the peanut butter ones were really nice.

01:26:28.357 --> 01:26:29.657
BETH: But I'm really like weird.

01:26:29.657 --> 01:26:33.537
BETH: I don't like getting my hands dirty as well.

01:26:33.537 --> 01:26:37.557
BETH: So like just having the meat on the bone and getting the hands really sticky.

01:26:37.557 --> 01:26:39.357
BETH: I was just like, oh no, that's not for me.

01:26:39.357 --> 01:26:40.497
LEONI: You did very well though.

01:26:40.497 --> 01:26:41.677
BETH: I tried it.

01:26:41.677 --> 01:26:41.877
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:26:42.157 --> 01:26:44.817
VIRGINIA: I'm glad to hear that there's somebody out there who feels the same.

01:26:44.817 --> 01:26:49.737
VIRGINIA: Because I always feel like the odd duck out because I'm like, ooh, meat on a bone.

01:26:50.417 --> 01:26:51.837
VIRGINIA: I'm just not into it.

01:26:51.837 --> 01:26:53.557
BETH: No.

01:26:53.557 --> 01:26:58.597
BETH: But the fireworks got canceled because of the hurricane and the weather seemed bad.

01:26:58.597 --> 01:27:05.737
BETH: So we just sort of like decided to head back to the hotel and order some Chipotle dinner from Delivery.

01:27:05.737 --> 01:27:06.497
BETH: Or what was it?

01:27:06.497 --> 01:27:07.237
BETH: Delivery?

01:27:07.237 --> 01:27:09.297
BETH: Uber Eats or something like that.

01:27:09.297 --> 01:27:17.637
VIRGINIA: So the next day, Thursday, September 26th, was supposed to be a Universal Studios Islands Adventure hopping day.

01:27:18.437 --> 01:27:22.457
VIRGINIA: Did the weather prevent you from doing anything you had wanted to do this day?

01:27:22.457 --> 01:27:26.457
BETH: So we changed it up a little bit and we went to Magic Kingdom instead.

01:27:26.457 --> 01:27:29.557
BETH: Because we had a few rides we still hadn't done.

01:27:29.557 --> 01:27:31.657
BETH: And the food was smaller rides.

01:27:31.657 --> 01:27:34.597
BETH: And also we managed to get an O'Hara breakfast.

01:27:34.597 --> 01:27:35.697
BETH: You did.

01:27:35.697 --> 01:27:37.077
VIRGINIA: I know you were hoping for that.

01:27:37.077 --> 01:27:39.277
VIRGINIA: Okay, perfect.

01:27:39.277 --> 01:27:43.097
BETH: Leoni is the queen of the My Disney Experience app.

01:27:43.097 --> 01:27:43.397
VIRGINIA: Nice.

01:27:46.217 --> 01:27:47.597
BETH: I can't remember what time we went.

01:27:47.597 --> 01:27:49.237
BETH: I think it was quite early.

01:27:49.257 --> 01:27:53.777
BETH: It was maybe like 7 something, 45 maybe.

01:27:53.777 --> 01:27:56.077
BETH: A really lovely thing happened here as well.

01:27:56.077 --> 01:27:59.397
BETH: There was a lady who was sat next to us like on the table next to us.

01:27:59.397 --> 01:28:02.657
BETH: Her name was Jodie and it was her birthday.

01:28:02.657 --> 01:28:07.357
BETH: So she came over to the table and she was like, I want to spread a bit of magic.

01:28:07.357 --> 01:28:12.517
BETH: It's my birthday today and we're going home today and we have quite a lot of dining credits left.

01:28:13.817 --> 01:28:19.657
BETH: She was like, I'd really like to give you the dining credits, so all you have to pay is the tips.

01:28:19.657 --> 01:28:20.997
BETH: You don't have to pay for your breakfast.

01:28:20.997 --> 01:28:22.517
VIRGINIA: Wow, that's really great.

01:28:22.517 --> 01:28:28.537
BETH: Well, me and Leoni, the only emotional queens we are, we're just so honest.

01:28:29.777 --> 01:28:31.517
BETH: Yeah, we're so nice.

01:28:31.517 --> 01:28:33.037
VIRGINIA: That's so sweet.

01:28:33.037 --> 01:28:34.137
VIRGINIA: That was really nice of her.

01:28:34.637 --> 01:28:34.857
BETH: Yeah.

01:28:34.857 --> 01:28:42.837
BETH: So we had a really lovely breakfast and also got to meet Stitch and Lilo, Mickey and Putho, which is really lovely.

01:28:42.837 --> 01:28:44.117
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:28:44.117 --> 01:28:49.597
VIRGINIA: And then which rides had you not done at the Magic Kingdom yet that you tried to get done today?

01:28:50.837 --> 01:28:52.417
BETH: So we did the smaller ones.

01:28:52.417 --> 01:28:54.117
BETH: So we did like the People Mover.

01:28:54.117 --> 01:28:55.737
BETH: We did all like the classic rides.

01:28:55.737 --> 01:28:59.117
BETH: So like the People Mover, the Carousel of Progress, the Monsters Inc.

01:28:59.117 --> 01:29:00.417
BETH: Laugh Floor.

01:29:00.417 --> 01:29:04.157
BETH: And then we had a bit of like a lot of heavy rain happens.

01:29:04.157 --> 01:29:08.317
BETH: We sort of had to duck into a bit of shelter for a bit.

01:29:08.317 --> 01:29:11.917
BETH: And then that's when we tried the two biggest brick walls.

01:29:11.917 --> 01:29:15.137
BETH: And then we went over to Pirates of the Caribbean.

01:29:15.137 --> 01:29:16.817
BETH: We went on Big Thunder Mountain.

01:29:16.817 --> 01:29:18.277
BETH: We got the Dolwit.

01:29:18.277 --> 01:29:21.257
BETH: So I got the iLarva U-Float, which is so nice.

01:29:21.257 --> 01:29:25.137
BETH: And we only got the Tropical Serenade, which we really liked as well.

01:29:25.137 --> 01:29:26.937
VIRGINIA: Tropical Serenade is my favorite.

01:29:27.457 --> 01:29:27.997
LEONI: It's so good.

01:29:27.997 --> 01:29:29.377
LEONI: That cake part.

01:29:29.377 --> 01:29:32.697
VIRGINIA: Yes.

01:29:32.697 --> 01:29:36.617
VIRGINIA: I know people hate this word, but it's so moist and it's like, oh my gosh, it's perfect.

01:29:36.617 --> 01:29:37.317
VIRGINIA: It's perfection.

01:29:37.317 --> 01:29:38.857
LEONI: It's perfect.

01:29:38.857 --> 01:29:40.717
LEONI: Yeah.

01:29:40.717 --> 01:29:43.377
LEONI: But it's also the coconut ice cream that got me as well.

01:29:43.377 --> 01:29:44.397
VIRGINIA: Oh, yeah.

01:29:44.597 --> 01:29:48.677
VIRGINIA: I think in my opinion, it's the superior Dolwit coconut.

01:29:48.677 --> 01:29:49.177
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:29:50.317 --> 01:29:53.977
BETH: And then we managed to catch the Festival of Fantasy Parade.

01:29:53.977 --> 01:30:04.377
BETH: And things like that are really good for me because obviously I've been before, but there's little things like that, but I've never had time to just stand and watch a parade or watch a show or some of the rides I've never been on.

01:30:04.377 --> 01:30:06.537
BETH: So that was really nice to watch that.

01:30:06.537 --> 01:30:13.537
BETH: And then we went to the Country Bear Jamboree, which has had a complete renovation and has new songs and stuff.

01:30:13.617 --> 01:30:14.297
VIRGINIA: Right.

01:30:14.297 --> 01:30:16.217
BETH: That was really fun.

01:30:16.217 --> 01:30:19.817
BETH: And then we went on Big Thunder Mountain again, because we obviously really liked that ride.

01:30:20.577 --> 01:30:30.397
BETH: And then we went on Tiana's Bayou Adventure, sat on the front row again, but Leoni had her poncho, a waterproof poncho, so we could shield ourselves a little bit.

01:30:31.477 --> 01:30:32.097
VIRGINIA: Smart.

01:30:32.097 --> 01:30:36.237
BETH: We had the poncho in front of our faces, but the water sort of hit us at the same time.

01:30:36.237 --> 01:30:38.017
VIRGINIA: So the photos got to be amazing.

01:30:39.617 --> 01:30:42.197
LEONI: I also forgot about the hole for the head.

01:30:42.197 --> 01:30:45.497
LEONI: So I've got the poncho, but the hole is like about here.

01:30:49.437 --> 01:30:52.937
BETH: So the water got in through the head hole.

01:30:52.937 --> 01:30:54.277
VIRGINIA: That's funny.

01:30:54.277 --> 01:30:58.517
BETH: Then we decided to hop over to Hollywood Studios for the rest of the evening.

01:30:58.517 --> 01:31:00.817
BETH: We went to Rise of the Resistance.

01:31:00.817 --> 01:31:02.537
BETH: It was a 55-minute wait.

01:31:02.537 --> 01:31:04.977
BETH: We were like, let's just do it again.

01:31:04.977 --> 01:31:05.737
BETH: It's fine.

01:31:05.737 --> 01:31:07.217
BETH: We were in the queue for quite a while.

01:31:07.957 --> 01:31:11.057
BETH: Then we went on the Tower of Terror again.

01:31:11.057 --> 01:31:12.357
BETH: Then we got to leave our home.

01:31:13.597 --> 01:31:13.957
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:31:13.957 --> 01:31:18.997
VIRGINIA: So Friday, September 27th, you had a plan to start your day at Hollywood Studios.

01:31:18.997 --> 01:31:25.257
VIRGINIA: But because you had ended your previous day on Hollywood Studios, did that affect what you chose to do that morning?

01:31:25.257 --> 01:31:27.337
LEONI: Good question.

01:31:27.337 --> 01:31:29.577
LEONI: I'm not sure what date we're on.

01:31:30.777 --> 01:31:32.217
VIRGINIA: Friday, September 27th.

01:31:33.817 --> 01:31:36.037
LEONI: Oh, Friday, maybe we've skipped ahead.

01:31:36.037 --> 01:31:43.037
LEONI: Friday was Magic Kingdom, and then Saturday was the Disney Springs.

01:31:43.037 --> 01:31:43.517
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:31:43.517 --> 01:31:45.357
LEONI: Yeah, sorry.

01:31:45.357 --> 01:31:46.657
VIRGINIA: No, that's okay.

01:31:46.657 --> 01:31:46.977
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:31:46.977 --> 01:31:49.757
VIRGINIA: So Friday was, what happened on Friday?

01:31:49.757 --> 01:31:55.977
LEONI: So Friday, I've got the Ohana Breakfast.

01:31:55.977 --> 01:31:56.917
LEONI: I'm just looking at my photos.

01:31:56.917 --> 01:31:58.117
LEONI: That's why.

01:31:58.117 --> 01:32:03.377
LEONI: Magic Kingdom, the Jamboree, Riser Resistance.

01:32:05.237 --> 01:32:07.017
LEONI: That must have happened on Friday, so I don't know.

01:32:07.017 --> 01:32:07.277
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:32:07.277 --> 01:32:09.597
VIRGINIA: So what happened Thursday then?

01:32:09.597 --> 01:32:13.137
LEONI: Thursday was the Animal Kingdom and Epcot Day.

01:32:13.137 --> 01:32:14.757
VIRGINIA: We're totally off by a day then.

01:32:14.757 --> 01:32:17.657
VIRGINIA: So what was Wednesday, the 25th?

01:32:17.657 --> 01:32:20.837
LEONI: That's Universal.

01:32:20.837 --> 01:32:22.177
VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.

01:32:23.257 --> 01:32:24.077
VIRGINIA: Got it.

01:32:24.077 --> 01:32:25.037
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:32:25.037 --> 01:32:25.397
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:32:25.397 --> 01:32:27.117
VIRGINIA: So then those two days got swapped.

01:32:27.117 --> 01:32:33.237
VIRGINIA: So your original plan was Wednesday, Animal Kingdom, Thursday, Universal, but you did the opposite.

01:32:33.237 --> 01:32:33.677
LEONI: Yes.

01:32:33.677 --> 01:32:37.337
LEONI: And I think that was because of the hurricane.

01:32:37.737 --> 01:32:38.397
VIRGINIA: Right.

01:32:38.397 --> 01:32:38.777
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:32:38.777 --> 01:32:50.017
LEONI: Because we hadn't actually got chance to do Universal at all, we thought, okay, well, let's try Universal again on the Wednesday and push everything back a day essentially.

01:32:50.017 --> 01:32:50.517
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:32:50.517 --> 01:32:54.937
VIRGINIA: So yeah, you had gone to Universal previously, but it was so busy that you ended up leaving.

01:32:54.937 --> 01:33:02.937
VIRGINIA: So you did it on Wednesday, the 25th, and that was supposed to be a day where you hopped between and did the Hogwarts Express and everything.

01:33:02.937 --> 01:33:04.217
VIRGINIA: So did you get all that done?

01:33:04.217 --> 01:33:05.377
LEONI: We weren't able to swap.

01:33:05.377 --> 01:33:08.777
LEONI: We just didn't end up park hopping with the Hogwarts Express.

01:33:08.777 --> 01:33:12.777
LEONI: But we did get pretty much, I think, everything in Universal done.

01:33:12.837 --> 01:33:14.877
LEONI: So we went on all of the rides.

01:33:14.877 --> 01:33:23.857
VIRGINIA: Did you do the monster thing that you wanted to do, the horror makeup show?

01:33:24.337 --> 01:33:29.457
BETH: We didn't get to do the makeup show, but we went to see the Bourne stunt show, which is really good.

01:33:29.457 --> 01:33:29.857
VIRGINIA: Oh, wow.

01:33:29.857 --> 01:33:31.317
LEONI: It's fantastic.

01:33:31.317 --> 01:33:32.997
BETH: Love that show.

01:33:32.997 --> 01:33:36.217
BETH: We also saw another show in the DreamWorks land.

01:33:36.217 --> 01:33:40.257
BETH: So the new DreamWorks land, it was like a show for kids.

01:33:40.257 --> 01:33:42.697
BETH: But we were like, let's see what it's like.

01:33:42.697 --> 01:33:48.577
BETH: It's all about imagination and it has like Shrek and Kung Fu Panda and Trolls.

01:33:48.577 --> 01:33:49.297
BETH: That was really cute.

01:33:49.297 --> 01:33:49.837
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:33:49.837 --> 01:33:53.117
VIRGINIA: I have not seen that yet because it's been a few years since I've been back to Universal.

01:33:53.897 --> 01:33:54.377
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:33:54.377 --> 01:33:57.637
VIRGINIA: I'm glad you got a second try at Universal then.

01:33:57.637 --> 01:33:58.377
BETH: Yeah.

01:33:58.377 --> 01:33:59.517
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:33:59.517 --> 01:34:02.197
VIRGINIA: So now we're hopping back ahead.

01:34:02.197 --> 01:34:05.357
VIRGINIA: So now we're on Saturday, September 28th.

01:34:05.357 --> 01:34:09.617
VIRGINIA: And that was originally going to be a resort hopping Disney Springs Day.

01:34:09.617 --> 01:34:11.177
VIRGINIA: Is that what it turned out to be?

01:34:11.177 --> 01:34:14.677
LEONI: It was a Disney Springs Day.

01:34:14.677 --> 01:34:17.077
LEONI: We didn't end up resort hopping.

01:34:17.077 --> 01:34:19.817
LEONI: We kind of just took the morning as it was.

01:34:19.817 --> 01:34:21.897
LEONI: We definitely were really tired.

01:34:22.037 --> 01:34:25.457
LEONI: So we kind of enjoyed the late mornings.

01:34:27.197 --> 01:34:32.497
LEONI: We went to the premium outlets today, the ones closest to Disney.

01:34:33.717 --> 01:34:36.277
LEONI: We had a lot of purchases from there.

01:34:36.277 --> 01:34:42.357
LEONI: There was lots of deals, lots of very good bargains that we came across.

01:34:42.357 --> 01:34:46.177
LEONI: And then we went to watch Cirque du Soleil, the Half-Past Five show.

01:34:46.177 --> 01:34:48.817
LEONI: And that was incredible.

01:34:48.817 --> 01:34:49.817
LEONI: It was really moving.

01:34:50.517 --> 01:34:53.057
VIRGINIA: I speculated that you would cry.

01:34:53.057 --> 01:34:54.757
VIRGINIA: Was I right?

01:34:54.757 --> 01:34:55.797
LEONI: Absolutely.

01:34:55.797 --> 01:34:57.557
BETH: Yeah.

01:34:57.557 --> 01:34:58.857
BETH: Like a baby.

01:34:59.937 --> 01:35:01.777
VIRGINIA: Oh, it's so good.

01:35:01.777 --> 01:35:03.917
VIRGINIA: It's really well done.

01:35:03.977 --> 01:35:04.977
LEONI: Yeah, it really is.

01:35:04.977 --> 01:35:14.397
LEONI: And I think it's, you know, when you think it's just going to be Disney, I think you just presume that it's going to be like the shows in the park, where it's, but it's really not.

01:35:14.397 --> 01:35:16.197
LEONI: It's like another level.

01:35:16.197 --> 01:35:16.477
VIRGINIA: Right.

01:35:16.517 --> 01:35:18.477
LEONI: It's almost like maturity.

01:35:18.477 --> 01:35:19.177
VIRGINIA: Right.

01:35:19.177 --> 01:35:20.137
LEONI: With animation.

01:35:20.137 --> 01:35:21.497
LEONI: It was really good.

01:35:21.497 --> 01:35:22.237
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:35:22.237 --> 01:35:27.317
VIRGINIA: I've recently connected with one of the performers from Drawn to Life on Instagram.

01:35:27.317 --> 01:35:29.437
VIRGINIA: She reached out to me.

01:35:29.437 --> 01:35:34.737
VIRGINIA: And so I will make sure to tag her in the show notes so people can give her a follow.

01:35:34.737 --> 01:35:41.217
VIRGINIA: She's got a, and I'm struggling to remember her name right off the bat, but it will be in the show notes for listeners.

01:35:41.217 --> 01:35:48.317
VIRGINIA: But she's got a YouTube channel that kind of goes behind the scenes on like Cirque du Soleil style clowning and stuff like that.

01:35:48.317 --> 01:35:50.217
VIRGINIA: So really cool.

01:35:50.217 --> 01:35:51.097
LEONI: Oh, wow.

01:35:51.097 --> 01:35:51.557
LEONI: Yeah.

01:35:51.557 --> 01:35:54.177
LEONI: Well, if she was in the show, a huge congratulations to her.

01:35:54.177 --> 01:35:56.337
LEONI: It was phenomenal.

01:35:56.337 --> 01:35:57.497
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:35:57.497 --> 01:35:59.017
VIRGINIA: Sunday, September 29th.

01:35:59.017 --> 01:36:02.757
VIRGINIA: This was a free day, a bit of a wild card.

01:36:02.757 --> 01:36:12.237
VIRGINIA: You were going to choose what you wanted to do based on what you felt like doing, what you had missed, what was the last minute things you wanted to get done.

01:36:12.237 --> 01:36:13.817
VIRGINIA: So what was the answer?

01:36:14.097 --> 01:36:16.937
VIRGINIA: What did you end up doing on your last full day?

01:36:16.937 --> 01:36:20.297
LEONI: So it ended up being a bit of a dramatic morning.

01:36:20.297 --> 01:36:27.797
LEONI: I lost my phone in Disney Springs, and I didn't have my phone for about 18 hours, I think.

01:36:27.797 --> 01:36:32.377
LEONI: So I went to the toilet and then left it in there.

01:36:32.377 --> 01:36:34.997
LEONI: Then a couple of minutes of running back to it, it had already gone.

01:36:34.997 --> 01:36:42.257
LEONI: Then I went from pillar to post talking to people, and someone had handed it in, but I wasn't able to get it because they'd just closed.

01:36:42.997 --> 01:36:46.237
LEONI: So then the next day, I was able to get it.

01:36:46.237 --> 01:36:51.357
LEONI: And things like this happens to me all the time, and I'm so chill with it.

01:36:51.357 --> 01:36:53.437
LEONI: So I was like, okay, they have it.

01:36:53.437 --> 01:36:55.797
LEONI: I'll get it when I'm ready to get it.

01:36:55.797 --> 01:36:56.677
VIRGINIA: Oh my goodness.

01:36:56.677 --> 01:36:57.957
LEONI: So I just took my time.

01:36:57.957 --> 01:37:02.137
LEONI: Whenever we were ready the next day, I was like, I'm not going to rush when they open.

01:37:02.137 --> 01:37:08.297
LEONI: So yeah, it was about lunchtime, I think, that we went to collect it.

01:37:08.297 --> 01:37:10.377
LEONI: And then we decided to spend the day in Epcot.

01:37:10.817 --> 01:37:19.237
LEONI: It was the only day that we think that we didn't, not only have we not seen the fireworks there, but we hadn't done too much of the food and wine festival.

01:37:19.237 --> 01:37:27.937
LEONI: So for us, it was a day where, okay, it's not rides, this is food place, food and wine festival.

01:37:27.937 --> 01:37:28.557
VIRGINIA: Right.

01:37:28.557 --> 01:37:29.837
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:37:29.837 --> 01:37:32.357
LEONI: We obviously did Guardians of the Galaxy because we-

01:37:32.357 --> 01:37:33.277
VIRGINIA: Obviously.

01:37:33.277 --> 01:37:35.117
VIRGINIA: I mean, need you even say it.

01:37:35.537 --> 01:37:38.577
LEONI: Yeah.

01:37:38.577 --> 01:37:43.457
LEONI: And then I had bought a passport from the last time we went, but I didn't get any stamps in it.

01:37:43.457 --> 01:37:47.077
LEONI: So my goal was to complete the stamps and I did.

01:37:47.077 --> 01:37:49.617
LEONI: We went to every country in Epcot.

01:37:49.617 --> 01:37:57.617
LEONI: If we didn't eat in it, we got a stamp in it, but we really got to enjoy the food and wine festival to the max and absolutely loved it.

01:37:57.617 --> 01:38:02.037
LEONI: And then ended it with poutine and fireworks, which was amazing.

01:38:02.777 --> 01:38:03.697
VIRGINIA: Perfect.

01:38:03.697 --> 01:38:05.137
VIRGINIA: Oh my gosh.

01:38:05.137 --> 01:38:05.537
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:38:05.537 --> 01:38:09.937
VIRGINIA: Well, that brings us to your very last day, Monday, September 30th.

01:38:09.937 --> 01:38:16.177
VIRGINIA: You had an evening, an early evening flight, so you did have some time to play with in the morning.

01:38:16.177 --> 01:38:20.897
VIRGINIA: So what did you end up doing for your final morning?

01:38:20.897 --> 01:38:21.217
LEONI: Yeah.

01:38:21.217 --> 01:38:25.697
LEONI: So this day, we decided not to go in a park actually.

01:38:25.697 --> 01:38:29.357
LEONI: We just wanted to enjoy the morning and check out.

01:38:29.837 --> 01:38:37.577
LEONI: We then went to a Denny's diner and just kind of enjoyed some good old American scran.

01:38:39.457 --> 01:38:42.497
LEONI: So we ended up sharing.

01:38:42.497 --> 01:38:48.617
LEONI: There's like a Beetlejuice burger on at the moment, and they had some like chicken strips.

01:38:48.617 --> 01:38:52.237
LEONI: So we literally like cut the burger in half and share the chicken strips.

01:38:52.237 --> 01:38:53.197
LEONI: It's very good.

01:38:53.197 --> 01:38:53.757
LEONI: And that's it.

01:38:53.757 --> 01:38:59.897
LEONI: We basically just chilled in the hotel right up until we got an Uber to the airport.

01:38:59.897 --> 01:39:08.097
LEONI: And then at the airport, we just bought some last-minute gifts that we weren't able to find or pick up during the holiday.

01:39:08.097 --> 01:39:10.257
VIRGINIA: And everything went well with your return flight?

01:39:10.257 --> 01:39:12.137
VIRGINIA: It was on time, no issues?

01:39:12.137 --> 01:39:13.137
LEONI: Yeah, on time.

01:39:13.137 --> 01:39:16.617
LEONI: I think early in fact, I think it ended up being eight hours instead of eight and a half.

01:39:16.617 --> 01:39:18.077
LEONI: And it was also quiet as well.

01:39:18.077 --> 01:39:25.097
LEONI: So once we took off, we were actually, Beth was able to move to a row and have a whole row to herself.

01:39:25.597 --> 01:39:25.937
VIRGINIA: Oh, wow.

01:39:25.937 --> 01:39:29.617
LEONI: I then had my our row, essentially, to have myself.

01:39:29.617 --> 01:39:33.057
LEONI: So we really were able to like lie down and sleep.

01:39:33.077 --> 01:39:34.377
VIRGINIA: Oh, perfect.

01:39:35.417 --> 01:39:39.837
VIRGINIA: That's a very nice end to an amazing holiday.

01:39:39.837 --> 01:39:43.117
VIRGINIA: Thank you both so much for sharing all of those details.

01:39:43.117 --> 01:39:44.537
VIRGINIA: That was a lot to go through.

01:39:44.537 --> 01:39:47.097
VIRGINIA: And I know it's very late where you are right now.

01:39:47.097 --> 01:39:52.197
VIRGINIA: So I appreciate you hopping on with me after my workday was done to sit and chat about it.

01:39:52.617 --> 01:40:01.457
VIRGINIA: And I hope that I get to continue to interact with you both online or that you will come back for another interview at some point in the future.

01:40:01.457 --> 01:40:02.837
BETH: Thank you so much, Virginia.

01:40:02.897 --> 01:40:04.017
BETH: It's been lovely.

01:40:04.017 --> 01:40:05.297
BETH: Thank you.

01:40:05.297 --> 01:40:05.937
LEONI: Absolutely.

01:40:05.937 --> 01:40:06.477
LEONI: I'd love to.

01:40:06.477 --> 01:40:07.497
LEONI: Thank you so much.

01:40:07.497 --> 01:40:08.577
LEONI: Yeah, it's been a real pleasure.

01:40:08.577 --> 01:40:10.037
LEONI: Thanks for having us.

01:40:10.037 --> 01:40:12.357
VIRGINIA: Oh, I just love talking to you ladies.

01:40:12.357 --> 01:40:15.297
VIRGINIA: So I could keep going for hours, but I won't.

01:40:16.757 --> 01:40:17.197
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:40:17.197 --> 01:40:18.397
VIRGINIA: Have a great rest of your evening.

01:40:18.837 --> 01:40:19.137
BETH: You too.

01:40:19.817 --> 01:40:20.637
LEONI: Thank you so much.

01:40:23.617 --> 01:40:25.817
VIRGINIA: Thank you again to Beth and Leoni.

01:40:25.817 --> 01:40:28.517
VIRGINIA: You were both such a delight.

01:40:28.517 --> 01:40:37.637
VIRGINIA: If you have a trip coming up or if you're looking for more trip report content that's relatable to your own trip planning, please head over to my website, which is whereilongtobepodcast.com.

01:40:38.857 --> 01:40:46.757
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01:40:47.517 --> 01:40:49.417
VIRGINIA: That is all for today.

01:40:49.417 --> 01:40:55.857
VIRGINIA: Thank you again for listening and sharing the show, and don't forget to keep daydreaming about where you long to be.