Post-Trip Report: Danielle’s Dinosaur Tribute Trip (January 2025)

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VIRGINIA: Welcome to 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: Whether you are a first time listener or if you are a loyal regular, thank you so much for tuning in.

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VIRGINIA: If you're a regular, you know that I don't usually sound like this, and I am still fighting off the remnants of my cold.

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VIRGINIA: A huge shout out to my son, Alex, who finally shamed me into going to the doctor this weekend, with a reminder that if it didn't get any better before our trip next week, I wouldn't be very happy.

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VIRGINIA: So true, and I'm glad I went, because it turns out it's bronchitis, or likely bronchitis.

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VIRGINIA: Although I feel mostly normal, I do have a lingering cough that if not cleared up soon, could potentially be a nuisance for my first run Disney race that I have coming up.

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VIRGINIA: Okay, enough about that.

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VIRGINIA: Let's get into the order of the day, which is welcoming back Danielle to give the scoop on her recent trip to Walt Disney World.

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VIRGINIA: For those who didn't listen to the pre-trip episode, this isn't Danielle's first time on the show.

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VIRGINIA: She joined me last year around this time as well, and it was a pleasure to bring her back.

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VIRGINIA: Danielle is the founder of askthemouse.com, which is your go-to resource for all things Disney.

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VIRGINIA: Check it out now, and the link is in the show notes for your convenience.

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VIRGINIA: On this trip, Danielle and her husband Danny were traveling from Houston to Walt Disney World from January 8th through 12th, and they were staying at a good neighbor resort, the Holiday Inn Orlando.

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VIRGINIA: Now, this is the same resort that recent guest Celeste stayed at, and both have had great things to say about it.

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VIRGINIA: So, if you're looking for an offsite option that might be available to you, the link for the Holiday Inn Orlando is in the show notes, and go back and listen to Celeste's trip as well, so you can hear exactly what she had to say about it too.

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VIRGINIA: Danielle and Danny love to park hop.

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VIRGINIA: So, for their three park days, of course, they added on the hopper option.

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VIRGINIA: I think that should be enough to catch you up.

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VIRGINIA: So now, here's Danielle.

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VIRGINIA: You're back.

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DANIELLE: I'm back.

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DANIELLE: I know being back means that the trip is over, but at least I get to share it with you and your audience.

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VIRGINIA: I know.

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VIRGINIA: I know.

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VIRGINIA: It doesn't feel like we spoke that long ago.

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DANIELLE: I know.

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DANIELLE: That is kind of crazy.

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DANIELLE: It does not seem like it was that long, but of course, even everyone's Disney trips are usually packed in.

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DANIELLE: So the time between the trip till now does not seem the same.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: And I think that, you know, it's been very busy.

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VIRGINIA: It usually is.

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VIRGINIA: I don't know about you, but when I come back from the holiday break, it's like January just gets packed.

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VIRGINIA: It's like everybody wants to make up for the fact that we were off for a week.

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DANIELLE: So that is true.

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DANIELLE: Lots to do work wise and everything else.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: Well, I need to hear about this trip.

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VIRGINIA: It was a busy day.

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VIRGINIA: I need some Disney distractions.

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VIRGINIA: So let's dive right in.

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VIRGINIA: So two follow up questions from our pre-trip interview.

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VIRGINIA: Number one, how was the weather?

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VIRGINIA: Because you were a little worried about the rain and the cold.

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VIRGINIA: And number two, how were the crowds?

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VIRGINIA: Because you were a little concerned about Marathon Weekend.

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DANIELLE: Yes.

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DANIELLE: To address the weather, it did not rain.

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DANIELLE: It was very cold.

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DANIELLE: I would say it probably got down to like 40s, 50s.

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DANIELLE: I was prepared with what I packed.

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DANIELLE: So if I had to choose over the cold temperatures or rain, I would take the cold temperatures.

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VIRGINIA: 100%.

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VIRGINIA: I still have PTSD from last year, my December trip, last year meaning 2023, not 2024, and it rained so much.

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VIRGINIA: I could not take it to the point where I'm going again next week.

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VIRGINIA: And I'm like, what if it does that again?

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VIRGINIA: And so I went and bought waterproof tennis shoes because I can't do it anymore.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, there you go.

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DANIELLE: You're covered just in case.

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DANIELLE: We have your Donald Duck proof shoes.

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VIRGINIA: It says.

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DANIELLE: And then crowd-wise.

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DANIELLE: So this was the Run Marathon Weekend, and I felt like besides the crowds from the race, there weren't that many other vacation goers who were there just to enjoy themselves as you would usually see besides that event.

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DANIELLE: So that was pretty decent.

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DANIELLE: That was good.

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VIRGINIA: So let's start in on Wednesday, January 8th, and you were supposed to arrive around 930.

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VIRGINIA: Did everything go according to plan?

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DANIELLE: It did.

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DANIELLE: So we did arrive pretty earlier than I expected.

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DANIELLE: So it was about the 930 window.

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DANIELLE: But Danny and I did discuss, we're like, okay, after getting our bags and getting to the hotel, we may not feel like going to Springs to go to Earl's Sandwich.

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DANIELLE: So we decided to get dinner in the airport and we just ate Chick-fil-A before the flight.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah, I was wondering how that would feel to kind of, I know that you had your heart set on Earl of Sandwich, but that's a lot to pack in.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: Speaking of the hotel, this was your first time staying at the Holiday Inn over by Disney Springs.

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VIRGINIA: So what were your impressions?

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VIRGINIA: Would you recommend it for others?

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DANIELLE: I definitely would recommend it.

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DANIELLE: We would love to stay there again.

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DANIELLE: I would say first impressions when you walk in, there is an atrium and to be honest, it looks like Pixar Place in Disneyland when you look up.

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VIRGINIA: Really?

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DANIELLE: Okay.

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DANIELLE: There were these kite-like looking structures that were colorful, so it was very inviting and warm and we loved our room.

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DANIELLE: We were happy to have a nice king size bed, so that gave us a lot of space.

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DANIELLE: Then we also selected the option for our stay to have free breakfast in the morning.

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DANIELLE: I definitely enjoyed the free omelets that I got.

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VIRGINIA: Nice.

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VIRGINIA: It was like an omelet station and that sort of thing?

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DANIELLE: Omelet station, waffles, fruit, bacon, everything.

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DANIELLE: Everything you would want and expect in a nice breakfast buffet.

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VIRGINIA: Perfect.

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VIRGINIA: The price was right for this hotel?

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DANIELLE: Yes.

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DANIELLE: The price was really good.

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DANIELLE: I think we paid about $150 a night including breakfast.

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DANIELLE: It was something that I think we enjoyed within our budget that we would say, let's say there again.

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VIRGINIA: No, that's a really good price, especially considering having a nice breakfast included, not just have some cereal and maybe a banana.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: Did you get a chance to use any of the hotel's amenities besides your room?

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VIRGINIA: Did you take the shuttle at all?

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DANIELLE: We did not take the shuttle, but we did get information for it because we were planning on it.

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DANIELLE: From what I found out, they have hourly departures from about 7 a.m.

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DANIELLE: to 7 p.m.

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DANIELLE: or at least an hour before the specific theme park close.

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DANIELLE: I think they pick you up every 30 to 40 minutes as well.

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DANIELLE: The only thing that I think prevented us from using the shuttle is the fact that you have to schedule it in advance.

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DANIELLE: I think there's a mobile app to do so.

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DANIELLE: But when we looked into doing it, all of the seats were filled for the next day.

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DANIELLE: So we're like, OK.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, wow.

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DANIELLE: We'll catch it for the next time.

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DANIELLE: Or we'll just plan in advance.

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VIRGINIA: OK.

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VIRGINIA: So they let you schedule up to 24 hours in advance?

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DANIELLE: Yes.

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VIRGINIA: OK.

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DANIELLE: All right.

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VIRGINIA: Good to know.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: Always something that you have to take into consideration when you're staying at an offsite resort.

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VIRGINIA: Because the shuttle situations are not equal.

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VIRGINIA: I mean, some you hear about are just not even worth trying for and others I've heard are really good.

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VIRGINIA: So on the first day, so Thursday, January the 9th, you explained your plans to me.

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VIRGINIA: And by the end of explaining the plans to me, it sounded to me like you were doing a four-park challenge unintentionally.

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VIRGINIA: And like you were planning to try to go to four parks, but you weren't thinking of it as a four-park challenge.

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VIRGINIA: So did you make it to all four parks on Thursday the 9th?

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DANIELLE: We didn't.

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DANIELLE: We made it a three-park challenge.

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DANIELLE: We got all the way up to Hollywood and we were going to go.

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DANIELLE: But we ended up at Ogres Cantina and we decided to end it.

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VIRGINIA: You called it.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: So let's get through these three parks then.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: So rope dropping, Animal Kingdom, because this was your Dinosaur Farewell Tour for all intents and purposes.

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DANIELLE: That is correct.

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VIRGINIA: It was.

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DANIELLE: And now saying it out loud, I'm just hitting or soaking in the fact that that was it for us.

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DANIELLE: No more dinosaur.

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DANIELLE: But yes, we started the day off at Animal Kingdom.

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DANIELLE: We decided to rope drop and go straight to Flight of Passage, so we could save money on a Lightning Lane, which we did.

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DANIELLE: I think our wait time was maybe about 30 minutes.

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DANIELLE: I think other people have the same idea.

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VIRGINIA: Not bad at all.

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DANIELLE: It's not bad.

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DANIELLE: Exactly.

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DANIELLE: After that, we made our way over to Expedition Everest.

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DANIELLE: We did have a multi-pass lined up for a few different attractions, so we did that one twice.

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DANIELLE: One using the pass, once using just a standby, which was really fun.

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DANIELLE: Then we started the tour at Dinosaur.

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DANIELLE: We did it twice.

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DANIELLE: We were not saying farewell yet.

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DANIELLE: We were just getting warmed up to the idea.

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DANIELLE: Did do a fun hello there, after seeing your video, which I'm going to have to share.

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VIRGINIA: Hello there.

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DANIELLE: There are dinosaur hand puppets in the gift shop.

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VIRGINIA: Oh no, Danielle.

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VIRGINIA: Did you check the price?

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DANIELLE: $14.99.

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VIRGINIA: I might have to get that.

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DANIELLE: I know.

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DANIELLE: I saw it and I'm like, okay, I'm going to have to tell her Virginia, it's not terrible.

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DANIELLE: So I think Disney knows people want to do that.

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VIRGINIA: I think I could justify $15 for the memories.

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DANIELLE: After dinosaur, we decided to do Try To Stay Atop Spin.

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DANIELLE: That was really fun, just trying to get in one of the last Chester and Hester carnival rides.

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DANIELLE: Then we made our way over to Kilimanjaro's to Safari, which was amazing.

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DANIELLE: I think every animal we got to see except the lions, which is kind of like a hit or miss every time you go.

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DANIELLE: But seeing the cheetahs, that was incredible, too.

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DANIELLE: So that was really great.

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VIRGINIA: So what was the temperature like during the day?

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VIRGINIA: When you said that it got down 40s and 50s, was that when it was dark?

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DANIELLE: No, the morning started off and it was very cold.

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DANIELLE: I want to say it was probably about 40, maybe 45.

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DANIELLE: It was hard to capture content without gloves on.

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DANIELLE: So my fingers were exposed there.

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DANIELLE: But as the sun started to come out a little bit more, it did warm up to the 50s and 60s.

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DANIELLE: So for those of us used to just walking around the parks, you could start shedding off a few different clothing articles.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: And I think that you were planning to eat at Sanaa for lunch.

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DANIELLE: Yes, we did.

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DANIELLE: We did something we'd never tried before, because in the past, we've usually ordered entrees.

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DANIELLE: But the appetizer menu was looking so appealing, and we knew we had a big dinner.

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DANIELLE: So we just ordered bread service, the kefta meatballs, and then the samosas.

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DANIELLE: And it was delicious.

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VIRGINIA: That does sound good.

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VIRGINIA: Sounds really good.

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VIRGINIA: After this, did you take a nap?

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VIRGINIA: Because sometimes you two like to go take a nap, and sometimes you power through.

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DANIELLE: You are spot on.

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DANIELLE: We went back to the hotel.

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DANIELLE: We took a nap.

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DANIELLE: We definitely needed it from just the late arrival from the day before.

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DANIELLE: So we took a nap, Virginia.

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VIRGINIA: Yep.

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VIRGINIA: There's just something special.

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VIRGINIA: There's nothing special about doing anything at Disney.

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VIRGINIA: But a Disney nap, sometimes it really hits.

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DANIELLE: It does, because then you wake up and you're still there.

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DANIELLE: Right.

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VIRGINIA: Exactly.

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VIRGINIA: Exactly.

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VIRGINIA: And refreshed and ready to get going.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: So at this point, where did you go?

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DANIELLE: We did our first park hop of the day to Epcot.

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DANIELLE: Funny enough, we only won attraction.

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DANIELLE: So we rode Cosmic Rewind and we got your song, Everybody Wants to Grow.

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VIRGINIA: Did you do an individual lightning lane for it?

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DANIELLE: We did a lightning lane, not virtual queue.

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DANIELLE: So that was really good.

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DANIELLE: I got nervous though because the first time I was in the ride queue, I noticed that when you walk in, you usually can walk up the circular ramp, but we walked in and stopped.

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DANIELLE: There was a long line.

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DANIELLE: I was like, wait, are we in lightning lane or normal?

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DANIELLE: It probably took like 10 minutes and then it naturally moved.

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DANIELLE: But I got nervous because we had a back-to-back reservation for dinner.

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DANIELLE: I was like, what do you choose, dinner or Cosmic Rewind?

00:13:16.478 --> 00:13:17.798
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:13:17.798 --> 00:13:22.978
VIRGINIA: I mean, I feel like it's easy to show up for dinner and say, I was stuck in this line.

00:13:22.978 --> 00:13:23.818
DANIELLE: That's true.

00:13:23.878 --> 00:13:24.678
DANIELLE: That's true.

00:13:24.678 --> 00:13:36.418
DANIELLE: I thought about that and then I thought, well, since it was at Chefs De France, I was like, I can try dusting off my French, but I don't know how apologetic I can sound in French.

00:13:38.338 --> 00:13:40.098
VIRGINIA: Well, how was Chefs De France?

00:13:40.098 --> 00:13:45.418
VIRGINIA: Because it's been a couple of years since I've eaten there, but I've typically enjoyed my experiences.

00:13:46.078 --> 00:13:54.258
DANIELLE: Yes, we had a wonderful waitstaff, and I got the beef bourguignon, which I usually get, which comes with pasta.

00:13:54.258 --> 00:14:03.418
DANIELLE: But funny enough, it's like our waitress just read my mind because she was like, would you like mashed potatoes instead before I even said anything?

00:14:03.418 --> 00:14:05.498
DANIELLE: And I was like, yes.

00:14:07.038 --> 00:14:07.978
DANIELLE: It was delicious.

00:14:07.978 --> 00:14:17.398
DANIELLE: I think they've even upgraded their cooking ware and how they serve you because it came in a La Crucente pot.

00:14:17.398 --> 00:14:18.378
DANIELLE: Like one of those.

00:14:18.378 --> 00:14:19.438
VIRGINIA: Fancy.

00:14:19.438 --> 00:14:19.918
DANIELLE: What is it?

00:14:19.918 --> 00:14:22.218
DANIELLE: The Dutch oven, the smaller Dutch oven.

00:14:22.218 --> 00:14:26.318
DANIELLE: So I love the presentation of it and it was delicious.

00:14:26.318 --> 00:14:27.658
VIRGINIA: What did Danny have?

00:14:27.658 --> 00:14:36.598
DANIELLE: He had the salmon version of, I forgot the actual name, but it's like a really nice salmon with a lemon cream drizzle.

00:14:36.598 --> 00:14:39.578
DANIELLE: And then I think it comes through like a rice pilaf or something like that.

00:14:40.118 --> 00:14:40.958
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:14:40.958 --> 00:14:43.398
VIRGINIA: Did you go for dessert?

00:14:43.398 --> 00:14:45.518
DANIELLE: No, we were very full.

00:14:45.518 --> 00:14:49.338
DANIELLE: I always want to, but then they have just amazing portion sizes.

00:14:49.338 --> 00:14:55.098
DANIELLE: So I was like, I'm already going to have to carry this back to the hotel and we're not going back yet.

00:14:55.098 --> 00:14:57.718
DANIELLE: So I'll just give my stomach a break.

00:14:57.718 --> 00:14:58.218
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:14:58.218 --> 00:14:59.638
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:14:59.658 --> 00:15:02.058
VIRGINIA: Was this the next time you hopped?

00:15:02.138 --> 00:15:02.458
DANIELLE: It was.

00:15:03.118 --> 00:15:11.058
DANIELLE: So it was just attraction and dinner at Epcot and we hopped to Hollywood using the Skyliner.

00:15:11.058 --> 00:15:11.538
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:15:11.538 --> 00:15:14.278
VIRGINIA: You answered my next question, which was, how did you get there?

00:15:14.278 --> 00:15:15.318
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:15:15.318 --> 00:15:18.458
VIRGINIA: So tell me all about your Hollywood studio this time.

00:15:18.458 --> 00:15:18.938
DANIELLE: Okay.

00:15:18.938 --> 00:15:24.698
DANIELLE: So I think I talked about it on the previous episode that Danny loves the Hollywood Tower tour.

00:15:24.698 --> 00:15:27.238
DANIELLE: I always have to brace myself for it.

00:15:27.378 --> 00:15:36.738
DANIELLE: When we were at dinner, he checked wait times, which were very surprisingly low for both Tower of Terror and Rock and Roller Coaster.

00:15:36.738 --> 00:15:41.598
DANIELLE: So we were able to go to Tower of Terror first.

00:15:41.598 --> 00:15:45.558
DANIELLE: It was around the same time at the first showing of Fantastic was occurring.

00:15:45.558 --> 00:15:51.398
DANIELLE: So beeline it right inside to, what is it there?

00:15:51.398 --> 00:15:56.278
DANIELLE: I forget the name of it where you can see the ride video before you get into the boiler room.

00:15:56.278 --> 00:15:56.878
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:15:56.878 --> 00:15:57.038
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:15:57.138 --> 00:15:57.458
DANIELLE: Yes.

00:15:57.458 --> 00:15:59.318
DANIELLE: So that was the library.

00:15:59.498 --> 00:16:00.598
DANIELLE: Yeah, the library.

00:16:00.598 --> 00:16:01.838
DANIELLE: Yes.

00:16:01.838 --> 00:16:06.578
DANIELLE: So that probably took maybe all of 15 minutes once we were inside.

00:16:06.578 --> 00:16:15.738
DANIELLE: And then afterwards we did Rock and Roller Coaster was probably the last ride of the day because it was right at the time of close.

00:16:15.738 --> 00:16:19.598
DANIELLE: So we did wait in the normal standby, but that ride is worth it.

00:16:19.598 --> 00:16:20.318
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:16:20.318 --> 00:16:20.958
VIRGINIA: How was it?

00:16:20.958 --> 00:16:26.138
VIRGINIA: Because they were closed for a good long while for renovations and stuff.

00:16:26.658 --> 00:16:29.758
VIRGINIA: Did it feel smooth to you?

00:16:29.758 --> 00:16:43.438
DANIELLE: It did because I was again, bracing myself for the more bumpy ride where I'm used to like getting on and then my head is kind of jerking from the left and the right because that's been my previous experience.

00:16:43.438 --> 00:16:45.498
DANIELLE: Got on, we did the donut and everything.

00:16:45.498 --> 00:16:46.158
DANIELLE: It was smooth.

00:16:46.158 --> 00:16:49.458
DANIELLE: So whatever they did worked.

00:16:49.518 --> 00:16:59.058
VIRGINIA: Yeah, I'm hoping that will be my experience with it too because I feel like the last few times I've ridden it, it has felt really jerky and it did not always feel that way to me.

00:16:59.058 --> 00:17:07.578
DANIELLE: So yeah, that was probably, to be honest, one of the reasons why I didn't enjoy it as much because of the jerkiness, but it's one of my favorite coasters.

00:17:07.578 --> 00:17:10.838
DANIELLE: It just wasn't as smooth, but I'll give the Imagineers a break.

00:17:10.838 --> 00:17:12.018
DANIELLE: It's super fast.

00:17:12.078 --> 00:17:14.918
DANIELLE: So you can't have everything perfect.

00:17:14.918 --> 00:17:15.118
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:17:15.118 --> 00:17:17.158
VIRGINIA: Now we can though.

00:17:17.518 --> 00:17:20.198
VIRGINIA: Now we can when it becomes the Muppet Coaster.

00:17:20.458 --> 00:17:22.558
VIRGINIA: I wonder what they'll call it.

00:17:22.558 --> 00:17:24.838
DANIELLE: I forgot what the band is in the Muppet.

00:17:26.138 --> 00:17:28.058
VIRGINIA: It's the mayhem.

00:17:28.478 --> 00:17:29.158
DANIELLE: Yes.

00:17:29.158 --> 00:17:30.438
VIRGINIA: I feel like there's another word in there.

00:17:30.438 --> 00:17:31.498
DANIELLE: There is another one.

00:17:31.498 --> 00:17:33.778
DANIELLE: We'll figure it out.

00:17:33.778 --> 00:17:34.578
DANIELLE: Oh, Dr.

00:17:34.578 --> 00:17:35.338
DANIELLE: T.

00:17:35.338 --> 00:17:37.198
VIRGINIA: It's the electric mayhem.

00:17:37.198 --> 00:17:38.558
DANIELLE: The electric mayhem.

00:17:38.558 --> 00:17:39.398
VIRGINIA: There it is.

00:17:39.438 --> 00:17:39.858
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:17:39.858 --> 00:17:41.838
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:17:41.838 --> 00:17:42.318
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:17:42.318 --> 00:17:48.058
VIRGINIA: And did you have any time to get other things done before your Ogus Reservation?

00:17:48.058 --> 00:17:51.398
DANIELLE: No, we actually pushed the Ogus Reservation.

00:17:51.398 --> 00:17:57.938
DANIELLE: Well, I'll say it the honest way, we were late because we were both the other two.

00:17:57.938 --> 00:18:00.258
DANIELLE: But it's worth it.

00:18:00.258 --> 00:18:11.738
DANIELLE: And then of course, since Ogus stays open later than the actual park, you do have to go through a few checkpoints getting there, meeting up with cast members, verifying that you have a reservation.

00:18:11.738 --> 00:18:15.598
DANIELLE: So it's always fun, but it worked out in the end.

00:18:15.598 --> 00:18:17.238
VIRGINIA: What did you end up getting at Ogus?

00:18:17.238 --> 00:18:20.998
VIRGINIA: Was it just drinks or did you go for some of those little snackies too?

00:18:20.998 --> 00:18:23.418
DANIELLE: I looked at the snacks.

00:18:23.418 --> 00:18:27.438
DANIELLE: I think I wasn't as excited about trying them after dinner.

00:18:27.438 --> 00:18:29.098
DANIELLE: So we did just do drinks.

00:18:29.098 --> 00:18:33.138
DANIELLE: So one of my favorites is the Jet Juice and then Danny likes the Outer Rim.

00:18:33.138 --> 00:18:38.918
DANIELLE: So we got that and then I decided to try one of their non-alcoholic drinks.

00:18:38.918 --> 00:18:45.698
DANIELLE: I'm forgetting the name of it, but it's the Blue Drink that has a sugar cookie on top.

00:18:45.698 --> 00:18:47.998
DANIELLE: I have not tried that one.

00:18:47.998 --> 00:18:49.398
DANIELLE: Yeah.

00:18:49.398 --> 00:18:58.098
DANIELLE: I don't recommend it because I was trying to say to myself, if you don't get Blue Milk outside at Galaxy's Edge, just get it now.

00:18:58.098 --> 00:19:01.078
DANIELLE: That way you can check it off your list.

00:19:01.078 --> 00:19:03.458
DANIELLE: It's not made of the same ingredients.

00:19:03.518 --> 00:19:06.198
DANIELLE: It's dragon fruit-based Blue Milk.

00:19:06.198 --> 00:19:12.598
DANIELLE: It tastes very sour to the point that I asked the cast member if that was a good batch.

00:19:12.598 --> 00:19:17.398
DANIELLE: To use the Star Wars pun from the TV show, it was not a bad batch.

00:19:17.398 --> 00:19:22.798
DANIELLE: It just was not really satisfying to my taste buds.

00:19:22.798 --> 00:19:31.078
VIRGINIA: That does not sound like a good combination to have a sugar cookie with it because usually if a cookie comes with something, the idea is it will taste good to dunk the cookie in it.

00:19:31.878 --> 00:19:32.178
DANIELLE: Right.

00:19:32.178 --> 00:19:36.918
DANIELLE: So we end up biting the cookie and then taking a drink shot at the same time.

00:19:37.938 --> 00:19:40.998
DANIELLE: We're like, we're just going to have fun with it.

00:19:40.998 --> 00:19:45.758
VIRGINIA: I really don't think I've tried either the blue or the green milk after all of this time.

00:19:45.758 --> 00:19:48.138
VIRGINIA: I don't know how I've managed to do that.

00:19:48.138 --> 00:19:50.998
DANIELLE: It's not anything that I think a lot of people write home about.

00:19:50.998 --> 00:19:52.838
DANIELLE: That might be fine.

00:19:52.838 --> 00:19:58.178
DANIELLE: If you try one, I would say the blue milk, but everyone has a preference over blue or green.

00:20:00.458 --> 00:20:02.198
DANIELLE: Then maybe bring your own straw.

00:20:02.198 --> 00:20:11.938
DANIELLE: No offense to Disney with their sustainability, but when you get the paper straw and you're trying to sip on it for a bit, it gets a little papery.

00:20:12.218 --> 00:20:17.798
VIRGINIA: I do have a reusable straw that I keep in my bag just in case.

00:20:20.078 --> 00:20:27.918
VIRGINIA: If I can get through a drink without using my reusable, and I'll be honest, I do that because I don't want to have to wash the straw on the go.

00:20:28.898 --> 00:20:34.118
VIRGINIA: But I have it just in case because there's, I mean, there's plenty of things worse than a soggy straw.

00:20:34.118 --> 00:20:41.858
VIRGINIA: But in the world of Disney, that's one of the more annoying little things that you have to encounter.

00:20:42.558 --> 00:20:50.398
VIRGINIA: So after that, did you go back to the hotel and if so, did you do that via Uber or Lyft?

00:20:50.398 --> 00:20:54.738
DANIELLE: I'm trying to remember if this was the time we took an Uber directly.

00:20:54.898 --> 00:20:57.638
DANIELLE: So we did do late Hollywood twice.

00:20:57.638 --> 00:21:03.078
DANIELLE: I'm trying to remember if we either took a ride share or if we took a bus and then walked to...

00:21:03.078 --> 00:21:04.458
DANIELLE: Oh, no, this was it.

00:21:04.458 --> 00:21:07.998
DANIELLE: We took a bus to Saratoga.

00:21:09.098 --> 00:21:15.378
DANIELLE: Then from Saratoga, we took the shortcut around Springs and the boardwalk there and walked back.

00:21:15.378 --> 00:21:15.938
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:21:15.938 --> 00:21:18.138
VIRGINIA: How long of a walk was that in total?

00:21:18.138 --> 00:21:19.038
DANIELLE: Danny tracked it.

00:21:19.038 --> 00:21:21.258
DANIELLE: It's a mile from...

00:21:21.258 --> 00:21:21.738
DANIELLE: What is it?

00:21:21.738 --> 00:21:22.738
DANIELLE: Is it the paddock?

00:21:22.738 --> 00:21:30.338
DANIELLE: I think I'm forgetting where that little area is at Saratoga, but it's a mile, so from Saratoga to Holiday Inn, it's just a mile.

00:21:30.338 --> 00:21:31.298
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:21:31.298 --> 00:21:32.698
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:21:32.698 --> 00:21:37.038
VIRGINIA: That takes us to Friday, January 10th.

00:21:37.038 --> 00:21:41.838
VIRGINIA: This was an Epcot day or at least a starting at Epcot day.

00:21:41.838 --> 00:21:44.518
VIRGINIA: I know that you had the Behind the Seats tour booked.

00:21:44.518 --> 00:21:45.758
VIRGINIA: Was that the first thing of your day?

00:21:45.758 --> 00:21:48.478
VIRGINIA: I did not write it down on my notes when it was happening.

00:21:49.078 --> 00:21:50.158
DANIELLE: It was the first thing.

00:21:50.158 --> 00:21:51.878
DANIELLE: We had a 1230 tour.

00:21:52.058 --> 00:21:55.478
DANIELLE: For Danny and I, this was the first thing we did.

00:21:55.478 --> 00:22:00.038
DANIELLE: It was a late start for us, but we needed to rest.

00:22:00.038 --> 00:22:01.798
DANIELLE: We loved the tour.

00:22:01.798 --> 00:22:03.398
DANIELLE: It was incredible.

00:22:03.398 --> 00:22:14.478
DANIELLE: I bought a lot of the Mickey's Mini Garden gifts for family members and friends so that they could have their own cultures from Disney and then have a plant there.

00:22:14.658 --> 00:22:16.538
DANIELLE: It was a wonderful tour.

00:22:16.538 --> 00:22:24.058
DANIELLE: It's a walking tour, but it is accessible, in my opinion, for someone who may need different options with that.

00:22:24.058 --> 00:22:32.118
DANIELLE: Being able to see the gardens from the other side, outside of the boat, was really incredible.

00:22:32.118 --> 00:22:34.078
VIRGINIA: You got to meet Stanley.

00:22:34.078 --> 00:22:36.058
DANIELLE: Stanley, I know.

00:22:36.058 --> 00:22:40.858
DANIELLE: That is now on my birthday wish list to have a mimosa pudica.

00:22:41.058 --> 00:22:41.698
VIRGINIA: Wait, hold on.

00:22:41.698 --> 00:22:45.538
VIRGINIA: Say the name of it, because I never remember what type of plant he is.

00:22:45.538 --> 00:22:46.938
VIRGINIA: I'm assuming it's a he.

00:22:46.938 --> 00:22:47.678
DANIELLE: It is Stanley.

00:22:48.278 --> 00:22:53.058
DANIELLE: He is a mimosa, like the drink, and then the last part of his name is pudica.

00:22:53.058 --> 00:22:55.438
DANIELLE: I think it's P-U-D-I-C-A.

00:22:55.438 --> 00:22:56.018
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:22:56.018 --> 00:22:57.098
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:22:57.138 --> 00:23:01.598
VIRGINIA: Did they tell you what kind of climate he would be best in?

00:23:01.598 --> 00:23:03.238
DANIELLE: I do not remember.

00:23:03.238 --> 00:23:11.858
DANIELLE: I know for a fact though, he is in the room where there are the hydroponic plants, the ones that are growing.

00:23:11.858 --> 00:23:12.218
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:23:12.218 --> 00:23:13.178
VIRGINIA: So it's warmer there.

00:23:13.178 --> 00:23:14.558
DANIELLE: It's warmer in there for sure.

00:23:14.558 --> 00:23:15.238
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:23:15.238 --> 00:23:15.538
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:23:15.538 --> 00:23:20.378
DANIELLE: If you Google, I'm sure someone can figure out if they have the right climate to bring up Stanley.

00:23:21.738 --> 00:23:22.558
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:23:22.558 --> 00:23:31.858
VIRGINIA: And for listeners who have not done the Behind In The Seeds Tour, Stanley is a plant that if you touch him, he immediately starts closing up wherever you've touched him.

00:23:31.858 --> 00:23:35.438
VIRGINIA: And if you shake him, like everything on him closes up.

00:23:35.438 --> 00:23:36.818
VIRGINIA: And it's a really quick reaction.

00:23:36.818 --> 00:23:37.578
VIRGINIA: It's very cool.

00:23:38.358 --> 00:23:41.478
VIRGINIA: So he's always a highlight for everyone who takes that tour.

00:23:41.478 --> 00:23:41.838
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:23:41.838 --> 00:23:44.418
VIRGINIA: So what was after Behind In The Seeds?

00:23:44.418 --> 00:23:46.958
VIRGINIA: Did you hop right on Living With The Land?

00:23:46.958 --> 00:23:48.098
DANIELLE: We didn't.

00:23:48.098 --> 00:23:50.738
DANIELLE: We had Tiffinito booked 150.

00:23:50.738 --> 00:23:52.718
DANIELLE: So the tour is 1230 to 130.

00:23:52.718 --> 00:23:57.198
DANIELLE: So then we casually walked over to the Japan Pavilion.

00:23:57.198 --> 00:23:58.778
DANIELLE: That was amazing.

00:23:58.778 --> 00:24:06.038
DANIELLE: As always, we were seated with a wonderful family who were actually participating in the Run Marathon weekend.

00:24:06.198 --> 00:24:09.938
DANIELLE: So that was fun to get their perspective of being up at 3 a.m.

00:24:09.938 --> 00:24:15.118
DANIELLE: that morning doing the half marathon, but still having all the energy because they're at Disney.

00:24:15.118 --> 00:24:15.578
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:24:15.578 --> 00:24:20.058
VIRGINIA: I just spoke with Jon, the WDW runner.

00:24:20.058 --> 00:24:23.878
VIRGINIA: Just spoke with him last night and talked about his experience.

00:24:23.878 --> 00:24:29.778
VIRGINIA: So I'm in that Run Disney mindset right now because of that and preparing for my own.

00:24:29.878 --> 00:24:32.958
VIRGINIA: By preparing, I mean, I'm doing the 5K.

00:24:32.958 --> 00:24:34.278
VIRGINIA: I'm not practicing or anything.

00:24:34.458 --> 00:24:34.738
DANIELLE: Okay.

00:24:34.738 --> 00:24:36.258
DANIELLE: That's still awesome though.

00:24:36.258 --> 00:24:37.618
DANIELLE: That is really cool.

00:24:37.618 --> 00:24:38.158
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:24:38.158 --> 00:24:38.758
VIRGINIA: It'll be fun.

00:24:38.758 --> 00:24:40.138
VIRGINIA: It'll be fun.

00:24:40.138 --> 00:24:41.058
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:24:41.058 --> 00:24:43.178
VIRGINIA: So after lunch, what did you do next?

00:24:43.178 --> 00:24:46.658
VIRGINIA: Because I know you had dinner at Topolino's Reserved.

00:24:46.658 --> 00:24:47.158
DANIELLE: Yes.

00:24:48.358 --> 00:24:50.458
DANIELLE: We decided to actually cancel that.

00:24:50.458 --> 00:24:51.318
DANIELLE: I'll get to that.

00:24:51.618 --> 00:24:51.998
VIRGINIA: No.

00:24:51.998 --> 00:24:53.638
VIRGINIA: I am not surprised at all.

00:24:53.638 --> 00:24:59.638
VIRGINIA: I say this because when I was looking over my notes, I was like, that is two really big meals back to back.

00:25:00.338 --> 00:25:02.838
VIRGINIA: If I know Danielle, that's not going to happen.

00:25:04.058 --> 00:25:11.758
DANIELLE: It was either Quito Polino's and Not To Be Our Guest, but we've never been to Be Our Guest, so we kept that later in our itinerary.

00:25:11.758 --> 00:25:17.958
DANIELLE: But after Topolino, we walked to Germany, and I got the Werther's Popcorns.

00:25:17.958 --> 00:25:19.438
VIRGINIA: Yum.

00:25:19.438 --> 00:25:20.398
VIRGINIA: Love it.

00:25:20.398 --> 00:25:21.218
DANIELLE: Yes.

00:25:21.218 --> 00:25:22.338
VIRGINIA: Love it.

00:25:22.338 --> 00:25:23.218
VIRGINIA: So good.

00:25:23.218 --> 00:25:23.538
VIRGINIA: I know.

00:25:23.658 --> 00:25:26.298
DANIELLE: It sniffs in there all the time too.

00:25:26.298 --> 00:25:26.798
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:25:27.378 --> 00:25:34.358
VIRGINIA: It's so different from any other caramel popcorn that you can just buy at a store because it's still chewy from the caramel.

00:25:34.358 --> 00:25:35.958
VIRGINIA: It's not crunchy.

00:25:35.958 --> 00:25:40.498
DANIELLE: Did I tell you I tried to make some at home like I bought the candy itself?

00:25:40.498 --> 00:25:41.618
VIRGINIA: So what did you do?

00:25:41.618 --> 00:25:44.078
DANIELLE: I think I bought the chewy caramel Werther's.

00:25:44.138 --> 00:25:44.418
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:25:44.418 --> 00:25:51.778
DANIELLE: I was like, okay, I'll use a lower sodium popcorn since it's more of a savory item, melted it, poured it on top.

00:25:51.778 --> 00:25:53.678
DANIELLE: It's not the same.

00:25:53.678 --> 00:25:54.638
DANIELLE: It was not good.

00:25:54.638 --> 00:25:56.138
DANIELLE: Maybe that was a meat problem.

00:25:57.238 --> 00:26:02.738
VIRGINIA: I mean, but you just did it on your own or did you look up tips on how to do it?

00:26:02.738 --> 00:26:03.578
DANIELLE: Did it on my own.

00:26:03.578 --> 00:26:08.838
DANIELLE: I probably should have looked up tips, adding more butter, something.

00:26:08.838 --> 00:26:19.738
VIRGINIA: There's probably somebody that gave exactly how to do it because there's pretty much everything else like, oh, make this at home using a fake Disney recipe.

00:26:19.738 --> 00:26:21.698
VIRGINIA: So give it another go.

00:26:21.758 --> 00:26:22.758
VIRGINIA: I have faith in you.

00:26:22.758 --> 00:26:26.398
DANIELLE: I will look for a recipe first and then I'll try it again.

00:26:26.398 --> 00:26:26.978
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:26:26.978 --> 00:26:27.658
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:26:27.658 --> 00:26:29.478
VIRGINIA: If you find a good recipe, let me know.

00:26:29.498 --> 00:26:30.658
DANIELLE: Send it your way.

00:26:30.658 --> 00:26:31.678
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:26:31.678 --> 00:26:32.158
VIRGINIA: So good.

00:26:32.158 --> 00:26:37.338
VIRGINIA: That's one of those things that you can't continue to eat it multiple days in a row, in my opinion.

00:26:38.218 --> 00:26:40.898
VIRGINIA: It does, I'm going to say go bad.

00:26:40.898 --> 00:26:41.758
VIRGINIA: I mean, you can eat it.

00:26:42.058 --> 00:26:43.518
VIRGINIA: It doesn't have the same quality.

00:26:43.518 --> 00:26:51.518
VIRGINIA: But if you get it, especially later in the evening or something, you can at least eat it through the first half of the next day and just nibbling on it.

00:26:51.858 --> 00:26:54.718
VIRGINIA: As you make your way around the parks.

00:26:54.718 --> 00:26:55.158
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:26:55.158 --> 00:26:58.038
VIRGINIA: Well, where did you head after Germany?

00:26:58.038 --> 00:27:05.858
DANIELLE: We did a final ride attraction stop at Spaceship Earth before we parked top for the first time that day to Hollywood.

00:27:05.858 --> 00:27:10.118
DANIELLE: This time we walked around the boardwalk area since we love stopping there.

00:27:10.118 --> 00:27:14.358
DANIELLE: So every trip we go on, we get a photo booth gift for ourselves.

00:27:14.358 --> 00:27:15.638
DANIELLE: So we'll go in the photo booth.

00:27:15.678 --> 00:27:20.858
DANIELLE: It's probably for getting the cost less than $5 and just get pictures as a souvenir.

00:27:20.858 --> 00:27:27.198
DANIELLE: The photo booths were not open in the Figment Imagination gift shop or at the boardwalk.

00:27:27.198 --> 00:27:30.098
DANIELLE: So we did not get any pictures.

00:27:30.098 --> 00:27:31.518
VIRGINIA: I wonder why.

00:27:31.518 --> 00:27:32.818
DANIELLE: I don't know.

00:27:32.818 --> 00:27:39.338
DANIELLE: They were out of service inside of the gift shop and just non-existent on the boardwalk.

00:27:40.558 --> 00:27:41.338
VIRGINIA: And that is strange.

00:27:41.338 --> 00:27:42.938
DANIELLE: They saw us coming.

00:27:46.078 --> 00:27:46.618
VIRGINIA: Oh, my goodness.

00:27:46.618 --> 00:27:48.998
VIRGINIA: And I can't think of one that's at Hollywood Studios.

00:27:48.998 --> 00:27:52.618
VIRGINIA: There probably, I mean, there probably is one somewhere, but I can't think of one.

00:27:52.618 --> 00:27:52.958
DANIELLE: Yeah.

00:27:52.958 --> 00:27:55.258
DANIELLE: And I didn't get around to asking a cast member.

00:27:55.258 --> 00:27:58.098
DANIELLE: But yeah, we walked to Hollywood.

00:27:58.098 --> 00:28:02.278
DANIELLE: There we had another Lightning Lane book, For Rise of Resistance.

00:28:02.278 --> 00:28:05.258
DANIELLE: So that was really fun, too.

00:28:05.258 --> 00:28:06.198
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:28:06.198 --> 00:28:08.598
VIRGINIA: How long did you end up staying at Hollywood Studios this night?

00:28:08.598 --> 00:28:09.638
VIRGINIA: It was also late.

00:28:10.078 --> 00:28:10.498
DANIELLE: Oh, my gosh.

00:28:10.498 --> 00:28:11.938
DANIELLE: I love how you ask questions.

00:28:11.938 --> 00:28:13.838
DANIELLE: It's like you just know.

00:28:14.118 --> 00:28:16.838
DANIELLE: We just stayed there just for that ride.

00:28:16.838 --> 00:28:18.318
VIRGINIA: Oh, my goodness.

00:28:19.358 --> 00:28:23.058
DANIELLE: And then we bus to Magic Kingdom.

00:28:23.058 --> 00:28:24.878
VIRGINIA: You're the queen of hopping.

00:28:24.878 --> 00:28:28.918
VIRGINIA: You probably like to park hop more than anyone I've ever spoken to.

00:28:28.918 --> 00:28:30.238
DANIELLE: I love park hopping.

00:28:30.278 --> 00:28:39.378
DANIELLE: It's so fun because we're constantly looking at wait times and trying to optimize riding our favorites without standing in standby lines for a long time.

00:28:39.378 --> 00:28:40.998
DANIELLE: So we're silly.

00:28:40.998 --> 00:28:46.498
DANIELLE: We made it to Magic Kingdom, but we did not go to an attraction as soon as we got there.

00:28:46.498 --> 00:28:51.718
DANIELLE: I took a picture with the magician Mickey in Main Street.

00:28:51.718 --> 00:28:54.058
DANIELLE: So that was super fun.

00:28:54.818 --> 00:28:56.078
VIRGINIA: What time was that approximately?

00:28:56.798 --> 00:28:59.578
DANIELLE: Um, let's see.

00:28:59.578 --> 00:29:03.958
DANIELLE: I want to say that was probably around 3.34-ish.

00:29:03.958 --> 00:29:04.758
VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.

00:29:04.758 --> 00:29:05.358
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:29:05.358 --> 00:29:06.638
VIRGINIA: Earlier than I thought it was.

00:29:06.638 --> 00:29:06.798
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:29:06.798 --> 00:29:07.998
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:29:07.998 --> 00:29:08.338
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:29:08.338 --> 00:29:09.558
VIRGINIA: Yeah, because you got a late start.

00:29:09.558 --> 00:29:10.498
VIRGINIA: I forgot about that part.

00:29:10.498 --> 00:29:11.358
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:29:11.358 --> 00:29:11.778
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:29:11.778 --> 00:29:15.138
VIRGINIA: So what did you do with your Magic Kingdom time?

00:29:15.138 --> 00:29:21.958
DANIELLE: We went to Space Mountain first after the meet and greet, and then we made our way to the People Mover.

00:29:22.618 --> 00:29:36.658
DANIELLE: And I think in between, actually my timing must be off, because by the time we got off of Space Mountain, Happily Ever After was happening, so we ran over to People Mover.

00:29:36.658 --> 00:29:45.778
DANIELLE: So it probably, we either were walking very slowly down Main Street, but time surpassed where Happily Ever After was occurring.

00:29:45.778 --> 00:29:49.018
DANIELLE: So we saw views of the fireworks on the People Mover.

00:29:49.018 --> 00:29:50.418
DANIELLE: So that was really nice.

00:29:50.418 --> 00:29:51.458
VIRGINIA: And that was your goal.

00:29:51.978 --> 00:29:53.538
DANIELLE: That was the goal, yeah.

00:29:53.538 --> 00:29:56.598
DANIELLE: So that was fun to see, got off of that.

00:29:56.598 --> 00:30:01.558
DANIELLE: And then of course, the rush of the crowds come back into Tomorrowland or wherever you are.

00:30:01.578 --> 00:30:06.818
DANIELLE: I'll be then rode Buzz Lightyear, the Space Rangers spin.

00:30:06.818 --> 00:30:08.398
DANIELLE: Who won?

00:30:08.398 --> 00:30:08.978
DANIELLE: Danny.

00:30:08.978 --> 00:30:10.258
DANIELLE: Okay.

00:30:10.258 --> 00:30:20.138
DANIELLE: I am happy he won though, because I usually win, but I think my lightsaber or my gun was broken.

00:30:20.278 --> 00:30:25.878
DANIELLE: I tried it, I put my hand in front, and it wasn't the light or the laser, it was the clicking part.

00:30:25.878 --> 00:30:34.058
DANIELLE: It was harder to push down, it wasn't as steady of a flow as what I was used to, but I was just happy to see him win.

00:30:34.058 --> 00:30:36.478
DANIELLE: So I gave up at one point.

00:30:36.478 --> 00:30:41.038
DANIELLE: I was like, I'm thousands of points behind you.

00:30:41.038 --> 00:30:43.898
VIRGINIA: Well, he deserves to win at least once, right?

00:30:43.898 --> 00:30:45.098
DANIELLE: I was happy about it.

00:30:45.098 --> 00:30:46.478
DANIELLE: So that was really fun.

00:30:48.718 --> 00:30:51.158
DANIELLE: Yeah, and then we did Haunted Mansion at night.

00:30:51.158 --> 00:31:00.158
DANIELLE: It is equally as dark in the morning as it is in the daylight or at night, but it just feels darker when you ride it at night.

00:31:00.158 --> 00:31:02.738
VIRGINIA: I don't know what that's about, but it does.

00:31:02.738 --> 00:31:03.558
DANIELLE: Yes.

00:31:03.558 --> 00:31:06.258
VIRGINIA: What time did Magic Kingdom close this night?

00:31:06.258 --> 00:31:07.718
VIRGINIA: Do you remember?

00:31:07.718 --> 00:31:09.838
DANIELLE: This was on Friday.

00:31:09.838 --> 00:31:12.678
DANIELLE: I can't remember if they close at 10 PM or 11.

00:31:13.098 --> 00:31:17.538
DANIELLE: I want to say they close at 11 on weekends and 10 PM on Friday.

00:31:17.538 --> 00:31:19.818
DANIELLE: I think it was around 10 PM.

00:31:19.818 --> 00:31:23.378
DANIELLE: We rode Pirates after Haunted Mansion.

00:31:23.378 --> 00:31:29.618
DANIELLE: Then because we canceled Topolino's, we ate at Casey's Corn Dog Nuggets.

00:31:29.618 --> 00:31:32.798
VIRGINIA: Of course, you did.

00:31:32.798 --> 00:31:34.098
VIRGINIA: Corn Dog Nuggets?

00:31:34.098 --> 00:31:36.438
DANIELLE: Corn Dog Nuggets, Footlong Hot Dog.

00:31:36.478 --> 00:31:41.458
DANIELLE: Then if anyone likes Mint Juleps, their Mint Julep Lemonade Slush is really good.

00:31:41.578 --> 00:31:41.958
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:31:41.958 --> 00:31:43.778
VIRGINIA: You're into Mint Juleps.

00:31:43.778 --> 00:31:44.438
DANIELLE: I am.

00:31:44.838 --> 00:31:48.478
DANIELLE: That one is non-alcoholic, but it tastes really good.

00:31:48.478 --> 00:31:49.398
VIRGINIA: I haven't tried that one.

00:31:49.398 --> 00:31:57.018
VIRGINIA: I'm not typically somebody who enjoys a Mint Julep, which is weird to me because I like the things that go into that.

00:31:57.118 --> 00:32:00.078
VIRGINIA: Usually, that's a sign that you're going to like it.

00:32:00.078 --> 00:32:01.898
VIRGINIA: But I don't know.

00:32:01.898 --> 00:32:05.218
VIRGINIA: But maybe I would give it a try if it's a Mint Julep Lemonade.

00:32:05.538 --> 00:32:07.478
DANIELLE: Yeah, Mint Julep Lemonade with it.

00:32:07.478 --> 00:32:11.298
DANIELLE: So it wasn't a heavy dose of either the Lemon Taste or the Mint.

00:32:11.298 --> 00:32:13.278
DANIELLE: So I think it was a perfect blend.

00:32:13.278 --> 00:32:13.758
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:32:13.758 --> 00:32:14.638
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:32:14.638 --> 00:32:16.998
VIRGINIA: I'll add it to my must try list then.

00:32:16.998 --> 00:32:18.238
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:32:18.238 --> 00:32:19.818
VIRGINIA: Was that the end of the day?

00:32:19.818 --> 00:32:21.198
DANIELLE: That was the end of the day.

00:32:21.198 --> 00:32:23.838
DANIELLE: So we slowly made our way down Main Street.

00:32:23.838 --> 00:32:24.958
DANIELLE: It was after 10.

00:32:24.958 --> 00:32:32.658
DANIELLE: I do want to say though that although even if the park was closed, our attractions were closed at 10, the park is still open.

00:32:32.798 --> 00:32:37.638
DANIELLE: So if you get your last-minute gifts or anything, it was still pretty nice at night.

00:32:37.638 --> 00:32:37.958
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:32:37.958 --> 00:32:45.978
VIRGINIA: This brings us to Saturday, January the 11th, and you were going to be starting in Hollywood Studios.

00:32:45.978 --> 00:32:47.258
VIRGINIA: Did you stick with that plan?

00:32:47.258 --> 00:32:48.358
DANIELLE: Did not.

00:32:48.358 --> 00:32:52.938
DANIELLE: This was our last theme park day, although we had one more day of the trip.

00:32:52.938 --> 00:32:56.798
DANIELLE: So we actually did Animal Kingdom Rope Drop.

00:32:56.798 --> 00:33:01.878
DANIELLE: Danny had a great idea for us to start there and then make our way to Hollywood.

00:33:02.038 --> 00:33:05.018
DANIELLE: So we braved it up, woke up early.

00:33:05.018 --> 00:33:11.318
DANIELLE: I think rope drop for us are at least extra magic hours, so 730.

00:33:11.318 --> 00:33:13.198
DANIELLE: So we were there.

00:33:13.198 --> 00:33:14.938
DANIELLE: It was not as cold.

00:33:14.938 --> 00:33:19.198
DANIELLE: And this was also the day of the half marathon.

00:33:19.198 --> 00:33:25.258
DANIELLE: So we were surprised because we were thinking, hey, it's Saturday, it's a weekend, there are going to be more crowds.

00:33:25.258 --> 00:33:25.938
DANIELLE: There weren't.

00:33:25.938 --> 00:33:34.258
DANIELLE: So we started at Expedition Everest with intentions to make our way to Dinosaur pretty shortly afterwards, which we did.

00:33:34.258 --> 00:33:38.658
DANIELLE: But how many times do you think we rode Everest back to back?

00:33:38.658 --> 00:33:39.718
VIRGINIA: Three?

00:33:39.718 --> 00:33:41.118
DANIELLE: Eight times.

00:33:41.118 --> 00:33:43.098
VIRGINIA: What on earth?

00:33:43.098 --> 00:33:44.218
DANIELLE: Yes.

00:33:44.278 --> 00:33:44.838
VIRGINIA: Oh my gosh.

00:33:44.838 --> 00:33:53.438
DANIELLE: So we had this thing going after like the second time because the standby wait time was five minutes, which was just the lowest that Disney could post it.

00:33:53.438 --> 00:33:59.038
DANIELLE: And Danny's like, okay, let's keep going until it hits like 10 or 15 minutes.

00:33:59.218 --> 00:34:00.478
DANIELLE: And then we'll just call it.

00:34:00.478 --> 00:34:05.138
DANIELLE: So we went seven times at that point when we got off the ride.

00:34:05.138 --> 00:34:07.898
DANIELLE: It was at 15 minutes and we're like, okay, this is it.

00:34:07.898 --> 00:34:09.678
DANIELLE: It's our eighth one.

00:34:11.178 --> 00:34:14.358
VIRGINIA: So did the cast members start giving you looks?

00:34:14.358 --> 00:34:16.898
DANIELLE: One did, but it wasn't anything menacing.

00:34:16.898 --> 00:34:26.338
DANIELLE: But when I look back, it wasn't like, oh, these these Expedition Everest team members, it was kind of just like, okay, I get what y'all are doing.

00:34:26.338 --> 00:34:36.238
VIRGINIA: No, people do that all the time with that ride because it is so easy, especially with the single rider line, that even if the wait time creeps up a little bit, you can hop into that.

00:34:36.238 --> 00:34:37.978
VIRGINIA: And it's always really low at the beginning of the day.

00:34:37.978 --> 00:34:39.358
VIRGINIA: So that's true.

00:34:39.358 --> 00:34:43.518
VIRGINIA: Yeah, you're not, I'm sure that happens literally every single day.

00:34:43.518 --> 00:34:52.858
DANIELLE: When I look back at our photo past pictures, the funny thing is I am seeing people from the previous rides on the existing rides.

00:34:52.898 --> 00:34:59.578
DANIELLE: So like ride six or sevens, like the same people from the last ride are in our same cart, like on our pictures.

00:34:59.578 --> 00:35:02.978
DANIELLE: So I'm like, okay, they've got the idea too.

00:35:02.978 --> 00:35:08.138
VIRGINIA: Did you request a certain place to sit or did you let fate take over?

00:35:08.138 --> 00:35:09.978
DANIELLE: Yeah, we let fate take over.

00:35:09.978 --> 00:35:13.818
DANIELLE: The only time we requested front row was on the eighth ride.

00:35:13.818 --> 00:35:17.558
DANIELLE: But funny enough, we got row 13 a few times.

00:35:17.558 --> 00:35:26.298
DANIELLE: And then we started strategizing on how to move and position ourselves on the ride so we can really feel the force on it.

00:35:26.298 --> 00:35:27.758
DANIELLE: So that was fun.

00:35:27.758 --> 00:35:34.898
VIRGINIA: I think the most that we have done it has been like six times in a row because Alex loves to try to do it as many times as possible.

00:35:35.458 --> 00:35:38.198
VIRGINIA: And prior to that, I think we had done five times in a row.

00:35:38.198 --> 00:35:42.238
VIRGINIA: And every time we would do it, we would request the back because that's where we usually like to sit.

00:35:42.238 --> 00:35:51.478
VIRGINIA: And I will tell you, my experience is if you want to ride it multiple times in a row, the way to go is to just sit where they tell you to sit.

00:35:51.478 --> 00:35:51.738
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:35:51.738 --> 00:35:59.458
VIRGINIA: And let it be mixed up all the time because when you ride in the same spot, your body starts to get really tired of that.

00:35:59.938 --> 00:36:12.678
VIRGINIA: And I started to feel a little ill that when we were doing it that first time, when we made it to five, when we did six, I could have kept going, but I called it because I was like, let's go to the other things, come on.

00:36:12.678 --> 00:36:18.658
VIRGINIA: But I felt so much better and it was just because one time it was in the front, one time it was in the back, one time it was in the middle, it was whatever.

00:36:18.958 --> 00:36:19.618
DANIELLE: I agree.

00:36:19.618 --> 00:36:26.278
DANIELLE: It was nice to kind of just let them, our fate, decide where we sat and the ride is great.

00:36:26.278 --> 00:36:27.138
DANIELLE: It's smooth.

00:36:27.138 --> 00:36:31.118
DANIELLE: So wherever you sit, it's not going to provide you a terrible experience.

00:36:31.118 --> 00:36:31.578
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:36:31.578 --> 00:36:32.818
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:36:32.818 --> 00:36:33.278
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:36:33.278 --> 00:36:34.618
VIRGINIA: So dinosaur next?

00:36:34.618 --> 00:36:35.498
DANIELLE: Yes.

00:36:35.498 --> 00:36:36.558
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:36:37.278 --> 00:36:46.838
DANIELLE: I will say that because we rode Everest eight times, that prevented us from riding dinosaur several more times because we only rode it twice.

00:36:47.418 --> 00:36:49.958
DANIELLE: But it was great.

00:36:49.958 --> 00:37:01.338
DANIELLE: The first time we rode this day, there was a group of friends that quoted the entire ride, which can be good and bad depending on your experience.

00:37:01.338 --> 00:37:02.818
DANIELLE: It was not good for us.

00:37:04.078 --> 00:37:05.918
VIRGINIA: So yeah.

00:37:05.918 --> 00:37:06.358
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:37:07.618 --> 00:37:11.118
VIRGINIA: I get irritated by that for my own enjoyment of it.

00:37:11.118 --> 00:37:19.778
VIRGINIA: But I also, when people do that, all I can think of and it's just like I obsess on it, is what if it's somebody's first time doing this?

00:37:19.778 --> 00:37:20.838
DANIELLE: That's what I was thinking.

00:37:20.838 --> 00:37:30.838
DANIELLE: I mean, it was down to the, what is it, the GPS saying Staglia Taurus, like all of that, they voice the entire thing.

00:37:30.838 --> 00:37:40.178
DANIELLE: I was like, that's great, but this is someone's first time riding or they just want to ride it as their last time without your soundtrack.

00:37:40.178 --> 00:37:40.998
VIRGINIA: That's true.

00:37:40.998 --> 00:37:43.838
VIRGINIA: In this case, it could be someone's last time.

00:37:43.838 --> 00:37:44.518
VIRGINIA: Oh my goodness.

00:37:44.518 --> 00:37:44.738
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:37:46.438 --> 00:37:49.878
VIRGINIA: When this happened, was this the first time of the day?

00:37:49.878 --> 00:37:50.838
DANIELLE: This was.

00:37:50.838 --> 00:37:54.138
VIRGINIA: Okay, so you got a redemption.

00:37:54.138 --> 00:37:56.738
DANIELLE: That was a great group.

00:37:56.738 --> 00:37:58.558
DANIELLE: We just let the ride take us.

00:37:58.558 --> 00:38:07.298
DANIELLE: We weren't holding on to the rails unless we needed to, so it was a really great farewell for Dinosaur for us.

00:38:07.298 --> 00:38:08.598
VIRGINIA: I'm going to miss it.

00:38:08.618 --> 00:38:09.838
VIRGINIA: I'm going to miss it.

00:38:09.838 --> 00:38:24.378
DANIELLE: Oh, but I will say, in the gift shop, if someone is going to ever be really nostalgic about it, you can purchase the tiny little time rover, and it's like a remote controlled car, and then we purchased the dinosaurs, too.

00:38:24.378 --> 00:38:26.918
DANIELLE: So we're planning on setting up our own dinosaur ride.

00:38:26.918 --> 00:38:29.298
VIRGINIA: Oh, you're going to make your own little recreation?

00:38:29.298 --> 00:38:40.618
VIRGINIA: Okay, what I'm picturing, and this is very silly, but I'm picturing you next year setting up a little Christmas Village scene, but then there's the dinosaur ride next to it.

00:38:40.758 --> 00:38:44.058
DANIELLE: I have the Disney monorail, so that's going to be it.

00:38:44.058 --> 00:38:45.658
DANIELLE: I don't know if I'm going to buy people.

00:38:45.658 --> 00:38:49.698
DANIELLE: It might just be the Disney characters and the dinosaurs.

00:38:50.918 --> 00:38:52.078
VIRGINIA: That's awesome.

00:38:52.078 --> 00:38:53.158
VIRGINIA: That is awesome.

00:38:53.158 --> 00:38:54.438
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:38:54.438 --> 00:38:55.058
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:38:55.058 --> 00:38:59.998
VIRGINIA: Did you do anything else at Animal Kingdom or were you itching to hop?

00:38:59.998 --> 00:39:05.578
DANIELLE: We were itching to hop only because, like I was saying, we were surprised with how low the wait times were.

00:39:05.878 --> 00:39:11.898
DANIELLE: So we hopped to Hollywood Studios where we wrote Smuggler's Run.

00:39:11.898 --> 00:39:14.438
DANIELLE: So that was really fun.

00:39:14.438 --> 00:39:23.078
DANIELLE: I don't know about your experiences, but anytime we write Smuggler's Run, whatever wait time is posted is the actual time that we have to wait.

00:39:23.078 --> 00:39:25.778
DANIELLE: There's no like, oh, it was five minutes shorter.

00:39:25.778 --> 00:39:27.378
DANIELLE: Like none of that.

00:39:27.378 --> 00:39:29.838
VIRGINIA: I don't think I've ever written it standby.

00:39:29.838 --> 00:39:30.298
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:39:30.298 --> 00:39:30.898
VIRGINIA: I'll be honest.

00:39:31.178 --> 00:39:34.158
VIRGINIA: I think I've always written it with a Genie Plus or whatever.

00:39:34.778 --> 00:39:40.878
VIRGINIA: And then I have written it single writer and that's always super fast.

00:39:40.878 --> 00:39:45.378
DANIELLE: That will be the strategy we use next year.

00:39:45.378 --> 00:39:52.298
DANIELLE: It was about 35 minutes and it was creeping up on the time that we had our lunch reservation.

00:39:53.518 --> 00:39:58.738
DANIELLE: Had to be apologetic again to the wait staff, but it worked out at the round derby.

00:39:58.738 --> 00:40:00.498
VIRGINIA: Do you remember what positions you got?

00:40:01.378 --> 00:40:04.878
DANIELLE: We were pilots, so it was worth the wait.

00:40:04.878 --> 00:40:06.758
VIRGINIA: Okay, that's stressful to me.

00:40:06.758 --> 00:40:07.818
VIRGINIA: It's so stressful.

00:40:07.818 --> 00:40:12.998
DANIELLE: We always talk about it pre-trips, about if we are pilots, how we're going to strategize.

00:40:12.998 --> 00:40:15.158
DANIELLE: So Danny was the right pilot.

00:40:15.158 --> 00:40:22.018
DANIELLE: He had the, what is it, the up down for his motion triggers and I was left right.

00:40:22.018 --> 00:40:29.598
DANIELLE: So honestly, this was probably such a great ride for the other engineers and our moon is behind us.

00:40:29.598 --> 00:40:33.198
DANIELLE: We had minimal damage, it was a great day.

00:40:33.198 --> 00:40:36.038
VIRGINIA: Nice.

00:40:36.038 --> 00:40:37.078
VIRGINIA: Well, congratulations.

00:40:37.078 --> 00:40:40.538
VIRGINIA: That never happens for me, which is why I never like to be a pilot.

00:40:41.558 --> 00:40:49.798
DANIELLE: Well, no matter what, there's always the ride has, I think, a little bit of error that you can never have a perfect ride.

00:40:49.878 --> 00:40:50.538
DANIELLE: Right.

00:40:50.538 --> 00:40:51.218
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:40:51.238 --> 00:40:52.778
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:40:52.778 --> 00:40:53.258
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:40:53.258 --> 00:40:58.078
VIRGINIA: So Brown Derby, what did you get?

00:40:59.098 --> 00:41:00.638
VIRGINIA: Cobb salad.

00:41:00.638 --> 00:41:07.798
DANIELLE: I thought about it, but I knew we had dinner at Bierre Guest, so again, I was trying to strategically not get a lot.

00:41:07.798 --> 00:41:23.938
DANIELLE: If I'm remembering correctly, I did order, I meant Julep, Danny had a martini, and then I think it's their potato and leek or potato and fennel soup, which was really good, and then the burrata salad.

00:41:24.438 --> 00:41:27.078
VIRGINIA: Yeah, I love the burrata salad.

00:41:27.078 --> 00:41:28.978
VIRGINIA: Yeah, so good.

00:41:28.978 --> 00:41:34.518
VIRGINIA: So after lunch, is that when you were ready to move on?

00:41:34.518 --> 00:41:35.178
DANIELLE: Not quite.

00:41:35.178 --> 00:41:43.298
DANIELLE: Yeah, we thought about it, but if we weren't to not ride star tours with the new additions, that would have been sad.

00:41:43.298 --> 00:41:45.978
VIRGINIA: Oh, I totally forgot about that.

00:41:45.978 --> 00:41:46.978
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:41:46.978 --> 00:41:47.838
VIRGINIA: How was it?

00:41:47.838 --> 00:41:49.178
DANIELLE: It was great.

00:41:49.178 --> 00:41:52.698
DANIELLE: Our featured characters were Grogu and the Mandalorian.

00:41:52.758 --> 00:41:55.718
DANIELLE: So that was really cute to see.

00:41:55.718 --> 00:41:59.918
DANIELLE: And we were seated at the back, right?

00:41:59.958 --> 00:42:06.478
DANIELLE: I think the Magineers did an incredible job where, regardless of where you're seated, it's just a fun ride.

00:42:06.478 --> 00:42:07.418
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:42:07.418 --> 00:42:10.258
VIRGINIA: Were either of you the rebel spy?

00:42:10.258 --> 00:42:10.938
DANIELLE: No.

00:42:10.998 --> 00:42:14.438
DANIELLE: I kind of wanted to be, but we weren't.

00:42:14.438 --> 00:42:15.558
VIRGINIA: I never have been.

00:42:15.558 --> 00:42:18.458
VIRGINIA: And I was just reading something the other day.

00:42:18.458 --> 00:42:24.538
VIRGINIA: I can't remember where I found it, but it was like tips to increase your chances of being the rebel spy.

00:42:24.538 --> 00:42:33.538
VIRGINIA: And one is don't put your 3D glasses on until they tell you to, because they have to be able to take your photo and look forward.

00:42:33.538 --> 00:42:34.678
VIRGINIA: Don't be moving around too much.

00:42:34.678 --> 00:42:39.938
VIRGINIA: So get into your seat and make sure your face is clear.

00:42:39.938 --> 00:42:46.238
DANIELLE: That definitely wasn't me then, because I was filming as I was entering the ride, and then I hit one of the chairs.

00:42:46.238 --> 00:42:49.738
DANIELLE: So I probably stopped the people behind me and I'm like, ow.

00:42:49.838 --> 00:42:52.198
DANIELLE: So not me.

00:42:52.198 --> 00:42:53.298
DANIELLE: They're like, not this one.

00:42:53.298 --> 00:42:54.458
DANIELLE: She's too clumsy.

00:42:54.458 --> 00:42:58.138
VIRGINIA: For me, I'm always trying to situate my stuff under the seat.

00:42:58.138 --> 00:43:06.758
VIRGINIA: So once I read that article, I was like, oh, this is why I've never been picked, because I'm constantly standing there bent over trying to get my bag in the thing.

00:43:06.818 --> 00:43:17.818
DANIELLE: It feels like very intense at the beginning, because I know we're trying to make sure we get our stuff in, and I don't want the ride to start without me having everything properly placed.

00:43:17.818 --> 00:43:18.398
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:43:18.398 --> 00:43:19.078
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:43:19.078 --> 00:43:20.638
VIRGINIA: Exactly.

00:43:20.638 --> 00:43:21.458
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:43:21.458 --> 00:43:24.078
VIRGINIA: So what happened next?

00:43:24.078 --> 00:43:31.918
DANIELLE: So we then park hopped back to Magic Kingdom, which is where we ended the day, but it was a very fun-filled day.

00:43:31.918 --> 00:43:39.478
DANIELLE: I want to say by the time we got to Magic Kingdom, it was probably around noon.

00:43:40.718 --> 00:43:47.078
DANIELLE: So we did the train ride starting at Main Street, USA, took it to Frontierland.

00:43:48.178 --> 00:43:48.878
DANIELLE: That was nice.

00:43:48.878 --> 00:43:51.298
DANIELLE: We didn't get to do the entire loop.

00:43:51.298 --> 00:43:56.678
DANIELLE: I wanted to, but we just stayed in Frontierland so long it didn't make sense to hop back on.

00:43:56.678 --> 00:43:57.398
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:43:57.398 --> 00:44:01.918
DANIELLE: So Danny has memories of being at Tom Sawyer Island when he was younger.

00:44:02.198 --> 00:44:05.098
DANIELLE: So we decided to go to Tom Sawyer Island.

00:44:05.118 --> 00:44:06.638
VIRGINIA: One last hurrah.

00:44:06.638 --> 00:44:07.618
DANIELLE: Yeah.

00:44:07.618 --> 00:44:10.598
DANIELLE: And I don't know if I had ever been there.

00:44:10.598 --> 00:44:13.398
DANIELLE: If I had, I don't think I had the memory.

00:44:13.398 --> 00:44:22.118
DANIELLE: I may have been really young, but we did a lot of fun videos there, which I'm happy to share on Instagram soon.

00:44:22.118 --> 00:44:24.258
DANIELLE: So it was great for the memories.

00:44:24.258 --> 00:44:29.718
DANIELLE: I love the escape mines and just how deep and cavernous the whole map is.

00:44:29.858 --> 00:44:32.578
DANIELLE: So I enjoyed Tom Sawyer Island.

00:44:32.578 --> 00:44:33.178
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:44:33.178 --> 00:44:35.738
VIRGINIA: I need to get over there one last time.

00:44:36.058 --> 00:44:37.858
VIRGINIA: Do you know when it's closing exactly?

00:44:37.858 --> 00:44:38.838
VIRGINIA: Because I cannot remember.

00:44:38.838 --> 00:44:40.598
DANIELLE: I don't remember.

00:44:40.598 --> 00:44:49.818
DANIELLE: And I wonder if Big Thunder Mountains closing now is going to eventually affect Tom Sawyer soon as well.

00:44:49.878 --> 00:44:51.658
DANIELLE: But I do know, what is it?

00:44:51.658 --> 00:44:59.938
DANIELLE: They have different hours so that it's not always operating throughout the day where you can travel to the island.

00:44:59.938 --> 00:45:03.178
DANIELLE: So you do have to make sure, I think you get there is before 4 p.m.

00:45:03.178 --> 00:45:05.058
DANIELLE: or something early like that.

00:45:05.058 --> 00:45:06.498
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:45:06.498 --> 00:45:10.758
VIRGINIA: I'm looking it up to see if I can tell.

00:45:10.758 --> 00:45:11.758
VIRGINIA: Let's see.

00:45:11.758 --> 00:45:12.078
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:45:12.078 --> 00:45:18.138
VIRGINIA: There's currently not a closure date, but it's probably going to be early 2025.

00:45:18.638 --> 00:45:19.878
DANIELLE: You have time.

00:45:19.878 --> 00:45:20.798
VIRGINIA: I have some time.

00:45:22.978 --> 00:45:25.058
VIRGINIA: I would like to see it one last time, I think.

00:45:25.058 --> 00:45:28.578
VIRGINIA: But if I don't, it's not going to be the end of the world.

00:45:28.578 --> 00:45:29.838
VIRGINIA: But Alex loves it.

00:45:29.958 --> 00:45:35.758
VIRGINIA: So I really like for him to be able to see it one last time in February.

00:45:35.758 --> 00:45:36.998
DANIELLE: That'd be great.

00:45:36.998 --> 00:45:38.478
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:45:38.478 --> 00:45:39.438
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:45:39.438 --> 00:45:41.358
VIRGINIA: So where did you go next?

00:45:41.358 --> 00:45:44.498
DANIELLE: We did our second tour of Haunted Mansion.

00:45:44.498 --> 00:45:47.638
DANIELLE: This time, we got stuck in the great dining hall.

00:45:47.758 --> 00:45:49.878
DANIELLE: Also, seeing all the ghosts move.

00:45:49.878 --> 00:45:56.158
DANIELLE: And I always pity the people who get stuck in the attic with the bride.

00:45:56.158 --> 00:45:57.898
DANIELLE: Oh my gosh, that scares me.

00:45:57.898 --> 00:46:05.318
DANIELLE: So we were probably down for a good two minutes, but I love seeing the ghosts a little bit longer.

00:46:05.318 --> 00:46:07.478
DANIELLE: So that was a blast just going through that.

00:46:07.478 --> 00:46:10.958
DANIELLE: And then we made our way to Hall of Presidents.

00:46:11.078 --> 00:46:17.158
DANIELLE: And that changed the tone of the trip, because we always get so emotional watching the performance.

00:46:17.158 --> 00:46:18.898
DANIELLE: It's just really good.

00:46:20.098 --> 00:46:25.818
DANIELLE: The documentary of the idea of our president, and then when you get to see all of the animatronics together.

00:46:25.818 --> 00:46:30.198
DANIELLE: So we were just very moved after going on the ride.

00:46:30.198 --> 00:46:34.858
DANIELLE: So then to just switch up emotions, so we decided to do Country Bear.

00:46:37.898 --> 00:46:44.678
VIRGINIA: Had you been back to see Country Bear since it had had its little refresh of the music?

00:46:44.678 --> 00:46:47.678
DANIELLE: This was my first time on it.

00:46:47.678 --> 00:46:51.678
DANIELLE: So first time since the renovations and probably first time since I was like five years old.

00:46:51.678 --> 00:46:53.398
DANIELLE: So I didn't even remember it.

00:46:53.398 --> 00:46:56.198
DANIELLE: So I was like, well, what's going to happen?

00:46:56.258 --> 00:46:58.358
DANIELLE: So I forgot which one is it.

00:46:58.358 --> 00:46:59.238
DANIELLE: Is it Baloo?

00:46:59.238 --> 00:47:02.058
DANIELLE: Like seeing the bear coming down from the ceiling?

00:47:02.058 --> 00:47:02.778
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:47:02.798 --> 00:47:03.058
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:47:03.058 --> 00:47:05.478
VIRGINIA: It's so fun.

00:47:05.478 --> 00:47:07.758
VIRGINIA: I have not been back on it since they changed the music.

00:47:07.758 --> 00:47:09.818
VIRGINIA: So I'm really looking forward to that.

00:47:09.818 --> 00:47:12.158
DANIELLE: What were the songs before the renovation?

00:47:12.158 --> 00:47:14.298
DANIELLE: Were they not Disney like?

00:47:14.298 --> 00:47:19.558
VIRGINIA: Well, they were popular music, which is what they've changed now.

00:47:19.558 --> 00:47:22.658
VIRGINIA: But they were popular music like decades ago.

00:47:23.298 --> 00:47:27.398
VIRGINIA: So back in those days, people would have been familiar with the songs.

00:47:27.398 --> 00:47:30.558
VIRGINIA: But there was weird, weird songs.

00:47:30.618 --> 00:47:36.418
VIRGINIA: There was one song called Blood on the Saddle that everybody likes to talk about.

00:47:36.418 --> 00:47:44.778
VIRGINIA: And then there was one song that I think it was, Bula sang, there was All the Guys Who Turn Me On Turn Me Down.

00:47:44.778 --> 00:47:46.498
DANIELLE: Oh my gosh.

00:47:46.518 --> 00:47:47.118
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:47:47.118 --> 00:47:48.918
DANIELLE: It was time for a revamp.

00:47:48.918 --> 00:47:50.318
VIRGINIA: Yeah, it was ready, I would say.

00:47:53.258 --> 00:47:54.458
DANIELLE: Well done.

00:47:56.518 --> 00:47:57.098
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:47:57.098 --> 00:48:01.978
VIRGINIA: And then for Hall of Presidents, how long had it been since you had gone to see that?

00:48:01.978 --> 00:48:04.478
DANIELLE: I want to say two years.

00:48:04.478 --> 00:48:04.878
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:48:04.878 --> 00:48:06.998
DANIELLE: So the documentary hadn't changed.

00:48:06.998 --> 00:48:12.658
DANIELLE: I think at that time, we still had the same president, so there wasn't anything new.

00:48:12.658 --> 00:48:13.858
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:48:13.858 --> 00:48:19.338
DANIELLE: It's just so unique to see Abraham Lincoln when he stands and gets the Gettysburg Address.

00:48:20.158 --> 00:48:24.878
DANIELLE: I'm just moved by the magic of Disney and that attraction.

00:48:24.878 --> 00:48:29.078
DANIELLE: Someone might say it's understated, but I love it.

00:48:29.078 --> 00:48:30.198
VIRGINIA: I have not done it in a while.

00:48:30.238 --> 00:48:33.698
VIRGINIA: I need to go back and give it another whirl.

00:48:33.978 --> 00:48:39.098
VIRGINIA: It's a little bit longer show from what I'm remembering, what, like 20 minutes or something?

00:48:39.098 --> 00:48:39.598
DANIELLE: That's correct.

00:48:39.598 --> 00:48:41.538
DANIELLE: I think it's about 20, 22 minutes.

00:48:41.538 --> 00:48:53.838
DANIELLE: I know I've read forums, some people use that as their napping attraction to each his own, but I don't know how you can nap during that when it's such a loud theater.

00:48:55.398 --> 00:48:56.518
VIRGINIA: But the chairs are comfortable.

00:48:56.538 --> 00:48:58.538
DANIELLE: That's probably what it is.

00:48:58.538 --> 00:49:06.878
DANIELLE: They are very comfy chairs, and I don't think we've ever sat during a performance where the entire theater is full, so you can sit wherever you want.

00:49:06.878 --> 00:49:08.598
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:49:08.598 --> 00:49:10.038
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:49:10.038 --> 00:49:13.778
VIRGINIA: After those shows, where were you going next?

00:49:13.938 --> 00:49:14.958
DANIELLE: We were so excited.

00:49:14.958 --> 00:49:18.218
DANIELLE: It was time to finally ride Tiana's Bayou Adventure.

00:49:18.258 --> 00:49:19.178
DANIELLE: Oh, yeah.

00:49:19.238 --> 00:49:22.218
DANIELLE: We brought the ponchos out, put them on.

00:49:22.218 --> 00:49:26.158
DANIELLE: We made our way over there, took a picture before the ride and everything.

00:49:26.158 --> 00:49:35.078
DANIELLE: Then of course, you don't get to see the virtual queue, lightning lane, none of the standing queue lines until you're actually there.

00:49:35.078 --> 00:49:41.638
DANIELLE: I started hearing mummers, people were looking sad and this man was just like, don't get your hopes up, the ride is broken.

00:49:42.258 --> 00:49:47.298
DANIELLE: Then I looked in the cast member was like, hey friends, the ride is down right now.

00:49:47.638 --> 00:49:51.198
DANIELLE: It's like, no, this is our last day.

00:49:51.198 --> 00:49:54.838
DANIELLE: We don't have a lot of time left to do it.

00:49:54.838 --> 00:50:05.898
DANIELLE: I started Googling and thankfully, Disney now has it so that the ride is never down, probably more than an hour, which was the case for us.

00:50:05.898 --> 00:50:12.538
DANIELLE: We were able to get the lightning lane redeemed for anything we wanted to, but of course, we wanted to ride that.

00:50:12.538 --> 00:50:14.198
DANIELLE: So we did.

00:50:14.198 --> 00:50:15.018
DANIELLE: I loved it.

00:50:15.018 --> 00:50:16.018
DANIELLE: Danny loved it too.

00:50:16.018 --> 00:50:17.278
DANIELLE: It was awesome.

00:50:17.278 --> 00:50:19.158
VIRGINIA: Oh, I can't wait.

00:50:19.158 --> 00:50:19.978
VIRGINIA: I love Tiana.

00:50:19.978 --> 00:50:22.778
VIRGINIA: Tiana is my favorite newer princess.

00:50:22.778 --> 00:50:23.598
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:50:23.598 --> 00:50:32.498
VIRGINIA: I still, my heart, you know, is with Ariel, just because she was sort of what sparked my more grown up love of Disney.

00:50:32.498 --> 00:50:37.378
VIRGINIA: But then as soon as Tiana came on the scene, I was like, she's my favorite.

00:50:37.378 --> 00:50:38.818
DANIELLE: They did a great job with it.

00:50:38.918 --> 00:50:47.358
DANIELLE: I know there have been also everyone has different opinions about the ride and missing Slash Mountain, but it's the same ride track.

00:50:47.358 --> 00:50:52.738
DANIELLE: So just put on headphones, imagine Slash Mountain and just enjoy it.

00:50:52.738 --> 00:50:57.918
VIRGINIA: Did anything else that you did in Magic Kingdom weren't mentioning?

00:50:57.918 --> 00:51:01.618
DANIELLE: So we did Tron after Tiana's.

00:51:01.618 --> 00:51:03.358
DANIELLE: We used the lightning lane for that.

00:51:03.358 --> 00:51:06.738
DANIELLE: And then we made our way to Be Our Guest, which was our first time there.

00:51:06.738 --> 00:51:07.398
DANIELLE: I loved it.

00:51:07.498 --> 00:51:11.058
DANIELLE: It was actually the same time Happily Ever After was occurring.

00:51:11.058 --> 00:51:17.118
DANIELLE: So if people are asking for tips of where to stand, you don't always have to be on Main Street.

00:51:17.118 --> 00:51:31.438
DANIELLE: If you are in Tomorrowland or even just standing in front of the Beast Castle in Fantasyland, it's a perfect spot just to see the fireworks because some are actually being started behind the castle.

00:51:31.438 --> 00:51:32.498
DANIELLE: So you get to see them.

00:51:32.498 --> 00:51:34.018
DANIELLE: It's great photo ops.

00:51:34.018 --> 00:51:35.898
VIRGINIA: What did you end up getting at Be Our Guest?

00:51:36.618 --> 00:51:38.498
DANIELLE: So it was a three course meal.

00:51:38.498 --> 00:51:46.598
DANIELLE: I had the French onion soup and then Danny had the tuna tartare.

00:51:46.598 --> 00:51:54.138
DANIELLE: And then we both did filet mignon and then the trio of the desserts, which comes with the great stuff, which is delicious.

00:51:55.478 --> 00:51:56.998
VIRGINIA: Don't believe me?

00:51:59.678 --> 00:52:07.498
VIRGINIA: After the dinner, there must have still been a good amount of time or a fair amount of time, I should say, before the park actually closed.

00:52:07.498 --> 00:52:10.138
VIRGINIA: So did you take advantage of that or were you?

00:52:10.138 --> 00:52:11.278
VIRGINIA: We did.

00:52:11.278 --> 00:52:14.458
DANIELLE: So we took advantage by riding Space Mountain one more time.

00:52:14.458 --> 00:52:19.438
DANIELLE: And then to close out the entire trip, we did a standby using Tron.

00:52:20.458 --> 00:52:23.358
DANIELLE: I was prepared to wait a good 45, 90 minutes.

00:52:23.458 --> 00:52:26.218
DANIELLE: It was like the last attraction of the trip.

00:52:26.218 --> 00:52:28.518
DANIELLE: I think we probably waited only 30.

00:52:28.518 --> 00:52:29.858
DANIELLE: So it wasn't really bad.

00:52:29.858 --> 00:52:33.658
DANIELLE: The wait time posted was 45s, but it wasn't bad.

00:52:33.658 --> 00:52:34.598
DANIELLE: So it was worth it.

00:52:34.598 --> 00:52:39.618
DANIELLE: But I will say, the wind chill did hit us when the ride started.

00:52:39.638 --> 00:52:44.238
DANIELLE: And I have T-sensitivity, so I was just cheesing away on my picture.

00:52:44.238 --> 00:52:48.398
DANIELLE: And then it hit, and I was like, whoa, this is too cool.

00:52:48.398 --> 00:52:49.918
VIRGINIA: I did not even think of that.

00:52:49.998 --> 00:52:52.258
VIRGINIA: Okay, because I have the same problem.

00:52:52.258 --> 00:52:53.438
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:52:53.438 --> 00:52:55.578
VIRGINIA: Beware if you have T-sensitivity.

00:52:58.558 --> 00:52:59.018
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:52:59.018 --> 00:53:04.778
VIRGINIA: So that brings us to Sunday, January 12th, which is your departure day, but your departure was not until 8 p.m.

00:53:04.778 --> 00:53:05.958
VIRGINIA: that night.

00:53:05.958 --> 00:53:11.838
VIRGINIA: So I know that you had an appointment at The Little Words Project in Disney Springs.

00:53:11.838 --> 00:53:13.758
VIRGINIA: And I have never done that before.

00:53:13.758 --> 00:53:16.838
VIRGINIA: So I'm interested to hear about your experience with that.

00:53:16.838 --> 00:53:17.498
DANIELLE: I loved it.

00:53:17.498 --> 00:53:22.258
DANIELLE: So I had an appointment starting at, I think, it was 1030 when they opened.

00:53:22.258 --> 00:53:28.958
DANIELLE: And they have a kiosk outside near, is it the Dino or T-Rex, the T-Rex restaurant.

00:53:28.958 --> 00:53:30.838
DANIELLE: So beautiful views of the lake.

00:53:30.838 --> 00:53:32.998
DANIELLE: And you can see Saratoga behind.

00:53:32.998 --> 00:53:37.078
DANIELLE: And I think the cost was $27 with tax.

00:53:37.078 --> 00:53:38.978
DANIELLE: And you can make your very own bracelet.

00:53:38.978 --> 00:53:41.378
DANIELLE: So you get to size it however you like.

00:53:41.378 --> 00:53:49.618
DANIELLE: Choose from assortment of beautiful colors and then pick whichever word or symbols that you want to add on it.

00:53:49.758 --> 00:53:51.718
DANIELLE: So that was a fun experience.

00:53:51.718 --> 00:53:53.858
DANIELLE: Shout out to Erika who helped me out there.

00:53:53.858 --> 00:53:55.238
DANIELLE: It was really great.

00:53:55.238 --> 00:53:57.578
VIRGINIA: Are you willing to share what you made?

00:53:57.758 --> 00:54:02.878
DANIELLE: So my word is grace, which is actually the word of the year for Little Words Project.

00:54:02.878 --> 00:54:07.298
DANIELLE: But that's something that I'm trying to give others more grace and myself.

00:54:07.298 --> 00:54:08.898
DANIELLE: So it's just a nice reminder.

00:54:08.898 --> 00:54:20.098
DANIELLE: And if you're familiar with Anastasia and her dress at the end of the movie when she has sash and it's a big yellow dress, the colors actually kind of remind me of that.

00:54:20.098 --> 00:54:22.818
DANIELLE: I have like champagne colors, like lighter pink.

00:54:22.818 --> 00:54:23.978
DANIELLE: So it's really pretty.

00:54:23.978 --> 00:54:24.638
VIRGINIA: Very cool.

00:54:24.638 --> 00:54:28.598
VIRGINIA: Well, I hope you you might consider including a picture of it.

00:54:28.598 --> 00:54:32.458
VIRGINIA: And the photos that you share, because I would love to see it.

00:54:32.458 --> 00:54:33.238
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:54:33.238 --> 00:54:37.378
VIRGINIA: What else did you get done on that day before your departure?

00:54:37.378 --> 00:54:42.698
DANIELLE: So I headed back to the hotel because we had to check out by 1130.

00:54:42.698 --> 00:54:44.398
DANIELLE: But the hotel is great.

00:54:44.598 --> 00:54:49.018
DANIELLE: They gave us grace and they held our luggage bags for us.

00:54:49.018 --> 00:54:56.918
DANIELLE: And then we had brunch at STK, which is a steak restaurant.

00:54:56.918 --> 00:55:03.938
DANIELLE: But we found a hack that if you go during brunch time, you can get a Wagyu beef burger with fries for $9.99.

00:55:03.938 --> 00:55:05.678
DANIELLE: And it was delicious.

00:55:05.678 --> 00:55:07.598
VIRGINIA: That is an amazing deal.

00:55:07.598 --> 00:55:08.798
DANIELLE: Yes.

00:55:08.798 --> 00:55:10.278
DANIELLE: So that was great.

00:55:10.278 --> 00:55:11.618
DANIELLE: It filled us up.

00:55:11.618 --> 00:55:15.318
DANIELLE: I did have Summer House booked, which we went.

00:55:15.318 --> 00:55:17.198
DANIELLE: And I didn't get cookies, though.

00:55:17.198 --> 00:55:21.958
DANIELLE: I was so full from STK that we only got the double eggs.

00:55:21.958 --> 00:55:23.678
DANIELLE: So shout out to those eggs.

00:55:23.678 --> 00:55:25.478
DANIELLE: Those were great.

00:55:25.478 --> 00:55:26.938
VIRGINIA: You know I love a double egg.

00:55:28.218 --> 00:55:32.318
VIRGINIA: My eyes just perked right up there.

00:55:32.318 --> 00:55:33.398
DANIELLE: You get three.

00:55:33.398 --> 00:55:37.178
DANIELLE: They're on the appetizer menu, but they're really good.

00:55:37.178 --> 00:55:38.818
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:55:38.818 --> 00:55:39.918
VIRGINIA: Anything else at the stage?

00:55:39.918 --> 00:55:42.598
VIRGINIA: You do any shopping or anything while you were at Disney Springs?

00:55:43.338 --> 00:55:46.738
DANIELLE: We went to Splitsville Lane, our splits.

00:55:46.738 --> 00:55:48.138
DANIELLE: Is it Splitsville Lane?

00:55:48.138 --> 00:55:49.778
DANIELLE: Splitsville Luxury Lane.

00:55:49.778 --> 00:55:50.378
DANIELLE: Splitsville.

00:55:50.378 --> 00:55:50.578
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:55:50.578 --> 00:55:51.078
DANIELLE: There we go.

00:55:51.078 --> 00:55:53.638
DANIELLE: Splitsville where we did some bowling.

00:55:53.638 --> 00:55:57.518
DANIELLE: So I think we got in about three games within an hour.

00:55:57.518 --> 00:55:59.778
DANIELLE: So our hands and thighs were filling it.

00:55:59.978 --> 00:56:04.458
DANIELLE: They were trying to just crank out games, but that was fun.

00:56:04.458 --> 00:56:13.418
DANIELLE: Then I always like stopping at Bose Signature Candles to get a refill of Clover World, which is one of my favorite diffuser scents that they sell.

00:56:13.418 --> 00:56:18.498
VIRGINIA: And that is the scent that they use for a lot of their resort lobbies, right?

00:56:18.498 --> 00:56:19.198
DANIELLE: That's correct.

00:56:19.198 --> 00:56:24.398
DANIELLE: I know for a fact the Swann and Dauphin uses that too.

00:56:25.418 --> 00:56:25.678
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:56:25.678 --> 00:56:33.478
VIRGINIA: I need to check that out because that scent, there's so many Disney scents that you just fall in love with.

00:56:33.478 --> 00:56:37.958
VIRGINIA: And when you smell them out in the real world, you go, oh my gosh, I smell this.

00:56:39.998 --> 00:56:47.638
VIRGINIA: And there's just something about those lobby smells that make you feel like, oh, my vacation is starting even though you're at home.

00:56:47.638 --> 00:56:50.778
DANIELLE: You're like you're reliving a magical memory.

00:56:50.778 --> 00:56:52.598
DANIELLE: So they were really nice.

00:56:52.598 --> 00:56:57.598
DANIELLE: We did some collaboration with them and I made a, customize a candle.

00:56:57.598 --> 00:56:58.798
DANIELLE: So you can do that for $30.

00:56:59.458 --> 00:57:03.218
DANIELLE: And you can pick your scents and pick which color.

00:57:03.218 --> 00:57:05.018
DANIELLE: And it's really fun.

00:57:05.018 --> 00:57:06.738
DANIELLE: I'm forgetting the ounce of the candle.

00:57:06.798 --> 00:57:08.578
DANIELLE: Well, it's a nice square jar.

00:57:08.578 --> 00:57:10.878
DANIELLE: I'll take pictures and share it with you too.

00:57:10.878 --> 00:57:11.498
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:57:11.498 --> 00:57:12.598
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:57:12.598 --> 00:57:15.358
VIRGINIA: I'll definitely be checking that out.

00:57:15.358 --> 00:57:15.698
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:57:15.698 --> 00:57:20.498
VIRGINIA: I think we're at the end of your trip that unless you had anything else before you had to take off.

00:57:20.498 --> 00:57:23.658
DANIELLE: Yeah, our flight was delayed twice.

00:57:23.658 --> 00:57:25.838
DANIELLE: So we had a late flight back home.

00:57:25.838 --> 00:57:38.758
DANIELLE: But I savored every moment of the trip because in the past, I think sometimes I get excited about getting content or just one thing instead of the entire trip.

00:57:38.758 --> 00:57:42.678
DANIELLE: So I love that I was very present throughout those days.

00:57:42.678 --> 00:57:43.358
VIRGINIA: Wow.

00:57:43.358 --> 00:57:46.998
VIRGINIA: Well, Danielle, thank you so much for returning to the show.

00:57:46.998 --> 00:57:48.738
VIRGINIA: I hope that you will continue to return.

00:57:48.738 --> 00:57:50.218
VIRGINIA: I always love talking to you.

00:57:50.218 --> 00:57:51.538
DANIELLE: I'm always happy if you have me.

00:57:51.538 --> 00:57:52.798
DANIELLE: Thank you.

00:57:52.798 --> 00:58:02.818
VIRGINIA: And I hope everybody will go and check out Ask The Mouse and rely on Danielle for her expertise because she is very, very knowledgeable in the world of Disney.

00:58:03.218 --> 00:58:03.838
DANIELLE: Thank you.

00:58:03.838 --> 00:58:06.818
DANIELLE: And if you ever have any park hopping tips, you know.

00:58:06.818 --> 00:58:08.158
VIRGINIA: Oh, yeah.

00:58:08.158 --> 00:58:11.578
VIRGINIA: You want to talk to the queen of park hopping, you can find her on Instagram.

00:58:13.178 --> 00:58:13.598
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:58:13.598 --> 00:58:14.858
VIRGINIA: Well, thank you so much.

00:58:14.858 --> 00:58:17.438
VIRGINIA: And I hope that I will see you again very soon.

00:58:17.438 --> 00:58:18.518
DANIELLE: Thanks, Virginia.

00:58:18.518 --> 00:58:20.878
DANIELLE: Until next time.

00:58:20.878 --> 00:58:22.958
VIRGINIA: Thank you again, Danielle.

00:58:22.958 --> 00:58:25.118
VIRGINIA: Isn't she just the sweetest?

00:58:25.118 --> 00:58:32.318
VIRGINIA: If you aren't following her on Instagram, go over there now and give her a follow and make sure that you also check out askthemouse.com.

00:58:32.838 --> 00:58:35.318
VIRGINIA: Both of those links are in the show notes.

00:58:35.318 --> 00:58:37.818
VIRGINIA: I hope everyone enjoyed today's show.

00:58:37.818 --> 00:58:44.438
VIRGINIA: If you did, please make sure to give it a like and consider reading or reviewing the show and also sharing it with a friend.

00:58:44.438 --> 00:58:46.118
VIRGINIA: That is all for today.

00:58:46.118 --> 00:58:50.138
VIRGINIA: Have a magical week and keep daydreaming about where you long to be.