Post-Trip Report: Maria and Chrissy’s Annual Sister Trip (January 2024)

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VIRGINIA: You are listening to Where I Long To Be, a Magical Trip Report Podcast.

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VIRGINIA: My name is Virginia and I am your host.

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VIRGINIA: If you're new here, welcome.

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VIRGINIA: I hope you'll enjoy it you here and that you'll come back for more.

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VIRGINIA: On this episode, you'll be treated to an interview with Maria, one of my Disney dames, and her sister Chrissy.

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VIRGINIA: In case you didn't get a chance to listen to their pre-trip report, Maria and Chrissy take an annual sister trip to Walt Disney World.

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VIRGINIA: On this trip, they were staying at Disney's Pop Century Resort with, unfortunately, no Skyliner access since it was down for refurbishment.

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VIRGINIA: Even still, they had a great time, including a first ride on Tron for Chrissy, dining reservations at Summer House on the Lake, the new restaurant in Disney Springs, and concluding with a pedicure at the Grand Floridian Spa.

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VIRGINIA: I know I had a blast talking to this duo, so I hope you'll have just as much fun listening.

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VIRGINIA: And now, here are Maria and Chrissy.

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VIRGINIA: Welcome back to Maria and to Chrissy.

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VIRGINIA: I'm so happy to have you both back.

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VIRGINIA: I cannot wait to hear all of the details of this trip.

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VIRGINIA: So for anyone who did not get a chance to listen to the pre-trip, I encourage you to go do so.

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VIRGINIA: It's the episode right before this one.

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VIRGINIA: But if you are a post-trip kind of person and you just want to stick with this, that's fine too.

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VIRGINIA: So Maria and Chrissy are sisters.

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VIRGINIA: This was a big sister trip.

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VIRGINIA: And it was scheduled to take place January 18th through 22nd, heading down to Walt Disney World with a stay at Pop Century.

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VIRGINIA: And one of the big notes I have from our pre-trip conversation was that during your trip, the Skyliner was going to be under maintenance and would not be available.

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VIRGINIA: But you were hoping that maybe by the end they'd be done with that.

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VIRGINIA: So I'm already getting shakes of no from Maria.

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VIRGINIA: So that did not happen?

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MARIA: No, sadly, it did not.

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MARIA: I think the only time that it possibly maybe would have been was Monday morning, but that was when we were checking out.

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MARIA: We had other things to do, so we didn't even venture over there to see.

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MARIA: I'm trying to remember if we even saw it when we were in the lift, if we saw it moving or not.

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MARIA: I don't know, but no, we did not have any Skyliner magic on this trip, but it was okay.

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MARIA: It was wonderful even without the Skyliner.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: I have a logistical question that we were talking about towards the end of the pre-trip episode, was that during traditional times, when the Skyliner is up and running and they close for lightning or whatever, we had talked about how usually the replacement bus service runs right along the Skyliner route and you still catch that bus from the international gateway.

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VIRGINIA: Logistical question, when it's down for maintenance, the buses are at the front of the park instead, is that correct?

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CHRISSY: Yes.

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CHRISSY: Although I did see one on the road that said Skyliner route, but they were directing folks to the front of the park to get on buses.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: That's frustrating because I know Maria in particular loves an International Gateway entrance and exit.

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MARIA: Yes.

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VIRGINIA: As I do too.

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MARIA: Because I like to ease.

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MARIA: Unfortunately, we didn't have it this time.

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VIRGINIA: And there's something about it that feels a little VIP.

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VIRGINIA: Let's be honest here.

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MARIA: And you know I love to feel like a VIP.

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VIRGINIA: You do.

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MARIA: Anyone who's listened to the pre-trip or my previous episode, I want to feel special.

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VIRGINIA: She wants to feel like she has planned her trip better than anyone else.

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VIRGINIA: Anyone else.

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VIRGINIA: Right.

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VIRGINIA: Which I think as folks who love Disney planning, you do get some satisfaction out of like, oh, I know how to do this.

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CHRISSY: Oh, yeah.

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CHRISSY: I ended up I had a meeting with one of my clients this week and she is headed to Disney.

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CHRISSY: I think she left yesterday.

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CHRISSY: And so she started asking me all of these questions and she was like, you really know what you're doing.

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CHRISSY: I was like, yes, ma'am.

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CHRISSY: Can you please give me a contract extension?

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CHRISSY: Like, for giving you Disney tips.

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VIRGINIA: I hope she had enough of her stuff planned that you weren't like, because I know we've all as Disney people, we've all had those conversations with friends where they start off and they go, oh, yeah, I'm going to Disney in two weeks or whatever.

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VIRGINIA: And then they start saying things that make you go, oh, no, oh, this is not going to go well for you.

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VIRGINIA: And like, let me try to help you fix this as much as I can.

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MARIA: But also not tell them like you did this totally wrong and like your vacation.

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VIRGINIA: Right.

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VIRGINIA: You don't want to say that.

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CHRISSY: The biggest thing that we talked about was that with Festival of the Arts that she actually probably did not need all of the dining reservations that she had made.

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CHRISSY: And I was like, that's good, because that's an easy cancellation in favor of more delicious snackies, which was pretty much the name of the game for our trip.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: No, that's that's okay.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: So let's get into all the details of this trip.

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VIRGINIA: So arriving on Thursday, January the 18th, Chrissy was scheduled to get in at 1230, Maria at 130.

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VIRGINIA: Chrissy was going to bring some crafts.

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VIRGINIA: She was going to read a book.

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VIRGINIA: She was going to entertain herself as Chrissy does until Maria arrived.

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VIRGINIA: So first question, were both of your flights on time?

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VIRGINIA: And how did the meeting up at the airport go?

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VIRGINIA: Chrissy?

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CHRISSY: I was on time.

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CHRISSY: I had a lot of trouble getting to the airport in Philadelphia, but everything was smooth sailing once I got there.

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VIRGINIA: Okay, Maria.

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MARIA: My flight was delayed about 45 minutes because they couldn't get, there was something happening with the plane that they couldn't get cleared for takeoff or like closing the door or something.

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MARIA: So we just kind of sat on the tarmac for 45 minutes.

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MARIA: I was entertained though because the two sisters behind me that were like in high school, one of them had lost an air pod, like having a flight attendant taking like the seat off that's like a flotation device, like everything, getting that whole thing figured out.

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MARIA: And it turned out that it had fallen into her bag.

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MARIA: Like we had asked her, like, are you sure it's in your bag?

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MARIA: No, no, no, I saw it go down there.

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MARIA: Okay, child.

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MARIA: So that was at least entertaining.

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MARIA: But yeah, we left 45 minutes late, but only landed 15 minutes late.

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MARIA: Oh, wow.

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MARIA: They made up time in the air.

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MARIA: I don't know.

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MARIA: They were like speeding in the air.

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MARIA: I know.

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MARIA: Like there's no laws up there.

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MARIA: I don't know, except the laws of gravity and physics.

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VIRGINIA: The wind sometimes helps and they build in cushion time.

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VIRGINIA: The air pod story reminds me when Alex and I went to Costa Rica together.

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VIRGINIA: We met up with my aunt for a trip down there.

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VIRGINIA: He was five, I think, and he lost a Lego minifigure in the seats.

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VIRGINIA: It's the one time we have flown first class because whatever reason, the first class upgrade was not very much.

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VIRGINIA: I was like, let's do it.

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VIRGINIA: The flight attendant and the entire first class was helping us find this little Lego minifigure.

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VIRGINIA: Everybody was so nice about it, but I, as a mom, traveling with this kid on my own because Charles wasn't able to go.

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VIRGINIA: That's why I had said to my aunt, let's go on a trip together.

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VIRGINIA: I was just like, oh my God, I cannot believe you've lost a minifigure and all this heartache is happening over this little thing.

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VIRGINIA: We did find it.

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MARIA: Was it located?

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VIRGINIA: It was located.

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VIRGINIA: It was under the seats or something.

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VIRGINIA: I don't know.

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VIRGINIA: I don't know, but it would have been devastating if we had not found it, I guess.

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MARIA: Yes, this girl did find her air pod.

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CHRISSY: There are fewer things more devastating to a five-year-old than a lost Lego.

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VIRGINIA: It's true.

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VIRGINIA: It's true.

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MARIA: Not too many more things devastating to a 16-year-old or 15-year-old on a plane.

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MARIA: So yeah, so when I got to my gate, when I, you know, de-planned, Chrissy was like standing there waiting for me.

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MARIA: She had taken the train within the airport, Air Link, whatever we decided it was called, from Terminal B, A to B.

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MARIA: And then we got like turned around getting out.

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MARIA: Like we somehow like went down too many levels and then we had to like go back in, go back up.

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MARIA: It was, but we got a lift and we got to the hotel.

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MARIA: By the time we got into our lift, I got the text that our room was ready.

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MARIA: So that was very nice.

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VIRGINIA: Where was your room located?

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VIRGINIA: Because you said that you had requested the 50s building through your touring plans subscription.

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MARIA: Yes, we did get the 50s building.

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MARIA: We were on the third floor.

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MARIA: I had requested a room on the second floor, but it was still kind of, you know, that side of the hotel that we wanted just a floor up and a couple built a couple of rooms down.

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MARIA: So it was, I'd say, fairly successful for what we requested, knowing that they can't obviously tell us.

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MARIA: They can't guarantee that they're going to be the exact room we asked for.

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VIRGINIA: What was the weather like on this first day?

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VIRGINIA: Because there was much discussion about, you know, Chrissy's desire to potentially immediately get into a swimsuit and get in a pool, and Maria's desire not to immediately get into a pool because she thought it would be too cold.

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VIRGINIA: So what happened there?

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CHRISSY: There was no pool this whole trip, Virginia, and I was sad.

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CHRISSY: We did.

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MARIA: We did get in a hot tub, Chris.

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CHRISSY: That's fair.

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MARIA: It wasn't all for naught.

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CHRISSY: When we arrived, it was pretty muggy and kind of gloomy.

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CHRISSY: It didn't actually start raining until, what, like five or six o'clock when we were in Disney Springs, waiting for Gideon's, and I was like, I'm close to the front of this line.

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CHRISSY: I'm staying here with my poncho on.

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CHRISSY: So yes, it was probably only warm enough to get in the pool on Friday, and we were too busy in magic for that to happen.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: Well, if it were an amazing pool or something, then you might want to make your...

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VIRGINIA: But the pools at Pop are fun.

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VIRGINIA: I like the music they play, but they're kind of just square pools.

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VIRGINIA: So you could do that any other time.

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VIRGINIA: Right.

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MARIA: Yeah, there was no water slide.

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MARIA: We survived without a pool.

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CHRISSY: And it was still warmer than it was here, so I was okay with it.

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VIRGINIA: That's very true, because we were having a little bit of a cold snap up here.

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VIRGINIA: All right, so you mentioned Gideon's.

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VIRGINIA: Was your first stop Disney Springs, or did you end up making your way over to the Character Warehouse Outlet?

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MARIA: We did go to the Character Warehouse Outlet.

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MARIA: Unfortunately, we walked through and there were some things like, oh yeah, that's cute, and oh, that's a nice shirt.

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MARIA: But we didn't end up getting anything.

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MARIA: So a little sad in that respect, but it was still nice to go.

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MARIA: And I think if we hadn't gone, I would have been like, oh, but what if there was something cool that we wanted to get, but didn't find anything there.

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MARIA: So then we just took a lift from Character Warehouse over to Disney Springs, walked around there a little bit, stopped in Basin.

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MARIA: I got some soap.

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MARIA: Chrissy got a perfume solid.

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MARIA: Was that what you got, Chrissy?

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MARIA: Yes.

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VIRGINIA: What is it?

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VIRGINIA: What kind of perfume solid?

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VIRGINIA: Because I don't think I realized they sold perfume type things there.

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VIRGINIA: I thought it was only soaps and bath bombs and lip balms.

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CHRISSY: It's like the consistency of a lip gloss almost, but it's perfume.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah, I've had something similar before.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, I got to check that out next time I'm in Basin because they have such nice scents.

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VIRGINIA: Yes.

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CHRISSY: Yeah, and everything, I don't wear perfume because it generally gives me headaches and I smelled it and I was like, oh, I think this might be headache proof.

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CHRISSY: So I splurged.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: So has it been headache proof?

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CHRISSY: It has been.

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CHRISSY: I was pretty excited.

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VIRGINIA: Nice.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: Well, that's a win right there.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: So what was next?

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MARIA: We walked over to the World of Disney store because our cousin Kate, who we mentioned in the previous episode, had asked us to look for a hat that looked like Sully from Monsters Inc.

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MARIA: for her daughter because she had seen somebody on Instagram was wearing it.

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MARIA: She was like, Oh my God, Bella would love this hat.

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MARIA: So we walked around a little bit and lo and behold, we found the hat for Bella.

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MARIA: I made Chrissy take some pictures with it on.

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MARIA: She said to Kate, I'd be like, Is this good?

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MARIA: And so then I called Katie and I was like, Okay, like we found this.

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MARIA: She's like, Oh my God, it's great.

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MARIA: She's looking to show Bella and Bella was very excited and Kate's like, Well, Bella, where are you going to wear this?

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MARIA: She goes, When I go to Disney World, Mom, like duh.

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MARIA: She'll three-nager.

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MARIA: She's very adorable, but she's very excited.

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VIRGINIA: Has she been to Disney before?

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: So do you just side question just out of curiosity, do you think that when she does eventually go to Disney, that all of the sisters will go together to witness her first Disney trip?

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MARIA: Oh dear God, I hope so.

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CHRISSY: I think so.

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VIRGINIA: That's really cute.

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VIRGINIA: Really cute.

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VIRGINIA: So hat acquired?

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MARIA: Yeah, hat acquired.

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MARIA: Then we were like, let's go.

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MARIA: We had a reservation for Summer House on the Lake at like 7-

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VIRGINIA: 715.

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VIRGINIA: And I will take this moment to acknowledge that in the pre-trip, you continuously called it Summer House on the Lake.

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VIRGINIA: And somehow every time I said it, I said Summer Place on the Lake.

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VIRGINIA: So I'm an idiot, but it's new.

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VIRGINIA: It's new.

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VIRGINIA: Who doesn't want a Summer Place on the Lake?

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VIRGINIA: Right?

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MARIA: Exactly.

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MARIA: So when we walked over to Gideon's, there was a line, not a virtual queue.

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MARIA: But when we got in it, they were like, oh, it'll be probably about a half an hour.

00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:07.920
MARIA: I was like, okay, cool.

00:14:07.940 --> 00:14:11.440
MARIA: So we stood there and it was like, we stood there and it was like really muggy.

00:14:11.460 --> 00:14:14.560
MARIA: And all of a sudden, like I start to feel like a little bit of drizzle.

00:14:15.760 --> 00:14:19.240
MARIA: And then like there was a little bit more drizzle, then it was just like raining.

00:14:19.880 --> 00:14:29.820
MARIA: So I had a like a raincoat, Chrissy had a poncho, so we just kind of stood there in the rain and waited to get cookies, which is totally worth it.

00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:37.200
MARIA: I got the dark, they have the coffee cake cookie, they have like the regular coffee cookie in the morning and the dark coffee cake cookie in the evening.

00:14:37.520 --> 00:14:42.220
MARIA: So I got one of those because I'm usually out there in the evening and I got a banana bread and the cookies and cream.

00:14:42.240 --> 00:14:45.860
VIRGINIA: Okay, Chrissy, did you end up getting any of these cookies?

00:14:46.180 --> 00:14:50.860
CHRISSY: I also got a dark coffee cake and the toffee pistachio, which is my absolute favorite.

00:14:51.300 --> 00:15:00.520
CHRISSY: And then we had previously really wanted to try the bites, but they were covered in white chocolate and white chocolate is trash because it's not real chocolate.

00:15:00.840 --> 00:15:06.300
CHRISSY: This time they were chocolate cookies with chocolate chips enrobed in chocolate.

00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:09.680
CHRISSY: So we purchased those and I have been like rationing.

00:15:09.940 --> 00:15:13.280
CHRISSY: I have one left and I'm like, don't eat it, it's so good, you have to save it.

00:15:13.780 --> 00:15:17.680
MARIA: Yes, it was the triple chocolate cookie covered in chocolate.

00:15:17.700 --> 00:15:38.800
VIRGINIA: My face when you said covered in white chocolate was, well, I don't like white chocolate quite as much as I like milk chocolate, but really it's because I recently, with another guest, was looking at the Gideon's page and we were talking about it in an upcoming episode and I saw that it was covered in what looked to be milk chocolate or dark chocolate.

00:15:39.160 --> 00:15:41.920
VIRGINIA: And so I was surprised to hear you say white chocolate.

00:15:41.940 --> 00:15:44.140
VIRGINIA: So maybe I guess they've just made a change?

00:15:44.480 --> 00:15:46.540
CHRISSY: I think they changed them.

00:15:46.700 --> 00:15:48.000
MARIA: They changed them.

00:15:48.180 --> 00:15:48.480
CHRISSY: Yeah.

00:15:48.500 --> 00:15:51.100
CHRISSY: The bites is a rotating selection.

00:15:51.100 --> 00:15:53.840
CHRISSY: So when we were waiting in line, the guy was like, do you have any questions?

00:15:53.860 --> 00:15:56.600
CHRISSY: And I was like, please tell me the bites are not coated in white chocolate.

00:15:56.620 --> 00:16:00.560
CHRISSY: And he was like, it is like four kinds of chocolate, but none of them are white.

00:16:00.580 --> 00:16:01.580
CHRISSY: And I was like, excellent.

00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:02.600
CHRISSY: Let's go.

00:16:03.040 --> 00:16:03.360
VIRGINIA: Good.

00:16:03.380 --> 00:16:03.580
VIRGINIA: Good.

00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:03.880
VIRGINIA: Good.

00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:12.020
VIRGINIA: All right, so after acquiring all of your Gideon's goodies, where did you head next?

00:16:12.040 --> 00:16:15.020
VIRGINIA: What time was it approximately around this point?

00:16:15.800 --> 00:16:18.900
MARIA: So at this point, it was about 545.

00:16:19.060 --> 00:16:23.080
MARIA: And again, our reservation wasn't until 715.

00:16:23.760 --> 00:16:24.500
MARIA: And it was raining.

00:16:24.780 --> 00:16:35.220
MARIA: So we went over to Summerhouse on the lake and just was like, hey, can we, like, is there any way we can get seated now and if not, like, can we just go sit at the bar?

00:16:35.620 --> 00:16:39.260
MARIA: And they're like, yeah, like, you can't, we don't, we can't seat you now, like, you're an hour early.

00:16:39.500 --> 00:16:47.440
MARIA: The one girl was a little sassy to like, not to us, but like, the hostess went and talked to this other gal and like other gal was like, no, they can wait.

00:16:47.920 --> 00:16:49.000
MARIA: I'm like, fine, whatever.

00:16:49.020 --> 00:16:49.760
MARIA: Like, I get it.

00:16:49.940 --> 00:16:50.420
MARIA: I wasn't.

00:16:50.460 --> 00:16:51.520
VIRGINIA: I'm not demanding.

00:16:51.540 --> 00:16:52.820
MARIA: I asked if it was possible.

00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:56.140
MARIA: I wasn't not demanding, like, seat me now, woman.

00:16:57.740 --> 00:16:59.580
MARIA: So we went over and had a seat at the bar.

00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:01.200
MARIA: I had a mocktail.

00:17:01.260 --> 00:17:10.720
MARIA: It was called a waitlist, which I think in being working in college admissions and college counseling like I do, the waitlist was a very apt, I think, drink for me.

00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:14.200
MARIA: It was sparkling rosé lemonade, elderflower and lemon.

00:17:14.340 --> 00:17:15.860
VIRGINIA: You know, I love an elderflower.

00:17:16.180 --> 00:17:17.640
MARIA: Yes, I know.

00:17:17.840 --> 00:17:18.220
VIRGINIA: I know.

00:17:22.500 --> 00:17:24.140
MARIA: And I think, Chris, did you have the same thing with?

00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:27.420
CHRISSY: Yeah, I had the same thing at the bar because I was like, you know what?

00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:29.320
CHRISSY: Start a vacation means pink drinks.

00:17:29.340 --> 00:17:30.000
CHRISSY: It's happening.

00:17:31.340 --> 00:17:35.120
VIRGINIA: How long were you on the wait list for Summer House on the Lake?

00:17:35.400 --> 00:17:36.120
VIRGINIA: See what I did there?

00:17:36.740 --> 00:17:37.680
MARIA: Only about an hour.

00:17:37.700 --> 00:17:39.020
MARIA: So we, I like that.

00:17:39.740 --> 00:17:46.180
MARIA: So by the time we got our drink, you know, order, got it, you know, drank it, they were like, oh, do you want another one?

00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:48.240
MARIA: And I'm like, we got like 15 minutes to life tables ready.

00:17:48.260 --> 00:17:49.360
MARIA: Like, no, I'm okay.

00:17:49.380 --> 00:17:51.180
MARIA: So we just kind of sat there and waited.

00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:55.100
MARIA: And then like, I like five after seven, we went back up to the hostess table.

00:17:55.620 --> 00:17:59.640
MARIA: And like we said, it was raining and it was kind of chilly when we were there.

00:17:59.660 --> 00:18:03.180
MARIA: And originally, they started to like seat us outside.

00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:06.560
MARIA: And I'm like, no, no, ma'am, no, no, ma'am, no.

00:18:07.620 --> 00:18:11.080
MARIA: I'm like, can we I'll wait longer if I can get a seat inside.

00:18:11.100 --> 00:18:14.300
MARIA: And she's like, OK, actually, we have one in like the other bar section.

00:18:14.320 --> 00:18:16.740
MARIA: So Chrissy and I are short like you.

00:18:16.760 --> 00:18:20.180
MARIA: So it was like the bar stools at the bar, the same seats.

00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:23.120
MARIA: And when we were at the bar, we were like, oh, my God, we're going to be able to get up on these.

00:18:23.140 --> 00:18:24.040
MARIA: They were very high up.

00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:27.120
MARIA: And then we were seated at a table with bar stools.

00:18:27.140 --> 00:18:31.340
MARIA: I'm like, oh, my God, like this is not like the guy behind me was like his table was very close.

00:18:31.360 --> 00:18:32.280
MARIA: Like he was like not tucked in.

00:18:32.300 --> 00:18:33.060
MARIA: I'm like, can you push?

00:18:33.140 --> 00:18:35.760
MARIA: Can you push your seat and start so I can get into the stair?

00:18:35.780 --> 00:18:38.620
VIRGINIA: Because you basically have to mount and climb to get into it.

00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:40.560
CHRISSY: Yes, pretty much.

00:18:40.760 --> 00:18:41.320
MARIA: Exactly.

00:18:41.340 --> 00:18:42.300
MARIA: Yes, exactly.

00:18:42.300 --> 00:18:44.300
CHRISSY: It was definitely a one at a time thing.

00:18:44.320 --> 00:18:45.460
MARIA: It got up into the chair.

00:18:45.500 --> 00:18:47.080
CHRISSY: Yeah, it was one at a time thing.

00:18:47.100 --> 00:18:49.520
CHRISSY: Like one of us had to get in and then I pulled the table.

00:18:49.840 --> 00:18:59.480
CHRISSY: But I will say they have designed their tables smartly because they all have a stuff hook installed on the tables, even the freestanding ones.

00:18:59.500 --> 00:18:59.940
VIRGINIA: Oh, that's nice.

00:18:59.960 --> 00:19:07.040
CHRISSY: So you could hang shopping bags and a backpack and you didn't have to feel like your stuff was on the ground and I feel like that is smart design, my friends.

00:19:07.180 --> 00:19:08.280
VIRGINIA: Yeah, I like that.

00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:14.540
MARIA: Yeah, especially when you're up on a, you know, practically on the top of the world in the bar stool.

00:19:14.560 --> 00:19:17.020
VIRGINIA: There's no way you're getting it down into your bag when you're tiny.

00:19:17.040 --> 00:19:21.580
MARIA: Yeah, and there's no way I'm like, I'm not getting down until I have to, like, leave or run to the ladies room.

00:19:24.120 --> 00:19:29.600
MARIA: So then for dinner, I ordered the strawberry field drink, which was strawberry sage and lavender.

00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:32.040
MARIA: And, you know, I love a calf salad.

00:19:32.060 --> 00:19:33.520
MARIA: I had a calf salad with no cheese.

00:19:33.980 --> 00:19:36.060
VIRGINIA: Chrissy, do you remember what you had to eat?

00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:40.080
CHRISSY: The woman next to me at the bar ordered the shaved brussels sprout salad.

00:19:40.340 --> 00:19:42.840
CHRISSY: And I was like, yes, I think that's what I want.

00:19:42.860 --> 00:19:44.260
CHRISSY: So I had the shaved brussels sprout salad.

00:19:44.560 --> 00:19:49.420
CHRISSY: I did add the crispy chicken and it was very, very good.

00:19:50.520 --> 00:19:55.700
CHRISSY: And I also had jalapeno cornbread, which was legit spicy.

00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:57.380
CHRISSY: And I was like, I can only have a little bit of it.

00:19:57.520 --> 00:19:59.600
CHRISSY: So then I ate it for breakfast later than the week.

00:19:59.620 --> 00:20:00.240
CHRISSY: And it was great.

00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:01.120
VIRGINIA: Perfect.

00:20:01.140 --> 00:20:01.660
VIRGINIA: Perfect.

00:20:01.680 --> 00:20:05.560
VIRGINIA: As you do on vacation, you know, cornbread for breakfast, cookies for breakfast.

00:20:06.120 --> 00:20:06.680
VIRGINIA: No rules.

00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:07.520
VIRGINIA: No rules.

00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:08.260
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:20:08.280 --> 00:20:18.580
VIRGINIA: Speaking of cookies, you had mentioned when bringing up Summerhouse on the Lake that they have some sort of cookie bar where, I don't know, some kind of exciting cookie things happen.

00:20:18.780 --> 00:20:24.540
VIRGINIA: So even if you didn't end up getting cookies there, can you describe what the cookie bar was like?

00:20:25.060 --> 00:20:37.000
MARIA: So when you walk into the restaurant, like when you walk up the ramp, like the restaurant is kind of like straight ahead into the right and over to the left, there is like a bar of cookies that you can pick out different ones.

00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:43.000
MARIA: We didn't actually go over to look at the bar, but like at the table, they gave us a menu of all of them.

00:20:43.020 --> 00:20:55.060
MARIA: And it looks like they had like, I don't know, 10 or 12 different kinds, and they were probably a six inch radius, or six inch diameter, I should say, I don't know if that's a math major, cookies that looked delicious.

00:20:55.620 --> 00:21:01.860
MARIA: I ended up ordering a cookies and cream Rice Krispie treat, because I was like, oh, that sounds good.

00:21:01.880 --> 00:21:04.160
MARIA: And I was expecting like, you know, an inch high.

00:21:04.840 --> 00:21:09.200
MARIA: It was a three inch cube, like it looked like it was like the size of a Rubik's Cube.

00:21:11.040 --> 00:21:20.160
MARIA: It looked like Oreo travel or whatever, and like full sized mini marshmallows in this gigantic Rice Krispie treat.

00:21:20.180 --> 00:21:20.880
MARIA: It was fantastic.

00:21:21.720 --> 00:21:22.200
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:21:23.040 --> 00:21:24.600
VIRGINIA: Chrissy, what did you have?

00:21:24.960 --> 00:21:30.320
CHRISSY: I actually didn't end up getting anything because I had gotten cornbread and I was like, there's no space.

00:21:30.840 --> 00:21:31.880
CHRISSY: There's no space.

00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:32.800
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:38.860
CHRISSY: But I was like, I will be tasting your Rice Krispie treat, because Rice Krispie treats are one of my favorite.

00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:43.280
CHRISSY: For a person who loves to bake, actually one of my favorite treats is Rice Krispies, which are no bake.

00:21:44.160 --> 00:21:44.500
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:21:45.220 --> 00:21:50.800
VIRGINIA: One of the easiest things to make for a bake sale because it involves no baking.

00:21:53.320 --> 00:21:53.800
MARIA: All right.

00:21:54.120 --> 00:22:00.760
VIRGINIA: After your summer house on the lake experience, did you head back to your resort or did you continue to wander Disney Springs?

00:22:00.980 --> 00:22:05.240
MARIA: I think we walked into a couple of stores on our way back to the buses.

00:22:05.780 --> 00:22:10.420
MARIA: But then by that point, I was cold, I was wet, I was tired, I was full.

00:22:10.440 --> 00:22:13.080
MARIA: I'm like, let's just go back to the hotel.

00:22:13.100 --> 00:22:13.320
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:22:13.380 --> 00:22:15.600
VIRGINIA: Save your energy for your park days.

00:22:16.380 --> 00:22:17.480
VIRGINIA: Into your park days.

00:22:17.500 --> 00:22:31.520
VIRGINIA: Friday, January the 19th, you were scheduled for Magic Kingdom and you did have two DAS pass pre-selections of pirates at 9.30 and Peter Pan at 3 o'clock.

00:22:31.540 --> 00:22:36.680
VIRGINIA: You had also mentioned, both of you, that Chrissy had never ridden Tron before.

00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:39.920
VIRGINIA: Was there some 7 a.m.

00:22:40.040 --> 00:22:42.500
VIRGINIA: action to try to get a virtual queue for Tron?

00:22:43.320 --> 00:22:47.480
MARIA: Chrissy, we set our alarm for 6.40, so Chrissy was going to shower.

00:22:47.500 --> 00:22:50.500
MARIA: I showered the night before because I needed to warm up.

00:22:50.780 --> 00:22:51.520
VIRGINIA: Chrissy was in the shower.

00:22:51.540 --> 00:22:53.080
MARIA: You got to get out of the shower at 7 o'clock.

00:22:53.100 --> 00:22:54.320
MARIA: You got to be out of the shower at 7 o'clock.

00:22:54.720 --> 00:23:00.900
MARIA: Then she gets out of the shower and I'm just butsing around the room and I look at my clock and I'm like, it's 7.04.

00:23:03.600 --> 00:23:06.500
VIRGINIA: I'm like, Chrissy, she's like, you are in charge of this.

00:23:06.520 --> 00:23:12.400
MARIA: Sadly, we did not get the virtual cue drop, but we were still able to buy A Lightning Lane.

00:23:12.860 --> 00:23:24.580
MARIA: We decided for 7:25 PM because we knew that Happily Ever After was going to be at 8, so we were going to just like at the end, like Riatron and then go watch Happily Ever After.

00:23:24.600 --> 00:23:25.980
MARIA: We were able to still buy it.

00:23:25.980 --> 00:23:32.660
MARIA: I did look to see Genie Plus would have cost $25 for Just Magic Kingdom or for Park Hopping.

00:23:33.180 --> 00:23:37.340
MARIA: I just like to see what it would cost if we had bought it.

00:23:37.780 --> 00:23:39.260
MARIA: But we didn't need to because we have the desk.

00:23:39.280 --> 00:23:45.000
VIRGINIA: Did you think about trying to do the 1 PM Tron virtual cue drop later?

00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:51.020
CHRISSY: We did, and we did get the 1 PM Tron drop.

00:23:51.620 --> 00:23:54.480
CHRISSY: But our boarding group was 146.

00:23:57.240 --> 00:23:58.160
MARIA: 142.

00:23:58.180 --> 00:23:58.740
CHRISSY: Okay, whatever.

00:23:58.760 --> 00:24:01.420
CHRISSY: It was very, very late.

00:24:01.440 --> 00:24:05.620
CHRISSY: At Happily Ever After, they weren't even at 100 yet.

00:24:05.640 --> 00:24:12.240
CHRISSY: I was like, they're going to call us for this ride at 1045 and I don't think I have that in me.

00:24:12.540 --> 00:24:12.940
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:24:14.040 --> 00:24:15.800
MARIA: Right, because the park was open until 11.

00:24:15.880 --> 00:24:22.220
MARIA: I think they probably based the number of boarding groups they have based on how late the park is open.

00:24:24.060 --> 00:24:26.660
MARIA: So yeah, at one o'clock when we got it, it was 142.

00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:29.100
MARIA: I was like, we're never getting on the ride.

00:24:29.120 --> 00:24:31.000
VIRGINIA: Well, at least you were able to purchase.

00:24:31.020 --> 00:24:31.860
MARIA: It's like whatever.

00:24:31.880 --> 00:24:32.340
MARIA: It's fine.

00:24:32.540 --> 00:24:35.280
MARIA: Yes, but it was $20 well spent.

00:24:36.100 --> 00:24:36.520
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:24:36.540 --> 00:24:41.860
VIRGINIA: So let's go through the day then because we'll get to the Tron piece of it eventually by doing that.

00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:45.920
VIRGINIA: So Magic Kingdom, you did not make the 7 AM queue.

00:24:45.940 --> 00:24:51.900
VIRGINIA: So what time did you end up getting over to Magic Kingdom to start your Magic Kingdom Day?

00:24:52.360 --> 00:24:52.660
VIRGINIA: Sure.

00:24:52.680 --> 00:24:54.080
MARIA: We got there at 8.15.

00:24:54.800 --> 00:24:56.120
MARIA: Our first stop was Starbucks.

00:24:56.880 --> 00:25:04.340
MARIA: So we could get some small ice shaken espressos.

00:25:05.500 --> 00:25:07.740
MARIA: And we walked over to Space Fountain.

00:25:07.760 --> 00:25:11.800
MARIA: So that was our first ride during the early entry.

00:25:12.540 --> 00:25:14.360
MARIA: We did Space Fountain, then People Mover.

00:25:16.120 --> 00:25:19.360
MARIA: I got a DAS entry for Mind Train.

00:25:19.800 --> 00:25:21.840
MARIA: Then we did DAS entry for the Jungle Cruise.

00:25:22.880 --> 00:25:30.340
MARIA: Then we would have been, we were at Jungle Cruise, we would have gone over to Pirates for the preselected one, but it was down at that time.

00:25:30.340 --> 00:25:34.800
MARIA: So after we did Jungle Cruise, we got the DAS for Haunted Mansion.

00:25:34.820 --> 00:25:42.900
MARIA: I have a note down that was by 10.15, we had already done Space Mountain, People Mover, Mind Train, Jungle Cruise, and Haunted Mansion.

00:25:43.240 --> 00:25:44.260
VIRGINIA: Well done, ladies.

00:25:44.580 --> 00:25:45.240
VIRGINIA: Well done.

00:25:45.260 --> 00:25:47.400
MARIA: So that was, yes, I was really proud of us.

00:25:47.420 --> 00:25:47.620
MARIA: Yeah.

00:25:47.980 --> 00:26:01.520
MARIA: And then while we were leaving Haunted Mansion, we did the mobile order for Sleepy Hollow, for Fruit and Tellow Waffles for breakfast, because it is the breakfast of champions.

00:26:01.540 --> 00:26:10.360
MARIA: We went over then and we had a DAS for Buzz Lightyear's Space Rangers Spin, where I think I won.

00:26:10.380 --> 00:26:11.400
MARIA: At one point we got-

00:26:11.420 --> 00:26:12.380
CHRISSY: You always win.

00:26:12.540 --> 00:26:13.760
CHRISSY: Why is this a question?

00:26:15.460 --> 00:26:17.480
VIRGINIA: She's trying to be modest.

00:26:17.620 --> 00:26:19.860
MARIA: In the other one, I was trying to be nice.

00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:27.060
MARIA: But at one point the ride stopped, because I guess they were maybe someone with mobility scooter or whatever and just getting onto it.

00:26:27.080 --> 00:26:27.600
MARIA: So they stopped.

00:26:27.620 --> 00:26:32.320
MARIA: It was great, because I was just like pew, and just kept on racking up the points.

00:26:32.340 --> 00:26:35.640
VIRGINIA: So did you get Galactic Hero because of being paused in the ride?

00:26:37.260 --> 00:26:37.800
MARIA: No.

00:26:37.840 --> 00:26:39.220
MARIA: It wasn't paused long enough.

00:26:39.640 --> 00:26:41.000
MARIA: I was not a Galactic Star Hero.

00:26:42.840 --> 00:26:46.420
MARIA: From there, we were like, wow, we've done a lot of stuff already.

00:26:46.680 --> 00:26:51.460
MARIA: We know we have the pre-booked DAS for Peter Pan for later in the afternoon.

00:26:53.640 --> 00:26:57.060
MARIA: Big Thunder wasn't open at that point because they're still under the refurb.

00:26:57.080 --> 00:27:02.360
MARIA: So we decided to take one of the Main Street vehicles back to the front of the park.

00:27:02.780 --> 00:27:09.880
MARIA: We had to wait for a few minutes because the Castle Show was going on, the Friendship Fair, Fantasy Fair, whatever was going on.

00:27:10.360 --> 00:27:14.260
MARIA: Then we had a lovely cast member named Israel was driving us back.

00:27:14.960 --> 00:27:16.640
MARIA: I was waving like I was a princess.

00:27:16.660 --> 00:27:17.460
VIRGINIA: Of course you were.

00:27:17.560 --> 00:27:18.960
VIRGINIA: I'm sure Chrissy loved that.

00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:23.100
CHRISSY: She was making bets on how many people she could get to wave back to her.

00:27:23.560 --> 00:27:24.100
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:27:24.880 --> 00:27:26.480
VIRGINIA: So how many people wave back to you?

00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:30.880
MARIA: I stopped counting it like 20 because I was like, hi, hi.

00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:33.960
CHRISSY: Queen of the World.

00:27:34.360 --> 00:27:35.660
MARIA: I was the Queen of the World.

00:27:35.680 --> 00:27:48.040
MARIA: Then from there, we decided to hop over to Hollywood Studios, because in the morning, we had been texting with Dad's Love Disney, who is my husband's best friend from first or second grade.

00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:57.220
MARIA: So we decided to hop over to Hollywood Studios to see Kevin, which was just like a delight.

00:27:57.800 --> 00:27:59.900
MARIA: So we got, and he was doing other things.

00:27:59.960 --> 00:28:03.340
MARIA: He was doing Rise with, he was there with Enchantment by Emily.

00:28:03.360 --> 00:28:05.040
VIRGINIA: Enchanted by Emily, I think.

00:28:05.140 --> 00:28:05.960
VIRGINIA: Emily is her name.

00:28:05.980 --> 00:28:07.320
MARIA: Enchanted by Emily, yes, sorry.

00:28:08.140 --> 00:28:12.980
MARIA: Yes, I apologize for not remembering the screen name, Emily, if you're listening to this, but you're a delight on the internet.

00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:17.260
VIRGINIA: It will be in the show notes for anyone who would like to follow both Kevin or Emily.

00:28:17.540 --> 00:28:19.540
MARIA: Yes, they are delightful.

00:28:19.540 --> 00:28:22.040
MARIA: So he was doing stuff, we were doing stuff.

00:28:22.060 --> 00:28:24.860
MARIA: By the time we got there, we went to the Crows and Singalong.

00:28:25.480 --> 00:28:28.540
MARIA: I, spoiler alert, did not actually cry.

00:28:28.560 --> 00:28:30.620
MARIA: I got emotional, but did not actually cry.

00:28:31.000 --> 00:28:32.620
MARIA: Chrissy did take a little small nap.

00:28:33.500 --> 00:28:36.500
MARIA: I woke her up with my singing multiple times.

00:28:39.120 --> 00:28:41.660
MARIA: After we were getting out of Frozen, it was right around one o'clock.

00:28:41.680 --> 00:28:51.160
MARIA: So we got, Chrissy said, I mentioned we did, I was like, I had my alarm set for like 1250, 1255, 1258.

00:28:51.180 --> 00:28:53.340
MARIA: So we sat there and got the virtual queue.

00:28:53.360 --> 00:28:55.860
MARIA: Like I said, we got group 142.

00:28:55.940 --> 00:29:03.440
CHRISSY: So lesson learned, we did not need to be in the Magic Kingdom to get that virtual queue, but we think it was because we had already been there that morning.

00:29:03.460 --> 00:29:08.040
CHRISSY: I don't know if you hadn't tapped into the Magic Kingdom, but we were able to get it from Hollywood Studios.

00:29:08.360 --> 00:29:15.800
CHRISSY: The other driver for going over to Hollywood Studios is, frankly, some of their quick service lunch options are better.

00:29:16.480 --> 00:29:18.620
CHRISSY: I need something that's not fried for lunch today.

00:29:18.980 --> 00:29:31.020
CHRISSY: So we ended up at ABC Commissary for lunch, which I appreciated because I was like, as much as I want to eat corn dog nuggets right now, I should not do that because my tummy will be mad at me.

00:29:31.260 --> 00:29:34.060
VIRGINIA: So what did you end up getting from ABC Commissary?

00:29:34.080 --> 00:29:36.300
CHRISSY: I had pulled pork tacos.

00:29:36.680 --> 00:29:37.160
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:38.040
VIRGINIA: And Maria?

00:29:38.060 --> 00:29:44.680
MARIA: I had the chicken club with an arugula farro salad, which was delightful.

00:29:45.580 --> 00:29:46.740
MARIA: It was tasty.

00:29:46.760 --> 00:29:47.740
MARIA: It was flavorful.

00:29:48.060 --> 00:29:48.720
MARIA: I loved it.

00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:53.000
MARIA: And before lunch, we did do, we had a dash for Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway.

00:29:53.300 --> 00:29:56.140
MARIA: And then we went to lunch because I have my notes.

00:29:56.160 --> 00:29:57.540
MARIA: So I had to make sure we talked about what we did.

00:29:58.740 --> 00:30:05.040
VIRGINIA: Yeah, ABC Commissary is one of my favorite little quick service lunches that I think is kind of underrated.

00:30:05.080 --> 00:30:08.800
VIRGINIA: Now, I tend to always get the Mediterranean Bowl just because I love it so much.

00:30:08.820 --> 00:30:13.760
VIRGINIA: But recently, I guess the last time I was there, I saw a photo of the farro salad.

00:30:14.200 --> 00:30:16.260
VIRGINIA: And I was just like, that looks fantastic.

00:30:16.280 --> 00:30:17.280
VIRGINIA: I need to get that.

00:30:17.620 --> 00:30:18.180
CHRISSY: It was good.

00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:32.720
VIRGINIA: And then someone, I think it's the WDW runner, Jon, who is on a previous episode, raves about the buffalo chicken grilled cheese sandwich from ABC Commissary.

00:30:33.380 --> 00:30:36.700
VIRGINIA: And I've never been a fan of buffalo flavor.

00:30:37.240 --> 00:30:40.140
VIRGINIA: But I recently tried something buffalo flavored.

00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:43.200
VIRGINIA: And I was like, maybe I'm a buffalo person now.

00:30:43.480 --> 00:30:50.300
VIRGINIA: So now I want to go back and try this buffalo grilled cheese because it could possibly be the best thing out there.

00:30:50.300 --> 00:30:52.280
VIRGINIA: And I wouldn't know it because I just keep avoiding it.

00:30:52.300 --> 00:30:55.480
VIRGINIA: And he's like, it's the one thing you have to get at Hollywood Studios.

00:30:55.580 --> 00:30:58.280
MARIA: So see, I mean, like, I would, I trust him.

00:30:58.300 --> 00:30:58.920
MARIA: He knows enough.

00:30:59.300 --> 00:31:04.460
MARIA: It would not, but my, my lactose intolerance would not, not for you, Maria.

00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:05.260
VIRGINIA: Not for you.

00:31:06.500 --> 00:31:06.800
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:31:06.820 --> 00:31:07.640
VIRGINIA: Not for me.

00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:13.520
MARIA: So after lunch, we then met up with Kevin for DAS for Toy Story Mania.

00:31:13.540 --> 00:31:19.020
MARIA: So I know in the pre-chip, I was saying that, like, I wasn't able to get him on any of our pre-booked DAS things.

00:31:19.660 --> 00:31:28.180
MARIA: But when we were in the park then on Thursday, I was noticing, even when we were in Magic King, it was like, oh, who else is in your DAS party?

00:31:28.480 --> 00:31:30.020
MARIA: And I had me.

00:31:30.400 --> 00:31:33.460
MARIA: It was like I was a primary and then Chrissy and Kevin.

00:31:33.500 --> 00:31:36.780
MARIA: And I was like, oh, like Kevin too.

00:31:36.780 --> 00:31:39.200
MARIA: So we were able to get him on.

00:31:39.220 --> 00:31:40.760
MARIA: So he was able to see how DAS works.

00:31:40.780 --> 00:31:43.100
VIRGINIA: It's been a nice logistical question with that.

00:31:43.120 --> 00:31:53.800
VIRGINIA: So when you book a DAS pass with somebody who does not have DAS services, do you have to scan in to the DAS appointment together?

00:31:53.840 --> 00:31:59.040
VIRGINIA: Like if he tried to go do it by himself, would he be stopped because one of the two of you was not there?

00:31:59.320 --> 00:31:59.600
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:31:59.620 --> 00:32:03.400
MARIA: And actually, even when I was there, I have to tap in first.

00:32:03.420 --> 00:32:08.380
MARIA: And when I originally tap in, it gets like a blue, it goes blue.

00:32:08.400 --> 00:32:09.240
MARIA: Like the ring is blue.

00:32:09.480 --> 00:32:13.140
MARIA: And then the cast member has like approved it like it is me going in.

00:32:13.560 --> 00:32:16.520
MARIA: And then like Chrissy and Kevin could tap in.

00:32:16.940 --> 00:32:23.340
MARIA: So I guess in theory, like if I didn't want to ride it, I could like I would still have to go and tap in with them.

00:32:24.520 --> 00:32:27.440
MARIA: And then like Chrissy, like they would all, like I would tap, I would get approved.

00:32:27.460 --> 00:32:28.640
MARIA: They two of them would go in.

00:32:29.040 --> 00:32:38.120
VIRGINIA: And then somewhere down the line, you'd have to change your mind because I think if you were tapping in just so that the others could go in, they would put a stop to that real fast.

00:32:38.340 --> 00:32:38.680
CHRISSY: Yeah.

00:32:39.140 --> 00:32:39.860
MARIA: I would imagine.

00:32:39.940 --> 00:32:43.800
VIRGINIA: But I also think it's like, because otherwise people would always be doing that.

00:32:44.080 --> 00:32:44.400
CHRISSY: Yeah.

00:32:45.020 --> 00:32:45.580
MARIA: So we did that.

00:32:45.580 --> 00:32:46.660
MARIA: We did Toy Story.

00:32:46.900 --> 00:32:47.900
MARIA: Kevin beat me.

00:32:48.080 --> 00:32:50.220
MARIA: We were within like 900 points of each other.

00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:52.260
CHRISSY: I won because I was with a random.

00:32:55.980 --> 00:32:56.440
VIRGINIA: Well done.

00:32:56.480 --> 00:32:56.900
VIRGINIA: Well done.

00:32:57.380 --> 00:32:57.780
MARIA: Yeah.

00:32:57.780 --> 00:32:58.880
MARIA: So we did that.

00:32:59.100 --> 00:33:03.420
MARIA: And I did your trick of like not actually like doing a lot during the practice round.

00:33:03.440 --> 00:33:06.860
MARIA: So I was just like, okay, I'm just going to feel of the popper.

00:33:07.280 --> 00:33:10.580
MARIA: And then so it was very fun.

00:33:10.600 --> 00:33:11.080
MARIA: We did that.

00:33:11.520 --> 00:33:16.520
MARIA: And then we walked over and I had, well, we were after we had tapped into Toy Story Mania.

00:33:16.540 --> 00:33:19.160
MARIA: We got the desk for the spinny thing.

00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:20.860
MARIA: The Alien Swirling Saucers.

00:33:21.320 --> 00:33:21.660
MARIA: Yes.

00:33:21.960 --> 00:33:25.180
MARIA: While we were on Alien Swirling Saucers, it did start to rain.

00:33:26.160 --> 00:33:32.620
MARIA: So while we were like standing in line, it started to rain and we, we got in line and there was like one was going.

00:33:32.780 --> 00:33:38.020
MARIA: And then by the time we got on road and got off, it had stopped.

00:33:38.200 --> 00:33:42.360
MARIA: It was not, it was still kind of misty, but not actively raining.

00:33:42.700 --> 00:33:44.620
MARIA: And Sleeky Dog was down because of the rain.

00:33:45.040 --> 00:33:52.500
MARIA: So Chrissy and I were like, well, we're going to be in Hollywood Studios later in the week, so we can like ride these things later.

00:33:52.840 --> 00:34:00.600
MARIA: So we went and hopped back over to Magic Kingdom with Kevin, got back to Magic Kingdom by 3.30, 3.35.

00:34:00.620 --> 00:34:05.740
MARIA: So at that point we could go, like we said goodbye to Kevin, he grabbed a snack somewhere.

00:34:06.320 --> 00:34:10.020
MARIA: We rode the Peter Pan pre-book death that we had.

00:34:10.680 --> 00:34:24.380
MARIA: And at that point, after we got off of that, we walked over to Pinocchio Village House because it had rained so much and our feet were so wet that we went into Pinocchio Village House to like, we found like a corner that like that was not all around people that were eating.

00:34:24.860 --> 00:34:27.800
MARIA: And we had thought ahead and brought dry socks.

00:34:28.140 --> 00:34:34.220
MARIA: So that was the point of the day that we changed our, dried our feet, like changed our socks, dried our shoes off as much as we could.

00:34:35.460 --> 00:34:39.260
MARIA: We had a DAS for Small World, which is a classic.

00:34:39.280 --> 00:34:39.980
MARIA: I do love that.

00:34:40.920 --> 00:34:44.100
MARIA: While we were on Small World, I got a text that my flight home was canceled.

00:34:44.120 --> 00:34:44.440
MARIA: What?

00:34:44.880 --> 00:34:45.720
CHRISSY: That's super fun.

00:34:46.100 --> 00:34:46.940
VIRGINIA: Oh my goodness.

00:34:47.540 --> 00:34:47.920
MARIA: Yeah.

00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:52.580
MARIA: So I kind of, I knew it was a possibility that this flight was going to get canceled.

00:34:52.900 --> 00:35:00.060
MARIA: Because if you'll remember in the news, there was a 737 MAX 9 flight whose the door had like blown off.

00:35:00.080 --> 00:35:00.400
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:35:00.500 --> 00:35:01.920
VIRGINIA: I really couldn't forget that.

00:35:04.160 --> 00:35:04.520
MARIA: Yeah.

00:35:06.440 --> 00:35:11.060
MARIA: In my head, I was like, oh my God, I was asking my kid before a flight, should I change my flight?

00:35:11.320 --> 00:35:17.260
MARIA: I actually pulled a note because maybe by the time you have your flight, maybe that plane will have been intercepted and it will be fine.

00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:17.880
MARIA: I'm like, okay, cool.

00:35:17.900 --> 00:35:18.840
MARIA: I'm like, whatever, decide.

00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:22.560
MARIA: So I got the text that my flight had been canceled.

00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:29.780
VIRGINIA: I will side note, the minute that was in the news, I checked my flights for my February trip to make sure none of them were the MAX 9.

00:35:32.040 --> 00:35:33.160
MARIA: So I was supposed to be on MAX 9.

00:35:33.180 --> 00:35:39.480
MARIA: So I got this notification and I was like, looking to see what my options were to get home.

00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:53.180
MARIA: Originally, there was a direct flight from MCO back to Newark that was going to get me in at nine or something like that and Mike was not supposed to be landing until 11.

00:35:53.200 --> 00:35:54.900
MARIA: So I was like, I don't know, do I want to do this?

00:35:54.920 --> 00:35:55.840
MARIA: Mike said, just do that one.

00:35:55.860 --> 00:36:01.040
MARIA: So in the interim from when I took the screenshot, I sent it to him, was texting about it when I went back.

00:36:01.060 --> 00:36:02.040
MARIA: That wasn't available.

00:36:02.060 --> 00:36:07.420
MARIA: So I was like, okay, well, there was one with a layover in Washington.

00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:10.820
MARIA: So I was like, oh, well, maybe I'll just, like, I'll take that one.

00:36:10.840 --> 00:36:13.060
MARIA: It had like a four hour, four or five hour layover.

00:36:13.080 --> 00:36:14.440
MARIA: So I was like, oh, like, that's by Kate.

00:36:14.460 --> 00:36:16.060
MARIA: Like, maybe I'll see if Kate wants to come over.

00:36:16.380 --> 00:36:22.140
MARIA: Like if I don't have a carry on bag, like I'll be able to go out of the airport, see her go back to security, it'll be great.

00:36:23.720 --> 00:36:25.840
MARIA: So I thought I booked that.

00:36:25.860 --> 00:36:26.860
MARIA: I thought that was the plan.

00:36:27.080 --> 00:36:30.120
MARIA: I thought that I had done this properly and like it went out of my head.

00:36:30.540 --> 00:36:32.740
MARIA: We'll tell you later that actually didn't happen.

00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:33.240
MARIA: Yeah.

00:36:33.260 --> 00:36:53.640
MARIA: So I got this flight, you know, thought I was all set and ready to go on this flight that left a little bit earlier from from Orlando, had a four hour layover in Washington, and I was going to get to Newark around the same time as Mike because Mike was he and his friends were in Las Vegas for the weekend for his birthday and for a bunch of other guys birthday.

00:36:53.640 --> 00:36:59.500
MARIA: So back to our trip after I was like after we got off a small world, Pirates was back open.

00:36:59.520 --> 00:37:03.160
MARIA: So we went over to Pirates to use that pre book desk.

00:37:03.520 --> 00:37:06.880
MARIA: We then did the Tiki Room, which is my favorite.

00:37:07.660 --> 00:37:10.160
MARIA: I have the Tiki Bird spirit jersey.

00:37:10.180 --> 00:37:11.920
CHRISSY: There is a photo shoot.

00:37:11.940 --> 00:37:13.240
VIRGINIA: Here's Oh, I'm sure.

00:37:13.480 --> 00:37:14.100
VIRGINIA: I'm sure.

00:37:14.120 --> 00:37:18.460
VIRGINIA: I would not expect any less from Maria when it comes to the Tiki Room.

00:37:18.940 --> 00:37:19.340
MARIA: I know.

00:37:20.080 --> 00:37:20.680
MARIA: Exactly.

00:37:21.760 --> 00:37:22.920
MARIA: So it was...

00:37:22.940 --> 00:37:26.140
MARIA: And when I was in the Tiki Room, I was trying to look at flights and stuff.

00:37:26.160 --> 00:37:28.340
MARIA: I'm like, no, Maria, you can do this later.

00:37:28.360 --> 00:37:30.040
MARIA: Enjoy the Tikis.

00:37:30.580 --> 00:37:50.760
VIRGINIA: But that's the thing, though, about when your flight gets canceled is it's annoying that you kind of do have to stop everything to focus on the flight cancellation because if you don't hop on one of the options that they give you very quickly, the good options for you get taken, and then it's even more stressful.

00:37:51.060 --> 00:37:52.480
MARIA: Well, yeah, we'll get to that.

00:37:52.500 --> 00:37:53.980
MARIA: That was Sunday.

00:37:54.120 --> 00:37:55.760
MARIA: We'll get to that soon.

00:37:57.800 --> 00:38:00.080
MARIA: So after Tiki, so we had gone on Small World.

00:38:00.120 --> 00:38:06.020
MARIA: After Small World, we had gotten the DAS return time for Mind Train, which is why we did Tiki.

00:38:06.040 --> 00:38:08.160
MARIA: We kind of had stuff in the interim.

00:38:08.460 --> 00:38:09.560
MARIA: We rode Mind Train.

00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:15.140
MARIA: We stopped and got the Master's Cupcake, which is Chrissy's favorite, one of Chrissy's favorite desserts.

00:38:15.160 --> 00:38:16.440
CHRISSY: I'm going to mess around.

00:38:16.460 --> 00:38:23.260
MARIA: Previously, you could only get it at Be Our Guest, but now they sell it at Gaston's Tavern as like a full-size delicious cookie or cupcake.

00:38:23.540 --> 00:38:25.920
MARIA: So Chrissy had that and she is very happy.

00:38:26.600 --> 00:38:29.060
MARIA: We went over and did Space Mountain with DAS.

00:38:29.980 --> 00:38:41.040
MARIA: After Space Mountain, we had requested a DAS for People Mover and we actually did need it because there was like a 20-minute line and we had to go, we went, it was like snaked all around.

00:38:41.120 --> 00:38:48.580
MARIA: So we went over to right where the entrance is, like kind of around to the left and we were like, hi, we have a DAS return time.

00:38:48.600 --> 00:38:53.460
MARIA: So he like scanned our magic bands and then we went up and did People Mover.

00:38:53.600 --> 00:38:55.420
VIRGINIA: That's interesting because I think we had talked.

00:38:55.580 --> 00:38:55.840
MARIA: Yes.

00:38:55.860 --> 00:38:56.820
MARIA: We talked about this at the last time.

00:38:56.960 --> 00:39:00.320
VIRGINIA: I went on your trip with Mike that how does that work at People Mover?

00:39:00.340 --> 00:39:00.600
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:39:00.620 --> 00:39:03.120
VIRGINIA: So that's good to know because there's not like a lightning lane.

00:39:03.180 --> 00:39:05.120
VIRGINIA: So just walk up and talk to the cast.

00:39:05.140 --> 00:39:06.380
MARIA: There's not a lightning lane.

00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:07.200
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:39:07.700 --> 00:39:08.060
MARIA: Yes.

00:39:08.080 --> 00:39:11.340
MARIA: So you just walk up over to near where the exit is.

00:39:12.140 --> 00:39:17.540
MARIA: And I felt like you feel a little VIP because the chains are up and they take the chain off.

00:39:17.560 --> 00:39:18.320
MARIA: Okay, go ahead.

00:39:18.340 --> 00:39:19.580
MARIA: I'm like, thanks.

00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:28.800
MARIA: So after that, that was our Tron individual lightning lane time was coming up.

00:39:28.820 --> 00:39:30.520
MARIA: So we had like 10 minutes or so.

00:39:30.540 --> 00:39:31.860
MARIA: So we walked around.

00:39:33.060 --> 00:39:43.560
MARIA: Tomorrowland, we went over to the bathrooms over at Tron and then went on Tron, which was interesting to what for me because it was the first time for me riding it at night.

00:39:43.580 --> 00:39:45.600
MARIA: But I will let Chrissy talk about her experience.

00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:47.700
VIRGINIA: Yeah, Chrissy, what did you think?

00:39:47.940 --> 00:39:52.540
CHRISSY: Well, first of all, I was like, what is this mysterious part of Magic Kingdom that I have never been allowed in before?

00:39:52.560 --> 00:39:55.200
CHRISSY: So I like the vibe.

00:39:55.220 --> 00:39:57.920
CHRISSY: I was like, oh, it's like weird over here.

00:39:58.240 --> 00:40:03.440
CHRISSY: I think one of the things I was a little bit nervous about was just the configuration of their ride vehicles.

00:40:03.460 --> 00:40:07.480
CHRISSY: Like, I am both very short and have a belly and was like, make sure I can fit in this.

00:40:07.500 --> 00:40:15.920
CHRISSY: And there was this family who was like doing a straight up photo shoot and I eventually had to be like, guys, I just need to make sure I fit.

00:40:15.940 --> 00:40:16.600
CHRISSY: Can you please?

00:40:16.620 --> 00:40:23.700
CHRISSY: And I just jumped on the I jumped in the seat in between their people because I was like, I really just like our time had been called.

00:40:23.720 --> 00:40:26.320
CHRISSY: I needed to go and I needed to make sure that I fit.

00:40:26.720 --> 00:40:34.700
CHRISSY: And it was glad that we did because I really did need to like scoot forward if I wanted the leg restraint to lock where it needed to.

00:40:34.720 --> 00:40:37.140
CHRISSY: So I felt like I was glad that the vehicle was there.

00:40:37.160 --> 00:40:41.840
CHRISSY: I think people really misunderstood why the vehicle was there because I was like, get out of my way.

00:40:41.860 --> 00:40:42.980
CHRISSY: I have to test this.

00:40:43.820 --> 00:40:44.180
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:40:44.200 --> 00:40:46.040
VIRGINIA: It's not a photo shoot opportunity.

00:40:46.220 --> 00:40:47.300
VIRGINIA: It's there for a reason.

00:40:47.620 --> 00:40:48.660
CHRISSY: It's there for a reason.

00:40:48.680 --> 00:40:52.580
CHRISSY: And there weren't any cast members there to be like, that's not what this is for.

00:40:54.140 --> 00:40:59.280
MARIA: But it was really when I when I had gone with Mike, it was like there was a cast member there.

00:40:59.300 --> 00:41:00.400
MARIA: So it was like, OK, try it.

00:41:00.420 --> 00:41:00.680
VIRGINIA: You fit.

00:41:00.700 --> 00:41:00.960
MARIA: Great.

00:41:00.980 --> 00:41:01.320
VIRGINIA: Get out.

00:41:01.340 --> 00:41:01.960
MARIA: Next person.

00:41:01.980 --> 00:41:02.180
MARIA: Try.

00:41:02.200 --> 00:41:02.520
MARIA: You fit.

00:41:02.540 --> 00:41:02.860
MARIA: Get out.

00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:04.240
MARIA: So, oh, you don't fit.

00:41:04.260 --> 00:41:08.680
MARIA: OK, then you can wait and get like the seat in like the back seat that are more like a traditional rollercoaster seat.

00:41:08.780 --> 00:41:09.120
CHRISSY: Yeah.

00:41:10.580 --> 00:41:11.360
MARIA: So that's OK.

00:41:11.380 --> 00:41:12.840
CHRISSY: That's a helpful context.

00:41:12.860 --> 00:41:21.640
CHRISSY: So, yeah, I mean, I think going into the I Have Never Seen Tron as a movie, I don't know what's going on.

00:41:21.980 --> 00:41:23.620
CHRISSY: There's weird warriors happening.

00:41:24.780 --> 00:41:25.900
CHRISSY: And I had been prepared.

00:41:25.940 --> 00:41:31.000
CHRISSY: I didn't I hadn't seen any ride footage except like the external testing.

00:41:31.020 --> 00:41:36.540
CHRISSY: So I did not know what to be prepared for, except that it was I was told like, it's very short.

00:41:37.780 --> 00:41:40.680
CHRISSY: So but I think we we got on it.

00:41:40.780 --> 00:41:46.600
CHRISSY: And when you like burst through to the outside portion, I just kept yelling, oh, my God, this is so cool.

00:41:48.640 --> 00:41:50.500
CHRISSY: So that was this is awesome.

00:41:52.160 --> 00:41:54.840
CHRISSY: Pretty much, I suppose, pretty much my reaction to it.

00:41:55.340 --> 00:42:01.480
CHRISSY: And so I'm glad we rode at night because it was like, it's really cool with it all lit up and things like that.

00:42:01.500 --> 00:42:03.980
CHRISSY: And so it's so smooth.

00:42:05.220 --> 00:42:12.060
VIRGINIA: And how did you like the the seat configuration, like the motorcycle feeling and all of that?

00:42:12.080 --> 00:42:16.420
VIRGINIA: Because I like the way that it kind of puts you down to ride.

00:42:16.440 --> 00:42:20.340
VIRGINIA: But what I don't love is like the middle section.

00:42:20.380 --> 00:42:25.060
VIRGINIA: It's very squared off, so it doesn't feel great on the insides of your legs.

00:42:25.300 --> 00:42:25.640
VIRGINIA: Oh, yeah.

00:42:25.660 --> 00:42:27.220
MARIA: It's not a comfortable seat.

00:42:27.580 --> 00:42:31.200
MARIA: It's not a comfortable seat, but it's an interesting configuration.

00:42:31.480 --> 00:42:34.200
MARIA: But it's not a comfortable seat.

00:42:34.220 --> 00:42:35.900
VIRGINIA: In that way, thank goodness it's short.

00:42:35.920 --> 00:42:36.740
VIRGINIA: For longer periods of time.

00:42:36.760 --> 00:42:42.620
CHRISSY: I found it very secure in it, and that was the most important thing for me where I was like, okay, I'm not moving.

00:42:42.900 --> 00:42:46.300
VIRGINIA: I'm not going to fall off onto these people walking down below.

00:42:46.620 --> 00:42:51.860
MARIA: Yeah, and I was excited enough that on the part that you're outside, I put my hands up.

00:42:52.380 --> 00:42:55.180
MARIA: Because usually I am a hands up girl on a roller coaster.

00:42:55.900 --> 00:42:58.080
MARIA: When we were on Space Mountain, I had my hands up.

00:42:58.100 --> 00:43:01.140
CHRISSY: I'm like, Virginia, we're never doing this.

00:43:01.780 --> 00:43:02.320
VIRGINIA: You know what?

00:43:02.860 --> 00:43:07.380
VIRGINIA: Yeah, not Space Mountain, but every other roller coaster, I'm okay with hands up.

00:43:07.820 --> 00:43:08.560
VIRGINIA: Not Space Mountain.

00:43:08.580 --> 00:43:10.200
MARIA: No, specifically, I was like Space Mountain.

00:43:10.220 --> 00:43:12.260
MARIA: I'm like, Virginia, we've got tiny arms.

00:43:12.280 --> 00:43:13.240
MARIA: You're not going to hit anything.

00:43:13.260 --> 00:43:18.620
VIRGINIA: Recognize that the ride has built so that people with long arm even can lift them up.

00:43:19.160 --> 00:43:21.300
VIRGINIA: I just can't do it.

00:43:21.320 --> 00:43:25.920
VIRGINIA: There's a mental block.

00:43:25.940 --> 00:43:27.740
VIRGINIA: I know it's not decapitated.

00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:30.360
VIRGINIA: There's got to be a word for getting your hand cut off.

00:43:31.220 --> 00:43:36.200
VIRGINIA: Some Game of Thrones fan out there probably knows since that was a big plot point.

00:43:36.660 --> 00:43:46.040
CHRISSY: Thinking of Space Mountain, I think in my old age, my motion sickness has gotten worse, so that was the one thing that was really noticeable on Tron, is I did not feel that at all.

00:43:46.080 --> 00:43:46.420
VIRGINIA: Good.

00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:52.820
CHRISSY: Whereas Guardians, I'm like, give me the anti-nausea bands, give me the ginger, there is Zofran in my fanny pack.

00:43:53.080 --> 00:43:56.740
CHRISSY: I'm not messing around, but I did not feel any of that with Tron.

00:43:58.320 --> 00:43:58.640
VIRGINIA: Good.

00:43:58.940 --> 00:44:03.960
MARIA: I feel like with my old age, I'm getting less motion sickness because I got off Guardians.

00:44:03.980 --> 00:44:05.180
MARIA: I'm like, let's do it again.

00:44:05.500 --> 00:44:06.540
MARIA: She's like, oh, that's different.

00:44:06.560 --> 00:44:09.880
CHRISSY: I was like, I'm going to go sit on this bench so I don't hurl into a trash can thing.

00:44:11.420 --> 00:44:13.220
MARIA: Spoiler alert, no one hurled on our trip.

00:44:13.240 --> 00:44:13.840
VIRGINIA: Fantastic.

00:44:13.980 --> 00:44:16.620
VIRGINIA: Listeners will be very glad to hear that.

00:44:16.980 --> 00:44:19.840
VIRGINIA: So Tron was smooth sailing.

00:44:20.040 --> 00:44:21.880
VIRGINIA: Where did you head to after that?

00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:23.860
CHRISSY: Right to watch Happily Ever After.

00:44:24.320 --> 00:44:26.200
VIRGINIA: The park was open till 11 PM, right?

00:44:26.380 --> 00:44:27.940
VIRGINIA: What time was Happily Ever After?

00:44:27.960 --> 00:44:28.680
CHRISSY: 8.

00:44:29.200 --> 00:44:29.640
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:44:30.980 --> 00:44:38.460
VIRGINIA: We spent a good amount of time in the pre-show talking about getting to see country bears for the last time.

00:44:38.560 --> 00:44:41.180
VIRGINIA: I have not heard mention of that yet.

00:44:41.380 --> 00:44:45.580
VIRGINIA: Did you make it over to bid farewell to the country bears?

00:44:46.120 --> 00:44:47.440
CHRISSY: Not to the show.

00:44:47.560 --> 00:44:47.880
MARIA: No.

00:44:47.920 --> 00:44:53.700
CHRISSY: But there was a full Frontierland hoedown that we watched that the bears were involved in.

00:44:53.720 --> 00:44:55.000
CHRISSY: I felt like that was close enough.

00:44:55.180 --> 00:44:55.560
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:44:56.620 --> 00:44:56.820
MARIA: Yeah.

00:44:56.840 --> 00:44:58.740
MARIA: There's a video of Chrissy doing a hoedown.

00:44:58.760 --> 00:45:02.520
MARIA: That is my one second for that day, Chris.

00:45:03.160 --> 00:45:03.380
VIRGINIA: Sorry.

00:45:03.400 --> 00:45:05.800
VIRGINIA: We can all look forward to that in Maria's year in review.

00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:08.220
MARIA: Yes, exactly.

00:45:08.240 --> 00:45:12.720
MARIA: Chrissy's doing a little hoedown while we were waiting for a PhotoFest photographer.

00:45:13.960 --> 00:45:14.380
MARIA: Yeah.

00:45:14.400 --> 00:45:15.800
MARIA: We watched halfway over after.

00:45:15.880 --> 00:45:16.980
MARIA: It was an obstructed view.

00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:23.620
MARIA: We were on the right side on the pathway that you would take during early entry to go to Fantasyland.

00:45:23.640 --> 00:45:24.880
MARIA: We were over there.

00:45:24.900 --> 00:45:27.660
MARIA: We could still see parts of the castle, but not the full castle.

00:45:27.680 --> 00:45:30.220
MARIA: It was actually right where we were like tinked over head.

00:45:32.460 --> 00:45:35.080
MARIA: While we were waiting, we were chit-chatting.

00:45:35.120 --> 00:45:36.640
MARIA: There was a mom there with her kid.

00:45:38.740 --> 00:45:43.600
MARIA: We were talking, we were saying something and she's just like, Oh, you guys have seen this before, right?

00:45:43.620 --> 00:45:46.860
MARIA: I'm like, Yeah, this is our favorite.

00:45:46.880 --> 00:45:49.420
MARIA: At one point, I was singing along and she just looked at me.

00:45:49.440 --> 00:45:50.160
MARIA: She was like, Seriously?

00:45:50.180 --> 00:45:51.140
MARIA: I'm like, I know, sorry.

00:45:52.260 --> 00:45:55.600
MARIA: But it was cute because she had her son with her.

00:45:55.620 --> 00:46:01.820
MARIA: At one point, she put her son up on her shoulders and he was just staring up and looking at the fireworks.

00:46:02.240 --> 00:46:04.480
MARIA: So I tapped on her shoulder and I'm like, Give me your phone.

00:46:04.740 --> 00:46:06.460
MARIA: I'm like, I need to take a picture of your son.

00:46:06.480 --> 00:46:07.320
MARIA: She's like, What?

00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:08.900
MARIA: I'm like, I need to take a picture of your son.

00:46:08.920 --> 00:46:10.000
MARIA: He looks so cute.

00:46:10.020 --> 00:46:11.120
MARIA: So I was snapping pictures.

00:46:11.140 --> 00:46:12.540
VIRGINIA: She's like, Oh my God, thank you so much.

00:46:13.960 --> 00:46:16.300
VIRGINIA: That's a pet peeve of mine, kids on shoulders.

00:46:16.700 --> 00:46:18.280
VIRGINIA: I'll just say it.

00:46:18.600 --> 00:46:22.360
MARIA: It wasn't obstructing my view at all, so I was okay with it, but I can understand.

00:46:22.700 --> 00:46:25.140
VIRGINIA: If you're going to lift a child up, lift them up to your head height.

00:46:25.360 --> 00:46:30.660
VIRGINIA: When you put the kid on the shoulders, that makes the person seven or eight feet tall.

00:46:32.340 --> 00:46:33.560
VIRGINIA: It just kills me.

00:46:33.560 --> 00:46:40.220
VIRGINIA: Because every single person behind them, maybe not based on where you were standing, but somebody's view is obstructed because of that.

00:46:40.360 --> 00:46:40.860
MARIA: Somebody was-

00:46:40.880 --> 00:46:44.700
VIRGINIA: I just wanted on record that I think you should not do that.

00:46:44.900 --> 00:46:49.660
VIRGINIA: Put your child on your hip so that they're your height, that sort of thing.

00:46:50.020 --> 00:46:52.920
VIRGINIA: That's the Where I Long To Be podcast official stance on that.

00:46:54.920 --> 00:46:56.640
CHRISSY: Thank you for coming to Virginia's TED Talk.

00:46:58.320 --> 00:47:00.380
MARIA: I give you my stamp of approval.

00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:01.720
VIRGINIA: But I know it is cute.

00:47:01.740 --> 00:47:04.100
VIRGINIA: I've personally taken photos.

00:47:04.820 --> 00:47:06.620
VIRGINIA: This sounds creepy of other people's kids.

00:47:06.640 --> 00:47:11.660
VIRGINIA: But you know how when you can see the silhouette of the kid watching the fireworks?

00:47:11.680 --> 00:47:16.220
VIRGINIA: I like to take that sort of picture where you can't tell who it is, but it's just a cute view.

00:47:16.240 --> 00:47:18.560
VIRGINIA: I acknowledge that's a cute picture.

00:47:18.900 --> 00:47:21.560
VIRGINIA: I'm sure that she really appreciated those pictures.

00:47:21.760 --> 00:47:22.480
MARIA: I think so.

00:47:23.080 --> 00:47:39.020
MARIA: Then at that point, we were like, the park was still going to be open for another three hours, but we were tired and we had talked about maybe going over to Fantasyland to try to get the magic shot with the lantern photo past pictures.

00:47:39.040 --> 00:47:48.300
MARIA: But we were on one side of the castle, we would have had to cross over and it was a sea of people, as you know, trying to leave after half an hour after.

00:47:48.320 --> 00:47:54.460
CHRISSY: I hadn't slept super well the night before, so I was like, at this point, my priority is dinner and bedtime.

00:47:54.680 --> 00:48:02.080
CHRISSY: Again, that is the beauty of having gone multiple times, is it didn't feel like we were missing out by leaving the park at nine.

00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:02.840
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:48:03.400 --> 00:48:04.980
VIRGINIA: Where did you end up having dinner?

00:48:05.000 --> 00:48:09.820
VIRGINIA: Because I know you previously had a Kona reservation for 5 PM, so it sounds like that was canceled.

00:48:11.040 --> 00:48:12.020
VIRGINIA: How did you pivot?

00:48:12.280 --> 00:48:19.480
CHRISSY: We canceled the Kona reservation, but then when we left the park, we did still go, you can do Kona takeout.

00:48:24.120 --> 00:48:31.660
CHRISSY: We took a boat over to the poly, picked up our food at Kona, and then took a lift back to Pop.

00:48:31.680 --> 00:48:35.300
CHRISSY: It was not particularly expensive or hard to do.

00:48:35.320 --> 00:48:39.240
CHRISSY: Because I was like, can we just eat in our pajamas?

00:48:39.240 --> 00:48:41.640
CHRISSY: I'm too tired.

00:48:41.660 --> 00:48:43.060
CHRISSY: We did and it was a glorious.

00:48:44.140 --> 00:48:46.580
CHRISSY: I ate appetizers for dinner, which is my favorite.

00:48:46.580 --> 00:48:47.100
CHRISSY: It was great.

00:48:48.800 --> 00:48:49.620
VIRGINIA: Sounds perfect.

00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:52.880
MARIA: I had sushi, a spicy tuna roll and shrimp tempura roll.

00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:56.760
MARIA: They were delicious to eat in bed, in pajamas.

00:48:56.780 --> 00:48:57.040
VIRGINIA: Nice.

00:48:58.000 --> 00:48:59.260
MARIA: So it was great.

00:48:59.700 --> 00:49:02.720
MARIA: I just do want to say our virtual queue eventually did get called at 10.

00:49:03.300 --> 00:49:05.620
VIRGINIA: But you were in pajamas eating your dinner.

00:49:05.640 --> 00:49:07.000
CHRISSY: I think I was already asleep.

00:49:07.340 --> 00:49:08.560
VIRGINIA: I was asleep.

00:49:09.340 --> 00:49:12.640
MARIA: It's not like we left and we were on the boat to Polly and they got called.

00:49:12.720 --> 00:49:20.180
MARIA: We were back, picked up dinner, waited to get dinner, picked it up, took the lift back, ate dinner.

00:49:21.280 --> 00:49:21.660
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:49:22.820 --> 00:49:24.720
VIRGINIA: So Saturday, January 20th.

00:49:24.820 --> 00:49:26.380
MARIA: That was Mike's birthday.

00:49:26.660 --> 00:49:27.420
MARIA: We were not there.

00:49:27.800 --> 00:49:31.240
VIRGINIA: Shout out to Mike's birthday and also to our friend, Nanci.

00:49:31.840 --> 00:49:33.440
VIRGINIA: Who's birthday is that day as well.

00:49:33.460 --> 00:49:33.800
MARIA: Yes.

00:49:33.860 --> 00:49:44.580
VIRGINIA: So the plan was Animal Kingdom, which opened at eight, so 7.30 was for early entry and then you were going to hop up after that over to Epcot at some point during the day.

00:49:44.620 --> 00:49:48.720
VIRGINIA: So what time did you actually end up getting to Animal Kingdom?

00:49:48.940 --> 00:49:53.620
MARIA: 8.15, which was after early entry, missing rope crop.

00:49:54.520 --> 00:49:57.500
MARIA: Gini Plus with hopping would have been $25 that day.

00:49:58.300 --> 00:50:02.460
MARIA: We did buy an individual Lightning Lane for Guardians, which was $15.

00:50:03.480 --> 00:50:14.360
MARIA: So when we got to Animal Kingdom, since the park was already open when I tried to get a DAS or something, I got a DAS, I think, for Flight of Passage.

00:50:15.060 --> 00:50:17.920
MARIA: Because when we tapped into Animal Kingdom, it was already a 90-minute wait.

00:50:18.420 --> 00:50:18.820
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:50:19.140 --> 00:50:19.920
MARIA: So we tapped in.

00:50:19.940 --> 00:50:23.880
MARIA: We went over to Dinosaur because that was a walk-on.

00:50:23.900 --> 00:50:26.640
VIRGINIA: Thank you for sending me a picture of Dr.

00:50:26.660 --> 00:50:27.000
VIRGINIA: Seeker.

00:50:27.040 --> 00:50:32.860
VIRGINIA: Maria texted me, listeners, and said, here's your boyfriend, a picture of Dr.

00:50:32.880 --> 00:50:33.300
VIRGINIA: Seeker.

00:50:33.580 --> 00:50:35.660
MARIA: I said, your boyfriend says hi.

00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:38.780
MARIA: Yes, it was delightful.

00:50:39.600 --> 00:50:45.380
MARIA: So we rode Dinosaur and said a goodbye to Dinosaur because that we think will be going away.

00:50:45.540 --> 00:50:46.840
MARIA: We got a tiger tail.

00:50:47.140 --> 00:50:48.260
MARIA: We got coffee.

00:50:48.860 --> 00:50:50.580
MARIA: We did a bunch of photo passes.

00:50:51.060 --> 00:50:52.200
CHRISSY: So many photo passes.

00:50:52.520 --> 00:50:58.840
MARIA: When we were trying to look, because Everest had been down a little bit in the morning, so we were like, oh, well, let's head over or whatever.

00:50:58.860 --> 00:51:03.860
MARIA: So by the time we got over there, there was a line for Everest, but we got in the single rider line.

00:51:03.880 --> 00:51:06.740
MARIA: There was only four people in the single rider line.

00:51:06.760 --> 00:51:10.040
MARIA: And I guess the single rider line doesn't open until a certain time of the day.

00:51:10.060 --> 00:51:12.240
MARIA: It's not open when the park first opens.

00:51:13.100 --> 00:51:16.140
MARIA: So they were like, oh, you can stand here if you want and wait.

00:51:16.180 --> 00:51:21.600
MARIA: But they were like, we don't know how soon the single rider line will be open.

00:51:21.620 --> 00:51:23.200
MARIA: And I'm like, let's just stand here.

00:51:23.260 --> 00:51:27.560
MARIA: Because if we have to wait 20 minutes, we can wait 20 minutes in the regular line or 20 minutes here.

00:51:27.560 --> 00:51:28.580
MARIA: We might get on faster.

00:51:28.880 --> 00:51:32.700
MARIA: So about eight minutes after they said that, they started letting people on.

00:51:33.760 --> 00:51:39.040
MARIA: And Chrissy and I ended up being on the same train, just with different people.

00:51:40.600 --> 00:51:45.420
MARIA: The family that I was with, I was with the dad, the mom and the son were ahead of me.

00:51:45.440 --> 00:51:47.520
MARIA: So I leaned over to the mom.

00:51:47.540 --> 00:51:49.740
MARIA: I'm like, is this guy, is he a screamer on this ride?

00:51:49.760 --> 00:51:50.520
MARIA: She goes, oh yeah.

00:51:51.240 --> 00:51:52.140
MARIA: She's like, he might cry.

00:51:52.160 --> 00:51:53.120
MARIA: I'm like, fantastic.

00:51:53.140 --> 00:51:53.620
MARIA: Bring it on.

00:51:54.280 --> 00:51:57.220
MARIA: Guy kind of looked like my brother-in-law, but was freaking out for a minute.

00:51:57.240 --> 00:52:03.760
MARIA: And to the point that after the ride, we were walking around in the shop that you go into after you're going to get off the ride.

00:52:03.980 --> 00:52:06.240
MARIA: And I walked up to him, I'm sorry, this is going to sound really random.

00:52:06.260 --> 00:52:07.700
MARIA: I know we just randomly sat together.

00:52:07.720 --> 00:52:10.860
MARIA: I'm like, are you related to my brother-in-law's name?

00:52:10.880 --> 00:52:11.840
MARIA: And he was like, no.

00:52:11.860 --> 00:52:12.780
MARIA: I'm like, okay.

00:52:12.800 --> 00:52:15.000
MARIA: I had to ask because you look so much like him.

00:52:16.500 --> 00:52:23.040
MARIA: And we decided that for our ride picture, we were going to make funny faces of like, we don't know this other person.

00:52:23.060 --> 00:52:27.540
MARIA: So it was kind of cute for our ride picture for Everest.

00:52:28.020 --> 00:52:30.560
CHRISSY: My random rides are far less.

00:52:30.820 --> 00:52:32.160
CHRISSY: I'm like, all right, you're there.

00:52:32.180 --> 00:52:32.700
CHRISSY: I'm here.

00:52:32.720 --> 00:52:33.720
CHRISSY: Don't hit me in the face.

00:52:33.740 --> 00:52:34.300
CHRISSY: We good.

00:52:34.320 --> 00:52:37.640
CHRISSY: Maria has like a whole back story is constructed for these people.

00:52:38.060 --> 00:52:40.600
CHRISSY: This is the magic of Disney and my sister.

00:52:40.720 --> 00:52:44.320
CHRISSY: My sister would never have that interaction in the normal world ever.

00:52:44.780 --> 00:52:46.080
VIRGINIA: I'm the same way.

00:52:46.140 --> 00:52:47.860
VIRGINIA: I keep to myself around the city.

00:52:48.500 --> 00:52:55.860
VIRGINIA: But if I'm doing a single rider situation or like on my solo trip in May, I'm like, hi.

00:52:55.860 --> 00:52:57.080
VIRGINIA: Is this your first time on the ride?

00:52:57.100 --> 00:53:00.060
VIRGINIA: I just strike up random conversation.

00:53:01.400 --> 00:53:01.700
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:53:02.580 --> 00:53:02.960
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:53:02.980 --> 00:53:03.800
VIRGINIA: What was after that?

00:53:04.420 --> 00:53:09.220
MARIA: We were walking over to Flight of Passage and we randomly saw Kevin, the bird.

00:53:09.240 --> 00:53:10.100
VIRGINIA: That's our friend.

00:53:11.820 --> 00:53:12.560
CHRISSY: I freaked out.

00:53:12.720 --> 00:53:14.200
CHRISSY: I started jumping up and down.

00:53:14.560 --> 00:53:15.320
VIRGINIA: That's fantastic.

00:53:16.460 --> 00:53:19.660
MARIA: She grabbed my hand and we started skipping towards Kevin.

00:53:20.020 --> 00:53:20.500
MARIA: It was very cute.

00:53:20.520 --> 00:53:22.780
VIRGINIA: Well, because I know that was a big priority for you all.

00:53:24.200 --> 00:53:29.260
VIRGINIA: You had talked about, Chrissy, looking to try to find what the show times were.

00:53:29.740 --> 00:53:31.220
VIRGINIA: I didn't end up Googling it.

00:53:31.220 --> 00:53:34.380
VIRGINIA: Were you able to find if it's written somewhere?

00:53:34.680 --> 00:53:40.640
CHRISSY: It was written during our first kind of COVID era trip.

00:53:41.080 --> 00:53:44.700
CHRISSY: Kevin was appearing in a specific spot.

00:53:44.720 --> 00:53:52.440
CHRISSY: There were times when she was in that specific spot, but I did check the app and she was not listed as a character meet and greet.

00:53:52.920 --> 00:53:58.600
CHRISSY: It must have just been when she was in that specific location because she rotated with other characters.

00:53:59.200 --> 00:54:03.360
VIRGINIA: When it's a walkabout situation, it's random.

00:54:03.540 --> 00:54:03.880
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:54:04.360 --> 00:54:04.760
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:54:04.780 --> 00:54:05.620
VIRGINIA: Fantastic.

00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:06.960
MARIA: Yeah.

00:54:07.040 --> 00:54:08.440
MARIA: It was random.

00:54:08.460 --> 00:54:13.020
MARIA: The cast member attended that was with her was just like, there's no line.

00:54:13.900 --> 00:54:16.360
MARIA: If you want to walk up and snap a picture, you can.

00:54:16.380 --> 00:54:17.620
MARIA: If you want to take a video, you can.

00:54:17.800 --> 00:54:19.480
VIRGINIA: Please, whatever you do, don't form a line.

00:54:19.560 --> 00:54:21.100
VIRGINIA: That's what they're saying.

00:54:21.560 --> 00:54:21.900
MARIA: Yes.

00:54:22.000 --> 00:54:22.440
MARIA: Exactly.

00:54:22.460 --> 00:54:24.000
MARIA: It was like, just take a picture and run.

00:54:24.500 --> 00:54:32.020
MARIA: At that point, after we saw Kevin, we went over to ride Flight of Passage, which was delightful experience.

00:54:32.080 --> 00:54:38.960
MARIA: We walked through the line, and as soon as we got to the point that they were like, how many people in your party?

00:54:38.980 --> 00:54:39.940
MARIA: I was like, two.

00:54:39.960 --> 00:54:46.340
MARIA: The cast member takes a step down to yell to the cast member at the end, they're like, we got a two.

00:54:46.980 --> 00:54:48.280
MARIA: They were like, oh my God, yeah.

00:54:48.300 --> 00:54:49.600
MARIA: They're like, okay, go right this way.

00:54:49.620 --> 00:54:56.840
MARIA: I guess that they had 14 people in that little holding room area, and they were just waiting for a party of two to finish that off so that they can ride.

00:54:56.860 --> 00:54:59.300
MARIA: I was like, oh my God, I've never felt so wanted in my life.

00:54:59.320 --> 00:55:04.580
VIRGINIA: Another VIP experience for Maria, where everyone's like, welcome party of two.

00:55:09.040 --> 00:55:11.160
MARIA: We rode, flight of passage, it was wonderful.

00:55:13.820 --> 00:55:20.120
MARIA: I think we had at that point requested a desk for the safari, but before we got on the safari, we had to wait a little bit.

00:55:20.540 --> 00:55:23.280
MARIA: Chris, do you want to tell Virginia what we had before we got on the safari?

00:55:23.300 --> 00:55:25.420
CHRISSY: Do you remember what we had on the safari?

00:55:26.740 --> 00:55:28.100
MARIA: Oh, the African corn.

00:55:29.760 --> 00:55:30.680
CHRISSY: That was real good.

00:55:31.080 --> 00:55:32.300
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:55:32.920 --> 00:55:35.060
VIRGINIA: How would you rate it out of 10?

00:55:35.500 --> 00:55:38.640
MARIA: 9.5 only because you should bring floss with you.

00:55:38.920 --> 00:55:39.500
CHRISSY: Yes, true.

00:55:39.520 --> 00:55:41.760
MARIA: Because I felt like I was trying to pick my teeth the entire.

00:55:42.160 --> 00:55:43.220
MARIA: Yeah.

00:55:43.240 --> 00:55:46.940
MARIA: But the spices were so flavorful, so delicious.

00:55:46.960 --> 00:55:49.980
MARIA: Chrissy even looked up to see, she's like, I think I can make this at home.

00:55:50.300 --> 00:55:52.180
MARIA: So she tried to, she found a recipe for it.

00:55:52.620 --> 00:55:55.000
MARIA: But it was like, it has a lot of spices.

00:55:55.020 --> 00:55:57.220
MARIA: She's like, if you have all these spices, you can totally do it.

00:55:57.240 --> 00:55:58.920
MARIA: But it's like a lot of spices you have to buy.

00:55:58.940 --> 00:55:59.340
MARIA: But it was-

00:55:59.860 --> 00:56:00.580
MARIA: The recipe.

00:56:00.600 --> 00:56:01.580
MARIA: Virginia was correct.

00:56:02.260 --> 00:56:03.720
MARIA: Alex is right in stealing it.

00:56:03.740 --> 00:56:06.080
MARIA: I was mad that I only had half of it to eat.

00:56:06.760 --> 00:56:10.680
MARIA: I also didn't need to get an entire another ear of corn, but it was delicious.

00:56:11.740 --> 00:56:12.900
VIRGINIA: Gosh, I want one today.

00:56:12.920 --> 00:56:14.100
MARIA: I know, right?

00:56:14.120 --> 00:56:16.780
MARIA: That would be a perfect thing to eat on a cold day with today.

00:56:17.900 --> 00:56:19.480
MARIA: So we got on the safari.

00:56:19.660 --> 00:56:24.420
MARIA: I requested the last row because I think you get better pictures from the last row on safari.

00:56:25.620 --> 00:56:34.320
MARIA: The safari took like 45 minutes because we sat for a good 20 minutes, 15 to 20 minutes, because there was a white rhino blocking the road.

00:56:34.340 --> 00:56:38.300
VIRGINIA: Oh, so like sat there for that amount of time before you even pulled out of the station?

00:56:39.240 --> 00:56:41.520
CHRISSY: No, no, like on the savanna.

00:56:42.080 --> 00:56:42.400
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:56:42.900 --> 00:56:43.240
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:56:43.260 --> 00:56:48.180
VIRGINIA: I didn't know if it was like blocking traffic so far ahead that they were just not even like leaving.

00:56:48.600 --> 00:56:51.860
CHRISSY: I'm sure that ended up happening for how long we had been sitting there.

00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:52.300
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:56:52.460 --> 00:56:56.100
CHRISSY: Because we had just cleared the first section.

00:56:56.260 --> 00:56:56.600
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:56:56.840 --> 00:56:57.220
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:56:58.920 --> 00:56:59.380
MARIA: So we sat.

00:56:59.400 --> 00:57:09.360
MARIA: So again, this is another time that Chrissy took an opportunity to take a little nappy poo, and I have a picture of it because I had to send it to her best friend.

00:57:09.420 --> 00:57:11.240
MARIA: I'm like, look, she took another nap.

00:57:11.260 --> 00:57:16.300
VIRGINIA: Well, it's not often you get a nap on the Safari either because it's kind of a bumpy ride.

00:57:16.320 --> 00:57:17.440
VIRGINIA: I know.

00:57:17.460 --> 00:57:17.920
VIRGINIA: Well done.

00:57:18.180 --> 00:57:19.840
MARIA: And our Safari driver was great.

00:57:19.860 --> 00:57:22.360
MARIA: She was like, okay, we have to wait.

00:57:22.520 --> 00:57:24.620
MARIA: If you have any questions, yell them out.

00:57:24.640 --> 00:57:26.900
MARIA: She's like, but if not, don't worry about it.

00:57:26.920 --> 00:57:31.040
MARIA: Because I would have been like panicking about, oh my god, I need to entertain these people for like a...

00:57:31.240 --> 00:57:33.940
MARIA: And she was just like, if not, like, we don't need to say anything.

00:57:33.960 --> 00:57:39.000
MARIA: We just kind of all just kind of sat there like in our little like rows and like talked to the people that we were with.

00:57:39.020 --> 00:57:41.540
MARIA: Like somebody was like FaceTiming with their grandma back home.

00:57:41.860 --> 00:57:44.480
MARIA: So it was nice because I mean, it was a beautiful day.

00:57:44.500 --> 00:57:45.300
MARIA: It was sunny out.

00:57:45.860 --> 00:57:48.300
MARIA: We got some nice pictures once we were going.

00:57:48.300 --> 00:57:52.220
MARIA: But yeah, there was a white rhino blocking the road for a while.

00:57:53.900 --> 00:57:58.980
MARIA: After we finally got off the safari, we I think had done everything we wanted to do.

00:57:59.040 --> 00:58:02.940
MARIA: I like I love like the the jungle trek and things like that.

00:58:02.960 --> 00:58:05.320
MARIA: Like the like going to see like the gorillas and things like that.

00:58:05.500 --> 00:58:06.220
MARIA: They're lovely.

00:58:06.240 --> 00:58:17.580
MARIA: But like, I'm too, I would rather spend my energy and doing other things like if we had a ticket that was like one park per day and like you were gonna be an animal kingdom all day, I would probably do that.

00:58:17.900 --> 00:58:19.180
MARIA: I'm sure the gorillas are lovely.

00:58:19.540 --> 00:58:20.800
MARIA: I didn't need to see them.

00:58:20.820 --> 00:58:25.020
MARIA: So we decided to hop over to Epcot and we arrived to Epcot by one o'clock.

00:58:25.040 --> 00:58:33.640
MARIA: So figuring we got to animal kingdom at 8.15 and we left a little after 12, like 12 something.

00:58:33.880 --> 00:58:34.740
MARIA: We got a lot done.

00:58:34.760 --> 00:58:37.820
MARIA: We hit, you know, hit all the highlights and things in there.

00:58:37.840 --> 00:58:41.720
MARIA: So then we were arriving at Epcot right at like 12.55.

00:58:41.740 --> 00:58:47.320
MARIA: We're getting in and we're like trying to like, it was there was a guy behind us that actually was like, oh my god, like I'm trying to get a virtual queue.

00:58:48.180 --> 00:58:49.620
VIRGINIA: Like, can we get, can I get in front of you?

00:58:49.640 --> 00:58:50.620
MARIA: I'm like, dude, I looked fine.

00:58:50.640 --> 00:58:50.960
MARIA: Sure.

00:58:50.980 --> 00:58:54.860
MARIA: Like if you're that intent, I don't even know if you ended up getting one.

00:58:55.380 --> 00:59:02.480
MARIA: But we, I mean, we tried we actually we had tapped in after what like right at like 12.57 or 12.58.

00:59:02.500 --> 00:59:04.840
MARIA: So we got in and we tried for one and they were gone.

00:59:06.000 --> 00:59:09.640
MARIA: So but we did have the individual lightning lane.

00:59:09.660 --> 00:59:11.080
MARIA: So it was it was good for that.

00:59:11.540 --> 00:59:13.660
MARIA: So when we first walked in, we were right at the front of the park.

00:59:13.680 --> 00:59:17.080
MARIA: So we did Spaceship Earth, as you do as you as one does.

00:59:18.140 --> 00:59:23.700
MARIA: We went over to Club Cool so I can get some cucumber sprite because you know, it's nothing.

00:59:23.720 --> 00:59:28.640
VIRGINIA: Are you still using the flavor drops that you got off of Amazon to make your own at home?

00:59:29.220 --> 00:59:30.180
MARIA: Yes, I am.

00:59:30.920 --> 00:59:38.560
MARIA: Yes, to make my own at home because well, because then I wanted to like, I needed to have the original to make sure that like what I was like making at home is actually as good as the original.

00:59:38.580 --> 00:59:43.380
VIRGINIA: Okay, so I'm going to, I'm going to find the link because I had originally found that and sent it to you.

00:59:43.400 --> 00:59:50.440
VIRGINIA: So I will put it in the show notes for anybody who's interested in getting their own cucumber drops to make their own cucumber sprite at home.

00:59:50.460 --> 00:59:51.660
VIRGINIA: It's not an affiliate link.

00:59:51.720 --> 00:59:54.600
VIRGINIA: I would not get anything from it, but I'll put it in there.

00:59:54.640 --> 01:00:04.260
VIRGINIA: So for anyone who does click on that and get some of their own, how many drops do you recommend for like a normal glass of soda?

01:00:04.520 --> 01:00:13.980
MARIA: So if I was opening a can of sprite, I think I do four drops and then like taste it and maybe like one or two more.

01:00:14.340 --> 01:00:19.760
MARIA: And it comes in a bottle that's like the size of like what you would like that eye drops would come in.

01:00:20.120 --> 01:00:21.940
MARIA: So don't store it in your medicine cabinet.

01:00:21.960 --> 01:00:23.820
VIRGINIA: Don't put cucumber drops in your eyes.

01:00:23.980 --> 01:00:26.880
CHRISSY: Yeah, first time Maria pulled it out, I was like, what is this nonsense?

01:00:27.320 --> 01:00:28.400
CHRISSY: But it was delicious.

01:00:28.720 --> 01:00:29.500
MARIA: It was wonderful.

01:00:29.560 --> 01:00:31.960
MARIA: So I highly recommend that.

01:00:32.420 --> 01:00:34.060
MARIA: So let's see, back to FI.

01:00:34.080 --> 01:00:40.560
MARIA: I guess when we originally tapped in, we got a we did Spaceship Earth, and then we got Das for Frozen.

01:00:40.580 --> 01:00:43.740
MARIA: When we got there, it was 105 minute wait.

01:00:44.140 --> 01:00:46.440
CHRISSY: That's not 105 minute wait ride for our friends.

01:00:46.840 --> 01:00:47.640
VIRGINIA: I agree.

01:00:47.740 --> 01:00:48.100
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:00:48.120 --> 01:00:52.240
MARIA: So we had some time to kill for Frozen.

01:00:52.260 --> 01:00:53.500
MARIA: Or was that one of the pre-booked?

01:00:53.500 --> 01:00:55.860
VIRGINIA: Your pre-booked were Soarin and Test Track.

01:00:56.420 --> 01:00:56.780
CHRISSY: Right.

01:00:56.800 --> 01:01:06.320
CHRISSY: So we ended up going over to Journey Into Imagination and then the land to do the pre-booked Soarin.

01:01:07.220 --> 01:01:09.000
CHRISSY: And then we, of course, that's where it was.

01:01:09.780 --> 01:01:10.040
CHRISSY: Yeah.

01:01:10.160 --> 01:01:12.260
CHRISSY: Because I remember that we went over that direction.

01:01:12.720 --> 01:01:13.120
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:01:13.140 --> 01:01:15.360
VIRGINIA: And Chrissy is a big Figma fan.

01:01:15.860 --> 01:01:18.700
VIRGINIA: So excitement over Journey Into Imagination.

01:01:19.540 --> 01:01:22.100
MARIA: But there's stuff we did in the inner that we didn't talk about, Chris.

01:01:22.100 --> 01:01:34.480
MARIA: So we went to China and got from the booths for International Festival of the Arts Festival, we had the Generosos Chicken Shumai and Pork Bun from China.

01:01:34.840 --> 01:01:41.400
MARIA: We went to, we stopped at the refreshment port for a chocolate chip cookie, which we got in line for this.

01:01:41.420 --> 01:01:42.880
MARIA: I was like, oh, I kind of want the chocolate chip cookie.

01:01:42.940 --> 01:01:45.200
MARIA: And the line was, the line wasn't all that bad.

01:01:45.220 --> 01:01:50.380
MARIA: But like the wait line for like, like getting the food was just, it looked like it was so long.

01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:55.020
MARIA: And I, and because there was poutine at that, at the refreshment port and the cookie.

01:01:55.040 --> 01:02:03.000
MARIA: And I'm like, so I've been standing in line for so long, but Chrissy actually left the line and was like, well, let me go stand over by the pick up line turn like thing.

01:02:03.260 --> 01:02:04.660
MARIA: So it ended up, I got up to the front.

01:02:04.680 --> 01:02:07.120
MARIA: I'm like, if I order a cookie, do I have to wait in that line?

01:02:07.180 --> 01:02:08.520
MARIA: They're like, no, we can just hand it to you.

01:02:08.540 --> 01:02:09.400
MARIA: I'm like, sold.

01:02:09.420 --> 01:02:12.180
MARIA: So I got the chocolate chip cookie that looks like an art palette.

01:02:12.200 --> 01:02:16.660
MARIA: It comes with a little paintbrush and there's like dollops of icing on it.

01:02:16.880 --> 01:02:18.380
MARIA: It was a very good cookie.

01:02:18.380 --> 01:02:19.900
CHRISSY: It was a nice, it was a good texture.

01:02:20.080 --> 01:02:24.240
MARIA: It was like a nice, like good chewy texture, not too crispy, not too soft.

01:02:24.740 --> 01:02:25.380
MARIA: Very good.

01:02:26.440 --> 01:02:33.740
MARIA: And then we did figment where we actually did like a 15 minute standby for figment, which was a delight.

01:02:33.760 --> 01:02:35.320
MARIA: I love, he's, he's cute.

01:02:35.340 --> 01:02:36.920
MARIA: Chrissy especially loved figment.

01:02:37.260 --> 01:02:40.380
CHRISSY: He's annoying as all heck in that ride, but he's still adorable.

01:02:41.460 --> 01:02:45.000
VIRGINIA: I've always said I like him, I like him as a mascot for Epcot.

01:02:45.460 --> 01:02:51.480
VIRGINIA: I appreciate the idea of figment, but he's a chaotic character like Stitch.

01:02:51.640 --> 01:02:54.700
VIRGINIA: So I'm not as much of a fan of him as a character.

01:02:55.340 --> 01:02:56.040
CHRISSY: I respect that.

01:02:56.060 --> 01:03:03.780
MARIA: And Chrissy pointed out, we think that the voice of figment is the same as the voice of, in Muppet Vision 3D.

01:03:04.180 --> 01:03:06.520
VIRGINIA: The little flying guy.

01:03:06.780 --> 01:03:07.980
MARIA: Yes, the 3D.

01:03:08.020 --> 01:03:10.620
MARIA: It sounds like the same voice.

01:03:11.000 --> 01:03:14.660
MARIA: So we did Soarin California, Soarin over California.

01:03:14.680 --> 01:03:20.420
MARIA: But again, kind of like what Mike and I experienced, we had a lightning lane, essentially, for it.

01:03:20.620 --> 01:03:22.800
MARIA: We arrived for that lightning lane at 340.

01:03:22.820 --> 01:03:24.820
MARIA: We didn't get out of the ride until 415.

01:03:25.820 --> 01:03:27.980
MARIA: And the ride itself isn't that long.

01:03:28.220 --> 01:03:33.280
MARIA: So I don't know if like the timing to me is like, I shouldn't have to like, I don't want to sound like a brat.

01:03:33.300 --> 01:03:37.800
MARIA: But like, even for the lightning lane, like, you shouldn't have to wait that long.

01:03:37.820 --> 01:03:39.380
MARIA: Like, don't like call the lightning lane later.

01:03:39.400 --> 01:03:40.760
MARIA: I don't know how to fix it.

01:03:40.780 --> 01:03:43.000
VIRGINIA: I think it's because it is long.

01:03:43.940 --> 01:03:55.660
VIRGINIA: I was gonna say I think it's because of like the way that the line works, the lightning lane portion where you're getting access to that line, you're merged, like it's the merge point happens.

01:03:55.900 --> 01:03:59.540
VIRGINIA: Yeah, you get put into which theater you're going to be into.

01:03:59.540 --> 01:04:06.860
VIRGINIA: And so depending on where where they are within each of the theaters with the show, it can make a difference.

01:04:07.140 --> 01:04:07.480
VIRGINIA: Right.

01:04:07.640 --> 01:04:15.380
CHRISSY: I also think it felt like a longer wait because that hallway is always so hot.

01:04:15.740 --> 01:04:18.940
CHRISSY: That hallway, like the temperature regulation does not happen there.

01:04:18.960 --> 01:04:23.700
CHRISSY: And it was like we had, I had a t shirt, a sweatshirt and a jacket on.

01:04:23.920 --> 01:04:27.180
CHRISSY: And I was like, how many layers do I need to shed while we're waiting here?

01:04:27.220 --> 01:04:29.260
CHRISSY: It was and everybody around us.

01:04:29.640 --> 01:04:34.100
CHRISSY: Similarly, was just like taking off layers of clothing and being like, Oh my gosh, I need water.

01:04:34.500 --> 01:04:37.480
CHRISSY: So I think that made it feel longer than it probably was too.

01:04:37.780 --> 01:04:38.140
MARIA: Yeah.

01:04:38.360 --> 01:04:40.720
MARIA: And you don't really get good cell service back there either.

01:04:40.720 --> 01:04:45.000
MARIA: So I feel like it's not even like you can just like entertain yourself by scrolling through Instagram or something.

01:04:45.440 --> 01:04:48.340
MARIA: It's just, it's like a dead zone, a hot dead zone.

01:04:49.020 --> 01:04:51.600
MARIA: But it was, it was, I mean, the ride was nice.

01:04:52.000 --> 01:04:52.280
MARIA: Yeah.

01:04:52.660 --> 01:04:54.140
MARIA: So we got out of Soarin.

01:04:54.620 --> 01:04:56.780
MARIA: We did stand by for Living with the Land.

01:04:56.800 --> 01:04:57.820
MARIA: It's always a delight.

01:04:57.840 --> 01:05:00.600
MARIA: We actually saw a scientist in the window.

01:05:00.620 --> 01:05:01.300
MARIA: So we like waved to him.

01:05:01.320 --> 01:05:01.740
MARIA: It was cute.

01:05:01.840 --> 01:05:08.580
MARIA: We did the Mojani Journey of Water, which was, there was a decent amount of people in there, but I still enjoyed it.

01:05:08.600 --> 01:05:14.160
MARIA: I feel like I didn't really like read and like immerse myself in it, but it was still very lovely to see.

01:05:14.460 --> 01:05:17.860
MARIA: Chrissy took a great picture of me in there, like with like the sun was beautiful.

01:05:17.880 --> 01:05:21.360
MARIA: Like it was just, I like sent it to my friends because it was the best picture I've ever had taken of me.

01:05:23.220 --> 01:05:32.460
MARIA: We ended up not using the Test Track pre-book DAS because we just, I was like, I don't love Test Track all that much.

01:05:32.480 --> 01:05:33.520
MARIA: I was like, let's just not.

01:05:35.160 --> 01:05:38.140
MARIA: We did Guardians for our Lightning, we did our individual Lightning Lane.

01:05:38.420 --> 01:05:41.580
MARIA: We got Timber for that.

01:05:41.600 --> 01:05:43.780
MARIA: So it was a repeat for me, but it was a new song for Chrissy.

01:05:43.800 --> 01:05:44.700
VIRGINIA: Chrissy, how did you like that?

01:05:45.260 --> 01:05:46.440
MARIA: Like we were like dancing along.

01:05:48.680 --> 01:05:52.680
CHRISSY: I mean, I don't understand why people are so precious about the song.

01:05:53.060 --> 01:05:53.960
CHRISSY: It's 80s music.

01:05:53.960 --> 01:05:55.620
CHRISSY: I don't particularly like 80s music.

01:05:55.880 --> 01:05:56.460
CHRISSY: It happened.

01:05:56.740 --> 01:05:57.500
CHRISSY: It was jaunty.

01:05:57.620 --> 01:05:58.200
CHRISSY: I danced.

01:05:58.420 --> 01:05:59.020
CHRISSY: It was fine.

01:05:59.240 --> 01:06:05.820
VIRGINIA: It's not my favorite of the six songs that you can possibly get, but it's not my least favorite.

01:06:05.840 --> 01:06:07.020
VIRGINIA: My least favorite is Iran.

01:06:08.660 --> 01:06:11.060
VIRGINIA: But I'll take that right anyway.

01:06:11.080 --> 01:06:11.620
VIRGINIA: I can get it.

01:06:11.640 --> 01:06:13.980
VIRGINIA: Whatever song you want to get me as long as I get to write it.

01:06:14.000 --> 01:06:15.120
VIRGINIA: Yeah, exactly.

01:06:19.500 --> 01:06:24.420
MARIA: Chrissy, one of Chrissy's friends from home had asked about a figment popcorn bucket.

01:06:24.740 --> 01:06:27.840
MARIA: So she bought the figment popcorn bucket for her friend.

01:06:29.080 --> 01:06:31.700
MARIA: I got a marinated skirt steak sandwich.

01:06:31.720 --> 01:06:33.460
MARIA: And Chrissy, did you get something else with that?

01:06:33.480 --> 01:06:34.080
CHRISSY: No, no, I got the same thing.

01:06:34.100 --> 01:06:35.160
MARIA: I've read that thing too.

01:06:38.500 --> 01:06:39.700
MARIA: Yes, a lot of Epcot snacks.

01:06:40.880 --> 01:06:46.780
MARIA: We went back over, we went from there all the way back around to France.

01:06:46.800 --> 01:06:48.820
MARIA: I got the turkey BLT that I really like.

01:06:49.260 --> 01:06:54.200
MARIA: Chrissy had a quiche and the raspberry lime macaron she loves.

01:06:54.980 --> 01:07:00.100
CHRISSY: We had also booked a DAS for Remy.

01:07:00.680 --> 01:07:08.720
CHRISSY: And we're kind of going back and forth about it because again, because I had gotten pretty motion sick on Guardians, I was like, I don't think I want to ride Remy.

01:07:09.000 --> 01:07:15.160
CHRISSY: So we ended up skipping it and just making the call that like, we're not going to make it to fireworks.

01:07:15.540 --> 01:07:18.280
CHRISSY: I was like, I can watch Luminous Journeys on YouTube.

01:07:18.640 --> 01:07:19.960
CHRISSY: I know that there's magic.

01:07:19.960 --> 01:07:27.600
CHRISSY: But at this point, I realized yesterday that I think the useful life of my sneakers, I was at the very end of them.

01:07:27.620 --> 01:07:29.200
CHRISSY: So my feet hurt more than usual.

01:07:29.220 --> 01:07:30.360
CHRISSY: So I was like, I'm ready.

01:07:30.700 --> 01:07:34.320
CHRISSY: And I, yeah, needless to say, I was shopping for sneakers yesterday.

01:07:36.000 --> 01:07:36.380
MARIA: Yes.

01:07:37.260 --> 01:07:41.620
MARIA: We ended up, I think we got the last friendship boat from Morocco back to Canada.

01:07:42.300 --> 01:07:45.120
MARIA: We looked a little bit at the chalk art on the way out.

01:07:45.560 --> 01:07:50.860
MARIA: And as we were up by Spaceship Earth, they were doing the Rainbow Connection on Spaceship Earth.

01:07:50.880 --> 01:07:52.320
MARIA: So we sat there and watched that.

01:07:52.340 --> 01:07:53.060
MARIA: We cried.

01:07:53.080 --> 01:07:53.940
MARIA: It was delightful.

01:07:54.240 --> 01:07:59.700
MARIA: And by eight o'clock, we left the park because we had, again, we had kind of did everything we felt that we needed to do.

01:07:59.740 --> 01:08:01.920
VIRGINIA: It sounds like a very successful day.

01:08:01.940 --> 01:08:03.860
VIRGINIA: You got a ton done.

01:08:04.060 --> 01:08:06.880
VIRGINIA: You got a ton of snacks and good food.

01:08:06.900 --> 01:08:07.380
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:08:07.420 --> 01:08:08.380
MARIA: And a popcorn bucket.

01:08:08.400 --> 01:08:08.820
MARIA: It was great.

01:08:09.160 --> 01:08:15.640
VIRGINIA: And what a sacrifice for a friend because a popcorn bucket is bulky and not easy to carry around with you.

01:08:15.660 --> 01:08:17.420
VIRGINIA: So good friend.

01:08:17.420 --> 01:08:18.660
CHRISSY: It fit in my backpack.

01:08:19.000 --> 01:08:25.300
CHRISSY: And I had asked some of our colleagues in a Facebook group, I was like, Does anyone have this and can measure it?

01:08:26.220 --> 01:08:29.140
CHRISSY: Because if I have the measurements, I can pack appropriately.

01:08:29.260 --> 01:08:33.840
CHRISSY: And I just put it fit perfectly in my backpack on the way home, but it definitely had some very pointy parts.

01:08:33.900 --> 01:08:34.300
VIRGINIA: Oh, yeah.

01:08:34.380 --> 01:08:37.000
CHRISSY: These are the things you will do for us.

01:08:37.020 --> 01:08:39.260
CHRISSY: He's my work husband and he deserved it.

01:08:39.280 --> 01:08:39.640
VIRGINIA: Nice.

01:08:39.740 --> 01:08:40.140
VIRGINIA: Nice.

01:08:40.820 --> 01:08:41.240
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:08:41.260 --> 01:08:45.940
VIRGINIA: So back to the resort in time for a good night's sleep.

01:08:46.280 --> 01:08:51.200
VIRGINIA: On to Sunday, January the 21st, where you were planning to go to Hollywood Studios.

01:08:51.360 --> 01:09:03.000
VIRGINIA: And I guess before you get into this day, I want to know, did the fact that you had already been over to Hollywood Studios in this trip affect any of your plans?

01:09:03.020 --> 01:09:07.340
VIRGINIA: Because I know you had a DAS preselected for Slinky and for Toy Story Mania.

01:09:07.780 --> 01:09:11.720
VIRGINIA: Did you end up still doing those even though you had done Mania already?

01:09:14.920 --> 01:09:16.960
MARIA: We ended up using the one for Toy Story Mania.

01:09:17.760 --> 01:09:20.620
MARIA: Slinky was down all day when we were there.

01:09:20.720 --> 01:09:25.600
MARIA: So we ended up, I know, it was, and we had only planned for being there for half the day.

01:09:25.620 --> 01:09:28.220
MARIA: So we were like, they were like, you know, it might be open later in the day.

01:09:28.740 --> 01:09:33.560
MARIA: But I wasn't going to stick around an entire park just to for that one ride.

01:09:33.960 --> 01:09:40.920
MARIA: So we ended up talking to guest relations on our way out and was like, listen, like we have this pre-booked DAS, Slinky Dog is down.

01:09:40.940 --> 01:09:43.860
MARIA: Like, can we switch it to hop to Magic Kingdom?

01:09:43.880 --> 01:09:44.520
MARIA: They were like, yeah, sure.

01:09:44.540 --> 01:09:44.740
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:09:44.760 --> 01:09:45.940
VIRGINIA: So what did you end up switching it to?

01:09:46.760 --> 01:09:48.500
MARIA: Yeah, you could use it for anything.

01:09:48.520 --> 01:09:51.220
MARIA: We ended up using it for Big Thunder, but you can use it on it.

01:09:51.240 --> 01:09:51.500
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:09:51.520 --> 01:09:54.640
VIRGINIA: So what else did you do in Hollywood Studios before you hopped over to Magic Kingdom?

01:09:55.440 --> 01:09:56.740
MARIA: We got there at 840.

01:09:56.760 --> 01:09:59.860
MARIA: We got a ride, the DAS for Rise of the Resistance.

01:09:59.880 --> 01:10:11.660
MARIA: We kind of poked around Batuu for a little bit, rode Rise of the Resistance, got a breakfast round to a wrap, did another DAS for Mickey Mania's Runway Railway.

01:10:12.140 --> 01:10:17.000
MARIA: In the meantime, while we were waiting for that, we did Muppet Vision 3D.

01:10:17.020 --> 01:10:19.440
MARIA: We did a Photo Pass in Batuu, which I think is missing.

01:10:19.460 --> 01:10:22.060
MARIA: I have to look back at the Photo Pass and see.

01:10:23.160 --> 01:10:24.420
MARIA: We did Toy Story Mania.

01:10:24.860 --> 01:10:26.420
MARIA: We got pictures with Edna Mode.

01:10:26.440 --> 01:10:29.280
MARIA: Chrissy loves Edna Mode from The Incredibles.

01:10:29.320 --> 01:10:32.000
MARIA: She was her for Halloween a couple of years.

01:10:32.020 --> 01:10:35.920
MARIA: We had an epic Photo Passes with Edna Mode.

01:10:36.240 --> 01:10:42.720
MARIA: We used the Mickey Mania's Runway Railway and then went over to Magic Kingdom and got to Magic Kingdom by 1220.

01:10:42.740 --> 01:10:52.460
MARIA: The only thing I really didn't do on the trip that I had hoped to do was Slinky because the two times that we were in Hollywood Studios in Toy Story Land, it wasn't running.

01:10:52.720 --> 01:10:57.980
VIRGINIA: In my pre-show notes, you had mentioned that Big Thunder was down for refurbishment.

01:10:58.620 --> 01:11:06.080
VIRGINIA: Today on Sunday the 21st was the first day that you could have potentially ridden it anyway.

01:11:06.400 --> 01:11:20.040
VIRGINIA: Good thing that you were able to get the DAS for that because I'm imagining if it's been down for any bit of time, there are probably a number of people who are heading there and creating kind of a line for that.

01:11:20.740 --> 01:11:22.480
VIRGINIA: All right, so Magic Kingdom.

01:11:23.140 --> 01:11:24.720
MARIA: So we got there at 1220.

01:11:24.740 --> 01:11:25.940
MARIA: I immediately like tapped it.

01:11:25.960 --> 01:11:28.680
MARIA: When we tapped in, I got the Big Thunder Daffs.

01:11:28.960 --> 01:11:33.500
MARIA: We had some time to kill, so we had Corn Dog Nuggets from Casey's Corner.

01:12:00.050 --> 01:12:01.680
CHRISSY: It's mostly a Halloween ornament.

01:12:01.860 --> 01:12:02.380
VIRGINIA: What is it?

01:12:03.080 --> 01:12:06.620
CHRISSY: When we were younger, we had this, we called it the Halloween tape.

01:12:07.000 --> 01:12:12.260
CHRISSY: And it was just like a series of short Halloween cartoons that our parents had taped from various sources.

01:12:12.780 --> 01:12:17.480
CHRISSY: And it starts with Trick or Treat, the Trick or Treat cartoon with Huey, Dewey and Lily.

01:12:17.520 --> 01:12:23.060
CHRISSY: So the ornament is the three of them in their Halloween costumes, and it plays the song.

01:12:23.640 --> 01:12:26.220
CHRISSY: And I was like, I'm doing this.

01:12:26.260 --> 01:12:27.420
CHRISSY: I don't normally do this.

01:12:27.440 --> 01:12:31.320
CHRISSY: Tommy is not normally a Tchotchke kind of kid, but I was like, he needs this.

01:12:31.500 --> 01:12:34.120
CHRISSY: And then I told him what it was, and he got very excited.

01:12:34.140 --> 01:12:40.300
CHRISSY: So it was a Halloween ornament, but that just means it could stay up from October through January, is what I prefer, is my philosophy.

01:12:41.920 --> 01:12:42.540
MARIA: Exactly.

01:12:44.720 --> 01:12:50.400
MARIA: So we ended up in riding Big Thunder twice in a row, because we had the DAS that I had originally gotten when we first walked in.

01:12:50.740 --> 01:12:56.480
MARIA: And then we used that anytime, the DAS from Slinky for Big Thunder.

01:12:56.500 --> 01:13:02.480
MARIA: So the first time we ended up riding in the first row, the second time we rode it, I asked to wait and we waited to ride in the last row.

01:13:02.500 --> 01:13:04.940
MARIA: The last row was the way to go on Big Thunder.

01:13:04.960 --> 01:13:06.520
MARIA: It was a joy and a delight.

01:13:08.140 --> 01:13:13.100
MARIA: After we got off of that, we were heading towards Jungle Cruise for a DAS, and it was right around three o'clock.

01:13:13.120 --> 01:13:20.120
MARIA: So we ended up seeing most of the Festival of Fantasy Parade, not necessarily on purpose, but we couldn't get to where we were going without watching the parade.

01:13:21.380 --> 01:13:24.720
MARIA: So we saw it, we saw Maleficent, she grieved fire, it was delightful.

01:13:26.320 --> 01:13:32.460
MARIA: We did Jungle Cruise, we did People Mover DAS, which again, we actually needed the DAS for it.

01:13:33.460 --> 01:13:44.140
MARIA: When we were on People Mover, that's when I realized that my flight that I thought I had wasn't actually right because it was right at four o'clock and my flight home was, I thought was supposed to be at four o'clock.

01:13:44.160 --> 01:13:47.960
MARIA: So I was like, I should have gotten a notification to check into my flight.

01:13:48.320 --> 01:13:56.400
MARIA: That's when I realized that they had booked me on a flight for 6 AM on Tuesday morning instead of Monday night.

01:13:56.680 --> 01:14:00.680
MARIA: So we got off People Mover, we ended up having to sit and call the airline.

01:14:01.700 --> 01:14:04.580
MARIA: I was firmly not the nicest person.

01:14:04.600 --> 01:14:07.180
MARIA: I was like, no, you guys did this, it's wrong, you need to fix it.

01:14:07.540 --> 01:14:10.300
MARIA: So I ended up not being on the original flight that I wanted.

01:14:10.360 --> 01:14:18.860
MARIA: With a four-hour layover, I had like a 30, so it was like an hour and 10 minute layover, which ended up working out fine.

01:14:19.700 --> 01:14:25.500
MARIA: But it was kind of nice because we sat then for half an hour, which kind of made me feel a little better for the rest of the afternoon and evening.

01:14:26.020 --> 01:14:30.620
MARIA: We did Carousel of Progress, and then we were kind of done at Magic Kingdom.

01:14:31.440 --> 01:14:37.840
MARIA: So on the way out, I wanted to get the popcorn mix from the confectionary, where you can get popcorn and do the mix-ins.

01:14:38.340 --> 01:14:39.120
MARIA: The bilgeron, yeah.

01:14:39.140 --> 01:14:45.900
MARIA: So I had dark chocolate drizzle with pretzels and peanut butter M&Ms, and it was delightful, highly recommend.

01:14:46.260 --> 01:14:48.820
MARIA: We hopped over to Epcot.

01:14:48.840 --> 01:14:54.500
MARIA: We took the monorail, got there, and saw Rainbow Connection again on Spaceship Earth.

01:14:55.320 --> 01:14:57.620
MARIA: Had the mussels, the beef Wellington.

01:14:58.060 --> 01:15:01.160
MARIA: We tried to get the wagyu beef in Japan.

01:15:01.180 --> 01:15:04.820
MARIA: They were out of it, so we went over to Morocco and got chicken kebabs and the pita.

01:15:05.840 --> 01:15:06.980
MARIA: Chrissy had an empanada.

01:15:07.420 --> 01:15:10.160
MARIA: My favorite thing was the mushroom risotto.

01:15:10.700 --> 01:15:14.400
MARIA: It was a plant-based mushroom risotto, and it was delightful.

01:15:14.720 --> 01:15:17.480
VIRGINIA: That used to be Alex's favorite, and then he ate too much of it.

01:15:17.540 --> 01:15:17.840
VIRGINIA: So.

01:15:18.500 --> 01:15:19.620
MARIA: I understand.

01:15:20.720 --> 01:15:28.500
MARIA: And we had a really good photo pass experience on the way out with like the light sticks, like in front of Spaceship Earth, so that's kind of cool.

01:15:29.040 --> 01:15:36.740
MARIA: And then we left again by 8.45 because we were like, we don't need to, we're tired and we didn't necessarily need to see the fireworks show.

01:15:36.860 --> 01:15:37.380
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:15:37.560 --> 01:15:40.060
VIRGINIA: So good next to last day.

01:15:40.120 --> 01:15:42.740
VIRGINIA: And now we are into your departure day.

01:15:43.200 --> 01:15:49.060
VIRGINIA: So you originally had Grand Floridian Spa pedicures scheduled for 10.30.

01:15:49.160 --> 01:15:50.100
VIRGINIA: Did you make it over there?

01:15:50.480 --> 01:15:50.860
VIRGINIA: Yes.

01:15:51.480 --> 01:15:52.380
MARIA: Yes, we did.

01:15:52.400 --> 01:15:55.000
MARIA: We had called.

01:15:55.580 --> 01:16:00.360
MARIA: I called Grand Floridian the day before to ask, like, can I bring my luggage with me?

01:16:00.360 --> 01:16:01.280
MARIA: Because I didn't want to.

01:16:01.340 --> 01:16:09.140
MARIA: We had talked in the pre-show about like what time we needed to leave to be able to get from Grand Floridian back to POP to get my luggage to go to the airport.

01:16:09.780 --> 01:16:17.900
MARIA: And then when my flight was ended up being a little bit earlier, I called the spa and they were like, oh, you can just leave it at Bell Services at the hotel.

01:16:17.920 --> 01:16:23.980
MARIA: So we ended up bringing my luggage and Chrissy's luggage over to Grand Floridian and we checked them in.

01:16:24.560 --> 01:16:31.880
MARIA: We went over, had a lovely experience at the spa, got our pedicures done, and then that was when we got to be in the whirlpool.

01:16:32.060 --> 01:16:37.440
MARIA: They have a steam room at the spa as well, so we relaxed there a little bit.

01:16:37.600 --> 01:16:40.740
MARIA: Then from there, we were like, I'm trying to figure out where we want to eat.

01:16:40.760 --> 01:16:43.680
MARIA: So we decided to go over to Polynesian.

01:16:43.700 --> 01:16:53.040
MARIA: We took the monorail over to Polynesian so that we could go to Captain Cook's and I had your other recommendation of the pulled pork nachos.

01:16:53.580 --> 01:16:56.960
MARIA: The nachos were delicious, highly recommend.

01:16:57.560 --> 01:17:01.280
MARIA: Then after that, I hopped back on the monorail, said goodbye.

01:17:01.320 --> 01:17:02.480
MARIA: We both hopped on the monorail.

01:17:02.500 --> 01:17:04.080
MARIA: I said goodbye to Chrissy on the monorail.

01:17:04.080 --> 01:17:05.380
MARIA: I jumped off of Grand Floridian.

01:17:05.400 --> 01:17:09.260
MARIA: She went over to Contemporary to hang out for a little bit.

01:17:09.280 --> 01:17:10.540
MARIA: Then from there, I got in a Lyft.

01:17:11.440 --> 01:17:12.760
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:17:12.780 --> 01:17:19.100
VIRGINIA: Chrissy, what did you get up to at the Contemporary while you waited for it to be time for you to head to the airport yourself?

01:17:19.680 --> 01:17:31.700
CHRISSY: I did a little shopping, I did a little exploring, and then really I sat and read my book and watched the monorail go by, which as a city planner was perfectly acceptable for me to spend the afternoon.

01:17:31.840 --> 01:17:35.460
VIRGINIA: That's one of my favorite things to do, is sit and people watch it.

01:17:35.760 --> 01:17:35.880
VIRGINIA: Yep.

01:17:36.960 --> 01:17:37.320
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:17:37.340 --> 01:17:37.760
CHRISSY: It was great.

01:17:38.140 --> 01:17:41.420
VIRGINIA: Well, this has been an amazing sister trip.

01:17:41.440 --> 01:17:47.240
VIRGINIA: Any plans to go next January during this traditional time for the two of you?

01:17:47.780 --> 01:17:48.820
CHRISSY: I'm going to assume yes.

01:17:53.080 --> 01:17:59.400
MARIA: I think I sent Chrissy the school calendar out for the following year in January.

01:17:59.420 --> 01:18:05.680
MARIA: I think I already sent that to Chrissy, so we have the dates in mind, but we don't have anything booked yet.

01:18:05.700 --> 01:18:07.500
MARIA: But yes, I'm sure we'll go back next January.

01:18:07.520 --> 01:18:10.040
MARIA: It was a delightful trip like it always is.

01:18:10.520 --> 01:18:21.780
VIRGINIA: Well, I just want to say thank you again to both of you for taking the time to share your trip details and to share your little sister relationship.

01:18:21.800 --> 01:18:23.880
VIRGINIA: I love the dynamic the two of you have.

01:18:23.900 --> 01:18:24.840
VIRGINIA: You're so much fun.

01:18:26.480 --> 01:18:31.720
VIRGINIA: I love my sister, but if I couldn't have my own sister, this seems like a really good sisterhood to be a part of.

01:18:32.880 --> 01:18:34.760
MARIA: You could be our adopted sister.

01:18:34.780 --> 01:18:35.520
VIRGINIA: I would welcome that.

01:18:36.160 --> 01:18:36.780
VIRGINIA: It'll be great.

01:18:37.340 --> 01:18:38.480
CHRISSY: You could come party with us.

01:18:38.940 --> 01:18:41.280
VIRGINIA: Chrissy, you got to get up here to New York again.

01:18:41.580 --> 01:18:43.880
VIRGINIA: We need to hang out here in the city.

01:18:45.180 --> 01:18:45.680
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:18:45.700 --> 01:18:46.600
VIRGINIA: We're going to make it happen.

01:18:46.920 --> 01:18:47.340
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:18:47.360 --> 01:18:49.780
VIRGINIA: Well, thank you both again so much.

01:18:49.840 --> 01:18:50.880
VIRGINIA: I really appreciate it.

01:18:51.140 --> 01:18:54.860
VIRGINIA: And hopefully we'll have you on again maybe a year from now.

01:18:55.140 --> 01:18:55.420
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:18:56.040 --> 01:18:56.940
MARIA: Thanks, Virginia.

01:18:56.960 --> 01:19:01.220
VIRGINIA: A huge thank you to Maria and Chrissy.

01:19:01.620 --> 01:19:06.980
VIRGINIA: You are joy personified and it was an honor to have you together on the podcast.

01:19:07.040 --> 01:19:09.440
VIRGINIA: I hope that you will join me again in the future.

01:19:09.980 --> 01:19:14.900
VIRGINIA: Until then, please everyone keep daydreaming about where you long to be.