Post-Trip Report: Rebecca’s Disneyland Paris Voyage d'Anniversaire (November 2024)

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VIRGINIA: Hello, and welcome 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: I cannot believe it is almost 2025.

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VIRGINIA: This year has gone by so fast.

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VIRGINIA: I am in the thick of planning for this next year, and I'm hoping that some of you who may have been listening to the show for a while will consider submitting to be a future podcast guest.

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VIRGINIA: I'm looking for people who are traveling in March and beyond.

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VIRGINIA: So if that's you or someone you know, reach out through my website, which is whereilongtobepodcast.com.

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VIRGINIA: I would love to chat with you, and you don't have to have any experience.

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VIRGINIA: You just need to be excited about your trip, and I will do everything else.

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VIRGINIA: This week, I have Rebecca back on the show.

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VIRGINIA: She is from Wilmington, North Carolina, a place I have spent a lot of time since I'm originally from North Carolina.

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VIRGINIA: She's a travel agent who specializes in Disney and other theme parks, cruises, and more.

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VIRGINIA: Rebecca was on the show last May to share all of the details from her family trip to Walt Disney World, but this time it's a birthday trip to Disneyland Paris with her friend Amber.

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VIRGINIA: When you're a mom to young kids like Rebecca is, you know that time to yourself is rare, so this really is a birthday treat.

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VIRGINIA: Rebecca and Amber stayed primarily at the Disneyland Paris Hotel and spent some time in both of the parks, but they did tack on a day at the end to enjoy a little bit of downtown Paris before jetting home.

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VIRGINIA: I think that's all you need to know to be caught up if you miss the pre-trip report.

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VIRGINIA: So without further ado, here's Rebecca.

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VIRGINIA: Welcome back, Rebecca.

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REBECCA: Thank you.

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VIRGINIA: Or should I say bonjour like I did on the pre-trip?

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VIRGINIA: Well, you are back from a whirlwind trip to Paris for your birthday.

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VIRGINIA: So today is November the 26th, so you've been back a couple of weeks now.

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VIRGINIA: Are you still riding high from your trip?

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REBECCA: I mean, life tends to shoot you back to reality pretty quick.

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REBECCA: It's been a hard few weeks.

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REBECCA: So I'm thankful for having some days off for Thanksgiving.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: I can't believe we're going right into the holidays.

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VIRGINIA: It just feels like it's come so fast this year.

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VIRGINIA: I know we probably say that every year, but here we are again.

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REBECCA: We put up Christmas decorations sooner than ever though, because I was riding high for Christmas because of Disneyland Paris.

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REBECCA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: Got it.

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VIRGINIA: I have plans to put mine up after Thanksgiving has passed, but Thanksgiving is so late this year that, I don't know, it just feels like I'm not going to get that much enjoyment out of my Christmas decorations, but that's not true.

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VIRGINIA: I'll have them up for a month.

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VIRGINIA: It will be fine.

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VIRGINIA: I did get my new hallmark ornaments that I get every year.

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VIRGINIA: My mom started this tradition.

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VIRGINIA: So every year since the year I was born, I've gotten a new hallmark ornament.

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VIRGINIA: She used to pick them for me, and then when I was old enough to help myself, I would pick out the one I wanted, and I still do it for myself to this very day.

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VIRGINIA: So you can imagine how many ornaments I have based on my age.

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VIRGINIA: I started it for Alex too.

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VIRGINIA: So now we both get a new ornament every year.

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VIRGINIA: So this year I chose, I've got it sitting right here on my desk.

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VIRGINIA: I'll show you.

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VIRGINIA: I got Princess Tiana.

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VIRGINIA: Alex picked yet another Darth Vader.

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REBECCA: I was going to, before you said it, I thought Star Wars in my head.

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VIRGINIA: Because the Darth Vader he had before says Christmas phrases when you push the button, and he found another one that says like normal Darth Vader phrases, and so he was all about that.

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REBECCA: My parents loved Hallmark ornaments.

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REBECCA: They also have a tree full of them.

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REBECCA: You're reminding me, I have a box of kids' Christmas presents in my closet, but some of it is Christmas ornaments I bought for myself from the Disney store that I'm going to get out as soon as I get back home.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, nice.

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VIRGINIA: It's fun to have those little traditions of things that you do to get yourself ready for the holidays.

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VIRGINIA: When we pick our ornaments, it's very hard to find a Hallmark store in New York City.

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VIRGINIA: They just really don't exist.

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VIRGINIA: I think there's two.

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VIRGINIA: There's one in Port Authority Bus Terminal, and there's one over on the East side.

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VIRGINIA: We tend to do it online.

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VIRGINIA: Alex and I, we look at all of the ornaments together on my computer, and we throw every single one that we're interested in into the shopping cart.

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VIRGINIA: Then we go to the shopping cart and we're like, ha-ha-ha, $1,000 worth of ornaments.

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VIRGINIA: Then we play a game where we each take two that we had picked and say, this one or that one, and slowly eliminate down until we have made it to the one that we actually want to buy.

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REBECCA: So it's like the modern day version of like what we used to do when we used to get like the JC Penney's magazines.

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VIRGINIA: Yes.

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VIRGINIA: And mark your name.

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REBECCA: Yes.

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REBECCA: And we would circle.

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REBECCA: We had different color pens and we would circle and like blue was my color, but you would only allow to pick one per page, but still there's like 100 pages.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, that's a strict rule.

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REBECCA: We wouldn't buy it, but it would narrow it down.

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VIRGINIA: We did that with, I think it was the Sears catalog.

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REBECCA: Oh, I remember that one too.

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VIRGINIA: I don't know.

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VIRGINIA: It was just like fantasy chopping for kids, but I have to think now as a grown up, it probably helped my mom out knowing what I wanted.

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REBECCA: So we still get them, but like nowadays it is a Target toy gift guide and an Amazon one that comes to our house and our kids love going through it.

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REBECCA: So I'm like, oh, they do what we did.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah, I gave them to Alex and he still looks through it.

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VIRGINIA: And then I don't know where I'm whispering when he's in the other room with the door closed, but this is the first year.

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VIRGINIA: So he normally will go through that even though, like last year he was 13, he still went through it.

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VIRGINIA: He found a couple of things he wanted.

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VIRGINIA: This year I was like, the toy guide came and I handed it to him.

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VIRGINIA: And he was like, oh, that's fun.

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VIRGINIA: And he flips through it and he's like, okay.

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VIRGINIA: And then when he came back with his Christmas list, there were a couple of video games and stuff on there, but there were like teenage things.

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VIRGINIA: Like, I'd like some baggy jeans, because apparently that's what all the kids are wearing.

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VIRGINIA: And things like that, where I was like, okay, we're moving out of the toy phase, which, it reminds me of Andy getting older and not playing with his toys as much.

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VIRGINIA: So I can't talk about that too long because I will start to cry.

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VIRGINIA: I cry every time for Toy Story 3.

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REBECCA: I can't believe they're making another one.

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REBECCA: I feel like it was such a good ending on the last one.

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VIRGINIA: I know.

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VIRGINIA: I sort of felt like that was it.

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VIRGINIA: I know.

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VIRGINIA: I know.

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VIRGINIA: We will see.

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REBECCA: We will see.

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VIRGINIA: I have my doubts.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: Well, let's get into this amazing Disneyland Paris trip.

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VIRGINIA: So starting with Wednesday, November 6th, which was your birthday?

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REBECCA: It was.

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VIRGINIA: Did you have a good travel day for your birthday?

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REBECCA: I did, and there was even some travel magic.

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REBECCA: So my flight originally was going to have a super long layover in Philly, and it got moved up a little bit, so it was less of a long...

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REBECCA: I mean, still like a four or five hours, but I feel like not enough for me to leave the airport.

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REBECCA: So I'm like, I'm going to try to see if they'll do a day pass to the American Airlines lounge.

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REBECCA: So I went and they were like, no, we're not doing that.

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REBECCA: I'm like, but it's my birthday?

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REBECCA: Here, look at my license.

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REBECCA: I'm not lying.

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REBECCA: She was like, what's your American Airlines loyalty number?

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REBECCA: Luckily, I have a lot of points.

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REBECCA: So I feel like maybe that's why she said, basically, don't tell anyone.

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REBECCA: That'll be $75.

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REBECCA: So I still had to pay for it.

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REBECCA: But they weren't supposed to sell day passes, and they did let me buy a day pass.

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REBECCA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: I can't believe that worked.

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VIRGINIA: It's my birthday.

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REBECCA: I know.

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REBECCA: She noticed I had like, I never have nails.

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REBECCA: She complimented my nails.

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REBECCA: I'm like, yes, my birthday nail.

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REBECCA: More evidence that it's my birthday.

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VIRGINIA: I love that.

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VIRGINIA: So how was the lounge?

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VIRGINIA: Because I am a lounge person and a lounge fly one might call me.

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VIRGINIA: How was your experience in that lounge?

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VIRGINIA: Is it a good one?

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REBECCA: It was okay.

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REBECCA: I mean, it was busy, which I guess that's why they're not selling day passes.

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REBECCA: So I'm part of the problem there.

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REBECCA: But no, and free drinks.

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REBECCA: I guess I drink a lot to try to get my money's work.

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REBECCA: Every time I'd go up, the bartender just would hand me white wine, whatever they got me before.

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REBECCA: They would start to recognize me.

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REBECCA: I made a good friend with an older lady who was a retired art teacher who has a house in Italy that she was going to.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, wow.

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REBECCA: Yeah.

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REBECCA: She was super nice and both traveling alone.

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REBECCA: So she would watch my stuff if I went to the bathroom and vice versa.

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REBECCA: I did literally tell her that I want to be you when I grow up, because that's amazing.

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VIRGINIA: So you had your lounge experience, and then on to the plane, was everything on time?

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REBECCA: It was.

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REBECCA: It was.

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REBECCA: In fact, my friend Amber, she was traveling as well, but she was on Delta, and she was traveling business class.

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REBECCA: And so she had a direct flight, and I got there before her.

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REBECCA: So hers was maybe 30 minutes delayed.

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VIRGINIA: So just hanging out in the airport, waiting for her.

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REBECCA: Yeah, we had agreed.

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REBECCA: We're like, oh, well, we'll meet up baggage claim.

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REBECCA: And that's another part.

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REBECCA: I am like an American Airlines credit card holder, which gets you like free check bag.

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REBECCA: But I didn't realize that doesn't apply to international flights.

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REBECCA: And I had planned on checking my bag, but it's small enough it could be a carry on.

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REBECCA: So I just had it as a carry on.

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REBECCA: But then when I got to the plane, the first one was a 15 row plane, like tiny from Wilmington to Philadelphia.

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REBECCA: There was no overhead.

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REBECCA: So they made everyone like valet check their bags, or they said they'll complimentary check them to your final destination.

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REBECCA: Like, well, that's what I wanted anyway.

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REBECCA: So I get it for free.

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REBECCA: So I ended up, I did check the bag.

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REBECCA: And so we said we are going to meet at baggage claim in Paris.

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REBECCA: But what we didn't realize is we were landing in different terminals.

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REBECCA: So one baggage claim would be different than the other.

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REBECCA: So I realized that when I landed, I'm like, I'm just going to meet you at the train station, which is inside the airport as well.

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VIRGINIA: So that sounds like it's a super easy transition from airport to train station to get wherever you're going within the Paris area.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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REBECCA: Yeah, which is what we planned on doing.

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REBECCA: It wasn't as easy when I got there, it was a little overwhelming with just a lot of people and everything in French and not knowing where to go.

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REBECCA: And there were kiosks to buy the train tickets.

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REBECCA: So I started doing that and I didn't see how to make it English.

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REBECCA: So then I'm like, I'm just going to wait in line and talk to somebody.

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REBECCA: And I did, he was like, oh no, just use the kiosk and make it English.

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REBECCA: And so I just, I knew there was a website, so I just went on my phone and bought the tickets on my phone.

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REBECCA: And that's what I would recommend to others, because that was definitely way easy.

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VIRGINIA: Good to know.

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REBECCA: And that's on the train line.

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VIRGINIA: Did you use any kind of translation service on your phone like Google Translate or anything while you were there?

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REBECCA: We didn't have to.

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REBECCA: Almost everywhere had like a French menu and an English menu and everything was in both languages.

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VIRGINIA: Fantastic.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: So I'm a bit concerned because you've had no sleep at this point, and you have a full day ahead of you because you landed at about 8 a.m.

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VIRGINIA: ish in Paris time.

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VIRGINIA: Once you got on the train and made it over to the Disneyland stop, which I think you said was Chessy, the Chessy stop.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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REBECCA: And it was only one stop.

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REBECCA: It was the fast train we took.

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REBECCA: So it was 22 euros a person and it was only 10 minutes, which is great because we had luggage.

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VIRGINIA: Right.

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VIRGINIA: So then you were taking your luggage sort of down through the downtown Disney, Disney Springs type area to get over to the Disneyland Hotel.

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VIRGINIA: Was that easy to navigate your way from the train station to the hotel?

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REBECCA: Yes, because in fact, the train station is even closer to the Disneyland Hotel.

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REBECCA: Like we didn't have to walk through Disney Village to get to the other hotels you would have to.

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REBECCA: But this one literally you walk out and you see it right there.

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REBECCA: So it was maybe, I don't know, a football field away to put a Paris thing in American terms.

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VIRGINIA: True.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: So did you have any birthday magic?

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VIRGINIA: Was your room ready?

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REBECCA: It was not, but it was still really early.

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REBECCA: It was like, you know, 930 or so.

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VIRGINIA: That would have been a lot of magic.

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REBECCA: Yeah, but they did have some changing rooms right there and we could check in and, you know, they gave us our tickets and we could change out of the clothes we've been wearing for way too long into cuter Disney clothes.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: After you dropped your bag presumably at Bell Services, did you go right into the park like you planned on?

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REBECCA: Yes.

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REBECCA: I mean, we went into Disneyland Paris Park.

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REBECCA: They have the Studios Park and then Disneyland Paris.

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VIRGINIA: Tell us about the first view of the castle.

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REBECCA: It was beautiful.

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REBECCA: I think it was misty.

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REBECCA: So, you know, European winter weather, so not blue skies and stuff like you would, I guess, an ideal weather scenario, but it was still nice.

00:12:43.766 --> 00:12:45.966
REBECCA: It was very European.

00:12:45.966 --> 00:12:51.946
REBECCA: We were starving, so we stopped and got a Mickey shaped ham and cheese pretzel bun.

00:12:51.946 --> 00:12:52.906
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:12:52.906 --> 00:12:53.806
VIRGINIA: How was that?

00:12:53.806 --> 00:12:54.466
REBECCA: It was good.

00:12:54.466 --> 00:12:54.926
VIRGINIA: It was good.

00:12:54.926 --> 00:12:58.366
REBECCA: I got a strawberry mint macaroon there as well.

00:12:58.366 --> 00:12:59.926
VIRGINIA: A macaroon or a macaroon?

00:12:59.926 --> 00:13:01.566
REBECCA: I guess macaroon.

00:13:01.566 --> 00:13:05.506
REBECCA: But I just, for the American viewers, macaroon.

00:13:05.506 --> 00:13:07.226
VIRGINIA: No, it's always macaroon.

00:13:07.346 --> 00:13:07.806
REBECCA: Really?

00:13:08.726 --> 00:13:10.706
REBECCA: I've been saying macaroon my whole life.

00:13:10.706 --> 00:13:12.146
REBECCA: Is it a Southern thing?

00:13:12.146 --> 00:13:15.806
VIRGINIA: No, I think we had this conversation during the pre-trip because I just recently edited it.

00:13:15.806 --> 00:13:17.466
VIRGINIA: I think we had this whole conversation.

00:13:17.466 --> 00:13:22.106
VIRGINIA: Macaroon is the little almost completely coconut things.

00:13:22.106 --> 00:13:23.306
REBECCA: Yes, coconut macaroon.

00:13:23.326 --> 00:13:25.766
VIRGINIA: A macaroon is always the French cookie.

00:13:25.766 --> 00:13:26.066
REBECCA: Okay.

00:13:26.126 --> 00:13:32.706
VIRGINIA: But you are right because I grew up in the South and pretty much everyone says macaroon.

00:13:32.726 --> 00:13:33.806
REBECCA: Macaroon, yeah.

00:13:33.806 --> 00:13:35.786
VIRGINIA: But it's mackerel.

00:13:35.786 --> 00:13:36.166
REBECCA: See?

00:13:36.166 --> 00:13:38.166
REBECCA: Yeah, I've been calling it macaroon my whole life.

00:13:38.586 --> 00:13:43.466
REBECCA: Even if I know now, I don't know if I could cognitively not do that.

00:13:43.466 --> 00:13:45.886
REBECCA: Like I say y'all and I can't stop it.

00:13:45.886 --> 00:13:46.626
VIRGINIA: Oh, yeah.

00:13:46.626 --> 00:13:48.146
VIRGINIA: I still say y'all sometimes.

00:13:48.146 --> 00:13:50.866
REBECCA: But hopefully, macaroon doesn't come up too often.

00:13:50.866 --> 00:13:56.206
VIRGINIA: That's what, maybe it will help you if you say macaroon, like two syllables.

00:13:56.206 --> 00:13:56.906
REBECCA: Instead of three.

00:13:56.906 --> 00:13:58.666
VIRGINIA: Because that's what it is.

00:13:58.666 --> 00:14:00.406
VIRGINIA: It's two syllables, I think, like mackerel.

00:14:02.506 --> 00:14:04.506
REBECCA: Am I even spelling it wrong?

00:14:04.506 --> 00:14:05.506
VIRGINIA: I don't know.

00:14:05.506 --> 00:14:06.106
VIRGINIA: Hold on.

00:14:06.106 --> 00:14:06.626
VIRGINIA: Hold please.

00:14:07.066 --> 00:14:08.086
VIRGINIA: We're going to confirm.

00:14:08.086 --> 00:14:09.246
REBECCA: Investigate.

00:14:09.246 --> 00:14:09.846
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:14:09.846 --> 00:14:14.846
REBECCA: Is this the like aluminium, aluminum debate?

00:14:14.846 --> 00:14:16.406
REBECCA: Because they spell it differently.

00:14:16.406 --> 00:14:16.766
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:14:16.766 --> 00:14:19.586
VIRGINIA: There is an A in there.

00:14:19.586 --> 00:14:24.326
REBECCA: That's why we would think to pronounce the A and make it three syllables.

00:14:24.326 --> 00:14:31.866
VIRGINIA: But it's the adding the extra O that's the mackerel pronunciation.

00:14:31.866 --> 00:14:32.366
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:14:32.366 --> 00:14:36.546
VIRGINIA: Sounds like mackerel according to Google.

00:14:36.546 --> 00:14:37.126
REBECCA: Yeah, you're right.

00:14:37.126 --> 00:14:39.306
REBECCA: Maybe it's the extra O throwing me.

00:14:39.306 --> 00:14:41.126
VIRGINIA: Anyway.

00:14:41.126 --> 00:14:41.566
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:14:41.566 --> 00:14:42.826
REBECCA: Linguistics.

00:14:42.826 --> 00:14:43.846
VIRGINIA: I know.

00:14:43.846 --> 00:14:44.626
VIRGINIA: It's so funny.

00:14:44.626 --> 00:14:48.866
VIRGINIA: Everybody has those things and for me, it's the mackerel, mackerel thing.

00:14:48.866 --> 00:14:49.606
REBECCA: Is that your thing?

00:14:49.606 --> 00:14:51.706
REBECCA: That you die on that hill?

00:14:51.706 --> 00:14:53.266
VIRGINIA: I will die on that hill, yes.

00:14:53.266 --> 00:14:56.266
VIRGINIA: Every time somebody says it, I'm like, which one do you really mean?

00:14:57.446 --> 00:15:01.686
VIRGINIA: The fact that you added a flavor to it, because the macaroons hardly ever have flavors.

00:15:01.686 --> 00:15:08.086
VIRGINIA: Like it might be chocolate dipped or something, but mackerel come in every color and every flavor.

00:15:08.346 --> 00:15:10.386
VIRGINIA: I'm sorry, what flavor was it again?

00:15:10.386 --> 00:15:12.186
REBECCA: I think strawberry mint.

00:15:12.186 --> 00:15:13.826
VIRGINIA: That actually sounds really good.

00:15:13.826 --> 00:15:14.606
REBECCA: It was pretty good.

00:15:14.606 --> 00:15:16.426
REBECCA: It was a big one too.

00:15:16.426 --> 00:15:17.206
VIRGINIA: Oh, really?

00:15:17.206 --> 00:15:22.766
VIRGINIA: The size of the raspberry ones that they sell in France and Epcot?

00:15:22.766 --> 00:15:24.126
REBECCA: I actually never got one.

00:15:24.686 --> 00:15:25.486
REBECCA: It's always been on my list.

00:15:25.646 --> 00:15:27.566
REBECCA: Yeah, I was going to say maybe like fist size, yeah.

00:15:27.566 --> 00:15:28.166
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:15:28.166 --> 00:15:34.386
VIRGINIA: At Listeners, I was holding up my hands as a demonstration to see if she recognized the size.

00:15:34.386 --> 00:15:38.026
REBECCA: I have a few linguistic hills I'll die on too, but they're not.

00:15:38.026 --> 00:15:44.986
VIRGINIA: Well, I feel like you need to school me on one of yours since I did, because otherwise I'm going to feel terrible that I went down this grammar hill.

00:15:46.146 --> 00:15:52.926
REBECCA: So the beach closest to where I live is Topsail Island, and you have to say Topsail even though if you just read it, you would say Topsail.

00:15:52.966 --> 00:15:53.886
VIRGINIA: Topsail, yes.

00:15:53.886 --> 00:15:56.106
REBECCA: I'm like, no, that's wrong.

00:15:56.106 --> 00:15:58.786
REBECCA: Yeah, Topsail, that's my main one.

00:15:58.786 --> 00:15:59.706
VIRGINIA: I'm right there with you.

00:15:59.706 --> 00:16:02.966
VIRGINIA: If somebody ever said Topsail, I would be like, no, that's not right.

00:16:02.966 --> 00:16:04.146
REBECCA: You've never been there.

00:16:04.146 --> 00:16:06.286
VIRGINIA: But I'm a North Carolina girl who has been there.

00:16:06.286 --> 00:16:14.246
VIRGINIA: So same thing down the road from Topsail is Curie Beach, and a lot of people say Curie or Cure.

00:16:14.246 --> 00:16:14.986
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:16:14.986 --> 00:16:17.966
VIRGINIA: Yeah, Curie, that's where my aunt used to live.

00:16:17.966 --> 00:16:19.866
VIRGINIA: All right, welcome back from North Carolina talk.

00:16:20.046 --> 00:16:22.666
VIRGINIA: Back to Disneyland Paris.

00:16:22.666 --> 00:16:28.226
VIRGINIA: All right, after getting your, what am I going to call it, breakfast based on the time of day it was?

00:16:28.226 --> 00:16:29.326
REBECCA: I guess so.

00:16:29.326 --> 00:16:32.406
REBECCA: Yeah, it's very Frenchy breakfast.

00:16:32.406 --> 00:16:33.406
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:16:33.406 --> 00:16:35.926
REBECCA: Looking for Mickey and French items.

00:16:35.926 --> 00:16:36.446
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:16:36.446 --> 00:16:38.606
VIRGINIA: So where did you head next?

00:16:38.606 --> 00:16:42.466
REBECCA: We went towards, I guess they call it Discoveryland.

00:16:42.466 --> 00:16:44.186
VIRGINIA: Is it like Adventureland?

00:16:44.186 --> 00:16:46.246
REBECCA: It's like where our Space Mountain is.

00:16:46.646 --> 00:16:47.406
VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.

00:16:47.406 --> 00:16:51.666
VIRGINIA: Did it feel like a future world, like Tomorrowland type thing?

00:16:51.666 --> 00:16:52.166
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:16:52.166 --> 00:16:53.886
REBECCA: Tomorrowland, that's what I was trying to think of.

00:16:53.886 --> 00:16:56.926
REBECCA: So it's their version of Tomorrowland and it's called Discoveryland.

00:16:57.026 --> 00:16:57.406
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:16:57.406 --> 00:16:58.146
VIRGINIA: Interesting.

00:16:58.146 --> 00:16:59.786
VIRGINIA: Did you go on Hyperspace Mountain?

00:16:59.786 --> 00:17:01.286
VIRGINIA: Because I know that was one of your-

00:17:01.286 --> 00:17:02.286
REBECCA: We did.

00:17:02.286 --> 00:17:02.486
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:17:02.486 --> 00:17:04.906
VIRGINIA: That was the first thing you did?

00:17:04.906 --> 00:17:07.206
REBECCA: We first did Buzz Lightyear.

00:17:07.206 --> 00:17:09.746
REBECCA: It's almost the exact same as what we have.

00:17:09.746 --> 00:17:14.386
REBECCA: But the animatronic Buzz is speaking all French, which is funny.

00:17:14.386 --> 00:17:15.346
REBECCA: So it's the small differences.

00:17:15.346 --> 00:17:17.426
REBECCA: Because otherwise, it was like the exact same ride.

00:17:17.426 --> 00:17:21.446
VIRGINIA: I assume Zerg are speaking French too, which would also be funny.

00:17:21.446 --> 00:17:21.706
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:17:21.706 --> 00:17:24.046
REBECCA: I don't know if they didn't have a big animatronic Zerg though.

00:17:24.046 --> 00:17:26.326
REBECCA: So I only remember the Buzz Lightyear one.

00:17:26.326 --> 00:17:26.926
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:17:26.926 --> 00:17:31.686
VIRGINIA: Were the shooter things better than the ones we have in the US that are-

00:17:31.746 --> 00:17:33.726
REBECCA: I mean, I got a pretty high score.

00:17:33.726 --> 00:17:34.886
REBECCA: I got a better score than usual.

00:17:34.886 --> 00:17:39.446
REBECCA: So I'm going to say it was better as far as the laser alignment.

00:17:39.446 --> 00:17:40.406
REBECCA: We did Hyperspace Mountain.

00:17:41.786 --> 00:17:46.886
REBECCA: That's their version of Space Mountain because it's Star Wars-themed.

00:17:46.886 --> 00:17:49.886
VIRGINIA: And my understanding is it's much faster than ours.

00:17:49.886 --> 00:17:50.566
VIRGINIA: Is that right?

00:17:50.566 --> 00:17:52.126
REBECCA: It felt like it.

00:17:52.126 --> 00:17:53.426
REBECCA: And it launches.

00:17:53.426 --> 00:17:54.886
REBECCA: I don't know if Mars launches.

00:17:54.886 --> 00:17:56.246
REBECCA: I haven't been on it in a little bit.

00:17:56.246 --> 00:17:59.066
VIRGINIA: I mean, it goes up a hill and around, but I wouldn't call it a launch.

00:17:59.066 --> 00:18:01.606
VIRGINIA: It's not like a pull back and go type thing.

00:18:01.606 --> 00:18:02.006
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:18:02.006 --> 00:18:03.366
VIRGINIA: And does it have a loop?

00:18:03.366 --> 00:18:04.186
REBECCA: Yes.

00:18:04.186 --> 00:18:05.226
REBECCA: Does it?

00:18:05.226 --> 00:18:06.566
VIRGINIA: I thought I heard it had a loop.

00:18:06.566 --> 00:18:08.806
REBECCA: I think it does because that's why you're shocked.

00:18:08.886 --> 00:18:10.886
REBECCA: We got off and we're like, whoa.

00:18:10.886 --> 00:18:14.926
REBECCA: That was way more intense than what we were expecting, but it was good.

00:18:15.626 --> 00:18:15.986
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:18:15.986 --> 00:18:16.646
REBECCA: So I think you're right.

00:18:16.646 --> 00:18:17.626
REBECCA: It does have a loop.

00:18:17.626 --> 00:18:19.046
VIRGINIA: I really want to try that.

00:18:19.046 --> 00:18:23.706
REBECCA: And the lines weren't too long that day, like I think maybe 20 minutes.

00:18:23.706 --> 00:18:23.906
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:18:23.906 --> 00:18:30.046
VIRGINIA: And you had mentioned that they have something where you can kind of pay per ride if you wanted to skip the line.

00:18:30.046 --> 00:18:36.246
VIRGINIA: So just in advance of going through the rest of the details of your trip, did you ever use that service while you were there or you didn't need to?

00:18:36.566 --> 00:18:38.906
REBECCA: We never felt like we needed to.

00:18:38.906 --> 00:18:39.226
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:18:39.226 --> 00:18:39.666
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:18:39.666 --> 00:18:41.006
REBECCA: We didn't do it at all.

00:18:41.006 --> 00:18:43.666
VIRGINIA: What would you say the longest wait you had was?

00:18:43.666 --> 00:18:45.486
REBECCA: We use Single Rider a lot.

00:18:45.486 --> 00:18:52.146
REBECCA: So if maybe the line actually said 50 or 60 minutes, but then we would only wait 20 in Single Rider.

00:18:52.146 --> 00:18:58.626
REBECCA: So probably the longest actual wait was maybe 40 minutes for something, probably like Big Thunder Mountain.

00:18:58.626 --> 00:19:02.806
REBECCA: I think that was the longest wait we had the whole trip, which for Walt Disney would be amazing.

00:19:03.566 --> 00:19:05.326
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:19:05.326 --> 00:19:05.646
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:19:05.646 --> 00:19:07.226
VIRGINIA: Walk us through this whole first day.

00:19:07.226 --> 00:19:11.206
REBECCA: We did feel our magic because it's in Discoveryland for some reason there, and it's hidden away.

00:19:11.206 --> 00:19:13.046
REBECCA: So I think a lot of people miss it.

00:19:13.046 --> 00:19:14.566
VIRGINIA: Is it the same as ours?

00:19:14.566 --> 00:19:15.566
REBECCA: It's the exact same.

00:19:15.566 --> 00:19:16.906
REBECCA: Some of it's in French though.

00:19:16.906 --> 00:19:18.406
REBECCA: But yeah, otherwise exactly the same.

00:19:18.406 --> 00:19:20.806
REBECCA: But the Donald butt is gone.

00:19:20.806 --> 00:19:23.406
REBECCA: I kept on being like looking back and like, is it here?

00:19:23.406 --> 00:19:23.866
REBECCA: Is it?

00:19:23.866 --> 00:19:25.526
REBECCA: And it's not there.

00:19:25.526 --> 00:19:26.366
REBECCA: No Donald butt.

00:19:26.366 --> 00:19:26.906
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:19:26.906 --> 00:19:28.626
VIRGINIA: That's one of the most fun parts of it.

00:19:28.706 --> 00:19:28.966
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:19:28.966 --> 00:19:34.626
REBECCA: And I feel like the squirting, like because they squirt you sometimes, that was aggressive.

00:19:34.626 --> 00:19:35.786
REBECCA: We got cut away from that.

00:19:35.786 --> 00:19:36.726
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:19:36.726 --> 00:19:37.106
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:19:37.106 --> 00:19:37.466
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:19:37.466 --> 00:19:38.926
REBECCA: But that's the only differences.

00:19:38.926 --> 00:19:42.846
REBECCA: We did It's a Small World and it's a beautiful facade.

00:19:42.846 --> 00:19:46.506
REBECCA: Like I feel like very vibrant colors and stuff compared to ours.

00:19:46.506 --> 00:19:48.106
REBECCA: That made for some good pictures.

00:19:48.106 --> 00:19:52.766
VIRGINIA: Did their version have Disney character animatronics in it?

00:19:52.766 --> 00:20:03.106
VIRGINIA: Because in Disneyland, you'll see Milana and characters that fit within different lands will be among the Small World dolls.

00:20:03.106 --> 00:20:04.866
VIRGINIA: So was that the case there?

00:20:04.866 --> 00:20:05.326
REBECCA: Yes.

00:20:05.326 --> 00:20:06.526
REBECCA: I think it did.

00:20:06.526 --> 00:20:10.706
REBECCA: I don't remember seeing a ton, but I do remember pointing some out.

00:20:10.706 --> 00:20:11.186
VIRGINIA: I like that.

00:20:11.186 --> 00:20:13.686
VIRGINIA: I wish we would get that addition in Florida.

00:20:13.686 --> 00:20:14.106
VIRGINIA: I think it's fun to-

00:20:14.246 --> 00:20:20.186
REBECCA: I feel like that's a really inexpensive way to bring people to Small World again.

00:20:20.186 --> 00:20:20.686
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:20:20.686 --> 00:20:21.526
VIRGINIA: A little refresh.

00:20:21.566 --> 00:20:23.526
VIRGINIA: Then it's almost like a Where's Waldo.

00:20:24.046 --> 00:20:34.486
VIRGINIA: That would be fun if they had characters in there, and then periodically they would move it so that when you wrote it, it wouldn't be in the same place and you're actually doing a Where's Waldo.

00:20:34.486 --> 00:20:34.706
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:20:34.706 --> 00:20:38.746
REBECCA: It's funny to see their version of America and it's a Small World though.

00:20:38.746 --> 00:20:39.606
VIRGINIA: What does it look like?

00:20:39.606 --> 00:20:50.906
REBECCA: I feel like there were maybe some cowboys and then there was Hollywood, and I remember seeing the Golden Gate Bridge, maybe the Statue of Liberty or something, the main things.

00:20:50.906 --> 00:20:52.306
VIRGINIA: Where did you head after that?

00:20:52.866 --> 00:20:54.566
REBECCA: We did Peter Pan's flight.

00:20:54.566 --> 00:21:05.706
REBECCA: I wasn't pushing for it because I know how long of a line it normally is for such a short ride, but Amber had never done it in Walt Disney World, so I'm like, well, okay, you got to do it.

00:21:05.706 --> 00:21:07.726
REBECCA: It was exactly the same.

00:21:07.726 --> 00:21:08.506
REBECCA: It was a longer wait.

00:21:08.506 --> 00:21:10.046
REBECCA: That might have been one of our longer waits too.

00:21:10.046 --> 00:21:12.126
REBECCA: That might have been about 40 minutes.

00:21:12.126 --> 00:21:15.466
VIRGINIA: Did it have the bedroom that you walked through just like ours?

00:21:15.466 --> 00:21:16.146
REBECCA: It didn't.

00:21:16.146 --> 00:21:19.126
REBECCA: No, we had a much better queue at Disney World.

00:21:19.126 --> 00:21:26.686
VIRGINIA: I know you had a couple of dining reservations on this day for Remy's, but you were considering canceling them or moving things around.

00:21:27.126 --> 00:21:28.966
VIRGINIA: Did you stick with either of them?

00:21:28.966 --> 00:21:31.726
REBECCA: We did stick with the one at night time.

00:21:31.726 --> 00:21:32.206
VIRGINIA: Dinner.

00:21:32.206 --> 00:21:32.686
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:21:32.686 --> 00:21:33.286
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:21:33.286 --> 00:21:41.306
REBECCA: In fact, I just forgot to, because we were so busy doing things, I forgot to cancel any of them and it just, you don't have any charges or anything for no shows there.

00:21:41.306 --> 00:21:46.606
REBECCA: In fact, the one we did show up to at Remy's, I'm like, oh yeah, our summer's party for this time.

00:21:46.666 --> 00:21:48.006
REBECCA: I'm like, why is it show canceled?

00:21:48.066 --> 00:21:51.926
REBECCA: We were like a minute late and she was like, oh yeah, don't worry about it.

00:21:51.926 --> 00:21:59.306
REBECCA: So it's like it automatically cancels it if you're not there before the time, I don't know, but there's no penalty for canceling or no showing.

00:21:59.306 --> 00:22:05.566
VIRGINIA: I mean, in some ways that's good, but I wonder if any of their reservations fill up because people are holding them.

00:22:05.566 --> 00:22:06.766
REBECCA: I'm sure they do.

00:22:06.766 --> 00:22:08.766
VIRGINIA: That would definitely be a problem in Florida.

00:22:08.766 --> 00:22:09.966
REBECCA: Yeah, that would.

00:22:09.966 --> 00:22:13.126
REBECCA: I think they allow more spots for walk-ins here though.

00:22:13.126 --> 00:22:13.566
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:22:13.566 --> 00:22:15.346
REBECCA: As it here is in Paris.

00:22:15.886 --> 00:22:17.786
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:22:17.786 --> 00:22:19.966
VIRGINIA: To be clear, you're not in Paris right now.

00:22:19.966 --> 00:22:21.506
REBECCA: No.

00:22:21.506 --> 00:22:27.546
REBECCA: We also did Pirates, which was a must for me, and it was really good, and it wasn't a long wait.

00:22:27.546 --> 00:22:32.626
REBECCA: I don't distinctly remember huge differences between that and the Walt Disney World one.

00:22:32.626 --> 00:22:38.746
REBECCA: I'm sure it was a little bit different, but the Pirates Life is still all the same songs and stuff.

00:22:38.746 --> 00:22:42.066
REBECCA: There might have been a few little dialogue bits that were in French.

00:22:42.066 --> 00:22:43.666
VIRGINIA: Was Jack Sparrow in it?

00:22:44.166 --> 00:22:45.006
REBECCA: He was, yes.

00:22:45.006 --> 00:22:49.046
REBECCA: And in fact, I think they have a character walking around, but they have so many characters.

00:22:49.046 --> 00:22:55.846
REBECCA: It's like Disneyland, where they have so many characters walking around, you don't know where they're going to be, and they're not on the app a lot of times.

00:22:55.846 --> 00:22:58.126
VIRGINIA: Right, you just kind of run into them.

00:22:58.126 --> 00:22:58.666
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:22:58.666 --> 00:23:03.006
VIRGINIA: I think it's easier to do that in smaller parks like that.

00:23:03.006 --> 00:23:03.846
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:23:03.846 --> 00:23:17.146
VIRGINIA: That, I just, it's very hard to imagine that being something we could do in Disney World on a consistent basis with the way people start to queue up and chase after people and all of that.

00:23:17.166 --> 00:23:18.586
REBECCA: Amber said she's like, oh, I'm shocked.

00:23:18.586 --> 00:23:20.306
REBECCA: There's like, I don't see many characters.

00:23:20.306 --> 00:23:21.166
REBECCA: I'm like, really?

00:23:21.166 --> 00:23:26.546
REBECCA: There's like a lot more like you just happen to run into a character here than like Disney World.

00:23:26.546 --> 00:23:28.666
REBECCA: Like that just doesn't happen as much there.

00:23:28.666 --> 00:23:33.706
VIRGINIA: Were there any characters that you saw out roaming that you don't see in the US?

00:23:33.706 --> 00:23:34.626
REBECCA: Baloo.

00:23:34.626 --> 00:23:35.446
VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.

00:23:35.446 --> 00:23:36.586
REBECCA: From Jungle Book.

00:23:36.586 --> 00:23:40.946
REBECCA: I saw Max roaming at one point, which would be in Hollywood Studios.

00:23:40.946 --> 00:23:46.086
REBECCA: I did see Max roaming before, so he's also in Walt Disney World.

00:23:46.086 --> 00:23:54.586
REBECCA: Some of the ones I didn't see roaming, they had like actual meet and greets, like the Winnie the Pooh characters had an actual meet and greet, and I'm pretty sure those are on the app.

00:23:54.586 --> 00:23:58.026
REBECCA: They had some characters and outfits that I've never seen before.

00:23:58.026 --> 00:24:01.906
REBECCA: I met Goofy in like a golfing outfit.

00:24:01.906 --> 00:24:02.406
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:24:02.406 --> 00:24:04.926
REBECCA: So I got pictures of Goofy in the golfing outfit.

00:24:04.926 --> 00:24:06.766
REBECCA: There was Goofy, maybe?

00:24:07.186 --> 00:24:13.006
REBECCA: No, it was Pluto in a country western outfit in their adventure land area.

00:24:13.006 --> 00:24:13.726
VIRGINIA: Interesting.

00:24:13.726 --> 00:24:14.686
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:24:14.686 --> 00:24:18.426
VIRGINIA: Well, I knew Goofy was sporty, so the golf outfit didn't surprise me.

00:24:20.346 --> 00:24:24.646
VIRGINIA: But all right, where did you go after that?

00:24:24.646 --> 00:24:31.066
REBECCA: We went to Phantom Manor, which is their haunted mansion, and Amber had never done it in Walt Disney World.

00:24:31.066 --> 00:24:32.386
REBECCA: I'm like, it's going to be great.

00:24:32.386 --> 00:24:33.846
VIRGINIA: How did she miss these things?

00:24:33.846 --> 00:24:35.066
REBECCA: I think she's only been once.

00:24:35.506 --> 00:24:40.726
REBECCA: So I'm more the Disney person that goes to the parks a lot, but she got it really into it.

00:24:40.726 --> 00:24:41.486
VIRGINIA: How was it?

00:24:41.486 --> 00:24:44.466
VIRGINIA: Was it the same as ours or were there differences?

00:24:44.466 --> 00:24:45.706
REBECCA: There were differences.

00:24:45.706 --> 00:24:48.566
REBECCA: They still have the stretching room, but it's different portraits.

00:24:48.566 --> 00:24:51.226
REBECCA: It's not the same ones that we have.

00:24:51.226 --> 00:24:53.426
REBECCA: I'm pretty sure they don't have the noose thing at the top.

00:24:53.426 --> 00:24:54.166
REBECCA: It's something else.

00:24:54.166 --> 00:24:57.246
REBECCA: I couldn't make it out, which I'm like, that's probably for the best.

00:24:57.246 --> 00:25:00.426
REBECCA: And then they had, it was like the bride.

00:25:00.426 --> 00:25:03.966
REBECCA: They had her like going up a staircase when you first get on the ride and stuff.

00:25:03.966 --> 00:25:10.686
REBECCA: So I would say it's a lot different, but they still have that, like the dining room, dance ballroom scene.

00:25:10.686 --> 00:25:11.726
REBECCA: And like important things like that.

00:25:11.726 --> 00:25:13.166
REBECCA: And the graveyard scene.

00:25:13.166 --> 00:25:18.106
REBECCA: So they have the important bits, but it is definitely unique to Disneyland Paris.

00:25:18.106 --> 00:25:21.086
VIRGINIA: Was there the hurry back at the end?

00:25:21.086 --> 00:25:21.966
REBECCA: Yes.

00:25:21.966 --> 00:25:23.446
VIRGINIA: But in French, whatever that would be.

00:25:23.526 --> 00:25:24.986
REBECCA: Oh, I don't remember.

00:25:27.106 --> 00:25:27.626
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:25:27.626 --> 00:25:29.586
VIRGINIA: After that.

00:25:29.586 --> 00:25:33.846
REBECCA: Then we went back to the hotel because it was about 3.30.

00:25:33.846 --> 00:25:39.806
REBECCA: They said they would text us, which obviously I'm not getting text messages because I'm out of the country.

00:25:39.806 --> 00:25:45.046
REBECCA: So we just had planned to wait until after three o'clock, when we're sure the room is ready at three o'clock.

00:25:45.046 --> 00:25:45.586
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:25:45.586 --> 00:25:46.746
VIRGINIA: How was the room?

00:25:46.746 --> 00:25:47.766
REBECCA: It was beautiful.

00:25:47.766 --> 00:25:50.206
REBECCA: It was a long walk from the lobby though.

00:25:50.206 --> 00:25:53.266
REBECCA: If I could do it again, I would put in like, hey, special request.

00:25:53.266 --> 00:25:56.106
REBECCA: We'd like a room near the lobby because it was a pretty long walk.

00:25:56.106 --> 00:26:00.486
REBECCA: And there's only one entry point into the hotel.

00:26:00.486 --> 00:26:06.546
REBECCA: So it's not like we could, you know, there's two doors you can enter and we could just get in closer to our wing.

00:26:06.546 --> 00:26:08.206
REBECCA: No, there's no way to get in over there.

00:26:08.206 --> 00:26:12.566
REBECCA: You have to go into the main entrance and then walk all that way.

00:26:12.566 --> 00:26:16.546
VIRGINIA: Is that because it's so, it's basically right at the entrance of a park?

00:26:16.546 --> 00:26:17.406
REBECCA: I guess so.

00:26:17.406 --> 00:26:21.046
REBECCA: It's basically, they block the castle view with the hotel.

00:26:22.006 --> 00:26:24.066
REBECCA: Yeah, it's at the park entrance.

00:26:24.066 --> 00:26:25.146
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:26:25.146 --> 00:26:26.426
REBECCA: I don't know why they do it that way.

00:26:26.426 --> 00:26:28.946
REBECCA: Maybe, yeah, for security or I don't know.

00:26:28.946 --> 00:26:31.826
VIRGINIA: Anything special about the room to note?

00:26:31.826 --> 00:26:33.086
REBECCA: Well, our bags weren't there.

00:26:33.086 --> 00:26:37.766
REBECCA: And so we're like, oh, what's the point of being in a room if we can't change and get ready and stuff like that?

00:26:37.766 --> 00:26:43.206
REBECCA: So we called up and they did say that we were next on the list to have our bags brought up.

00:26:43.206 --> 00:26:44.006
REBECCA: It was really nice.

00:26:44.046 --> 00:26:49.906
REBECCA: They had like a Nespresso coffee maker and they had really nice loose leaf teas that we did bring home.

00:26:49.906 --> 00:26:54.746
REBECCA: And they they're in like the little chef set and they have like little flowers and stuff in them.

00:26:54.746 --> 00:26:56.206
REBECCA: So we've been liking those.

00:26:56.206 --> 00:27:00.746
REBECCA: When we came back that night, they had little cookies and stuff on the bed for us, too.

00:27:00.746 --> 00:27:01.926
VIRGINIA: Oh, that's cute.

00:27:01.926 --> 00:27:03.966
VIRGINIA: Were they macarons?

00:27:03.966 --> 00:27:05.966
REBECCA: It was actually some sort of nougat.

00:27:05.966 --> 00:27:06.186
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:27:06.186 --> 00:27:07.146
VIRGINIA: Oh, OK.

00:27:07.146 --> 00:27:08.366
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:27:08.366 --> 00:27:10.326
VIRGINIA: What was the theme of the room?

00:27:10.326 --> 00:27:13.586
REBECCA: I think we had requested Moana or Frozen or something like that.

00:27:13.646 --> 00:27:15.826
REBECCA: And we ended up getting Tiana's.

00:27:15.826 --> 00:27:16.926
REBECCA: So you would have liked it.

00:27:16.926 --> 00:27:18.126
VIRGINIA: I would have loved that.

00:27:18.126 --> 00:27:19.546
VIRGINIA: It would have.

00:27:19.546 --> 00:27:25.366
REBECCA: And some other things are small Disney details, like the seven dwarfs and the mirror in the bathroom.

00:27:25.366 --> 00:27:27.466
REBECCA: I mean, you could tell it was a five-star hotel.

00:27:27.466 --> 00:27:28.966
REBECCA: There wasn't a TV.

00:27:28.966 --> 00:27:30.286
REBECCA: It was a mirror.

00:27:30.286 --> 00:27:32.986
REBECCA: But then it's a TV inside the mirror.

00:27:32.986 --> 00:27:33.186
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:27:33.666 --> 00:27:34.126
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:27:34.126 --> 00:27:34.726
REBECCA: So that was cool.

00:27:34.726 --> 00:27:38.606
REBECCA: And then I discovered on the second day, there's like, what are these in the bathroom?

00:27:38.606 --> 00:27:40.086
REBECCA: What is this panel for?

00:27:40.086 --> 00:27:41.806
REBECCA: I'm like, oh, it's Bluetooth.

00:27:41.926 --> 00:27:47.266
REBECCA: So I connected my phone and we started, when we were getting ready in the mornings, jamming to like, Emo music in the bathroom.

00:27:47.266 --> 00:27:49.126
REBECCA: And, yeah.

00:27:49.126 --> 00:27:50.666
VIRGINIA: How very Disney of you.

00:27:50.666 --> 00:27:52.246
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:27:52.246 --> 00:27:54.526
REBECCA: So I love the new Disney Emo album.

00:27:57.046 --> 00:27:57.746
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:27:57.746 --> 00:28:01.186
VIRGINIA: So Vax came up and then you were able to get changed?

00:28:01.186 --> 00:28:01.446
REBECCA: Yep.

00:28:01.446 --> 00:28:03.686
REBECCA: And then we went to Studios Park.

00:28:03.686 --> 00:28:04.586
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:28:04.586 --> 00:28:11.286
VIRGINIA: So Studios Park, would you say that it was very comparable to Hollywood Studios?

00:28:11.686 --> 00:28:12.126
REBECCA: No.

00:28:12.126 --> 00:28:12.546
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:28:12.546 --> 00:28:12.966
REBECCA: No.

00:28:12.966 --> 00:28:14.206
REBECCA: It was much smaller.

00:28:14.206 --> 00:28:15.066
REBECCA: There's a lot of walls up.

00:28:15.066 --> 00:28:16.606
REBECCA: It's under construction.

00:28:16.606 --> 00:28:18.626
REBECCA: That didn't even particularly bother me that much.

00:28:18.626 --> 00:28:23.726
REBECCA: I could see if somebody is used to how it was before, it would probably lessen the experience.

00:28:23.726 --> 00:28:25.946
REBECCA: But since I'd never been there, it was fine for me.

00:28:25.946 --> 00:28:32.246
REBECCA: But they have like a small Toy Story land area with all different rides than what we have.

00:28:32.246 --> 00:28:37.446
REBECCA: And then they have like a really small cars land area with different rides than what we have.

00:28:37.446 --> 00:28:41.186
REBECCA: Other than I think maybe there's like that type of Mater one that Disneyland has.

00:28:41.186 --> 00:28:42.546
REBECCA: And then of course, they have Remy's.

00:28:42.546 --> 00:28:45.926
REBECCA: And then they have a Marvel land like at Disneyland.

00:28:45.926 --> 00:28:50.206
VIRGINIA: Okay, what would you say is like the big ride in that park?

00:28:50.206 --> 00:28:53.846
REBECCA: The Crush Coaster, which is Finding Nemo, which was really cute.

00:28:53.846 --> 00:28:56.626
REBECCA: And there's nothing like that anywhere else around the world.

00:28:56.626 --> 00:29:01.046
REBECCA: So I think that's why it's such a big attraction because there's just nothing like it.

00:29:01.066 --> 00:29:07.206
REBECCA: If you, if I have to compare it to one ride, I would say it's most comparable to like Guardians of the Galaxy.

00:29:07.766 --> 00:29:08.066
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:29:08.066 --> 00:29:13.346
VIRGINIA: Because I heard it has sort of a similar ride vehicle that will kind of turn on the track.

00:29:13.346 --> 00:29:13.886
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:29:13.886 --> 00:29:16.786
REBECCA: I definitely didn't like it as much as Guardians of the Galaxy.

00:29:16.786 --> 00:29:23.566
REBECCA: So they have, unlike Guardians of the Galaxy, two seats face forward and you're back to back and two seats face behind.

00:29:23.566 --> 00:29:26.746
REBECCA: And we did single rider, so we didn't have to wait too long.

00:29:26.746 --> 00:29:32.766
REBECCA: I was put in a behind seat and it's like, I thought maybe it would spin and I would be at the front some points.

00:29:32.766 --> 00:29:34.586
REBECCA: It would spin, but it would still be behind.

00:29:35.426 --> 00:29:40.946
REBECCA: And so just like going backwards the whole time didn't make me feel great.

00:29:40.946 --> 00:29:46.486
REBECCA: But I would feel like if I had a front, like a forward facing seat, I would have been fine and liked it a lot more.

00:29:46.486 --> 00:29:48.146
VIRGINIA: Did Amber have a forward facing seat?

00:29:48.146 --> 00:29:49.666
REBECCA: She did and she loved it.

00:29:49.666 --> 00:29:50.186
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:29:50.186 --> 00:29:51.586
REBECCA: And it is really cute.

00:29:51.586 --> 00:29:54.046
VIRGINIA: Did you ride this this first day?

00:29:54.046 --> 00:29:54.786
REBECCA: Yes.

00:29:54.786 --> 00:29:56.366
VIRGINIA: What other rides did you do in that part?

00:29:56.366 --> 00:30:06.486
VIRGINIA: Because I know that you were very interested in doing the cars ride and doing the Tower of Terror that they have there that's different and more spooky.

00:30:06.486 --> 00:30:06.826
REBECCA: Yes.

00:30:06.826 --> 00:30:10.586
REBECCA: We did do the cars ride, but there was like no line for it.

00:30:10.586 --> 00:30:12.166
REBECCA: It was basically just a tram.

00:30:12.166 --> 00:30:13.106
REBECCA: Amber didn't know anything.

00:30:13.106 --> 00:30:18.566
REBECCA: I knew some cause I had, you know, YouTube it, but she was like, Oh, is this tram like taking us to the ride?

00:30:18.566 --> 00:30:20.666
REBECCA: I'm like, no, this is the ride.

00:30:20.666 --> 00:30:21.306
VIRGINIA: I don't get it.

00:30:21.306 --> 00:30:26.086
VIRGINIA: What, what, like a tram is, what are you riding past?

00:30:26.086 --> 00:30:27.586
VIRGINIA: What does the tram look like?

00:30:27.646 --> 00:30:29.566
VIRGINIA: How is it, what makes it cars?

00:30:29.566 --> 00:30:31.806
REBECCA: It used to be re, it was rethemed to cars.

00:30:31.806 --> 00:30:37.406
REBECCA: It was something else before where it was like simulating like an earthquake and a flood.

00:30:37.406 --> 00:30:38.906
VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.

00:30:38.926 --> 00:30:40.886
REBECCA: So they just rethemed it to cars.

00:30:40.886 --> 00:30:46.106
REBECCA: So really you just take the tram and then you park in front of this mountain cars facade.

00:30:46.106 --> 00:30:51.426
REBECCA: And then there's some sort of earthquake and flood and you do get pretty wet.

00:30:51.426 --> 00:30:56.566
REBECCA: Like we saw the seats and I'm like, I'm going to sit on the right side cause clearly something goes on on the left.

00:30:57.146 --> 00:30:58.566
REBECCA: But then that was basically it.

00:30:58.566 --> 00:31:00.726
REBECCA: So I would say not great.

00:31:00.726 --> 00:31:04.886
VIRGINIA: When there's an earthquake and a flood, did you see any Cars characters?

00:31:04.886 --> 00:31:05.906
REBECCA: You do.

00:31:05.906 --> 00:31:06.666
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:31:06.666 --> 00:31:07.046
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:31:07.046 --> 00:31:09.586
REBECCA: And you have Cars characters like talk to you and stuff.

00:31:09.586 --> 00:31:10.106
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:31:10.106 --> 00:31:24.986
VIRGINIA: I feel like at some point back in the day, and I don't remember if it was in the old MGM studios or if it was in Universal, there was something like that where it was like a disaster type ride.

00:31:25.266 --> 00:31:26.366
REBECCA: I remember it in.

00:31:26.366 --> 00:31:30.226
REBECCA: I definitely remember in Universal, but I think they also had something at MGM.

00:31:30.226 --> 00:31:33.126
REBECCA: I think Disneyland Paris must have had that same thing.

00:31:33.126 --> 00:31:36.986
REBECCA: And then instead of getting rid of it, they just reseamed into Cars.

00:31:36.986 --> 00:31:37.506
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:31:37.506 --> 00:31:38.566
REBECCA: So not great.

00:31:38.566 --> 00:31:40.866
REBECCA: But it was closed the other days we were there, so I'm glad we did it.

00:31:40.866 --> 00:31:41.906
VIRGINIA: That's a plus.

00:31:41.906 --> 00:31:42.506
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:31:42.506 --> 00:31:47.346
REBECCA: And the reason we went to the park then is because we had our dinner at Remy's.

00:31:47.346 --> 00:31:52.346
REBECCA: And so we had time, we wrote it once and then went straight to dinner after.

00:31:52.786 --> 00:31:53.366
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:31:53.366 --> 00:31:55.346
VIRGINIA: How was dinner at Remy's?

00:31:55.346 --> 00:32:03.226
VIRGINIA: Because I know that you told me that you would feel like you were scaled to the size of a rat based on how the restaurant is decorated.

00:32:03.226 --> 00:32:04.146
REBECCA: It was really cute.

00:32:04.146 --> 00:32:05.106
REBECCA: I would recommend it.

00:32:05.106 --> 00:32:07.546
REBECCA: I mean, the food was good.

00:32:07.546 --> 00:32:09.206
REBECCA: We didn't have any complaints about our food.

00:32:09.206 --> 00:32:10.066
REBECCA: We ate it all.

00:32:10.066 --> 00:32:11.146
REBECCA: And yeah.

00:32:11.146 --> 00:32:12.506
VIRGINIA: Was it French food?

00:32:12.506 --> 00:32:15.986
REBECCA: It was, but I just got steak and fries.

00:32:15.986 --> 00:32:19.366
REBECCA: But then you could say, like, can I have ratatouille as a side?

00:32:19.606 --> 00:32:23.646
REBECCA: And they'll give you like a small little bowl of ratatouille.

00:32:24.466 --> 00:32:25.626
VIRGINIA: Did you do that?

00:32:25.626 --> 00:32:25.966
REBECCA: I did.

00:32:25.966 --> 00:32:26.426
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:32:26.426 --> 00:32:26.666
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:32:26.666 --> 00:32:27.426
VIRGINIA: Was it good?

00:32:27.426 --> 00:32:28.086
REBECCA: It was good.

00:32:28.086 --> 00:32:32.226
REBECCA: I mean, I have a lot of zucchini at home and cook like squash and stuff a lot.

00:32:32.226 --> 00:32:33.626
REBECCA: So for me, it's not that special.

00:32:33.626 --> 00:32:37.186
REBECCA: But if people aren't used to having that, I would say they need to try it.

00:32:37.186 --> 00:32:47.926
REBECCA: In fact, I was telling my friend about that basically, like zucchini, and it took me a full day, like out of nowhere the next day, I was trying to think of the English word for zucchini, because they call it something else.

00:32:47.926 --> 00:32:51.806
REBECCA: And then so out of nowhere the next day, I'm like, courgette, that's what they call it.

00:32:51.806 --> 00:32:54.666
REBECCA: Because all I could think of is aborigine, which is eggplant.

00:32:54.666 --> 00:33:03.486
VIRGINIA: My experience with Ratatouille at Epcot, because I was super excited to try it after the movie and everything, because they made it look so good.

00:33:03.486 --> 00:33:16.786
VIRGINIA: And as somebody who grew up eating a lot of zucchini and squash, as you are wont to do in the South, because it grows in abundance, I was just like, oh, okay, that's all this is.

00:33:16.786 --> 00:33:17.446
REBECCA: That's how I feel too.

00:33:17.446 --> 00:33:18.806
VIRGINIA: Felix loved it.

00:33:18.806 --> 00:33:22.506
VIRGINIA: And every time he sees it on a menu, he's like, oh, I'm going to get the ratatouille.

00:33:22.506 --> 00:33:25.626
VIRGINIA: So I'm like, okay, you do that.

00:33:25.646 --> 00:33:28.066
REBECCA: Yeah, so it was good.

00:33:28.066 --> 00:33:30.166
VIRGINIA: And the decor was cute?

00:33:30.166 --> 00:33:31.586
REBECCA: It was so cute, yeah.

00:33:31.586 --> 00:33:33.386
VIRGINIA: Were you sitting on a wine cork?

00:33:33.386 --> 00:33:35.106
REBECCA: Oh yeah, I was going to say like sitting on wine corks.

00:33:35.106 --> 00:33:39.926
REBECCA: We were in a booth, but still that meant we could see the decoration and stuff pretty well.

00:33:39.926 --> 00:33:40.666
VIRGINIA: Cute.

00:33:40.666 --> 00:33:41.026
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:33:41.026 --> 00:33:46.406
VIRGINIA: I'm imagining that it looked like the end scene of the Remy ride.

00:33:46.406 --> 00:33:47.646
REBECCA: Yeah, that's exactly.

00:33:47.646 --> 00:33:48.486
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:33:48.486 --> 00:33:49.366
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:33:49.366 --> 00:33:53.706
REBECCA: That's what we went on the ride and immediately walked into the restaurant that's connected to it.

00:33:53.706 --> 00:33:59.506
REBECCA: When you get off the ride, it's like a glass window, wall and you see into the restaurant.

00:33:59.506 --> 00:34:00.486
VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.

00:34:00.486 --> 00:34:03.746
VIRGINIA: It blends in with that ending.

00:34:03.886 --> 00:34:04.906
REBECCA: Yes.

00:34:04.906 --> 00:34:05.866
VIRGINIA: That's really cute.

00:34:05.866 --> 00:34:07.106
VIRGINIA: I wish we had that.

00:34:07.106 --> 00:34:07.906
REBECCA: I know.

00:34:07.906 --> 00:34:09.146
REBECCA: Opportunity missed.

00:34:09.186 --> 00:34:09.886
VIRGINIA: I know.

00:34:09.886 --> 00:34:11.026
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:34:11.026 --> 00:34:12.106
VIRGINIA: What did you do after dinner?

00:34:14.066 --> 00:34:18.326
REBECCA: We were very exhausted, so we went back to the hotel and went to sleep.

00:34:18.326 --> 00:34:19.126
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:34:19.126 --> 00:34:20.986
VIRGINIA: What time would you say this was?

00:34:20.986 --> 00:34:22.666
REBECCA: Eight or nine?

00:34:22.666 --> 00:34:23.926
REBECCA: Probably about eight.

00:34:23.926 --> 00:34:25.326
VIRGINIA: No sleep the night before.

00:34:25.846 --> 00:34:27.886
VIRGINIA: Did Amber get any sleep on the plane?

00:34:27.886 --> 00:34:32.686
REBECCA: I think she got some, but I think we were both jet-lagged and ready for bed.

00:34:32.686 --> 00:34:34.626
REBECCA: She goes to bed really early anyway.

00:34:34.626 --> 00:34:36.006
REBECCA: I'm a night owl.

00:34:36.006 --> 00:34:36.986
REBECCA: She is not.

00:34:36.986 --> 00:34:37.846
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:34:37.846 --> 00:34:46.766
VIRGINIA: Friday, November 8th, because listeners, in case you're confused about the dates, she flew on the 6th, arrived on the morning of the 7th.

00:34:46.766 --> 00:34:53.386
VIRGINIA: The following day, November 8th, you had plans to rope drop Crush's coaster.

00:34:53.386 --> 00:34:58.466
VIRGINIA: Did you continue with that plan or because you had already written it, skip that?

00:34:58.466 --> 00:35:01.306
REBECCA: We skipped that, but we did rope drop Studios Park.

00:35:01.306 --> 00:35:04.606
REBECCA: We did go to that park that we thought we would.

00:35:04.606 --> 00:35:09.606
REBECCA: But we went directly to Adventures Campus because we hadn't been there yet.

00:35:09.606 --> 00:35:14.266
REBECCA: That was probably my favorite part because I'm a big Marvel fan.

00:35:14.266 --> 00:35:21.126
REBECCA: We went to Web Slingers, like this Spider-Man ride, same as California has.

00:35:22.226 --> 00:35:26.106
REBECCA: It was still early park admission, so there was no wait whatsoever.

00:35:26.346 --> 00:35:32.846
REBECCA: I felt like I knew all the tricks because I'd been on the one in California, so I would wait by the side of the door that's about to open.

00:35:33.126 --> 00:35:36.626
REBECCA: We were literally probably like the first people at the park on the ride.

00:35:36.626 --> 00:35:37.546
REBECCA: But it was interesting.

00:35:37.546 --> 00:35:51.266
REBECCA: In fact, memory came up on my phone the other day of when I was in California Adventure, and it's a clip that I took in the pre-show of Peter Parker talking about how the cloning technology of the little Tracy robots works.

00:35:51.266 --> 00:35:58.306
REBECCA: I had taken that same exact clip in Paris and he has a totally different voice than speaking French the whole time.

00:35:58.306 --> 00:36:00.086
REBECCA: I need to put those side by side.

00:36:00.086 --> 00:36:01.586
VIRGINIA: Oh yeah, that's really cool.

00:36:01.966 --> 00:36:03.786
VIRGINIA: How did you do score wise?

00:36:03.786 --> 00:36:09.166
REBECCA: Oh, I had best of the day, but I was one of the first of the day.

00:36:09.166 --> 00:36:10.946
VIRGINIA: Right, whether that held on.

00:36:10.946 --> 00:36:16.386
REBECCA: I think I took a picture because it's like, I was in French but I could tell it said best of the day.

00:36:16.386 --> 00:36:17.546
REBECCA: I'm holding on to that.

00:36:17.546 --> 00:36:18.766
REBECCA: I'll take a win.

00:36:18.766 --> 00:36:34.446
VIRGINIA: I think it was my friend Ashlee, Ashlee Everafter, who said that when she did it in California, she discovered that if you did finger guns, it worked the same as doing the movement you're supposed to do and it was much easier to score.

00:36:34.446 --> 00:36:35.406
REBECCA: Oh, really?

00:36:35.406 --> 00:36:35.606
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:36:35.626 --> 00:36:38.266
REBECCA: I just aim for the gold ones.

00:36:38.266 --> 00:36:39.906
REBECCA: Those give you the highest points.

00:36:39.906 --> 00:36:42.806
VIRGINIA: So what did you do after Avengers Campus?

00:36:42.806 --> 00:36:45.106
VIRGINIA: Or is there another ride in that part of the park?

00:36:45.106 --> 00:36:49.266
REBECCA: There is, but there wasn't one that was open yet.

00:36:49.266 --> 00:36:55.646
REBECCA: Because only some rides open in early park entry at each park and you don't really know what they are until you get there.

00:36:55.646 --> 00:36:56.126
VIRGINIA: Oh, you don't?

00:36:56.126 --> 00:36:58.246
VIRGINIA: It's not indicated in the app or anything?

00:36:58.326 --> 00:37:02.126
REBECCA: It might be, but yeah, I think it can change on a daily basis.

00:37:02.126 --> 00:37:03.146
VIRGINIA: Wow, okay.

00:37:03.146 --> 00:37:03.666
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:37:03.666 --> 00:37:06.266
REBECCA: But I mean, you have an idea.

00:37:06.266 --> 00:37:07.686
REBECCA: So we went on Tower of Terror next.

00:37:07.686 --> 00:37:11.146
REBECCA: That was only like a 10 minute wait because it's still early park entry.

00:37:11.146 --> 00:37:12.266
VIRGINIA: So how is this different?

00:37:12.266 --> 00:37:16.986
VIRGINIA: Because I know that you told me that you are not a Tower of Terror person.

00:37:16.986 --> 00:37:22.386
VIRGINIA: In fact, you hate the one in Florida, but you do like the Guardians one in California.

00:37:22.386 --> 00:37:25.306
VIRGINIA: So describe this one to me.

00:37:25.306 --> 00:37:27.046
REBECCA: This was my favorite ride of the whole trip.

00:37:27.446 --> 00:37:28.826
REBECCA: I don't know why it's such a...

00:37:28.826 --> 00:37:32.866
REBECCA: Yes, that's the most shocking thing because I do not like the one in Florida.

00:37:32.866 --> 00:37:36.246
VIRGINIA: But this one was also like a scary theme, not a Guardians theme.

00:37:36.246 --> 00:37:38.946
REBECCA: Yes, this one was the same type of theme.

00:37:38.946 --> 00:37:39.406
REBECCA: I don't know.

00:37:39.406 --> 00:37:41.126
REBECCA: I feel like the motion, it's fun.

00:37:41.126 --> 00:37:47.166
REBECCA: It was a fun motion, not like I was trying to scare you, but I still thought it was thrillingly fun.

00:37:47.166 --> 00:37:52.886
REBECCA: Not like, I can't wait for this to stop like I have in Florida.

00:37:52.886 --> 00:37:54.966
VIRGINIA: How long has it been since you've ridden the one in Florida?

00:37:55.286 --> 00:37:55.546
REBECCA: Let's see.

00:37:55.546 --> 00:38:00.286
REBECCA: My son was three and he's six now, so probably about three years.

00:38:00.286 --> 00:38:00.566
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:38:00.566 --> 00:38:03.366
VIRGINIA: I mean, that's recent enough to know how you feel about it.

00:38:03.366 --> 00:38:06.026
VIRGINIA: I was wondering if it had been longer than that.

00:38:06.026 --> 00:38:16.486
VIRGINIA: Does this one in Paris come out of one shaft and go to another shaft to do the dropping or does it all stay within one elevator shaft?

00:38:16.486 --> 00:38:29.286
REBECCA: It all stays in one elevator, but it opens up and they have the projections and they have this little girl saying like, I warned you and they're mainly talking French the whole time every now and then she'll say something in English.

00:38:29.286 --> 00:38:31.806
VIRGINIA: What was the theming of it besides being scary?

00:38:32.946 --> 00:38:34.746
VIRGINIA: Was it Hollywoodish?

00:38:35.206 --> 00:38:50.466
REBECCA: It was still Tower of Terror and it was still, oh man, I even I love the way they said it in French because I can't remember what it was said, but I kept on repeating it over and over because it sounded so cool, but it was still Violet Zone, but they obviously had the people speaking French.

00:38:51.306 --> 00:38:54.366
VIRGINIA: Did they have the pre-show with the, okay.

00:38:54.366 --> 00:38:57.286
REBECCA: Yeah, they saw the pre-show, all in French.

00:38:57.286 --> 00:38:59.486
VIRGINIA: Did it sound like Rod Sterling?

00:38:59.486 --> 00:39:00.926
REBECCA: No, I mean, I don't think so.

00:39:00.926 --> 00:39:05.586
REBECCA: Most of the Peter Parker especially, I'm like, oh, that doesn't sound like Peter Parker.

00:39:05.586 --> 00:39:07.706
REBECCA: Most of the French dub don't really sound like them.

00:39:07.706 --> 00:39:13.986
REBECCA: Other than Mater, I'm like French Mater was so funny, have like a Mater accent, but in French.

00:39:13.986 --> 00:39:18.946
VIRGINIA: So favorite ride, did you end up doing it more than just the one time?

00:39:18.946 --> 00:39:19.726
REBECCA: Yes.

00:39:19.726 --> 00:39:25.486
REBECCA: In fact, I think we tried to do it three times, but then it broke down one of the times and we're like, I forget it.

00:39:25.486 --> 00:39:27.866
REBECCA: But we definitely did it twice on the trip.

00:39:27.866 --> 00:39:28.326
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:39:28.326 --> 00:39:30.446
VIRGINIA: Where did you go after this?

00:39:30.446 --> 00:39:35.146
REBECCA: When we got off that, Web Slingers was still only showing five minutes and Tower of Terror was now showing 20.

00:39:35.146 --> 00:39:40.246
REBECCA: We're like, oh, we probably should have reversed it and did Tower of Terror first and then did the Spider-Man ride.

00:39:40.246 --> 00:39:47.466
REBECCA: But Flight Force is an Iron Man themed roller coaster, like indoor, but it was still closed.

00:39:47.466 --> 00:39:50.586
REBECCA: So we started walking the other direction.

00:39:50.586 --> 00:39:53.826
REBECCA: And that's when I saw the Goofy in the golfing outfit.

00:39:53.826 --> 00:39:55.566
REBECCA: So we had to stop and talk to him.

00:39:55.566 --> 00:39:57.906
REBECCA: Then we checked and Flight Force said it was open.

00:39:57.906 --> 00:40:00.606
REBECCA: So then we rushed back there and it was only a five-minute wait.

00:40:00.806 --> 00:40:02.126
REBECCA: So we went on that.

00:40:02.126 --> 00:40:07.006
REBECCA: And yeah, there's like a Iron Man animatronic speaking French in it.

00:40:07.006 --> 00:40:08.666
REBECCA: And so that was cool.

00:40:08.666 --> 00:40:15.046
REBECCA: And on the ride, it's Iron Man and Captain America, or Captain Marvel working together to defeat somebody.

00:40:15.046 --> 00:40:16.866
REBECCA: But they're speaking English on the ride.

00:40:16.866 --> 00:40:20.566
REBECCA: Or weirdly Captain Marvel is, but Iron Man is speaking French.

00:40:20.566 --> 00:40:22.066
REBECCA: Don't know why, but...

00:40:22.066 --> 00:40:28.226
VIRGINIA: What would you compare it to in terms of another coaster that we would be familiar with?

00:40:28.226 --> 00:40:29.586
REBECCA: I guess still like Space Mountain.

00:40:29.726 --> 00:40:34.246
REBECCA: It's indoor, and it's dark, and it's in space.

00:40:34.246 --> 00:40:37.126
REBECCA: So that's still kind of Space Mountain-y.

00:40:37.126 --> 00:40:38.646
VIRGINIA: Any loops or anything?

00:40:38.646 --> 00:40:41.626
REBECCA: Oh, actually, this was a re-theme of Aerosmith.

00:40:41.626 --> 00:40:51.206
REBECCA: So I guess very comparable to Aerosmith, but since it was in space, the vibes are more Space Mountain, but the ride itself is identical to Aerosmith.

00:40:51.206 --> 00:40:57.686
VIRGINIA: Got it, which we will not have for that much longer because it's becoming the Muppets in Hollywood.

00:40:57.686 --> 00:40:59.786
REBECCA: No one saw that coming.

00:40:59.786 --> 00:41:01.286
VIRGINIA: No, no.

00:41:01.286 --> 00:41:02.166
REBECCA: I don't hate it.

00:41:02.166 --> 00:41:03.946
REBECCA: I mean, I'm okay with it.

00:41:03.946 --> 00:41:08.466
VIRGINIA: Whenever anybody would throw out guesses as to how they would re-theme it, it was always another band.

00:41:09.226 --> 00:41:11.826
VIRGINIA: I mean, not that the Muppets don't have a band because-

00:41:11.826 --> 00:41:13.166
REBECCA: I love Animal.

00:41:13.166 --> 00:41:17.966
VIRGINIA: Yes, they do have a band, but I'm excited for it.

00:41:18.866 --> 00:41:21.106
VIRGINIA: I don't know, I'm going to miss Muppets 3D.

00:41:22.766 --> 00:41:24.526
VIRGINIA: And in a lot of ways, I'm going to-

00:41:24.526 --> 00:41:25.266
VIRGINIA: Oh, you didn't?

00:41:25.266 --> 00:41:26.726
REBECCA: No, I've never been on it.

00:41:27.066 --> 00:41:29.686
VIRGINIA: You could watch it on YouTube and be just fine.

00:41:29.686 --> 00:41:35.366
VIRGINIA: But in a lot of ways, I'll miss the Aerosmith version too, because there's so many little things.

00:41:35.366 --> 00:41:37.326
VIRGINIA: The counting down in your ear before you leave.

00:41:37.326 --> 00:41:38.786
REBECCA: The Iron Man one has that.

00:41:38.786 --> 00:41:44.346
REBECCA: They say like five, four, three, two, and then they blast off because it's the same ride.

00:41:44.346 --> 00:41:45.786
VIRGINIA: But it's not Steven Tyler.

00:41:45.786 --> 00:41:48.026
VIRGINIA: That's to me, the iconic part.

00:41:48.946 --> 00:41:54.386
VIRGINIA: Anyway, I'm just excited for trying it in a new way like that with The Muppets.

00:41:54.386 --> 00:42:01.666
VIRGINIA: But I would also love to do it with the Avengers characters because I love those movies.

00:42:03.086 --> 00:42:06.866
VIRGINIA: When you were going through the ride, are you passing by anything?

00:42:06.866 --> 00:42:09.826
VIRGINIA: Is there anything to look at or is it just dark?

00:42:09.826 --> 00:42:23.466
REBECCA: They have screens where you'll see like Iron Man and Captain Marvel shooting stuff, and you'll see like laser like things go by and stars and planets, but explosions every now and then, that kind of thing.

00:42:23.466 --> 00:42:23.986
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:42:23.986 --> 00:42:25.486
VIRGINIA: Well, it sounds like fun.

00:42:25.486 --> 00:42:26.286
REBECCA: We liked it a lot.

00:42:26.286 --> 00:42:28.146
REBECCA: We went on that more than once as well.

00:42:28.146 --> 00:42:39.586
REBECCA: We did grab like a Panochoc a lot at like a stand there and just kind of took pictures and people watch for a while because we're like, I think we've done everything we wanted to do between yesterday and today.

00:42:40.006 --> 00:42:43.426
REBECCA: They have virtual queues there where you can like meet Spider-Man and stuff.

00:42:43.686 --> 00:42:45.406
REBECCA: So I did join the virtual queue.

00:42:45.406 --> 00:42:50.626
REBECCA: I didn't actually end up going to any of those because I didn't have to do it.

00:42:50.626 --> 00:42:54.566
REBECCA: It was just, oh, if we're around the area when it's time, then I'll meet Spider-Man.

00:42:54.566 --> 00:42:55.866
VIRGINIA: And your number got called?

00:42:55.866 --> 00:42:57.446
REBECCA: It did hours later, but.

00:42:57.446 --> 00:42:58.066
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:42:58.066 --> 00:42:59.886
REBECCA: Which I hear they're pretty relaxed on it.

00:42:59.886 --> 00:43:02.746
REBECCA: Like you can show up hours later and they'll still honor it.

00:43:02.746 --> 00:43:06.106
REBECCA: It's just if it's been probably five hours, then it's canceled.

00:43:06.126 --> 00:43:06.646
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:43:06.646 --> 00:43:11.206
VIRGINIA: Well, what else did you do in the Studios Park before you did your park hopping?

00:43:12.186 --> 00:43:13.646
REBECCA: We went shopping.

00:43:14.866 --> 00:43:23.146
REBECCA: I bought a bunch and then we were just waiting for, they have like this little diner place in the Marvel land that didn't open until 11.

00:43:23.146 --> 00:43:27.746
REBECCA: By this point, it was maybe 10, so we had to kill like an hour and they had shawarma there.

00:43:27.746 --> 00:43:30.786
REBECCA: But they have that at California Adventure too in Marvel land.

00:43:30.786 --> 00:43:37.066
REBECCA: I guess it's like a superhero thing, shawarma that they grab at a stand in New York or whatever.

00:43:37.066 --> 00:43:39.886
REBECCA: So I really wanted the shawarma, so we waited for it.

00:43:40.166 --> 00:43:41.206
REBECCA: It was pretty good.

00:43:41.206 --> 00:43:43.906
VIRGINIA: And after that, you did your hopping.

00:43:43.906 --> 00:43:46.926
REBECCA: Yes, we went back to the room and changed.

00:43:46.926 --> 00:43:52.866
REBECCA: That's the luxury of staying at the Disneyland Paris Hotel because it's right there, so you can just go back a lot.

00:43:52.866 --> 00:43:53.906
REBECCA: So then we changed.

00:43:53.906 --> 00:43:56.506
REBECCA: This is when I got into my Alice in Wonderland bounding.

00:43:56.506 --> 00:43:58.006
VIRGINIA: Yes, yes, yes.

00:43:58.006 --> 00:44:02.986
VIRGINIA: You told us about that in the pre-trip, so people who listen to that will know all about it.

00:44:02.986 --> 00:44:03.806
REBECCA: Amber surprised me.

00:44:03.806 --> 00:44:07.126
REBECCA: She did a lot of good bounding too, mainly like really themed outfits.

00:44:07.566 --> 00:44:09.866
REBECCA: This was her Lilo and Stitch day.

00:44:09.866 --> 00:44:10.126
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:44:10.126 --> 00:44:12.886
VIRGINIA: I was going to ask if any of your looks were coordinated with each other.

00:44:12.886 --> 00:44:13.586
REBECCA: They were not coordinated.

00:44:13.586 --> 00:44:14.226
REBECCA: She surprised me.

00:44:14.226 --> 00:44:16.566
REBECCA: I did not even know she was doing it.

00:44:17.866 --> 00:44:19.306
VIRGINIA: She's full of surprises.

00:44:19.306 --> 00:44:19.786
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:44:19.786 --> 00:44:23.346
VIRGINIA: So what did you do over in Disneyland this day?

00:44:23.346 --> 00:44:32.066
REBECCA: We went to the Indiana Jones roller coaster because we're like, let's just knock out all the big rides and do the roller coaster, and that's the only roller coaster we hadn't done between the two parks yet.

00:44:32.066 --> 00:44:32.966
REBECCA: Oh, and Big Thunder.

00:44:33.706 --> 00:44:34.686
REBECCA: So we did those two.

00:44:34.686 --> 00:44:36.486
REBECCA: We knew we had to knock those out.

00:44:37.046 --> 00:44:40.306
VIRGINIA: I understand that Big Thunder there is one of the best.

00:44:40.306 --> 00:44:41.386
VIRGINIA: Would you agree?

00:44:41.386 --> 00:44:42.126
REBECCA: It was good.

00:44:42.126 --> 00:44:48.126
REBECCA: I don't think it deserves all the hypocrites because it's very similar to the one in California, I feel like.

00:44:48.126 --> 00:44:58.806
REBECCA: The only difference is you go on a tunnel, but there's a lot of coasters that go underwater in a tunnel, maybe not Disney roller coasters, but in general, it's a thing we've seen here, but it was good.

00:44:58.806 --> 00:45:01.466
REBECCA: So I would say, yes, best version of Big Thunder.

00:45:01.466 --> 00:45:03.926
VIRGINIA: What was the Indiana Jones coaster like?

00:45:04.046 --> 00:45:07.606
VIRGINIA: Because the Indiana Jones ride in California is not a coaster.

00:45:07.606 --> 00:45:09.246
REBECCA: No, and it was nothing like that.

00:45:09.246 --> 00:45:12.486
REBECCA: It was a small, like picture Donkey Kong.

00:45:12.486 --> 00:45:14.146
REBECCA: You know what that one's going to look like?

00:45:14.146 --> 00:45:16.786
REBECCA: What's like carts, like mine carts?

00:45:17.506 --> 00:45:18.546
REBECCA: It's like that.

00:45:18.546 --> 00:45:24.286
REBECCA: And you're going through, I guess, where the ball rolls, I guess, the temple kind of thing.

00:45:24.286 --> 00:45:29.686
REBECCA: You don't see the ball or anything like that, but you're like in the temple in a mine cart is the idea.

00:45:29.686 --> 00:45:31.186
REBECCA: And you do a 360 loop.

00:45:31.246 --> 00:45:32.026
VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.

00:45:32.026 --> 00:45:33.186
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:45:33.186 --> 00:45:33.806
VIRGINIA: That sounds cool.

00:45:33.806 --> 00:45:36.906
REBECCA: But it's because you do a loop, I guess, you have like the over the head harness.

00:45:36.906 --> 00:45:40.986
REBECCA: And so you're like head is banging between them the whole time, like pinball.

00:45:40.986 --> 00:45:42.506
REBECCA: Everyone complaints about that.

00:45:42.506 --> 00:45:47.186
VIRGINIA: Hopefully, you weren't wearing earrings that had Vax that were stabbing you in the head.

00:45:47.186 --> 00:45:47.766
VIRGINIA: Because that's what his hair.

00:45:47.766 --> 00:45:49.266
REBECCA: I don't have my ears pierced.

00:45:49.266 --> 00:45:49.906
VIRGINIA: Oh, you don't?

00:45:49.906 --> 00:45:50.206
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:45:50.206 --> 00:45:50.566
REBECCA: No.

00:45:50.566 --> 00:45:54.766
VIRGINIA: Well, that's a downside of having your ears pierced when you ride a ride like that.

00:45:54.766 --> 00:45:58.506
VIRGINIA: You're like, I have a hole in my head now, like more holes than I had before.

00:45:58.506 --> 00:46:06.926
REBECCA: Yeah, I did have like a bow hair clip for my Alice in Wonderland one that I had to like make sure the clip wasn't banging against the back of the headrest.

00:46:06.926 --> 00:46:09.006
REBECCA: And of course, I took ears off for all these.

00:46:09.006 --> 00:46:10.006
REBECCA: Oh, and here's a difference.

00:46:10.006 --> 00:46:17.766
REBECCA: I noticed at Disneyland Paris versus Walt Disney World fanny packs, I was using like something small like this, like a belt bag is fine.

00:46:17.766 --> 00:46:23.326
REBECCA: And you can go and ride like that at Disney World fine, but they were very strict and would not let you wear it.

00:46:23.326 --> 00:46:27.566
REBECCA: You had to take it off and put it on the floor, which I'm like, that is less secure.

00:46:28.106 --> 00:46:30.646
VIRGINIA: But did they not have little pockets?

00:46:30.926 --> 00:46:36.666
REBECCA: Some rides did, other rides like literally, I just put the loop, like the bag loop through my leg.

00:46:36.666 --> 00:46:37.446
VIRGINIA: Around a foot.

00:46:37.446 --> 00:46:39.586
REBECCA: Yeah, that's a difference.

00:46:39.586 --> 00:46:41.486
REBECCA: Oh, and then we went to the castle.

00:46:41.486 --> 00:46:43.846
VIRGINIA: Did you get your champagne?

00:46:43.846 --> 00:46:44.646
REBECCA: We did.

00:46:44.646 --> 00:46:50.006
REBECCA: And we had to wait in a little bit of a line, but you could see them like just, they already had, they knew what people were there for.

00:46:50.006 --> 00:46:54.066
REBECCA: They had pre, you know, just fill in all the glasses of champagne.

00:46:54.066 --> 00:47:03.586
REBECCA: And it's like 20 euros, but it's like a hard plastic-y champagne glass that you get to keep when it says Disneyland Paris.

00:47:03.586 --> 00:47:04.506
VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.

00:47:04.506 --> 00:47:05.786
VIRGINIA: That's worth it.

00:47:05.786 --> 00:47:06.626
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:47:06.626 --> 00:47:10.446
REBECCA: And we took the glass under the castle to meet the dragon.

00:47:10.446 --> 00:47:12.566
VIRGINIA: And got some cute pictures?

00:47:12.566 --> 00:47:12.966
REBECCA: Yes.

00:47:12.966 --> 00:47:14.886
REBECCA: Not necessarily of the dragon because it was so dark.

00:47:14.886 --> 00:47:18.526
REBECCA: It's hard to get pictures, but we did get lots of good pictures, you know, of the castle.

00:47:18.526 --> 00:47:19.486
REBECCA: Yes, of the castle, not the dragon.

00:47:19.586 --> 00:47:28.366
VIRGINIA: I should have verified because I was picturing you all with your champagne flutes and toasting and looking all cute in your bounds.

00:47:28.366 --> 00:47:35.986
REBECCA: We took it to the Alice in Wonderland maze because I'm like, well, we have to because I'm dressed as Alice in Wonderland.

00:47:35.986 --> 00:47:37.386
VIRGINIA: How was that maze?

00:47:37.386 --> 00:47:38.966
VIRGINIA: I've seen people doing it on YouTube.

00:47:38.966 --> 00:47:40.246
VIRGINIA: Was it difficult?

00:47:40.246 --> 00:47:43.666
REBECCA: Well, at first we were going in at like, no care in the world.

00:47:43.666 --> 00:47:48.166
REBECCA: And then when we got to like, they have like a tiny little castle inside the maze, you can climb up.

00:47:48.166 --> 00:47:50.606
REBECCA: And we're like, there's a parade going on.

00:47:50.606 --> 00:47:52.026
REBECCA: We were going to see that parade.

00:47:52.026 --> 00:47:54.946
REBECCA: And on the app, it said it was going to start at 5.30.

00:47:54.946 --> 00:47:58.966
REBECCA: We even asked a cast member on our way to the maze, hey, when does the parade start?

00:47:58.966 --> 00:47:59.986
REBECCA: Because people were lining up.

00:47:59.986 --> 00:48:01.246
REBECCA: We're like, they're crazy.

00:48:01.246 --> 00:48:03.806
REBECCA: It doesn't start for over another hour.

00:48:03.806 --> 00:48:07.066
REBECCA: And they said 5.30 and then it started at 4.30.

00:48:07.066 --> 00:48:16.686
REBECCA: So that was a little bit, but we were told after the fact when I complained on Facebook or whatever, somebody said that, oh, it's because the park closed an hour early.

00:48:16.786 --> 00:48:20.386
REBECCA: So everything got bumped up an hour, but the app didn't show that.

00:48:20.386 --> 00:48:23.666
VIRGINIA: Oh, well, that would have been nice to know.

00:48:23.666 --> 00:48:24.726
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:48:24.726 --> 00:48:28.646
VIRGINIA: I was sitting here thinking, like, do they have a daylight savings time sort of thing going on?

00:48:28.646 --> 00:48:29.666
REBECCA: That's what we were wondering.

00:48:29.666 --> 00:48:30.126
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:48:30.126 --> 00:48:35.126
REBECCA: But it was just because the park closed early, they bumped up everything and we didn't show it on the app.

00:48:35.126 --> 00:48:38.986
VIRGINIA: So how long did it take you to get out of the maze?

00:48:38.986 --> 00:48:39.286
REBECCA: Right.

00:48:39.286 --> 00:48:42.246
REBECCA: We're like, oh, well, maybe we can catch the end of the parade.

00:48:42.246 --> 00:48:44.026
REBECCA: And we're like, we can't find our way out of the maze now.

00:48:45.406 --> 00:48:52.846
REBECCA: We were just taking pictures and having such a good time, drinking our champagne, walking through the maze, and then we actually needed to get out and we could not.

00:48:52.846 --> 00:48:54.386
REBECCA: So it took a little bit.

00:48:54.386 --> 00:48:58.506
REBECCA: But then we walked through the castle and could see some of the tail end of the parade.

00:48:58.506 --> 00:49:01.386
VIRGINIA: And you weren't able to catch the parade on any other day?

00:49:01.386 --> 00:49:02.106
REBECCA: No.

00:49:02.106 --> 00:49:05.486
REBECCA: Other than the Christmas parade the next day, we did see the Christmas parade.

00:49:05.486 --> 00:49:10.546
VIRGINIA: Did you get anything else done this day before heading to your lunch reservation?

00:49:10.546 --> 00:49:13.206
REBECCA: We were going to go back to Phantom Manor since we were over there.

00:49:13.866 --> 00:49:17.026
REBECCA: When we were riding Big Thunder Mountain and stuff like that.

00:49:17.026 --> 00:49:24.766
REBECCA: But then I got distracted by Jack Skellington in his Santa outfit at the gazebo in front of Phantom Manor, meeting people.

00:49:24.766 --> 00:49:28.126
REBECCA: And he wasn't supposed to until the next day when Christmas stuff started.

00:49:28.126 --> 00:49:30.086
REBECCA: So it was kind of magical.

00:49:30.166 --> 00:49:32.486
REBECCA: I'm like, we have to go and meet him.

00:49:32.486 --> 00:49:33.906
REBECCA: I've never once met him.

00:49:33.906 --> 00:49:37.646
REBECCA: And when I was five, I used to say, my favorite movie is Nightmare Before Christmas.

00:49:37.646 --> 00:49:39.586
REBECCA: And I had never met him in Disney World.

00:49:39.586 --> 00:49:41.766
REBECCA: So we met Jack Skellington.

00:49:41.766 --> 00:49:42.666
VIRGINIA: How long was the wait?

00:49:43.346 --> 00:49:46.606
REBECCA: Ten minutes, it was only maybe five families in front of us.

00:49:46.606 --> 00:49:49.626
REBECCA: But he just took such a good quality time with everybody.

00:49:49.626 --> 00:49:50.626
VIRGINIA: Oh, that's amazing.

00:49:50.626 --> 00:49:56.786
VIRGINIA: When you get to meet him at the party in Florida, everybody talks about the fact that it's hours long.

00:49:56.786 --> 00:49:57.506
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:49:57.506 --> 00:49:57.886
VIRGINIA: Ten minutes.

00:49:57.886 --> 00:50:00.646
REBECCA: That's why we just stumbled upon it was not listed on the app.

00:50:00.646 --> 00:50:03.346
REBECCA: We were just going to Phantom Manor and he just happened to be meeting there.

00:50:03.346 --> 00:50:09.326
VIRGINIA: And if he's more common there, maybe he's not as much of a draw for the people who go to that park regularly.

00:50:09.326 --> 00:50:13.266
REBECCA: Me and Amber have a bunch of inside jokes because there was a British person that was passing by as we were waiting.

00:50:13.266 --> 00:50:15.526
REBECCA: He was like, Oh, it's a skull bloke.

00:50:15.526 --> 00:50:18.626
REBECCA: So now we call Jack Skellington the skull bloke.

00:50:18.626 --> 00:50:19.946
VIRGINIA: That's funny.

00:50:23.006 --> 00:50:23.706
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:50:23.706 --> 00:50:25.846
VIRGINIA: What was after Jack Skellington?

00:50:25.846 --> 00:50:31.386
REBECCA: Amber went and she got a snack while I went on the teacups because she wasn't interested in the spinning.

00:50:31.386 --> 00:50:32.866
REBECCA: And I'm like, it's so cute.

00:50:32.866 --> 00:50:34.726
REBECCA: They have like a, it looks different there.

00:50:34.726 --> 00:50:37.926
REBECCA: So I'm like, I have to have to do it.

00:50:37.926 --> 00:50:40.946
REBECCA: Then we did Star Tours because we hadn't done that yet.

00:50:42.066 --> 00:50:48.466
REBECCA: And then I don't think this is in the right order, but we did go back and do Phantom Manor for the second time at some point.

00:50:48.466 --> 00:50:51.766
REBECCA: We didn't stay for fireworks though.

00:50:51.766 --> 00:50:59.466
VIRGINIA: Yeah, I know that you said that on this day, because it was closing early, that you had made dinner reservations for outside of the park.

00:50:59.466 --> 00:51:02.666
VIRGINIA: Did you make it to that lunch reservation though at Walt's American Diner?

00:51:02.666 --> 00:51:04.286
REBECCA: Oh no, I skipped all that.

00:51:04.326 --> 00:51:05.026
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:51:05.026 --> 00:51:06.046
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:51:06.046 --> 00:51:12.286
VIRGINIA: So when you did leave the park, you were heading to a dinner reservation at the Marvel Hotel.

00:51:12.286 --> 00:51:13.286
REBECCA: Yes.

00:51:13.286 --> 00:51:19.566
VIRGINIA: So as a Marvel fan, what did you think about the Marvel Hotel and did it make you wish you would stay there?

00:51:19.566 --> 00:51:25.046
REBECCA: I did love it, but I don't think I would have want to stay there without my kids because they would have liked it so much too.

00:51:25.046 --> 00:51:29.766
REBECCA: And I just felt guilty when Disneyland Hotel, they, you know, whatever, it's wasted on them.

00:51:29.766 --> 00:51:31.826
REBECCA: But yeah, they would have loved the Marvel Hotel.

00:51:31.826 --> 00:51:37.486
REBECCA: It was more of a walk to the park, like because you had to go through downtown Disney.

00:51:37.486 --> 00:51:38.486
REBECCA: It was a lot longer.

00:51:38.486 --> 00:51:45.166
REBECCA: I mean, it's probably only a 10 minute walk, but I just got really spoiled with the Disneyland Hotel and it being right there.

00:51:45.166 --> 00:51:47.126
REBECCA: But no, we really liked it there.

00:51:47.126 --> 00:51:50.006
REBECCA: We did the downtown buffet.

00:51:50.006 --> 00:51:51.646
REBECCA: And this is me sounding American.

00:51:51.646 --> 00:52:01.726
REBECCA: But one thing I noticed that pretty much all the restaurants, especially at this one, is they cram you in like we legit had, I feel like eight inches between the tables.

00:52:01.806 --> 00:52:09.366
REBECCA: And I'm like, I have to wait until someone's not right there so my butt doesn't touch their food when I try to get out, you know?

00:52:09.366 --> 00:52:11.426
REBECCA: So I feel like they really cram you in.

00:52:11.426 --> 00:52:13.066
REBECCA: But otherwise, the food was good.

00:52:13.066 --> 00:52:16.066
REBECCA: We tried to try pretty much everything.

00:52:16.066 --> 00:52:17.666
REBECCA: And I'm going to say it, but I'm going to say it right.

00:52:17.666 --> 00:52:18.846
REBECCA: The macarons.

00:52:19.886 --> 00:52:20.706
VIRGINIA: Macarons.

00:52:20.706 --> 00:52:22.926
REBECCA: Macarons were really good there.

00:52:22.926 --> 00:52:25.466
REBECCA: They had like a hulk pistachio.

00:52:25.466 --> 00:52:26.586
REBECCA: That was amazing.

00:52:26.646 --> 00:52:29.166
VIRGINIA: Ooh, I love pistachio.

00:52:29.166 --> 00:52:30.226
VIRGINIA: Sounds good.

00:52:30.226 --> 00:52:32.026
VIRGINIA: So what style food was it?

00:52:32.026 --> 00:52:33.506
VIRGINIA: Was it American because it was normal?

00:52:33.506 --> 00:52:35.506
REBECCA: Yeah, they had like three different stations.

00:52:35.506 --> 00:52:39.286
REBECCA: So there's an American station, an Italian station, and like an Asian station.

00:52:40.346 --> 00:52:48.246
REBECCA: And I think I had one thing from the American one, because obviously I'm not that interested, because it was like brisket or something.

00:52:48.246 --> 00:52:49.986
REBECCA: And I'm like, okay, that was pretty good.

00:52:50.046 --> 00:52:55.026
REBECCA: But I mainly stuck to, I'm heavy on the Chinese, and then maybe some Italian.

00:52:55.026 --> 00:52:58.326
REBECCA: They had dumplings, like in the little steam basket and everything.

00:52:58.366 --> 00:52:59.886
VIRGINIA: I love that.

00:52:59.886 --> 00:53:02.406
REBECCA: Oh, we had some surprise things that night.

00:53:02.406 --> 00:53:09.846
REBECCA: So after, they have a Skyline bar, where I thought it was gonna be on the top floor, because it's called Skyline, but it's actually on the bottom floor.

00:53:09.846 --> 00:53:17.886
REBECCA: And we sat at the bar, and they have like a screen, and you can see like the Quinjet landing in New York, and you can see Spider-Man flying by every now and then.

00:53:17.906 --> 00:53:18.526
REBECCA: So that was cool.

00:53:18.806 --> 00:53:24.266
REBECCA: And then we went to the Marvel or the Deadpool speakeasy there.

00:53:24.266 --> 00:53:26.006
REBECCA: It's called the Broom Room.

00:53:26.006 --> 00:53:28.106
VIRGINIA: I did not know he had a speakeasy.

00:53:28.106 --> 00:53:28.926
REBECCA: Yes.

00:53:28.926 --> 00:53:33.526
REBECCA: And so we went, they give you a card at the front desk, and they tell you what floor to go to.

00:53:33.526 --> 00:53:35.846
REBECCA: And then they said, it's on you from there.

00:53:35.846 --> 00:53:37.506
REBECCA: And so you go to the floor.

00:53:37.506 --> 00:53:39.446
REBECCA: Luckily, somebody was coming out as we went in.

00:53:39.446 --> 00:53:40.926
REBECCA: And so I'm like, hey, help us.

00:53:40.926 --> 00:53:41.906
REBECCA: Like, where are we going?

00:53:41.906 --> 00:53:46.606
REBECCA: And so he showed us the door, and we used the key card, and you go in and you're in a broom closet.

00:53:47.526 --> 00:53:50.466
REBECCA: And then there's like the safe and you look at your card, it has a code.

00:53:50.466 --> 00:53:53.866
REBECCA: And so you entered the code on the safe, and then it rings the doorbell.

00:53:53.866 --> 00:53:58.966
REBECCA: And somebody comes and like asks for the key, and then says something cheeky or whatever.

00:53:58.966 --> 00:54:00.766
REBECCA: And then they eventually they'll let you in.

00:54:00.766 --> 00:54:02.006
VIRGINIA: That's so fun.

00:54:02.006 --> 00:54:02.646
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:54:02.646 --> 00:54:05.226
REBECCA: And you go in and it's like all red.

00:54:05.226 --> 00:54:14.426
REBECCA: They have like actual props, and they have the actual Deadpool and Wolverine suits from the movie, and they have a bunch of other props and stuff like that you could look at.

00:54:14.426 --> 00:54:17.126
REBECCA: And then they have really good drinks, but very expensive drinks.

00:54:17.126 --> 00:54:19.046
VIRGINIA: Like how expensive are we talking?

00:54:19.046 --> 00:54:22.446
REBECCA: Like 25 to 30 euro a drink.

00:54:22.446 --> 00:54:25.126
VIRGINIA: Which is more dollars than that, right?

00:54:25.126 --> 00:54:25.666
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:54:25.666 --> 00:54:26.886
VIRGINIA: For the conversion rate?

00:54:26.886 --> 00:54:27.866
REBECCA: Yeah, just a few more dollars.

00:54:27.866 --> 00:54:29.066
VIRGINIA: So 30 dollars and up.

00:54:29.146 --> 00:54:30.026
REBECCA: Yeah, basically.

00:54:30.026 --> 00:54:31.326
VIRGINIA: That's expensive.

00:54:31.326 --> 00:54:31.986
REBECCA: We split them.

00:54:31.986 --> 00:54:34.126
VIRGINIA: Even to me, who lives in New York.

00:54:34.126 --> 00:54:36.746
REBECCA: Yeah, so me and Amber share the drinks.

00:54:36.746 --> 00:54:37.066
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:54:37.066 --> 00:54:38.726
VIRGINIA: Anything else this night?

00:54:38.726 --> 00:54:39.126
REBECCA: No.

00:54:39.126 --> 00:54:42.266
REBECCA: Then after that, we went back and went to sleep.

00:54:42.266 --> 00:54:42.626
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:54:42.626 --> 00:54:53.666
VIRGINIA: And the next morning on Saturday, you were checking out of the Disneyland Hotel and checking in to the Val d'Europe, I don't know if I'm saying it right, hotel.

00:54:53.666 --> 00:54:54.266
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:54:54.266 --> 00:54:58.046
VIRGINIA: So this was a day also that Christmas was starting.

00:54:58.046 --> 00:55:03.526
VIRGINIA: So there were going to be all the Christmas markets and Christmas parades and Christmas everything.

00:55:03.526 --> 00:55:05.006
VIRGINIA: Tell us what you did in this day.

00:55:05.006 --> 00:55:10.286
VIRGINIA: And then I'd also like to know your impression of the hotel that you moved to.

00:55:10.286 --> 00:55:10.946
REBECCA: Yes.

00:55:10.946 --> 00:55:15.966
REBECCA: And I also think I forgot to mention the day before, we didn't stay for fireworks, but we did stay for the drone show.

00:55:15.966 --> 00:55:17.846
REBECCA: So we did see the drone show.

00:55:17.846 --> 00:55:19.246
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:55:19.246 --> 00:55:21.606
REBECCA: It was nice, but yeah.

00:55:21.606 --> 00:55:23.666
VIRGINIA: Did you see the one in Florida when that one was running?

00:55:23.666 --> 00:55:24.126
REBECCA: Yes.

00:55:24.126 --> 00:55:24.666
REBECCA: Yes.

00:55:24.666 --> 00:55:25.046
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:55:25.046 --> 00:55:26.486
REBECCA: The one at Disney Springs.

00:55:26.486 --> 00:55:26.906
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:55:26.906 --> 00:55:27.506
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:55:27.506 --> 00:55:28.766
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:55:28.766 --> 00:55:36.506
REBECCA: So we rope dropped the Studios Park again because I know the other park has more, but my favorite rides were at the Studios Park.

00:55:36.506 --> 00:55:41.206
REBECCA: So we rope dropped Tower of Terror since that was my favorite ride, surprisingly.

00:55:41.746 --> 00:55:43.986
VIRGINIA: That's shocking to me after your pre-trip interview.

00:55:43.986 --> 00:55:45.506
REBECCA: It was shocking to me too.

00:55:45.506 --> 00:55:48.986
REBECCA: I'm just like, it was so thrilling and great.

00:55:48.986 --> 00:55:49.926
REBECCA: Then we did Web Slinger.

00:55:49.926 --> 00:55:54.626
REBECCA: So we did the same thing as the day before, but we reversed the order because we learned that then.

00:55:54.626 --> 00:55:55.426
REBECCA: Got it.

00:55:55.426 --> 00:56:00.326
REBECCA: Flight Force was open during early entry this time, so we did Flight Force.

00:56:00.446 --> 00:56:05.146
REBECCA: Then we did walk over to the Toy Story Land and just take a bunch of pictures.

00:56:05.146 --> 00:56:11.206
REBECCA: We did do Single Rider for, they have the little army men parachute drop.

00:56:11.206 --> 00:56:11.926
VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.

00:56:11.926 --> 00:56:12.546
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:56:12.546 --> 00:56:13.726
REBECCA: So that's a ride there.

00:56:13.726 --> 00:56:17.166
REBECCA: And we thought it would be like a little kiddie ride.

00:56:17.166 --> 00:56:18.766
REBECCA: So we're like, oh, we'll go see.

00:56:18.766 --> 00:56:20.306
VIRGINIA: That's what I'm picturing.

00:56:20.306 --> 00:56:23.686
REBECCA: But it was a little more intense than I thought.

00:56:23.686 --> 00:56:34.466
REBECCA: Like the feeling of Tower of Terror, but just like, you get that feeling in your stomach, you know, of the drop, which I thought they would be going too slow that you wouldn't feel that, but still feel it.

00:56:34.466 --> 00:56:36.446
VIRGINIA: Was it an open air ride?

00:56:36.726 --> 00:56:37.206
REBECCA: Yes.

00:56:37.206 --> 00:56:40.986
REBECCA: And they say you can see the new Frozen Land they're building when you're at the top of it.

00:56:40.986 --> 00:56:44.066
REBECCA: So I was looking, but it was too like foggy and misty of a day.

00:56:44.066 --> 00:56:45.026
REBECCA: I couldn't see anything.

00:56:45.026 --> 00:56:46.406
VIRGINIA: It was too European.

00:56:46.406 --> 00:56:48.146
REBECCA: It was very European.

00:56:50.206 --> 00:56:50.686
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:56:50.686 --> 00:56:56.026
VIRGINIA: So after you did your favorite things again, is that when you hopped back over to Disneyland?

00:56:56.026 --> 00:56:57.886
REBECCA: Well, we did roomies one more time.

00:56:57.886 --> 00:57:07.506
REBECCA: And then when we came out, they have these little Christmas markets, like little stands, except they're shaped like little red Christmas boxes.

00:57:07.506 --> 00:57:08.986
REBECCA: Those were opened by the time we got out.

00:57:08.986 --> 00:57:22.026
REBECCA: And I'm like, why is like no one like, if that was Walt Disney World and this was the first day of the Christmas stuff, and they would have just opened the stands, people would have been rope dropping those and waiting hours just to try that new food.

00:57:22.026 --> 00:57:23.646
REBECCA: There was no one in any of these lines.

00:57:23.646 --> 00:57:26.406
REBECCA: There was no one waiting for food.

00:57:26.406 --> 00:57:30.826
VIRGINIA: So is that what you did for your lunch that day?

00:57:30.826 --> 00:57:31.026
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:57:31.026 --> 00:57:32.286
REBECCA: That was basically breakfast, lunch.

00:57:32.446 --> 00:57:34.746
REBECCA: We got some more macarons.

00:57:34.746 --> 00:57:36.046
REBECCA: Yay.

00:57:36.046 --> 00:57:36.666
REBECCA: Am I getting better?

00:57:36.666 --> 00:57:37.406
REBECCA: Am I learning?

00:57:37.406 --> 00:57:38.866
VIRGINIA: That was 100 percent right.

00:57:38.866 --> 00:57:40.266
REBECCA: Okay.

00:57:40.266 --> 00:57:47.206
REBECCA: We got some little cheesy potato things, a galette, which I guess is like a pancake.

00:57:47.206 --> 00:57:50.026
REBECCA: That's like a buckwheat pancake, which doesn't sound good.

00:57:50.026 --> 00:57:51.546
REBECCA: It was like my favorite thing.

00:57:51.546 --> 00:57:55.926
VIRGINIA: It's basically like the savory version of a crepe.

00:57:55.986 --> 00:57:56.326
REBECCA: Yes.

00:57:56.326 --> 00:58:01.566
VIRGINIA: Because you can get that same thing back at the creperie in France in Epcot.

00:58:01.566 --> 00:58:01.766
REBECCA: Yeah.

00:58:01.766 --> 00:58:05.446
REBECCA: This was a jambon fromage, so like ham and cheese.

00:58:05.446 --> 00:58:06.666
VIRGINIA: I had one like that at Epcot.

00:58:06.666 --> 00:58:08.886
REBECCA: That was one of my favorite things.

00:58:08.886 --> 00:58:09.766
VIRGINIA: I didn't care for it.

00:58:10.006 --> 00:58:13.806
VIRGINIA: What I didn't care for, who doesn't like ham and cheese together?

00:58:13.806 --> 00:58:16.246
VIRGINIA: Probably some people, but that sounds delicious to me.

00:58:16.246 --> 00:58:18.226
VIRGINIA: What I didn't like was the buckwheat part of it.

00:58:18.226 --> 00:58:18.486
REBECCA: I know.

00:58:18.486 --> 00:58:20.826
REBECCA: That's what Amber said, that she didn't like the idea of it.

00:58:20.826 --> 00:58:24.166
REBECCA: She said this was better than some buckwheat one she's had before.

00:58:25.606 --> 00:58:25.806
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:58:25.806 --> 00:58:30.826
VIRGINIA: I think of it had been a different kind of, I don't even know what to call it.

00:58:30.826 --> 00:58:31.746
VIRGINIA: It's like a tortilla.

00:58:32.366 --> 00:58:35.246
REBECCA: Oh, we also got a Nutella crepe because why not?

00:58:35.246 --> 00:58:36.086
VIRGINIA: Because why not?

00:58:36.086 --> 00:58:36.386
REBECCA: No.

00:58:36.386 --> 00:58:39.166
VIRGINIA: If you get the option to add Nutella to something, you say yes.

00:58:39.206 --> 00:58:40.226
REBECCA: Yes.

00:58:40.226 --> 00:58:48.126
REBECCA: We just got a few things and split everything, and the prices are really good, like five euros for a pretty big crepe and stuff.

00:58:48.126 --> 00:58:49.106
REBECCA: I was really impressed.

00:58:49.106 --> 00:58:55.346
REBECCA: Again, I'm like, you would have to wait an hour in line to get the stuff at Disney World if they had things like this.

00:58:55.346 --> 00:58:59.506
VIRGINIA: Did you catch any of the Christmas shows that happened this day?

00:58:59.506 --> 00:59:00.066
REBECCA: Yes.

00:59:00.066 --> 00:59:11.286
REBECCA: It was very busy this day after this early park entry, where we got a lot of stuff done, pretty much really long lines the rest of the day, because it was Saturday now, and it was the first day of Christmas stuff.

00:59:11.286 --> 00:59:14.386
REBECCA: Monday was a holiday in France, I believe.

00:59:14.386 --> 00:59:16.926
REBECCA: It's been too long for me to think of the holiday.

00:59:16.926 --> 00:59:17.786
REBECCA: The end of World War II.

00:59:17.786 --> 00:59:18.546
VIRGINIA: Armistice Day?

00:59:18.546 --> 00:59:19.186
REBECCA: Yes.

00:59:19.186 --> 00:59:19.646
REBECCA: Something like that.

00:59:20.386 --> 00:59:23.366
VIRGINIA: I'm going to have to just quickly Google that.

00:59:23.366 --> 00:59:25.286
REBECCA: It would have been November 11th.

00:59:25.286 --> 00:59:27.186
REBECCA: France holiday November 11th.

00:59:27.186 --> 00:59:27.906
REBECCA: What do they call it?

00:59:27.906 --> 00:59:28.306
VIRGINIA: Yep.

00:59:28.306 --> 00:59:29.586
VIRGINIA: That was it.

00:59:30.626 --> 00:59:32.466
VIRGINIA: I did learn something in history class.

00:59:32.466 --> 00:59:33.986
VIRGINIA: I was so unsure.

00:59:33.986 --> 00:59:35.266
REBECCA: I think that was what I had in my head.

00:59:35.266 --> 00:59:39.526
REBECCA: I'm like, I don't want to mispronounce it, especially after the macron fiasco.

00:59:39.526 --> 00:59:42.446
REBECCA: I'm like, I'm never going to say those words again.

00:59:42.446 --> 00:59:43.966
VIRGINIA: No, you got it now.

00:59:44.846 --> 00:59:50.666
REBECCA: We basically prioritized shows this day because we're like, well, we haven't done any shows.

00:59:50.666 --> 00:59:53.786
REBECCA: We've only been prioritizing rides, so let's do shows today.

00:59:53.786 --> 01:00:00.526
REBECCA: We went back to the hotel and actually checked out, and you can just leave the bags in your room, and they'll come and get them for you and all that.

01:00:00.526 --> 01:00:01.286
REBECCA: We did that.

01:00:01.286 --> 01:00:02.206
VIRGINIA: That's nice.

01:00:02.206 --> 01:00:02.766
REBECCA: Yeah.

01:00:02.766 --> 01:00:07.046
REBECCA: Randomly one day, we had someone else's bags in our room delivered.

01:00:07.046 --> 01:00:09.986
REBECCA: We got back and we're like, whose bags are in our room?

01:00:09.986 --> 01:00:14.846
REBECCA: We had a call and we're like, you delivered bags to our room that aren't ours.

01:00:14.846 --> 01:00:18.546
REBECCA: So we're like, we hope that it's got to the right people, but that was weird.

01:00:18.546 --> 01:00:19.566
VIRGINIA: Very weird.

01:00:19.566 --> 01:00:20.006
REBECCA: Yeah.

01:00:20.006 --> 01:00:22.386
REBECCA: So we went to the Disneyland Park.

01:00:22.386 --> 01:00:28.706
REBECCA: Oh, and today I was dressed in Mandalorian Grogu stuff from head to toe.

01:00:28.706 --> 01:00:33.546
REBECCA: So we of course had to meet Mandalorian because I never have at Disney World.

01:00:33.546 --> 01:00:39.586
REBECCA: And they actually have him on the app here and say when you can meet him and where, which Hollywood Studios is not that way.

01:00:39.666 --> 01:00:41.186
REBECCA: You just have to run into him.

01:00:41.186 --> 01:00:42.966
REBECCA: And I've never had that kind of luck.

01:00:42.966 --> 01:00:44.646
VIRGINIA: Did he have Grogu with him?

01:00:44.646 --> 01:00:46.166
REBECCA: He did.

01:00:46.166 --> 01:00:49.506
REBECCA: And yeah, in my pictures I'm making like this, it's like, oh my goodness.

01:00:49.506 --> 01:00:53.386
REBECCA: And he was like moving and stuff and make cute little sounds.

01:00:53.386 --> 01:00:54.306
VIRGINIA: Oh my gosh.

01:00:54.306 --> 01:00:56.626
REBECCA: Oh, it's the cutest thing I've ever seen.

01:00:56.626 --> 01:00:57.606
VIRGINIA: Cute.

01:00:57.606 --> 01:00:58.766
VIRGINIA: I love it.

01:00:58.766 --> 01:01:01.466
VIRGINIA: Remember before we knew his name and everyone called him?

01:01:01.466 --> 01:01:02.426
VIRGINIA: Baby Yoda.

01:01:02.426 --> 01:01:03.566
VIRGINIA: Baby Yoda?

01:01:03.586 --> 01:01:04.666
REBECCA: Yes.

01:01:04.666 --> 01:01:07.586
REBECCA: My kids still call him Baby Yoda sometimes, but they also know his name's Grogu.

01:01:08.066 --> 01:01:14.426
REBECCA: And weirdly, they've never seen the show because it's an adult show, but they know who Mandalorian is and they know who Grogu is.

01:01:14.426 --> 01:01:16.286
VIRGINIA: It's the cute factor.

01:01:16.306 --> 01:01:17.226
REBECCA: Yeah.

01:01:17.226 --> 01:01:22.566
REBECCA: And then we met Darth Vader next door, which I have never done that meet and greet in Hollywood.

01:01:22.566 --> 01:01:27.726
REBECCA: Clearly, I prioritize rides all the time and don't get a chance to do character greetings.

01:01:27.726 --> 01:01:28.886
VIRGINIA: Yeah, I'm the same way.

01:01:28.886 --> 01:01:36.326
REBECCA: What was interesting because this is an international park, they have an handler that talks to people and he's like, what language?

01:01:36.726 --> 01:01:38.866
REBECCA: I guess there's some sort of setting he can adjust.

01:01:38.866 --> 01:01:42.386
REBECCA: And I don't know if it's like free phrases that he can click.

01:01:42.386 --> 01:01:50.066
REBECCA: I don't know how it works, but he can speak solely French to one party and then switch it up and speak solely English, still in his Darth Vader voice.

01:01:50.066 --> 01:01:51.546
REBECCA: I always wondered how that works.

01:01:51.546 --> 01:01:56.806
VIRGINIA: Yeah, because I wonder how they change it within their helmet without.

01:01:56.806 --> 01:02:01.526
REBECCA: Yeah, unless it's some sort of voice changer and he's actually saying all that stuff.

01:02:01.526 --> 01:02:05.186
VIRGINIA: Yeah, he's like, hey, Siri, turn on the English.

01:02:05.606 --> 01:02:11.666
REBECCA: Yeah, I did like that all the characters were like big, like I don't like when characters are smaller than me basically.

01:02:11.666 --> 01:02:12.766
REBECCA: I'm already short.

01:02:12.766 --> 01:02:19.246
REBECCA: I don't like to feel big when I'm with characters, especially ones that are meant to be bigger.

01:02:19.286 --> 01:02:20.366
REBECCA: So it was a good Darth Vader.

01:02:20.366 --> 01:02:22.246
REBECCA: Now Amber is obsessed with Darth Vader.

01:02:22.246 --> 01:02:24.706
REBECCA: She had such a good interaction with him.

01:02:24.706 --> 01:02:30.626
REBECCA: I thought he was going to, because I have a Grogu and Mandalorian stuff on still, and so he was picking on me.

01:02:30.626 --> 01:02:32.046
REBECCA: I thought he was going to rip my hat off.

01:02:32.546 --> 01:02:33.186
REBECCA: Oh.

01:02:33.186 --> 01:02:33.726
REBECCA: Yeah.

01:02:33.726 --> 01:02:36.646
REBECCA: He was like getting on me.

01:02:36.646 --> 01:02:36.906
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:02:36.906 --> 01:02:44.306
VIRGINIA: When you have a good or a very detailed character interaction, it can really make a difference in how you see that character.

01:02:44.306 --> 01:02:49.046
VIRGINIA: I mean, I used to not like Donald and Daisy, and now I love them.

01:02:49.046 --> 01:02:53.766
VIRGINIA: I'm obsessed with them, and it's because I've had some really good character interactions with them.

01:02:53.766 --> 01:02:57.906
REBECCA: Donald is one of my best character interactions too, from like Topolino's Cirrus.

01:02:57.906 --> 01:02:58.566
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:02:58.566 --> 01:03:00.506
VIRGINIA: So good.

01:03:00.506 --> 01:03:06.406
REBECCA: Then we went to the Lion King Show, which is different than the Lion King Show at Animal Kingdom.

01:03:06.406 --> 01:03:07.066
VIRGINIA: How so?

01:03:07.066 --> 01:03:08.266
REBECCA: It's not like animatronics.

01:03:08.266 --> 01:03:11.486
REBECCA: You know how they have the big Timon and Pumbaa and Simba?

01:03:11.486 --> 01:03:18.186
REBECCA: It's just, I was so impressed with the level of detail of the costuming.

01:03:18.186 --> 01:03:35.606
REBECCA: It's hard to describe, but they have a coat, and then the coat tail is the animal tail, and it's coloured exactly, and then they have the markings of the animal on their pants, and then they'll have their hair and ways that look right with the character, and without ever wearing, you know, they're not wearing fur.

01:03:35.606 --> 01:03:37.986
REBECCA: There's no fur, there's no like lion costumes.

01:03:37.986 --> 01:03:42.986
REBECCA: It's just really clever costuming, which I, it's very Broadway.

01:03:42.986 --> 01:03:44.306
VIRGINIA: Okay, I love that.

01:03:44.306 --> 01:03:46.066
REBECCA: And they only did songs.

01:03:46.066 --> 01:03:57.886
REBECCA: So they only did the top songs from the movie, a bunch of acrobats and stuff like that, like they do at the Animal Kingdom 1, and they have some original songs because they're telling the whole Lion King story in song.

01:03:57.886 --> 01:04:05.266
REBECCA: And so to fill some of the gaps that don't have songs in the movie, that action happening, they have some original songs.

01:04:05.266 --> 01:04:05.706
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:04:05.706 --> 01:04:06.806
REBECCA: So I was really impressed.

01:04:06.806 --> 01:04:07.726
REBECCA: I thought it was really good.

01:04:07.726 --> 01:04:08.606
VIRGINIA: That sounds amazing.

01:04:08.606 --> 01:04:09.726
REBECCA: And it was all in English.

01:04:09.726 --> 01:04:15.226
VIRGINIA: How or why did they make those decisions on which things are in which language and which or not?

01:04:15.226 --> 01:04:22.406
REBECCA: Yeah, I guess if it's like a Disney song that's in English, then they'll do it in English, but some of the dialogue maybe will be in French.

01:04:22.406 --> 01:04:23.026
REBECCA: I don't know.

01:04:23.026 --> 01:04:24.046
REBECCA: But there was no dialogue.

01:04:24.046 --> 01:04:25.246
REBECCA: It was all songs.

01:04:25.246 --> 01:04:26.686
REBECCA: So that was nice.

01:04:26.686 --> 01:04:31.866
REBECCA: Then we went to a quick service that is unique to there called Hakuna Matata.

01:04:31.866 --> 01:04:35.286
REBECCA: And it's like, I don't know what type of food to call it.

01:04:35.286 --> 01:04:38.666
REBECCA: I wouldn't say African food, but you know, it's trying to be that kind of vibe.

01:04:38.666 --> 01:04:40.986
REBECCA: I just got like a salad, but it was fine.

01:04:40.986 --> 01:04:44.726
REBECCA: Generic kind of quick service food, but that's different than just like burgers and hot dogs.

01:04:44.726 --> 01:04:46.306
REBECCA: So I appreciated that.

01:04:46.306 --> 01:04:48.166
VIRGINIA: Which is always nice to have that option.

01:04:48.166 --> 01:04:48.446
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:04:48.446 --> 01:04:49.506
VIRGINIA: What was after lunch?

01:04:49.906 --> 01:04:52.986
REBECCA: We did a lot of part copying, but they're right beside each other.

01:04:52.986 --> 01:04:55.186
REBECCA: So it's really easy to do.

01:04:55.186 --> 01:05:05.306
REBECCA: So since we were focusing on shows, we're like, everyone says we have to do Mickey and the Magician, and you have to show up to these shows at least 30 minutes beforehand, and you just stand.

01:05:05.306 --> 01:05:12.586
REBECCA: I was like sitting on rocks to not just be standing still for 30 minutes, like walking for 30 minutes is fine, but standing still is tough.

01:05:12.586 --> 01:05:17.506
REBECCA: But we were able to get front row seats to everything, and we were way back in line.

01:05:17.686 --> 01:05:24.646
REBECCA: I think it's just the, I'm going to call it ennui attitude of the people who like guide you where to sit.

01:05:24.646 --> 01:05:25.826
REBECCA: They don't care.

01:05:25.826 --> 01:05:34.226
REBECCA: Some people will start going right, and then we don't know which way to go, and so we just follow them, and then we're in a whole section of empty seats, so we just sit in the front row and it's fine.

01:05:34.226 --> 01:05:36.286
REBECCA: And that's how it ended up being at MSLD shows.

01:05:36.286 --> 01:05:38.386
VIRGINIA: And how was Mickey and the Magician?

01:05:38.386 --> 01:05:39.746
REBECCA: It was really cute.

01:05:39.746 --> 01:05:43.446
REBECCA: It was all in French, but very basic French.

01:05:43.446 --> 01:05:47.786
REBECCA: Like I understood it all, and I wouldn't say my French is amazing.

01:05:47.786 --> 01:05:56.106
REBECCA: So Mickey spoke French only, and he was trying to be like the best magician in the world, and learning from like a master and cleaning up the space.

01:05:56.106 --> 01:06:05.426
REBECCA: And as he would do it, he would meet a new Disney character that would come in and teach him something until he became the best magician in the world.

01:06:05.426 --> 01:06:06.666
REBECCA: It was really, really cute.

01:06:06.666 --> 01:06:11.846
REBECCA: And you got to see a lot of, like you got to see Elsa, you got to see a lot of characters in one setting.

01:06:12.446 --> 01:06:15.806
VIRGINIA: Were there any other shows over in the Studios Park that you saw this day?

01:06:15.806 --> 01:06:16.606
REBECCA: Not this day.

01:06:16.606 --> 01:06:23.346
REBECCA: Another day we did the Stitch show, which was like, do you know Turtle Talk with Crush?

01:06:23.346 --> 01:06:24.986
REBECCA: It's that, but with Stitch.

01:06:24.986 --> 01:06:26.466
VIRGINIA: Can you understand what he's saying?

01:06:26.466 --> 01:06:27.826
REBECCA: So they have different showings.

01:06:27.826 --> 01:06:31.066
REBECCA: They have like, and you'll see a little flag beside the time.

01:06:31.066 --> 01:06:37.626
REBECCA: And it's either a British UK flag or French flag to say what language it's going to be in.

01:06:37.626 --> 01:06:39.606
REBECCA: So yes, he only spoke English at the one we went to.

01:06:40.626 --> 01:06:40.886
VIRGINIA: OK.

01:06:40.886 --> 01:06:47.386
VIRGINIA: I was thinking more so of like the Stitch voice, where it's very difficult to understand what he's saying, even if it is in English.

01:06:47.386 --> 01:06:48.426
REBECCA: That's true.

01:06:48.426 --> 01:06:50.466
REBECCA: But yeah, you can understand him.

01:06:50.466 --> 01:06:51.186
REBECCA: It was cute.

01:06:51.186 --> 01:06:53.386
REBECCA: Amber is obsessed with Stitch, so we had to get to that.

01:06:53.386 --> 01:06:55.746
VIRGINIA: Yeah, I remember you mentioned that.

01:06:55.746 --> 01:07:03.386
VIRGINIA: Because I did make a note, because you had said that Stitch is all the rage in Paris and that he's apparently on everything.

01:07:03.386 --> 01:07:07.386
VIRGINIA: And I wrote here as a follow up question to ask you, did it ruin your trip?

01:07:07.986 --> 01:07:10.126
VIRGINIA: Because you know how much I don't like Stitch.

01:07:10.126 --> 01:07:16.266
REBECCA: No, it made me want to, so I literally, I booked an Ohana breakfast so we can meet Stitch.

01:07:16.266 --> 01:07:18.386
REBECCA: I don't know if I'm going to keep it for when I go in January.

01:07:18.386 --> 01:07:26.386
REBECCA: But, and I saw the new Stitch live action coming out and I showed my son that like yesterday.

01:07:26.386 --> 01:07:28.706
REBECCA: No, I think it's made me like Stitch more.

01:07:28.706 --> 01:07:34.986
VIRGINIA: I'm leaving room in my heart that one day I will see something and have a good interaction with him maybe.

01:07:34.986 --> 01:07:38.826
VIRGINIA: And it will turn me around, just like it did for Donald Daisy.

01:07:38.826 --> 01:07:41.626
VIRGINIA: But that day has not come yet.

01:07:41.626 --> 01:07:47.526
VIRGINIA: So I literally wrote, did it ruin your trip on my little follow-up notes?

01:07:47.526 --> 01:07:48.326
REBECCA: No, it's not.

01:07:48.326 --> 01:07:50.746
REBECCA: And I even brought like a little snow globe back for my kids.

01:07:50.746 --> 01:07:56.566
REBECCA: And on one side it says like Disneyland Paris with the castle and the other side it's like Stitch, like carrying into a present.

01:07:56.566 --> 01:08:00.206
REBECCA: This is when we tried to ride tower again, but that's when it broke down.

01:08:00.206 --> 01:08:02.866
REBECCA: So that would have been the third time, because I liked it that much.

01:08:02.866 --> 01:08:07.546
REBECCA: And so we must have got a lot of steps in this day because we went back and forth, back and forth.

01:08:07.546 --> 01:08:14.546
REBECCA: So we went back to Disneyland and we rode Space Mountain again, because now we were just focusing on like, we've done everything we wanted to do.

01:08:14.546 --> 01:08:16.746
REBECCA: Let's just do things we want to do again.

01:08:16.746 --> 01:08:21.046
VIRGINIA: You said that you had two reservations for the Waltz American Diner for this day, just in case.

01:08:21.046 --> 01:08:22.566
REBECCA: Oh yeah, we didn't go to any.

01:08:22.566 --> 01:08:23.146
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:08:23.146 --> 01:08:28.266
REBECCA: We found we were so busy doing things, like we didn't want to stop and have lunch.

01:08:28.266 --> 01:08:32.586
REBECCA: And especially when there were so many good snacks and small things around.

01:08:33.526 --> 01:08:40.586
VIRGINIA: And probably based on the time difference in everything, you probably were actually getting hungry at off times.

01:08:40.586 --> 01:08:42.086
REBECCA: Yeah, true.

01:08:42.086 --> 01:08:44.706
VIRGINIA: What else did you do on this Saturday?

01:08:44.706 --> 01:08:45.166
REBECCA: Right.

01:08:45.166 --> 01:08:46.846
REBECCA: Everything was still really busy.

01:08:46.846 --> 01:08:50.366
REBECCA: They have a walkthrough of like, is it 10,000 links under the sea?

01:08:50.366 --> 01:08:53.006
REBECCA: Is that the right name of the movie?

01:08:53.026 --> 01:08:54.786
VIRGINIA: It's either that or 100,000 links.

01:08:54.786 --> 01:08:56.866
VIRGINIA: That sounds too far, probably 10.

01:08:56.866 --> 01:08:58.626
VIRGINIA: I don't know, 100,000 seems very big.

01:08:58.686 --> 01:09:00.646
REBECCA: I thought it was either 100,000 or 10,000.

01:09:00.646 --> 01:09:02.586
REBECCA: Let's meet in the middle and say 10,000.

01:09:02.586 --> 01:09:03.946
VIRGINIA: I think it's probably 10,000.

01:09:03.946 --> 01:09:14.506
VIRGINIA: I don't know because I will tell you, I know that they used to have a ride like that, that you got in, it felt like you were getting in a submarine and I would never ever ride that ride because of claustrophobia.

01:09:14.506 --> 01:09:19.346
REBECCA: I did the Nemo resync version of it and I was feeling very claustrophobic.

01:09:19.346 --> 01:09:19.786
REBECCA: Yeah.

01:09:19.786 --> 01:09:20.926
REBECCA: This was a walkthrough.

01:09:21.486 --> 01:09:25.666
REBECCA: There was not a submarine, so that was fine and you're just walking through and looking at stuff.

01:09:25.826 --> 01:09:30.686
REBECCA: They had some screens where you can see dolphins playing and squids and stuff.

01:09:30.726 --> 01:09:31.466
REBECCA: It was cute.

01:09:31.466 --> 01:09:33.546
REBECCA: We just literally walked through it.

01:09:33.546 --> 01:09:35.426
REBECCA: Then we just waited for the parade.

01:09:35.766 --> 01:09:36.526
REBECCA: The parade was nice.

01:09:36.526 --> 01:09:39.066
REBECCA: It started getting a little bit dark, and I'm glad we watched it.

01:09:39.066 --> 01:09:42.226
REBECCA: But then we over to the other hotel.

01:09:42.226 --> 01:09:47.106
VIRGINIA: This hotel that you were moving to for this day was the Val d'Europe.

01:09:47.106 --> 01:09:49.466
VIRGINIA: However you say that hotel, how was it?

01:09:49.466 --> 01:09:49.986
REBECCA: It was nice.

01:09:49.986 --> 01:09:50.766
REBECCA: I would recommend it.

01:09:51.406 --> 01:09:53.646
REBECCA: It was literally across the street from a really big mall.

01:09:54.426 --> 01:09:57.146
REBECCA: The next day, we just went shopping in the mall.

01:09:57.146 --> 01:09:59.966
VIRGINIA: I did a little looking at it online.

01:09:59.966 --> 01:10:03.206
VIRGINIA: It's whatever they call their version of Good Neighbor Hotel.

01:10:03.206 --> 01:10:06.666
VIRGINIA: It has a partnership with Disneyland Paris.

01:10:06.666 --> 01:10:07.086
REBECCA: Yeah.

01:10:07.086 --> 01:10:08.666
REBECCA: I don't know what you actually get from that.

01:10:08.766 --> 01:10:13.406
REBECCA: We stayed there on the day we were leaving, so leaving the park.

01:10:14.606 --> 01:10:16.006
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:10:16.006 --> 01:10:25.466
VIRGINIA: You stayed there that one night and then woke up the next day on Sunday, November the 11th, and you were staying one night at a hotel by the Eiffel Tower.

01:10:25.466 --> 01:10:26.326
VIRGINIA: Yes.

01:10:26.326 --> 01:10:27.666
VIRGINIA: How was that?

01:10:27.666 --> 01:10:28.106
REBECCA: Good.

01:10:28.106 --> 01:10:32.606
REBECCA: We went to the mall and did some shopping, and then we ended up taking the train.

01:10:32.606 --> 01:10:35.946
REBECCA: There's a train station right across the street from there as well.

01:10:35.946 --> 01:10:37.046
REBECCA: That was really easy.

01:10:37.046 --> 01:10:40.446
REBECCA: They have a ticketing person, and I don't think she spoke any English.

01:10:40.646 --> 01:10:46.906
REBECCA: We would just say, train into Paris, and she gave us the right tickets, and they were inexpensive.

01:10:46.906 --> 01:10:55.706
REBECCA: It gets you access to the train into Paris, as long as you don't leave the station, you can do the metro within Paris.

01:10:55.706 --> 01:11:02.846
REBECCA: We had to change over to the metro, but we found that very easy compared to the London underground is much more complex.

01:11:02.846 --> 01:11:06.386
REBECCA: The Paris one was very simple and easy to figure out where to go.

01:11:06.386 --> 01:11:08.486
REBECCA: We even had our bags with us and didn't have any issues.

01:11:09.406 --> 01:11:10.766
VIRGINIA: The hotel was nice.

01:11:10.766 --> 01:11:11.966
REBECCA: The hotel was nice.

01:11:11.966 --> 01:11:16.286
REBECCA: It was still a bit of a walk to places, but it was fine.

01:11:16.286 --> 01:11:20.666
REBECCA: Maybe 20 minutes to the Eiffel Tower, but we could walk that fine.

01:11:20.666 --> 01:11:21.066
VIRGINIA: Right.

01:11:21.066 --> 01:11:22.726
VIRGINIA: Did you have a good view?

01:11:22.726 --> 01:11:30.686
REBECCA: I thought we were going to have a view, but I don't know if it was because of, yeah, it's cloudy or something, but we could not see anything.

01:11:30.926 --> 01:11:39.246
REBECCA: But we still had a good view of, it was very pretty Parisian view of house tops and stuff, but just not the Eiffel Tower.

01:11:39.246 --> 01:11:42.606
REBECCA: But when we got to the Eiffel Tower, we happened to time it.

01:11:42.606 --> 01:11:43.686
REBECCA: We were not planning it.

01:11:43.686 --> 01:11:49.686
REBECCA: We got there right at six o'clock on the dot, and the tower lit up to the sparkly evening.

01:11:49.686 --> 01:11:51.426
REBECCA: Yeah, so that was fun.

01:11:51.426 --> 01:11:52.946
REBECCA: We walked all around it.

01:11:52.946 --> 01:11:57.026
REBECCA: I had seen the Eiffel Tower before, but just from afar, I had never gotten that close to it.

01:11:57.026 --> 01:11:58.286
VIRGINIA: You didn't go up in it.

01:11:58.286 --> 01:11:58.686
REBECCA: No.

01:11:58.686 --> 01:12:01.546
REBECCA: I think you have to book that really far in advance if you want to.

01:12:01.546 --> 01:12:03.006
REBECCA: And we weren't sure.

01:12:03.006 --> 01:12:06.586
REBECCA: I'm glad we didn't because I feel like we didn't have that much time that day.

01:12:06.586 --> 01:12:10.746
REBECCA: So we just happy hour hopped.

01:12:12.366 --> 01:12:20.646
REBECCA: All the little Parisian bars with the like red canopies that you see, you know, we went to each of those kind of on the way back to the hotel.

01:12:20.646 --> 01:12:25.006
VIRGINIA: The next morning, Monday, November the 11th, you had a 10 a.m.

01:12:25.006 --> 01:12:26.046
VIRGINIA: flight.

01:12:26.046 --> 01:12:29.406
VIRGINIA: So you had to get up and get yourselves to go through all of the security.

01:12:30.006 --> 01:12:35.626
REBECCA: Yeah, checks at the airport and hers was a little later, but we took an Uber together to the airport.

01:12:35.626 --> 01:12:35.966
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:12:35.966 --> 01:12:38.346
VIRGINIA: And how did the return flights go?

01:12:38.346 --> 01:12:39.546
VIRGINIA: Were they both on time?

01:12:39.546 --> 01:12:41.446
REBECCA: Yeah, they were both on time and an eventful.

01:12:41.446 --> 01:12:42.426
REBECCA: So that's good.

01:12:42.426 --> 01:12:44.046
REBECCA: Oh, my.

01:12:44.046 --> 01:12:52.046
REBECCA: So mine originally was supposed to go through Miami and it got canceled and they rebooked me on one through Dallas.

01:12:52.046 --> 01:12:56.886
REBECCA: And so I didn't think about it at the time, but because I didn't have a choice.

01:12:56.886 --> 01:12:58.226
REBECCA: But man, it was so painful.

01:12:58.306 --> 01:13:03.406
REBECCA: That's probably the longest flight I've ever done in my life, going from Paris to Dallas.

01:13:03.406 --> 01:13:04.626
VIRGINIA: How long was that leg?

01:13:04.626 --> 01:13:07.906
REBECCA: Um, I want to say like 10 hours.

01:13:08.546 --> 01:13:11.146
VIRGINIA: And then how long was the layover?

01:13:11.146 --> 01:13:13.486
REBECCA: Maybe like three hours.

01:13:13.486 --> 01:13:17.426
REBECCA: But there was I've never seen such a long line for security in my life.

01:13:17.426 --> 01:13:20.026
REBECCA: So I'm kind of glad I had a long layover.

01:13:20.026 --> 01:13:24.046
REBECCA: And then I had to fly backwards because I'm from the Carolinas.

01:13:24.046 --> 01:13:26.406
REBECCA: So I like went past to go.

01:13:26.726 --> 01:13:30.766
REBECCA: Yeah, anyway, so that was the annoying part is I'm so far in the wrong direction right now.

01:13:30.766 --> 01:13:32.726
VIRGINIA: Oh, yeah.

01:13:32.726 --> 01:13:33.626
VIRGINIA: Not cool.

01:13:33.626 --> 01:13:34.446
VIRGINIA: Not cool.

01:13:34.446 --> 01:13:34.746
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:13:34.746 --> 01:13:36.406
REBECCA: So I would not do that again.

01:13:36.406 --> 01:13:40.066
VIRGINIA: Did you get any sleep on this return flight?

01:13:40.066 --> 01:13:44.746
REBECCA: I mean, I'm sure I've rested my eyes, but I don't think I got much sleep, but it was fine.

01:13:45.426 --> 01:13:46.426
REBECCA: It was a good trip.

01:13:46.426 --> 01:13:48.066
REBECCA: We did everything we wanted to do.

01:13:48.066 --> 01:13:53.746
REBECCA: And the jet lag and lack of sleep did not stop me from doing anything.

01:13:53.986 --> 01:13:55.106
REBECCA: We didn't have late nights though.

01:13:57.646 --> 01:14:11.566
REBECCA: Even the one in Val d'Europe, there was a little convenience mart right beside the hotel, and we just grabbed some beers and snacks, and just took that back up to the room and had those and watched weird.

01:14:11.566 --> 01:14:14.586
REBECCA: Weirdly, German was mainly the type of TV on.

01:14:14.586 --> 01:14:16.966
REBECCA: It's like everything was in German, like French or German.

01:14:16.966 --> 01:14:19.486
REBECCA: I didn't find a single thing in English.

01:14:19.526 --> 01:14:22.746
VIRGINIA: So favorite ride was the Tower of Terror ride.

01:14:22.746 --> 01:14:25.006
VIRGINIA: What was your favorite food item?

01:14:25.006 --> 01:14:27.926
REBECCA: I'm going to say the ham and cheese galette.

01:14:27.926 --> 01:14:30.186
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:14:30.186 --> 01:14:33.146
VIRGINIA: Favorite souvenir you brought home for yourself?

01:14:33.146 --> 01:14:35.506
REBECCA: I did get some ornaments.

01:14:35.906 --> 01:14:44.906
REBECCA: They have a Christmas store inside the castle, and they had some little Mickey shaped baubles type of thing.

01:14:44.926 --> 01:14:46.246
REBECCA: It was like a three pack.

01:14:46.246 --> 01:14:46.806
REBECCA: I don't know.

01:14:46.806 --> 01:14:50.466
REBECCA: Oh, and I got a beret at one point, and I've already worn it since.

01:14:50.466 --> 01:14:53.446
VIRGINIA: That's a good souvenir to bring home from France.

01:14:53.446 --> 01:14:53.866
REBECCA: Yeah.

01:14:53.866 --> 01:14:54.486
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:14:54.486 --> 01:14:56.726
VIRGINIA: Well, this trip sounds like it was so much fun.

01:14:56.726 --> 01:15:00.326
VIRGINIA: You've really got me looking at the Disneyland Paris website.

01:15:00.326 --> 01:15:01.786
VIRGINIA: I have started looking.

01:15:01.786 --> 01:15:03.086
VIRGINIA: That's the first step.

01:15:03.086 --> 01:15:10.626
VIRGINIA: But I'm really looking forward to seeing your photos, and I know you haven't posted much of your trip yet on Instagram besides the stories.

01:15:10.626 --> 01:15:20.846
VIRGINIA: So I hope that you will be posting about your trip so that we can all take a peek into all of these amazing sites and everything that you did there.

01:15:20.846 --> 01:15:21.186
REBECCA: Yeah.

01:15:21.606 --> 01:15:26.986
REBECCA: I think I posted one about the Alice in Wonderland bound and stuff, since I got such good photos there.

01:15:26.986 --> 01:15:29.086
REBECCA: But I do need to post some of the other days.

01:15:29.086 --> 01:15:37.146
REBECCA: If anyone goes recently, the Deadpool bar I think goes until late January, and it is really cool and one you don't hear about as much.

01:15:37.146 --> 01:15:39.826
VIRGINIA: I didn't realize it was a limited time thing.

01:15:39.826 --> 01:15:40.226
REBECCA: Yeah.

01:15:40.866 --> 01:15:42.566
REBECCA: They did it because the movie came out.

01:15:43.386 --> 01:15:48.366
REBECCA: In fact, I watched it just came out on streaming services while I was there.

01:15:48.366 --> 01:15:52.086
REBECCA: I'm like, this is good timing, and I watched it on the airplane on the way back.

01:15:52.086 --> 01:15:52.266
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:15:52.266 --> 01:15:59.886
VIRGINIA: I just finally watched my first Deadpool movie within the past, I don't know, three months or something because Alex loves it and wanted me to see it.

01:15:59.886 --> 01:16:02.446
VIRGINIA: So I committed to sitting down and watching it.

01:16:02.446 --> 01:16:06.606
REBECCA: I don't know how my four-year-old has heard about it, but he'll ask me, have you seen a Wolverine movie?

01:16:06.606 --> 01:16:07.666
REBECCA: I'm like, yeah.

01:16:07.666 --> 01:16:08.786
REBECCA: It's like, have you seen a Deadpool movie?

01:16:08.786 --> 01:16:11.886
REBECCA: I'm like, yeah, but those are not appropriate for you.

01:16:11.986 --> 01:16:13.466
REBECCA: You cannot watch those.

01:16:13.466 --> 01:16:14.306
VIRGINIA: No, they are not.

01:16:14.306 --> 01:16:16.346
VIRGINIA: It is a different kind of movie.

01:16:16.346 --> 01:16:18.046
REBECCA: I thought we were watching it on the plane.

01:16:18.046 --> 01:16:20.206
REBECCA: I'm like, fast forward, fast forward.

01:16:20.206 --> 01:16:22.246
REBECCA: This is a little too violent.

01:16:22.246 --> 01:16:25.426
VIRGINIA: Rebecca, it has been so much fun chatting with you again.

01:16:25.426 --> 01:16:31.266
VIRGINIA: I'm so happy that you came back and graced me with your presence again, fellow North Carolina girl.

01:16:31.266 --> 01:16:33.966
VIRGINIA: And I hope that I will get to talk to you again sometime in the future.

01:16:33.966 --> 01:16:36.106
REBECCA: Yeah, let me know if you end up going to Paris.

01:16:36.106 --> 01:16:37.386
VIRGINIA: Oh, I will.

01:16:38.526 --> 01:16:39.366
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:16:39.366 --> 01:16:40.346
VIRGINIA: Au revoir.

01:16:42.506 --> 01:16:44.246
VIRGINIA: Thank you again to Rebecca.

01:16:44.246 --> 01:16:47.826
VIRGINIA: It was a lot of fun, and it really got me thinking and starting to plan.

01:16:47.826 --> 01:16:48.966
VIRGINIA: That is for sure.

01:16:48.966 --> 01:16:55.526
VIRGINIA: If you are looking for a travel agent to help with a magical journey you are beginning to plan, Rebecca would love to help you.

01:16:55.526 --> 01:16:57.826
VIRGINIA: Her information is in the show notes.

01:16:57.826 --> 01:17:02.086
VIRGINIA: It's the beginning of a very busy week for me, and I'm sure for all of you too.

01:17:02.086 --> 01:17:09.106
VIRGINIA: So in between work and the madness of getting ready for the holidays, please remember to keep daydreaming about where you long to be.