Post-Trip Report: Sav & Piff Celebrate Piff’s Birthday (August 2024)

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VIRGINIA: Okay, let's wrap up this housekeeping and get to our guest.

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VIRGINIA: For anyone who didn't listen to the pre-trip interview, but who may have heard Sav and Piff's interviews recently in celebration of Sav's birthday, this time the ladies came back to share their August trip plans with me in celebration of Piff's birthday.

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VIRGINIA: It was so much fun to talk to them about their special birthday trips, and I hope you all will enjoy hearing from them again.

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VIRGINIA: Please consider giving them a follow on their own podcast, which is Pixie Dust with a Twist.

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VIRGINIA: Their show link is in the show notes for this episode.

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VIRGINIA: Now, without further ado, here's Piff.

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VIRGINIA: Welcome back, Piff.

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PIFF: Hello.

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PIFF: Hello.

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VIRGINIA: I am so happy to see you.

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VIRGINIA: Listeners, you'll be wondering where Sav is.

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VIRGINIA: She has the night off.

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VIRGINIA: So we are wishing her well.

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VIRGINIA: And I am here with Piff to talk through all of the details of her big birthday trip.

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VIRGINIA: So this is funny because I think during the post trip for Sav's birthday trip, it was only Sav.

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PIFF: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: So this is like, you know, part for the course here.

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PIFF: We're making it a thing now.

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VIRGINIA: Yes.

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VIRGINIA: I'll just know to expect it next time.

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VIRGINIA: But all right.

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VIRGINIA: So let's talk all about the trip.

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VIRGINIA: A reminder for everyone, this was Thursday, August 22nd, through Sunday, August 25th.

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VIRGINIA: And this was in celebration of your birthday.

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VIRGINIA: So do you feel thoroughly celebrated?

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VIRGINIA: And how does it feel to have now have your birthday behind you as a fellow Virgo?

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VIRGINIA: Because I know that Virgo's, you know, we all think our birthdays are very special.

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VIRGINIA: And you're among some of the first Virgo to have your birthday.

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PIFF: Ah, yes.

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PIFF: Well, on the plus side, the trip was amazing.

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PIFF: And Disney really knows how to make you feel special on your birthday.

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PIFF: I don't think I've ever been wished happy birthday as many times as I was on this trip.

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PIFF: But I do now have to not be the center of attention anymore.

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PIFF: So there's always that.

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VIRGINIA: You could become one of those people who celebrates your whole month, although yours was August, so it would still be done regardless.

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PIFF: Yeah, it would still be done.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: My birthday is actually tomorrow.

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VIRGINIA: So getting in on the cargo action.

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VIRGINIA: Thank you.

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VIRGINIA: Thank you.

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VIRGINIA: Me and Beyoncé.

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VIRGINIA: Beyoncé is my birthday sister.

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VIRGINIA: I'm a couple of years older than her, though, but we won't talk about that.

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PIFF: I wouldn't know.

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PIFF: I don't know how old you are, nor do I know how old Beyoncé is.

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PIFF: So in my mind, you're the same age.

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VIRGINIA: I don't know how old she actually is either.

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VIRGINIA: I just know that she's younger, so whatever.

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VIRGINIA: Whatever.

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VIRGINIA: We're as young as we feel, right?

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VIRGINIA: And as a Disney adult, we're all feeling...

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PIFF: Young at heart.

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VIRGINIA: Pretty young at heart, yeah.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: So let's start from the very beginning, which was Thursday the 22nd.

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VIRGINIA: So you all, for the first time since I've talked to you, had a very, very late night flight.

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PIFF: Yeah, we really did.

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VIRGINIA: How was that?

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PIFF: So the flight itself was fine.

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PIFF: The crew was amazing.

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PIFF: If I could give that Spirit Airlines flight crew five stars, I would.

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PIFF: They had so much energy and did a little stretch before we landed.

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PIFF: I mean, like, all right, everybody, hope you get to your bed safely.

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PIFF: The flight itself was great.

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PIFF: What was not great was getting from the airport to our hotel.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah, we talked about the fact that that would be a challenge based on the time that you were arriving.

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VIRGINIA: And having gone on my most recent experience of trying to get an Uber or a Lyft at that time of night.

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VIRGINIA: So did you end up doing the Uber or Lyft option, or did you book a Mears between the time we talked last and now?

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PIFF: So after our conversation with you, we booked a Mears.

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PIFF: And I can pretty confidently say it's probably the last time we're going to use Mears because it took us three hours to get to our resort.

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VIRGINIA: Oh my God.

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PIFF: Wow.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: Why did it take that long?

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PIFF: So it just seemed like they didn't appropriately plan.

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PIFF: So there were two Mears buses when we got on.

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PIFF: We got on the bus at about 11:30 PM.

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PIFF: We didn't get into our room until 2:30 AM.

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PIFF: When we finally left that spot at the airport, we had to go to another terminal, pick up more people, and then usually Mears resorts, they do kind of like based on area.

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PIFF: So they'll have like one bus that goes to all the Epcot area resorts.

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PIFF: We were all over the place.

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PIFF: We went to Saratoga Springs, then we went to Art of Animation and Pop Century, and we were just going everywhere with no rhyme or reason.

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PIFF: There was another Mears bus next to our bus that had one person on it.

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PIFF: So I'm really not sure why all of these different resorts got put on the same bus that then took so long.

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PIFF: There were people with families that were still on the bus when we finally got off.

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PIFF: They were on the bus when we got on, so I don't know how long it took them.

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VIRGINIA: Well, first of all, I've never heard of Mears picking up at one terminal and then going and picking up at another terminal.

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VIRGINIA: I've only experienced it picking up from whatever terminal I'm at, and then heading out to a variety of resorts, usually within the same vicinity.

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VIRGINIA: But to hop from one terminal to another before you ever even get started on your resort journey, that seems crazy to me.

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PIFF: Yeah.

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PIFF: It was widely unpleasant at Art of Animation because we were just at that point over.

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PIFF: We also went to the Boardwalk at one point.

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PIFF: But at Art of Animation, we got out and we were like, how much longer until we are over in the Animal Kingdom area?

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PIFF: Because if it's going to be a while, I can get an Uber here for $7 to my resort.

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PIFF: I'm sick of being on this bus.

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PIFF: It's taking way too long.

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PIFF: At that point, we were the driver.

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PIFF: I don't fault the driver at all.

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PIFF: This is definitely a logistics thing that had gone on.

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PIFF: But he was like, next we're going to sports and then we're going to movies.

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PIFF: And I said, okay, I can at this point wait, because we've already been waiting so long.

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PIFF: But it was just ridiculous.

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VIRGINIA: So in the future, what do you think your plan will be if not Mears?

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PIFF: I think we're just going to stick with Uber, because if we had waited 20 minutes for an Uber to get there and then another 25 minutes for the drive, we still would have been there in under an hour.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: My issue the last time I was there, when Charles and I did our spontaneous trip, and he was there much earlier in the day, I arrived around the time that you did.

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VIRGINIA: It wasn't just the 20-minute wait for the Uber or Lyft to come.

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VIRGINIA: It was also the fact that there was so much construction going on that the Uber or Lyft driver, I can't even remember which service I used.

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VIRGINIA: It was probably Lyft because most of the time I used Lyft, but they could not get from the airport to the resort in an efficient way because of all the detours.

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VIRGINIA: It took me about two hours in the Lyft.

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VIRGINIA: In an Uber.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: Part of that was just because whatever system they used to navigate from one location to another, it could not handle the fact that there were detours happening.

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VIRGINIA: We were just following the signs, and then suddenly it was like, wait, we literally just went in a circle.

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VIRGINIA: Finally, the driver had said, I'm just going to go this back way, and I laughed and said, haha, okay, don't kidnap me, please.

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VIRGINIA: We went off path and he got me there eventually, but it was the world's longest drive because of that.

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VIRGINIA: My hope had been that if you use mirrors, at least the drivers would be aware of the road construction, but that does you no good if they stop at two different terminals and go to seemingly every resort on property before they go to yours.

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PIFF: We were in every resort area on property, and I sent them an e-mail afterwards, like a very polite e-mail just being like, I don't know what happened this night, but y'all should look into it because something happened, and the logistics was a nightmare.

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VIRGINIA: Have they replied to you yet?

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PIFF: They have not.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: I hope that they will reply to you, and I hope that they will give you something for your trouble, a voucher or credit or something.

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PIFF: Even just like, I'm so sorry that happened to you.

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PIFF: We are looking into it because at the end of the day, like it wasn't that expensive.

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PIFF: I was just so tired and cranky by the time we got to our resort room that I was like, what happened?

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PIFF: Somebody needs to look into this and fix it, so it doesn't happen to anybody else ever again, because that was awful.

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VIRGINIA: Well, okay.

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VIRGINIA: So it was about, you said 2.30 or so by the time you got to your resort.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: Something I didn't ask you when we spoke the first time was, I know that you all share an owner's locker, and you had planned on getting that for this trip because you have the unlimited version of it, where it can come and go to your resorts as many times during the year as you'd like it to.

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VIRGINIA: So for the owner's locker, was it arriving on Thursday the 22nd?

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VIRGINIA: So in theory, you could go to your resort and visit Bill Services and get your owner's locker on your way to your room if you had wanted to.

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VIRGINIA: I'm imagining because of how late you got there, you did not take the time to do that and you probably just went straight to your room.

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PIFF: So actually Bill Services was amazing.

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PIFF: Shout out to Joe at All-Star Movies.

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PIFF: He was amazing.

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PIFF: He got us checked in and then we said, oh, we have an owner's locker, could we pick it up?

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PIFF: And he was like, I'll bring it to your room.

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VIRGINIA: Wow.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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PIFF: They do not have to do that.

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PIFF: Usually they don't do that.

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PIFF: We take it upon ourselves to transport it to and from the room, but he kind of heard our woes and was like, you know what?

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PIFF: It's your birthday.

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PIFF: I'm going to make this a little magical for you.

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PIFF: And he brought our owner's locker to our room as we were getting settled that night.

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VIRGINIA: Nice.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: Recently, I can't remember which trip it was, but very recently, for the first time in a long time, I had checked into a resort.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, I think it was on Alex and my mother son trip.

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VIRGINIA: We brought our stuff to Bell Services.

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VIRGINIA: And when we came back from the parks, it was in our room.

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VIRGINIA: And it's been the longest time since that's happened.

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VIRGINIA: And so I think that there's something coming back with Bell Services where they're able to kind of extend their services a little bit more than they have since the pandemic.

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VIRGINIA: I just remember we walked into the room and I was like, oh my gosh, our luggage is already here.

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VIRGINIA: It felt like magical express days where there was, you know, your luggage magically getting from the airport into your room.

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VIRGINIA: That, you know, wasn't totally the case, obviously, but it felt like that.

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VIRGINIA: It was like a little throwback.

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VIRGINIA: So that's really great.

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VIRGINIA: Thank you so much to Joe for taking care of my friends.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: So into bed you went after such a late night.

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VIRGINIA: And then the next day, Friday, August 23rd was your Magic Kingdom Day, and you were going to Mickey's Not So Scary that night.

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VIRGINIA: So you had a nice long day ahead of you.

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VIRGINIA: Based on what time of night you got in, what time were you up and out the door the next morning?

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PIFF: So we opted to sleep in a little bit because we wanted to have the energy for the party.

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PIFF: We did not make it into Magic Kingdom until 11 a.m., which was the same time as our lunch reservation.

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PIFF: And if it hadn't been for that, it probably would have been later.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah, but fair enough.

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VIRGINIA: I was expecting something in the late morning at the earliest.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: And you were doing a little bit of Disney bounding on this day.

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VIRGINIA: So how did your Disney bounding go?

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PIFF: Oh my gosh.

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PIFF: It was amazing.

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PIFF: We got so many compliments from everybody, cast members, other guests.

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PIFF: It was amazing.

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PIFF: Everybody was asking us if we were staying for the party.

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PIFF: We were like, yeah, they were telling us where we could meet Evil Queen, where her candy pass out station is, and all these things.

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PIFF: So it really kind of wrought the magic that first day.

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PIFF: People were stopping us to tell us how much they liked our Disney bounds.

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PIFF: So and that's never happened before.

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PIFF: So we were very excited.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: So that leads me to a follow up question then, since you were getting so many compliments.

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VIRGINIA: I know that you all had plans to do a little change-a-roo before the party.

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VIRGINIA: Did you stick with your Disney bound for the party based on all the feedback you were getting, or did you go ahead and change as planned?

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PIFF: We still changed as planned because we were so sweaty and disgusting.

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PIFF: My dress was long sleeves.

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PIFF: The sleeves were mesh, so it breathed.

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PIFF: But you could see my sweat sticking to the mesh.

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PIFF: Oh, okay.

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PIFF: We were both just ready to be in something comfy by the time party time rolled around.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: What did you get done during your Magic Kingdom time before the party started?

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VIRGINIA: Because you had mentioned that you were going to try to meet some characters and maybe ride some things with low weight times.

00:15:02.778 --> 00:15:09.758
VIRGINIA: But that was really basically going to be it until about four o'clock when you were going to hop in line for Jack and Sally.

00:15:10.778 --> 00:15:11.138
PIFF: Yeah.

00:15:11.138 --> 00:15:18.458
PIFF: So first thing we did was eat at the plaza and we had some of the Halloween offerings which were so good.

00:15:18.458 --> 00:15:20.338
PIFF: I would marry that burger if I could.

00:15:20.338 --> 00:15:21.898
VIRGINIA: It was amazing.

00:15:21.898 --> 00:15:23.778
VIRGINIA: What was so special about it?

00:15:23.778 --> 00:15:26.198
PIFF: There was some sauce on it.

00:15:26.998 --> 00:15:29.098
PIFF: It was really well-cooked.

00:15:29.098 --> 00:15:30.018
PIFF: It was still juicy.

00:15:30.018 --> 00:15:31.458
PIFF: It wasn't dried out.

00:15:31.458 --> 00:15:32.858
PIFF: There was a really good sauce.

00:15:32.858 --> 00:15:35.618
PIFF: The toppings all really worked well together.

00:15:35.618 --> 00:15:36.858
PIFF: It was just really delicious.

00:15:37.858 --> 00:15:40.218
PIFF: The Halloween one was like a ghoul burger.

00:15:40.218 --> 00:15:44.078
PIFF: It's got a black bun and some stuff like that.

00:15:44.078 --> 00:15:45.078
PIFF: It was so good.

00:15:45.078 --> 00:15:50.598
PIFF: It was one of the better Halloween treats we had that day.

00:15:50.598 --> 00:15:53.458
VIRGINIA: What else did you have at the Plaza?

00:15:53.458 --> 00:16:04.698
PIFF: Sav had the ghoulish club sandwich, which according to her was just, it's a club sandwich on black bread, so make it Halloween themed.

00:16:04.698 --> 00:16:18.538
PIFF: And then we had the graveyard shake, which is like a chocolate crumbly shake with a donut on top and a Haunted Mansion straw and some other accoutrements on the top to make it spooky themed.

00:16:18.538 --> 00:16:20.218
PIFF: And it was fine.

00:16:20.218 --> 00:16:24.678
PIFF: It wasn't like out of this world great, but it was a chocolate milkshake.

00:16:24.678 --> 00:16:27.898
PIFF: The donut was a little stale, unfortunately.

00:16:27.898 --> 00:16:30.878
VIRGINIA: I would say that most donuts that come on top of milkshakes are stale.

00:16:31.218 --> 00:16:32.738
PIFF: They're there for the aesthetic.

00:16:32.738 --> 00:16:34.558
PIFF: They are not there for being delicious.

00:16:34.558 --> 00:16:37.218
PIFF: The jelly inside of the donut was still pretty good though.

00:16:37.218 --> 00:16:37.758
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:16:37.758 --> 00:16:38.738
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:16:38.738 --> 00:16:41.198
VIRGINIA: So did it look like, was it like red jelly?

00:16:41.198 --> 00:16:41.918
VIRGINIA: Did it look like blood?

00:16:41.918 --> 00:16:42.618
PIFF: Yeah.

00:16:42.618 --> 00:16:44.358
PIFF: It was in fact red jelly.

00:16:44.358 --> 00:16:44.998
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:16:44.998 --> 00:16:49.898
PIFF: And then after that, Sav had to run back to the room because she forgot to take her daily medication.

00:16:49.898 --> 00:16:52.198
PIFF: I forgot my water bottle.

00:16:52.198 --> 00:16:54.278
PIFF: We were not like, We were hot ass.

00:16:55.718 --> 00:16:57.338
PIFF: We really were.

00:16:58.358 --> 00:17:00.478
PIFF: So while she did that, I like wandered around.

00:17:00.578 --> 00:17:08.818
PIFF: I looked at the new embroidery offerings that they have at the Magic Kingdom now because now they embroider things besides just the Mickey hats.

00:17:08.818 --> 00:17:09.918
PIFF: I don't know if you knew that.

00:17:09.938 --> 00:17:16.798
VIRGINIA: I recently heard that and it made me get excited for the possibilities of embroidering a spirit jersey or something.

00:17:16.798 --> 00:17:16.998
PIFF: Yes.

00:17:16.998 --> 00:17:20.498
VIRGINIA: Did you get anything embroidered or just checked it out?

00:17:20.498 --> 00:17:22.158
PIFF: We ended up not getting anything embroidered.

00:17:22.158 --> 00:17:22.598
PIFF: We did.

00:17:22.598 --> 00:17:23.618
PIFF: I just checked it out.

00:17:23.618 --> 00:17:24.338
PIFF: I looked there.

00:17:24.338 --> 00:17:26.398
PIFF: I looked at Ye Olde Christmas Shop.

00:17:26.398 --> 00:17:27.138
PIFF: I wandered about.

00:17:27.138 --> 00:17:28.378
PIFF: I might have bought some pins.

00:17:28.378 --> 00:17:29.198
PIFF: I always buy pins.

00:17:29.198 --> 00:17:29.598
PIFF: Who knows?

00:17:30.438 --> 00:17:32.438
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:17:32.438 --> 00:17:33.618
PIFF: Then Saf came back.

00:17:33.618 --> 00:17:35.338
PIFF: She was not gone very long.

00:17:35.338 --> 00:17:38.298
PIFF: Then we met a lot of characters.

00:17:38.298 --> 00:17:47.038
PIFF: We met Snow White, Mulan, Tiana, Rapunzel, Cinderella, Elena, Goofy, Donald, Daisy, and Minnie.

00:17:47.038 --> 00:17:48.758
VIRGINIA: That is a lot.

00:17:49.778 --> 00:17:53.498
VIRGINIA: Many of those, I imagine, might have been at Princess Hall?

00:17:53.498 --> 00:17:55.158
PIFF: Yeah.

00:17:55.158 --> 00:18:02.138
PIFF: Tiana, Rapunzel, Cinderella, and Elena are all at Princess Fairytale Hall.

00:18:02.138 --> 00:18:03.398
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:18:03.398 --> 00:18:05.558
VIRGINIA: Where did you meet the others?

00:18:05.558 --> 00:18:09.598
PIFF: Snow White and Mulan both meet on the porch of Town Hall.

00:18:09.598 --> 00:18:11.818
PIFF: They only meet for 15 minutes each.

00:18:12.098 --> 00:18:15.858
PIFF: You've got to know the times that they're going to come out and get in line.

00:18:15.858 --> 00:18:21.458
PIFF: But we were able to meet them, and it was super fun meeting Snow White as we are dressed as Snow White in Evil Queen.

00:18:22.978 --> 00:18:26.298
PIFF: It was one of the best character interactions we had that day.

00:18:26.298 --> 00:18:32.818
PIFF: That and Donald later, just so good.

00:18:32.818 --> 00:18:40.978
PIFF: She made a joke about Savannah was wearing an apple necklace that I had lent her, and she was like, oh, I hope you haven't taken a bite out of that.

00:18:40.978 --> 00:18:42.038
PIFF: Did she give that to you?

00:18:42.038 --> 00:18:46.418
PIFF: She was like, she actually did give that to me, but it is plastic, so I think I should be okay.

00:18:48.938 --> 00:18:51.558
VIRGINIA: I had no idea they met over there.

00:18:51.558 --> 00:18:52.678
PIFF: Yeah.

00:18:52.678 --> 00:18:52.998
VIRGINIA: Wow.

00:18:52.998 --> 00:18:53.978
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:18:53.978 --> 00:18:56.198
VIRGINIA: Never stop learning, I always say.

00:18:58.178 --> 00:19:00.198
VIRGINIA: And so what time was this approximately?

00:19:00.198 --> 00:19:01.978
VIRGINIA: Where are we within your day at this point?

00:19:01.978 --> 00:19:06.818
PIFF: So about 1, 1.30 is when we started meeting characters.

00:19:07.978 --> 00:19:10.698
PIFF: Sometime in the middle there, we rode Seven Dwarfs Mind Train.

00:19:10.698 --> 00:19:12.338
PIFF: Oh, we met Ariel too.

00:19:12.338 --> 00:19:13.018
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:19:13.018 --> 00:19:13.958
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:19:13.958 --> 00:19:15.178
VIRGINIA: That's a lot of characters.

00:19:15.178 --> 00:19:16.618
VIRGINIA: And the party hasn't even started yet.

00:19:16.618 --> 00:19:18.598
PIFF: The party has not started yet.

00:19:18.598 --> 00:19:22.658
PIFF: But I wanted to meet characters and meet characters I did.

00:19:22.658 --> 00:19:31.978
PIFF: And I had taken, I made my own autograph book because I just was not satisfied with any of the ones I could find on available to me.

00:19:31.978 --> 00:19:35.118
PIFF: And on each page, I had a character sticker.

00:19:35.418 --> 00:19:40.838
PIFF: So I had like a Disney sticker of the character who was going to sign that page.

00:19:40.838 --> 00:19:44.718
PIFF: And a lot of the princesses acknowledged it.

00:19:44.718 --> 00:19:56.798
PIFF: But when we met Donald and Goofy, actually, they saw themselves on the sticker and were like so excited that we had like a special page that we made just for them to sign.

00:19:56.798 --> 00:19:59.258
PIFF: It was so fun.

00:19:59.258 --> 00:20:11.278
PIFF: Donald like shot up in like my favorite character interactions because he's kind of an annoying character, but meeting him, oh my goodness, that was top tier.

00:20:11.278 --> 00:20:12.298
VIRGINIA: Yeah, no, same.

00:20:12.298 --> 00:20:15.918
VIRGINIA: I used to get so annoyed by him and Daisy.

00:20:15.918 --> 00:20:20.378
VIRGINIA: And so I really didn't give them much of my time or energy.

00:20:20.378 --> 00:20:32.458
VIRGINIA: And then I had such good character interactions with them at Topolino's and then also in Mexico, meeting, you know, Spicy Donald with his hat on.

00:20:33.898 --> 00:20:37.058
VIRGINIA: And they just totally, they turned me around.

00:20:37.058 --> 00:20:39.398
VIRGINIA: And now I love Donald and Daisy.

00:20:39.398 --> 00:20:41.118
VIRGINIA: I just think they are the coolest.

00:20:41.118 --> 00:20:46.038
VIRGINIA: They give the best interactions with the fans.

00:20:46.458 --> 00:20:48.218
PIFF: We had such great interactions with them.

00:20:48.218 --> 00:20:51.038
PIFF: Daisy had us like do some model poses.

00:20:51.038 --> 00:20:54.378
PIFF: Donald was bowing to us at one point because we were both royalty.

00:20:55.958 --> 00:20:57.398
PIFF: It was amazing.

00:20:58.638 --> 00:20:59.538
VIRGINIA: That's really cool.

00:20:59.538 --> 00:21:00.398
VIRGINIA: That's really cool.

00:21:00.398 --> 00:21:03.798
VIRGINIA: Where did you get the stickers for your book?

00:21:03.798 --> 00:21:04.598
PIFF: Amazon.

00:21:04.598 --> 00:21:05.238
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:21:05.238 --> 00:21:11.478
PIFF: I bought one of those like 100 Disney sticker packs that exist on Amazon.

00:21:11.478 --> 00:21:14.138
PIFF: And I actually got it last year.

00:21:14.138 --> 00:21:18.978
PIFF: And I had decorated a water bottle with them that I subsequently lost at Disney World.

00:21:18.978 --> 00:21:23.038
PIFF: But I found them when I was kind of going through some of my craft supplies.

00:21:23.098 --> 00:21:26.198
PIFF: And I was like, Oh, I could use these for my book.

00:21:26.198 --> 00:21:29.758
VIRGINIA: What did you make the cover out of?

00:21:29.758 --> 00:21:35.998
PIFF: So I used a sketch pad, like a hard cover sketch pad.

00:21:35.998 --> 00:21:40.698
PIFF: And then I used my Cricut to Disney-ify it.

00:21:40.698 --> 00:21:45.698
PIFF: And then I did sections with the princesses and I put them in movie order.

00:21:45.698 --> 00:21:49.338
PIFF: So with Snow White as the first.

00:21:49.338 --> 00:21:54.278
PIFF: And I even included princesses that don't necessarily have a meet right now because maybe one day they'll have a meet.

00:21:54.278 --> 00:21:54.698
VIRGINIA: I don't know.

00:21:54.698 --> 00:21:58.258
VIRGINIA: I mean, doing it the way that you've done it sounds like a great way.

00:21:58.438 --> 00:22:03.498
VIRGINIA: It's like a checklist, like knowing which ones you have, which ones you're missing.

00:22:03.498 --> 00:22:11.178
VIRGINIA: Whereas when you just have a blank autograph book, like who knows, you might accidentally be asking someone to sign for the second time.

00:22:11.178 --> 00:22:12.738
PIFF: Yeah, you don't know.

00:22:12.738 --> 00:22:15.938
PIFF: And then Sav has a Polaroid camera that we also took.

00:22:15.938 --> 00:22:21.378
PIFF: And I took Polaroids with all the princesses, which was like just a silly idea I had.

00:22:21.558 --> 00:22:22.778
PIFF: And now I'm obsessed.

00:22:22.778 --> 00:22:27.338
PIFF: I have a magnetic board over here and I have them all on.

00:22:27.338 --> 00:22:29.698
PIFF: And it just makes me very happy.

00:22:29.698 --> 00:22:31.738
VIRGINIA: Cute.

00:22:31.738 --> 00:22:34.898
VIRGINIA: I remember back in the day, having my very first Polaroid camera.

00:22:34.898 --> 00:22:40.478
VIRGINIA: That was not nearly as cool as they are these days.

00:22:40.478 --> 00:22:40.918
PIFF: Yeah.

00:22:40.918 --> 00:22:43.378
VIRGINIA: They were like thick and they didn't have good quality.

00:22:43.378 --> 00:22:45.938
VIRGINIA: And these days they make such good Polaroid cameras.

00:22:45.938 --> 00:22:47.878
VIRGINIA: So great idea.

00:22:47.878 --> 00:22:48.358
VIRGINIA: Great idea.

00:22:49.678 --> 00:22:50.098
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:22:50.098 --> 00:22:53.078
VIRGINIA: So what did you do after meeting these characters?

00:22:53.078 --> 00:22:57.038
VIRGINIA: Or was it time for you to pick up your party tickets?

00:22:57.038 --> 00:22:59.178
PIFF: It was party ticket time.

00:22:59.178 --> 00:22:59.478
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:22:59.478 --> 00:23:00.278
VIRGINIA: How did that go?

00:23:00.278 --> 00:23:06.538
VIRGINIA: Because you were going to try to do it from inside the park and get them maybe a little early.

00:23:06.538 --> 00:23:06.838
PIFF: Yeah.

00:23:06.838 --> 00:23:10.518
PIFF: So we were not able to get them early because we were in line to meet Minnie and Daisy.

00:23:11.298 --> 00:23:17.738
PIFF: So about quarter after four, we headed over to Tomorrowland to get our bands.

00:23:17.738 --> 00:23:21.478
PIFF: We got in line, a cast member told us it was going to be a 30-minute wait.

00:23:21.478 --> 00:23:23.218
PIFF: It was a 10-minute wait.

00:23:23.218 --> 00:23:28.638
PIFF: We timed it mostly because the people in front of us were complaining about it potentially being a 30-minute wait.

00:23:28.638 --> 00:23:30.198
PIFF: I'm like, this is Disney World.

00:23:30.198 --> 00:23:31.618
PIFF: They overestimate the time.

00:23:31.618 --> 00:23:33.278
PIFF: It's not actually going to be that long.

00:23:33.278 --> 00:23:35.558
VIRGINIA: Uh-huh.

00:23:35.558 --> 00:23:44.238
PIFF: So we get our party bands, we get our treat bags, and we headed to the front of the park where we changed because we were so sweaty.

00:23:44.238 --> 00:23:51.658
PIFF: And the original plan at that point was to get in line for Jack and Sally, but the line at that time was 180 minutes.

00:23:51.658 --> 00:23:53.138
VIRGINIA: Oh, no.

00:23:53.138 --> 00:23:54.278
PIFF: No, thank you.

00:23:54.278 --> 00:23:59.858
PIFF: So we went shopping, and we got more than we planned.

00:23:59.858 --> 00:24:05.518
PIFF: I got the mystery pins for the party, the party-exclusive mystery pins.

00:24:05.518 --> 00:24:11.178
PIFF: It's a really good thing I was on a budget, a high budget, but I was on a budget because I would have bought so many of those.

00:24:12.258 --> 00:24:14.458
PIFF: They were such cute pins.

00:24:14.458 --> 00:24:16.438
VIRGINIA: What were they, the mystery pins?

00:24:16.438 --> 00:24:23.158
VIRGINIA: Was it like a mystery pack or like with multiple pins in it or one singular mystery pin?

00:24:23.158 --> 00:24:24.258
PIFF: It was a mystery pack.

00:24:24.258 --> 00:24:35.958
PIFF: Each pack has two pins of the, I believe, eight total, and they were different, very popular characters in Halloween costumes or outfits holding a little Halloween treat.

00:24:36.818 --> 00:24:46.378
PIFF: And I ended up with Stitch, who I was thrilled to get, and Donald, who after our interaction earlier in the day, I was also thrilled about, so it was very good.

00:24:46.378 --> 00:24:50.398
VIRGINIA: Did you also get the Pass Holder exclusive party pin?

00:24:50.398 --> 00:24:51.258
PIFF: Oh, of course I did.

00:24:51.318 --> 00:24:53.378
PIFF: It is sitting right in front of me right now.

00:24:53.378 --> 00:24:55.538
VIRGINIA: Okay, what did that look like?

00:24:55.538 --> 00:25:00.778
PIFF: So the one I have, let me look at it, has the Fab Five on it.

00:25:00.778 --> 00:25:03.058
PIFF: It does not have Daisy, so not the whole sensational six.

00:25:03.938 --> 00:25:12.218
PIFF: It says Pass Holder with 2024, and everybody's in a little Halloween outfit, and it's one of their limited release.

00:25:12.218 --> 00:25:13.438
VIRGINIA: That's a big pin.

00:25:13.698 --> 00:25:14.858
PIFF: It's a big pin.

00:25:14.858 --> 00:25:19.118
VIRGINIA: Correctly saying that it has three of the back ring things on it?

00:25:19.118 --> 00:25:19.718
PIFF: Two.

00:25:19.718 --> 00:25:20.518
VIRGINIA: Two, okay.

00:25:20.518 --> 00:25:21.578
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:25:21.578 --> 00:25:23.678
VIRGINIA: That's a big pin.

00:25:23.678 --> 00:25:26.878
VIRGINIA: You like big pins and you cannot lie.

00:25:26.878 --> 00:25:29.158
PIFF: I'm a pin girly accidentally.

00:25:29.158 --> 00:25:29.818
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:25:29.818 --> 00:25:30.218
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:25:30.218 --> 00:25:31.558
VIRGINIA: How many pins did you end up getting?

00:25:32.378 --> 00:25:40.278
PIFF: Well, so pin-wise, I got the one mystery pack, I got the Path Holder pin, and then I got these Mickey Minnie pumpkin pins.

00:25:40.278 --> 00:25:42.218
PIFF: Pin-wise, I did not do that bad.

00:25:42.218 --> 00:25:43.118
PIFF: Okay.

00:25:43.118 --> 00:25:49.798
PIFF: I also bought three t-shirts and a spirit.

00:25:49.798 --> 00:25:51.518
PIFF: No, I didn't get my spirit jersey until later.

00:25:51.518 --> 00:25:53.038
PIFF: I got it at Epcot.

00:25:53.038 --> 00:25:53.618
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:25:53.618 --> 00:25:57.598
VIRGINIA: I have your list here in front of me of the things that you're planning on getting.

00:25:57.598 --> 00:25:59.698
VIRGINIA: I'm going to list them off and you tell me yay or nay.

00:26:00.778 --> 00:26:02.558
VIRGINIA: Tie-dye Mickey t-shirt.

00:26:02.558 --> 00:26:03.938
PIFF: I did get that.

00:26:03.938 --> 00:26:06.978
VIRGINIA: Pocus Pocus Villains Spell-tacular t-shirt.

00:26:06.978 --> 00:26:08.478
PIFF: I got that as well.

00:26:08.478 --> 00:26:11.318
VIRGINIA: Haunted Mansion Wallpaper Quarter Zip.

00:26:11.318 --> 00:26:16.878
PIFF: I did not get that because I felt the fabric and it was like canvassy and I did not enjoy that.

00:26:16.878 --> 00:26:17.398
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:26:17.398 --> 00:26:18.558
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:26:18.558 --> 00:26:20.418
VIRGINIA: The Villains Spirit Jersey.

00:26:20.418 --> 00:26:23.318
PIFF: I did also get that, but I got that at Hollywood Studios.

00:26:23.318 --> 00:26:23.698
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:26:23.858 --> 00:26:25.578
VIRGINIA: What was the other t-shirt you got?

00:26:25.578 --> 00:26:28.998
PIFF: I also got the Purple Party Tie-dye.

00:26:29.118 --> 00:26:36.838
PIFF: I think it was like purpley-gray tie-dye party t-shirt that has, again, the Fab Five on it.

00:26:38.098 --> 00:26:44.038
PIFF: I also got my son the Stitch Coming Out Of A Pumpkin party t-shirt.

00:26:45.238 --> 00:26:49.018
PIFF: I got a pair of Jack Skellington Christmas Ears.

00:26:49.018 --> 00:26:51.798
PIFF: Okay.

00:26:51.798 --> 00:26:56.618
PIFF: I also got the Tower of Terror Spirit Jersey, but that was also at Hollywood Studios.

00:26:56.618 --> 00:26:57.478
PIFF: It wasn't the same night.

00:26:57.978 --> 00:26:58.518
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:26:58.518 --> 00:27:01.618
VIRGINIA: Jack Skellington Christmas Ears.

00:27:01.618 --> 00:27:05.578
VIRGINIA: How do you know they're Christmas and not Halloween?

00:27:06.818 --> 00:27:08.758
VIRGINIA: Oh, he's wearing a Santa hat.

00:27:08.758 --> 00:27:09.398
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:27:09.398 --> 00:27:10.258
VIRGINIA: Got it.

00:27:10.258 --> 00:27:14.098
VIRGINIA: Wow, that is some hat he's wearing.

00:27:14.098 --> 00:27:17.498
VIRGINIA: It's like adds this whole another layer to your ears.

00:27:17.498 --> 00:27:18.518
VIRGINIA: Those are cool.

00:27:18.518 --> 00:27:18.698
PIFF: Yeah.

00:27:18.698 --> 00:27:19.578
VIRGINIA: They're very cool.

00:27:19.578 --> 00:27:21.258
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:27:21.258 --> 00:27:21.658
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:27:22.098 --> 00:27:27.078
VIRGINIA: What did Sav end up getting in terms of her merch, whether it's party or not?

00:27:27.218 --> 00:27:30.298
VIRGINIA: Because she had a very specific list as well.

00:27:30.298 --> 00:27:30.558
PIFF: Yeah.

00:27:30.558 --> 00:27:44.198
PIFF: Sav got the Spelltacular shirt and the same tie-dye gray, glow-in-the-dark, sensational six t-shirt, and then she got two party pins.

00:27:45.718 --> 00:27:49.098
PIFF: I think that was it at the party.

00:27:49.098 --> 00:27:54.338
VIRGINIA: Did she get the light up ornament or the candy corn Starbucks tumbler that were on her list?

00:27:54.338 --> 00:27:56.278
PIFF: She did get the light up ornament.

00:27:56.578 --> 00:27:59.918
PIFF: The candy corn Starbucks tumbler was not as cute in person.

00:27:59.918 --> 00:28:01.698
PIFF: Like from a distance, very cute.

00:28:01.698 --> 00:28:04.158
PIFF: But when you look at it up close, not as cute.

00:28:04.158 --> 00:28:05.978
PIFF: So that did not come home with us.

00:28:05.978 --> 00:28:06.498
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:28:06.498 --> 00:28:06.778
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:28:06.778 --> 00:28:09.078
VIRGINIA: That was the one thing that she was kind of like, I'm not sure.

00:28:09.078 --> 00:28:09.638
VIRGINIA: I might get it.

00:28:09.638 --> 00:28:10.698
VIRGINIA: I might not.

00:28:10.698 --> 00:28:11.218
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:28:11.218 --> 00:28:15.378
VIRGINIA: Well, you guys sound like you did very well in the merch department.

00:28:15.378 --> 00:28:22.798
PIFF: Oh, and we each got the Halloween tote bag, which if you've never gotten a Disney-themed tote bag, the good canvas ones, those things are nice.

00:28:22.798 --> 00:28:29.198
PIFF: I have one from last year's party that I got off of eBay or something, and I use it all the time.

00:28:29.198 --> 00:28:30.438
PIFF: It's a great bag.

00:28:30.438 --> 00:28:30.838
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:28:30.838 --> 00:28:31.138
VIRGINIA: Yep.

00:28:31.498 --> 00:28:43.598
VIRGINIA: I do not have any party-specific Disney tote bags, but I have a Mickey Mouse Club tote bag that I got at Disney, and it is one of the highest quality tote bags I have, and it zips and everything.

00:28:43.598 --> 00:28:44.278
PIFF: Yeah.

00:28:44.278 --> 00:28:44.558
VIRGINIA: So good.

00:28:44.558 --> 00:28:46.138
PIFF: They make a good tote bag.

00:28:46.138 --> 00:28:46.818
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:28:46.818 --> 00:28:57.458
VIRGINIA: For a while, it was my carry-on bag, like my personal item on Disney trips for the plane because I could fit my purse inside it and multiple other things.

00:28:57.458 --> 00:29:01.938
VIRGINIA: But lately, I've been bringing it and using it as my pool bag.

00:29:01.938 --> 00:29:02.378
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:29:02.378 --> 00:29:04.658
VIRGINIA: What else did you get done at the party?

00:29:04.658 --> 00:29:09.558
PIFF: So after we went shopping, we went to our dinner reservation at Liberty Tree Tavern.

00:29:09.558 --> 00:29:12.638
PIFF: If you have not been there, oh my gosh, it's so good.

00:29:12.638 --> 00:29:17.238
VIRGINIA: It's one of my favorite places, but I know that it was both of your first times there.

00:29:17.238 --> 00:29:20.758
VIRGINIA: So what did you love the most on your skillet?

00:29:21.818 --> 00:29:23.698
PIFF: The roast beef.

00:29:23.698 --> 00:29:24.478
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:29:24.718 --> 00:29:25.638
PIFF: Oh my gosh.

00:29:25.638 --> 00:29:26.638
VIRGINIA: Is it brisket?

00:29:26.638 --> 00:29:27.918
PIFF: I don't think it's actually brisket.

00:29:27.918 --> 00:29:32.278
PIFF: They called it something else, but I kept calling it roast beef because I was like, it's the beef one.

00:29:32.278 --> 00:29:33.898
PIFF: The beef was delicious.

00:29:34.998 --> 00:29:35.678
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:29:35.678 --> 00:29:36.518
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:29:36.518 --> 00:29:39.598
VIRGINIA: That is my favorite thing on the plate as well.

00:29:39.598 --> 00:29:44.998
VIRGINIA: Did you try the ooey gooey butter toffee cake, whatever it's called?

00:29:44.998 --> 00:29:45.498
PIFF: We did.

00:29:45.498 --> 00:29:49.038
PIFF: At your request and insistence, we did try it.

00:29:49.038 --> 00:29:49.298
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:29:50.138 --> 00:30:04.418
PIFF: For me, so we both liked it, but I'm not the biggest toffee fan and it was so sweet, and I knew we were about to eat a bunch of sugar throughout our night, so I had about two bites of it and I was like, I cannot consume any more of this.

00:30:04.418 --> 00:30:06.938
PIFF: Sav ate a lot more of it than I did.

00:30:06.938 --> 00:30:07.898
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:30:07.898 --> 00:30:08.838
VIRGINIA: For me, same.

00:30:08.838 --> 00:30:11.978
VIRGINIA: It's a few bites and I'm like, okay, I've had my fill.

00:30:11.978 --> 00:30:13.158
VIRGINIA: It's very rich.

00:30:13.158 --> 00:30:14.198
VIRGINIA: It's really good.

00:30:14.198 --> 00:30:24.218
VIRGINIA: I'll tell you what used to be very good was there was the ice cream place over on the boardwalk and I'm Ample Hills.

00:30:24.218 --> 00:30:27.498
VIRGINIA: I was about to say I'm struggling to think of what its name was, but Ample Hills.

00:30:27.498 --> 00:30:34.878
VIRGINIA: When Ample Hills was there, they had an ooey gooey butter toffee cake ice cream and it was really good.

00:30:34.878 --> 00:30:35.698
VIRGINIA: It was so good.

00:30:35.698 --> 00:30:42.938
VIRGINIA: Hopefully, I will get to try it again at some point because I think they have a New York location even though I think it went out of business for a while.

00:30:42.938 --> 00:30:44.538
VIRGINIA: I think it's back.

00:30:44.538 --> 00:30:54.438
VIRGINIA: So at some point, I'm going to try to look that up and perhaps go on a trek to find that ice cream place.

00:30:54.438 --> 00:30:55.298
VIRGINIA: Legendary.

00:30:55.298 --> 00:31:00.578
VIRGINIA: That was a good ice cream place and it is very much missed on the boardwalk, at least in my opinion.

00:31:01.898 --> 00:31:06.058
VIRGINIA: So after Liberty Tree Tavern, where did you head next?

00:31:06.058 --> 00:31:07.558
VIRGINIA: Was it parade time?

00:31:07.558 --> 00:31:08.838
PIFF: So it was not.

00:31:08.838 --> 00:31:12.938
PIFF: This was about six o'clock when we left Liberty Tree.

00:31:12.938 --> 00:31:18.538
PIFF: So the park is closed to regular guests and a thunderstorm is rolling in.

00:31:18.538 --> 00:31:19.738
VIRGINIA: Oh no.

00:31:19.738 --> 00:31:31.718
PIFF: So we hop, skipped and jumped back to the front of the park and the Jack and Sally line had dropped to, I think it was 80 minutes and we said, that's 100 minutes less than it was earlier.

00:31:31.718 --> 00:31:32.958
PIFF: Let's get in line.

00:31:32.958 --> 00:31:33.938
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:31:33.938 --> 00:31:39.998
PIFF: And we were thankfully in line for most of the really bad parts of the thunderstorm.

00:31:41.178 --> 00:31:48.478
PIFF: But it did cause the first parade to get canceled and it wasn't the best time.

00:31:48.478 --> 00:32:01.278
PIFF: It did add some ambiance because if you're at a Halloween party and there is lightning and thunder everywhere, it adds to the spookiness while also taking away some of the things you are there to see.

00:32:01.278 --> 00:32:04.478
VIRGINIA: So where do Jack and Sally meet?

00:32:04.478 --> 00:32:09.398
PIFF: They meet inside of the town hall theater at the front of the parks, the same place you can meet Mickey.

00:32:09.898 --> 00:32:10.458
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:32:10.458 --> 00:32:14.258
VIRGINIA: So you were in line inside for all of it.

00:32:14.258 --> 00:32:16.638
VIRGINIA: There was no outside component for you during this time.

00:32:16.638 --> 00:32:17.058
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:32:17.058 --> 00:32:18.058
PIFF: Yes.

00:32:18.058 --> 00:32:20.098
VIRGINIA: Well, I mean, that worked out to some degree.

00:32:20.098 --> 00:32:23.138
VIRGINIA: That's still an awful long time to stand in the line.

00:32:23.978 --> 00:32:25.718
VIRGINIA: Was it about 80 minutes?

00:32:25.818 --> 00:32:26.218
PIFF: Yeah.

00:32:26.218 --> 00:32:29.818
PIFF: It was probably a little longer than that, to be honest.

00:32:29.818 --> 00:32:30.678
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:32:30.678 --> 00:32:31.938
VIRGINIA: Worth it?

00:32:33.898 --> 00:32:39.998
PIFF: So I'm not the biggest nightmare before Christmas person, but I still had a really great interaction.

00:32:39.998 --> 00:32:50.618
PIFF: Sav was wearing an Oogie Boogie Spirit Jersey, and so Sally said that she wasn't sure she could trust us because she had Oogie Boogie stuff on.

00:32:50.618 --> 00:32:57.958
PIFF: Sav had crafted a response to this in line, which is, it's a Halloween party, and that was the scariest thing I could think of.

00:32:57.958 --> 00:32:58.398
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:32:58.758 --> 00:33:05.558
PIFF: So we had a really great character interaction, and I think it's because they know people stand in line.

00:33:05.658 --> 00:33:08.298
PIFF: They wait to meet Jack and Sally.

00:33:08.298 --> 00:33:12.578
PIFF: Every interaction was special, and it was a good amount of time.

00:33:12.578 --> 00:33:15.218
PIFF: We were not rushed in and out of there.

00:33:15.218 --> 00:33:27.398
PIFF: There was a girl, a couple of groups ahead of us, and she was dressed like Sally, and Sally and her took some individual photos, and you could tell it really meant a lot to her.

00:33:27.398 --> 00:33:34.038
PIFF: So I think standing in that line was worth it for the amount of character interaction we got.

00:33:34.158 --> 00:33:41.358
PIFF: It would have been kind of sad if you go in, they sign their things, you get a couple of sentences, you take your picture and leave.

00:33:41.358 --> 00:33:42.038
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:33:42.038 --> 00:33:44.898
PIFF: Every interaction was very thoughtful and well-done.

00:33:44.898 --> 00:33:56.958
PIFF: Also, on a technical note, when you enter in to where you meet Jack and Sally, the theming is so good.

00:33:56.958 --> 00:33:57.398
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:33:57.758 --> 00:33:58.238
VIRGINIA: What do they do?

00:33:59.538 --> 00:34:01.198
PIFF: They have all these lights.

00:34:01.198 --> 00:34:04.258
PIFF: It looks like you're walking through a graveyard.

00:34:04.258 --> 00:34:06.978
PIFF: They've got Nightmare Before Christmas music playing.

00:34:08.158 --> 00:34:13.158
PIFF: Then you go in where you actually meet them and they've got the moon and that big hill in the background.

00:34:14.678 --> 00:34:16.858
PIFF: It was just really well done.

00:34:16.858 --> 00:34:17.598
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:34:17.598 --> 00:34:18.218
PIFF: Cool.

00:34:18.218 --> 00:34:18.618
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:34:18.618 --> 00:34:19.238
VIRGINIA: That's nice.

00:34:19.238 --> 00:34:24.018
VIRGINIA: It's not just the same old place where you'd be meeting other characters at other times.

00:34:24.018 --> 00:34:24.218
PIFF: Yeah.

00:34:24.218 --> 00:34:25.718
PIFF: It's very specific to them.

00:34:28.058 --> 00:34:37.638
VIRGINIA: Did you get any sense that after the thunderstorm had cleared out, that anybody that was there for the party had maybe given up and gone home?

00:34:37.638 --> 00:34:39.278
PIFF: People for sure gave up.

00:34:39.278 --> 00:34:43.098
PIFF: We actually met some people that gave up later in our trip.

00:34:43.098 --> 00:34:50.318
PIFF: Because when we left, it was still sprinkling, still thundering and lightning.

00:34:52.458 --> 00:34:54.638
PIFF: We went over to Frontierland.

00:34:55.338 --> 00:35:06.098
PIFF: We were hoping to meet Jack Sparrow and Ride Pirates, but then it was announced that the 8 o'clock parade was not going to happen.

00:35:06.098 --> 00:35:12.158
PIFF: And that's the point where a lot of people were like, okay, can we go, can we get tickets for another night?

00:35:12.158 --> 00:35:14.738
PIFF: Can they give us like a rain check ticket?

00:35:14.738 --> 00:35:18.178
PIFF: Because now like the shows are starting to get canceled.

00:35:18.178 --> 00:35:23.078
PIFF: Like some of the party, the things you come to the party to see were not gonna happen.

00:35:23.458 --> 00:35:25.998
PIFF: And some of them just didn't happen that night.

00:35:25.998 --> 00:35:29.338
PIFF: Like we didn't see Headless Horsemen because it did happen.

00:35:30.098 --> 00:35:35.758
VIRGINIA: Do you know whether they are good about giving those kind of tickets out?

00:35:35.758 --> 00:35:42.618
VIRGINIA: Because I think that the fine print when you buy the tickets is kind of like rain or shine.

00:35:42.618 --> 00:35:48.958
VIRGINIA: And so it makes it seem like if it doesn't happen, then you're just kind of out of luck.

00:35:51.358 --> 00:36:02.438
PIFF: From the people that we talked to that had been there and left early, it kind of seemed like if you left early enough, that they were giving people rain check tickets.

00:36:02.438 --> 00:36:12.018
PIFF: So you were getting a refund, but they were giving you, oh, you can come back in three days to the next party because this one is having a thunderstorm.

00:36:12.018 --> 00:36:12.498
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:36:12.498 --> 00:36:13.078
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:36:13.078 --> 00:36:26.258
VIRGINIA: So I suppose if you're there for a little bit longer trip and it works out, or if you're a local, let's say that maybe you could ask nicely and perhaps be given that opportunity.

00:36:26.258 --> 00:36:36.078
PIFF: Yeah, they don't have to, but the impression I got was like people who left pretty early in the night before the party really got going, they were given a rain check ticket.

00:36:36.078 --> 00:36:36.398
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:36:36.398 --> 00:36:40.198
VIRGINIA: So what did that mean for the rest of your night?

00:36:40.198 --> 00:36:41.978
PIFF: Well, it meant that I was sad for a little bit.

00:36:42.178 --> 00:36:50.758
PIFF: Sav had to give me a pep talk because I was not doing the best because I was like, this is my birthday trip and it's like the one thing I wanted to do.

00:36:50.758 --> 00:36:52.398
PIFF: What if all the shows are canceled?

00:36:52.398 --> 00:36:56.098
PIFF: Like we can't come back and go to another Halloween party.

00:36:56.098 --> 00:37:02.898
PIFF: Like we don't have the time, we don't have the money because for us it's a flight and a hotel.

00:37:02.898 --> 00:37:04.558
PIFF: We're not locals.

00:37:04.558 --> 00:37:07.298
PIFF: So I was sad for a little bit.

00:37:07.298 --> 00:37:09.978
PIFF: And then Sav gave me a very good pep talk.

00:37:10.998 --> 00:37:13.598
PIFF: I teared up a little bit because it was a very good pep talk.

00:37:13.598 --> 00:37:18.218
PIFF: And we got the funnel cake from Sleepy Hollow, which was top tier.

00:37:18.218 --> 00:37:19.418
PIFF: Very good.

00:37:19.418 --> 00:37:24.078
PIFF: It's got like peanut butter and dulce de leche and all these other things on it.

00:37:24.078 --> 00:37:25.238
PIFF: You can't eat it by yourself.

00:37:25.238 --> 00:37:27.638
PIFF: The two of us couldn't even finish it, but it was very good.

00:37:29.898 --> 00:37:32.058
PIFF: And Sav said, we're going to have a good time.

00:37:32.058 --> 00:37:33.058
PIFF: Damn it.

00:37:33.058 --> 00:37:35.678
PIFF: Sorry for saying damn it.

00:37:35.678 --> 00:37:38.778
PIFF: And so we left there.

00:37:38.878 --> 00:37:41.458
PIFF: We rode Pirates while it was still raining.

00:37:41.458 --> 00:37:53.678
PIFF: And we were actually heading over into Tomorrowland because I wanted the Witches Brew, which is just a pumpkin cream cold brew from Antigravities.

00:37:53.678 --> 00:37:59.758
PIFF: And as we're heading over there, it is 10 o'clock and the first fireworks start.

00:37:59.758 --> 00:38:05.318
PIFF: And that really turned the evening around, because at this point, it was still raining a little bit, but more of a drizzle.

00:38:05.318 --> 00:38:06.838
PIFF: The thunder and lightning had stopped.

00:38:08.418 --> 00:38:13.838
PIFF: And with the fireworks going, we were like, okay, things are going for the rest of the night.

00:38:13.838 --> 00:38:17.678
PIFF: So it really helped turn things around a little bit for us.

00:38:18.438 --> 00:38:20.078
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:38:20.078 --> 00:38:22.038
VIRGINIA: Did you get to see the hitchhiking ghosts?

00:38:22.038 --> 00:38:23.718
VIRGINIA: I know they were on your wish list.

00:38:23.718 --> 00:38:24.798
PIFF: We did not.

00:38:24.798 --> 00:38:27.078
PIFF: They were not out because of the rain.

00:38:27.078 --> 00:38:31.978
VIRGINIA: Oh, that's true, because they wear enough makeup that it would probably just come right off.

00:38:32.638 --> 00:38:33.678
VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.

00:38:35.058 --> 00:38:37.598
VIRGINIA: What time was the second parade?

00:38:37.598 --> 00:38:43.578
PIFF: So the second parade is at 11.30, I think.

00:38:45.638 --> 00:38:46.698
PIFF: 11, 11.30?

00:38:46.698 --> 00:38:47.938
PIFF: I think it's 11.30.

00:38:50.018 --> 00:38:51.318
PIFF: So that one was able to go.

00:38:51.318 --> 00:39:00.958
PIFF: We didn't have headless horsemen, and based on people talking about it after the fact, they did have to cut some floats, some characters that are usually there.

00:39:01.058 --> 00:39:10.078
PIFF: We didn't get to see, but we did still get to see, I would say 70, 75% of the regular Boutique parade.

00:39:10.078 --> 00:39:13.218
PIFF: And honestly, I was just happy it was happening.

00:39:13.218 --> 00:39:21.998
PIFF: Max came out with his power line dancers at the beginning, instead of the headless horsemen, and they did some really fun, like, audience participation stuff.

00:39:21.998 --> 00:39:26.378
PIFF: I've never seen a goofy movie, but it was a fun time.

00:39:26.378 --> 00:39:29.078
PIFF: I got to see, we got to see all the villains.

00:39:29.998 --> 00:39:34.958
PIFF: I got to see Facilier, which was my favorite Disney villain, which was great.

00:39:34.958 --> 00:39:40.058
PIFF: So things were a little abbreviated, but they did what they could.

00:39:40.058 --> 00:39:50.138
PIFF: At the beginning of the fireworks, normally Jack Skellington comes out, and he did not come out this time, again, because of the weather, but we still got to see the rest of the fireworks.

00:39:50.138 --> 00:39:51.958
PIFF: And at that point, that's all I wanted.

00:39:51.958 --> 00:39:54.258
PIFF: I was like, all right, it's party.

00:39:54.258 --> 00:39:59.438
PIFF: It's really party time now, because things are happening, and the rain has let up enough for things to happen.

00:39:59.438 --> 00:40:00.738
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:40:00.738 --> 00:40:01.318
PIFF: So.

00:40:01.318 --> 00:40:06.178
VIRGINIA: Anything else special that is party specific to report on?

00:40:07.438 --> 00:40:11.298
PIFF: They did sell out of the Witch's Hat Cupcake.

00:40:11.298 --> 00:40:17.678
PIFF: So if you are looking to get that, they sold out of it at like 10 o'clock when I asked.

00:40:17.698 --> 00:40:22.898
PIFF: So if you want to get it early, because we did not get it.

00:40:22.898 --> 00:40:24.478
VIRGINIA: Where do you get that from?

00:40:24.478 --> 00:40:25.258
PIFF: Main Street Bakery.

00:40:25.918 --> 00:40:26.598
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:40:26.598 --> 00:40:27.238
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:40:27.238 --> 00:40:30.818
VIRGINIA: So maybe on your way in to the party.

00:40:30.818 --> 00:40:31.678
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:40:31.678 --> 00:40:32.378
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:40:32.378 --> 00:40:37.298
VIRGINIA: So Saturday, August 24th, this is your actual birthday.

00:40:37.298 --> 00:40:44.318
VIRGINIA: So you were going to your favorite park, Hollywood Studios, and you were doing some bounding again on this day.

00:40:44.318 --> 00:40:46.338
VIRGINIA: So tell us about your bound.

00:40:46.338 --> 00:40:59.778
PIFF: So I was bounding as Ray in the morning, and Sav was Kylo, and we rode Rise of the Resistance as Ray and Kylo, and I got, again, a great, I had some great character interactions.

00:40:59.778 --> 00:41:01.618
PIFF: That's like the theme of this trip.

00:41:01.618 --> 00:41:12.438
PIFF: I had the best character interactions I've ever had with a cast member on Rise, and you know, they kind of rib you a little bit, they're giving you a hard time because you're being interrogated, you're a prisoner.

00:41:12.438 --> 00:41:13.458
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:41:13.458 --> 00:41:21.478
PIFF: And I had my birthday button, and he was like, so what made you join the rebellion on your birthday?

00:41:21.478 --> 00:41:23.458
PIFF: Seems like a questionable choice.

00:41:23.558 --> 00:41:27.758
PIFF: And at first, I was given kind of the line of the story, which is, what are you talking about?

00:41:28.178 --> 00:41:29.198
PIFF: We're a civilian vessel.

00:41:29.198 --> 00:41:35.938
PIFF: And he was like, you're literally carrying the rebel symbol on your back, which I was, and I had it on my necklace, too.

00:41:35.938 --> 00:41:37.738
VIRGINIA: You're like, fair enough.

00:41:37.738 --> 00:41:38.198
PIFF: Fair enough.

00:41:38.198 --> 00:41:39.398
PIFF: Fair enough.

00:41:40.558 --> 00:41:43.838
PIFF: And he was like, so you got captured on your birthday.

00:41:43.838 --> 00:41:45.078
PIFF: He's like, is today your actual birthday?

00:41:45.078 --> 00:41:47.998
PIFF: I was like, yeah, today's my actual birthday.

00:41:47.998 --> 00:41:51.358
PIFF: And he's like, so I was like, you know, seemed like fun.

00:41:51.458 --> 00:41:55.098
PIFF: And he goes, seems like fun to get captured.

00:41:55.098 --> 00:41:57.918
PIFF: And I was like, I don't know, Kylo seems pretty cool.

00:41:57.918 --> 00:42:01.718
PIFF: And he was like, do not refer to the supreme leader as Kylo.

00:42:01.718 --> 00:42:06.218
PIFF: Like you're, it was just, it was so great.

00:42:06.218 --> 00:42:08.798
PIFF: I was like, this was my dream.

00:42:08.798 --> 00:42:12.798
PIFF: All I wanted was to get like verbally assaulted by this cast member.

00:42:12.798 --> 00:42:14.438
PIFF: And that's exactly what I got.

00:42:14.438 --> 00:42:16.638
PIFF: It was amazing.

00:42:16.638 --> 00:42:19.118
VIRGINIA: Seeing birthday wishes do come true.

00:42:19.118 --> 00:42:19.418
PIFF: Yes.

00:42:22.278 --> 00:42:23.658
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:42:23.658 --> 00:42:26.678
VIRGINIA: Well, what was the first thing you did when you got to the park?

00:42:26.678 --> 00:42:30.418
VIRGINIA: Because I know you did have a lightning lane that you needed to get to.

00:42:30.418 --> 00:42:32.618
VIRGINIA: Was that the first thing you ended up doing?

00:42:32.618 --> 00:42:34.258
VIRGINIA: Was that Mickey Minnie?

00:42:34.258 --> 00:42:34.978
PIFF: Yep.

00:42:34.978 --> 00:42:35.678
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:42:35.678 --> 00:42:36.018
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:42:36.018 --> 00:42:37.398
PIFF: We rode Mickey Minis.

00:42:37.398 --> 00:42:38.518
PIFF: It was great.

00:42:38.518 --> 00:42:40.498
PIFF: We got some food.

00:42:40.678 --> 00:42:44.118
PIFF: I built a lightsaber, which was so cool.

00:42:44.678 --> 00:42:45.678
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:42:45.678 --> 00:42:46.878
PIFF: Such a cool experience.

00:42:46.878 --> 00:42:49.838
VIRGINIA: Did you tear up during the ceremony at all?

00:42:49.838 --> 00:42:51.838
PIFF: Yes, 100 percent.

00:42:51.838 --> 00:42:54.218
VIRGINIA: Because I did watching Alex do it.

00:42:54.238 --> 00:42:59.358
VIRGINIA: I felt a little emotional, and I was like, what is happening?

00:43:00.738 --> 00:43:03.178
VIRGINIA: Really believing in the force here.

00:43:03.178 --> 00:43:04.318
VIRGINIA: It's really cool.

00:43:04.318 --> 00:43:04.778
VIRGINIA: Very cool.

00:43:05.418 --> 00:43:05.718
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:43:06.118 --> 00:43:12.198
VIRGINIA: How did Sav like being your support system as you built your lightsaber?

00:43:12.198 --> 00:43:17.398
PIFF: She was basically my personal photographer, so that was great.

00:43:17.398 --> 00:43:21.678
PIFF: She asked me afterwards, she was like, you seem like you're getting a little emotional there.

00:43:21.678 --> 00:43:23.858
PIFF: I was like, yeah, I really was.

00:43:23.858 --> 00:43:27.398
PIFF: She was like, this makes me want to watch Star Wars so that I can experience that.

00:43:30.978 --> 00:43:32.238
VIRGINIA: Oh, my goodness.

00:43:32.238 --> 00:43:40.758
VIRGINIA: Yeah, there's something about that music, and hats off to John Williams, who is a legend, obviously.

00:43:40.758 --> 00:43:49.558
VIRGINIA: But to be able to write music like that, that the moment you hear it, you are taken to that place.

00:43:50.618 --> 00:44:01.098
VIRGINIA: When you start hearing those chords as the person is going through your instructions and telling you what the force means and everything, that is what got me.

00:44:01.098 --> 00:44:03.938
VIRGINIA: It was just like the swell of the music starting.

00:44:03.938 --> 00:44:08.138
VIRGINIA: It was just like, it really got to my heart.

00:44:08.138 --> 00:44:12.978
PIFF: Yeah, they do a fantastic job with that experience.

00:44:12.978 --> 00:44:15.778
VIRGINIA: What color lightsaber did you end up getting?

00:44:15.778 --> 00:44:16.858
PIFF: Purple.

00:44:16.858 --> 00:44:18.598
VIRGINIA: Purple, okay.

00:44:18.598 --> 00:44:24.138
VIRGINIA: And we had talked about the carrying case, just to confirm, it did come with the carrying case, like we thought.

00:44:24.138 --> 00:44:25.718
PIFF: It did come with the carrying case, yes.

00:44:25.978 --> 00:44:26.758
VIRGINIA: Okay, good.

00:44:26.758 --> 00:44:32.318
VIRGINIA: There was something that made me think that at one point they had changed it and we're going to charge for it.

00:44:32.318 --> 00:44:37.638
VIRGINIA: And I'm thinking now maybe it's the droid carrying case that they-

00:44:37.638 --> 00:44:43.278
PIFF: I think the paper one comes, but if you want the nice one, you have to buy it for the droids.

00:44:43.278 --> 00:44:43.918
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:44:43.918 --> 00:44:52.858
VIRGINIA: Yeah, there was something where I think originally maybe it, there was something included that got taken away at some point, and I'm not sure what it was.

00:44:52.858 --> 00:44:54.678
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:44:54.678 --> 00:45:07.058
VIRGINIA: Question, now that you've had your lightsaber for a little bit of time, not too long, is your lightsaber coming to life when you are not activating it?

00:45:07.058 --> 00:45:07.938
PIFF: No.

00:45:07.938 --> 00:45:09.958
PIFF: Does that happen to some people?

00:45:09.958 --> 00:45:11.478
VIRGINIA: Yes, it does.

00:45:13.118 --> 00:45:44.378
VIRGINIA: We thought that Alex's lightsaber was haunted, so I Googled it, and it is a common occurrence, so we had to end up taking the batteries out of it, and we just keep the batteries at the bottom of the carrying case, and then he only puts them in when he actually wants to activate it, because it would be sitting there in the carrying case, like no one touching it, no one anywhere near it, and you'd hear it go, and at first, I was like, what the heck is going on?

00:45:44.378 --> 00:45:51.518
PIFF: No, it did turn on in the car on the drive from the airport back home, but I assumed I just bumped the button because I was just-

00:45:51.658 --> 00:45:55.158
VIRGINIA: Maybe you did, but just something to be aware of.

00:45:55.158 --> 00:45:55.658
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:45:55.658 --> 00:45:57.218
PIFF: It's hanging on my wall right now.

00:45:57.218 --> 00:46:03.998
PIFF: I have both of my lightsabers on the wall, and that usually keeps anything from weird happening.

00:46:05.198 --> 00:46:07.378
PIFF: There's no way anything can touch that.

00:46:07.378 --> 00:46:07.738
PIFF: Yeah.

00:46:07.738 --> 00:46:22.598
PIFF: My husband, we got Saber Master lightsabers, and they're great, but my husband's did a similar thing where it was just like turning itself on and changing color and making noise, and nobody was near it.

00:46:22.598 --> 00:46:26.758
PIFF: I found that mounting it on the wall keeps it from being haunted.

00:46:27.258 --> 00:46:28.498
VIRGINIA: That's what I did.

00:46:28.498 --> 00:46:29.678
VIRGINIA: Maybe that's what I need to do.

00:46:29.678 --> 00:46:34.978
VIRGINIA: Maybe I need to get some mounting materials and put Alex's on the wall.

00:46:34.978 --> 00:46:35.158
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:46:35.158 --> 00:46:37.098
PIFF: Again, Amazon, they have those.

00:46:37.098 --> 00:46:37.458
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:46:37.458 --> 00:46:39.118
PIFF: Comes with hardware and everything.

00:46:39.118 --> 00:46:40.038
VIRGINIA: Fantastic.

00:46:40.038 --> 00:46:40.918
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:46:40.918 --> 00:46:43.858
VIRGINIA: I might have to get that link from you.

00:46:43.858 --> 00:46:44.198
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:46:44.198 --> 00:46:49.038
VIRGINIA: After the lightsaber appointment, you had a Toy Story mania at Lightning Lane, is that right?

00:46:49.398 --> 00:46:50.398
PIFF: Yes.

00:46:50.398 --> 00:46:50.998
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:46:50.998 --> 00:46:52.698
PIFF: Sav beat me.

00:46:52.698 --> 00:46:53.718
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:46:53.718 --> 00:46:56.978
PIFF: Which was, first of all, shocking for me, but also-

00:46:56.978 --> 00:46:57.498
PIFF: On your birthday.

00:46:57.498 --> 00:46:58.458
PIFF: So exciting for her.

00:46:58.458 --> 00:46:58.598
PIFF: Yeah.

00:46:59.818 --> 00:47:02.618
PIFF: I beat her on her birthday and she beat me on my birthday.

00:47:02.618 --> 00:47:02.938
PIFF: Okay.

00:47:02.938 --> 00:47:05.558
PIFF: Both of us were trying our hardest to win.

00:47:06.098 --> 00:47:10.058
PIFF: We're not people who are going to let the other one win, just because it's your birthday.

00:47:10.058 --> 00:47:10.278
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:47:10.278 --> 00:47:11.418
PIFF: It is funny.

00:47:11.418 --> 00:47:14.898
PIFF: But I beat her on her birthday and she beat me on mine.

00:47:14.898 --> 00:47:16.118
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:47:16.118 --> 00:47:17.098
VIRGINIA: Turnabout is fair play.

00:47:17.538 --> 00:47:19.378
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:47:19.378 --> 00:47:21.938
VIRGINIA: Is this when your mid-day change happened?

00:47:21.938 --> 00:47:28.478
VIRGINIA: Because I know that you were going to be putting on a very special dress for the rest of your day.

00:47:28.478 --> 00:47:33.598
PIFF: At this point, we were hot, it was sweaty and we said, let's go take a nap.

00:47:33.598 --> 00:47:45.758
PIFF: We went back to our resort and we took a little two-hour break, and then changed and went back into the parks and I was in my handmade Ahsoka Season 7 Clone Wars dress.

00:47:47.198 --> 00:47:53.778
VIRGINIA: Sav said she was just going to change it to something comfortable, so at this point, you were not bounding together or anything.

00:47:53.778 --> 00:47:54.718
PIFF: Correct.

00:47:54.718 --> 00:47:55.458
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:47:55.458 --> 00:47:56.198
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:47:56.198 --> 00:48:01.958
VIRGINIA: Did you get any good feedback from people about your dress?

00:48:01.958 --> 00:48:10.598
PIFF: Sadly, I did not, but in everybody's defense, when we came back to the park, we were mostly not over in Galaxy's Edge.

00:48:10.598 --> 00:48:18.778
PIFF: We rode rockin, we did tower a couple of times, so we weren't really in the part of the park where people were going to recognize what I was wearing.

00:48:18.778 --> 00:48:25.138
VIRGINIA: Are you the type of Virgo that when somebody complements something like that, your first thing is, oh, I made it?

00:48:25.138 --> 00:48:30.478
VIRGINIA: Or if you got it on sale, you're like, oh, I only paid X amount of dollars for it.

00:48:30.478 --> 00:48:32.678
PIFF: Or, oh my gosh, it has pockets too.

00:48:32.678 --> 00:48:34.298
PIFF: Yes.

00:48:34.298 --> 00:48:35.938
PIFF: That is also me.

00:48:35.958 --> 00:48:37.238
PIFF: I am that.

00:48:39.298 --> 00:48:40.438
PIFF: I can definitely relate.

00:48:40.718 --> 00:48:42.218
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:48:42.218 --> 00:48:42.618
PIFF: All right.

00:48:42.618 --> 00:48:45.678
VIRGINIA: So you listed some of the things you did.

00:48:45.678 --> 00:48:50.738
VIRGINIA: Then I know that you had a sci-fi reservation and this was going to be your first time at sci-fi.

00:48:50.738 --> 00:48:53.278
PIFF: That was the weirdest experience of our lives.

00:48:53.278 --> 00:48:53.818
VIRGINIA: Really?

00:48:53.818 --> 00:48:54.618
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:48:54.618 --> 00:48:56.418
VIRGINIA: Tell me about it.

00:48:56.418 --> 00:49:00.118
PIFF: So I knew vaguely what to expect, right?

00:49:00.118 --> 00:49:05.558
PIFF: Like you're eating in cars, there's old sci-fi things playing as if you're in a drive-in.

00:49:05.558 --> 00:49:11.378
PIFF: But the old sci-fi things, I was shocked that I was seeing that at Disney World.

00:49:11.378 --> 00:49:18.498
PIFF: Don't take your under 12s there, because some of it was wildly inappropriate.

00:49:20.298 --> 00:49:23.338
PIFF: It was just the strangest experience.

00:49:23.338 --> 00:49:27.678
VIRGINIA: I have taken under 12s there before, and I have to tell you, they don't notice at all.

00:49:27.678 --> 00:49:28.678
PIFF: Oh, okay.

00:49:28.678 --> 00:49:31.018
VIRGINIA: Because I took my nephews there in February.

00:49:32.058 --> 00:49:34.738
VIRGINIA: They didn't notice, so.

00:49:35.378 --> 00:49:38.458
PIFF: I just felt like I came out, and I was like, that was...

00:49:38.458 --> 00:49:41.798
PIFF: I'm glad we did it once, but I don't ever want to eat there again.

00:49:41.798 --> 00:49:44.018
PIFF: It was just very strange.

00:49:44.018 --> 00:49:45.098
PIFF: The food was fine.

00:49:45.098 --> 00:49:47.718
PIFF: It was like very standard, nothing special.

00:49:47.718 --> 00:49:49.278
PIFF: It was nothing that we got.

00:49:49.278 --> 00:49:50.058
PIFF: Yeah.

00:49:50.058 --> 00:49:55.638
PIFF: And then at the end, when the server came back with our cards, he switched them.

00:49:55.638 --> 00:50:04.778
PIFF: So the people in front of us got Sav's card, and we got their card, and Sav then had to chase them down so we could switch cards back.

00:50:04.778 --> 00:50:06.558
VIRGINIA: Oh my goodness.

00:50:06.558 --> 00:50:07.438
VIRGINIA: Wow.

00:50:07.438 --> 00:50:08.678
PIFF: So it was weird.

00:50:08.678 --> 00:50:09.018
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:50:09.418 --> 00:50:16.278
VIRGINIA: I thought at first that you were saying that he switched your two cards up, which I was like, oh, that's not such a big deal.

00:50:16.278 --> 00:50:18.958
VIRGINIA: But like complete strangers, yeah, that's a big deal.

00:50:18.958 --> 00:50:20.138
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:50:20.138 --> 00:50:21.558
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:50:21.558 --> 00:50:21.898
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:50:22.218 --> 00:50:25.138
VIRGINIA: I think everybody should go to sci-fi at least once.

00:50:25.138 --> 00:50:25.598
VIRGINIA: You're right.

00:50:25.598 --> 00:50:29.858
VIRGINIA: The food is nothing amazing, spectacular.

00:50:29.958 --> 00:50:33.778
VIRGINIA: It's more about the environment or whatever.

00:50:33.778 --> 00:50:41.538
VIRGINIA: One thing that I never really like that much, I'll be honest, is the fact that it's so dark in there that you can't see what you're about to eat.

00:50:41.538 --> 00:50:56.038
VIRGINIA: Like as somebody who is very picky about like looking at what things look like first before I eat them, like I want to inspect my food and make sure that everything looks according to plan before I dig in.

00:50:57.278 --> 00:51:00.698
VIRGINIA: And you really can't do that there unless you turn on a flashlight.

00:51:00.698 --> 00:51:01.158
PIFF: Yeah.

00:51:01.158 --> 00:51:02.918
PIFF: And I mean, there were people doing that, but.

00:51:03.398 --> 00:51:04.818
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:51:04.818 --> 00:51:14.218
PIFF: It didn't, the darkness didn't so much bother us as it, just the tiny table and the weird, weird film clips.

00:51:14.218 --> 00:51:23.378
PIFF: Although we did have a really fun conversation about like how far like film has come and special effects have come.

00:51:23.378 --> 00:51:31.738
PIFF: And like what would put somebody in the 50s into a coma if they knew we could do it now, like with the special effects and stuff like that.

00:51:31.738 --> 00:51:32.678
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:51:32.678 --> 00:51:33.778
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:51:33.778 --> 00:51:36.138
VIRGINIA: No, it's, it's amazing how far we've come.

00:51:36.138 --> 00:51:38.378
VIRGINIA: When you look at those movies.

00:51:38.378 --> 00:51:38.678
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:51:38.678 --> 00:51:45.918
VIRGINIA: I think on our pre-trip, maybe we talked about Fantasia and the advancements in water animation.

00:51:45.918 --> 00:51:46.558
PIFF: Yes, we did.

00:51:46.558 --> 00:51:48.718
VIRGINIA: What water looks like.

00:51:48.718 --> 00:51:52.498
VIRGINIA: And yeah, same, same sort of thing with the live action stuff too.

00:51:53.838 --> 00:51:54.378
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:51:54.378 --> 00:52:06.098
VIRGINIA: After your dinner there, how much time did you have before your OGA's late night traditional booking before you left Hollywood Studios for the day?

00:52:06.098 --> 00:52:08.178
PIFF: I mean, we had enough time to ride a few rides.

00:52:08.178 --> 00:52:10.958
PIFF: We did star tours.

00:52:10.958 --> 00:52:13.818
PIFF: And then, like I said, Rockin, we did Tower of Terror twice.

00:52:13.818 --> 00:52:17.038
PIFF: We went, we did a little shopping because, you know, I love to shop.

00:52:17.038 --> 00:52:18.318
PIFF: That's when I got my Spirit jerseys.

00:52:20.578 --> 00:52:22.538
PIFF: And then we went to our late night Ogas.

00:52:22.538 --> 00:52:26.398
PIFF: And again, for the second time, I think it's because we were a birthday trip.

00:52:26.398 --> 00:52:28.478
PIFF: We got to sit down at Ogas.

00:52:28.478 --> 00:52:29.178
VIRGINIA: Wow.

00:52:29.178 --> 00:52:29.998
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:52:29.998 --> 00:52:31.158
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:52:31.158 --> 00:52:33.078
VIRGINIA: That is a real treat.

00:52:33.078 --> 00:52:33.698
VIRGINIA: A real treat.

00:52:33.698 --> 00:52:35.198
VIRGINIA: That's only happened to be once.

00:52:35.198 --> 00:52:39.118
VIRGINIA: Let's move into your last day, Sunday, August 25th.

00:52:39.118 --> 00:52:51.538
VIRGINIA: So this was a park hopping day, and you had definitely planned to start at Animal Kingdom because you wanted to get your Timon and Pumbaa Annual Pass Holder Magnet, which was at Animal Kingdom.

00:52:51.538 --> 00:52:54.678
VIRGINIA: So what time did you end up getting to the park?

00:52:54.678 --> 00:52:56.938
PIFF: It was like 1130.

00:52:56.938 --> 00:52:58.838
PIFF: It was pretty late.

00:53:00.238 --> 00:53:06.598
PIFF: We missed our lightning lane for the safari and had to kindly ask a cast member if we could still use it.

00:53:06.598 --> 00:53:07.938
VIRGINIA: Oh, did they let you?

00:53:07.938 --> 00:53:08.958
PIFF: They did let us.

00:53:08.958 --> 00:53:09.798
VIRGINIA: Oh, that's nice.

00:53:09.798 --> 00:53:10.718
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:53:10.718 --> 00:53:12.378
VIRGINIA: Did you see the baby zebra?

00:53:13.158 --> 00:53:17.878
PIFF: We saw two baby zebras and they were playing together.

00:53:17.878 --> 00:53:18.478
VIRGINIA: Oh, my goodness.

00:53:18.478 --> 00:53:20.898
PIFF: They were running around together and romping.

00:53:20.898 --> 00:53:22.258
PIFF: It was so cute.

00:53:22.258 --> 00:53:24.158
VIRGINIA: Oh, what are their names?

00:53:24.158 --> 00:53:24.918
VIRGINIA: Do you know?

00:53:24.918 --> 00:53:25.918
PIFF: I have no idea.

00:53:25.918 --> 00:53:26.378
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:53:26.378 --> 00:53:29.978
VIRGINIA: Usually they'll try to point them out if they think of it.

00:53:29.978 --> 00:53:31.138
PIFF: They might have.

00:53:31.138 --> 00:53:34.178
PIFF: I just did not retain anything.

00:53:34.178 --> 00:53:34.798
VIRGINIA: That's okay.

00:53:34.798 --> 00:53:36.598
VIRGINIA: That's okay.

00:53:36.598 --> 00:53:36.918
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:53:38.438 --> 00:53:41.338
VIRGINIA: You did that before you went and got your magnet?

00:53:41.338 --> 00:53:42.238
PIFF: Yes, we did.

00:53:42.238 --> 00:53:44.018
VIRGINIA: What did you do after that?

00:53:44.018 --> 00:53:48.598
PIFF: We rode Everest because it's there and Everest is fun.

00:53:48.598 --> 00:53:53.018
PIFF: After we got our magnets, we hopped over to Epcot.

00:53:53.018 --> 00:53:54.278
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:53:54.278 --> 00:53:58.978
VIRGINIA: Did you get an individual lightning lane for Sav for Guardians of the Galaxy?

00:53:58.978 --> 00:54:00.098
PIFF: We did.

00:54:00.098 --> 00:54:07.178
VIRGINIA: Okay, good, because I was a little worried after our conversation if that did not happen for her.

00:54:07.178 --> 00:54:07.738
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:54:07.738 --> 00:54:11.178
VIRGINIA: What song did you get when you got to ride that?

00:54:11.178 --> 00:54:13.258
PIFF: We got September Again.

00:54:13.258 --> 00:54:15.098
VIRGINIA: Oh my goodness.

00:54:15.098 --> 00:54:16.478
VIRGINIA: That's your theme.

00:54:16.478 --> 00:54:22.118
PIFF: We just needed to finish the six and now we can get it whenever we want, apparently.

00:54:22.878 --> 00:54:25.898
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:54:25.898 --> 00:54:27.538
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:54:27.538 --> 00:54:29.858
VIRGINIA: What else did you get done at Epcot before you had to leave?

00:54:29.858 --> 00:54:37.318
VIRGINIA: Because I think you had planned to head out around four o'clock to go back to the resort and get your stuff sorted.

00:54:37.318 --> 00:54:37.658
PIFF: Yeah.

00:54:37.658 --> 00:54:39.538
PIFF: I don't think we did much else.

00:54:39.538 --> 00:54:41.598
PIFF: We rode Living With The Land.

00:54:41.598 --> 00:54:43.898
PIFF: We ate some arepas.

00:54:43.898 --> 00:54:44.478
PIFF: They're good.

00:54:44.758 --> 00:54:46.898
VIRGINIA: From the Festival of Favorites booth?

00:54:46.898 --> 00:54:48.538
PIFF: Yeah.

00:54:48.538 --> 00:54:52.458
PIFF: Because Food and Wine just started, they shouldn't have those anymore.

00:54:52.458 --> 00:54:53.738
PIFF: They'll have something else there now.

00:54:53.738 --> 00:54:56.238
PIFF: But while they were there, they were delicious.

00:54:57.578 --> 00:54:58.998
PIFF: We rode Zoran.

00:54:58.998 --> 00:54:59.618
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:54:59.618 --> 00:54:59.998
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:55:00.058 --> 00:55:02.538
VIRGINIA: You stuck to the front of the park.

00:55:02.538 --> 00:55:02.858
PIFF: Yeah.

00:55:02.858 --> 00:55:05.038
PIFF: That was our plan the whole time.

00:55:05.038 --> 00:55:07.058
PIFF: We didn't need to go back into the countries.

00:55:07.058 --> 00:55:07.658
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:55:07.658 --> 00:55:14.638
VIRGINIA: When you went back over to get your bag sorted, you had mentioned that you were going to get your owner's locker reorganized.

00:55:15.678 --> 00:55:18.918
VIRGINIA: Everything went well with your bags in your owner's locker?

00:55:18.918 --> 00:55:19.298
PIFF: Yeah.

00:55:19.298 --> 00:55:21.378
PIFF: Everything went fine.

00:55:21.378 --> 00:55:25.818
PIFF: It was pouring when we finally got back to the resort.

00:55:25.818 --> 00:55:28.918
PIFF: We left Epcot at the perfect time.

00:55:29.418 --> 00:55:29.678
PIFF: Yeah.

00:55:29.678 --> 00:55:35.138
PIFF: We got our bags sorted, got repacked, and headed home basically.

00:55:35.138 --> 00:55:37.438
VIRGINIA: How much room do you have left in your owner's locker?

00:55:38.098 --> 00:55:39.158
PIFF: Not much.

00:55:39.158 --> 00:55:39.818
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:55:39.818 --> 00:55:43.618
VIRGINIA: What are the top things that you have in there that you could not live without?

00:55:43.618 --> 00:55:45.438
PIFF: That I could not live without?

00:55:47.558 --> 00:55:48.538
PIFF: Sunscreen.

00:55:48.538 --> 00:55:49.718
PIFF: That's probably the top one.

00:55:49.718 --> 00:55:52.958
PIFF: We have a lot of sunscreen in there.

00:55:52.958 --> 00:56:01.238
PIFF: Various bags, like small to medium-sized bags, so we don't want to have to transport what we use when we're at the parks.

00:56:01.238 --> 00:56:02.638
PIFF: My toothbrush.

00:56:02.638 --> 00:56:03.758
PIFF: That's the last thing.

00:56:03.758 --> 00:56:06.418
VIRGINIA: Oh, you keep a toothbrush in your owner's locker?

00:56:06.418 --> 00:56:06.738
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:56:06.838 --> 00:56:10.578
VIRGINIA: Is that in the event that you forget yours or?

00:56:10.578 --> 00:56:12.118
PIFF: No, so I don't have to pack one.

00:56:12.118 --> 00:56:13.278
VIRGINIA: So you don't have to pack one.

00:56:13.278 --> 00:56:13.858
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:56:13.858 --> 00:56:14.698
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:56:14.698 --> 00:56:15.358
VIRGINIA: Good to know.

00:56:15.358 --> 00:56:16.198
VIRGINIA: Good to know.

00:56:16.458 --> 00:56:18.818
VIRGINIA: I think eventually I'll probably end up getting an owner's locker.

00:56:18.818 --> 00:56:22.918
VIRGINIA: I keep toying around with the idea, and then I just talk myself out of it.

00:56:22.918 --> 00:56:23.478
VIRGINIA: But-

00:56:23.478 --> 00:56:24.058
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:56:24.058 --> 00:56:29.198
PIFF: It's all the little things that you like to have, but are annoying to pack.

00:56:29.198 --> 00:56:33.978
PIFF: So Sav and I both have naturally curly hair, so we each have a satin pillowcase in our owner's locker.

00:56:35.018 --> 00:56:39.478
PIFF: And we have curl cream and curly hair supplies.

00:56:39.478 --> 00:56:43.918
PIFF: We have the shampoo and conditioner we like to use, a hairbrush.

00:56:44.578 --> 00:56:48.998
PIFF: I have a spare water bottle in there because sometimes you just don't want to have to pack yours.

00:56:49.458 --> 00:57:03.218
VIRGINIA: I think especially in a situation like yours, where you travel together a lot, but you also travel separately sometimes, and you're sharing the owner's locker, and you have similar things that you like to keep in there.

00:57:03.878 --> 00:57:17.178
VIRGINIA: Like, if you can share hair products, and you can share sunscreen, and you can share little random bags that you could use to bring back and forth to the park, whereas a pool bag or whatever, that's definitely worth it, for sure.

00:57:17.178 --> 00:57:18.498
PIFF: Yeah, yeah.

00:57:18.498 --> 00:57:36.858
PIFF: It's definitely been really a game changer for these small trips because I also feel like I can pack more fun things, or I can maybe buy an extra T-shirt if I'm in a shopping kind of mood, as opposed to needing all of my space for just essentials.

00:57:36.858 --> 00:57:38.058
VIRGINIA: Right, right.

00:57:38.058 --> 00:57:39.858
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:57:39.858 --> 00:57:40.418
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:57:40.418 --> 00:57:43.438
VIRGINIA: So your flight home around 7 p.m.

00:57:43.438 --> 00:57:46.978
VIRGINIA: Everything go well with that final flight?

00:57:46.978 --> 00:57:49.058
PIFF: Yeah, everything went according to plan.

00:57:49.058 --> 00:57:52.038
PIFF: Nobody even said anything about me carrying a lightsaber onto the plane.

00:57:52.038 --> 00:57:52.738
PIFF: So that was great.

00:57:52.738 --> 00:57:54.878
PIFF: Cause that was the main thing we were worried about.

00:57:54.878 --> 00:58:04.058
VIRGINIA: Were you worried about it in terms of like the number of items you were allowed to bring, or the fact that it was a lightsaber and it felt weird bringing it on a plane?

00:58:04.058 --> 00:58:07.038
PIFF: It's just kind of long and obnoxiously sized.

00:58:07.038 --> 00:58:12.778
PIFF: So I was like, are they going to say something because this is like a big item.

00:58:12.778 --> 00:58:20.998
PIFF: I had reached out to customer support beforehand and gotten the okay, like as long as TSA lets it through and they do.

00:58:20.998 --> 00:58:21.838
PIFF: Right.

00:58:21.838 --> 00:58:25.898
PIFF: So I knew it was going to be okay, but it's still kind of nerve wracking.

00:58:25.898 --> 00:58:26.198
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:58:26.418 --> 00:58:29.318
PIFF: If you've never carried something like that onto a plane before.

00:58:29.318 --> 00:58:29.738
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:58:30.718 --> 00:58:36.158
VIRGINIA: Was it easy to find space for it up top or how did that work?

00:58:36.158 --> 00:58:36.418
PIFF: Yeah.

00:58:36.418 --> 00:58:39.338
PIFF: I had taken the hilt, detached the blade from the hilt.

00:58:39.338 --> 00:58:46.018
PIFF: So the hilt was in my bag and the blade was in the carrying case.

00:58:46.018 --> 00:58:48.378
PIFF: Then I just put it behind everybody's carry-ons.

00:58:48.758 --> 00:58:55.078
PIFF: So it was like back against the wall of the plane and then all the carry-ons slid in front of it and it worked fine.

00:58:55.078 --> 00:58:56.558
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:58:56.558 --> 00:59:02.578
VIRGINIA: As I'm thinking about it, I don't think we even thought to take Alex's apart when we flew back with it.

00:59:02.578 --> 00:59:08.198
VIRGINIA: We left it all in one and put it up to the top, which worked out fine.

00:59:08.198 --> 00:59:10.558
VIRGINIA: We made it back to New York with it.

00:59:10.558 --> 00:59:18.118
VIRGINIA: But now that I'm talking about it, I'm like, wouldn't it have been terrible if that had been the moment while we were flying on a plane when it decided to come to life?

00:59:18.678 --> 00:59:20.478
VIRGINIA: With no one touching it?

00:59:22.138 --> 00:59:22.898
PIFF: Just like, ra-ra.

00:59:22.898 --> 00:59:28.658
VIRGINIA: And then I'm banned for life from whatever airline it was on the no-fly list?

00:59:28.658 --> 00:59:31.078
PIFF: You're on the no-fly list.

00:59:31.078 --> 00:59:33.158
PIFF: Your TSA pre-check revoked.

00:59:33.178 --> 00:59:34.358
VIRGINIA: I know.

00:59:34.358 --> 00:59:35.518
VIRGINIA: Oh, my God.

00:59:35.518 --> 00:59:36.658
VIRGINIA: That would be the worst.

00:59:36.658 --> 00:59:39.338
VIRGINIA: I really take pride in my TSA pre-check.

00:59:39.338 --> 00:59:41.358
PIFF: I love TSA pre-check.

00:59:41.358 --> 00:59:41.998
VIRGINIA: I love it.

00:59:41.998 --> 00:59:44.238
VIRGINIA: And I keep trying to convince my husband to get it.

00:59:44.238 --> 00:59:44.898
VIRGINIA: And he needs to.

00:59:44.898 --> 00:59:47.378
VIRGINIA: He just, it's the making appointment or whatever.

00:59:48.078 --> 00:59:51.098
VIRGINIA: And I will go through it every single time.

00:59:51.098 --> 00:59:53.578
VIRGINIA: I'm like, see you on the other side.

00:59:53.578 --> 00:59:54.078
PIFF: Yeah.

00:59:54.078 --> 00:59:55.418
PIFF: I don't need to.

00:59:55.418 --> 00:59:58.158
PIFF: Last year, my husband and I got TSA pre-check.

00:59:58.158 --> 00:59:58.878
PIFF: I got it.

00:59:58.878 --> 01:00:00.478
PIFF: I made him an appointment.

01:00:00.478 --> 01:00:02.178
PIFF: And I said, you are also getting this.

01:00:02.178 --> 01:00:04.538
PIFF: You need to show up here with these pieces of paper.

01:00:04.538 --> 01:00:05.138
VIRGINIA: Uh-huh.

01:00:05.138 --> 01:00:05.418
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:00:05.418 --> 01:00:06.698
PIFF: And he was like, oh, okay.

01:00:06.698 --> 01:00:08.218
PIFF: And then we used it the first time.

01:00:08.218 --> 01:00:09.558
PIFF: And he was like, wow, that was nice.

01:00:09.558 --> 01:00:11.078
PIFF: And I was like, exactly.

01:00:11.078 --> 01:00:11.618
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:00:11.618 --> 01:00:12.258
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:00:12.658 --> 01:00:13.578
VIRGINIA: He needs to get it.

01:00:13.578 --> 01:00:16.518
VIRGINIA: And maybe that's what I need to do is just make him the appointment.

01:00:16.698 --> 01:00:26.018
VIRGINIA: But, I mean, when we do go through separately, usually that means that my job, because I get through so much faster, is to go and acquire us coffee.

01:00:26.018 --> 01:00:27.078
VIRGINIA: So, I mean, it works out.

01:00:27.078 --> 01:00:30.778
VIRGINIA: I use the time and then he meets up with us and then there's a coffee waiting.

01:00:30.778 --> 01:00:34.098
VIRGINIA: So anyway, all right.

01:00:34.098 --> 01:00:36.698
VIRGINIA: Well, happy, happy, happy birthday.

01:00:36.698 --> 01:00:36.938
PIFF: Thank you.

01:00:36.938 --> 01:00:37.718
PIFF: Thank you.

01:00:37.718 --> 01:00:44.618
VIRGINIA: And I hope that I will get to talk to you and Sav at some point again very soon.

01:00:45.438 --> 01:00:49.298
VIRGINIA: And please give her my regards.

01:00:49.298 --> 01:00:53.558
VIRGINIA: And thank you all so much for being part of the podcast again.

01:00:53.558 --> 01:00:53.758
PIFF: Yeah.

01:00:53.758 --> 01:00:54.658
PIFF: And thanks for having us.

01:00:54.658 --> 01:00:55.878
PIFF: This is always so fun.

01:00:55.878 --> 01:00:56.298
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:00:56.298 --> 01:01:00.898
VIRGINIA: No, I had a great time and I can't wait to come and be a part of yours at some point as well.

01:01:00.898 --> 01:01:03.298
VIRGINIA: So just name the time and the day.

01:01:04.778 --> 01:01:05.718
PIFF: Eventually.

01:01:05.718 --> 01:01:06.658
VIRGINIA: Yes, I know.

01:01:06.938 --> 01:01:10.278
VIRGINIA: You've got a big fall schedule lined up already.

01:01:10.278 --> 01:01:17.378
VIRGINIA: So for anyone who is listening, the link to their podcast will be in the show notes.

01:01:17.378 --> 01:01:29.518
VIRGINIA: So please definitely click over, give a follow and show your support for our fellow podcasters here who are out there doing amazing work and are a lot of fun.

01:01:31.978 --> 01:01:40.158
VIRGINIA: All right, I will talk to you again at some point in the future and have a magical rest of your evening.

01:01:40.158 --> 01:01:40.998
PIFF: Thanks.

01:01:40.998 --> 01:01:43.398
PIFF: Bye.

01:01:43.398 --> 01:01:48.458
VIRGINIA: Thank you again to Piff for joining me to share all of her birthday trip details.

01:01:48.458 --> 01:01:57.318
VIRGINIA: Listeners, all Sav and Piff's information can be found in the show notes or on my podcast website, which is whereilongtobepodcast.com.

01:01:57.838 --> 01:02:05.658
VIRGINIA: There you can visit the page called The Podcast and click on either Sav or Piff to get all of the details.

01:02:05.658 --> 01:02:07.658
VIRGINIA: That's all we have time for today.

01:02:07.658 --> 01:02:11.878
VIRGINIA: Have a magical week and keep daydreaming about where you long to be.