Post-Trip Report: The Loaded Tots and the Most Alarming runDisney Trip Ever (April 2025)

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

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

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VIRGINIA: I am so excited because I was just getting myself together to record this and noticed that I have a new review from Apple podcasts.

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VIRGINIA: This one is from a listener who goes by Elk9980 with the subject line tips, tricks, and a bit of pixie dust.

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VIRGINIA: The review says, Where I Long To Be isn't just a Disney podcast, it's a little bit of magic too.

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VIRGINIA: I've learned so much from Virginia and her guests, and it's made a real difference in how I plan my own visits.

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VIRGINIA: What makes this podcast special is the way it transports you through each trip report.

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VIRGINIA: Whether you're planning your next visit or just missing the magic, it brings the parks to life and remind you that even the most magical moments often come with a few unexpected pivots.

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VIRGINIA: Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for that great review.

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VIRGINIA: I am honored that you're enjoying this show and keep coming back for more.

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VIRGINIA: And I hope that at some point, if you have a trip coming up, you'll consider being a guest on the podcast yourself.

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VIRGINIA: Okay, this is a pretty lengthy trip report since you know these ladies love to gab.

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VIRGINIA: So let's just dive right into it.

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VIRGINIA: And as a reminder, the Mariah that they are going to reference is a different Mariah from last week's guests.

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VIRGINIA: Mariah that they are mentioning is the fourth Loaded Tots.

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VIRGINIA: It was not on the show.

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VIRGINIA: All right, now that we have that straight, please welcome the Loaded Tots.

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VIRGINIA: Welcome back to the Loaded Tots.

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AMBER: Thank you.

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AMBER: Oh, thank you.

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AMBER: Oh, that's us.

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AMBER: Hi.

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AMBER: Yeah.

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JEANETTE: It's wonderful to be back here.

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MAREN: It's so comfy.

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VIRGINIA: I don't know.

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MAREN: My chair is not, but it's fine.

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VIRGINIA: Maren, what's the matter with your chair?

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MAREN: I'm sitting at a dining room table chair that has subbed as my desk chair for a couple of weeks now, and it's just getting really old.

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MAREN: I have a good desk chair.

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MAREN: It's just, you know, it is.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, yes.

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VIRGINIA: You're staying in another place right now.

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VIRGINIA: Yes.

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MAREN: Life is a challenge.

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VIRGINIA: Whatever art or painting or whatever is behind you makes it feel like you are the only person here who is at nighttime wherever you are, even though I think you and Amber are in the same city.

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MAREN: Literally next door to each other and it's morning here.

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MAREN: But the background behind me is it's a photograph and it's a night scene with lots of pretty stars and stuff.

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MAREN: So slightly different vibe than what's actually going on outside here in Houston.

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VIRGINIA: And Jeanette is is mere miles away in Brooklyn.

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JEANETTE: I could almost reach out and touch you.

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VIRGINIA: I know.

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VIRGINIA: And I will later today when we go to dinner.

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JEANETTE: I'll give you a hug later.

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JEANETTE: Lovely.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: Welcome back.

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VIRGINIA: I hope your trip was amazing and I can't wait to hear about it.

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VIRGINIA: So let's just dive right in.

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VIRGINIA: How were the flights?

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VIRGINIA: I know that Maren and Amber were on the same flight.

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VIRGINIA: And I think your friend, Mariah, who's not with us today, was also flying.

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VIRGINIA: So three of you on one flight, Jeanette on another, all arriving around 11 a.m.

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VIRGINIA: Maren, do you want to dive in?

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MAREN: I'm happy to dive in.

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MAREN: So I'm a big Southwest fan or former Southwest fan.

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MAREN: I'm just going to lead with that, with all the changes.

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MAREN: I'm a little concerned.

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MAREN: But somehow, despite not being able to get A1 to 15, because they increased the price to do that, my fun little factoid of like, oh, hey, after you check in, you can upgrade to A1 to 15 for like 50 bucks.

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MAREN: A hundred and fifteen bucks for our flight.

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MAREN: So I didn't do it.

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MAREN: I know, right?

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MAREN: But still, I got my extra legroom seat and Mariah and Amber sat with me.

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MAREN: And our flight was pretty uneventful.

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MAREN: And we made it on time.

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MAREN: Unfortunately, Jeanette's flight was more eventful, I guess we could say.

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MAREN: Pretty massively delayed.

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MAREN: Although I met somebody who had a worse delay than me.

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MAREN: I had a, oh my gosh, it's hard to remember.

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MAREN: I guess it was an eight o'clock flight that ended up not going out until close to 11 a.m.

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MAREN: Wow.

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VIRGINIA: And I remember originally you were on an earlier flight, but didn't want to arrive two hours earlier.

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VIRGINIA: And I remember thinking when you told me you were changing your flight, that...

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MAREN: Should have kept it.

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VIRGINIA: Earlier is better.

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VIRGINIA: And I'd rather hang out in the Orlando Airport than risk a delay.

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MAREN: It's true.

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MAREN: And so basically what happened was they didn't have one of the, I think like they didn't have like the co-pilot for the flight.

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VIRGINIA: You should have volunteered, Jeanette.

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AMBER: I know.

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MAREN: I mean, I could figure it out.

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AMBER: She's done Smuggler's Run.

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JEANETTE: Just let me Google it real quick.

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MAREN: Yeah, Ryan and I co-pilot, Maren's husband and I co-pilot Smuggler's Run.

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MAREN: My husband and I did it one time.

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MAREN: So I could have done it.

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VIRGINIA: So you were doubly experienced there.

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MAREN: And she's a Star Tours aficionado.

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MAREN: Exactly.

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MAREN: I Star Tours all the time.

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MAREN: Anguish, yeah.

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MAREN: But they didn't have the second-in-command pilot or whatever.

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MAREN: And they didn't know when they were going to get it.

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MAREN: So they were like, when we were supposed to be boarding, they're like, hey, guys, we're not going to board now.

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MAREN: We don't know when we're going to board.

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MAREN: We're definitely delayed.

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MAREN: We don't know how long we're delayed for.

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MAREN: And then they announced that they had found someone and they just...

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MAREN: Just a guy.

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MAREN: Yeah, they found like a guy, like basically someone like me with two experiences on the Millennium Falcon.

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MAREN: No.

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VIRGINIA: But without a conflict of interest of wanting to get on your vacation.

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MAREN: They had found a properly trained Delta employee and that Delta employee just needed to get to the airport.

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MAREN: And then, of course, nothing ever goes as quickly as you want it to go.

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MAREN: So we...

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VIRGINIA: No, especially like where in New York City were they coming from to get to the airport?

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MAREN: Who knows?

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MAREN: Who knows?

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MAREN: And I guess that's the thing.

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MAREN: If you get the first flight in the morning, those people slept in a bed the night before.

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MAREN: And their only thing that they needed to do that morning was to get to the airport for their flight.

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MAREN: So, yeah, the first flight is always the safest if you don't want to have a delay.

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MAREN: But we ended up boarding a little bit after 10, but then because we had missed like our takeoff point, we didn't get up in the sky until around 11.

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MAREN: But they were permitted to take some shortcuts, which I don't know that was a thing.

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VIRGINIA: Wait, like a jump point?

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AMBER: Yeah, exactly.

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MAREN: Exactly.

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MAREN: We did like a cosmic rewind jump point kind of situation.

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JEANETTE: What song?

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JEANETTE: Yeah, what song did you get?

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MAREN: It was Don't Stop Me Now, oddly enough.

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MAREN: It was a different song, you know, within the realm of the universe, but just a little different.

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AMBER: Because you couldn't stop us because we needed to get to Orlando.

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MAREN: No.

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MAREN: No, but they said something about like, yeah, we've asked for permission to like take these shortcuts and they've given us permission to take each one.

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MAREN: So I landed around one, which usually takes a little closer to three hours to get down.

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MAREN: And yeah, that's my exciting journey.

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AMBER: I was sad because all my friends already love the airport.

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MAREN: But I also wouldn't have wanted them to wait around for as long as it took me to get there.

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MAREN: We thought we were going to use time well and like, okay, well, we'll go to, so I always get a rental car.

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MAREN: So right, we got the rental car, we went to Walgreens, we got more water than we needed because that's kind of the Maren thing I would rather.

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MAREN: We did too, Virginia, when we went on our trip.

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VIRGINIA: Yes, I would much rather have more water than I need than not enough.

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VIRGINIA: Especially, like water is not very expensive and I'm all about using-

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MAREN: At Walgreens versus Disney.

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VIRGINIA: Right.

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VIRGINIA: I am all about using a reusable bottle and saving the earth.

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VIRGINIA: But when I'm at Disney-

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VIRGINIA: Florida water.

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VIRGINIA: Give me the plastic bottles.

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VIRGINIA: I just want to be able to drink it and then put it in the recycling bin and move on with my life.

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AMBER: Mariah told me about this bottle and it's really good.

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AMBER: It takes-

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VIRGINIA: Oh, the Brita bottle?

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AMBER: Yes, with the filter in it and it really takes away that itchy nasty Florida water taste.

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VIRGINIA: Does it?

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AMBER: Then you can just keep it in your backpack.

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MAREN: But the other problem is how few water refill stations Disney still has.

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MAREN: Yes, you can get free cups, which I love.

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VIRGINIA: Specific.

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MAREN: But then that's not really renewable either or sustainable either.

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MAREN: But if you just want to refill a water bottle, it's still hard to find water refill stations.

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MAREN: The best ones in Animal Kingdom are in Avatar.

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MAREN: You have to be in line for Flight of Passage.

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JEANETTE: I'm not really interested in writing this, I just want the good water.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: Anyway.

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MAREN: I hope we digress.

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MAREN: Yeah, we did not end up picking Jeanette up because by time we were even done with Walgreens, she still was in the air.

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MAREN: That very chatty Uber driver who was trying to sell me on going on vacation in the DR Oh, okay.

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VIRGINIA: Are you sold?

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MAREN: No, because I don't think they have things I'll eat in the DR I think it would be really hard to find vegetarian-friendly food.

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MAREN: I might be wrong about that, but.

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VIRGINIA: Maybe.

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VIRGINIA: You go to Jamaica.

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MAREN: Yeah, Jamaicans love plantains and fish.

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VIRGINIA: I feel like they eat plantain in the DR In the Dominican Republic, they love plantains.

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MAREN: Yeah.

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MAREN: You can just have a plantain-only diet.

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AMBER: Man, why is everybody trying to get me to go to the DR?

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MAREN: I just want to go back to Disney.

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MAREN: We actually just want you to surprise, guys.

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MAREN: There's going to be a DR at Disney now in Epcot.

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VIRGINIA: Right.

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AMBER: I would do that.

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JEANETTE: Yeah.

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MAREN: I do love it.

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JEANETTE: They'll have a good festival booth.

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MAREN: That's all I can say.

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AMBER: You nailed it.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, my goodness.

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VIRGINIA: Wow.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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AMBER: We're finally in Orlando now.

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AMBER: Yes.

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MAREN: Those of us who arrived early got us checked in at the hotel, got settled, enjoyed the savanna view.

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MAREN: It was a great view.

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VIRGINIA: How was the location of your room in terms of distance from elevators or things like that?

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MAREN: Right outside an elevator, which I never heard the elevator.

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MAREN: I think y'all might have heard the elevator.

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MAREN: There was a weird noise though that we kept hearing that sounded like a train whistle.

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MAREN: I think the thing I thought was the elevator was the train, weird train whistle, smell, sound.

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AMBER: It was so consistent.

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JEANETTE: It was weird.

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MAREN: There was, yeah, there was a really weird train sound.

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MAREN: It was like a woo woo kind of train whistle.

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VIRGINIA: What if it was one of the animals and you just don't know that's how it sounds?

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JEANETTE: It was very consistent.

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MAREN: Chugga chugga bird.

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JEANETTE: Chugga chugga bird.

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VIRGINIA: Woo woo.

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MAREN: Yeah.

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MAREN: So being near the elevator, so we were in what's the second?

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MAREN: 5041, the Kudu Trail.

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MAREN: Kudu.

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MAREN: We were on Kudu Trail on the fifth floor.

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MAREN: So third floor is lobby, right?

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MAREN: So to get to our room, you can either take the stairs right by the lobby and then walk down the hall if you didn't feel like using the elevator or you could walk down the hall and then go use the elevator which was right by the room.

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MAREN: Or you could take the elevator across the lobby, walk across the Masa Bridge and then down the hall, which was my preferable.

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AMBER: Or you guys like to go downstairs and take the stairs.

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AMBER: Hold on.

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VIRGINIA: How do you take an elevator across the...

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VIRGINIA: Okay, you're talking about you walked across the lobby to get an elevator.

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VIRGINIA: In my mind, it was like the Wanka Vator where it goes sideways too.

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MAREN: That too.

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MAREN: No, there is the cool bridge on the fifth floor of the lobby.

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MAREN: We were on the fifth floor.

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MAREN: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: Got it.

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MAREN: So it was a great view.

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MAREN: We saw, I feel like, unfortunately, Jeanette, I feel like we saw the most animals like right when we got there.

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MAREN: And then like so so the rest of the time.

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AMBER: Yeah.

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MAREN: I went out there and was like, I love you.

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AMBER: I want to meet my parents.

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MAREN: Jungle Cruise jokes.

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AMBER: The best time was when they were feeding them, which was about four o'clock in the afternoon.

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AMBER: All the animals came out, the wildebeest, the deer, zebras, everything was hanging out.

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VIRGINIA: Nice.

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MAREN: I did see a little bit of everything, but I was really hoping to have coffee with giraffes and that never happened.

00:12:18.897 --> 00:12:20.577
MAREN: So it happened.

00:12:20.577 --> 00:12:21.897
MAREN: I've had it before.

00:12:21.897 --> 00:12:25.517
MAREN: I can't be complaining, but it didn't happen this trip.

00:12:25.517 --> 00:12:29.277
VIRGINIA: So Jeanette, what time did you end up pulling up to the resort?

00:12:29.277 --> 00:12:30.817
MAREN: Probably around two.

00:12:30.817 --> 00:12:32.657
MAREN: Does that sound right?

00:12:32.657 --> 00:12:35.677
MAREN: I was going to say 1.30, but yeah, something like that.

00:12:35.677 --> 00:12:37.937
VIRGINIA: So did you wait for her to go to the expo?

00:12:37.937 --> 00:12:38.417
MAREN: We did.

00:12:38.417 --> 00:12:44.777
MAREN: Once she got there, got unloaded, we hopped in the rental and drove to the expo.

00:12:44.777 --> 00:12:52.217
MAREN: They let me unpack, though, which was very nice of them, because I don't feel like I'm on vacation until I've unpacked, really.

00:12:52.217 --> 00:12:53.417
MAREN: I'd even unpacked a little.

00:12:53.417 --> 00:13:02.937
MAREN: I will say the room was a bit cozier than I think we expected when we walked in, but it ended up working out fine.

00:13:02.937 --> 00:13:11.017
MAREN: We just like, I think you're like, oh, it's a DVC, and then you walk in, you're like, oh, it's a studio DVC.

00:13:11.017 --> 00:13:12.017
MAREN: It's a studio.

00:13:12.017 --> 00:13:15.797
MAREN: But then once you unpack your stuff, it's like, oh, this is plenty of room.

00:13:15.797 --> 00:13:19.057
MAREN: We had three sinks and we had three mirrors.

00:13:19.057 --> 00:13:20.297
MAREN: Yeah.

00:13:20.297 --> 00:13:24.337
MAREN: The two beds, one was like the couch pullout bed, one was a normal bed.

00:13:24.337 --> 00:13:36.437
MAREN: I measured which was wider because the two people, me and Amber, who ran three mornings, got to claim the widest bed, and it actually turned out the couch bed was slightly wider, maybe not quite as squishy.

00:13:36.437 --> 00:13:41.197
MAREN: But yeah, I was laying across the beds and we were using the tattoos on my arms.

00:13:41.297 --> 00:13:42.097
MAREN: I guess it was-

00:13:42.097 --> 00:13:43.017
VIRGINIA: As measurement?

00:13:43.017 --> 00:13:43.177
MAREN: Yeah.

00:13:43.177 --> 00:13:47.817
MAREN: We were using where Piggy was on my arm as our measurement on which bed we would claim.

00:13:47.817 --> 00:13:48.457
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:13:48.457 --> 00:13:49.437
MAREN: Got a little silly.

00:13:49.437 --> 00:13:50.857
VIRGINIA: Solid scientific method.

00:13:50.857 --> 00:13:51.377
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:13:51.377 --> 00:13:52.557
VIRGINIA: Spent a little while.

00:13:52.557 --> 00:13:53.917
MAREN: We measured Marins.

00:13:53.917 --> 00:13:56.217
MAREN: We measured Marins and Piggy's.

00:13:56.217 --> 00:13:58.217
MAREN: All Piggy all the time.

00:14:01.377 --> 00:14:03.557
MAREN: After we got all settled, Jeanette got unpacked.

00:14:03.557 --> 00:14:08.697
MAREN: We went to the Expo and, you know, normal Expo, except dun dun dun.

00:14:08.697 --> 00:14:12.937
MAREN: The first time Brooks is the official sponsor of runDisney.

00:14:12.937 --> 00:14:21.397
MAREN: And Brooks put out all these videos about, oh, we had to go to the races and think so hard about what it meant to partner with runDisney and Brooks.

00:14:21.397 --> 00:14:28.217
MAREN: And then the four shoes they released, they're like normal Brooks models of shoes just with Disney colors on them.

00:14:28.217 --> 00:14:28.937
MAREN: And they're cute.

00:14:28.957 --> 00:14:30.597
AMBER: They're the most max in the adrenalins.

00:14:30.597 --> 00:14:31.637
JEANETTE: Yeah.

00:14:31.637 --> 00:14:32.417
MAREN: They're cute.

00:14:32.417 --> 00:14:32.857
MAREN: Every time.

00:14:32.857 --> 00:14:34.097
AMBER: Well, I didn't think.

00:14:34.097 --> 00:14:36.517
MAREN: I wasn't super excited about them when I saw them at the expo.

00:14:36.517 --> 00:14:41.217
MAREN: But then every time I saw them on people's feet in the parks, I was like, oh, that's cute.

00:14:41.477 --> 00:14:43.397
MAREN: I don't love the Mickey and Minnie.

00:14:43.397 --> 00:14:45.077
MAREN: No, it's two McDonald's.

00:14:45.597 --> 00:14:52.917
MAREN: It gives me McDonald's Frankenstein vibes because there's like stitching on the Brooks logo, but it's not like real even stitching.

00:14:52.917 --> 00:14:57.837
MAREN: I think the cutest ones are the standard runDisney bright green ones and blue.

00:14:58.897 --> 00:15:02.277
VIRGINIA: I saw those and I thought those were cute too.

00:15:02.277 --> 00:15:14.597
MAREN: They're supposed to be available online at some point, and because we had to go to the expo on day one, it was still the virtual queue to be able to, because they are in the merch area, not the exhibit, the expo exhibit area.

00:15:14.597 --> 00:15:19.577
MAREN: So it was still virtual queue and we're like, we don't need to do that.

00:15:19.577 --> 00:15:23.377
MAREN: I think they were available as soon as the expo closed.

00:15:24.477 --> 00:15:24.797
MAREN: Sweet.

00:15:24.797 --> 00:15:26.277
MAREN: Maybe I'll go see if I need a pair after all.

00:15:26.837 --> 00:15:28.797
MAREN: I've never run in Brooks.

00:15:28.797 --> 00:15:29.117
MAREN: I do.

00:15:29.117 --> 00:15:29.917
VIRGINIA: Oh, you haven't?

00:15:29.917 --> 00:15:30.597
MAREN: I haven't.

00:15:30.597 --> 00:15:33.697
VIRGINIA: Amber, did you say that Brooks were your preferred shoe?

00:15:33.697 --> 00:15:34.517
AMBER: They used to be.

00:15:34.517 --> 00:15:38.257
AMBER: I used to run in the Adrenaline GTSs, which is what the runDisney one is.

00:15:38.257 --> 00:15:40.537
AMBER: It's a stability shoe.

00:15:40.537 --> 00:15:42.017
AMBER: The Ghost Max are not stability shoes.

00:15:42.017 --> 00:15:44.177
AMBER: They're more of a cushiony neutral shoe.

00:15:44.177 --> 00:15:46.557
AMBER: So depending on what people prefer.

00:15:46.557 --> 00:15:52.097
AMBER: So like you guys, I liked the runDisney ones, but because it was that model of shoe, I was like, no, I'm not gonna.

00:15:52.097 --> 00:15:55.497
MAREN: I'd get them for walking probably more than running, if I'm going to be honest.

00:15:56.077 --> 00:15:57.097
MAREN: I'm a Brooks girl.

00:15:57.617 --> 00:16:04.677
MAREN: When I went to have my feet fitted at a running shop, they had me try on a bunch of shoes and Brooks is what I like.

00:16:04.677 --> 00:16:12.937
MAREN: So I have glycerin for long distance and then levitates for just like walking and short runs.

00:16:12.937 --> 00:16:21.297
VIRGINIA: I know that after the Expo, you had your sights set on making it to the happy hour at Summer House on the Lake, my new favorite restaurant.

00:16:21.297 --> 00:16:23.197
VIRGINIA: So did you make it over there?

00:16:24.317 --> 00:16:26.157
MAREN: We did.

00:16:26.157 --> 00:16:28.057
MAREN: By some miracle.

00:16:28.057 --> 00:16:29.437
MAREN: No, we did.

00:16:29.437 --> 00:16:38.417
MAREN: And when we got, so I think Jeanette had mentioned in the pre-trip that what we have heard is you need to be there like when it opens to get a seat.

00:16:38.457 --> 00:16:41.477
MAREN: And honestly, we got there what an hour after.

00:16:41.477 --> 00:16:41.737
MAREN: Yeah.

00:16:41.737 --> 00:16:44.297
MAREN: So an hour after happy hour started.

00:16:44.297 --> 00:16:48.937
MAREN: And there were not seats except we, there's three bars, right?

00:16:48.937 --> 00:16:53.917
MAREN: So we're like scoping out all the bars and Jeanette found two people leaving and grabbed those seats.

00:16:53.917 --> 00:16:56.097
MAREN: And then we were really like really awkward there.

00:16:56.097 --> 00:16:57.637
MAREN: And then two other people ended up leaving.

00:16:57.637 --> 00:17:01.197
MAREN: And so we ended up having four seats right by each other.

00:17:02.437 --> 00:17:08.737
MAREN: Two were like, yeah, two were at like the high top bar and then two were more at the ADA lower bar.

00:17:09.777 --> 00:17:11.637
MAREN: So that was the kid table and the adults table.

00:17:11.637 --> 00:17:14.057
MAREN: Mariah and I were the adults.

00:17:14.117 --> 00:17:15.797
MAREN: Amber and I were the kids, obviously.

00:17:15.797 --> 00:17:16.497
MAREN: They were.

00:17:16.497 --> 00:17:19.137
VIRGINIA: Obviously.

00:17:19.137 --> 00:17:25.737
MAREN: And so we, yeah, we got to do the unlimited truffle fries, which were so good.

00:17:26.017 --> 00:17:30.677
MAREN: $10 for unlimited fries for up to four people.

00:17:30.677 --> 00:17:32.157
MAREN: And we got four orders total.

00:17:32.277 --> 00:17:33.537
MAREN: Because they're like, they're small orders.

00:17:33.537 --> 00:17:39.117
MAREN: They have like grated cheese on them, grated truffle on them, a truffle dipping aioli.

00:17:39.117 --> 00:17:41.117
MAREN: I mean, so good.

00:17:41.117 --> 00:17:42.537
VIRGINIA: That sounds delicious.

00:17:42.537 --> 00:17:44.457
VIRGINIA: I mean, I pretty much love anything with truffle.

00:17:44.457 --> 00:17:46.237
VIRGINIA: How were the drinks?

00:17:46.237 --> 00:17:46.577
MAREN: Good.

00:17:46.577 --> 00:17:52.397
MAREN: I had a classic gin martini and I like olives in them, but I don't like them dirty per se.

00:17:52.397 --> 00:17:59.717
MAREN: But I asked the bartender if she could just like give a little, a little psss of dirtiness of olive brine.

00:17:59.717 --> 00:18:05.757
MAREN: Just like, you know, just like the olives were not wrung out before they were put in my martini and it was perfect.

00:18:05.997 --> 00:18:08.237
MAREN: It was a great martini.

00:18:08.237 --> 00:18:21.097
MAREN: Mariah and I had Finn Collins, which were gin, lime, cherry, sparkling, or like sparkling water, like kind of like Collins.

00:18:21.097 --> 00:18:23.397
MAREN: Like Collins normally would be like what?

00:18:23.397 --> 00:18:25.837
MAREN: Vodka and, and lime.

00:18:25.837 --> 00:18:27.817
MAREN: Gin, lime, and club soda.

00:18:27.817 --> 00:18:28.077
MAREN: Really?

00:18:28.077 --> 00:18:28.757
MAREN: Maybe simple.

00:18:28.757 --> 00:18:29.377
AMBER: Yeah.

00:18:31.137 --> 00:18:32.357
AMBER: Little did I know.

00:18:32.357 --> 00:18:33.797
MAREN: Well, anyway, it was like a spritz.

00:18:33.797 --> 00:18:34.437
MAREN: I'm a gin drinker.

00:18:34.917 --> 00:18:47.517
MAREN: It was like a gussied up version of a gin Collins, and it was delightful, and it had really delicious cherries in it, and I got even extra cherries because Mariah didn't want hers.

00:18:47.517 --> 00:18:48.817
VIRGINIA: Oh, that's nice.

00:18:48.817 --> 00:18:49.517
AMBER: Yeah.

00:18:49.517 --> 00:18:56.537
AMBER: Then I had a glass of rosé and a glass of cab, and just the house that they had, and it was five bucks, and they were actually really good.

00:18:56.537 --> 00:18:57.997
VIRGINIA: Oh, that's perfect.

00:18:57.997 --> 00:19:10.257
VIRGINIA: Now, there was a little bit of, perhaps kidding, perhaps seriousness going on in the pre-trip about maybe hopping over to Wine Bar George after.

00:19:10.257 --> 00:19:11.037
MAREN: No.

00:19:12.137 --> 00:19:12.317
MAREN: No.

00:19:12.737 --> 00:19:16.637
MAREN: We got more snacks besides just the fries.

00:19:16.637 --> 00:19:25.437
MAREN: Jeanette and Amber had the pokey nachos, and Mariah got a tavern pizza, and then I stole some from her, and they got a tavern pizza.

00:19:25.437 --> 00:19:32.917
MAREN: So we had plenty of food and beverages, and much as we love Wine Bar George, we did not make it this trip.

00:19:33.557 --> 00:19:35.497
MAREN: It'll be there next time.

00:19:36.757 --> 00:19:39.597
MAREN: I want to say tavern pizza is really fun.

00:19:39.597 --> 00:19:41.757
MAREN: They cut it into these little squares.

00:19:41.757 --> 00:19:43.537
MAREN: Like two inch by two inch.

00:19:43.537 --> 00:19:44.117
MAREN: Yeah.

00:19:44.117 --> 00:19:47.637
MAREN: It's just like, another square of pizza, another square of pizza.

00:19:47.637 --> 00:19:48.017
MAREN: Yes.

00:19:48.017 --> 00:19:48.937
MAREN: It's really, I don't know.

00:19:48.937 --> 00:19:53.237
MAREN: It was a very enjoyable experience.

00:19:53.237 --> 00:19:54.057
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:19:54.057 --> 00:20:03.317
VIRGINIA: Well, after that, you needed to get back to the resort so that Maren and Amber could go to bed at a reasonable time because they had a 5K.

00:20:03.317 --> 00:20:07.717
VIRGINIA: Now, you repeatedly said during the pre-trip interview, only a 5K.

00:20:07.717 --> 00:20:08.657
VIRGINIA: Only a 5K.

00:20:08.657 --> 00:20:14.517
VIRGINIA: I'm not sure how early to bed you felt like you needed to go, and then Jeanette was going to use the pool.

00:20:14.517 --> 00:20:18.197
VIRGINIA: Walk me through what happened that evening.

00:20:18.477 --> 00:20:25.397
MAREN: We hit a few stores on our way out, but realized we were getting pretty tired of Disney, not tired of Disney Springs.

00:20:25.397 --> 00:20:26.177
MAREN: That's horrible.

00:20:26.177 --> 00:20:27.397
MAREN: We were tired.

00:20:27.397 --> 00:20:28.917
MAREN: We hit some stores on the way out.

00:20:31.237 --> 00:20:37.777
MAREN: Amber and I decided, yes, it was time to try to call it a night, got our costumes ready, went to sleep.

00:20:37.777 --> 00:20:40.637
MAREN: I think, Jeanette, you went out and hung out at the pool, right?

00:20:40.637 --> 00:20:41.417
MAREN: Yeah.

00:20:41.417 --> 00:20:42.857
MAREN: I hit up the pool.

00:20:42.857 --> 00:20:49.137
MAREN: I got a cocktail at the Uzuma pool bar.

00:20:50.237 --> 00:20:54.797
MAREN: It was, what was it called?

00:20:54.797 --> 00:20:57.997
MAREN: Oh, something, volcano, lava, something.

00:20:57.997 --> 00:20:58.717
MAREN: I don't know.

00:20:59.137 --> 00:21:01.577
MAREN: It was a strawberry daiquiri, you told me.

00:21:01.577 --> 00:21:03.257
MAREN: It was the African sunset.

00:21:03.257 --> 00:21:12.337
MAREN: It was a frozen mango with rum and just enough strawberry puree to give it that sunset effect.

00:21:12.337 --> 00:21:19.037
MAREN: It tasted like drinking a rum spiked, freshly pureed, perfectly ripe mango.

00:21:19.377 --> 00:21:20.717
JEANETTE: It was delicious.

00:21:20.717 --> 00:21:22.957
VIRGINIA: Now did you try the water slide?

00:21:22.957 --> 00:21:24.377
MAREN: I did try the water slide.

00:21:24.377 --> 00:21:25.497
AMBER: It's very short.

00:21:25.497 --> 00:21:27.097
MAREN: It's a very short water slide.

00:21:27.097 --> 00:21:30.837
MAREN: It's sort of like, wait, did I just ride a water slide?

00:21:30.837 --> 00:21:32.257
MAREN: It's over already.

00:21:33.377 --> 00:21:36.097
VIRGINIA: Wait, were you in Jumbo House or were you in Kadani Village?

00:21:36.097 --> 00:21:38.117
MAREN: Yeah, we were in Jumbo House.

00:21:38.117 --> 00:21:43.217
MAREN: I walked around and saw there was a whole little flamingo area right by the pool.

00:21:43.217 --> 00:21:45.097
VIRGINIA: Was it a dazzle of flamingos?

00:21:45.677 --> 00:21:47.117
MAREN: It was maybe even two dazzles.

00:21:47.357 --> 00:21:48.237
VIRGINIA: Is it a dazzle?

00:21:48.237 --> 00:21:49.517
VIRGINIA: Is that the plural?

00:21:49.517 --> 00:21:50.857
MAREN: No, flamboyant flamingo.

00:21:50.857 --> 00:21:51.977
VIRGINIA: It was a flamboyant.

00:21:51.977 --> 00:21:54.297
JEANETTE: It was a flamboyant flamboyant.

00:21:54.297 --> 00:21:55.677
AMBER: Zebra.

00:21:55.677 --> 00:21:56.357
MAREN: Yeah, you're right.

00:21:56.357 --> 00:21:56.937
VIRGINIA: Thank you.

00:21:56.937 --> 00:21:57.317
VIRGINIA: Thank you.

00:21:57.317 --> 00:22:00.417
VIRGINIA: Look at Maren with all her Safari knowledge.

00:22:00.417 --> 00:22:03.857
MAREN: Someone rides the Safari every time she goes to Animal Kingdom.

00:22:06.357 --> 00:22:08.397
MAREN: Then went to the hot tub.

00:22:08.397 --> 00:22:10.557
MAREN: There are two hot tubs at this pool.

00:22:10.557 --> 00:22:11.377
MAREN: One is large.

00:22:11.377 --> 00:22:12.957
MAREN: It's big enough to fit like 20 people.

00:22:13.417 --> 00:22:22.157
MAREN: And then one is a little smaller, but it's in like an even more quiet area because it's like all the way on the other side of where the flamboyance is.

00:22:22.157 --> 00:22:35.497
MAREN: And so I did a little drink time, pool time, call my husband time, and then I took a shower down by the pool so that I wasn't interrupting the snooze factor that was happening upstairs.

00:22:37.297 --> 00:22:40.117
MAREN: And I was pleasantly surprised.

00:22:40.117 --> 00:22:53.557
MAREN: I've like seen the shower at some of the deluxe resorts, but this was actually really nice because you went all the way through where the restrooms were.

00:22:53.557 --> 00:22:58.737
MAREN: And then they had sort of like a towel set up with like a hamper and stuff.

00:22:58.737 --> 00:23:01.197
MAREN: So it almost looked like a little bit like a spa.

00:23:01.197 --> 00:23:03.977
MAREN: And then they had the showers sort of in their own separate area.

00:23:04.297 --> 00:23:09.537
MAREN: Like unless you're distinctly going to look for the showers, you wouldn't bother to go back there.

00:23:09.537 --> 00:23:13.637
MAREN: So it was like very private, very quiet, and really nicely done.

00:23:13.637 --> 00:23:21.957
MAREN: So I took a shower there and did my bedtime stuff in that bathroom and then came up to try to be quiet.

00:23:21.957 --> 00:23:28.837
MAREN: Yeah, I've got like a 15 step Korean skincare, you know, routine, and then went up to the room.

00:23:28.837 --> 00:23:32.617
MAREN: And I think I was in, but I was in about around like 9.15.

00:23:33.117 --> 00:23:34.177
MAREN: So it wasn't super late.

00:23:34.177 --> 00:23:34.977
VIRGINIA: Still early.

00:23:34.977 --> 00:23:35.217
MAREN: Yeah.

00:23:35.217 --> 00:23:36.277
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:23:36.277 --> 00:23:38.577
MAREN: Yeah, I was probably asleep by 8.

00:23:38.577 --> 00:23:40.917
MAREN: I know Amber took a little longer to fall asleep.

00:23:40.917 --> 00:23:42.697
MAREN: I'm, y'all, I'm a good sleeper.

00:23:42.697 --> 00:23:43.257
MAREN: Let me just tell you.

00:23:43.257 --> 00:23:50.297
MAREN: They had put on Guardians of the Galaxy to prepare for the theme of their race the next day, I'm assuming.

00:23:50.297 --> 00:23:55.517
MAREN: And it was just, it was just at the dance battle when I walked in the room.

00:23:55.517 --> 00:23:56.177
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:23:56.177 --> 00:24:01.577
AMBER: I think I went to sleep around 11 and then who wants to go into what happened at midnight that night?

00:24:02.057 --> 00:24:02.917
AMBER: Oh, yeah.

00:24:02.917 --> 00:24:04.437
MAREN: Oh, yeah.

00:24:04.437 --> 00:24:06.037
AMBER: Fire alarm.

00:24:06.037 --> 00:24:07.037
VIRGINIA: Oh, no.

00:24:07.257 --> 00:24:07.557
AMBER: Fire alarm.

00:24:07.557 --> 00:24:09.577
AMBER: Evacuate the whole building.

00:24:09.577 --> 00:24:10.037
MAREN: Yep.

00:24:10.037 --> 00:24:13.757
AMBER: And we had to evacuate and go downstairs and everything.

00:24:13.757 --> 00:24:14.797
MAREN: We were so out of it.

00:24:14.797 --> 00:24:19.097
MAREN: I'm like grabbing my phone, putting on shoes without socks.

00:24:19.097 --> 00:24:24.937
MAREN: And thankfully, I grabbed my magic band because I don't know if, I'm sure someone else thought of it too, but it's just one of those things.

00:24:24.937 --> 00:24:27.977
MAREN: I'm sure there were lots of people who didn't think about that.

00:24:28.337 --> 00:24:33.637
MAREN: And I mean, it is the most ear piercing, you are not sleeping through that fire alarm.

00:24:33.637 --> 00:24:36.517
AMBER: It's like, evacuate the building.

00:24:36.517 --> 00:24:39.097
MAREN: It's like supercharge your...

00:24:39.097 --> 00:24:39.757
MAREN: Oh my God.

00:24:39.757 --> 00:24:40.637
MAREN: I felt nauseous.

00:24:40.637 --> 00:24:43.917
MAREN: It was like such an adrenaline dump, rush in the dump.

00:24:43.917 --> 00:24:46.077
MAREN: Like I was like nauseous.

00:24:46.077 --> 00:24:55.437
MAREN: Somehow we got separated from Amber in the stairwell, but fortunately, since we had phones, we figured out where each other were, but we were outside for a good 30 minutes.

00:24:55.437 --> 00:24:57.137
MAREN: And Amber was alone outside.

00:24:57.797 --> 00:24:59.317
MAREN: Well, she was with another group, but not with us.

00:24:59.317 --> 00:25:00.217
AMBER: There were plenty of people.

00:25:00.217 --> 00:25:01.717
AMBER: There were a hundred of us outside.

00:25:01.717 --> 00:25:03.597
MAREN: But it just meant not with us.

00:25:03.597 --> 00:25:05.177
MAREN: To be fair, I didn't want to talk to anybody.

00:25:05.177 --> 00:25:08.137
MAREN: I wanted to sleep, so I would have been completely content if it was like...

00:25:08.177 --> 00:25:10.997
MAREN: I was ready to fall asleep on the cement ground.

00:25:10.997 --> 00:25:14.057
JEANETTE: I was just like, just leave me here.

00:25:14.057 --> 00:25:15.117
JEANETTE: Animals are sleeping.

00:25:15.117 --> 00:25:16.877
JEANETTE: I'll sleep too.

00:25:16.877 --> 00:25:17.877
VIRGINIA: Wow.

00:25:18.937 --> 00:25:23.337
VIRGINIA: I've heard about the alarm going off there sometime fairly recently.

00:25:23.337 --> 00:25:27.617
VIRGINIA: So I'm wondering, is this a regular occurrence?

00:25:27.617 --> 00:25:31.317
VIRGINIA: Is it somebody pulling the alarm?

00:25:31.317 --> 00:25:33.957
VIRGINIA: Or is it somebody trying to cook something?

00:25:34.977 --> 00:25:39.917
AMBER: It was right at midnight, which was very suspicious to me, like literally on the dot.

00:25:39.917 --> 00:25:42.337
VIRGINIA: Like, is this a test?

00:25:42.417 --> 00:25:44.477
MAREN: It's not a test I wanted to be a part of.

00:25:44.717 --> 00:25:49.357
MAREN: If this was like a test, come on, you don't do that the night before, 5K or any races.

00:25:49.517 --> 00:25:56.637
MAREN: Yeah, I mean, and I got a survey from Disney after our trip, and I did say that.

00:25:56.637 --> 00:26:02.077
MAREN: I said like we had a fire alarm and it was on a race night.

00:26:02.077 --> 00:26:04.957
MAREN: And I mean, I don't know.

00:26:05.457 --> 00:26:12.117
MAREN: I hate to be like that person, but like it would have been nice to have something offered to us to compensate.

00:26:12.257 --> 00:26:13.437
JEANETTE: Yeah, you didn't get anything?

00:26:13.437 --> 00:26:14.297
MAREN: That we…

00:26:14.297 --> 00:26:22.077
MAREN: No, I mean, like, yeah, like back in the day you would have gotten a free lightning lane for something like that, but…

00:26:22.077 --> 00:26:27.737
MAREN: or an extra lightning lane because one more time they were free.

00:26:27.737 --> 00:26:30.457
MAREN: But yeah, there was no…

00:26:30.457 --> 00:26:34.277
MAREN: there was no anything, like even…

00:26:34.277 --> 00:26:40.577
MAREN: like they were fine, like the people on site, you know, telling us to go outside or whatever were fine.

00:26:41.097 --> 00:26:46.797
MAREN: They didn't realize there were people in our area where Maren and Mariah and I were, so they were like, oh…

00:26:46.797 --> 00:26:47.737
MAREN: Same with Amber, though.

00:26:47.737 --> 00:26:48.857
MAREN: They didn't know people were out there either.

00:26:49.657 --> 00:26:51.357
JEANETTE: They didn't know people were out here.

00:26:51.357 --> 00:26:53.297
AMBER: So this is what's going on.

00:26:53.557 --> 00:27:02.197
MAREN: And I think the fact that it was on a race weekend made it particularly a little, like, sour in the mouth, but…

00:27:02.297 --> 00:27:03.817
MAREN: And just the lack of communication.

00:27:03.817 --> 00:27:06.137
MAREN: It really was neat.

00:27:06.697 --> 00:27:10.497
VIRGINIA: Did you see Reedy Creek firetrucks pulling up?

00:27:10.497 --> 00:27:11.397
MAREN: No, because we were in the…

00:27:11.397 --> 00:27:15.697
MAREN: We were literally, like, in the safari area or the savanna area.

00:27:15.697 --> 00:27:26.077
MAREN: Like, if you go to Jumbo House and you're, like, going to one of the restaurants or something, there's that little sort of walkway that, like, anyone can go to.

00:27:26.077 --> 00:27:29.397
MAREN: That's where Maren and Mariah and I were.

00:27:29.397 --> 00:27:30.597
VIRGINIA: Oh, OK.

00:27:30.597 --> 00:27:30.937
VIRGINIA: Oh, well.

00:27:31.497 --> 00:27:33.077
MAREN: Yep, so that happened.

00:27:33.077 --> 00:27:36.877
JEANETTE: So then we got up the next day and ran a 5K.

00:27:36.877 --> 00:27:39.657
VIRGINIA: But it was only a 5K, Amber.

00:27:39.657 --> 00:27:40.497
JEANETTE: It was only a 5K.

00:27:40.497 --> 00:27:41.997
JEANETTE: It was fine.

00:27:41.997 --> 00:27:45.137
JEANETTE: But we were really tired by the time we got back.

00:27:45.137 --> 00:27:45.897
VIRGINIA: I'm sure.

00:27:46.217 --> 00:27:47.257
VIRGINIA: How were your costumes?

00:27:47.257 --> 00:27:52.457
VIRGINIA: Because you were doing a cassette tape, awesome mixtape, volume one and two.

00:27:52.457 --> 00:27:56.217
VIRGINIA: And I forgot to ask, was Mariah doing the 5K as well?

00:27:56.217 --> 00:27:56.477
AMBER: No.

00:27:56.697 --> 00:27:58.357
VIRGINIA: It was just the two of you.

00:27:58.357 --> 00:27:58.657
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:27:58.657 --> 00:28:01.677
VIRGINIA: So how was the 5K and how were your outfits?

00:28:01.837 --> 00:28:03.517
AMBER: Our costumes looked amazing.

00:28:03.517 --> 00:28:04.757
AMBER: Thank you to Maren for finding those.

00:28:04.757 --> 00:28:08.337
AMBER: And then we wrote awesome mixtape, volume one and volume two on them.

00:28:08.337 --> 00:28:17.757
AMBER: We weren't sure how many people we were going to see in said costume, but there were quite a few people that were actually dressed as cassette tapes that were similar in nature.

00:28:17.757 --> 00:28:20.257
AMBER: So it was always fun to say hey.

00:28:20.257 --> 00:28:22.457
AMBER: But they were great.

00:28:22.457 --> 00:28:25.437
AMBER: We actually got to run more than we anticipated with the 5K.

00:28:25.717 --> 00:28:35.057
AMBER: We thought it was going to be really, really crowded, but we were at the front of the line and we got to take off and ran quite a bit of this race.

00:28:35.997 --> 00:28:42.637
AMBER: Now, the thing that was challenging with this one was the character stops because the lines were so long.

00:28:43.857 --> 00:28:45.537
MAREN: Well, the 10K was worse.

00:28:45.537 --> 00:28:46.357
AMBER: Oh, that was the one.

00:28:46.357 --> 00:28:46.697
AMBER: I'm sorry.

00:28:46.697 --> 00:28:47.377
AMBER: I was thinking.

00:28:47.377 --> 00:28:48.957
AMBER: Oh yeah, the 5K.

00:28:49.177 --> 00:28:51.037
AMBER: 5K was Moon Girl.

00:28:51.037 --> 00:28:55.977
MAREN: Oh, the first character stop was Moon Girl from Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.

00:28:55.977 --> 00:28:59.617
MAREN: And if people haven't watched that show.

00:28:59.617 --> 00:29:01.437
VIRGINIA: I haven't, but you've mentioned it before.

00:29:01.437 --> 00:29:04.597
VIRGINIA: So now I'm like, it is so good.

00:29:04.597 --> 00:29:09.477
MAREN: And then the line was not long for a rare character like that.

00:29:09.477 --> 00:29:12.497
MAREN: I think Disney just didn't market that show well enough.

00:29:12.497 --> 00:29:13.797
MAREN: It is such a great show.

00:29:13.837 --> 00:29:19.437
MAREN: It breaks my heart that like they've not, I don't think they've officially said there won't be a season three, but it's pretty well known.

00:29:19.437 --> 00:29:21.597
MAREN: There's unlikely to be a season three.

00:29:21.597 --> 00:29:26.477
MAREN: And it's just, it's a really, really good show.

00:29:26.477 --> 00:29:29.597
MAREN: And so I lost my mind that Moon Girl was the first picture.

00:29:29.597 --> 00:29:31.817
MAREN: I was like, we have to stop for Moon Girl.

00:29:31.817 --> 00:29:34.097
AMBER: I'm like, oh, my God, Moon Girl, Moon Girl Magic.

00:29:34.097 --> 00:29:40.317
MAREN: Yeah, it was very, she said that was her favorite character staff of the week when I asked her.

00:29:40.317 --> 00:29:41.497
MAREN: So I think it was.

00:29:41.977 --> 00:29:44.617
JEANETTE: She got really excited, like really excited.

00:29:44.617 --> 00:29:45.097
JEANETTE: Sounds like it.

00:29:45.097 --> 00:29:46.337
JEANETTE: So we definitely had to stop.

00:29:46.337 --> 00:29:50.817
MAREN: The poor cast member was probably like, oh, my God, this old woman obsessed with a cartoon.

00:29:50.817 --> 00:29:52.237
MAREN: Great.

00:29:52.237 --> 00:29:54.217
MAREN: Not just any cartoon, a current kids cartoon.

00:29:54.217 --> 00:29:55.197
MAREN: Like it's a good one.

00:29:55.517 --> 00:29:56.577
MAREN: It's got a lot of humor for adults.

00:29:56.577 --> 00:30:01.397
JEANETTE: I was gonna say, I think you just described all Disney adults, a grown woman.

00:30:01.397 --> 00:30:03.717
AMBER: No, a lot of this like nostalgia, right?

00:30:03.717 --> 00:30:05.677
MAREN: I'm like, I'm watching the current shows.

00:30:06.057 --> 00:30:06.757
JEANETTE: It's good.

00:30:06.757 --> 00:30:07.257
MAREN: It's really good.

00:30:07.257 --> 00:30:17.517
VIRGINIA: Yeah, but one of the great things, especially about the more current shows, I would say, is how many jokes and things are usually built in for the parents who happen to be watching.

00:30:17.517 --> 00:30:18.717
VIRGINIA: So I get it.

00:30:18.717 --> 00:30:19.377
VIRGINIA: I get it.

00:30:19.377 --> 00:30:25.697
MAREN: To quote Gravity Falls, it's got a mystery element and a lot of humor that goes over kids' heads.

00:30:25.697 --> 00:30:26.917
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:30:26.917 --> 00:30:28.297
VIRGINIA: That's another one I like, Gravity Falls.

00:30:28.297 --> 00:30:29.497
MAREN: It's my favorite show.

00:30:29.497 --> 00:30:33.997
VIRGINIA: Were there any other fun characters on the 5K?

00:30:33.997 --> 00:30:35.757
AMBER: So we stopped for, how do you say it?

00:30:35.757 --> 00:30:36.837
AMBER: Elastigirl, is that correct?

00:30:37.497 --> 00:30:38.417
MAREN: Oh yeah.

00:30:38.417 --> 00:30:39.717
MAREN: Elastigirl or Mrs.

00:30:39.717 --> 00:30:40.317
MAREN: Incredible.

00:30:40.317 --> 00:30:43.637
MAREN: The 5K was not quite as loaded with characters.

00:30:43.637 --> 00:30:47.177
MAREN: I mean, it's only three miles, so they can only fit them in so many places.

00:30:47.177 --> 00:30:48.657
MAREN: There were a couple.

00:30:48.657 --> 00:30:56.277
AMBER: Doctor Strange had a really long line, but they said he had technical difficulties because he actually had smoke or some sort of special effect.

00:30:56.277 --> 00:30:57.537
AMBER: And so that was a really long line.

00:30:57.537 --> 00:30:59.077
AMBER: I believe that was the 5K as well.

00:30:59.077 --> 00:30:59.977
MAREN: Yeah, you're right.

00:30:59.977 --> 00:31:02.177
MAREN: So we skipped it because, I mean, it looked insane.

00:31:02.177 --> 00:31:08.137
MAREN: And even though you have plenty of time in the 5K, I don't want to be on my feet in a line that long.

00:31:08.137 --> 00:31:09.457
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:31:09.457 --> 00:31:12.397
AMBER: We had Gamora and Switching Out 2.

00:31:12.397 --> 00:31:13.877
AMBER: We didn't stop at that one.

00:31:13.877 --> 00:31:19.597
VIRGINIA: What was the running route, route, route, I'm not sure, which I want to use today?

00:31:19.597 --> 00:31:21.597
MAREN: Mostly through World Showcase.

00:31:21.597 --> 00:31:23.297
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:31:23.297 --> 00:31:25.797
MAREN: So a little bit backstage, right?

00:31:25.797 --> 00:31:31.497
MAREN: Like you start, you go backstage for a while, and then you go into the back of World Showcase by Mexico.

00:31:31.497 --> 00:31:38.857
MAREN: And then mostly just go around World Showcase out to in front of Spaceship Earth, and then backstage.

00:31:38.857 --> 00:31:39.417
MAREN: Yeah, the normal...

00:31:39.417 --> 00:31:42.857
VIRGINIA: That sounds exactly like what I did for The Princess 5K.

00:31:42.857 --> 00:31:47.397
MAREN: I think they have, I think they're down to just like there is one 5K course.

00:31:47.397 --> 00:31:48.137
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:31:48.137 --> 00:31:49.797
MAREN: From what I've sussed out.

00:31:49.817 --> 00:31:55.637
MAREN: And maybe the 10K course is very a little, but I think the 5K is, this is the 5K course now.

00:31:55.637 --> 00:31:56.417
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:31:56.417 --> 00:31:56.897
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:31:56.897 --> 00:32:00.557
VIRGINIA: Well, it sounds like I need to do a 10K so I can experience a different version.

00:32:00.597 --> 00:32:03.737
MAREN: Honestly, Tidmyler is still my favorite course, but we'll get there.

00:32:03.737 --> 00:32:06.397
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:32:06.397 --> 00:32:07.337
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:32:07.337 --> 00:32:14.457
VIRGINIA: After the race, you were going to head back and get cleaned up, of course, and then maybe get some breakfast.

00:32:14.457 --> 00:32:16.757
VIRGINIA: So did you end up going to the Mara?

00:32:16.757 --> 00:32:20.597
VIRGINIA: I think that was something that you were considering doing.

00:32:20.597 --> 00:32:21.077
AMBER: Yes.

00:32:21.077 --> 00:32:23.557
AMBER: I believe Jeanette, you were the one that went and picked up that, right?

00:32:23.597 --> 00:32:25.837
JEANETTE: That was the happy.

00:32:25.837 --> 00:32:34.457
MAREN: I had stepped out and I actually, because that's actually when I talked to my husband, because I didn't catch him the night before.

00:32:36.697 --> 00:32:47.017
MAREN: I was going to put in a mobile order and I looked and it was like 75-minute wait before you could do, like before the mobile order window.

00:32:47.017 --> 00:32:51.317
MAREN: So I texted everybody and said like, hey, mobile order is going to be too long.

00:32:51.317 --> 00:32:53.157
MAREN: Wait, let me know what you want to get.

00:32:53.237 --> 00:32:55.857
MAREN: I'll just get it and bring it up like room service.

00:32:55.857 --> 00:32:57.777
AMBER: We got some really good Loaded Tots.

00:32:57.777 --> 00:33:03.037
AMBER: Maren and I split some Loaded Tots which were absolutely not to be.

00:33:03.037 --> 00:33:06.757
VIRGINIA: So the Loaded Tots got Loaded Tots.

00:33:06.757 --> 00:33:07.817
VIRGINIA: Okay, perfect.

00:33:07.817 --> 00:33:09.637
MAREN: And I got Mickey Waffles.

00:33:09.637 --> 00:33:12.397
MAREN: They were like the little miniature Mickey Waffles.

00:33:12.397 --> 00:33:16.097
MAREN: There was three of them and I asked for Tots on the side.

00:33:16.097 --> 00:33:19.177
MAREN: And then Mariah also had ordered some Tots.

00:33:19.737 --> 00:33:25.637
MAREN: And Maren and I got Chai Latte, Ice Chai Latte, which apparently had oat milk.

00:33:25.637 --> 00:33:28.317
MAREN: I didn't notice, but it was good.

00:33:28.317 --> 00:33:38.237
MAREN: And I shared some of the waffles and actually shared some of the Tots so that the Tacho people, because YouTube, Amber and Maren were sharing, so then they had plenty of Tots for their Tachos.

00:33:38.237 --> 00:33:39.057
MAREN: It was a lot of food.

00:33:39.057 --> 00:33:42.437
MAREN: So it was like plenty for three people.

00:33:42.437 --> 00:33:47.037
MAREN: And honestly, those Ice Chai Latte with the oat milk were amazing.

00:33:47.037 --> 00:33:47.537
MAREN: Yeah, they were good.

00:33:47.577 --> 00:33:49.697
MAREN: I loved them, because I'm not huge on oat milk.

00:33:49.697 --> 00:33:51.597
MAREN: Like I'm like take it or leave it.

00:33:51.597 --> 00:33:52.957
MAREN: I thought it was really, really good.

00:33:52.957 --> 00:33:54.537
MAREN: Yeah, no, they had like a nice balance.

00:33:54.537 --> 00:33:55.617
MAREN: Like it wasn't too sweet.

00:33:55.617 --> 00:33:56.937
MAREN: It was very good.

00:33:56.937 --> 00:33:57.997
VIRGINIA: I like oat milk.

00:33:57.997 --> 00:34:04.237
VIRGINIA: Like I tend to, if I'm going to get a coffee beverage, use either almond milk or oat milk.

00:34:04.237 --> 00:34:11.037
VIRGINIA: Almond milk has less calories, but oat milk tastes creamier and more like a treat.

00:34:11.037 --> 00:34:13.337
VIRGINIA: So I tend to opt for the oat milk.

00:34:13.337 --> 00:34:14.917
VIRGINIA: It's really good.

00:34:14.917 --> 00:34:16.257
VIRGINIA: So that sounds right up my alley.

00:34:16.357 --> 00:34:18.597
VIRGINIA: I love a nice chai.

00:34:18.597 --> 00:34:22.337
VIRGINIA: What time did you end up heading into Magic Kingdom for the day?

00:34:24.437 --> 00:34:25.657
MAREN: That's a good question.

00:34:25.657 --> 00:34:27.917
JEANETTE: I feel like I took a nap.

00:34:27.917 --> 00:34:30.077
MAREN: We took a pretty quick power nap.

00:34:30.077 --> 00:34:30.517
MAREN: Yeah.

00:34:31.037 --> 00:34:42.357
MAREN: When I was on the phone with Rob, and they were taking a nap, and then they probably got up right around the time that I had sent the text about the breakfast choices.

00:34:42.357 --> 00:34:43.417
MAREN: Does that seem right?

00:34:43.417 --> 00:34:43.717
MAREN: Yeah.

00:34:43.717 --> 00:34:45.537
MAREN: We still made it to all of our lightning lanes.

00:34:45.617 --> 00:34:46.837
MAREN: I don't even think you had...

00:34:46.837 --> 00:34:48.757
MAREN: Maybe you pushed one back for us.

00:34:48.757 --> 00:34:49.597
MAREN: No, I didn't push one.

00:34:49.857 --> 00:34:55.977
MAREN: We made it to Haunted Mansion at the end of that hour.

00:34:55.977 --> 00:34:57.997
MAREN: So maybe 11.

00:34:58.037 --> 00:34:59.037
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:34:59.097 --> 00:35:02.017
MAREN: We were honestly pretty fried from that fire alarm.

00:35:02.017 --> 00:35:03.517
MAREN: Everyone was.

00:35:04.697 --> 00:35:08.237
MAREN: For a 5K, I'm like, we should not be this tired after a run.

00:35:08.237 --> 00:35:10.557
MAREN: And it was the fire alarm.

00:35:10.997 --> 00:35:11.217
AMBER: Yeah.

00:35:11.217 --> 00:35:13.257
JEANETTE: My memory is foggy.

00:35:15.097 --> 00:35:20.417
AMBER: So we did Haunted Mansion, pirates, and then I had never done the Swiss Family Tree.

00:35:20.417 --> 00:35:22.437
AMBER: So I got to experience the tree.

00:35:22.437 --> 00:35:26.797
AMBER: Had a little bit under construction, but overall, it was pretty neat to see that.

00:35:26.797 --> 00:35:29.397
VIRGINIA: Was it what you thought it would be?

00:35:29.397 --> 00:35:37.897
AMBER: I had no preconceived notions, but it was really cool to kind of, because I watched that movie a lot as a kid, but to be in this setting was pretty neat.

00:35:37.897 --> 00:35:39.177
VIRGINIA: It's been years since I've done it.

00:35:40.517 --> 00:35:45.557
VIRGINIA: You just walk past it, but I feel like I need to give it another go and see.

00:35:45.557 --> 00:35:56.717
MAREN: We were saying that we think that there were some moving pieces, like some water that fell and a piano where the keys moved, and none of that seemed to be happening.

00:35:56.717 --> 00:36:01.657
MAREN: I think it's in B mode during its restoration.

00:36:01.657 --> 00:36:06.637
MAREN: I'm hoping they're going to make it similar to Disneyland, where it's SCA.

00:36:06.637 --> 00:36:06.937
MAREN: Yeah.

00:36:06.937 --> 00:36:08.397
VIRGINIA: Exactly what I was about to ask.

00:36:08.597 --> 00:36:10.597
MAREN: Oh, sorry.

00:36:10.597 --> 00:36:11.657
MAREN: I'm beating you to the punch.

00:36:11.657 --> 00:36:13.177
JEANETTE: I'm like, SCA.

00:36:13.177 --> 00:36:16.717
VIRGINIA: No, I was just trying to think, like in my mind, it had a theme or something.

00:36:16.717 --> 00:36:18.857
VIRGINIA: And I knew you would know, Maren.

00:36:18.857 --> 00:36:22.157
MAREN: It was really just like one section of the tree that was tented.

00:36:22.157 --> 00:36:27.797
MAREN: So I'm wondering if they're doing it piecemeal instead of closing it down like Disneyland did.

00:36:27.797 --> 00:36:32.377
MAREN: Well, they had to really redo Disneyland because it was Tarzan, right?

00:36:33.097 --> 00:36:38.977
MAREN: Which was cute, but I think taking it to a more Disney, obviously, classic.

00:36:38.977 --> 00:36:39.777
MAREN: Yeah.

00:36:39.777 --> 00:36:43.677
MAREN: Disney Parks classic versus Tarzan is a good movie.

00:36:46.037 --> 00:36:47.337
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:36:47.337 --> 00:36:51.217
VIRGINIA: You had Tiana as a Lightning Lane as well, right?

00:36:51.217 --> 00:36:52.957
JEANETTE: Yeah, but not till three.

00:36:52.957 --> 00:36:53.557
VIRGINIA: Oh, not till three.

00:36:53.557 --> 00:36:54.977
JEANETTE: It was the last one.

00:36:54.977 --> 00:36:55.277
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:36:55.277 --> 00:36:56.477
VIRGINIA: What else did you do before that?

00:36:56.477 --> 00:37:00.437
AMBER: I did Tron and then Jeanette and Maren got coffee.

00:37:01.577 --> 00:37:04.257
MAREN: Amber, you guys didn't ride Tron then?

00:37:04.257 --> 00:37:04.857
AMBER: No.

00:37:04.857 --> 00:37:06.937
MAREN: We did coffee by Tron.

00:37:07.057 --> 00:37:10.637
MAREN: We sat by Tron and had a coffee break.

00:37:10.637 --> 00:37:12.217
MAREN: Then we got on the railroad.

00:37:12.217 --> 00:37:15.777
VIRGINIA: Is that when you texted a picture of yourself sitting by Tron, Jeanette?

00:37:15.777 --> 00:37:16.297
MAREN: Yes.

00:37:17.117 --> 00:37:19.237
VIRGINIA: It was you and Maren and I said, where's Amber?

00:37:19.237 --> 00:37:19.917
MAREN: Yes.

00:37:19.917 --> 00:37:21.177
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:37:21.177 --> 00:37:21.877
MAREN: We lost her.

00:37:21.877 --> 00:37:23.337
VIRGINIA: Did you lose her?

00:37:24.797 --> 00:37:26.737
MAREN: We apparently lost her at this moment in the day.

00:37:26.997 --> 00:37:28.597
JEANETTE: Exactly.

00:37:28.597 --> 00:37:30.857
AMBER: I have a pretty good photographic memory at times.

00:37:30.897 --> 00:37:32.457
AMBER: This is like, I remember saying it.

00:37:32.457 --> 00:37:33.517
MAREN: We were fried.

00:37:33.517 --> 00:37:34.617
VIRGINIA: It's the fire alarm.

00:37:34.617 --> 00:37:36.117
VIRGINIA: It is the fire alarm.

00:37:36.177 --> 00:37:37.157
AMBER: Freaking day.

00:37:37.237 --> 00:37:38.717
AMBER: I'm glad.

00:37:38.717 --> 00:37:40.317
AMBER: Yes, I got out of order.

00:37:40.377 --> 00:37:46.337
AMBER: Then the train, we rode around a couple of times just to take up time and sit and rest for a little bit, which was really great.

00:37:46.337 --> 00:37:48.597
AMBER: It was rejuvenating for sure.

00:37:50.077 --> 00:37:52.357
AMBER: Then came back.

00:37:52.357 --> 00:37:54.137
MAREN: Then we did lunch.

00:37:54.137 --> 00:37:55.197
AMBER: Skipper Canteen, that's right.

00:37:55.237 --> 00:37:58.937
MAREN: Yes, it was a last-minute reservation because I decided I had to have noodles.

00:37:58.937 --> 00:38:01.517
MAREN: I'm finally starting to remember this day.

00:38:01.517 --> 00:38:04.997
MAREN: I'm obsessed with the noodles there and the margaritas aren't bad.

00:38:04.997 --> 00:38:07.297
MAREN: Actually, it's probably one of my favorite margaritas.

00:38:07.297 --> 00:38:10.977
MAREN: I offered to share the noodles with her because the noodles are a generous portion.

00:38:10.977 --> 00:38:13.177
AMBER: That was the falafel and hummus too?

00:38:13.457 --> 00:38:14.517
JEANETTE: Yes.

00:38:14.517 --> 00:38:15.797
MAREN: Yeah, everybody shared.

00:38:15.797 --> 00:38:21.457
MAREN: It was sharing across this way of the table, sharing across this way of the table and margaritas.

00:38:22.917 --> 00:38:24.717
MAREN: And the cheese bread.

00:38:24.717 --> 00:38:25.757
JEANETTE: Oh, the cheese bread.

00:38:25.757 --> 00:38:27.337
VIRGINIA: The cheese bread is very good.

00:38:27.717 --> 00:38:29.177
VIRGINIA: I really like skipper canteen.

00:38:29.177 --> 00:38:38.217
VIRGINIA: I think that it is slightly more adventurous food than maybe the average person is going to go for, especially in Magic Kingdom.

00:38:38.337 --> 00:38:40.397
AMBER: It's becoming a ritual.

00:38:40.397 --> 00:38:43.637
VIRGINIA: But it's pretty easy to get a table because of that.

00:38:43.637 --> 00:38:51.057
MAREN: Well, and I might have said this previously on another podcast, but I went there right after it opened because I love the Jungle Cruise.

00:38:51.617 --> 00:38:55.777
MAREN: And honestly, very disappointing and didn't go back for at least a year.

00:38:55.777 --> 00:38:57.577
MAREN: And I think Mariah convinced me to go back.

00:38:57.577 --> 00:39:01.277
MAREN: And then now I go regularly.

00:39:01.277 --> 00:39:03.537
MAREN: You got to give restaurants time to open and get settled.

00:39:03.537 --> 00:39:07.417
MAREN: And then now it's like, this is one of the best restaurants at Disney.

00:39:07.417 --> 00:39:10.317
MAREN: At least the best, more casual.

00:39:10.317 --> 00:39:10.517
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:39:10.517 --> 00:39:13.897
AMBER: And the wait staff is always very entertaining because it's got that comedic element to it.

00:39:13.897 --> 00:39:17.197
AMBER: And they're very witty and entertaining.

00:39:17.197 --> 00:39:19.477
VIRGINIA: Yeah, I like the curry they have there.

00:39:19.577 --> 00:39:21.257
VIRGINIA: And I think it's vegetarian.

00:39:21.257 --> 00:39:21.817
MAREN: It is.

00:39:21.817 --> 00:39:23.217
VIRGINIA: Have you ever had it, Jeanette?

00:39:23.217 --> 00:39:25.077
MAREN: I have.

00:39:25.597 --> 00:39:26.357
AMBER: I like it.

00:39:26.357 --> 00:39:28.177
MAREN: It's messy.

00:39:28.177 --> 00:39:29.357
MAREN: And I'm messy.

00:39:29.357 --> 00:39:30.337
AMBER: OK.

00:39:30.337 --> 00:39:31.677
VIRGINIA: I've never had a problem eating it.

00:39:31.677 --> 00:39:34.357
MAREN: But you're not as messy as me.

00:39:34.357 --> 00:39:36.817
VIRGINIA: Apparently not.

00:39:36.817 --> 00:39:37.117
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:39:37.117 --> 00:39:39.677
VIRGINIA: What was after lunch?

00:39:39.677 --> 00:39:41.697
AMBER: OK, then Tron.

00:39:41.697 --> 00:39:43.817
JEANETTE: Apparently, I'm still fuzzy on this.

00:39:44.077 --> 00:39:47.277
MAREN: This is where Maren and I got pixie dusted, if you will.

00:39:47.697 --> 00:39:59.017
MAREN: We went to share a cupcake because last time we were in Disney, we tried this un-birthday cupcake at the Cheshire Cafe.

00:39:59.017 --> 00:40:05.057
MAREN: And it's like a vanilla cupcake with funfetti, like sprinkles in the middle.

00:40:05.057 --> 00:40:09.417
MAREN: And then the frosting is a Earl Grey buttercream.

00:40:09.417 --> 00:40:10.917
VIRGINIA: Oh, I remember you telling me about this.

00:40:10.917 --> 00:40:17.257
MAREN: It was so good when we had it in February that we're like, we're going to share another one.

00:40:17.257 --> 00:40:18.497
MAREN: And so we went to get it.

00:40:18.497 --> 00:40:28.917
MAREN: And when the woman went to grab it off the rack, she knocked one of the containers over so that the frosting got like smudged.

00:40:28.917 --> 00:40:31.537
MAREN: And she's like, do you just want this one too?

00:40:31.537 --> 00:40:33.297
MAREN: Because I can't sell it.

00:40:33.297 --> 00:40:36.897
MAREN: So then we got two cupcakes for the price of one.

00:40:36.897 --> 00:40:38.297
VIRGINIA: Excellent.

00:40:38.357 --> 00:40:41.737
MAREN: Yeah, I mean, probably could have done with just-

00:40:41.737 --> 00:40:42.997
MAREN: Did not need to.

00:40:42.997 --> 00:40:44.117
AMBER: Did not need one.

00:40:44.677 --> 00:40:47.497
AMBER: Did not need a cupcake in the world.

00:40:47.497 --> 00:40:51.237
JEANETTE: But that's hindsight is 2020.

00:40:52.697 --> 00:40:55.117
MAREN: I wasn't going to say no to a cupcake.

00:40:55.117 --> 00:40:55.877
AMBER: But we sat-

00:40:55.877 --> 00:40:57.237
VIRGINIA: If it's free, why not?

00:40:57.237 --> 00:40:59.817
VIRGINIA: And then if you don't eat it, no big deal.

00:40:59.817 --> 00:41:02.117
MAREN: Well, if I have it, I'm going to also eat it.

00:41:02.177 --> 00:41:05.597
MAREN: Like, put it in my mouth face.

00:41:05.597 --> 00:41:09.757
MAREN: So we sat at the Cheshire Cafe, which was a really fun little vibe.

00:41:09.757 --> 00:41:15.897
MAREN: Those cute little tables and the music that they're playing is all like kind of a mix of Alice in Wonderland music.

00:41:15.897 --> 00:41:17.737
MAREN: It was, you know, that's my-

00:41:17.737 --> 00:41:20.137
MAREN: that's, that's basically my heaven.

00:41:20.137 --> 00:41:22.017
MAREN: Right.

00:41:22.017 --> 00:41:25.277
MAREN: The cupcake wasn't quite as good as it was in February.

00:41:25.277 --> 00:41:28.217
MAREN: I didn't get as much Earl Grey vibes in the buttercream.

00:41:28.217 --> 00:41:30.857
MAREN: Yeah, it was just kind of tasted like more of a plain buttercream.

00:41:31.257 --> 00:41:32.157
MAREN: Yeah.

00:41:32.157 --> 00:41:34.557
AMBER: So still a little bit of sugar.

00:41:34.557 --> 00:41:39.137
AMBER: Got a little, got a little accidental pixie dust.

00:41:39.137 --> 00:41:40.137
VIRGINIA: There you go.

00:41:40.137 --> 00:41:46.597
AMBER: On Tron, Mariah and I like to get the ninth row so that we're always, I think it's the ninth one on Tron, right?

00:41:46.597 --> 00:41:47.717
AMBER: Yes.

00:41:47.717 --> 00:41:48.817
AMBER: So that's a really nice.

00:41:48.817 --> 00:41:50.677
VIRGINIA: No, ninth one is Cosmic Rewind.

00:41:50.677 --> 00:41:51.217
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:41:51.217 --> 00:41:52.017
AMBER: Okay, guardians.

00:41:52.017 --> 00:41:56.557
AMBER: So I'm sorry, that day is just so freaking fuzzy.

00:41:56.557 --> 00:41:58.757
AMBER: So we got the first one because that's what we do.

00:41:58.777 --> 00:42:00.657
AMBER: It was for number one.

00:42:00.657 --> 00:42:04.957
AMBER: And then we planned our pose for our picture and had it ready.

00:42:04.957 --> 00:42:10.837
AMBER: So we were like leaning on our tins and posed for the picture for Tron and it came out well.

00:42:10.837 --> 00:42:14.837
AMBER: And then there's more to that later when we get to guardians with Jeanette because that was a backfire.

00:42:14.837 --> 00:42:19.337
AMBER: But the Tron picture came out wonderfully.

00:42:19.337 --> 00:42:20.997
AMBER: So that was an excellent ride.

00:42:20.997 --> 00:42:24.297
MAREN: We've got bad guardians photo, Lock Amber.

00:42:24.357 --> 00:42:25.177
AMBER: I do.

00:42:25.177 --> 00:42:25.577
AMBER: Oh my God.

00:42:25.577 --> 00:42:26.817
JEANETTE: No, you and I do.

00:42:26.817 --> 00:42:27.337
MAREN: Yeah.

00:42:27.337 --> 00:42:28.197
AMBER: I know.

00:42:28.737 --> 00:42:34.217
VIRGINIA: It is unusual to take a good photo on guardians because there's something about where they're taking your photo.

00:42:34.217 --> 00:42:35.497
MAREN: It's really off.

00:42:36.257 --> 00:42:38.317
VIRGINIA: It's really hard to hold your pose.

00:42:38.317 --> 00:42:38.877
MAREN: Yeah.

00:42:38.877 --> 00:42:39.497
MAREN: I figured you have to.

00:42:39.497 --> 00:42:40.957
AMBER: Yeah, we thought we had it on Lock and we didn't.

00:42:40.957 --> 00:42:41.877
MAREN: We thought we had it.

00:42:41.877 --> 00:42:43.397
JEANETTE: And we were like, we saw the picture.

00:42:43.397 --> 00:42:45.737
AMBER: We're like, how did this happen?

00:42:45.737 --> 00:42:48.497
VIRGINIA: But Tron, it takes off so quickly.

00:42:48.497 --> 00:42:51.597
VIRGINIA: It's also a little hard to hold the pose there.

00:42:51.597 --> 00:42:52.857
VIRGINIA: You have to be really steady.

00:42:53.657 --> 00:42:56.597
VIRGINIA: So if you got a good picture, then way to go.

00:42:56.597 --> 00:42:57.217
JEANETTE: We did good.

00:42:57.217 --> 00:42:57.717
JEANETTE: It was great.

00:42:57.717 --> 00:42:58.137
VIRGINIA: It was good.

00:42:58.137 --> 00:42:59.437
MAREN: It was cute.

00:42:59.437 --> 00:43:01.637
AMBER: Now, this was the day the People Mover was down.

00:43:01.637 --> 00:43:06.917
AMBER: So we were going to read the People Mover, but it was to take up some time, but it was down.

00:43:06.917 --> 00:43:11.857
AMBER: So what's interesting is after the Tron experience, we went to, it's called Space Mountain, right?

00:43:12.117 --> 00:43:13.077
AMBER: Yeah.

00:43:13.077 --> 00:43:13.477
MAREN: Okay.

00:43:13.477 --> 00:43:15.537
AMBER: So I had never ridden Space Mountain before.

00:43:15.537 --> 00:43:16.817
AMBER: And so...

00:43:16.817 --> 00:43:17.217
MAREN: I know.

00:43:17.217 --> 00:43:17.817
MAREN: I'm sorry.

00:43:18.097 --> 00:43:20.097
MAREN: I have not done well by this woman on something.

00:43:20.097 --> 00:43:20.597
AMBER: Whatever.

00:43:20.937 --> 00:43:21.617
AMBER: I've had amazing disinterests.

00:43:21.617 --> 00:43:23.237
MAREN: We were there for race weekends.

00:43:23.237 --> 00:43:25.357
MAREN: Race weekends are a whole different animal.

00:43:25.357 --> 00:43:25.897
MAREN: True.

00:43:25.897 --> 00:43:31.497
AMBER: But I got a really cool Space Mountain experience because they said it was a lot brighter in there than usual.

00:43:31.497 --> 00:43:35.637
AMBER: So we got to see a lot of things because they had some lights on in the people mover.

00:43:35.637 --> 00:43:45.377
AMBER: And so it was a really interesting experience and a novel experience for both of you guys because you got to see a little bit more of the inner workings than you would see otherwise.

00:43:46.677 --> 00:43:49.517
AMBER: So that was kind of interesting to experience.

00:43:49.877 --> 00:43:56.977
VIRGINIA: So it was, Jeanette, since you and I wrote it with what I'm going to refer to as the nightlights on, it was more than nightlights.

00:43:56.977 --> 00:43:58.577
MAREN: I think it was about the same.

00:43:58.577 --> 00:43:59.597
VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.

00:43:59.597 --> 00:44:05.977
MAREN: I've never, so I've done people mover when Space Mountain was down and the lights are on in Space Mountain.

00:44:05.977 --> 00:44:10.197
MAREN: But I hadn't done the reverse of Space Mountain when the people mover was down.

00:44:10.197 --> 00:44:13.517
MAREN: And I guess I like y'all's term, the nightlights were on.

00:44:13.877 --> 00:44:21.177
MAREN: So this was like the brightest I have been on Space Mountain, where you really can, like, while riding Space Mountain, you can really see.

00:44:21.177 --> 00:44:23.257
VIRGINIA: I've been on it when the lights were fully on before.

00:44:23.257 --> 00:44:25.737
MAREN: Oh, rub it in.

00:44:25.737 --> 00:44:26.837
VIRGINIA: It's scarier.

00:44:27.277 --> 00:44:28.477
MAREN: I'm sure.

00:44:28.477 --> 00:44:30.717
VIRGINIA: Much rather write it in the dark.

00:44:30.717 --> 00:44:34.017
MAREN: I'm like, can't my arm hit this thing if I reach out?

00:44:34.017 --> 00:44:36.097
MAREN: It feels way closer than I thought.

00:44:36.237 --> 00:44:53.837
MAREN: That being said, I really struggle with the Halloween version where there's no lights at all, because then I can't brace myself for any of the turns, and I feel like the oldest version of myself after riding that, like, my back has been so busted.

00:44:53.837 --> 00:45:03.077
VIRGINIA: I mean, in general, I feel like the oldest version of myself every time I ride Space Mountain, because I love it, and I have such nostalgia for it, but every time I'm like, why are you doing this?

00:45:03.077 --> 00:45:03.897
VIRGINIA: It is so jerky.

00:45:04.757 --> 00:45:06.537
MAREN: At least it's not the Matterhorn.

00:45:06.537 --> 00:45:10.597
MAREN: If I can see a little and embrace myself, but on the Matterhorn, you can fully see.

00:45:12.017 --> 00:45:13.297
MAREN: It's not braceable, though.

00:45:13.297 --> 00:45:15.277
MAREN: It's just like, ah.

00:45:15.277 --> 00:45:15.917
VIRGINIA: That's true.

00:45:15.917 --> 00:45:16.337
VIRGINIA: That's true.

00:45:16.337 --> 00:45:18.017
VIRGINIA: It's really a bobsled.

00:45:19.157 --> 00:45:19.617
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:45:19.617 --> 00:45:22.497
VIRGINIA: What was after Space Mountain?

00:45:22.497 --> 00:45:24.977
AMBER: Did a little shopping after Space Mountain.

00:45:26.597 --> 00:45:27.897
MAREN: You needed to get your headbands.

00:45:27.897 --> 00:45:30.477
MAREN: You needed to get the earphones for your friends.

00:45:30.557 --> 00:45:35.317
AMBER: So friends of mine that we went with in February are both teachers.

00:45:35.317 --> 00:45:40.077
AMBER: And so they had requested that I get the graduation ears for 2025.

00:45:40.077 --> 00:45:44.637
AMBER: So we knew that we had found them at the Emporium in February.

00:45:44.637 --> 00:45:49.577
AMBER: So went back there this time to make sure that we could get those.

00:45:49.577 --> 00:45:51.917
AMBER: So purchase those and then.

00:45:52.057 --> 00:45:53.637
MAREN: Confectionary, right?

00:45:53.637 --> 00:45:55.057
MAREN: Your brownie thing.

00:45:55.057 --> 00:45:56.217
AMBER: This was that day.

00:45:56.217 --> 00:45:57.717
AMBER: God, this is so crazy.

00:45:57.717 --> 00:46:02.017
AMBER: Now, I don't remember that order, but I do remember this dessert because it was so amazing.

00:46:02.017 --> 00:46:05.797
AMBER: And it was a cake bite brownie as Mickey.

00:46:05.797 --> 00:46:07.837
AMBER: And then his ears were marshmallows.

00:46:07.837 --> 00:46:09.397
AMBER: And it was all coated in chocolate.

00:46:09.397 --> 00:46:10.717
AMBER: And it was just epic.

00:46:10.717 --> 00:46:11.237
JEANETTE: It was amazing.

00:46:11.237 --> 00:46:12.257
MAREN: I'm so hungry.

00:46:12.837 --> 00:46:13.917
JEANETTE: I'm hungry too.

00:46:14.357 --> 00:46:19.377
AMBER: I would totally have gotten too, but there's only a limit at times to buying food.

00:46:19.377 --> 00:46:21.757
VIRGINIA: Well, and you had a 10K the next day, so.

00:46:21.757 --> 00:46:22.257
JEANETTE: Yeah.

00:46:22.257 --> 00:46:24.977
AMBER: Oh, it would have been good fuel.

00:46:24.977 --> 00:46:26.117
AMBER: Curb loading.

00:46:26.197 --> 00:46:27.797
JEANETTE: Run coach approved here, y'all.

00:46:27.797 --> 00:46:29.457
JEANETTE: No, I'm just kidding.

00:46:29.457 --> 00:46:31.317
JEANETTE: So we did that.

00:46:32.637 --> 00:46:33.657
AMBER: I thought you guys got a snack.

00:46:33.657 --> 00:46:34.177
JEANETTE: Did you not?

00:46:34.177 --> 00:46:35.837
AMBER: Was it just the coffee earlier?

00:46:35.837 --> 00:46:37.917
MAREN: We were still full on our cupcakes.

00:46:37.917 --> 00:46:38.597
AMBER: Okay.

00:46:38.597 --> 00:46:39.077
JEANETTE: Okay.

00:46:39.077 --> 00:46:40.217
JEANETTE: Okay.

00:46:40.217 --> 00:46:47.717
AMBER: They were smart because the parade was about to start and we looked and saw that the line for Jungle Cruise was very short.

00:46:47.717 --> 00:46:52.557
AMBER: And so we went and took advantage of everybody watching the parade to get in some Jungle Cruise.

00:46:52.557 --> 00:46:58.197
AMBER: And Rachel was, I believe, or something like that, that was our skipper and she was really fun.

00:46:58.197 --> 00:47:05.277
AMBER: I think Maren heard some new jokes that she had heard before, which says a lot about a skipper.

00:47:05.277 --> 00:47:07.417
AMBER: I don't recall any of them at the moment.

00:47:07.417 --> 00:47:08.537
MAREN: My brain's not processing.

00:47:08.537 --> 00:47:12.157
MAREN: I remember she was great and I did a cast compliment because she was so good.

00:47:12.157 --> 00:47:13.557
MAREN: Yeah.

00:47:13.557 --> 00:47:17.757
MAREN: I had a couple of cast compliments this trip of really good cast members.

00:47:17.757 --> 00:47:25.057
MAREN: I gave a cast compliment to the woman who sat us in Small Worlds because she didn't make four adults go in one row.

00:47:26.557 --> 00:47:27.957
AMBER: She did.

00:47:29.777 --> 00:47:35.157
MAREN: She had us in one row on Small World and I'm like, we are not four Small World dolls.

00:47:35.157 --> 00:47:39.197
MAREN: I think it was because I was the first person and I was like, do you see this booty?

00:47:39.197 --> 00:47:40.877
MAREN: Don't look at the girls behind me.

00:47:40.877 --> 00:47:42.597
MAREN: Look at the five-nine woman with hips.

00:47:42.597 --> 00:47:44.617
MAREN: Don't look at the little ones behind me.

00:47:44.617 --> 00:47:50.117
AMBER: So I go, we really like you and I gave her a cast compliment.

00:47:52.417 --> 00:47:55.297
AMBER: And I read my lease while we went through that movie.

00:47:56.797 --> 00:47:59.457
MAREN: How dare you not be fully focused on Small World?

00:47:59.457 --> 00:48:01.917
AMBER: Amber got a new home this day.

00:48:01.917 --> 00:48:03.537
AMBER: She got a new home.

00:48:03.537 --> 00:48:08.777
JEANETTE: I was trying to get my lease signed while we were on Small World and it worked out pretty well.

00:48:08.777 --> 00:48:16.557
AMBER: But before Small World was Tiana and there was a comment made that everything was working.

00:48:16.557 --> 00:48:18.837
AMBER: I remember everything working the times I've written it.

00:48:18.937 --> 00:48:24.237
AMBER: So if you guys want to dive in to the experiences that you guys have had, because I feel like the animatronics have always worked.

00:48:24.537 --> 00:48:31.237
MAREN: You had a couple that you might have not noticed that Tiana was a little wonky because we weren't like, oh, Amber, Tiana should be a little bit more.

00:48:31.237 --> 00:48:34.137
MAREN: Yeah, because sometimes she'll just be kind of like frozen.

00:48:34.137 --> 00:48:37.217
MAREN: Every animatronic was perfectly working.

00:48:37.217 --> 00:48:38.717
MAREN: Tiana was fluid.

00:48:38.717 --> 00:48:42.397
MAREN: I look like we could have been best friends.

00:48:42.577 --> 00:48:46.797
VIRGINIA: Yeah, I've noticed that sometimes her mouth does not move while she's talking.

00:48:46.797 --> 00:48:47.617
MAREN: Or she doesn't move at all.

00:48:47.977 --> 00:48:49.057
MAREN: Or she doesn't blink.

00:48:49.077 --> 00:48:52.217
MAREN: It's really creepy when she doesn't blink.

00:48:52.217 --> 00:48:59.577
MAREN: So the only thing that I can't tell for sure if it was Juju working, because I think the timing.

00:48:59.597 --> 00:49:00.677
MAREN: He doesn't always pop up.

00:49:00.677 --> 00:49:02.117
MAREN: He doesn't always pop up.

00:49:02.117 --> 00:49:04.737
MAREN: But I was like, I want to see Juju.

00:49:04.737 --> 00:49:08.677
MAREN: And then I will know that every single animatronic was working perfectly.

00:49:08.677 --> 00:49:09.137
JEANETTE: It was fun.

00:49:09.137 --> 00:49:09.857
AMBER: That's a fun ride.

00:49:09.857 --> 00:49:11.997
JEANETTE: I like that one.

00:49:11.997 --> 00:49:13.777
MAREN: We didn't get soaked either.

00:49:13.817 --> 00:49:16.197
AMBER: No, no, you guys really didn't.

00:49:16.197 --> 00:49:21.197
AMBER: And Mariah and Mariah took the front to get wet for, you know, the boat.

00:49:21.197 --> 00:49:22.657
MAREN: It was hot.

00:49:22.657 --> 00:49:25.297
MAREN: Yeah, my seat was already a puddle.

00:49:25.297 --> 00:49:29.297
MAREN: So when I sat down, that was when I got the most wet was just my book.

00:49:29.297 --> 00:49:31.717
MAREN: It went on the seat.

00:49:31.717 --> 00:49:36.277
AMBER: So then we did Small World and then it was dinner time.

00:49:36.717 --> 00:49:38.837
AMBER: So now it was dinner.

00:49:38.837 --> 00:49:41.377
AMBER: Do you guys recall what time our reservation was?

00:49:41.377 --> 00:49:43.357
MAREN: 520.

00:49:43.377 --> 00:49:44.077
VIRGINIA: 520.

00:49:45.157 --> 00:49:47.857
VIRGINIA: And that was just a reservation for Maren and Amber?

00:49:47.857 --> 00:49:49.637
MAREN: No, it was for all four of us.

00:49:49.637 --> 00:49:56.117
MAREN: And I was originally supposed to not join them for this because I was supposed to meet up with my cousin.

00:49:56.117 --> 00:49:57.317
MAREN: She didn't have migraines.

00:49:57.317 --> 00:50:02.037
MAREN: And her doctor told her that she shouldn't go places that would increase her migraine.

00:50:02.037 --> 00:50:04.537
MAREN: And Epcot is probably one of those places.

00:50:04.537 --> 00:50:09.157
MAREN: It's been crowded here with lots of people, lots of noises, lots of stimulation.

00:50:09.157 --> 00:50:11.677
MAREN: So I didn't end up meeting up with her.

00:50:11.677 --> 00:50:12.237
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:50:12.237 --> 00:50:13.897
VIRGINIA: How was Sanaa?

00:50:13.897 --> 00:50:14.297
AMBER: It was good.

00:50:14.297 --> 00:50:16.377
AMBER: It was delicious.

00:50:16.377 --> 00:50:17.777
AMBER: It was really good.

00:50:17.777 --> 00:50:24.057
AMBER: So it sounds like some good options for Jeanette and Mariah that don't eat, like that are more vegetarian.

00:50:24.057 --> 00:50:26.557
AMBER: So some options for them to enjoy some yummy food.

00:50:26.597 --> 00:50:34.197
AMBER: And we got the bread service, I believe, is what it's phrased as with the non-bread and all the multitude of sauces.

00:50:34.197 --> 00:50:36.537
AMBER: Was there like eight sauces or more?

00:50:36.557 --> 00:50:38.057
MAREN: Eight or nine, yeah.

00:50:38.057 --> 00:50:43.217
AMBER: Different sauces of different varying degrees of spice or sweetness which were delicious.

00:50:43.217 --> 00:50:46.137
AMBER: And then the drinks also were good.

00:50:46.137 --> 00:50:50.137
AMBER: That was the, was that the prickly pear mule?

00:50:50.197 --> 00:50:53.057
MAREN: That was your first prickly pear mule.

00:50:53.057 --> 00:50:53.677
AMBER: God, I'm sorry.

00:50:53.677 --> 00:50:54.537
AMBER: I don't remember this so well.

00:50:55.037 --> 00:50:57.597
AMBER: Um, the prickly pear mule was delicious.

00:50:57.597 --> 00:50:59.997
AMBER: And then I also had one later when we go to this next place.

00:50:59.997 --> 00:51:03.697
AMBER: But, um, you guys also got drinks there as well.

00:51:03.697 --> 00:51:06.757
MAREN: Oh, I think I just had like a bee's knees type thing.

00:51:06.757 --> 00:51:12.477
MAREN: But I will honestly say, Sanaa drinks not the most memorable, but I think the food is outstanding.

00:51:12.477 --> 00:51:16.417
MAREN: Um, I really like the seafood curry.

00:51:16.417 --> 00:51:24.157
MAREN: There's a restaurant here in Houston that has a really good seafood curry and was the first one, like, this restaurant here in Houston was the first one that made me brave enough to try a seafood curry.

00:51:24.157 --> 00:51:25.337
MAREN: To me, that's a weird combo.

00:51:25.337 --> 00:51:27.157
MAREN: I don't know why.

00:51:27.157 --> 00:51:31.877
MAREN: And then Disney also makes an outstanding seafood curry.

00:51:31.877 --> 00:51:32.817
MAREN: I like seafood.

00:51:32.817 --> 00:51:33.497
MAREN: I like curry.

00:51:33.497 --> 00:51:36.137
MAREN: I don't know why in my brain I'm like, should those things work?

00:51:36.137 --> 00:51:36.697
MAREN: They do.

00:51:36.697 --> 00:51:40.317
MAREN: So I think I should have gotten that because I got the fish dish.

00:51:40.317 --> 00:51:41.917
JEANETTE: And your fish was good.

00:51:41.917 --> 00:51:43.817
MAREN: It was fine for my taste.

00:51:43.817 --> 00:51:45.937
MAREN: It was a little bland is all.

00:51:45.937 --> 00:51:50.677
MAREN: If you had been running a long distance the next day, yours was probably the smarter choice.

00:51:52.457 --> 00:51:56.337
MAREN: I don't have those issues with spicy or strong flavored foods.

00:51:57.697 --> 00:52:00.497
MAREN: I want the flavor to punch me in the face.

00:52:02.277 --> 00:52:05.057
MAREN: So and then I had a Chenin Blanc, which was lovely.

00:52:05.057 --> 00:52:08.697
VIRGINIA: Was it straight to bed after that so that you could get up for the 10k for the ladies?

00:52:08.697 --> 00:52:09.677
VIRGINIA: We should have.

00:52:09.677 --> 00:52:10.517
MAREN: Yes, we should have.

00:52:10.537 --> 00:52:12.477
AMBER: We got another drink.

00:52:12.477 --> 00:52:15.677
AMBER: Mariah was like, let's go drink some more.

00:52:19.257 --> 00:52:21.397
MAREN: She was like, I heard there's a wine bore.

00:52:21.397 --> 00:52:22.357
MAREN: Wine bore.

00:52:22.357 --> 00:52:24.557
MAREN: I heard there's a wine bar.

00:52:24.557 --> 00:52:26.457
VIRGINIA: Appropriate for Animal Kingdom Lodge.

00:52:26.457 --> 00:52:28.077
MAREN: There's a wine bore at Chico.

00:52:28.077 --> 00:52:30.037
JEANETTE: There's a bore that brings you wine.

00:52:30.037 --> 00:52:30.737
AMBER: Yes.

00:52:30.737 --> 00:52:33.717
AMBER: Thank you, good little boy.

00:52:33.817 --> 00:52:35.477
MAREN: That was really bad.

00:52:36.677 --> 00:52:37.177
JEANETTE: Was it good?

00:52:38.497 --> 00:52:39.897
MAREN: We've lost it.

00:52:39.897 --> 00:52:46.497
MAREN: Mariah had heard there's a wine bar at Chico, and we were like, I think that's just when you walk in Chico, but we had to go figure out what the case was.

00:52:46.497 --> 00:52:51.297
MAREN: It is, it's just that section when you first walk in Chico, but there's a bar.

00:52:51.297 --> 00:52:52.697
MAREN: It's called Cape Town.

00:52:52.697 --> 00:52:53.777
AMBER: Yeah.

00:52:53.777 --> 00:52:59.477
MAREN: But a bar bar with the bartenders behind it with some seeds, and then there's three or four tables.

00:52:59.477 --> 00:53:01.957
MAREN: It looks like you can actually get food there as well.

00:53:02.117 --> 00:53:05.337
MAREN: Like you can at a lot of the restaurants if you couldn't get into Chico.

00:53:05.337 --> 00:53:16.237
MAREN: But there were like, when we went there at seven or so at this point, 637, seven, to have that many seats available, like that would be a good option if you can't get into Chico.

00:53:16.237 --> 00:53:17.597
MAREN: It looks like it's get inable.

00:53:17.597 --> 00:53:19.817
MAREN: It did fill up a little bit while we were there, but.

00:53:19.817 --> 00:53:20.517
MAREN: It did.

00:53:20.517 --> 00:53:22.577
MAREN: But when we got there, like no one else was there.

00:53:22.917 --> 00:53:23.097
MAREN: Yeah.

00:53:23.097 --> 00:53:24.337
AMBER: Just one guy at the bar.

00:53:24.337 --> 00:53:28.957
MAREN: So we just had some wine and then we intelligently called it a night.

00:53:28.957 --> 00:53:29.957
MAREN: And I went back to the pool.

00:53:30.077 --> 00:53:31.157
JEANETTE: No fire alarm.

00:53:31.157 --> 00:53:33.237
AMBER: But Jeanette also.

00:53:33.237 --> 00:53:34.397
AMBER: Did you go to the pool?

00:53:34.397 --> 00:53:35.437
MAREN: Yes, of course she did.

00:53:35.437 --> 00:53:37.037
MAREN: Yeah, I went to the pool one more time.

00:53:37.037 --> 00:53:38.257
MAREN: I did the slide again.

00:53:38.257 --> 00:53:39.717
MAREN: I did.

00:53:39.717 --> 00:53:40.997
MAREN: I called my husband again.

00:53:40.997 --> 00:53:42.597
MAREN: I sat in the hot tub again.

00:53:42.597 --> 00:53:44.557
MAREN: They were playing Moana too.

00:53:44.557 --> 00:53:46.377
VIRGINIA: We created a terrible music.

00:53:47.837 --> 00:53:51.657
MAREN: I really love how Jeanette calls her husband on all these trips.

00:53:51.657 --> 00:53:52.917
MAREN: I have a husband, too.

00:53:52.917 --> 00:53:54.237
MAREN: He will never hear me say.

00:53:54.237 --> 00:53:56.057
MAREN: And I went and called my husband on the trip.

00:53:56.837 --> 00:53:59.217
JEANETTE: He will get a text and be like, Hey, babe, you alive?

00:53:59.217 --> 00:54:00.057
MAREN: Dog's good?

00:54:00.057 --> 00:54:00.697
MAREN: Cat good?

00:54:00.697 --> 00:54:05.617
VIRGINIA: Cool.

00:54:05.617 --> 00:54:09.817
VIRGINIA: I would, but I feel like mine calls me before I can call him.

00:54:09.817 --> 00:54:10.597
MAREN: Nope.

00:54:10.597 --> 00:54:11.437
VIRGINIA: He likes to check in.

00:54:11.437 --> 00:54:13.377
AMBER: I was free on this trip.

00:54:13.377 --> 00:54:14.617
MAREN: Yeah, girl.

00:54:15.657 --> 00:54:19.177
JEANETTE: Amber is single in case some listener is hearing her sexy voice.

00:54:19.177 --> 00:54:23.657
JEANETTE: I'm thinking, I'd like to see the face that goes with that voice.

00:54:25.257 --> 00:54:33.657
MAREN: Could you be the man who convinces her to renew her annual pass to do runDisney events with her friends?

00:54:33.657 --> 00:54:35.177
AMBER: Or be even better and pay for it.

00:54:35.177 --> 00:54:35.577
AMBER: Just kidding.

00:54:35.577 --> 00:54:35.857
AMBER: Sorry.

00:54:36.277 --> 00:54:43.117
MAREN: Would you like to buy Amber an annual pass so that she will go to Disney World with you and her friends?

00:54:43.117 --> 00:54:45.797
JEANETTE: $14.99.

00:54:45.797 --> 00:54:48.517
VIRGINIA: Talk about a sugar daddy.

00:54:48.517 --> 00:54:52.997
MAREN: To be clear, that was $1,499, not $14.99.

00:54:53.077 --> 00:54:53.417
JEANETTE: Exactly.

00:54:53.417 --> 00:54:56.117
JEANETTE: There was no period until the very end.

00:54:57.417 --> 00:54:57.857
VIRGINIA: Oh, boy.

00:54:57.877 --> 00:54:58.977
VIRGINIA: Oh, my goodness.

00:54:58.977 --> 00:54:59.377
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:54:59.377 --> 00:55:01.777
VIRGINIA: Let's get into Saturday.

00:55:01.777 --> 00:55:03.677
VIRGINIA: The 10K was Hercules themed.

00:55:03.677 --> 00:55:10.277
VIRGINIA: Amber only recently saw this movie, so now she's familiar with anything she might have seen there.

00:55:10.277 --> 00:55:12.137
VIRGINIA: How did the 10K go?

00:55:12.137 --> 00:55:16.697
MAREN: The 10K was great, but we also only got swept.

00:55:16.697 --> 00:55:20.797
MAREN: The character lines were Wong.

00:55:22.077 --> 00:55:26.837
MAREN: Meg was one of the first stops and we had to stop for Meg, and that line was almost 20 minutes.

00:55:26.837 --> 00:55:33.917
MAREN: We were in Corral C, and probably second wave to start C.

00:55:33.917 --> 00:55:49.677
MAREN: We weren't in the front of it, so we didn't get to sprint, but we were keeping a solid pace, but 20-minute line for Meg before mile one, and then pain and panic were right before you hit mile two, and that line was almost 30 minutes.

00:55:50.357 --> 00:55:51.937
VIRGINIA: Oh, my goodness.

00:55:51.937 --> 00:56:03.797
MAREN: If you have 50 minutes before you hit mile two on top of your running pace, even with the balloon ladies starting at the very back and keeping a 16-minute mile, they're going to start getting close to you.

00:56:04.097 --> 00:56:22.857
MAREN: We were okay, but actually where pain and panic were, you could see people coming out of Epcot at the start, and we went from seeing people coming out of Epcot at the start, to seeing the sweepers, to seeing the trucks, and you're like, that is less than two miles behind me and the trucks are coming.

00:56:22.857 --> 00:56:28.177
MAREN: So we knew if the balloon ladies caught us, we could take off and go.

00:56:28.177 --> 00:56:33.017
MAREN: But it was one of those things like, hey, we're in this line, we're not getting out of it until we really have to.

00:56:33.177 --> 00:56:34.177
MAREN: So we had that conversation.

00:56:34.177 --> 00:56:36.637
MAREN: We were starting to feel panic.

00:56:36.637 --> 00:56:37.477
AMBER: Yes.

00:56:37.477 --> 00:56:40.117
AMBER: We were like, okay, do we need to go?

00:56:40.617 --> 00:56:42.457
MAREN: So we did not.

00:56:42.717 --> 00:56:51.357
MAREN: We also hit a couple of other characters, but then we got to Hades and same thing, like a long line for Hades, not as long.

00:56:51.357 --> 00:56:58.197
MAREN: But at this point, we'd stopped for a couple more pictures, and Hades was right before mile four.

00:56:58.197 --> 00:57:00.137
MAREN: No, about three and a half, sorry.

00:57:01.417 --> 00:57:02.217
VIRGINIA: That's a cute picture.

00:57:02.217 --> 00:57:03.717
VIRGINIA: Amber is holding up a picture.

00:57:03.757 --> 00:57:04.497
MAREN: We stopped for Robin.

00:57:04.497 --> 00:57:07.937
MAREN: No, she's reminding me the other reasons that we had a hard time.

00:57:08.057 --> 00:57:13.537
MAREN: We got a lot of pictures, but Meg and Pain and Panic really were the tough ones.

00:57:13.697 --> 00:57:25.537
MAREN: Then we got in line for Hades, and the two-minute warning essentially, bikes came by and were like, hey, if the sweepers catch you, you're out.

00:57:25.537 --> 00:57:30.097
MAREN: The girls in front of us are like, oh, don't worry, the next sweep point is not till mile four.

00:57:30.537 --> 00:57:33.337
MAREN: As long as you catch them by mile four, you're fine.

00:57:33.337 --> 00:57:44.257
MAREN: They were incorrect because Hades was by the UK Pavilion, and the next sweep point was right outside the UK Pavilion when you go backstage.

00:57:44.257 --> 00:57:53.957
MAREN: We literally saw the sweepers lining up in their run Disney shirts to create a human wall to sweep you, but we got past it with plenty of time.

00:57:53.957 --> 00:57:55.677
MAREN: We hopped out of the line and said, We're good to go.

00:57:55.677 --> 00:57:57.677
MAREN: We can skip Hades.

00:57:57.677 --> 00:58:00.557
MAREN: But no, the next sweep point was right around the corner, and it was a hard sweep.

00:58:00.557 --> 00:58:06.237
MAREN: So the two girls who said, No, no, the sweep point's fine, somehow managed to get past it.

00:58:06.237 --> 00:58:12.517
MAREN: But we found them at the end, and they gave us friendship bracelets because we were like, Oh my gosh, we thought you got swept.

00:58:12.517 --> 00:58:14.017
MAREN: But they made it.

00:58:14.017 --> 00:58:14.877
MAREN: We made it.

00:58:14.877 --> 00:58:18.937
MAREN: It was a close call at Hades that we had to just be like, Nope, we don't need the picture.

00:58:18.937 --> 00:58:20.137
MAREN: Let's take off.

00:58:20.137 --> 00:58:26.417
MAREN: I think we kept a pretty solid pace for the rest of the run, and just like, Oh, that was closer than we really want.

00:58:26.417 --> 00:58:33.937
AMBER: Yeah, we could have stopped more at the end, but I think we were so scared from the Cooler Ladies being close for a second that we just kept going.

00:58:33.937 --> 00:58:35.677
AMBER: Like, we've got to get out of here.

00:58:35.677 --> 00:58:38.797
AMBER: But our shirts were cute, and they worked out really well.

00:58:38.797 --> 00:58:40.077
VIRGINIA: They said, I'm a damsel.

00:58:40.077 --> 00:58:40.957
VIRGINIA: I'm in distress.

00:58:40.957 --> 00:58:41.957
VIRGINIA: I can handle this.

00:58:41.957 --> 00:58:43.737
VIRGINIA: Have a nice day.

00:58:43.737 --> 00:58:47.837
VIRGINIA: Perfect for this race and probably pretty comfortable.

00:58:47.837 --> 00:58:51.057
MAREN: It was our most comfortable costume, or at least my most comfortable costume.

00:58:51.497 --> 00:58:56.497
MAREN: Oh, you were fine the next day, Amber, but we're not there yet.

00:58:57.737 --> 00:58:58.117
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:58:58.117 --> 00:59:00.777
VIRGINIA: Let's get into what happened after the race.

00:59:00.777 --> 00:59:04.057
VIRGINIA: So today was an Animal Kingdom day.

00:59:04.057 --> 00:59:11.257
VIRGINIA: You were going to try to quote, rope drop, unquote, Nomad Lounge at their 1030 opening.

00:59:11.257 --> 00:59:13.317
VIRGINIA: So did you make it there for that?

00:59:13.317 --> 00:59:14.917
MAREN: So we did.

00:59:14.917 --> 00:59:20.737
MAREN: Amber and Maren did go back to bed when they got back from the race.

00:59:21.057 --> 00:59:24.037
MAREN: I think rinse showered and went back to bed for a bit.

00:59:24.037 --> 00:59:28.917
MAREN: I actually also went back to bed because I woke up in the middle of the night not feeling so good.

00:59:28.917 --> 00:59:31.877
MAREN: Something didn't agree with me from the day before.

00:59:31.877 --> 00:59:34.257
MAREN: Maybe it was having an entire cupcake to myself.

00:59:34.257 --> 00:59:35.257
MAREN: I'm not sure.

00:59:35.257 --> 00:59:38.077
MAREN: But I wasn't feeling so hot.

00:59:38.077 --> 00:59:41.017
MAREN: So I was up a lot of the night.

00:59:41.017 --> 00:59:44.937
MAREN: So took a nap when they took a nap like runners.

00:59:46.857 --> 00:59:48.757
MAREN: But Mariah was up and ready to go.

00:59:49.157 --> 00:59:51.057
MAREN: So she's like, I'm going to Animal Kingdom.

00:59:51.057 --> 00:59:55.837
MAREN: I'm getting that delicious coffee at Cusa Fury with the coconut.

00:59:55.837 --> 00:59:58.057
MAREN: And I'll see you guys at the line for Nomad.

00:59:58.057 --> 00:59:59.197
MAREN: So that's exactly what she did.

00:59:59.197 --> 01:00:01.177
MAREN: She went, she had her delicious coffee.

01:00:01.177 --> 01:00:04.937
MAREN: She took a nice walk the long way towards back to Nomad.

01:00:04.937 --> 01:00:06.497
MAREN: And she was in line.

01:00:06.497 --> 01:00:09.597
MAREN: She was the second person in line for Nomad.

01:00:09.597 --> 01:00:13.937
MAREN: So we joined her right about 10, 20, I think, was when we got there.

01:00:14.497 --> 01:00:21.497
MAREN: And we got a table on the deck and enjoyed our Nomad meal.

01:00:21.497 --> 01:00:28.517
MAREN: I, for the first time ever, rejected a cocktail at Nomad because I didn't think it was a good idea after not feeling so good.

01:00:28.517 --> 01:00:33.837
MAREN: Also, just had a land salad and some bread service, which that land salad is so good.

01:00:33.837 --> 01:00:40.497
MAREN: It is worth it just to go to Nomad and eat that land salad as a healthy lunch option.

01:00:41.477 --> 01:00:49.117
MAREN: But I had the non-alcoholic version of the cocktail that I always get, which is the Fizz one.

01:00:49.117 --> 01:00:55.617
MAREN: Oh, the one with the blossom on it, the little flower, the glowing flower on it.

01:00:55.617 --> 01:00:56.497
VIRGINIA: The glowing flower.

01:00:56.497 --> 01:00:57.437
MAREN: Annapurnazine.

01:00:57.437 --> 01:00:58.977
MAREN: Annapurnazine, thank you.

01:00:58.977 --> 01:00:59.757
MAREN: Look at you, Maren.

01:00:59.797 --> 01:01:02.157
MAREN: You never, that's not even your drink.

01:01:02.177 --> 01:01:02.917
MAREN: It used to be.

01:01:02.917 --> 01:01:03.977
MAREN: That used to be my drink.

01:01:04.057 --> 01:01:04.797
MAREN: Okay.

01:01:04.797 --> 01:01:10.297
MAREN: So the non-alcoholic is called like the Fizz Ginzard Burger.

01:01:10.297 --> 01:01:11.497
JEANETTE: Ginzard.

01:01:11.497 --> 01:01:12.517
JEANETTE: Anyway, it was delicious.

01:01:12.517 --> 01:01:15.897
MAREN: It's delicious without, it's delicious without the alcohol as well.

01:01:15.897 --> 01:01:23.817
MAREN: I will say, I was really sad that this year, it doesn't look like Disney is doing as much for Earth Day.

01:01:23.817 --> 01:01:24.277
MAREN: Yeah.

01:01:24.437 --> 01:01:25.717
MAREN: And or Earth Month.

01:01:25.717 --> 01:01:30.917
MAREN: So the past two years, they've had a special cocktail at Nomad for the month of April.

01:01:30.917 --> 01:01:34.377
MAREN: It was originally like the elephant and the bee and then I think they had to change the name to the-

01:01:34.377 --> 01:01:36.077
VIRGINIA: Yes, I remember this from last year.

01:01:36.077 --> 01:01:38.317
MAREN: Pachyderm and pollinator or something.

01:01:38.317 --> 01:01:39.377
MAREN: They didn't have it.

01:01:39.377 --> 01:01:41.617
MAREN: Our server didn't know what I was talking about.

01:01:41.617 --> 01:01:42.757
MAREN: Brought out beer.

01:01:42.757 --> 01:01:44.137
AMBER: She brought out IPA.

01:01:44.137 --> 01:01:44.917
MAREN: An elephant IPA.

01:01:44.917 --> 01:01:46.317
MAREN: I was like, oh no, I'm so sorry.

01:01:46.317 --> 01:01:47.237
MAREN: That's not it.

01:01:47.237 --> 01:01:50.057
MAREN: Fortunately, it wasn't opened.

01:01:50.057 --> 01:01:51.097
MAREN: So I got my spice trader.

01:01:51.097 --> 01:01:56.457
MAREN: But yeah, they didn't have that and it's absolutely one of my favorite Disney drinks.

01:01:56.457 --> 01:01:59.817
MAREN: But it just doesn't look like they're doing as much for Earth Day this year.

01:01:59.817 --> 01:02:04.817
MAREN: My mom and I will be back in May and I'm going to see if they have it for Earth May.

01:02:04.817 --> 01:02:11.197
MAREN: But it's so strange because Animal Kingdom actually opened on Earth Day.

01:02:11.197 --> 01:02:14.277
MAREN: So they should be the park where Earth Day is being celebrated.

01:02:14.277 --> 01:02:22.377
MAREN: So it's really strange because I haven't seen any other nods towards Earth Day either, like any other sweet treats that are coming out.

01:02:22.377 --> 01:02:36.397
MAREN: Or I think one year they did a frozen Coke with cotton candy on top of it, which I don't know what that has to do with Earth Day, but I love that I had it and it was delicious.

01:02:36.397 --> 01:02:40.017
MAREN: So they usually have all kinds of special things throughout the park for Earth Day.

01:02:40.017 --> 01:02:42.537
MAREN: So it's really strange that they aren't.

01:02:42.537 --> 01:02:48.157
MAREN: So after Nomad, we had a lightning lane for Everest.

01:02:48.157 --> 01:02:53.917
MAREN: Maren doesn't ride Everest and I wasn't feeling up to riding Everest with my tummy situation.

01:02:53.917 --> 01:02:58.857
MAREN: So Amber and Mariah went to ride it and had a great time.

01:03:00.317 --> 01:03:04.277
MAREN: And Maren and I caught up on the coffee train.

01:03:04.277 --> 01:03:10.357
MAREN: We went to the Royal Ananpur Tea Company, which is the Joffreys that's in Animal Kingdom.

01:03:10.357 --> 01:03:12.397
MAREN: And we each got a drink.

01:03:12.397 --> 01:03:15.477
MAREN: The only thing is they only have the super large size.

01:03:15.477 --> 01:03:17.277
MAREN: So that was like a 24 ounce.

01:03:17.277 --> 01:03:20.097
MAREN: That's more coffee than either Maren and I want at one time.

01:03:20.097 --> 01:03:21.977
MAREN: I drank like half of it even.

01:03:22.497 --> 01:03:24.297
MAREN: It was a lot of coffee.

01:03:24.297 --> 01:03:25.117
MAREN: Maybe I did.

01:03:25.117 --> 01:03:27.197
MAREN: Maybe I pushed myself to do two-thirds.

01:03:29.137 --> 01:03:32.037
MAREN: Really met the challenge there.

01:03:32.037 --> 01:03:32.577
AMBER: Sivako!

01:03:32.577 --> 01:03:34.937
AMBER: Sivako!

01:03:35.717 --> 01:03:40.437
MAREN: And then we went onto the safari and it was a midday safari.

01:03:40.437 --> 01:03:42.357
MAREN: We saw a lot of elephants.

01:03:42.357 --> 01:03:44.677
MAREN: It was a very elephant-heavy safari.

01:03:44.677 --> 01:03:47.657
MAREN: So we didn't see much of the lions.

01:03:47.657 --> 01:03:54.237
MAREN: Then we pooped out, Amber, Mariah and I were like, we're done.

01:03:54.237 --> 01:03:56.017
MAREN: We want to go back to bed.

01:03:56.757 --> 01:04:00.237
MAREN: So Mariah took our last lightning-weighing dinosaur.

01:04:00.237 --> 01:04:03.557
MAREN: So yeah, we went back, took another nap.

01:04:03.557 --> 01:04:10.417
MAREN: And then we had a dinner, our pre-race dinner at Via Napoli in Epcot that night.

01:04:10.417 --> 01:04:30.157
MAREN: Maren had the brilliant idea to take the bus from Animal Kingdom Lodge to Hollywood Studios so that we could jump on the Skyliner and get a Skyliner trip in as we headed over to the International Gateway, which is a more convenient way to get in Tapcot to go to Via Napoli.

01:04:30.177 --> 01:04:30.917
MAREN: So that's what we did.

01:04:30.917 --> 01:04:32.477
MAREN: It was really fun.

01:04:33.897 --> 01:04:39.837
MAREN: And we went and had lots and lots of pizza at Via Napoli.

01:04:39.837 --> 01:04:42.837
MAREN: I think Amber and Mariah each had their own individual pizza.

01:04:42.837 --> 01:04:45.137
MAREN: And then Maren and I were going to get the same type of pizza.

01:04:45.137 --> 01:04:46.997
MAREN: So we decided to get the next size up.

01:04:46.997 --> 01:04:48.777
AMBER: And it was huge.

01:04:48.777 --> 01:04:50.557
JEANETTE: It was like jumbo pizza.

01:04:50.737 --> 01:04:52.197
AMBER: It was not even the biggest one.

01:04:52.197 --> 01:04:54.917
MAREN: We could have all four shared that one.

01:04:54.917 --> 01:04:58.017
MAREN: It wasn't actually, there's actually one that's bigger than that one.

01:04:58.017 --> 01:05:06.697
MAREN: But anyway, yeah, we had some, I think you guys shared a wine flay and Mariah and I had some Prosecco.

01:05:06.697 --> 01:05:12.497
MAREN: So, you know, keeping it light, but having a little something fun before our 10-miler.

01:05:12.497 --> 01:05:15.237
AMBER: And then we went back and went to bed.

01:05:15.237 --> 01:05:15.657
VIRGINIA: Yes.

01:05:15.657 --> 01:05:18.997
VIRGINIA: I remember you said Mariah thinks that pizza is the best pre-race food.

01:05:19.357 --> 01:05:19.697
MAREN: She does.

01:05:19.697 --> 01:05:24.097
VIRGINIA: So, hot tip for anybody who's looking for what to eat the night before a race.

01:05:24.097 --> 01:05:25.857
AMBER: Just maybe not super greasy pizza.

01:05:26.317 --> 01:05:28.197
AMBER: I must inject that as a-

01:05:28.197 --> 01:05:29.457
MAREN: Not greasy?

01:05:29.457 --> 01:05:34.117
AMBER: Don't avoid the really greasy pizzas because that could be some GI dysfunction in the morning.

01:05:34.117 --> 01:05:36.477
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:05:36.477 --> 01:05:38.557
VIRGINIA: Thank you, running coach Amber.

01:05:38.557 --> 01:05:40.077
JEANETTE: I just had to say it.

01:05:40.077 --> 01:05:40.957
VIRGINIA: No, no, no, no.

01:05:40.957 --> 01:05:43.097
VIRGINIA: And for listeners, she literally is a running coach.

01:05:43.097 --> 01:05:47.857
VIRGINIA: I'm not like, thank you, running coach.

01:05:47.857 --> 01:05:48.717
JEANETTE: I do have a certification.

01:05:48.717 --> 01:05:49.497
JEANETTE: Yes.

01:05:49.957 --> 01:05:52.357
JEANETTE: It can be both.

01:05:52.357 --> 01:05:52.757
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:05:52.757 --> 01:05:56.917
VIRGINIA: Let's get into Sunday, April the 6th, the 10-Miler Day.

01:05:56.917 --> 01:06:05.637
VIRGINIA: And this was a big bound for all of you, the Incredibles themed race, and you were incorporating muppets into that.

01:06:05.637 --> 01:06:09.297
VIRGINIA: So how did all of your outfits turn out?

01:06:09.297 --> 01:06:15.997
MAREN: Well, mine turned out to be just as ridiculous as planned, or as I was hoping.

01:06:17.257 --> 01:06:20.157
MAREN: Some other people just looked cute.

01:06:20.157 --> 01:06:20.677
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:06:20.677 --> 01:06:22.537
VIRGINIA: First of all, let's clarify.

01:06:22.537 --> 01:06:25.097
VIRGINIA: Maren, you were going to be a combination of Ms.

01:06:25.097 --> 01:06:26.677
VIRGINIA: Piggy and Mrs.

01:06:26.677 --> 01:06:27.457
VIRGINIA: Incredible.

01:06:27.457 --> 01:06:32.197
VIRGINIA: Did you decide to call yourself IncrediPig or Elastipig?

01:06:33.237 --> 01:06:36.617
MAREN: I felt like it was IncrediPig because Ms.

01:06:36.617 --> 01:06:37.817
MAREN: Piggy is incredible.

01:06:37.817 --> 01:06:39.557
VIRGINIA: She felt married too, I guess.

01:06:41.497 --> 01:06:42.157
MAREN: I don't know.

01:06:42.337 --> 01:06:48.337
MAREN: My Kermit was looking a little basic, running influencer.

01:06:50.317 --> 01:06:55.697
JEANETTE: Amber was the hottest Kermit you've ever seen.

01:06:55.697 --> 01:06:58.557
VIRGINIA: Wearing underwear on top of your running shirt?

01:06:58.617 --> 01:07:02.397
JEANETTE: I messed up and I didn't try it on before and it didn't work.

01:07:02.397 --> 01:07:03.117
VIRGINIA: Oh, no.

01:07:03.117 --> 01:07:03.557
VIRGINIA: Oh, no.

01:07:03.557 --> 01:07:04.317
JEANETTE: So what were you wearing?

01:07:04.357 --> 01:07:10.417
JEANETTE: It was on in the room and it was like shorts and little bikini underwear and it just looked like...

01:07:10.417 --> 01:07:11.597
MAREN: It was so bad.

01:07:11.597 --> 01:07:15.457
JEANETTE: I tried to roll my pants down so it worked and it just didn't work.

01:07:15.457 --> 01:07:16.857
MAREN: Then it somehow got sexy.

01:07:17.437 --> 01:07:21.297
AMBER: Yeah.

01:07:21.297 --> 01:07:25.357
JEANETTE: I did feel like I felt pretty looking good out there, but yeah.

01:07:26.177 --> 01:07:36.757
MAREN: To be fair, she looked great and I have purple swim bottoms on top of bright pink running pants.

01:07:37.657 --> 01:07:44.077
MAREN: I look ridiculous and then my husband, Kermie here, is wearing her...

01:07:44.077 --> 01:07:45.377
MAREN: I'm a sexy mouse.

01:07:45.597 --> 01:07:47.497
MAREN: That's my Mean Girls reference.

01:07:47.497 --> 01:07:56.477
MAREN: Amber was, I'm a sexy frog with her little green shorts and her little green top and that was Kermit.

01:07:56.477 --> 01:08:02.217
MAREN: So I started calling her a running influencer because it's just like, I'm wearing the color, I must be the character.

01:08:02.217 --> 01:08:03.237
VIRGINIA: Oh my God.

01:08:03.237 --> 01:08:05.037
VIRGINIA: That's funny.

01:08:05.037 --> 01:08:06.897
MAREN: I'll let her live it down eventually.

01:08:06.897 --> 01:08:07.317
MAREN: It's okay.

01:08:07.317 --> 01:08:07.797
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:08:07.797 --> 01:08:08.677
VIRGINIA: What about you, Jeanette?

01:08:08.677 --> 01:08:10.957
VIRGINIA: You were Frozone and Fozzie Bear.

01:08:10.957 --> 01:08:11.937
MAREN: I think I did okay.

01:08:11.937 --> 01:08:20.497
MAREN: I had my little space buns as my bear ears and then Maren had loaned me a tiny little hat that was a perfect Fozzie hat.

01:08:21.017 --> 01:08:23.597
MAREN: That was the only thing people commented on while I was running.

01:08:23.597 --> 01:08:25.617
MAREN: It was like, your hat, your hat.

01:08:27.177 --> 01:08:37.517
MAREN: I had taken this Nike tank that had polka dots on it and painted around the polka dots to make them really look like the Fozzie polka dots like he has on his scarf.

01:08:37.517 --> 01:08:51.457
MAREN: The top had the same kind of look that Frozone's, like very almost like 60s futuristic, like the mod futuristic idea, that kind of look.

01:08:51.457 --> 01:08:58.917
MAREN: Then I just got in brown shorts to be like, this is my bare butt, my bare, bare butt.

01:08:59.257 --> 01:09:13.437
MAREN: I thought it was cute, although Maren did bring up something that I wish I had done because I had thought of it, but I didn't do it, which was to get like a little flower-shaped water squirter and cover up the Nike logo by putting the little flower-shaped water squirter on it.

01:09:13.437 --> 01:09:15.437
MAREN: I should have done that.

01:09:15.437 --> 01:09:18.277
MAREN: And then build it with liquid IV so that if you just need a little-

01:09:18.277 --> 01:09:20.117
MAREN: Yeah, and I can squirt it in your mouth.

01:09:21.177 --> 01:09:34.137
MAREN: I had my glasses, and they were a little more fuzzy than they were frozen, and they said fozone on the side, but you know it's small and not many people could read it.

01:09:34.137 --> 01:09:40.937
MAREN: I did see some people who actually found some good frozen glasses where they're like the straight line across the eyes.

01:09:40.937 --> 01:09:41.717
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:09:41.717 --> 01:09:47.137
MAREN: I'm boycotting Amazon, so maybe they were on Amazon and that's how I missed them, but there you go.

01:09:47.137 --> 01:09:47.777
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:09:47.777 --> 01:09:48.697
VIRGINIA: And what about Mariah?

01:09:48.697 --> 01:09:51.637
VIRGINIA: She was Janice and Edna mode.

01:09:51.637 --> 01:09:57.597
MAREN: She just had a skirt and a black and white kind of tight-eyed shirt and on the back.

01:09:57.637 --> 01:10:01.417
MAREN: It said, like, wow, no capes.

01:10:01.417 --> 01:10:06.397
MAREN: So I used a Muppet font for the like, wow, and then the Incredibles font for no capes.

01:10:06.397 --> 01:10:12.577
MAREN: Sadly, I don't think a lot of people recognized us or if they did, they didn't say anything to us.

01:10:12.577 --> 01:10:16.857
MAREN: And I really, I really felt like my costume was like freaking genius.

01:10:16.857 --> 01:10:20.277
MAREN: I was really sad that people didn't know I was Mrs.

01:10:20.277 --> 01:10:20.737
MAREN: Incredibly.

01:10:20.737 --> 01:10:26.817
MAREN: I mean, sadly, I think it just has to do with the lack of Muppet appreciation out there.

01:10:27.197 --> 01:10:31.437
MAREN: Like, you know, actually, Jeanette, not Jeanette, you're Jeanette.

01:10:31.437 --> 01:10:37.837
MAREN: Amber and I saw a few people dressed as Kermit and Piggy at the 10K.

01:10:37.857 --> 01:10:42.857
MAREN: Not kind of random, but there were like three Kermit and Piggy couples at the 10K.

01:10:42.857 --> 01:10:44.677
JEANETTE: Almost more than Hercules.

01:10:45.997 --> 01:10:48.217
JEANETTE: I was like, wait, what is happening?

01:10:48.217 --> 01:10:49.717
MAREN: Like, oh, Herky Pig.

01:10:49.717 --> 01:10:50.957
AMBER: I don't know.

01:10:52.697 --> 01:10:53.617
MAREN: I get to be Herky Frog.

01:10:53.617 --> 01:10:54.497
AMBER: It was a mashup.

01:10:54.497 --> 01:10:55.197
AMBER: Yeah, it was interesting.

01:10:55.197 --> 01:10:57.897
MAREN: No, yeah, it was just straight up Kermit and Piggy, not a mashup.

01:10:58.937 --> 01:10:59.437
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:10:59.437 --> 01:11:04.377
VIRGINIA: Were there any characters on the 10-Miler that you had to stop for?

01:11:04.377 --> 01:11:06.997
MAREN: We did pretty good with characters on the 10-Miler.

01:11:08.517 --> 01:11:10.217
MAREN: I don't remember if I've mentioned this before.

01:11:10.217 --> 01:11:15.557
MAREN: On Discord, people will post in advance as they run the race, what characters are coming up.

01:11:15.557 --> 01:11:22.177
MAREN: That's a really great thing to know is a way to figure out, hey, where do I want to try to stop?

01:11:22.377 --> 01:11:30.137
MAREN: Sometimes people will even try to post them the night before if they see the markers around the parks.

01:11:31.777 --> 01:11:40.037
MAREN: We knew in advance for the race that Mando and Baby Grogu were going to be a picture stop.

01:11:41.377 --> 01:11:45.237
MAREN: I think that was one of our longer ones, but definitely worth it.

01:11:47.937 --> 01:11:52.597
MAREN: That was one where it was sort of longer because they had had technical difficulties before.

01:11:52.597 --> 01:11:55.057
MAREN: They did, you're right.

01:11:55.057 --> 01:12:00.317
MAREN: Some people in the Discord were like, is it a photo pass stop or is it a selfie stop?

01:12:00.317 --> 01:12:04.317
MAREN: Because some of them are also selfie stops where there's not a photo pass photographer.

01:12:04.317 --> 01:12:06.577
MAREN: It was like, oh, it's a photo pass.

01:12:06.577 --> 01:12:08.017
MAREN: Oh no, there's technical difficulties.

01:12:08.017 --> 01:12:09.057
MAREN: It's a selfie.

01:12:09.057 --> 01:12:11.817
MAREN: So it was back and forth, but it was a photo pass when we got it.

01:12:11.817 --> 01:12:12.997
MAREN: The lighting wasn't great.

01:12:14.197 --> 01:12:22.257
MAREN: And then we stopped for Stitch, which was fun because I don't know that we stopped for him on a race before.

01:12:22.297 --> 01:12:25.797
MAREN: I love Stitch and I usually don't speak up.

01:12:25.797 --> 01:12:29.637
MAREN: Like I'm not like, oh no, we have to stop at Stitch because I always figure I can see him.

01:12:29.637 --> 01:12:31.177
MAREN: Like he's at Tomorrowland a lot.

01:12:31.177 --> 01:12:33.257
MAREN: So I don't, I never really fight for that.

01:12:33.257 --> 01:12:41.157
MAREN: Like if I know a character is going to be somewhere else that I could meet them, I don't really fight for it on a race because like it's not worth slowing down for.

01:12:41.157 --> 01:12:42.417
MAREN: But it was a short line.

01:12:42.597 --> 01:12:44.357
MAREN: But it was a short line and so it was really fun.

01:12:44.357 --> 01:12:50.257
VIRGINIA: And probably for that reason is that people have either already met him or know where they can meet him outside of the race.

01:12:50.257 --> 01:12:50.657
MAREN: Right.

01:12:50.657 --> 01:12:52.557
MAREN: And we did like a little hula dance with him.

01:12:52.557 --> 01:13:00.057
MAREN: And it's funny because in Amber's live picture on her phone, you can actually like see I'm doing the hula, like a little animation.

01:13:00.057 --> 01:13:01.457
MAREN: Just like Stitch.

01:13:01.457 --> 01:13:12.477
MAREN: But Amber's also was reminding us that the way our corral went, we got cut off to be like a, what do you call it?

01:13:12.477 --> 01:13:13.837
MAREN: We were the front of our wave.

01:13:13.837 --> 01:13:15.257
MAREN: We were the front of our wave.

01:13:15.257 --> 01:13:15.737
MAREN: Thank you.

01:13:15.737 --> 01:13:16.997
MAREN: That was the word I was looking for.

01:13:16.997 --> 01:13:20.757
MAREN: So like they brought the rope, the rope that said like runDisney.

01:13:20.757 --> 01:13:21.977
MAREN: And it was like right in front of us.

01:13:21.977 --> 01:13:26.657
MAREN: And we were the ones like holding it up to be like, this is where the wave begins.

01:13:26.657 --> 01:13:31.457
MAREN: So we got some pictures with our, like holding that front of the wave rope.

01:13:31.457 --> 01:13:37.317
MAREN: Which I think maybe Maren, we got that one, we had that happen one time before, maybe at Disneyland or something.

01:13:37.777 --> 01:13:40.217
MAREN: But it was, it's still always, it's really cool.

01:13:40.217 --> 01:13:42.757
MAREN: And the waves were really small, which was nice.

01:13:42.757 --> 01:13:44.077
MAREN: Our wave was tiny.

01:13:44.077 --> 01:13:44.357
MAREN: Yeah.

01:13:44.357 --> 01:13:45.297
AMBER: Our wave was the smallest.

01:13:45.297 --> 01:13:49.237
MAREN: Which was nice because then when you start, you don't feel like you're in this huge cluster of people.

01:13:49.237 --> 01:13:52.737
MAREN: I think ours was an error, honestly, how small ours was.

01:13:52.737 --> 01:13:53.917
AMBER: We'll take it.

01:13:53.917 --> 01:13:55.457
MAREN: But yeah, it was fine with us.

01:13:55.457 --> 01:13:57.097
AMBER: We also had to carry the platypus.

01:13:57.097 --> 01:13:57.577
MAREN: Yay.

01:13:57.577 --> 01:13:59.177
MAREN: Oh, you stole my thunder.

01:13:59.177 --> 01:14:01.057
MAREN: Oh.

01:14:01.057 --> 01:14:08.157
MAREN: I was going to say, there was one of the other really good stops was a platypus with a fedora.

01:14:08.157 --> 01:14:09.737
JEANETTE: Carry the platypus.

01:14:10.937 --> 01:14:13.457
MAREN: Maren is a big fan of Phineas and Ferb.

01:14:13.697 --> 01:14:22.557
MAREN: She was doing research for us, like what's a good pose that we could do with carry the platypus and she came up with Candice dancing.

01:14:22.557 --> 01:14:23.457
MAREN: Candice party.

01:14:23.457 --> 01:14:25.057
MAREN: Candice party.

01:14:25.057 --> 01:14:28.817
MAREN: We were doing different Candice dance moves, and that was a really fun one.

01:14:28.817 --> 01:14:30.877
MAREN: It's pretty awkward.

01:14:31.037 --> 01:14:33.537
MAREN: I mean, obviously, I was going for awkward on this race.

01:14:34.117 --> 01:14:35.377
VIRGINIA: It was awkward.

01:14:35.377 --> 01:14:39.357
AMBER: There's also that really cool thing that I just saw the video of.

01:14:39.357 --> 01:14:44.257
AMBER: We heard Pirates of the Caribbean theme music coming, and it was this-

01:14:44.257 --> 01:14:45.337
MAREN: Bell organ.

01:14:45.337 --> 01:14:45.657
AMBER: Yeah.

01:14:45.657 --> 01:14:50.677
AMBER: It was some very unique machine that allowed him to play the notes with bells.

01:14:50.677 --> 01:14:54.997
MAREN: He's playing a piano or an organ, but it's bells.

01:14:54.997 --> 01:14:55.897
VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.

01:14:55.897 --> 01:14:57.997
MAREN: Yeah, it was really cool.

01:14:57.997 --> 01:15:06.097
MAREN: I don't think any of us doing the runDisney races have ever seen that before, and I had heard it when we were a little further away and couldn't see it yet.

01:15:06.097 --> 01:15:10.317
MAREN: And I was like, is that the Incredibles being played live on bells?

01:15:10.317 --> 01:15:11.977
MAREN: Like, how is that happening?

01:15:11.977 --> 01:15:25.297
MAREN: And then as we got up closer, they were playing the Pirates of the Caribbean music from the movie, and there it was, just like these giant bells, and one person on key is controlling them.

01:15:25.297 --> 01:15:26.317
MAREN: It was really cool.

01:15:26.317 --> 01:15:27.497
VIRGINIA: Oh, wow.

01:15:27.497 --> 01:15:27.957
VIRGINIA: Very cool.

01:15:29.617 --> 01:15:30.077
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:15:30.077 --> 01:15:36.557
VIRGINIA: After the race, you were going to skyliner to Riviera and have some pancakes and coffee.

01:15:36.557 --> 01:15:38.097
VIRGINIA: Well, you end up doing that.

01:15:38.097 --> 01:15:44.297
MAREN: So actually, what we do is we take the bus at the end of the race and pretend we're cool.

01:15:44.297 --> 01:15:45.897
VIRGINIA: Yeah, got it.

01:15:45.897 --> 01:15:46.597
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:15:46.597 --> 01:15:47.597
MAREN: We are.

01:15:47.597 --> 01:15:48.797
MAREN: We are cool.

01:15:48.797 --> 01:15:49.557
MAREN: So yes, we did.

01:15:49.557 --> 01:15:55.277
MAREN: We went and got our coffee and our pancakes, as is necessary and as is tradition.

01:15:56.017 --> 01:15:56.917
MAREN: Oh, and the polenta.

01:15:56.917 --> 01:15:58.037
MAREN: Polenta is great.

01:15:58.077 --> 01:16:01.157
MAREN: Though if you just want to side a polenta, you have to go order in person.

01:16:01.157 --> 01:16:03.017
MAREN: You can't do that on mobile order.

01:16:03.017 --> 01:16:10.677
MAREN: And so we finally got our act together and decided to share a pancake and each get our own polenta.

01:16:10.677 --> 01:16:14.917
MAREN: And I was not sharing any pancakes if anyone was wondering, but I skipped the polenta this time.

01:16:14.917 --> 01:16:17.117
MAREN: Amber and I were both like, we can eat our own pancakes.

01:16:17.117 --> 01:16:18.677
MAREN: This is day three of running.

01:16:18.677 --> 01:16:20.477
MAREN: We are hungry.

01:16:20.477 --> 01:16:25.997
MAREN: I've tried to do both the polenta and the pancakes at the same time, and it's too much food, but it is.

01:16:25.997 --> 01:16:27.477
MAREN: Find yourself a friend to share some pancakes.

01:16:27.477 --> 01:16:28.537
MAREN: The polenta is very good.

01:16:28.537 --> 01:16:30.837
MAREN: It's so good.

01:16:30.837 --> 01:16:35.777
MAREN: It doesn't have a right to be that good at a quick service, but we'll take it.

01:16:36.457 --> 01:16:41.377
VIRGINIA: There was some talk during the pre-trip about potentially using the showers at Rivera.

01:16:41.377 --> 01:16:42.837
MAREN: I could not convince them.

01:16:42.837 --> 01:16:43.477
MAREN: Nope.

01:16:43.477 --> 01:16:46.417
MAREN: I wasn't going to carry my stuff around the parks after.

01:16:46.417 --> 01:16:47.097
MAREN: No.

01:16:47.097 --> 01:16:49.117
MAREN: So because she couldn't convince us, she did have to move.

01:16:49.117 --> 01:16:50.517
VIRGINIA: That's what lockers are for.

01:16:50.517 --> 01:16:51.337
MAREN: That's what I said.

01:16:51.337 --> 01:16:52.557
MAREN: I said we could use a locker.

01:16:54.297 --> 01:16:58.097
MAREN: And then someone will have my locker after and be like, oh my God, the sweaty smell.

01:16:59.357 --> 01:17:01.837
MAREN: That was actually the point that changed my mind.

01:17:01.837 --> 01:17:06.597
MAREN: She's like, our clothes are going to be so stinky from the run after sitting in a hot locker.

01:17:06.597 --> 01:17:09.217
MAREN: I was like, yeah, you're totally right.

01:17:09.217 --> 01:17:12.057
MAREN: Yeah, we also have to get them back later ourselves.

01:17:12.057 --> 01:17:13.557
MAREN: So.

01:17:13.557 --> 01:17:13.977
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:17:13.977 --> 01:17:16.857
VIRGINIA: So the park for this day was Hollywood Studios.

01:17:16.917 --> 01:17:17.717
MAREN: Yes.

01:17:17.717 --> 01:17:22.057
VIRGINIA: And I think a little bit of hopping action maybe to up cut after that.

01:17:22.077 --> 01:17:24.317
VIRGINIA: So how was your Hollywood Studios time?

01:17:24.317 --> 01:17:28.577
MAREN: This was the one time where I did change a lightning lane.

01:17:28.577 --> 01:17:37.417
MAREN: So we were at breakfast, I think, or maybe coming back from breakfast and we looked at the timings and we're like, we're not going to comfortably make that Tower of Terror timing.

01:17:37.417 --> 01:17:39.237
MAREN: Tower of Terror timing.

01:17:39.237 --> 01:17:43.617
MAREN: So I moved that one and that sort of bumped back our day by an hour.

01:17:43.617 --> 01:17:51.897
VIRGINIA: So you had Tower of Terror, you had Toy Story Mania and you had Mickey and Minnie's as your three pre-booked lightning lanes.

01:17:51.897 --> 01:17:52.617
MAREN: Yes.

01:17:52.617 --> 01:17:53.537
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:17:53.537 --> 01:17:59.977
MAREN: And so we did those and actually an interesting cast member compliment was on Mickey and Minnie's.

01:18:02.297 --> 01:18:07.157
MAREN: I guess the ride might have gone down temporarily while we were leaving the pre-show area.

01:18:07.157 --> 01:18:10.637
MAREN: We were kind of the last people leaving the pre-show area or we weren't at first.

01:18:10.637 --> 01:18:13.197
MAREN: We started chatting with the cast member in there.

01:18:13.197 --> 01:18:14.617
MAREN: Well, I always have to thank them.

01:18:14.837 --> 01:18:17.417
MAREN: I always have to apologize to them for the extra paperwork.

01:18:17.417 --> 01:18:24.517
MAREN: If they do the extra paperwork line, I feel it is my duty to stop and say, I'm really sorry about the extra paperwork.

01:18:25.037 --> 01:18:27.537
MAREN: That's what I was trying to do.

01:18:27.537 --> 01:18:30.897
MAREN: But then when the ride slowed down, we stayed and chatted with her for a while.

01:18:30.897 --> 01:18:33.457
MAREN: She was just really delightful to talk to.

01:18:33.457 --> 01:18:37.457
MAREN: She is a cast member who works at the races too.

01:18:37.457 --> 01:18:41.037
MAREN: She had been there since 4 AM and she was about to end her shift.

01:18:41.637 --> 01:18:42.877
MAREN: Yes, she was about to end her shift.

01:18:43.057 --> 01:18:44.997
MAREN: It was 12.45 was when her shift ended.

01:18:44.997 --> 01:18:47.217
MAREN: That's when we were going to the pre-show.

01:18:47.217 --> 01:18:56.737
MAREN: She had chrome nails and she said she had nails like mine when her fiancee or wife now I guess proposed to her at Disneyland.

01:18:56.977 --> 01:18:59.317
MAREN: We were getting her engagement story.

01:18:59.557 --> 01:19:02.897
MAREN: It was just a really delightful conversation.

01:19:03.297 --> 01:19:04.157
MAREN: She was a sweetheart.

01:19:04.237 --> 01:19:06.637
MAREN: We had to cast member compliment her.

01:19:07.797 --> 01:19:14.057
MAREN: Then eventually the ride started working again and it was like, oh, I guess we should get out of the pre-show room so that they can close it and bring other people in.

01:19:14.057 --> 01:19:15.397
VIRGINIA: Start the process all over again.

01:19:15.397 --> 01:19:16.897
MAREN: Yeah, start it back up.

01:19:16.897 --> 01:19:19.917
MAREN: Yeah, it would have been a situation where we've been like, what's going on?

01:19:19.917 --> 01:19:21.717
MAREN: Are they going to give us a pass?

01:19:21.717 --> 01:19:22.697
MAREN: Can we just move?

01:19:22.697 --> 01:19:28.257
MAREN: Instead, it just ended up being this delightful memory of this great chat with the cast member.

01:19:28.377 --> 01:19:29.577
MAREN: Wonderful.

01:19:29.577 --> 01:19:34.437
MAREN: Then we needed more food already at this point, apparently, in our minds.

01:19:36.217 --> 01:19:43.437
MAREN: We got our usual drinks from the Brown Derby Lounge, which is the gin mule made by Ron.

01:19:43.437 --> 01:19:45.717
MAREN: Ron is the bartender who is there the most often.

01:19:45.757 --> 01:19:49.317
MAREN: Then there's another woman who, when Ron's not there, I forgot what he said his shift is.

01:19:49.317 --> 01:19:50.917
MAREN: She's delightful too.

01:19:50.917 --> 01:19:54.757
MAREN: Then there's another cast member who works at the lounge when you sit there named Danielle.

01:19:54.757 --> 01:19:55.837
JEANETTE: We always get her.

01:19:55.837 --> 01:19:56.577
MAREN: We love Danielle.

01:19:56.577 --> 01:19:59.237
MAREN: Danielle always remembers us, but we didn't sit at the lounge.

01:19:59.237 --> 01:20:01.857
MAREN: We got drinks to go and I don't think it was Danielle's day anyway.

01:20:02.977 --> 01:20:05.197
MAREN: We got drinks to go from Brown Derby Lounge.

01:20:05.197 --> 01:20:08.577
MAREN: We picked up the new tart from Woody's Lunchbox.

01:20:08.577 --> 01:20:13.137
MAREN: It was a key lime one and Jeanette was very excited about that one.

01:20:13.137 --> 01:20:17.717
MAREN: Key lime filling, marshmallow fondant top.

01:20:17.717 --> 01:20:19.117
JEANETTE: It was yummy.

01:20:19.117 --> 01:20:26.037
MAREN: We also got the raspberry one, which I like the raspberry one slightly better with the exception of the little white chocolate balls on top.

01:20:26.037 --> 01:20:27.997
MAREN: I'm not a white chocolate person, so you just have to...

01:20:27.997 --> 01:20:29.457
VIRGINIA: They're pearls.

01:20:29.457 --> 01:20:30.257
VIRGINIA: They're pearls, Maren.

01:20:30.717 --> 01:20:34.497
MAREN: The white chocolate globs that I flick off the top of the tart.

01:20:37.117 --> 01:20:41.697
MAREN: Then we got actual savory food from Docking Bay 7.

01:20:41.697 --> 01:20:47.557
MAREN: They have changed their falafels to not be impossible meat tip but to actually be chickpea.

01:20:47.557 --> 01:20:49.697
MAREN: You know what falafel is supposed to be made out of.

01:20:49.697 --> 01:20:50.037
VIRGINIA: Right.

01:20:50.037 --> 01:20:59.177
MAREN: We all four ordered the falafels with the beet hummus and little garlic sauce and some pita and cucumber salad.

01:20:59.797 --> 01:21:00.577
MAREN: So good.

01:21:00.577 --> 01:21:03.917
MAREN: I had a purple sauce on it, which I don't know what that purple sauce was.

01:21:03.917 --> 01:21:05.337
MAREN: I think it was a garlic sauce.

01:21:05.337 --> 01:21:06.897
MAREN: I don't know how garlic turned purple.

01:21:06.917 --> 01:21:08.337
MAREN: Yeah, it's true.

01:21:08.337 --> 01:21:09.677
MAREN: Purple garlic.

01:21:09.677 --> 01:21:14.237
MAREN: I got some on my skirt and I'm happy to say that it came out.

01:21:14.237 --> 01:21:16.617
MAREN: But more importantly, that was so delicious.

01:21:16.617 --> 01:21:20.757
MAREN: That's a new favorite at Hollywood Studios for me.

01:21:20.757 --> 01:21:24.297
MAREN: I think that would be probably my go-to lunch for Hollywood now.

01:21:24.897 --> 01:21:31.297
MAREN: I mean, honestly, I'm relieved because I've kind of felt like I haven't had a good go-to lunch.

01:21:31.297 --> 01:21:35.017
MAREN: I mean, Brown Derby has good food, but it's, you know, like, I don't...

01:21:35.017 --> 01:21:37.697
MAREN: It's a lot of food because they don't have lounge servings now.

01:21:37.697 --> 01:21:45.557
MAREN: It's kind of pricey, like, you know, but now I'm like, I've got something delicious and delightful at Hollywood Studios.

01:21:45.557 --> 01:21:46.597
AMBER: Yay!

01:21:46.597 --> 01:21:53.177
MAREN: And then, of course, after we ate, we had to go to Fission 3D.

01:21:53.277 --> 01:21:53.857
AMBER: One last time.

01:21:53.857 --> 01:21:57.477
AMBER: And I asked, I have one more time, but this is the last time for them.

01:21:57.477 --> 01:21:58.877
AMBER: This might be my last time.

01:21:58.877 --> 01:22:00.357
JEANETTE: This will probably be my last time.

01:22:00.357 --> 01:22:02.057
AMBER: Can we sit in the front row?

01:22:02.057 --> 01:22:03.577
JEANETTE: Because I've never done it before.

01:22:03.577 --> 01:22:06.897
AMBER: And I saw online that it was a cool experience.

01:22:06.897 --> 01:22:07.817
AMBER: And we did.

01:22:07.817 --> 01:22:08.297
AMBER: We did.

01:22:08.297 --> 01:22:10.417
JEANETTE: And I thought it was epic.

01:22:10.417 --> 01:22:11.897
MAREN: I'm so glad we did.

01:22:11.897 --> 01:22:12.817
MAREN: I loved it.

01:22:12.817 --> 01:22:13.697
MAREN: I loved it.

01:22:13.697 --> 01:22:23.357
MAREN: Honestly, if you haven't done Muppets 3D and you still have time, you're still going between now and early June, go sit in the front row.

01:22:23.357 --> 01:22:29.337
MAREN: The 3D effects feel like they are more directed to you than I feel like I've ever had before.

01:22:29.337 --> 01:22:32.317
MAREN: You can see all the details of the theater.

01:22:32.317 --> 01:22:36.737
MAREN: Like I never even realized that the top of the columns were Miss Piggy.

01:22:36.737 --> 01:22:42.097
MAREN: You're like right there for Stabler and Waldorf's and all their jokes.

01:22:42.097 --> 01:22:47.237
MAREN: And they move like they are animated throughout the entire show.

01:22:47.237 --> 01:22:50.597
MAREN: You could sit there and watch them the whole show and they're always alive.

01:22:50.597 --> 01:22:51.997
MAREN: They're always reacting.

01:22:51.997 --> 01:22:54.477
MAREN: It's really fun.

01:22:54.477 --> 01:22:57.557
MAREN: And then of course, when Sweetums comes out, you're right there.

01:22:57.557 --> 01:23:00.277
MAREN: It was just the Penguin, the Penguin Orchestra.

01:23:00.277 --> 01:23:01.337
MAREN: You can see them better.

01:23:01.337 --> 01:23:03.817
JEANETTE: The penguins when they strike up the band.

01:23:03.817 --> 01:23:05.357
MAREN: It was a good experience.

01:23:05.357 --> 01:23:10.497
MAREN: I was taking pictures and a little bit of videos because I'm like, this is probably my last time.

01:23:10.497 --> 01:23:11.357
MAREN: So fun fact.

01:23:11.357 --> 01:23:12.417
MAREN: Have you looked at your pictures?

01:23:12.417 --> 01:23:16.137
MAREN: Because when you take a picture of a 3D movie without 3D glasses, it doesn't turn out.

01:23:16.137 --> 01:23:18.517
MAREN: No, I didn't take any pictures of the 3D movie.

01:23:18.517 --> 01:23:19.737
AMBER: I took pictures.

01:23:19.737 --> 01:23:20.877
JEANETTE: You did?

01:23:20.877 --> 01:23:22.057
MAREN: I wanted pictures of Ms.

01:23:22.057 --> 01:23:24.657
MAREN: Piggy's outfit because I still want to get it perfectly.

01:23:24.657 --> 01:23:26.037
MAREN: I looked at them like, where are these blurry?

01:23:26.037 --> 01:23:31.817
MAREN: I'm like, I think that the version you did, I mean, it's not spot on, but it's still perfect.

01:23:31.817 --> 01:23:34.697
MAREN: I'm still going to do the top and the skirt eventually.

01:23:36.077 --> 01:23:36.897
MAREN: I really love Ms.

01:23:36.897 --> 01:23:38.957
MAREN: Piggy if anyone hasn't caught on to this yet.

01:23:38.957 --> 01:23:41.457
AMBER: Yeah.

01:23:41.457 --> 01:23:51.837
MAREN: But we did after doing Muppet Vision 3D, they had a photopass photographer outside of Muppet Vision, which is not always there, not commonly there, and there weren't a lot of people.

01:23:51.837 --> 01:23:58.717
MAREN: So we got some really cute pictures in front of the fountain, some cute pictures in front of the Muppet Vision marquee.

01:23:58.717 --> 01:24:08.017
MAREN: There was a magic shot with Kermit, where we're all supposed to look at Kermit, and I totally missed the instructions to do that, and everyone's looking at Kermit, and I'm smiling to the camera.

01:24:08.177 --> 01:24:10.757
AMBER: La, la, la, la, la.

01:24:10.757 --> 01:24:15.557
MAREN: But it was also funny because there was no line for this photo pass.

01:24:15.557 --> 01:24:22.757
MAREN: In fact, we had seen the photo pass as we were going in, but we decided to do the show and we'll do it on the way out, and there was no line when we got to it.

01:24:22.757 --> 01:24:26.577
MAREN: Then when he asked us, he's like, do you want to do the fountain or you want to do the theater?

01:24:26.597 --> 01:24:28.217
MAREN: We're like, is it okay if we do both?

01:24:28.317 --> 01:24:29.877
MAREN: He's like, yeah, that's fine.

01:24:29.877 --> 01:24:45.617
MAREN: So we're doing the fountain, we're taking all these pictures, and while we're taking the pictures of the fountain, a line starts to form for him, and then we start moving over to the theater marquee picture, and people were grumbling.

01:24:45.617 --> 01:24:46.717
AMBER: They were like, what?

01:24:46.717 --> 01:24:47.817
AMBER: What is going on?

01:24:47.817 --> 01:24:50.737
AMBER: I wanted to take this picture.

01:24:50.737 --> 01:24:51.537
JEANETTE: Oh, no.

01:24:51.537 --> 01:24:58.377
JEANETTE: I'm sure he worked it out and explained to them that he was doing both angles, but it was definitely funny.

01:24:58.377 --> 01:25:01.337
MAREN: I feel we started a trend.

01:25:01.337 --> 01:25:01.857
MAREN: We did.

01:25:01.857 --> 01:25:02.517
MAREN: We totally did.

01:25:02.797 --> 01:25:04.077
MAREN: It's not a new experience.

01:25:04.237 --> 01:25:06.117
VIRGINIA: Not the first time and won't be the last.

01:25:06.117 --> 01:25:08.797
MAREN: No, no, no.

01:25:08.797 --> 01:25:13.597
MAREN: So after that, we had our, we have a lightning lane for the Frozen show.

01:25:13.597 --> 01:25:14.597
MAREN: We missed it.

01:25:14.597 --> 01:25:15.557
MAREN: But we missed it.

01:25:15.557 --> 01:25:21.017
MAREN: And so we did standby and we're able to still get in the same show.

01:25:21.017 --> 01:25:23.337
MAREN: We had just missed the actual lightning lane window.

01:25:23.337 --> 01:25:27.857
MAREN: We got put into whatever seats were still open.

01:25:27.857 --> 01:25:35.297
MAREN: Which turned out to be down in the front left, right by the sign language interpreters.

01:25:35.297 --> 01:25:44.137
MAREN: So apparently when they tell you to move all the way down and you don't, they're going to just filter people around to the other side and fill up those seats.

01:25:44.137 --> 01:25:45.777
MAREN: It's like a totally full show.

01:25:45.777 --> 01:25:47.397
JEANETTE: That's what we did.

01:25:47.397 --> 01:25:51.857
MAREN: So the ASL interpreters were amazing.

01:25:51.857 --> 01:25:57.417
MAREN: I probably watched them 70% of the time and the other two cast members the other part of the time.

01:25:58.377 --> 01:26:02.717
MAREN: And I got in trouble because I did.

01:26:02.717 --> 01:26:05.077
MAREN: She got asked to leave.

01:26:05.137 --> 01:26:09.457
JEANETTE: We pulled her out and looked directly at her and it was like a big pinch.

01:26:09.457 --> 01:26:10.697
JEANETTE: Back up, back up, back up.

01:26:10.697 --> 01:26:19.617
MAREN: So you know the part in In Summer that there's always someone in the audience who put me in Summer and I'll be up, yells puddle.

01:26:19.617 --> 01:26:20.457
MAREN: It was me.

01:26:20.457 --> 01:26:21.437
MAREN: I yelled puddle.

01:26:21.437 --> 01:26:22.137
JEANETTE: I had to be that cast.

01:26:23.477 --> 01:26:29.197
MAREN: And the cast member on stage looks at me and goes, anyone who said puddle, get out.

01:26:29.197 --> 01:26:31.337
JEANETTE: I don't think he said anyone who said puddle.

01:26:31.337 --> 01:26:33.797
AMBER: I think he said you said puddle.

01:26:37.357 --> 01:26:38.977
AMBER: It was very, very directional.

01:26:38.977 --> 01:26:40.697
JEANETTE: It was very specific.

01:26:40.697 --> 01:26:41.917
MAREN: He did lock eyes with me.

01:26:41.917 --> 01:26:44.337
AMBER: He knew it was me.

01:26:44.337 --> 01:26:46.037
JEANETTE: But other people did it too.

01:26:46.037 --> 01:26:47.077
MAREN: I was just the loudest.

01:26:47.077 --> 01:26:48.197
JEANETTE: You were the loudest.

01:26:48.197 --> 01:26:49.237
JEANETTE: It was very entertaining.

01:26:49.237 --> 01:26:49.937
JEANETTE: That show was great.

01:26:50.337 --> 01:26:51.957
MAREN: It was Amber's first time seeing it.

01:26:52.357 --> 01:26:53.357
VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.

01:26:53.357 --> 01:26:53.957
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:26:53.957 --> 01:26:54.917
VIRGINIA: Yeah, it's fun.

01:26:54.917 --> 01:26:55.777
VIRGINIA: It's fun.

01:26:55.777 --> 01:26:57.957
JEANETTE: You can sing along and it's totally fine.

01:26:57.957 --> 01:26:59.057
VIRGINIA: I love that part.

01:26:59.917 --> 01:27:05.317
MAREN: The person in the crowd that they called out, they did a little crowd work and it was Karen.

01:27:05.317 --> 01:27:07.857
JEANETTE: They're like, oh, no, no, I'm sure she's a good Karen.

01:27:07.857 --> 01:27:09.637
JEANETTE: I'm sure she's a nice Karen.

01:27:09.637 --> 01:27:14.137
JEANETTE: Then the rest of the time when they would interact with her, they kept referring to her as good Karen.

01:27:16.277 --> 01:27:17.077
VIRGINIA: That's cute.

01:27:17.077 --> 01:27:19.117
MAREN: But we had been decided I was bad Maren.

01:27:19.217 --> 01:27:21.757
JEANETTE: Then she was bad Maren.

01:27:21.757 --> 01:27:24.877
MAREN: If only they knew, if only the cast members knew.

01:27:24.877 --> 01:27:29.517
VIRGINIA: I know that you all wanted to eat at Pizza Rizzo, but you've had a lot of food on this day.

01:27:29.517 --> 01:27:31.857
VIRGINIA: Did you forego Pizza Rizzo?

01:27:31.857 --> 01:27:33.937
MAREN: I forwent Pizza Rizzo.

01:27:33.937 --> 01:27:35.997
MAREN: You have another chance.

01:27:35.997 --> 01:27:39.237
MAREN: Mom and I are going back in May and I will be having Pizza Rizzo.

01:27:39.237 --> 01:27:41.657
MAREN: She doesn't like getting there, but too bad.

01:27:41.657 --> 01:27:42.237
VIRGINIA: Whatever.

01:27:42.237 --> 01:27:43.277
VIRGINIA: You got to have your rat pizza.

01:27:43.677 --> 01:27:46.397
MAREN: I'm actually there for a work conference.

01:27:49.297 --> 01:27:52.377
MAREN: Mom and I are going to go and then I'm there for a work conference at Swan and Dolphin.

01:27:52.457 --> 01:27:59.077
MAREN: Even if we don't go during mom and I's actual trip, I will be like, well, guess what I'm going to do for dinner after my work conference?

01:27:59.077 --> 01:28:00.057
MAREN: Pizza Rizzo every night.

01:28:00.057 --> 01:28:02.997
MAREN: Okay, Maren, I'm throwing down the gauntlet.

01:28:02.997 --> 01:28:12.717
MAREN: If you come on my birthday, we will hop to Hollywood Studios, watch Muppets 3D, and eat a Pizza Rizzo.

01:28:13.277 --> 01:28:15.077
AMBER: Oh, temptation.

01:28:15.077 --> 01:28:17.977
VIRGINIA: So much thinking going on right now on Maren's part.

01:28:17.977 --> 01:28:18.637
JEANETTE: There's all this.

01:28:18.637 --> 01:28:24.737
JEANETTE: I mean, and sorry, that's not to do real, but I'm going for my birthday, and Maren threw out the idea of like doing-

01:28:24.737 --> 01:28:26.717
MAREN: Oh my God, it is my Friday off.

01:28:26.717 --> 01:28:31.697
MAREN: A one day fly in, fly out, or I told her she could stay in our one bedroom for a night.

01:28:31.697 --> 01:28:33.997
MAREN: No, I've always had this dream to fly in.

01:28:33.997 --> 01:28:36.937
MAREN: It's a dumb dream to take the earliest flight to Disney.

01:28:36.937 --> 01:28:37.217
AMBER: Yes.

01:28:37.297 --> 01:28:38.917
AMBER: Me too, me too.

01:28:38.917 --> 01:28:40.997
JEANETTE: Lots of Disney adults want to do this.

01:28:40.997 --> 01:28:42.317
VIRGINIA: Yeah, but only if the price is right.

01:28:42.317 --> 01:28:44.097
MAREN: I did a 36 hour and I feel like it scratched my itch.

01:28:44.097 --> 01:28:45.257
VIRGINIA: Only if the price is right.

01:28:45.257 --> 01:28:47.157
AMBER: Are you looking right now, Maren?

01:28:47.157 --> 01:28:49.157
AMBER: No, I'm totally engaged in the podcast.

01:28:49.157 --> 01:28:50.697
MAREN: I told you, I totally, I totally derailed.

01:28:50.697 --> 01:28:51.897
VIRGINIA: Put your phone down, Maren.

01:28:51.897 --> 01:28:52.617
AMBER: Put your phone down.

01:28:52.617 --> 01:28:56.357
JEANETTE: If you do that, that could be our lunch time.

01:28:56.357 --> 01:28:57.417
MAREN: Oh my word.

01:28:57.417 --> 01:28:58.657
VIRGINIA: She's not doing it.

01:28:58.657 --> 01:28:59.057
MAREN: All right.

01:28:59.057 --> 01:29:00.537
MAREN: Sorry.

01:29:00.537 --> 01:29:01.657
MAREN: Let's get back on track.

01:29:02.057 --> 01:29:04.237
AMBER: This trip, not the next one.

01:29:04.237 --> 01:29:05.757
MAREN: So we did not eat at Pizza Rizzo.

01:29:06.977 --> 01:29:11.357
MAREN: Sadly, but I think we did Tower of Terror because we hadn't done that yet.

01:29:11.497 --> 01:29:17.537
MAREN: Then went to go rest before having dinner at Ravello.

01:29:18.057 --> 01:29:21.437
MAREN: We were between Ravello and Citricose for the pre-show.

01:29:21.437 --> 01:29:24.657
MAREN: We all decided that it's okay to have Italian back to back.

01:29:24.657 --> 01:29:26.997
MAREN: We're going to do something different in terms of Italian.

01:29:26.997 --> 01:29:29.917
MAREN: It's not the same restaurants, not the same people.

01:29:29.917 --> 01:29:32.377
MAREN: Most of us had never been to Ravello except for Jeanette.

01:29:32.837 --> 01:29:33.517
MAREN: I love it.

01:29:33.517 --> 01:29:35.757
MAREN: It's really one of my favorite restaurants.

01:29:35.757 --> 01:29:41.037
VIRGINIA: I ate there for the first time in February and it was very good.

01:29:41.037 --> 01:29:42.497
VIRGINIA: What did you all order?

01:29:42.497 --> 01:29:48.297
MAREN: Well, I was really excited that they had a Negroni Bianco and it was really good.

01:29:48.297 --> 01:29:53.657
MAREN: Then I also ordered a glass of wine that was more expensive than the meals, I think.

01:29:53.657 --> 01:29:55.577
MAREN: That's one of those days for Maren.

01:29:56.717 --> 01:29:58.877
MAREN: But I had the risotto.

01:29:58.877 --> 01:30:01.057
MAREN: The risotto that day was?

01:30:01.797 --> 01:30:03.797
MAREN: It's like some sort of sausage.

01:30:03.797 --> 01:30:04.217
MAREN: Yeah.

01:30:04.217 --> 01:30:09.097
MAREN: It was like an Italian sausage and there was a vegetable or something in it too.

01:30:09.097 --> 01:30:09.577
MAREN: It was good.

01:30:09.577 --> 01:30:10.977
MAREN: It was very good.

01:30:12.357 --> 01:30:14.577
MAREN: I did two half portions, the risotto and-

01:30:14.577 --> 01:30:17.697
MAREN: Did you know about this Virginia that you can do half portions at Ravello?

01:30:17.697 --> 01:30:18.437
MAREN: Did they tell you?

01:30:18.437 --> 01:30:19.117
VIRGINIA: I did not.

01:30:19.117 --> 01:30:20.197
VIRGINIA: They did not tell me.

01:30:20.197 --> 01:30:20.437
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:30:20.437 --> 01:30:21.817
MAREN: This is a game changer.

01:30:21.817 --> 01:30:28.237
MAREN: If you go to Ravello, you can do any of their pastas including their risottos as a half portion.

01:30:28.237 --> 01:30:35.997
MAREN: If you want to try two things, like you're like, I really want spaghetti, but I also want risotto, you can get a half portion of each.

01:30:35.997 --> 01:30:43.297
MAREN: Or if you're like me where you're like, I ate too much a couple of days ago, I got to be more mindful about how much food I'm consuming.

01:30:43.297 --> 01:30:46.017
MAREN: I just got a half portion of pasta and it was perfect.

01:30:46.017 --> 01:30:47.177
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:30:47.177 --> 01:30:48.097
VIRGINIA: Game changer.

01:30:48.097 --> 01:30:48.557
MAREN: Yeah.

01:30:48.557 --> 01:30:53.797
MAREN: It's honestly like it makes going to a place that might be a little bit pricier.

01:30:53.797 --> 01:30:56.257
MAREN: It's like $24 for a full bowl of pasta.

01:30:56.257 --> 01:30:57.917
MAREN: It's $12 for a half portion.

01:30:58.857 --> 01:30:59.537
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:30:59.537 --> 01:31:03.117
MAREN: Which is why my wine was more expensive than all the meals.

01:31:03.117 --> 01:31:05.217
AMBER: We also got the appetizers too, like the-

01:31:05.217 --> 01:31:06.077
AMBER: Yeah.

01:31:06.077 --> 01:31:09.077
MAREN: We had a little salad and an artichoke thing.

01:31:09.077 --> 01:31:12.897
AMBER: And then I got half a veal ravioli, which is the best ravioli I've had.

01:31:12.897 --> 01:31:14.137
JEANETTE: It's delicious.

01:31:14.137 --> 01:31:14.957
AMBER: And then spaghetti.

01:31:14.957 --> 01:31:16.677
AMBER: It was subpar spaghetti, but-

01:31:16.677 --> 01:31:23.017
VIRGINIA: I had the meatball appetizer they have there and it was really good.

01:31:23.017 --> 01:31:23.497
VIRGINIA: Really good.

01:31:23.897 --> 01:31:33.337
MAREN: My pasta was like a creamy with oven dried tomatoes, which are like the only type of tomatoes that I will eat.

01:31:34.817 --> 01:31:36.437
MAREN: And something else.

01:31:36.437 --> 01:31:37.617
MAREN: It was very good, though.

01:31:37.617 --> 01:31:38.517
MAREN: It was very good.

01:31:38.517 --> 01:31:41.657
MAREN: And the type of pasta they all make their own pasta.

01:31:41.657 --> 01:31:48.657
MAREN: Yeah, they brought me a vegetarian menu, which is like basically just like the pastas and things that they can do by taking the meats out.

01:31:48.657 --> 01:31:52.697
MAREN: It's not like, wow, there's a whole separate menu that I wouldn't know exists.

01:31:52.757 --> 01:31:58.057
MAREN: It's like, this normally would have some sausage in it and it doesn't have a sausage in it.

01:31:58.057 --> 01:32:01.877
VIRGINIA: But it's nice to see it separately so that you don't have to sit there and go, and ask every question.

01:32:01.877 --> 01:32:03.117
VIRGINIA: What would I take off?

01:32:03.117 --> 01:32:07.177
VIRGINIA: You know, it's like just separate it out, let you see exactly what the options are.

01:32:07.177 --> 01:32:07.637
MAREN: Yeah.

01:32:07.637 --> 01:32:14.957
MAREN: And Mariah and I both got these cocktails that were like strawberry, like fresh strawberry with Prosecco.

01:32:14.957 --> 01:32:16.277
VIRGINIA: I had that one.

01:32:16.277 --> 01:32:17.797
MAREN: And balsamic, I think.

01:32:17.917 --> 01:32:18.497
MAREN: Yeah.

01:32:18.497 --> 01:32:19.697
MAREN: Yeah, it was really tasty.

01:32:19.697 --> 01:32:20.317
VIRGINIA: Yeah, very good.

01:32:20.857 --> 01:32:25.657
MAREN: Very celebratory, it felt like.

01:32:25.657 --> 01:32:27.737
MAREN: And then we told him Jeanette's birthday was coming up.

01:32:27.737 --> 01:32:29.617
MAREN: She said my birthday was right around the corner.

01:32:29.617 --> 01:32:31.777
MAREN: It's in like six weeks, seven weeks.

01:32:31.777 --> 01:32:34.077
MAREN: But sure, it's right around the corner.

01:32:34.077 --> 01:32:35.277
VIRGINIA: It's a really big corner.

01:32:35.277 --> 01:32:35.537
MAREN: Yeah.

01:32:35.537 --> 01:32:42.197
MAREN: Well, so the last time that I was there, I was there on a trip where all of my girlfriends and I were celebrating.

01:32:42.197 --> 01:32:46.377
MAREN: I mean, it sounds silly, but we were all celebrating that we were turning 40 that year.

01:32:46.377 --> 01:32:49.437
MAREN: So we kind of did it in a time that was like in the middle of all of our birthdays.

01:32:49.537 --> 01:32:52.377
MAREN: And we went to Ravello and they're like, are you celebrating something?

01:32:52.377 --> 01:32:54.617
MAREN: We're like, yeah, we're celebrating all of our birthdays.

01:32:54.617 --> 01:32:57.797
MAREN: So they brought us out like huge dessert platter.

01:32:57.797 --> 01:33:01.077
MAREN: And so this time he did, he brought us, they comp it too.

01:33:01.077 --> 01:33:02.957
MAREN: It's really nice.

01:33:03.237 --> 01:33:05.977
MAREN: He brought out, he said it was his two favorite desserts.

01:33:05.977 --> 01:33:09.577
MAREN: I don't know if that's true, but it's a nice story.

01:33:09.577 --> 01:33:15.317
MAREN: And it was a Stracciatella ice cream cake where the bottom of it is sort of like crushed oats.

01:33:15.317 --> 01:33:17.637
MAREN: And the top of it is a almond brittle.

01:33:18.677 --> 01:33:27.577
MAREN: And then a bomba that is a pistachio ice cream bomba with a cherry in the center and dark chocolate around it.

01:33:27.577 --> 01:33:29.437
VIRGINIA: That sounds delicious.

01:33:29.437 --> 01:33:32.917
MAREN: Honestly, like I had remembered the Stracciatella and I was like, I want to get that.

01:33:32.917 --> 01:33:34.057
MAREN: That's what I was telling everybody.

01:33:34.057 --> 01:33:34.997
MAREN: I was like, I gotta get this.

01:33:34.997 --> 01:33:36.017
MAREN: This is my ice cream for the day.

01:33:36.017 --> 01:33:37.677
MAREN: I gotta have it.

01:33:37.677 --> 01:33:40.477
MAREN: But then the pistachio bomba really took me by surprise.

01:33:40.477 --> 01:33:44.417
MAREN: I think I might actually like that one a little bit more.

01:33:44.437 --> 01:33:45.737
MAREN: Ooh, that's a tough choice.

01:33:46.117 --> 01:33:48.937
MAREN: I mean, pistachio, almond, how do you choose?

01:33:48.957 --> 01:33:50.777
MAREN: I know, they're both delicious.

01:33:52.537 --> 01:34:08.337
VIRGINIA: So, let's move into Monday, April the 7th, which was your departure day, but you had basically a full day of park and food enjoyment ahead of you, starting with brunch at Boma.

01:34:08.337 --> 01:34:11.017
AMBER: No, we ended up sleeping in and-

01:34:11.017 --> 01:34:12.197
MAREN: We pre-cancelled it.

01:34:12.197 --> 01:34:13.137
MAREN: We didn't just no-show.

01:34:13.897 --> 01:34:18.757
AMBER: Yes, Jeanette was prepared because she knew if she set her alarm, I believe it was for 6.50.

01:34:19.397 --> 01:34:26.077
AMBER: We would have our little meeting of the minds while still in bed, and determine what we were going to do, and we all said no.

01:34:26.077 --> 01:34:28.957
MAREN: Yeah, because Mariah had already said she wasn't going to go.

01:34:28.957 --> 01:34:31.397
MAREN: So if we were going to go, she was going to skip it.

01:34:31.397 --> 01:34:33.537
MAREN: Then I was like, well, do you guys want to go?

01:34:33.537 --> 01:34:35.617
MAREN: We were like, we want to go to Boma.

01:34:35.617 --> 01:34:38.537
MAREN: We just don't know if we want to go to Boma tomorrow.

01:34:38.597 --> 01:34:40.137
MAREN: It's tomorrow, the right day to go.

01:34:40.757 --> 01:34:42.657
MAREN: I think that was kind of the vibe.

01:34:42.657 --> 01:34:44.697
MAREN: So I said, well, let's leave it on the table.

01:34:44.697 --> 01:34:47.537
MAREN: I'll get up early and then I can just cancel it if we need to.

01:34:47.537 --> 01:34:48.977
MAREN: We did.

01:34:48.977 --> 01:34:49.937
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:34:49.937 --> 01:34:54.957
VIRGINIA: So what time did you end up making it into your part for the day, which was Epcot?

01:34:54.977 --> 01:34:55.257
MAREN: Ten.

01:34:55.257 --> 01:34:55.997
MAREN: Ten-ish?

01:34:55.997 --> 01:34:56.817
MAREN: Yeah.

01:34:56.817 --> 01:35:01.517
MAREN: I remember because we were like, the festival booths don't really open until 11.

01:35:01.517 --> 01:35:04.977
JEANETTE: So what are we going to do because we didn't eat breakfast?

01:35:05.097 --> 01:35:09.937
MAREN: But we got a coffee at Joffreys and there were a couple booths that were open.

01:35:09.937 --> 01:35:10.157
MAREN: Yeah.

01:35:11.077 --> 01:35:15.777
MAREN: The special at Joffreys right now is a pistachio banana latte.

01:35:15.777 --> 01:35:20.857
MAREN: And yeah, we were like, pistachio latte, good, banana.

01:35:20.857 --> 01:35:22.337
MAREN: So we all got the pistachio latte.

01:35:22.337 --> 01:35:23.777
MAREN: I thought it was fine.

01:35:23.797 --> 01:35:25.417
MAREN: It wasn't my top choice.

01:35:25.497 --> 01:35:25.897
MAREN: But it was fine.

01:35:25.897 --> 01:35:32.277
MAREN: I feel like they've gotten a little lazy with the Joffreys festival special coffees.

01:35:32.277 --> 01:35:37.217
MAREN: They're just like, and we'll add this syrup to it and call that one the special.

01:35:37.217 --> 01:35:46.337
MAREN: Whereas I think there's been times in the past where they've actually been kind of interesting and good, but maybe I'm adding nostalgia to my memory.

01:35:47.437 --> 01:35:57.677
VIRGINIA: You had multi-passed Lightning Lane again this day, and I noted that your three pre-booked ones were Frozen, Soarin and Living With The Land.

01:35:57.677 --> 01:36:02.697
VIRGINIA: And Amber, am I correct in my notes that you had never ridden Frozen?

01:36:02.697 --> 01:36:03.517
AMBER: Correct.

01:36:03.517 --> 01:36:06.657
AMBER: That was the inaugural voyage of Frozen.

01:36:06.957 --> 01:36:09.057
MAREN: You had two inaugural voyages.

01:36:10.437 --> 01:36:11.857
AMBER: Frozen, Frozen.

01:36:11.857 --> 01:36:12.677
AMBER: What was the other one?

01:36:12.677 --> 01:36:13.957
AMBER: We did Duck Tales as well.

01:36:14.557 --> 01:36:16.637
MAREN: Oh, technically she did three new things.

01:36:16.637 --> 01:36:19.077
MAREN: The Mexico ride.

01:36:19.337 --> 01:36:20.317
MAREN: Yes, the Caballeros.

01:36:20.317 --> 01:36:22.077
VIRGINIA: The three Caballeros.

01:36:22.077 --> 01:36:26.937
AMBER: Yes, it was a very, yes, it was a lot of new things that morning.

01:36:26.937 --> 01:36:29.077
AMBER: We did get to Frozen a little early for our lightning lane.

01:36:29.077 --> 01:36:33.497
AMBER: So I was exposed to the Duck Tales in Norway.

01:36:34.757 --> 01:36:36.197
AMBER: So we found the sword.

01:36:36.197 --> 01:36:37.177
AMBER: And that was a really cool ending.

01:36:37.177 --> 01:36:39.057
AMBER: I don't want to spoil it for anybody.

01:36:39.057 --> 01:36:40.457
AMBER: Just did.

01:36:41.977 --> 01:36:47.357
AMBER: I didn't know where it was because I think where it was was really awesome how they did that.

01:36:47.357 --> 01:36:49.377
VIRGINIA: I haven't done it in that country yet.

01:36:49.377 --> 01:36:50.497
MAREN: It's a good one.

01:36:50.497 --> 01:36:51.577
MAREN: Yeah, that one's a good one.

01:36:51.577 --> 01:36:52.597
AMBER: You should do it.

01:36:52.617 --> 01:36:54.437
MAREN: That one's probably a top three.

01:36:54.437 --> 01:36:55.377
AMBER: That was really neat.

01:36:55.377 --> 01:36:56.337
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:36:56.337 --> 01:36:59.137
AMBER: So we got a little bit of food there as well.

01:36:59.137 --> 01:37:01.177
AMBER: China, I got the crab puffs.

01:37:01.177 --> 01:37:06.697
AMBER: Mariah, or no, we went and got the, what was it?

01:37:06.917 --> 01:37:08.697
MAREN: Oh, Mariah also had dumplings at China.

01:37:08.697 --> 01:37:09.437
MAREN: Yeah, Mariah got dumplings.

01:37:09.437 --> 01:37:09.737
MAREN: You and Mariah.

01:37:09.737 --> 01:37:17.337
MAREN: And I went to the refreshment outpost and got the Jamaican patty that had the Impossible meat within it.

01:37:17.337 --> 01:37:24.137
MAREN: And it had like a, some sort of fruit sauce on it.

01:37:24.137 --> 01:37:24.757
MAREN: It was good.

01:37:24.757 --> 01:37:25.377
MAREN: It wasn't great.

01:37:25.377 --> 01:37:29.457
MAREN: I mean, Impossible meat kind of never is great, but it was good.

01:37:29.457 --> 01:37:30.917
MAREN: Spicy and sweet.

01:37:30.917 --> 01:37:35.697
MAREN: And I tried the Cubanito from Florida Fresh, which that one actually opened before 11.

01:37:36.157 --> 01:37:36.517
MAREN: Yeah.

01:37:36.517 --> 01:37:39.117
MAREN: Excellent little mini Cuban sandwich.

01:37:39.117 --> 01:37:40.677
VIRGINIA: That sounds delicious.

01:37:42.897 --> 01:37:46.197
AMBER: So then we did Frozen.

01:37:46.197 --> 01:37:46.717
AMBER: Super cute.

01:37:46.717 --> 01:37:48.177
AMBER: Love that one.

01:37:48.177 --> 01:37:50.417
AMBER: And then Jeanette got beers in Japan.

01:37:50.417 --> 01:37:52.377
AMBER: That was a particular flavor.

01:37:52.377 --> 01:37:53.397
AMBER: I don't remember if it was grape or-

01:37:53.397 --> 01:37:56.357
MAREN: It was a ginger cherry blossom Pilsner.

01:37:56.357 --> 01:37:57.497
MAREN: And it was really good.

01:37:57.497 --> 01:37:59.897
MAREN: And I just got the five ounce and it was perfect.

01:37:59.897 --> 01:38:08.417
MAREN: So then we were, I was drinking my little five ounce beer and we did the Japan jocktails, which is probably my favorite.

01:38:08.417 --> 01:38:09.557
VIRGINIA: I have not done that one either.

01:38:09.557 --> 01:38:13.357
VIRGINIA: I've done Germany, France, and the UK.

01:38:13.357 --> 01:38:14.877
MAREN: It's very webby heavy.

01:38:14.877 --> 01:38:17.997
MAREN: And because I love webby so much, that one's probably my favorite.

01:38:17.997 --> 01:38:19.097
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:38:19.097 --> 01:38:27.537
AMBER: And the next stop on the food, we were working around, Mariah and I love the bread and the dips at the Moroccan restaurant.

01:38:27.537 --> 01:38:30.057
AMBER: Yes, we got the bread.

01:38:30.057 --> 01:38:31.717
MAREN: I got a cider flight.

01:38:31.717 --> 01:38:32.957
AMBER: You got your cider flight.

01:38:32.957 --> 01:38:33.337
MAREN: How was that?

01:38:33.337 --> 01:38:38.697
MAREN: I had a cider from my home state, from the apple orchard that I grew up going to, which was kind of fun.

01:38:38.697 --> 01:38:39.497
VIRGINIA: Oh, that's cool.

01:38:39.497 --> 01:38:41.037
JEANETTE: Yeah.

01:38:41.037 --> 01:38:44.397
AMBER: And, Maren, you went to France.

01:38:44.397 --> 01:38:47.777
MAREN: I got the goat cheese croissant.

01:38:47.777 --> 01:38:48.637
MAREN: It was excellent.

01:38:48.637 --> 01:38:50.137
MAREN: It was very, very good.

01:38:50.137 --> 01:38:51.677
MAREN: And you also got a cider.

01:38:51.677 --> 01:38:53.837
MAREN: I got a cider at Isla Fresca.

01:38:53.837 --> 01:38:54.757
MAREN: Yeah.

01:38:54.757 --> 01:38:55.437
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:38:55.477 --> 01:38:56.217
MAREN: It was good.

01:38:56.217 --> 01:39:00.117
MAREN: But the croissant was top notch.

01:39:00.117 --> 01:39:00.777
MAREN: It was very rich.

01:39:00.777 --> 01:39:01.137
MAREN: It was good.

01:39:02.257 --> 01:39:03.557
MAREN: Very cheesy.

01:39:03.557 --> 01:39:12.657
MAREN: And somebody came by and handed us off some leftover friendship bracelets from the races, like the ones they haven't handed out yet.

01:39:12.657 --> 01:39:17.617
MAREN: And I got Frozone, which I was like, you have no idea how perfect this is because my costume was-

01:39:17.617 --> 01:39:18.737
VIRGINIA: That is perfect.

01:39:18.737 --> 01:39:19.997
MAREN: Frozone mashup.

01:39:19.997 --> 01:39:20.677
MAREN: Yeah.

01:39:20.677 --> 01:39:21.277
MAREN: It was cute.

01:39:21.277 --> 01:39:23.237
AMBER: And then we got a few more foods.

01:39:23.237 --> 01:39:24.537
AMBER: Jeanette got the poutine.

01:39:24.617 --> 01:39:25.637
MAREN: Oh my gosh.

01:39:25.637 --> 01:39:29.797
MAREN: This poutine, technically not a poutine.

01:39:29.797 --> 01:39:30.057
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:39:30.057 --> 01:39:32.637
MAREN: It doesn't have gravy on it, but it was-

01:39:32.637 --> 01:39:34.537
MAREN: These fries.

01:39:35.257 --> 01:39:36.877
MAREN: These fancy fries.

01:39:36.877 --> 01:39:40.917
MAREN: So it was fries with herb de Provence on it.

01:39:40.917 --> 01:39:46.337
MAREN: A goat cheese brie and lavender and honey.

01:39:46.337 --> 01:39:48.257
MAREN: Should not work.

01:39:48.257 --> 01:39:49.257
MAREN: So delicious.

01:39:49.257 --> 01:39:57.297
MAREN: It's got me thinking about bringing my hot honey with me when I go out to eat and putting hot honey on French fries just all the time.

01:39:57.297 --> 01:39:58.937
VIRGINIA: Just always having hot honey in your purse?

01:39:58.937 --> 01:39:59.537
MAREN: In her purse.

01:39:59.537 --> 01:40:02.957
MAREN: Constantly carrying Mike's hot honey with me.

01:40:02.957 --> 01:40:15.717
AMBER: But then Maren and Mariah and I, we went to the honey bistro and got the chicken and waffles, the cauliflower and sat on really hot turf in the-

01:40:15.717 --> 01:40:16.977
AMBER: What would you call that?

01:40:16.977 --> 01:40:22.537
MAREN: Over between the yacht and beach grubs, they have a little play area and it's turfed.

01:40:22.597 --> 01:40:31.257
MAREN: And we sat on the turf and the turf was just, the turf didn't feel hot to sit on, but you just like, there was the aura of hotness above the turf.

01:40:31.257 --> 01:40:35.237
AMBER: And then after that, we did the longest living with the land ride ever.

01:40:35.237 --> 01:40:38.597
JEANETTE: It was nice and relaxing, but I don't know, our boat wasn't moving.

01:40:38.597 --> 01:40:40.157
JEANETTE: The boat was really slow.

01:40:40.157 --> 01:40:45.817
MAREN: Like it was so slow that the soundtrack was like getting ahead of the ride.

01:40:46.917 --> 01:40:49.337
JEANETTE: And there were boats like behind us, like...

01:40:49.337 --> 01:40:54.617
MAREN: Yeah, it was like a train of five boats solid, just butt to butt to butt.

01:40:54.617 --> 01:41:06.117
VIRGINIA: Huh, I did see someone posted on Instagram or TikTok or something that they had done sort of a video filming behind them where they were like, this other boat's going to run into us.

01:41:06.357 --> 01:41:09.197
VIRGINIA: It's happening, we're colliding.

01:41:09.197 --> 01:41:10.757
VIRGINIA: I wonder if it was the same time.

01:41:11.357 --> 01:41:18.297
VIRGINIA: I did not mark it or anything, but had I looked back and it was like you guys coming towards them.

01:41:19.457 --> 01:41:21.797
JEANETTE: We were definitely slow.

01:41:21.797 --> 01:41:25.137
MAREN: We were the front of the train of the slow boats.

01:41:25.137 --> 01:41:28.997
JEANETTE: Because it made us kind of, we still made it within our work.

01:41:28.997 --> 01:41:30.777
AMBER: No, we were late for Guardians, right?

01:41:30.777 --> 01:41:34.437
MAREN: Technically, we were all then late for our next.

01:41:34.437 --> 01:41:40.057
MAREN: Yeah, I mean, we were in the grace window, but we were all late for our next lightning lane because.

01:41:40.157 --> 01:41:41.897
JEANETTE: Because of the slow boats.

01:41:41.897 --> 01:41:43.337
AMBER: Yeah.

01:41:43.337 --> 01:41:53.377
VIRGINIA: So speaking of Guardians, Maren, you tend to get a little bit of motion sickness, but during the pre-trip had committed to getting a single pass lightning lane with the others.

01:41:53.377 --> 01:41:54.437
VIRGINIA: Did you do it?

01:41:54.437 --> 01:41:57.197
MAREN: Lightning lane was purchased, Maren went out.

01:41:58.557 --> 01:42:12.897
MAREN: Mariah and I ended up doing Soarin while Jeanette and Amber went to Guardians just because the timing, since we were running a little late to everything, no one could do both of those and I opted to do Soarin instead.

01:42:12.897 --> 01:42:16.477
MAREN: I was like, I don't want to be sick before I get on an airplane tonight.

01:42:16.477 --> 01:42:17.877
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:42:17.877 --> 01:42:32.017
MAREN: Although we did try the acupressure bracelet on Tower of Terror the day before, and she said that she still felt something on the ride, but felt like her recovery after the ride was really quick.

01:42:32.197 --> 01:42:36.197
MAREN: I'll give it a try in the future, but not this trip, not this trip.

01:42:36.197 --> 01:42:39.257
VIRGINIA: For those who wrote it, what song did you get?

01:42:39.257 --> 01:42:42.877
MAREN: We got September, which was fun.

01:42:42.877 --> 01:42:44.577
MAREN: We wanted Konga.

01:42:44.577 --> 01:42:49.217
MAREN: I've converted Amber to believe that Konga is the best song.

01:42:49.217 --> 01:42:50.137
JEANETTE: I love that song.

01:42:50.297 --> 01:42:51.577
MAREN: No conversion needed.

01:42:51.617 --> 01:42:54.677
MAREN: But September is also super fun, so no loss.

01:42:54.677 --> 01:42:56.857
JEANETTE: We danced the whole time in Singapore.

01:42:56.857 --> 01:42:57.477
AMBER: It's great.

01:42:57.477 --> 01:43:02.737
MAREN: This is where our photo pose didn't work out.

01:43:02.737 --> 01:43:04.397
AMBER: Yeah, because we're going to do a high five.

01:43:04.397 --> 01:43:07.117
MAREN: Yeah, we're going to do a high five across the seat.

01:43:07.117 --> 01:43:09.997
AMBER: Apparently, we stopped it too soon.

01:43:09.997 --> 01:43:12.217
MAREN: The flash went off.

01:43:12.217 --> 01:43:16.637
MAREN: The flash fully went off, and that's when we separated.

01:43:18.017 --> 01:43:23.317
MAREN: I'm thinking the photo is taken when a flash is not flashing.

01:43:23.317 --> 01:43:24.157
AMBER: Yeah, that's what it's saying.

01:43:24.157 --> 01:43:25.937
MAREN: It's an after flash photo.

01:43:25.937 --> 01:43:28.037
AMBER: Are we going that fast out of the galaxy, then?

01:43:28.037 --> 01:43:28.677
AMBER: Maybe.

01:43:28.677 --> 01:43:39.697
MAREN: Last time we wrote it together, there was a real delay, so the rides spun around, and then they held us there for a very awkward amount of time.

01:43:39.697 --> 01:43:41.057
MAREN: There wasn't a photo.

01:43:41.057 --> 01:43:47.637
MAREN: There just was no photo taken at all because basically, the ride rhythm got screwed up.

01:43:47.637 --> 01:43:53.077
MAREN: But this time, there was a photo, but by the time it happened, we had separated.

01:43:53.077 --> 01:43:56.277
JEANETTE: I was already dancing to September, so I'm like...

01:43:58.337 --> 01:43:59.197
JEANETTE: And Amber's like...

01:44:04.437 --> 01:44:06.977
JEANETTE: We look completely un-posed, is all it is.

01:44:06.977 --> 01:44:07.737
VIRGINIA: Whatever.

01:44:07.737 --> 01:44:10.337
JEANETTE: We planned it too, but we planned it.

01:44:10.337 --> 01:44:11.677
VIRGINIA: I know, I know.

01:44:11.677 --> 01:44:17.617
MAREN: We did do nine because there was no wait for row nine, so we did request to be in that row.

01:44:18.137 --> 01:44:21.557
VIRGINIA: Even if there's a wait, I will always wait for row nine.

01:44:21.957 --> 01:44:28.037
MAREN: I always want an even row because I short, so I don't like to be in the back.

01:44:28.037 --> 01:44:32.577
MAREN: But I know children are shorter, but too bad.

01:44:32.577 --> 01:44:35.197
VIRGINIA: Wait, but nine is the front.

01:44:35.197 --> 01:44:39.277
MAREN: Nine is the front of the back, which then becomes...

01:44:39.277 --> 01:44:42.277
MAREN: When it turns around, it's the one closest to the bang.

01:44:42.277 --> 01:44:42.917
VIRGINIA: Right.

01:44:42.917 --> 01:44:43.657
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:44:43.657 --> 01:44:44.757
VIRGINIA: That's what I prefer.

01:44:44.817 --> 01:44:46.697
MAREN: It's the best.

01:44:46.697 --> 01:44:49.217
AMBER: Nothing but the best for Amber and I.

01:44:50.397 --> 01:44:53.937
VIRGINIA: When you do wait for it, it's not a long wait usually.

01:44:53.937 --> 01:44:54.337
MAREN: No.

01:44:54.337 --> 01:45:02.477
MAREN: One time it was weird just because people didn't seem to understand the waiting process for it, but usually it's like you just wait one round.

01:45:02.477 --> 01:45:02.717
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:45:02.717 --> 01:45:06.677
VIRGINIA: Did you do anything else in Epcot before you all had to leave for the airport?

01:45:07.057 --> 01:45:07.717
AMBER: Yes.

01:45:07.717 --> 01:45:22.337
AMBER: Citrus Blossom for Maren and Mariah, and then you, Jeanette, got a corn ice cream with a corn cookie that was very interesting, texturally and tastefully.

01:45:22.337 --> 01:45:23.857
MAREN: I loved it.

01:45:23.857 --> 01:45:31.397
MAREN: The Communicore Hall was dolled up, is dolled up for flower and garden.

01:45:31.397 --> 01:45:32.877
MAREN: I thought it was really cute.

01:45:32.957 --> 01:45:46.157
MAREN: How about a little bee character with a flower arrangement around it, and then the whole area is filled up with flowers and plants, and little plant facts, and maquettes of some of the topiaries and stuff like that.

01:45:46.157 --> 01:45:55.697
MAREN: Then they're playing zenned out chill vibe versions of songs that have some tie into nature.

01:45:55.697 --> 01:46:00.797
MAREN: It's like lost in the wood and on a golden afternoon, and something that has a flower tie.

01:46:01.337 --> 01:46:07.777
MAREN: And so we had actually sat in there a little bit in the morning, maybe when you were eating your Cubanito, Maren.

01:46:07.777 --> 01:46:09.197
MAREN: Yep, with our coffees.

01:46:09.197 --> 01:46:16.997
MAREN: And I had taken some videos and stuff, but I knew I wanted to come back in the afternoon when they were open, because I love corn soft serve.

01:46:16.997 --> 01:46:21.077
MAREN: It's like such a gift that Disney World does it from time to time.

01:46:21.077 --> 01:46:26.357
MAREN: They do it for the Halloween party, and I was excited to see that they were doing it as part of the festival.

01:46:26.357 --> 01:46:29.577
MAREN: And so it was corn soft serve, a nice, generous portion.

01:46:30.897 --> 01:46:33.997
MAREN: It had pieces of corn on it and lime zest.

01:46:33.997 --> 01:46:36.157
MAREN: I could have gone without the pieces of corn.

01:46:36.257 --> 01:46:38.697
MAREN: They could have left that out, and I would have been happy.

01:46:38.697 --> 01:46:42.577
MAREN: And then they had a corn cookie, and I thought it was actually a pretty good cookie.

01:46:42.577 --> 01:46:51.357
MAREN: I expect cookies at festivals to be dry, and maybe they taste like they come from a grocery store, but I would say it was a notch up at least from that.

01:46:51.357 --> 01:46:55.017
MAREN: And the soft serve and the cookie, I thought went together well.

01:46:55.057 --> 01:46:59.097
MAREN: Yeah, the only adjustment I would make is like, I don't think it needs the pieces of corn on it.

01:46:59.097 --> 01:47:00.557
MAREN: And then that was it.

01:47:00.557 --> 01:47:04.157
MAREN: We finished our snacking and headed to the airport.

01:47:04.157 --> 01:47:04.937
MAREN: So we'd actually...

01:47:04.937 --> 01:47:06.377
MAREN: We took the monorail.

01:47:06.377 --> 01:47:07.177
JEANETTE: Yeah, cause the flight probably...

01:47:07.177 --> 01:47:08.597
JEANETTE: Oh, that's right.

01:47:08.597 --> 01:47:13.337
MAREN: We actually, so we were supposed to go do Space Mountain and it was down.

01:47:14.417 --> 01:47:15.397
MAREN: So we had a little time to kill.

01:47:15.397 --> 01:47:18.037
VIRGINIA: So you parked it to get in transportation?

01:47:18.037 --> 01:47:19.517
MAREN: Spaceship Earth, sorry.

01:47:19.517 --> 01:47:22.457
MAREN: No, would be helpful if I was in the right part.

01:47:22.877 --> 01:47:26.417
MAREN: So we're supposed to do Spaceship Earth on our way out and it was down.

01:47:26.417 --> 01:47:32.137
MAREN: So we did a loop on the monorail because we just had an awkward amount of time and we were a little tired.

01:47:32.137 --> 01:47:36.357
MAREN: And so I'd actually driven that morning and parked us at Epcot.

01:47:36.357 --> 01:47:40.537
MAREN: We had all of our suitcases loaded in the back of the car and hidden.

01:47:40.537 --> 01:47:45.037
MAREN: And so we parked at Epcot so that we could all drive from Epcot to the airport.

01:47:45.037 --> 01:47:47.817
MAREN: And yeah, everyone's flight was delayed a little bit.

01:47:47.817 --> 01:47:50.357
MAREN: Still wanted to not be at the airport late.

01:47:51.897 --> 01:47:59.737
MAREN: But yeah, we did a loop on the monorail to enjoy one last attraction and then headed out to the airport.

01:47:59.737 --> 01:48:07.877
MAREN: Well, I will say my flight was actually so delayed that I had enough time to go over to Terminal A and have a bite of food with them.

01:48:07.877 --> 01:48:09.297
MAREN: And I'd never been to Terminal A.

01:48:09.297 --> 01:48:12.017
MAREN: So it's much nicer than Terminal B.

01:48:12.017 --> 01:48:14.497
VIRGINIA: I know the answer to this for Jeanette.

01:48:14.497 --> 01:48:18.297
VIRGINIA: Maren, Amber, when are you both planning to return next?

01:48:18.297 --> 01:48:19.257
VIRGINIA: Do you have anything on the books?

01:48:20.497 --> 01:48:25.557
MAREN: I will be there May 3rd and 4th with my mom.

01:48:25.557 --> 01:48:35.257
MAREN: And then because I have a conference at the Swan and Dolphin May 5th through 7th, that I swear when I said I would go to the conference, I didn't know where it was.

01:48:35.257 --> 01:48:37.317
MAREN: And then when I found out, I was super excited.

01:48:39.157 --> 01:48:40.077
VIRGINIA: All right, Amber?

01:48:40.077 --> 01:48:42.417
AMBER: I currently have nothing booked.

01:48:42.417 --> 01:48:44.637
AMBER: Don't hate me, friends.

01:48:44.637 --> 01:48:46.357
MAREN: We'll forgive her and or trick her.

01:48:47.137 --> 01:48:47.837
VIRGINIA: Yes.

01:48:48.077 --> 01:48:51.477
VIRGINIA: That doesn't mean you won't have anything booked for long.

01:48:51.477 --> 01:48:54.617
AMBER: Oh, they want me to, but, you know.

01:48:54.617 --> 01:48:58.017
MAREN: You're a handsome, well-adjusted male Disney adult.

01:49:00.777 --> 01:49:03.197
MAREN: Especially if you enjoy runDisney.

01:49:04.337 --> 01:49:05.737
AMBER: You better run.

01:49:08.137 --> 01:49:11.357
MAREN: She means you better run with her, not you better run away.

01:49:11.417 --> 01:49:12.757
VIRGINIA: Right, right.

01:49:15.017 --> 01:49:15.497
VIRGINIA: Oh, my God.

01:49:15.497 --> 01:49:26.357
VIRGINIA: That just reminded me of the character in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, that looks vaguely like Jessica Rabbit from behind, but then when she turns around, she's like, a man.

01:49:26.357 --> 01:49:28.177
VIRGINIA: She's crazy.

01:49:28.177 --> 01:49:29.917
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:49:29.917 --> 01:49:31.217
MAREN: That's us.

01:49:32.437 --> 01:49:34.277
VIRGINIA: All right, Loaded Tots.

01:49:34.277 --> 01:49:36.377
VIRGINIA: It has been so much fun talking to you.

01:49:36.377 --> 01:49:40.977
VIRGINIA: I really enjoy talking to each of you individually, and you as a group are just delightful.

01:49:41.677 --> 01:49:42.277
VIRGINIA: Thank you.

01:49:42.277 --> 01:49:44.157
VIRGINIA: Thank you so much for being here.

01:49:44.157 --> 01:49:44.917
MAREN: Thanks, Virginia.

01:49:44.917 --> 01:49:45.617
MAREN: It was great being here.

01:49:47.877 --> 01:49:52.717
VIRGINIA: Thank you so much to the Loaded Tots for being with me and sharing all the fun you had on this trip.

01:49:52.717 --> 01:49:55.137
VIRGINIA: It is truly a pleasure.

01:49:55.137 --> 01:50:01.037
VIRGINIA: I hope everyone out there who is listening will consider rating or reviewing the podcast on the platform of your choice.

01:50:01.037 --> 01:50:04.737
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01:50:06.297 --> 01:50:09.217
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01:50:09.637 --> 01:50:11.397
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01:50:11.397 --> 01:50:12.817
VIRGINIA: That is all for now.

01:50:12.817 --> 01:50:14.177
VIRGINIA: Have a magical week.

01:50:14.177 --> 01:50:17.617
VIRGINIA: And don't forget to keep daydreaming about where you long to be.