Post-Trip Report: Virginia’s Annual Trip…But Make It Bigger (February 2024)

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VIRGINIA: Welcome to Where I Long To Be, a Magical Trip Report Podcast.

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

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VIRGINIA: Today's a big one, folks, so get ready.

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VIRGINIA: If you are someone who works out while you listen or cleans house, you'll be getting your workout today.

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VIRGINIA: For anyone who didn't get a chance to listen to the pre-trip report, this was my annual trip to Walt Disney World with my husband Charles and my son Alex, but with the added bonus of having my sister Jordan and her two boys, Maddox, who is seven, and Presley, who is three, as well as my citrus fiance Audrie and her son Oliver, who is also three, along for the ride.

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VIRGINIA: We were staying in a two-bedroom DVC villa in the Copper Creek section of Disney's Wilderness Lodge Resort.

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VIRGINIA: My favorite.

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VIRGINIA: None of our five guests had ever been to a Disney park before, so we were looking forward to sharing the magic with them.

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VIRGINIA: This trip was supposed to have happened pre-COVID, but between life events, illness, and the pandemic itself, it had been postponed.

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VIRGINIA: So this was perhaps the most anticipated trip I have ever had to Disney.

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VIRGINIA: And now on with the show.

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VIRGINIA: And we are back.

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VIRGINIA: Welcome back, Alex, to Where I Long To Be.

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VIRGINIA: I know that we both came back from this trip with colds.

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VIRGINIA: How are you feeling today?

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ALEX: I'm feeling...

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VIRGINIA: Back in the game?

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ALEX: Back in the game, yeah.

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VIRGINIA: But not literally, because we forgot a basketball game that you were supposed to go to today, so...

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ALEX: No, but today was genuinely a good day for me.

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ALEX: It was such good weather.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, I know.

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VIRGINIA: It was like spring outside.

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ALEX: It was 63 degrees out.

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ALEX: It was 63 degrees out.

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ALEX: That was perfect.

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ALEX: I wore shorts today.

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VIRGINIA: Okay, I did not wear shorts, but I did go out with jeans and just a sweatshirt without any kind of jacket or whatever.

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VIRGINIA: It was so nice.

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VIRGINIA: I took Walter on a little walk, but we're not here to talk about this particular day in New York City.

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VIRGINIA: We are here to talk about our big trip and we have a lot of details to share, so we should get into it.

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VIRGINIA: First, I want to just remind listeners who was on this trip and for anybody who did not listen to the pre-trip report, give you a short synopsis.

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VIRGINIA: This was a big family trip with our family, which is me, my husband, Charles, and of course, Alex here, who is 13.

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VIRGINIA: And we were taking my sister, Jordan, and her two boys, who are Maddox, who is seven years old, and Presley, who's three years old, and Jordan's fiance, Audrie, and Audrie's son, Oliver, who's also three years old.

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VIRGINIA: So we had a seven-year-old and two three-year-olds.

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VIRGINIA: And yeah, it was a big group, eight of us total.

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VIRGINIA: And this was a very first trip for the five of them.

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VIRGINIA: So for me, the goal was to get them to want to come again, right?

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VIRGINIA: They weren't going to get everything done.

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VIRGINIA: This was not going to be a perfect trip, a first trip with young kids like this.

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VIRGINIA: It was going to be challenging.

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VIRGINIA: But my goal was to get them to walk away saying that they wanted to go again.

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VIRGINIA: And I feel like we did that.

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ALEX: Yeah, I'm feeling like we did that.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: So Alex, what was your overall assessment of the trip?

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ALEX: It was very fun.

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ALEX: I was able to enjoy the rides a lot and I loved watching the kids react to the rides, except for medics.

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ALEX: His strategy is to hold on as tiny as he can.

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ALEX: And at one point I got nervous because he was screaming.

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ALEX: I was like, are you still alive?

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VIRGINIA: We'll talk about that more when we get into the details of that.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: But I know what you're talking about.

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ALEX: I'll go into detail for that.

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VIRGINIA: Little tease for everyone.

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ALEX: It's a very specific story.

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ALEX: Anyways, it was fun, but it was exhausting because I had to watch three children, two or three, no, not two or three, no, like two three-year-olds and one seven-year-old.

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VIRGINIA: How is this different from our usual trips besides little kids?

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ALEX: Because we had more people.

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ALEX: We don't go with anybody else very often.

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ALEX: It's mostly just the family, which I'm going to be honest, I prefer being with you and dad because it's not as much people.

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ALEX: We can do whatever we want, have all the time in the world.

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ALEX: It was different and enjoying our favorite things, and also trying new things every trip as well.

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ALEX: It was hard to do that because of the size of the party.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah, with the size of the party and with five of our party of eight, it being a first trip for them, there's so much to consider.

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VIRGINIA: We haven't really had a trip with small kids like this at all.

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VIRGINIA: Even when you were young, the first time you went was five.

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VIRGINIA: I have never been to Disney with a kid who is pretty much potty trained, but there were pull-ups at night and things like that.

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VIRGINIA: It was a different kind of trip.

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VIRGINIA: Even when we have gone with bigger groups, like we went with your uncle Jason and his kids, like all of the cousins on that side are very similar in age to you.

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VIRGINIA: Different than we're used to, but still it was a good trip.

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VIRGINIA: I think that they had a great time and we'll talk at the end about how they felt about it and then hopefully we'll have Jordan on.

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VIRGINIA: She has agreed to come and do a little segment.

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VIRGINIA: Hopefully I'll be editing that into the end of the episode so that people can hear her thoughts on her favorite things.

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VIRGINIA: But I did want to say here in public for everyone to hear, Alex, you were fantastic on this trip.

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VIRGINIA: You were so helpful for the kids and Maddox, obviously we knew going into this that he thought that you hung the moon.

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VIRGINIA: But now we have Presley and Oliver who have joined the Alex fan club.

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VIRGINIA: You were like in it.

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VIRGINIA: You were pushing the stroller.

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VIRGINIA: You were holding hands.

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VIRGINIA: You were at certain points picking up kids.

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VIRGINIA: You were helping with bathroom visits and doing a little bit of babysitting.

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VIRGINIA: So 10 out of 10, you really held your own in this group and definitely were, I'm going to say, I've always thought it was funny that Disney considers 10 and up to be adult, but you're 13 and you definitely held up your adult end of the bargain for this trip, so well done.

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ALEX: Born to be a cap counselor.

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VIRGINIA: Yes, for sure.

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VIRGINIA: I've always said that and this is just like evidence of that.

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VIRGINIA: So a couple of notes before we get into all the day-to-day details, just because if somebody did not listen to the pre-trip report, I think it's important to note a few things.

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VIRGINIA: Number one, we did end up renting a stroller for this trip, so we could not have done this trip without that double stroller.

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VIRGINIA: It was absolutely critical, right?

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ALEX: Yeah.

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ALEX: I actually loved playing with the kids.

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ALEX: They were in the stroller and the strollers, they had these little Velcro looking things on the top that would make it so you're able to see through the-

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VIRGINIA: To where they're sitting.

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ALEX: Yeah, to where they're sitting.

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ALEX: And I would open it and do a silly face and make them laugh.

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ALEX: They had very cute laughs, so it was enjoyable.

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VIRGINIA: It really helped us get the group where we needed to go.

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VIRGINIA: I was going to do the stroller rental from the scooter bug, or rather my sister, Jordan, was going to do it from scooter bug.

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VIRGINIA: But it's a lot getting a family of five to go on a Disney trip and time got away from her.

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VIRGINIA: And so a few days before we left, she was like, Oh my God, I forgot to rent the stroller.

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VIRGINIA: So scooter bug was actually filled up for the day that we needed to do the pickup.

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VIRGINIA: And the reason we were going to try to do scooter bug was because they will drop off and pick up the stroller from your resort without you having to be there physically to accept it or to give it back.

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VIRGINIA: And so since we weren't able to do that, I ended up using Kingdom Strollers, which is the company that I rented the stroller from on your very first trip, Alex, when we rented the stroller for you.

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VIRGINIA: And, you know, besides the fact that you have to be there when they drop it off and you have to be there to hand it back to them at the end of your trip, which they can't really help because Disney has contracted with ScooterBug and said that now ScooterBug is the only one that can can do it without the person there.

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VIRGINIA: Besides that, which, again, is not Kingdom Stroller's fault, you know, I really enjoyed our experience with Kingdom Strollers.

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VIRGINIA: It was super easy to rent it.

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VIRGINIA: It came with a rain cover.

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VIRGINIA: It came with a little cooler to go underneath the stroller.

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VIRGINIA: It came clearly marked with our family's name on it.

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VIRGINIA: So that was, you know, it went as smoothly as it possibly could have been.

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VIRGINIA: And both when they brought the stroller to us and when they were picking the stroller back up from us at the end, we had designated times, but they also about 10 or 15 minutes before, sent a text message saying the driver is almost there, which I thought was really helpful.

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VIRGINIA: So I would definitely recommend Kingdom Strollers as a company to use.

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VIRGINIA: The other thing I just wanted to mention going into this is that my sister's fiance, Audrie, did qualify for the Disability Access Service.

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VIRGINIA: And so that's called DAS.

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VIRGINIA: And so our family had never used that service before.

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VIRGINIA: So with that service, we did have two pre-booked lightning lanes per day.

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VIRGINIA: So that's just something to note.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: Let's get into it.

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VIRGINIA: We got a lot of days to cover.

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VIRGINIA: We got a whole week's worth of days.

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VIRGINIA: So starting on Saturday, February 17th, we awoke to snow, did we not?

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ALEX: Yes, we did.

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VIRGINIA: So I took some pictures out the window of the car on our way to the airport, and it was just a winter wonderland, a very dark winter wonderland, because it was the middle of the night.

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ALEX: It was so beautiful, though.

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ALEX: The snow was like fresh, fresh snow.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: So we were originally, our flight was supposed to leave out of Newark Airport, actually, at 6 a.m.

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VIRGINIA: So we were out the door at like 3 a.m.

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VIRGINIA: It was real, real early.

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VIRGINIA: But you love that, driving through Manhattan in the dark.

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VIRGINIA: We got there and everything was scheduled to go on time.

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VIRGINIA: We got on the plane, but then we ended up sort of sitting on the plane for about an hour because they needed to de-ice it so that we could even take off.

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VIRGINIA: So we were originally supposed to land about an hour and 20, an hour or 30 before them.

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VIRGINIA: But because of our delay, we actually landed at 1010, which was not that much before them at all.

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VIRGINIA: So we took a shuttle bus over to Terminal C at MCO.

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VIRGINIA: So the one complaint I have about that is that there were absolutely no signs as to where to pick up the shuttle bus.

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VIRGINIA: So when we went downstairs, we were kind of wandering.

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VIRGINIA: And then finally, I was Googling to try to see where it picked up at.

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VIRGINIA: It had the wrong information, so I just stopped at an information desk.

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VIRGINIA: And it turns out for anybody who's looking for the shuttle bus that goes from Terminal B over to C, it picks up on level one and it's in parking spot 16.

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VIRGINIA: So that was a very short ride and easy once we got on it.

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VIRGINIA: So we met them at Terminal C at their baggage claim.

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VIRGINIA: And Alex, how did you how did you feel seeing the kids light up the minute that they saw you?

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VIRGINIA: It was like you were a celebrity, basically.

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ALEX: It was like, oh, my God, Alex, it's Alex, it's Alex.

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VIRGINIA: You immediately were in entertaining mode for them, which was nice because they were still waiting for their luggage.

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VIRGINIA: So they needed some entertainment while they waited for their luggage to come out.

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VIRGINIA: So you handled that.

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VIRGINIA: And then I put in a mobile order at Starbucks for all of the adults so that we could have coffee because we definitely needed it.

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VIRGINIA: I got you got none.

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VIRGINIA: And I was going to say I was going to say thank you for being willing to not get one because I knew if I got out, Alex normally will drink coffee.

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VIRGINIA: Alex likes coffee just like I do.

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VIRGINIA: And when we go to Starbucks, yeah, he gets coffee every single time, but I sort of pulled him to the side and I was like, can I just not order you a coffee because I order you a coffee?

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VIRGINIA: I'm going to have to order all these kids drinks and they cannot handle having drinks while we're in the airport, while we're trying to get the luggage and etc, etc, etc.

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VIRGINIA: And you were very, very accommodating.

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VIRGINIA: So thank you so much for that.

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VIRGINIA: Why don't you talk about how the journey from the airport to the resort went?

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ALEX: Well, what happened was we came over, we got on the bus to go to Disney.

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VIRGINIA: The Mears bus?

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ALEX: Yes, the Mears bus.

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ALEX: We made stops at Polynesian, Shades of Green, Grand Floridian, and then to our resort, Wilderness Lodge.

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ALEX: Then we checked in and got our bags situated.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah, we took them to Bell Services and left them with them.

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ALEX: Then we had some lunch at the Roaring Fork because we didn't really have lunch, like any reservations, so we ate at Bell Service.

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VIRGINIA: That was our plan all along.

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ALEX: It was a pretty long wait for our mobile order.

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VIRGINIA: I had the tuna sandwich and I will say the tuna sandwich was very good, so I would recommend that to anybody who's getting a Roaring Fork.

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ALEX: I got a cheeseburger and then we got our refillable mugs, which was pretty cool mugs.

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ALEX: After that, our room was ready.

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ALEX: As we were eating, we were like, oh, our room's ready.

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VIRGINIA: I will pause to say that because I don't think I mentioned it yet for anybody who didn't listen to the Pre-Trip Report.

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VIRGINIA: We were staying in a two-bedroom villa in the Copper Creek section of Wilderness Lodge.

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VIRGINIA: The two-bedroom villa is nice because it has a big, spacious living room, full kitchen, two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a washer-dryer, all of that.

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VIRGINIA: In our configuration, Charles and I had the primary bedroom.

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VIRGINIA: Jordan and Audrie shared the secondary bedroom with the two three-year-olds, Presley and Oliver, and Alex shared the pullout couch with the seven-year-old Maddox.

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ALEX: Yeah.

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ALEX: Let's just say it was hectic in the three-year-old room, de-hectic.

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VIRGINIA: Yes, it was.

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ALEX: Yeah.

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ALEX: We'll go into that later because there's a ton of stuff to explain.

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ALEX: Anyways, we got our luggage and our Amazon fresh orders.

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VIRGINIA: We ordered a ton of stuff.

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ALEX: Yeah.

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ALEX: We got maybe too much stuff, actually.

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ALEX: We had a whole fridge full after the trip because there was stuff left over.

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ALEX: At one point, Audrie, Jordan's fiance, she ordered hundreds of Eggo waffles.

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ALEX: I think it was Jordan that ordered that.

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ALEX: We got like five boxes of Eggo waffles and I have to admit, they were pretty good and they were easy to make.

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VIRGINIA: They were like chocolate chip waffles because the kids were into them.

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ALEX: I was obsessed, but I couldn't bring them home with me because they would melt.

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ALEX: Anyways, we got a ton of food.

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ALEX: We got bacon, eggs, cheese, English muffins, bread, yogurt, fruit, yada, yada, candy, and all that like milk and stuff and then we had some quiet time with no naps and we decided to start unpacking.

00:16:34.071 --> 00:16:38.631
VIRGINIA: Now we had intended for the kids to take naps, but it just was not going to happen.

00:16:38.651 --> 00:16:39.611
VIRGINIA: They were too excited.

00:16:39.951 --> 00:16:49.871
ALEX: Oh yeah, they were they were ecstatic and then after that, my mother here, she got the kids a ton of Disney pins and to split with all of them.

00:16:50.311 --> 00:16:58.671
VIRGINIA: We were supposed to do this trip like a long time ago, like we were supposed to do this trip when Maddox was five and he's seven now.

00:16:59.271 --> 00:17:01.511
VIRGINIA: So I had been collecting these pins.

00:17:01.531 --> 00:17:04.471
VIRGINIA: I didn't just go out and buy a bunch of pins at the last minute.

00:17:04.491 --> 00:17:08.731
VIRGINIA: I had been collecting pins every time we've been to Disney for years now.

00:17:09.391 --> 00:17:11.371
VIRGINIA: And so I had it.

00:17:12.751 --> 00:17:15.051
VIRGINIA: Well luckily, it gave me a chance to save up pins.

00:17:15.071 --> 00:17:22.791
VIRGINIA: And now that Jordan is engaged to Audrie and Oliver is in the picture, it was great because I had plenty for all three.

00:17:22.811 --> 00:17:27.671
VIRGINIA: So every kid got, I think, nine pins each.

00:17:27.691 --> 00:17:33.811
VIRGINIA: And Maddox got 10 in a little bargain we made because he wanted the lanyard.

00:17:33.831 --> 00:17:42.311
VIRGINIA: Like all the lanyards were the same that I got them, but I had gotten them different containers of hand sanitizer to hang on the lanyard so they could tell which one was which.

00:17:43.051 --> 00:17:52.071
VIRGINIA: And he had to give up the one that he had kind of wanted to his younger brother because it was a spaceship looking one with the aliens with the claw.

00:17:52.811 --> 00:17:54.931
VIRGINIA: And Presley is obsessed with space.

00:17:55.131 --> 00:17:57.311
VIRGINIA: And so we struck a deal.

00:17:57.651 --> 00:18:07.971
VIRGINIA: We shook hands on it that if he gave that one up to Presley, that when we did this pin exchange that he would get to pick two on the first round.

00:18:08.191 --> 00:18:11.131
VIRGINIA: And then for every other round, everybody got to pick one.

00:18:11.151 --> 00:18:13.871
VIRGINIA: So at the end of the day, he ended up with 10 pins.

00:18:14.571 --> 00:18:19.071
VIRGINIA: Oliver and Presley each ended up with nine pins on their lanyards to pin trade.

00:18:19.231 --> 00:18:21.151
VIRGINIA: So I thought that was fun.

00:18:21.291 --> 00:18:23.551
VIRGINIA: Did you like I keep calling it pinpalooza.

00:18:23.551 --> 00:18:24.751
VIRGINIA: Did you like pinpalooza?

00:18:25.311 --> 00:18:27.711
ALEX: It was sad for me watching the boys.

00:18:28.291 --> 00:18:28.791
VIRGINIA: Why?

00:18:28.791 --> 00:18:31.791
ALEX: Boys get their pins and I'm left with nothing.

00:18:31.811 --> 00:18:33.811
ALEX: Oh, I tell you.

00:18:34.251 --> 00:18:34.671
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:18:35.151 --> 00:18:35.571
VIRGINIA: I am.

00:18:35.911 --> 00:18:38.271
VIRGINIA: I do not feel any sympathy for you.

00:18:39.891 --> 00:18:50.311
VIRGINIA: A because my mother, you had a Disney gift card that I got you going into this trip and you did not spend a dollar of it.

00:18:50.651 --> 00:18:56.231
VIRGINIA: And I ended up buying you things on this trip and you still have a $50 Disney gift card to use.

00:18:57.191 --> 00:19:03.231
ALEX: Well, somehow, half the stores like in Disney don't actually take those cards, which is so confusing.

00:19:03.311 --> 00:19:05.531
VIRGINIA: No, that's not actually true.

00:19:05.731 --> 00:19:09.371
VIRGINIA: Every single Disney store takes the Disney gift card.

00:19:09.611 --> 00:19:15.971
VIRGINIA: You just kept forgetting that you had it on your phone because I had loaded it into your Apple Wallet.

00:19:16.151 --> 00:19:22.391
ALEX: Because you told me you were like, if I wanted to go shopping at a store, you were just like, oh, yeah, I don't think they take those cards.

00:19:23.011 --> 00:19:24.751
ALEX: And I was like, okay, I won't use the cards.

00:19:25.111 --> 00:19:26.431
ALEX: And you're telling me this now.

00:19:26.451 --> 00:19:28.551
VIRGINIA: I'm like, oh, no, no, no.

00:19:28.671 --> 00:19:29.751
VIRGINIA: I know what you're talking about now.

00:19:29.771 --> 00:19:30.131
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:19:30.131 --> 00:19:30.491
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:19:30.531 --> 00:19:34.531
VIRGINIA: I think you wanted to use it at Mitsukoshi in Japan.

00:19:35.191 --> 00:19:40.871
VIRGINIA: And I don't think they take Disney gift card there because that store is owned by some other company.

00:19:40.931 --> 00:19:42.311
ALEX: No, you said it multiple times.

00:19:42.331 --> 00:19:46.591
ALEX: You were like, for multiple stores, you were like, oh, yeah, they don't accept those.

00:19:47.791 --> 00:19:53.151
VIRGINIA: Well, I still don't feel bad for you because when they did not accept those things, what did I do?

00:19:53.171 --> 00:19:54.611
VIRGINIA: I paid for your purchase.

00:19:54.751 --> 00:19:56.291
VIRGINIA: So I'm not going to feel bad.

00:19:56.331 --> 00:19:58.491
VIRGINIA: You still have $50 in Disney gift cards.

00:19:58.591 --> 00:20:01.631
VIRGINIA: If you want to go spend it on pins, you are more than welcome.

00:20:02.591 --> 00:20:02.731
VIRGINIA: Mr.

00:20:02.871 --> 00:20:08.431
VIRGINIA: has a lightsaber in his hand as we record and has about 10 other lightsabers right next to him.

00:20:08.591 --> 00:20:10.711
VIRGINIA: So there you go.

00:20:11.051 --> 00:20:12.671
ALEX: Y'all can't see it, but we can.

00:20:13.251 --> 00:20:16.811
VIRGINIA: Yeah, he's threatening me with a lightsaber.

00:20:17.011 --> 00:20:18.291
ALEX: We'll get into that story later.

00:20:18.291 --> 00:20:19.911
ALEX: We'll get into the lightsaber story later.

00:20:20.331 --> 00:20:20.751
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:20:20.751 --> 00:20:23.511
VIRGINIA: So let's move on because we still got lots of days to cover.

00:20:23.511 --> 00:20:28.211
VIRGINIA: So after Pinpalooza, we actually had a dinner reservation at Whispering Canyon.

00:20:29.931 --> 00:20:35.871
VIRGINIA: And I remember I had the Lake and Sea skillet, which was the one with salmon and it was delicious.

00:20:36.411 --> 00:20:39.991
VIRGINIA: But my favorite parts were the cornbread and the coleslaw and the potatoes.

00:20:40.131 --> 00:20:42.551
VIRGINIA: So do you remember what you got?

00:20:42.551 --> 00:20:44.051
VIRGINIA: Did you get the barbecue one?

00:20:44.351 --> 00:20:45.711
ALEX: Yeah, I got something like that.

00:20:45.751 --> 00:20:50.271
ALEX: But what I remember is I got a bit too full.

00:20:50.291 --> 00:20:52.991
ALEX: So I was like, Mom, I got to sit down.

00:20:53.311 --> 00:20:56.271
ALEX: What I mean sit down, I mean, like sit down on the comfy chairs and a lot.

00:20:56.291 --> 00:20:57.471
VIRGINIA: You were sitting down at the table.

00:20:57.491 --> 00:20:58.771
VIRGINIA: It's not like you were standing and eating.

00:20:59.631 --> 00:21:06.011
ALEX: Yeah, no, like I need to sit down at the comfy chairs because I ate way too much.

00:21:06.371 --> 00:21:14.671
ALEX: By the way, as we were at Whispering Canyon, our waitress from last trip was actually there.

00:21:14.691 --> 00:21:15.891
ALEX: Yeah, she was there.

00:21:16.271 --> 00:21:17.931
ALEX: Her name was Sweet and Sour.

00:21:19.431 --> 00:21:27.391
ALEX: I have to say, I have to say, please, if you go to Whispering Canyon, say hi to Sweet and Sour.

00:21:27.411 --> 00:21:32.151
ALEX: She is one of the nicest human beings, and she is actually funny too.

00:21:32.351 --> 00:21:33.171
ALEX: She's so funny.

00:21:34.491 --> 00:21:34.991
ALEX: Yeah.

00:21:35.171 --> 00:21:38.791
ALEX: She wasn't a waitress this time though, which made me sad, but that was okay.

00:21:39.291 --> 00:21:42.131
VIRGINIA: But she came by our table and said stuff to us.

00:21:42.291 --> 00:21:43.331
ALEX: Oh, yeah.

00:21:43.351 --> 00:21:48.911
ALEX: She kept trying to talk to Presley, but then he started climbing on the chair as she was talking to him.

00:21:48.931 --> 00:21:50.811
ALEX: She was like, excuse me, I'm trying to talk to you.

00:21:54.171 --> 00:21:55.171
VIRGINIA: Yeah, it was good.

00:21:55.351 --> 00:21:56.271
VIRGINIA: The food was good.

00:21:56.371 --> 00:21:58.891
VIRGINIA: I think it was a fun experience.

00:21:59.111 --> 00:22:06.431
VIRGINIA: After dinner, I took the kids over into the mercantile to have their first pin trading experience.

00:22:06.471 --> 00:22:08.851
VIRGINIA: I cannot honestly remember if any pins were traded.

00:22:08.871 --> 00:22:09.771
VIRGINIA: I don't think they were.

00:22:10.831 --> 00:22:12.051
VIRGINIA: No, there was one.

00:22:12.071 --> 00:22:13.211
ALEX: I think there was one.

00:22:13.831 --> 00:22:14.091
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:22:14.111 --> 00:22:15.851
VIRGINIA: I just wanted to show them what it was like.

00:22:16.071 --> 00:22:18.731
VIRGINIA: Alex and I have never pin traded before.

00:22:18.751 --> 00:22:20.491
VIRGINIA: We've not been a pin trading family.

00:22:21.151 --> 00:22:28.291
VIRGINIA: What I noticed every time we pin traded was that the pin trading boards in general don't have great pins.

00:22:28.471 --> 00:22:31.691
VIRGINIA: They were all like more want pins.

00:22:32.251 --> 00:22:44.491
VIRGINIA: But occasionally, you would see individual guests pulling out pin trading books and setting them out for people to wander past and trade, and they had the good stuff.

00:22:44.911 --> 00:22:48.731
VIRGINIA: There was pin trading that happened over the course of the week, really with Maddox.

00:22:48.751 --> 00:22:49.831
VIRGINIA: Maddox got into it.

00:22:50.491 --> 00:22:56.011
VIRGINIA: I would say his most successful trades were the ones with just regular random guests that we came across.

00:22:56.351 --> 00:22:58.091
VIRGINIA: I'm still glad I got everybody pins.

00:22:58.271 --> 00:23:00.231
VIRGINIA: It was fun and it gave them like a souvenir.

00:23:01.171 --> 00:23:15.371
VIRGINIA: After we did that, it was actually time for the kids to go to bed because they go to bed at 7.30, maybe they should go to bed earlier than that, but based on dinner and everything, it was a little bit of a chaotic bedtime.

00:23:16.531 --> 00:23:17.311
ALEX: Oh, God.

00:23:17.491 --> 00:23:18.411
VIRGINIA: It was chaos.

00:23:18.431 --> 00:23:19.171
VIRGINIA: It was like-

00:23:19.191 --> 00:23:20.731
ALEX: The torture, the pain.

00:23:21.491 --> 00:23:24.711
VIRGINIA: It was like, I mean, this was our first night, so we had no idea what to expect.

00:23:24.731 --> 00:23:28.631
VIRGINIA: It was like, it felt like tornadoes going through the room because the kids were just like-

00:23:29.291 --> 00:23:33.031
ALEX: They were running around for no apparent reason.

00:23:33.651 --> 00:23:42.431
ALEX: They started running back and forth through the room, and at one point, I started chasing them to try and get it out of their system, but it wouldn't come out of their system.

00:23:42.511 --> 00:23:47.651
ALEX: I was like, okay, so this has got to stop now because they're not going to get tired at any point.

00:23:48.691 --> 00:23:52.111
ALEX: Eventually, I started getting serious and I was like, kids, you guys got to calm down.

00:23:53.211 --> 00:23:57.071
ALEX: They thought I was still trying to chase them, so that made them run even more.

00:23:57.911 --> 00:23:58.871
ALEX: How does that work?

00:23:59.451 --> 00:23:59.951
VIRGINIA: I don't know.

00:24:00.331 --> 00:24:17.791
VIRGINIA: But eventually, we got them calmed down enough that Oliver and Presley did fall asleep in the second bedroom, Charles fell asleep in the primary bedroom, so this was the first of Alex's babysitting duties that he did.

00:24:17.791 --> 00:24:34.551
VIRGINIA: So he was left to watch the medics and watch a little TV together while Jordan and Audrie and I stepped out downstairs to territory lounge to have a couple of drinks and sit and chat here on our first night at Disney.

00:24:34.551 --> 00:24:41.031
VIRGINIA: So I made a note that at territory lounge, I ended up getting the orchard bounty and it was really delicious.

00:24:41.051 --> 00:24:42.771
VIRGINIA: In fact, I got it again later in the week.

00:24:42.791 --> 00:24:52.991
VIRGINIA: So it was kettle one, botanical peach and orange blossom vodka with Dolan Blanc vermouth, Aperol liqueur and house-made Pinot Gris syrup.

00:24:53.151 --> 00:24:53.991
VIRGINIA: It was delicious.

00:24:54.071 --> 00:24:57.691
VIRGINIA: And this was Alex's very first time being paid to babysit.

00:24:58.351 --> 00:25:12.131
VIRGINIA: And he did a great job, except that when we got back from our territory lounge adventure, this babysitter, now to be fair, like everyone was asleep in the room, but the babysitter was also asleep.

00:25:12.451 --> 00:25:16.231
ALEX: So like I could explain though, I could explain.

00:25:16.691 --> 00:25:25.631
ALEX: So what happened was, what happened was, is the littles went to sleep and me and Maddox, we like stayed up and watched TV.

00:25:26.131 --> 00:25:30.011
ALEX: And then eventually I was like, okay, dude, so it's getting late.

00:25:30.031 --> 00:25:30.951
ALEX: You got to go to bed now.

00:25:30.971 --> 00:25:32.071
ALEX: So I turned off the TV.

00:25:32.791 --> 00:25:35.851
ALEX: And then I realized how quiet it was in the room.

00:25:36.091 --> 00:25:37.611
ALEX: And it got all relaxing.

00:25:37.631 --> 00:25:40.531
ALEX: And I felt like I was in the clouds.

00:25:40.931 --> 00:25:41.951
ALEX: And then I fell asleep.

00:25:42.031 --> 00:25:43.851
VIRGINIA: You had had a really long day at that point.

00:25:44.131 --> 00:25:44.971
ALEX: Everything will hurt.

00:25:45.351 --> 00:25:46.131
ALEX: Everything hurt.

00:25:46.991 --> 00:25:48.711
ALEX: So like I was ready for bed.

00:25:48.731 --> 00:25:50.091
ALEX: And so I just I fell asleep.

00:25:50.971 --> 00:25:53.351
ALEX: I fell asleep like on my phone too.

00:25:53.371 --> 00:25:57.791
ALEX: I was looking at my phone and I fell asleep on my phone, like without warning.

00:25:57.811 --> 00:25:58.231
ALEX: Like I just...

00:25:59.411 --> 00:26:00.171
VIRGINIA: Lesson learned.

00:26:00.191 --> 00:26:02.971
VIRGINIA: When you are the one on the job, you should not be falling asleep.

00:26:03.031 --> 00:26:03.991
ALEX: I still got paid though.

00:26:04.431 --> 00:26:06.591
VIRGINIA: You still got paid and that was the only time you did that.

00:26:06.611 --> 00:26:08.851
VIRGINIA: So you get one pass on that.

00:26:09.591 --> 00:26:10.411
VIRGINIA: And they were all asleep.

00:26:10.591 --> 00:26:11.251
VIRGINIA: It was fine.

00:26:11.691 --> 00:26:17.891
VIRGINIA: Anyway, at this point, we had, you know, while we were out for our drinks, we had kind of been talking about like the weather.

00:26:18.431 --> 00:26:33.651
VIRGINIA: So our original plan was that the next day on Sunday was supposed to be the first Park Day because our family has annual passes, but their family of five had six Park Hopper Day tickets.

00:26:34.051 --> 00:26:41.991
VIRGINIA: And so the plan was that the first Park Day would be on Sunday, and then there would be no Park Day on our departure day the following Saturday.

00:26:42.611 --> 00:26:43.751
VIRGINIA: It was not looking good.

00:26:43.771 --> 00:26:49.471
VIRGINIA: It looked like it was going to rain the entire day on Sunday, and it did rain the entire day on Sunday.

00:26:49.471 --> 00:27:04.111
VIRGINIA: So we decided that night before we went to bed to pivot, and we decided that Sunday we would not go into a park, and instead we would start our park days on Monday and actually go into the park on our departure day, which was not originally part of the plans.

00:27:04.171 --> 00:27:07.631
VIRGINIA: So Sunday, we had basically a whole day to fill.

00:27:08.111 --> 00:27:12.611
VIRGINIA: So first we had breakfast in the room with all of our amazing Amazon Fresh groceries.

00:27:13.031 --> 00:27:14.891
VIRGINIA: Charles was making bacon.

00:27:14.911 --> 00:27:17.271
VIRGINIA: There were bacon, egg and cheeses being made.

00:27:17.291 --> 00:27:19.051
VIRGINIA: There were chocolate chip waffles.

00:27:19.071 --> 00:27:20.471
VIRGINIA: There were cereal being poured.

00:27:21.411 --> 00:27:28.231
VIRGINIA: It felt a little bit like the scene at the beginning of Home Alone when they're all frantically doing stuff in the kitchen.

00:27:29.711 --> 00:27:31.451
VIRGINIA: But that's what we did.

00:27:31.571 --> 00:27:38.751
VIRGINIA: And then after that wound down, we ended up going on the Hidden Mickey scavenger hunt around Wilderness Lodge.

00:27:39.211 --> 00:27:52.291
VIRGINIA: So you and I have done that before, but I thought it would be a great way for them to get the lay of the land with the resort and also learn what a Hidden Mickey is because these kids, they had no idea what a Hidden Mickey was.

00:27:52.991 --> 00:27:55.371
VIRGINIA: So we taught them, we walked around.

00:27:55.391 --> 00:27:59.111
VIRGINIA: You can get the scavenger hunt challenge at the front desk, and they actually have two.

00:27:59.111 --> 00:28:04.051
VIRGINIA: They have one for Wilderness Lodge proper, and then they have one for the Boulder Ridge building.

00:28:04.071 --> 00:28:06.731
VIRGINIA: So you can do one, both, whatever.

00:28:06.891 --> 00:28:13.011
VIRGINIA: And then when you're done, you bring it back, your filled out piece of paper to the front desk, and you get a prize.

00:28:13.391 --> 00:28:17.511
VIRGINIA: And previously, the prize was a certificate saying that you completed it.

00:28:18.091 --> 00:28:22.031
VIRGINIA: And I think it was like an autographed picture of the Fab Five.

00:28:22.051 --> 00:28:25.651
VIRGINIA: And I'm going to say autographed with like quotation marks, because obviously it was just a print.

00:28:26.131 --> 00:28:27.451
VIRGINIA: This time there was none of that.

00:28:27.471 --> 00:28:33.891
VIRGINIA: But they gave out Disney pins that said, I completed the hidden Mickey scavenger hunt challenge.

00:28:34.331 --> 00:28:35.431
VIRGINIA: So I thought that was even better.

00:28:35.931 --> 00:28:44.331
VIRGINIA: So after that, you were in the arcade a bit, and we were trying to do some arcade things with the kids.

00:28:44.351 --> 00:28:45.371
VIRGINIA: That was fun, but tough.

00:28:45.731 --> 00:28:48.411
ALEX: I had a lot of beef with this one arcade game.

00:28:48.851 --> 00:28:57.371
ALEX: It was like a racing game, and it screwed me over so many times, and I was determined to get first place in the game.

00:28:57.851 --> 00:29:08.531
ALEX: So the thing is with the game, it's a very fun game, but every time I kept turning, it would either turn me too much or not turn me enough.

00:29:09.051 --> 00:29:11.331
ALEX: So then it really like it like breaks the game.

00:29:11.851 --> 00:29:12.971
ALEX: So then I was determined.

00:29:12.991 --> 00:29:16.911
ALEX: So y'all went back went back up to the room, and I was just chilling on there.

00:29:16.931 --> 00:29:18.771
ALEX: And well, not really chilling.

00:29:18.791 --> 00:29:21.911
ALEX: I was pretty upset because the thing kept screwing me over.

00:29:22.911 --> 00:29:24.691
ALEX: You know, children saw me angry.

00:29:24.711 --> 00:29:26.071
ALEX: They saw my face turning red.

00:29:26.091 --> 00:29:27.911
ALEX: They thought I was the Red Hulk.

00:29:28.191 --> 00:29:30.991
ALEX: Basically, I found out like Lightning McQueen.

00:29:31.151 --> 00:29:34.091
ALEX: If I go hard enough left, I'll find myself going right.

00:29:35.271 --> 00:29:36.591
VIRGINIA: Lessons were learned.

00:29:36.751 --> 00:29:37.631
ALEX: I learned how to drift.

00:29:37.651 --> 00:29:46.491
ALEX: A little word of advice for people who want to get first place in that game, as you're turning, like right before you turn, press the brake and then turn, and then you'll start drifting.

00:29:46.791 --> 00:29:47.691
ALEX: Turn left to go right.

00:29:48.151 --> 00:29:48.551
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:29:48.631 --> 00:29:48.931
ALEX: Yeah.

00:29:49.511 --> 00:29:50.011
VIRGINIA: Noted.

00:29:50.091 --> 00:29:51.731
VIRGINIA: I don't think I'll ever use that advice.

00:29:51.951 --> 00:29:56.231
VIRGINIA: I am not an arcade person, but you always, you always enjoy putting in a little bit of arcade time.

00:29:56.551 --> 00:29:56.991
ALEX: Oh, yes.

00:29:57.291 --> 00:30:01.991
VIRGINIA: A lot of the games were too hard for the littles, which is what we kept referring to them as on this trip.

00:30:02.011 --> 00:30:06.071
VIRGINIA: We kept calling Oliver and Prostly, our three-year-olds, the littles.

00:30:06.491 --> 00:30:08.851
VIRGINIA: They tried on a couple of the games.

00:30:08.871 --> 00:30:15.691
VIRGINIA: There was like a sort of like a Whac-A-Mole type thing, and it was tough to get them interested in.

00:30:15.691 --> 00:30:16.591
VIRGINIA: So that was fine.

00:30:17.071 --> 00:30:26.311
VIRGINIA: From there, we ended up getting our lunch mobile orders from Geyser Point and ended up just eating it in the room, because again, it was raining.

00:30:26.471 --> 00:30:28.631
VIRGINIA: It was raining nonstop on this day.

00:30:28.751 --> 00:30:33.731
VIRGINIA: And Geyser Point, if you have never been to Geyser Point, is open on all the sides.

00:30:33.851 --> 00:30:39.091
VIRGINIA: They do pull down some shades to kind of keep the wind and the rain out when it is raining like that.

00:30:39.111 --> 00:30:41.851
VIRGINIA: But it did not look like it was going to help that much.

00:30:41.871 --> 00:30:43.491
VIRGINIA: So we did our order.

00:30:43.511 --> 00:30:45.591
VIRGINIA: We went and picked it up and we just ate inside.

00:30:46.231 --> 00:30:58.331
VIRGINIA: And from here, we kind of divided off Alex and my sister Jordan and myself and decided that the three of us were going to go on an adventure over to the character warehouse.

00:30:58.691 --> 00:31:02.971
VIRGINIA: And apparently everyone else under the sun had that same idea.

00:31:02.991 --> 00:31:05.871
ALEX: I never ended up going to the character warehouse.

00:31:06.191 --> 00:31:06.991
ALEX: That was Maddox.

00:31:07.211 --> 00:31:09.391
VIRGINIA: Oh, did Maddox come with me to the character warehouse?

00:31:09.851 --> 00:31:13.251
ALEX: Yeah, Maddox went with you and he got these golden Pokemon cards.

00:31:13.771 --> 00:31:15.111
VIRGINIA: Oh, you are right.

00:31:15.391 --> 00:31:16.931
VIRGINIA: I don't know why I thought that was you.

00:31:17.311 --> 00:31:18.931
VIRGINIA: You look nothing like a seven-year-old.

00:31:20.631 --> 00:31:21.771
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:31:23.171 --> 00:31:27.891
VIRGINIA: Okay, so I went to the character warehouse with Jordan and with Maddox and it was raining.

00:31:27.911 --> 00:31:34.611
VIRGINIA: We had to actually wait in line in the queue outside kind of in the rain, like with umbrellas up and everything to get in to the warehouse.

00:31:35.431 --> 00:31:38.511
VIRGINIA: And Maddox did not find anything in the character warehouse.

00:31:38.531 --> 00:31:40.311
VIRGINIA: He wanted, I got...

00:31:40.471 --> 00:31:41.971
ALEX: He just got some Pokemon cards.

00:31:41.991 --> 00:31:42.511
ALEX: That's it.

00:31:42.831 --> 00:31:46.911
VIRGINIA: Yeah, he got Pokemon cards from the little kiosk that's right outside the store.

00:31:46.931 --> 00:31:48.611
VIRGINIA: He saw it while we were waiting in line.

00:31:48.731 --> 00:31:50.031
VIRGINIA: That's all I could think about.

00:31:50.351 --> 00:31:55.951
VIRGINIA: And then, of course, he couldn't think about anything else when we were in the store that he would want.

00:31:55.971 --> 00:32:03.451
VIRGINIA: So I grabbed a couple of gifts for my friend Nancy, who was back home watching our little pup, Walter.

00:32:05.791 --> 00:32:08.611
VIRGINIA: And yeah, I didn't get too many things there.

00:32:08.691 --> 00:32:14.571
VIRGINIA: From there, once we were back at the room, we ended up ordering food from a couple of different places.

00:32:14.591 --> 00:32:18.551
VIRGINIA: So a couple of you, I think you were involved in the sushi crew, right?

00:32:18.571 --> 00:32:19.671
VIRGINIA: That was, yes.

00:32:19.691 --> 00:32:22.051
ALEX: No, no, I ordered sushi and ramen.

00:32:22.931 --> 00:32:24.751
VIRGINIA: Sushi and ramen from Grubhug.

00:32:25.691 --> 00:32:30.591
VIRGINIA: And I ordered a Roaring Fork takeout, which I was rather happy with.

00:32:30.611 --> 00:32:31.671
VIRGINIA: That was so good.

00:32:31.751 --> 00:32:35.191
VIRGINIA: I ordered the country style baked meatloaf.

00:32:35.371 --> 00:32:37.831
VIRGINIA: It came with peas and mashed potatoes and gravy.

00:32:38.631 --> 00:32:40.111
VIRGINIA: And it was delicious.

00:32:40.131 --> 00:32:43.051
VIRGINIA: In fact, I ended up ordering it another time during the trip.

00:32:43.071 --> 00:32:43.631
VIRGINIA: It was so good.

00:32:44.071 --> 00:32:49.551
VIRGINIA: And then I ordered myself a dessert, which I don't normally do every single meal or anything.

00:32:49.571 --> 00:32:54.811
VIRGINIA: But I saw this blueberry thyme crumble or pie or it was something like that.

00:32:55.231 --> 00:32:56.111
VIRGINIA: And it was so good.

00:32:56.211 --> 00:33:01.971
VIRGINIA: So highly recommend those from the quick service Roaring Fork right there at Wilderness Lodge.

00:33:02.131 --> 00:33:03.571
VIRGINIA: Affordable, easy.

00:33:03.651 --> 00:33:04.271
VIRGINIA: It's right there.

00:33:04.491 --> 00:33:12.751
VIRGINIA: And then from here, this is where your and my journeys split apart because like I said, it had been raining all day.

00:33:13.011 --> 00:33:21.691
VIRGINIA: My anticipation of the night was that it was going to continue to rain and that if it didn't rain, it was going to be wet.

00:33:21.711 --> 00:33:25.871
VIRGINIA: And I just like it had been, you know, just a kind of miserable day.

00:33:25.871 --> 00:33:27.811
VIRGINIA: And I was not interested in going out at all.

00:33:28.231 --> 00:33:37.951
VIRGINIA: So I decided that I was going to use the bath salts that I brought when I got a massage at Grand Floridian last May.

00:33:38.191 --> 00:33:40.271
VIRGINIA: They gave me a little bath salts parting gift.

00:33:40.291 --> 00:33:41.251
VIRGINIA: So I brought that with me.

00:33:41.831 --> 00:33:49.951
VIRGINIA: I filled up that bathtub in the primary bathroom and I took a very nice bath and read my book.

00:33:50.251 --> 00:33:51.691
VIRGINIA: And then I was in bed by 10.

00:33:52.051 --> 00:33:54.591
VIRGINIA: But you had a totally different journey.

00:33:55.751 --> 00:33:57.231
VIRGINIA: So what was your journey?

00:33:57.651 --> 00:34:03.351
ALEX: I'm sorry, but I really hated being in that hotel room for that long.

00:34:03.671 --> 00:34:10.411
ALEX: Midway through the second day, me and my dad, we were like, Oh God, I hate staying in this hotel room.

00:34:10.851 --> 00:34:12.411
ALEX: I need to get out into the park.

00:34:12.431 --> 00:34:17.911
ALEX: I don't even care if the weather's all messed up, you know, because there's always next trip.

00:34:18.591 --> 00:34:21.271
ALEX: And we weren't like sick of being in that hotel room.

00:34:21.691 --> 00:34:24.931
ALEX: So we were like, we came to the conclusion.

00:34:24.951 --> 00:34:25.851
ALEX: We were just like, you know what?

00:34:25.851 --> 00:34:26.791
ALEX: Yeah, we're going out.

00:34:26.951 --> 00:34:28.811
ALEX: It doesn't even matter if it's raining or anything.

00:34:29.171 --> 00:34:31.351
ALEX: We are sick of being in here for this long.

00:34:31.931 --> 00:34:33.051
ALEX: I was getting bored.

00:34:33.071 --> 00:34:36.811
ALEX: I was also exhausted from watching the kids.

00:34:37.071 --> 00:34:38.431
ALEX: And I was ready to go to the park.

00:34:39.011 --> 00:34:42.711
VIRGINIA: So this was like to just to explain to everybody.

00:34:42.731 --> 00:34:46.351
VIRGINIA: This was probably, I don't know, like 6 or 7 p.m.

00:34:46.371 --> 00:34:46.871
VIRGINIA: by this point.

00:34:46.891 --> 00:34:50.271
VIRGINIA: So you we had literally been in the hotel all day because of the rain.

00:34:50.411 --> 00:34:52.671
VIRGINIA: So, you know, fair enough.

00:34:52.811 --> 00:34:56.271
VIRGINIA: I was happy to have you all go off and have some fun.

00:34:56.291 --> 00:34:57.851
VIRGINIA: I just wanted to relax.

00:34:58.091 --> 00:34:58.951
VIRGINIA: So what did you do?

00:34:58.951 --> 00:35:02.771
VIRGINIA: What fun did you get into at Magic Kingdom with dad?

00:35:03.831 --> 00:35:05.851
ALEX: It was actually like a good time.

00:35:05.891 --> 00:35:08.851
ALEX: Like it was probably the best time I had on the trip.

00:35:09.011 --> 00:35:12.831
ALEX: So what we did was we got to the park by boat.

00:35:12.991 --> 00:35:20.211
ALEX: We will actually we got on the boat and we didn't actually realize that there was a boat that took you straight to Magic Kingdom.

00:35:20.871 --> 00:35:25.351
ALEX: So we went on one that took us to the contemporary.

00:35:25.791 --> 00:35:30.851
VIRGINIA: Oh, you went into the right side of the dock instead of the left.

00:35:30.871 --> 00:35:31.931
ALEX: We didn't understand.

00:35:31.951 --> 00:35:32.751
ALEX: We didn't understand.

00:35:33.151 --> 00:35:40.511
ALEX: So then when we got to the contemporary, we were like, okay, so now that we're here, we can either walk or we'll take the monorail.

00:35:40.931 --> 00:35:43.291
ALEX: So my dad, he was like, oh, we'll take the monorail.

00:35:43.691 --> 00:35:45.731
ALEX: Oh, no, no, no, I'm not done yet.

00:35:45.731 --> 00:35:46.391
ALEX: I'm not done yet.

00:35:46.691 --> 00:35:47.991
VIRGINIA: No, I mean, it gets worse.

00:35:48.011 --> 00:35:48.531
ALEX: It gets worse.

00:35:48.551 --> 00:35:48.991
ALEX: It gets worse.

00:35:49.011 --> 00:35:49.491
ALEX: It gets worse.

00:35:49.651 --> 00:35:58.691
ALEX: I know, because as we get up to the monorail, as we get up to the station, we get into the monorail and it starts moving.

00:35:59.371 --> 00:36:02.931
ALEX: And I realized it was going the opposite direction.

00:36:03.391 --> 00:36:05.171
VIRGINIA: Yeah, that's what I was about to say.

00:36:05.291 --> 00:36:05.631
ALEX: Yeah.

00:36:06.091 --> 00:36:09.551
ALEX: And what happened was we were going the opposite direction.

00:36:10.111 --> 00:36:13.451
ALEX: And dad was just like, here, we'll just go all the way around.

00:36:13.471 --> 00:36:15.211
ALEX: I'm like, do you know how long it's going to take?

00:36:15.891 --> 00:36:17.391
ALEX: Do you know how long it's going to take, my friend?

00:36:17.411 --> 00:36:18.591
ALEX: We're going straight to Epcot.

00:36:21.531 --> 00:36:24.431
VIRGINIA: No, you weren't going to Epcot, but there's no alternative.

00:36:24.491 --> 00:36:28.771
VIRGINIA: Once you're on the monorail going that direction, you're going all the way around.

00:36:28.791 --> 00:36:33.231
VIRGINIA: Because it's not like the subway where it goes back the other way.

00:36:33.771 --> 00:36:35.491
VIRGINIA: So, yeah, all right.

00:36:35.731 --> 00:36:39.551
ALEX: So then we finally, but surely, entered the park.

00:36:40.351 --> 00:36:44.771
ALEX: And, you know, we got to the park and we were like, OK, let's let's have some fun now.

00:36:45.011 --> 00:36:52.411
ALEX: We asked you, I remember calling you and I was like, hey, can you book us some lightning lanes for us to do while we're out here?

00:36:52.431 --> 00:36:54.331
ALEX: And you were like, sure, why not?

00:36:54.571 --> 00:36:56.251
ALEX: And yeah, that was nice.

00:36:56.271 --> 00:36:56.851
ALEX: Thank you.

00:36:57.071 --> 00:37:05.091
VIRGINIA: Just to clarify, because this was late in the day when you asked about lightning lanes, I was not going to pay for Genie Plus for the whole day.

00:37:05.131 --> 00:37:06.291
VIRGINIA: I don't think I did that.

00:37:06.551 --> 00:37:12.131
VIRGINIA: I think I only got you a lightning lane for Tron and then everything else you just waited standby for, I think.

00:37:12.811 --> 00:37:13.231
VIRGINIA: I hope.

00:37:15.211 --> 00:37:15.611
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:37:15.751 --> 00:37:17.191
VIRGINIA: So what did you do first?

00:37:17.931 --> 00:37:21.131
ALEX: So first, the wait time for Big Thunder was short.

00:37:21.151 --> 00:37:25.051
ALEX: So I was like, hey, we should go to Big Thunder because that's the first ride I wanted to go on anyways.

00:37:25.251 --> 00:37:32.591
ALEX: So we headed over to Big Thunder and it was like a five to ten minute wait, but it was actually like no wait.

00:37:32.631 --> 00:37:33.651
ALEX: There was like no wait at all.

00:37:34.191 --> 00:37:36.291
ALEX: So we went on Big Thunder.

00:37:36.771 --> 00:37:37.371
ALEX: I had fun.

00:37:37.391 --> 00:37:38.091
ALEX: I had a lot of fun.

00:37:38.291 --> 00:37:39.311
ALEX: Yeah, that had fun.

00:37:39.731 --> 00:37:48.831
ALEX: And then since it was close by and I was also feeling like going on it, we then went on Haunted Mansion and there was barely anybody there.

00:37:48.851 --> 00:37:51.631
ALEX: So it was a 13 minute wait time.

00:37:51.831 --> 00:38:05.151
ALEX: And for all of you people, for all of you people that don't know on rides like Haunted Mansion and Tower of Terror, if there is a 13 minute wait time, it means there's actually no wait time.

00:38:05.171 --> 00:38:09.551
ALEX: So basically 13 is zero for Haunted Mansion and Tower of Terror.

00:38:10.011 --> 00:38:14.491
ALEX: So I got excited for that and we went on it and it was really nice.

00:38:14.511 --> 00:38:14.971
ALEX: It was fun.

00:38:15.131 --> 00:38:21.771
ALEX: Then after that, we decided to go on Peter Pan and we went on to the regular line.

00:38:21.791 --> 00:38:22.991
ALEX: We went to the standby.

00:38:23.011 --> 00:38:26.331
ALEX: And so we went on Peter Pan, which is my dad's favorite ride.

00:38:26.551 --> 00:38:27.811
ALEX: So he quite loved that.

00:38:28.591 --> 00:38:33.151
ALEX: And then we headed over to Tomorrowland, where we first went on the people mover.

00:38:33.551 --> 00:38:42.571
ALEX: And I wanted to go in Carousel of Progress, but I guess we never really did that in the day, like in that day, because I don't know if we had time or if it was just like, I don't know.

00:38:42.771 --> 00:38:47.151
ALEX: Anyways, I think it was like I think it was closed by the time we got off the people mover.

00:38:47.531 --> 00:38:50.271
ALEX: Then it was time for our Tron Lightning Lane.

00:38:50.811 --> 00:38:56.251
ALEX: So we got up to Tron and Tron is so fun.

00:38:56.271 --> 00:38:57.411
ALEX: I love it.

00:38:57.431 --> 00:38:58.551
ALEX: It's actually so cool.

00:38:58.991 --> 00:39:01.451
ALEX: It really puts you into the game.

00:39:01.771 --> 00:39:03.591
ALEX: It really gets your head in the game.

00:39:04.871 --> 00:39:05.271
ALEX: Get it?

00:39:05.391 --> 00:39:06.111
VIRGINIA: Oh, my God.

00:39:06.131 --> 00:39:07.971
VIRGINIA: Was that a high school musical reference?

00:39:09.531 --> 00:39:10.251
ALEX: No, no, no.

00:39:10.271 --> 00:39:11.491
ALEX: It was it was a Tron reference.

00:39:11.511 --> 00:39:11.771
ALEX: Get it?

00:39:11.791 --> 00:39:14.631
ALEX: Because like because like they're they're putting you inside the game.

00:39:15.031 --> 00:39:22.211
VIRGINIA: But it's also a Disney High School musical reference because there's a whole musical number called Get Your Head In The Game or something like that, I think.

00:39:22.251 --> 00:39:23.771
ALEX: Anyway, get your head in the game.

00:39:23.771 --> 00:39:24.751
ALEX: I remember watching that.

00:39:24.871 --> 00:39:27.331
ALEX: That was like that was my generation's rap song.

00:39:27.691 --> 00:39:34.051
ALEX: Anyways, then we headed over to take the boat back to wilderness lodge.

00:39:34.611 --> 00:39:37.351
ALEX: And this is my mom's worst fear.

00:39:38.011 --> 00:39:41.591
ALEX: We got up to the dock and we were waiting there.

00:39:42.491 --> 00:39:45.611
ALEX: And there were two ducks waiting there for us.

00:39:45.891 --> 00:39:46.811
ALEX: Two ducks.

00:39:47.571 --> 00:39:49.171
ALEX: I named one of them Garcia.

00:39:49.191 --> 00:39:51.391
ALEX: And I gave the other one Maria.

00:39:52.091 --> 00:39:53.091
ALEX: Maria Garcia.

00:39:53.491 --> 00:39:54.051
ALEX: That rhymes.

00:39:54.391 --> 00:39:58.151
ALEX: Anyways, they came up to us and they were they were actually pretty chill ducks.

00:39:58.151 --> 00:40:02.231
ALEX: Like they wouldn't like if you put your finger down to them, they wouldn't bite you or anything.

00:40:02.651 --> 00:40:03.511
ALEX: And they were chill.

00:40:03.871 --> 00:40:06.371
ALEX: You know, they weren't really they weren't begging for food.

00:40:06.751 --> 00:40:11.171
ALEX: But these guys, they're like offered them food and they came over and they're like, sure, why not?

00:40:11.571 --> 00:40:14.511
ALEX: That's what I imagine they would say.

00:40:14.531 --> 00:40:16.071
ALEX: Garcia, Garcia was so chill.

00:40:16.851 --> 00:40:18.251
ALEX: Maria was just doing her own thing.

00:40:18.271 --> 00:40:20.011
ALEX: I don't know what Maria was trying to do.

00:40:20.391 --> 00:40:23.511
ALEX: And some other kids there named them something else that I didn't like.

00:40:23.531 --> 00:40:26.211
ALEX: And I was like, no, I'm going to name them something better.

00:40:26.791 --> 00:40:29.191
ALEX: So we were chilling with the ducks.

00:40:29.451 --> 00:40:33.611
ALEX: And then the boat came and we headed back on our journey.

00:40:34.271 --> 00:40:35.631
ALEX: And yes, the end.

00:40:36.271 --> 00:40:36.711
ALEX: Thank you.

00:40:36.891 --> 00:40:41.411
VIRGINIA: And and the reason that would have been my worst nightmare is because I am so afraid of birds.

00:40:41.431 --> 00:40:43.131
ALEX: You are deadly afraid of birds.

00:40:43.431 --> 00:40:45.331
VIRGINIA: I would have been freaking out.

00:40:45.351 --> 00:40:48.771
VIRGINIA: So I'm glad that happened while you were there and not me.

00:40:49.131 --> 00:40:51.291
VIRGINIA: And yeah, anyway.

00:40:51.351 --> 00:40:51.831
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:40:52.111 --> 00:40:55.431
VIRGINIA: So Monday, February the 19th.

00:40:55.531 --> 00:41:02.831
VIRGINIA: So this became the the trip's official first park day, even though you and dad went into the park the night before.

00:41:02.851 --> 00:41:04.131
ALEX: Second, second park day.

00:41:04.151 --> 00:41:05.251
VIRGINIA: Second part day for you.

00:41:05.271 --> 00:41:07.111
VIRGINIA: But first part day for the rest of us.

00:41:08.371 --> 00:41:21.411
VIRGINIA: And we had because of our family having annual passes and having park reservations and because of the Disability Access Service that we had when we decided to hold off a day to go into the parks, we did not shift our plans.

00:41:21.451 --> 00:41:27.911
VIRGINIA: So normally I like to go to Magic Kingdom the first day and I like to go to Magic Kingdom the last day.

00:41:28.351 --> 00:41:32.131
VIRGINIA: And that's what I had planned for my sister and her family's very first experience.

00:41:32.151 --> 00:41:41.351
VIRGINIA: But because of this, their very first part day was at Epcot, which, you know, is just very different because they didn't end up going into Magic Kingdom until Thursday.

00:41:41.751 --> 00:41:43.391
VIRGINIA: So it just worked out that way.

00:41:43.411 --> 00:41:46.871
VIRGINIA: So Monday, February the 19th, we headed over to Epcot.

00:41:47.251 --> 00:41:52.851
VIRGINIA: We had a breakfast reservation for Garden Grill and it was at about 830.

00:41:52.871 --> 00:42:01.771
VIRGINIA: So we kind of had this deadline to get out the door of the room with everybody and all of our park stuff by that time.

00:42:01.771 --> 00:42:06.791
VIRGINIA: The Garden Grill breakfast is one of our family's favorites and it was really good.

00:42:06.971 --> 00:42:07.811
VIRGINIA: It was really good.

00:42:09.911 --> 00:42:11.791
VIRGINIA: Oh, I thought you were going to talk about the kids and the characters.

00:42:11.971 --> 00:42:13.731
ALEX: That was cute too.

00:42:13.871 --> 00:42:15.251
VIRGINIA: The cinnamon rolls were very good.

00:42:16.071 --> 00:42:20.971
VIRGINIA: Oliver was kind of into the characters and getting his picture taken.

00:42:20.991 --> 00:42:21.871
VIRGINIA: It was really cute.

00:42:22.251 --> 00:42:26.211
VIRGINIA: From there, we went on their very first Disney ride ever.

00:42:27.271 --> 00:42:30.251
VIRGINIA: Alex, what was their very first Disney ride ever?

00:42:31.991 --> 00:42:34.951
ALEX: So this is the most exciting ride in the park, in my opinion.

00:42:36.011 --> 00:42:38.171
ALEX: It was, drum roll, please.

00:42:38.191 --> 00:42:39.351
VIRGINIA: Drum roll, please.

00:42:42.091 --> 00:42:45.391
ALEX: Living with the Land was their first ever ride at Disney.

00:42:45.911 --> 00:42:46.411
ALEX: Thank you.

00:42:48.471 --> 00:42:48.851
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:42:49.891 --> 00:42:54.171
VIRGINIA: I keep calling it a deep cut for your very first Disney ride ever.

00:42:54.191 --> 00:42:56.611
VIRGINIA: So we love living with the Land.

00:42:56.751 --> 00:42:59.871
VIRGINIA: I just think it's hilarious that it was their very first Disney ride ever.

00:42:59.871 --> 00:43:06.211
VIRGINIA: So they seem to enjoy it, you know, a little boat ride through a greenhouse.

00:43:07.151 --> 00:43:12.651
VIRGINIA: And then from there, we headed over to Figment, which they all seem to really enjoy.

00:43:12.671 --> 00:43:27.511
VIRGINIA: And from that point, we needed to get a majority of the group Magic Bands because in looking at Magic Bands before the trip, we had looked at the pre-trip selections that were available.

00:43:27.531 --> 00:43:30.171
VIRGINIA: And there was one that Maddox was really into, so I got him that one.

00:43:30.191 --> 00:43:37.491
VIRGINIA: But everybody else, you know, wanted to wait because they had seen ones on the Disney website that were not part of the pre-trip discount.

00:43:37.511 --> 00:43:44.211
VIRGINIA: And so I said, wait until we get there because when we get there, I can get them with my AP discount for you and it will be fine.

00:43:44.231 --> 00:43:59.611
VIRGINIA: And so we stopped and we did some magic band purchasing and then I made a stupid mistake, which was that in helping them get their magic bands set up and all the chaos of not only getting, I think it was, yeah, four of them.

00:43:59.631 --> 00:44:17.231
VIRGINIA: So four magic bands all connected and set up and getting the little ones cut to the proper size so that they could fit their little wrists and getting my little, I had gotten little band things to put on the magic band to like hold them together so that they wouldn't lose them and all that stuff.

00:44:17.751 --> 00:44:25.711
VIRGINIA: And in all of that, I took the packaging over and threw it in the trash so that we could get moving on our way.

00:44:26.411 --> 00:44:34.691
VIRGINIA: And then later remembered that the chargers for the Magic Band Plus were in that packaging.

00:44:34.951 --> 00:44:43.811
VIRGINIA: And so anyway, I ended up explaining it to another cast member in some store that we were in later.

00:44:43.851 --> 00:44:46.351
VIRGINIA: And I said, you know, do you have Magic Band chargers I can purchase?

00:44:46.371 --> 00:44:50.771
VIRGINIA: Because the minute I realized it, I was like, oh my gosh, you guys, I made this stupid mistake.

00:44:50.791 --> 00:44:53.831
VIRGINIA: We've got several chargers back at the room, but I feel bad that I did this.

00:44:53.851 --> 00:44:55.931
VIRGINIA: And I was like, I'm going to just buy chargers for you.

00:44:56.751 --> 00:45:01.071
VIRGINIA: And so I was telling this to the guy.

00:45:01.111 --> 00:45:05.511
VIRGINIA: He was only able to find one in the back and it wasn't like in a package or anything.

00:45:05.531 --> 00:45:08.931
VIRGINIA: He just like handed it to me and he said that it was pixie dust.

00:45:08.971 --> 00:45:13.371
VIRGINIA: So I got one to take back and that one was free.

00:45:13.391 --> 00:45:15.791
VIRGINIA: And then I just continued my quest for chargers.

00:45:16.851 --> 00:45:18.211
VIRGINIA: So that was my bad.

00:45:18.291 --> 00:45:19.971
VIRGINIA: Please don't make the same mistake as me.

00:45:20.671 --> 00:45:27.831
VIRGINIA: From there, Alex went over to Club Cool while we were purchasing Magic Bands.

00:45:27.851 --> 00:45:33.511
VIRGINIA: Did anybody go in there with you or was it just you in there drinking soda to your heart's content?

00:45:33.791 --> 00:45:36.991
ALEX: So it was me and Maddox that went into Club Cool.

00:45:37.251 --> 00:45:40.351
ALEX: He had a limit of three cups.

00:45:41.251 --> 00:45:42.591
ALEX: And they were pretty small cups.

00:45:42.611 --> 00:45:45.831
ALEX: So he basically got like a mini cola or something.

00:45:46.211 --> 00:45:48.611
ALEX: Guess what the first drink I made him try was?

00:45:50.011 --> 00:45:51.751
VIRGINIA: Could it have been the Beverly?

00:45:51.771 --> 00:45:54.611
ALEX: No, no, no, it was something else.

00:45:55.471 --> 00:45:56.511
ALEX: Of course it was the Beverly.

00:45:56.531 --> 00:45:57.931
ALEX: Yeah, it was the Beverly.

00:45:58.211 --> 00:46:01.411
ALEX: So I was like, Maddox, let's try Beverly together.

00:46:01.871 --> 00:46:08.451
ALEX: So I grabbed it and I put it in my cup and I put one of his cup and I gave it to him like you were giving somebody a shot.

00:46:09.151 --> 00:46:12.211
ALEX: And I pretended to like drink it, but I wasn't really drinking it.

00:46:12.471 --> 00:46:13.511
ALEX: And then he drank it.

00:46:13.891 --> 00:46:20.931
ALEX: And he was like, he was like, yeah, that's nasty, because Alex is nasty.

00:46:21.351 --> 00:46:22.731
ALEX: And I was like, Oh, yeah, I know.

00:46:22.951 --> 00:46:24.611
ALEX: He goes, it's so bitter.

00:46:24.651 --> 00:46:25.111
ALEX: I know.

00:46:25.971 --> 00:46:27.271
ALEX: And I'm just like, it's good, right?

00:46:27.291 --> 00:46:28.151
ALEX: And he goes, no.

00:46:28.171 --> 00:46:35.431
ALEX: I told him the tradition to continue giving Beverly to people who are unknowing of it.

00:46:35.891 --> 00:46:39.171
ALEX: And then I drank a bit too much soda.

00:46:39.791 --> 00:46:45.471
VIRGINIA: I think he tried to tell Jordan that she needed to come into Club Cool and try Beverly.

00:46:45.551 --> 00:46:46.011
ALEX: He did.

00:46:46.411 --> 00:46:48.331
VIRGINIA: And I didn't overhear him say that.

00:46:48.351 --> 00:46:51.711
VIRGINIA: But later she was like, we mentioned something about Beverly.

00:46:52.271 --> 00:46:57.631
VIRGINIA: And she was like, Oh, I thought he just, I could not believe that there was a drink called Beverly.

00:46:57.631 --> 00:47:02.411
VIRGINIA: And so I was sure that he was just mispronouncing something when he told her that she should come and try Beverly.

00:47:04.971 --> 00:47:11.631
VIRGINIA: Anyway, from there, we had one of our DAS preselections for Frozen.

00:47:11.631 --> 00:47:20.951
VIRGINIA: And I should mention at this point that, you know, with our large group and they are a family of five, we had not purchased Genie Plus for this day.

00:47:20.971 --> 00:47:23.711
VIRGINIA: We were going to see how DAS worked.

00:47:23.791 --> 00:47:29.791
VIRGINIA: So I can't remember if Frozen was a preselected one or if it was one that I booked for us as soon as we walked in the park.

00:47:29.811 --> 00:47:32.251
VIRGINIA: But regardless, we had a DAS selection for that.

00:47:32.511 --> 00:47:36.631
VIRGINIA: And it was this was our first day learning how DAS worked.

00:47:37.671 --> 00:47:43.551
VIRGINIA: And I will say I can see how it would be helpful for people who need the service.

00:47:43.791 --> 00:47:45.711
VIRGINIA: And, you know, we did need the service.

00:47:45.791 --> 00:47:46.971
VIRGINIA: Audrie needed the service.

00:47:46.991 --> 00:47:50.791
VIRGINIA: And so luckily they were able to approve our entire group.

00:47:51.011 --> 00:47:53.971
VIRGINIA: Normally they only approve the DAS user plus five people.

00:47:53.991 --> 00:48:01.871
VIRGINIA: But because we were all staying in the same villa together, once she was approved, she said, you know, my party is a party of eight.

00:48:01.891 --> 00:48:02.791
VIRGINIA: We're all staying together.

00:48:03.211 --> 00:48:05.451
VIRGINIA: Can we all be on this?

00:48:05.511 --> 00:48:06.351
VIRGINIA: And they said yes.

00:48:06.591 --> 00:48:11.491
VIRGINIA: But what I was going to say about this is that I think it is best served in smaller groups.

00:48:12.031 --> 00:48:29.751
VIRGINIA: It was challenging to use it for such a large party because when you use DAS, you book a selection and then you wait the same amount of time as the standby queue, which if it's just a small group of you, it's much easier to say, okay, we've got this thing later and find things to do.

00:48:29.931 --> 00:48:39.391
VIRGINIA: And because we were a large group with little kids, it was kind of like things would get in our way where we would have a DAS booked, but we would need to wait 45 minutes.

00:48:39.411 --> 00:48:48.651
VIRGINIA: And it was like by the time 45 minutes was up, maybe we were doing something else or like we were suddenly, it was like the kids needed to eat or we needed to do a big bathroom break.

00:48:48.651 --> 00:48:55.511
VIRGINIA: So we weren't always tapping into the DAS reservation at the time that we were scheduled to, which is fine.

00:48:55.891 --> 00:48:59.111
VIRGINIA: They let you tap in any time after that time.

00:48:59.551 --> 00:49:06.591
VIRGINIA: But it does mean that because we weren't tapping in right at the time, you cannot make your next selection until you've tapped in.

00:49:07.011 --> 00:49:18.591
VIRGINIA: So if you are in the middle of like eating lunch at that point or doing something else, which you have to kind of pivot when you have little kids in the group, we weren't really maximizing our time by using that.

00:49:18.611 --> 00:49:23.071
VIRGINIA: So I think it is a great service, but I think it probably would be easier.

00:49:23.091 --> 00:49:30.391
VIRGINIA: Again, I've never used it before, but I'm assuming that if I was using it with just one other person or something, that it would be super easy and very helpful.

00:49:30.851 --> 00:49:38.531
VIRGINIA: With a group of eight like this, it was helpful, but it did not replace Genie Plus in any way, shape or form.

00:49:38.651 --> 00:49:40.731
VIRGINIA: So we did Frozen.

00:49:41.031 --> 00:49:50.851
VIRGINIA: They all seemed to like it, except this was the first ride where we really learned that Oliver is very risk-averse.

00:49:51.311 --> 00:50:03.191
VIRGINIA: So he was very nervous with the drop, and I think he really didn't like that room with the big snow, whatever you call it, the snow monster thing with all the little snow babies.

00:50:03.211 --> 00:50:04.631
ALEX: Yeah, he was nervous for a second.

00:50:05.431 --> 00:50:13.791
VIRGINIA: Oliver was willing to try things, but was not into drops or darkness or anything like that.

00:50:13.791 --> 00:50:18.411
VIRGINIA: So every time we did a ride like that, when we were done, he was like, I don't want to do that again.

00:50:21.331 --> 00:50:23.031
VIRGINIA: Maddox did get nervous about the drop, too.

00:50:23.051 --> 00:50:24.111
VIRGINIA: I totally forgot about that.

00:50:24.251 --> 00:50:25.231
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:50:25.251 --> 00:50:35.191
VIRGINIA: And when Maddox got nervous about things, his reaction, instead of screaming or whatever, was to kind of grip the bar in front of him really hard and stare forward.

00:50:35.591 --> 00:50:38.211
VIRGINIA: So after Frozen, we did Spaceship Earth.

00:50:38.631 --> 00:50:42.411
VIRGINIA: And then from there, the Littles needed naps.

00:50:42.511 --> 00:50:49.691
VIRGINIA: And so Jordan and Audrie went off with Presley and Oliver back to the resort to go get some naps in.

00:50:50.291 --> 00:51:02.051
VIRGINIA: And because Audrie was off with them for naps, like during the time that they were gone, we did not have access to using the DAS system at that point, which was fine because we had other things we wanted to do.

00:51:02.071 --> 00:51:09.971
VIRGINIA: So first we went and we walked through the Moana Journey of Water because neither Alex nor Charles had ever been through it.

00:51:10.471 --> 00:51:12.271
VIRGINIA: So quick bullet point.

00:51:12.391 --> 00:51:15.311
VIRGINIA: What were your thoughts on Moana Journey of Water?

00:51:16.111 --> 00:51:18.051
ALEX: It was interesting.

00:51:18.071 --> 00:51:19.151
ALEX: It was really interesting.

00:51:19.531 --> 00:51:26.331
ALEX: I will say, though, it was very cool looking, but some of the stuff there didn't exactly work well.

00:51:29.451 --> 00:51:37.811
ALEX: So for the music notes thing, that worked, but it would be sort of delayed sometimes and it would do weird notes.

00:51:38.611 --> 00:51:42.791
ALEX: And for the waves that you could do with groups of people, it wouldn't always go.

00:51:42.811 --> 00:51:44.991
ALEX: It wouldn't move or anything.

00:51:45.391 --> 00:51:47.671
ALEX: It was down, in fact, that we found out.

00:51:48.051 --> 00:51:51.631
ALEX: Also, there was a tunnel there that has water there.

00:51:55.331 --> 00:51:58.211
ALEX: And as you walk through it, it opens up the curtain of water.

00:51:58.231 --> 00:52:00.351
ALEX: And that was also down.

00:52:00.371 --> 00:52:05.831
ALEX: So there was a lot of stuff that really wasn't available that day that wasn't working.

00:52:06.011 --> 00:52:10.611
VIRGINIA: It wasn't just down in case anybody's mistaking what Alex is saying.

00:52:10.631 --> 00:52:13.091
VIRGINIA: It wasn't just like, oh, it's just a cave and the water's turned off.

00:52:13.451 --> 00:52:14.811
VIRGINIA: There were boards over it.

00:52:14.831 --> 00:52:15.931
VIRGINIA: You couldn't go through it all.

00:52:16.011 --> 00:52:18.791
VIRGINIA: It was like they really needed to fix something.

00:52:18.811 --> 00:52:22.891
ALEX: So yeah, a lot of it didn't work like a lot of the stuff there wasn't working.

00:52:23.071 --> 00:52:24.271
VIRGINIA: So I don't know what that was about.

00:52:24.291 --> 00:52:35.071
VIRGINIA: But anyway, I will look forward to going back to it another time with Charles and Alex so they can really experience it, because I don't feel like we really got to do it on this trip.

00:52:35.091 --> 00:52:42.851
VIRGINIA: From there, we, of course, went over to Mexico and headed to La Caba because Charles and I both needed our avocado margaritas.

00:52:43.831 --> 00:52:47.231
VIRGINIA: And Alex likes to get the virgin pina colada.

00:52:47.931 --> 00:52:49.671
VIRGINIA: And so we got that for him.

00:52:49.711 --> 00:52:52.211
VIRGINIA: And then Maddox, of course, got one, too.

00:52:52.471 --> 00:52:53.931
VIRGINIA: He did not end up liking it.

00:52:53.951 --> 00:52:55.551
VIRGINIA: Spoiler alert, he drank a little bit of it.

00:52:55.571 --> 00:52:58.551
VIRGINIA: But then I think Alex got to drink the rest of his.

00:52:58.991 --> 00:53:06.411
VIRGINIA: I got Maddox a little, one of the wooden painted animals, like they have the carvings that are all painted very colorfully.

00:53:06.431 --> 00:53:07.991
VIRGINIA: So I let him pick one of those.

00:53:08.011 --> 00:53:08.771
VIRGINIA: I think he picked something.

00:53:08.791 --> 00:53:11.551
VIRGINIA: It was kind of like a little dragon or a lizard type thing.

00:53:12.171 --> 00:53:15.491
VIRGINIA: From there, we did a little bit of the Festival of the Arts booths.

00:53:15.631 --> 00:53:21.651
VIRGINIA: We went to China and we got the shumai and the pork buns and the sesame balls, and those were good.

00:53:21.811 --> 00:53:29.231
VIRGINIA: And then from there, we wandered over to Japan and ended up going to the quick service to eat lunch.

00:53:29.231 --> 00:53:34.851
VIRGINIA: So I got a chicken salad, which had a really, really nice ginger dressing.

00:53:35.571 --> 00:53:39.971
VIRGINIA: I had the violet sake, and then Alex is obsessed with ramen.

00:53:40.071 --> 00:53:41.991
VIRGINIA: So you got ramen, right?

00:53:42.151 --> 00:53:48.511
VIRGINIA: And then Alex and Maddox walked into Mitsukoshi and did a little bit of damage at Mitsukoshi.

00:53:48.531 --> 00:53:51.231
VIRGINIA: So what did you end up getting from Mitsukoshi?

00:53:51.311 --> 00:54:00.591
ALEX: I got two packs of the marshmallow things and some Pokemon cards that screwed me over because there wasn't any good Pokemon cards in the pack.

00:54:01.091 --> 00:54:04.211
ALEX: Maddox got his own Pokemon cards, and he got really good ones.

00:54:04.931 --> 00:54:09.931
ALEX: And I will say, though, I got jealous because he kept rubbing it in my face.

00:54:11.091 --> 00:54:12.211
ALEX: It made me sad.

00:54:12.531 --> 00:54:16.611
VIRGINIA: Well, he's only into Pokemon because you introduced him to Pokemon.

00:54:16.631 --> 00:54:19.391
VIRGINIA: So now he wants to do it because it's cool to you.

00:54:19.411 --> 00:54:20.251
VIRGINIA: So it's cool to him.

00:54:20.771 --> 00:54:27.931
ALEX: And so he got all these good cards, and then I was forced to share my candy with him, which made me even more sad.

00:54:28.851 --> 00:54:34.691
VIRGINIA: And the candy that you always get are the Hello Kitty Marshmallow that are filled with…

00:54:34.711 --> 00:54:36.031
ALEX: They are so good, though.

00:54:36.251 --> 00:54:43.211
ALEX: They're like marshmallows filled with these either chocolate or strawberry gel kind of candy inside.

00:54:43.231 --> 00:54:44.731
ALEX: And it's so good.

00:54:44.751 --> 00:54:46.291
ALEX: I don't even care if it's Hello Kitty.

00:54:46.311 --> 00:54:46.951
ALEX: It's so good.

00:54:46.971 --> 00:54:48.151
VIRGINIA: It doesn't matter if it's Hello Kitty.

00:54:48.171 --> 00:54:48.971
VIRGINIA: It matters how it tastes.

00:54:48.991 --> 00:54:49.891
VIRGINIA: And you like the way it tastes.

00:54:50.331 --> 00:54:56.671
VIRGINIA: From there, that was about time for them to come back from naps.

00:54:57.111 --> 00:55:02.331
VIRGINIA: And I had done an individual lightning lane for all of us who were tall enough to ride Guardians.

00:55:02.451 --> 00:55:04.711
VIRGINIA: And I had also gotten us the virtual queue that morning.

00:55:04.751 --> 00:55:10.191
VIRGINIA: So what we did was first, it was time for our individual lightning lane, I think.

00:55:10.351 --> 00:55:13.951
VIRGINIA: So we went and we checked in for that.

00:55:14.591 --> 00:55:15.831
VIRGINIA: We had to do ride or swap.

00:55:15.851 --> 00:55:17.111
VIRGINIA: So it took a little bit of time.

00:55:19.291 --> 00:55:23.131
VIRGINIA: The song we got was, I think it was Conga.

00:55:23.471 --> 00:55:25.311
VIRGINIA: Do you remember what song you got the first time?

00:55:25.331 --> 00:55:26.791
ALEX: I think we got...

00:55:27.071 --> 00:55:28.191
VIRGINIA: Normally, I write this down.

00:55:28.211 --> 00:55:29.311
VIRGINIA: I think I got terrible.

00:55:29.331 --> 00:55:29.911
VIRGINIA: I didn't write it down.

00:55:29.931 --> 00:55:31.171
ALEX: Everybody wants to rule the world.

00:55:32.031 --> 00:55:33.171
ALEX: Everybody wants to rule the world.

00:55:33.391 --> 00:55:34.791
VIRGINIA: Yes, because you wrote it first.

00:55:34.791 --> 00:55:37.271
VIRGINIA: And I was I was like, Oh, man, I hope I get that too.

00:55:38.051 --> 00:55:39.871
VIRGINIA: And then we got Conga.

00:55:40.371 --> 00:55:43.491
VIRGINIA: From there, it was actually time to check in for our virtual queue.

00:55:43.811 --> 00:55:47.731
VIRGINIA: And I knew that they'd let us in no matter when we did it after that time.

00:55:47.791 --> 00:55:52.171
VIRGINIA: So I said, Why don't we have dinner at Connections Cafe first?

00:55:52.191 --> 00:55:53.211
VIRGINIA: We did a mobile order.

00:55:53.471 --> 00:55:57.851
VIRGINIA: Because with the writer swap, that's the other thing is like when you're doing writer swap, everything takes longer.

00:55:58.231 --> 00:56:00.511
VIRGINIA: So we needed to do writer swap because of the littles.

00:56:00.671 --> 00:56:04.411
VIRGINIA: And so we went and did our dinner first at Connections.

00:56:04.731 --> 00:56:09.011
VIRGINIA: And then we went back and checked into our virtual queue for Guardians.

00:56:09.591 --> 00:56:13.131
VIRGINIA: And this is the point where I really want to make a note for everybody.

00:56:13.151 --> 00:56:14.331
VIRGINIA: So everybody knows how this works.

00:56:14.351 --> 00:56:22.791
VIRGINIA: Because when I spoke on the episode with Maria, about how DAS works, and I had asked, like, how does that work with something with a virtual queue?

00:56:22.811 --> 00:56:26.091
VIRGINIA: So Tron, Guardians, what do you do when you get called?

00:56:26.111 --> 00:56:27.871
VIRGINIA: Do you get to utilize DAS?

00:56:28.031 --> 00:56:29.811
VIRGINIA: And she didn't think that you did.

00:56:29.831 --> 00:56:35.731
VIRGINIA: So she was under the impression that your virtual queue is called, you just go and you wait in the virtual queue like anybody else.

00:56:36.191 --> 00:56:39.331
VIRGINIA: But I have new information because I looked into it.

00:56:40.031 --> 00:56:57.811
VIRGINIA: And now that I've used it, what you do is if you have DAS, and your virtual queue is called, you up to the front of the line basically like near where the entrance is and look for the people who have iPads, and you say, I am checking in for my virtual queue and I have DAS.

00:56:58.131 --> 00:57:05.891
VIRGINIA: And if you're doing this with writer swap, you say, I'm checking in for my virtual queue and I have DAS, and we need to do writer swap.

00:57:05.911 --> 00:57:15.611
VIRGINIA: So you have to emphasize the DAS part first, because what that does, it allows you to check in for your virtual queue and then go through the lightning lane instead of the regular line.

00:57:16.291 --> 00:57:25.231
VIRGINIA: So we did that and the second time, I wish I could remember what songs we got the second time, but it was fun.

00:57:25.251 --> 00:57:28.411
VIRGINIA: I will say we got only good songs.

00:57:28.651 --> 00:57:32.831
VIRGINIA: I don't care for I ran and I did not get that entire trip.

00:57:32.851 --> 00:57:33.431
VIRGINIA: So that was good.

00:57:33.991 --> 00:57:36.331
VIRGINIA: From there, it was kind of late.

00:57:36.351 --> 00:57:41.931
VIRGINIA: So we decided to go home and go to bed and the kids got into bed and people went to sleep.

00:57:45.471 --> 00:57:55.791
VIRGINIA: So we went to the dining room table kind of in like half darkness with Jordan and Audrie and we had some wine and we had a little bit of the chocolate that we had had in our Amazon fresh order.

00:57:55.811 --> 00:57:57.371
VIRGINIA: And it was just a nice end to the day.

00:57:57.451 --> 00:58:01.551
VIRGINIA: All right, Tuesday, February 20th, we headed to Hollywood Studios.

00:58:01.611 --> 00:58:05.171
VIRGINIA: And on this day, it took us a good long while to get out of the room.

00:58:05.191 --> 00:58:08.151
VIRGINIA: So we did not make it out of the room until 930.

00:58:08.251 --> 00:58:12.891
VIRGINIA: It took a long time to get out of the room each morning with a group this big and with little kids.

00:58:13.351 --> 00:58:19.271
VIRGINIA: And, you know, I really tried to emphasize like how much more we would get done if we got to the park early.

00:58:19.291 --> 00:58:20.751
VIRGINIA: But it was just it was challenging.

00:58:21.171 --> 00:58:23.971
VIRGINIA: So on this day, we got out at 930.

00:58:24.091 --> 00:58:26.051
VIRGINIA: We had to wait a while for the bus to come.

00:58:26.071 --> 00:58:28.771
VIRGINIA: I made a note that the bus did not show up until 947.

00:58:28.791 --> 00:58:31.031
VIRGINIA: So that was close to 20 minutes waiting for the bus.

00:58:31.651 --> 00:58:34.591
VIRGINIA: We finally made it over to Epcot by 1020.

00:58:34.611 --> 00:58:37.831
VIRGINIA: Or excuse me, not Epcot, Hollywood Studios by 1020.

00:58:38.151 --> 00:58:44.131
VIRGINIA: And we had a really super early lunch reservation at Sci-Fi Dine-In at 1040.

00:58:44.151 --> 00:58:47.431
VIRGINIA: So we only had 20 minutes to do something until it was time for lunch.

00:58:47.991 --> 00:58:51.331
VIRGINIA: So we ended up taking a photo on Hollywood Boulevard.

00:58:51.351 --> 00:58:58.091
VIRGINIA: And then we went into Star Wars Launch Bay for about 10 minutes or so before it was time for us to check in for our lunch reservation.

00:58:59.511 --> 00:59:04.931
VIRGINIA: So lunch reservation, Alex, you and Maddox were sitting in your own car.

00:59:05.711 --> 00:59:08.671
VIRGINIA: And then the rest of us were sitting in a car.

00:59:09.091 --> 00:59:12.491
VIRGINIA: How do you think the lunch worked out for a group like ours?

00:59:12.731 --> 00:59:14.171
ALEX: It was actually great.

00:59:14.351 --> 00:59:15.631
ALEX: The food was awesome.

00:59:15.871 --> 00:59:23.631
ALEX: And there was these really good cotton candy lemonade drinks, which is by the way, now that we're talking about it, Mom, can we make that sometime soon?

00:59:23.631 --> 00:59:25.671
ALEX: Let's make the cotton candy lemonade drinks.

00:59:26.411 --> 00:59:28.031
ALEX: We can try that.

00:59:28.891 --> 00:59:30.111
ALEX: It was so good.

00:59:30.131 --> 00:59:31.431
ALEX: That drink was so good.

00:59:31.451 --> 00:59:32.371
ALEX: I was obsessed with it.

00:59:32.871 --> 00:59:34.951
ALEX: Anyways, it was it actually worked well.

00:59:35.391 --> 00:59:39.851
ALEX: Maddox and I were chilling until this other family came along and ruined the fun.

00:59:41.631 --> 00:59:43.911
ALEX: And that sounds like we were the only guys in the chair.

00:59:43.931 --> 00:59:52.211
ALEX: I mean, in the in the car, this whole other family came along and it was kind of awkward because we were sitting in a car with a random family.

00:59:52.651 --> 00:59:54.271
VIRGINIA: Well, they were sitting in front of you.

00:59:54.291 --> 00:59:56.531
VIRGINIA: So you were still just the two of you over there.

00:59:56.551 --> 01:00:11.411
VIRGINIA: But I thought it was really nice because, you know, with the chaos of the morning and getting out and trying to catch the bus and having to wait along and all that kind of stuff, it was a nice, quiet little lunch because we sat two by two and the food was good and it was just real calm.

01:00:11.671 --> 01:00:13.691
VIRGINIA: So from there, we went to Muppets.

01:00:13.711 --> 01:00:16.771
VIRGINIA: And then we went to go do Slinky Dog.

01:00:16.971 --> 01:00:20.091
VIRGINIA: And do you remember why we did not write Slinky Dog?

01:00:20.531 --> 01:00:22.711
ALEX: It was way too long of a wait.

01:00:22.731 --> 01:00:23.611
ALEX: We were not doing that.

01:00:24.211 --> 01:00:24.771
VIRGINIA: Oh, my God.

01:00:24.791 --> 01:00:28.451
VIRGINIA: The line was so long.

01:00:28.451 --> 01:00:37.151
VIRGINIA: And I think that my only explanation, and I did not ask anybody if this was the case, but this is usually the case when something like this happens because we had a DAS reservation for it.

01:00:37.931 --> 01:00:45.951
VIRGINIA: So I'm talking about the lightning lane that was so long is it had to have been down in the morning and then everybody was coming to use their lightning lanes to catch up.

01:00:48.331 --> 01:01:05.291
VIRGINIA: And so I used my Disney knowledge and had to explain to Jordan and Audrie that we would just use the DAS later for Slinky and that it was worth holding on to it because if we tried to rebook it at that point for later, it was probably not going to happen.

01:01:05.311 --> 01:01:06.231
VIRGINIA: We weren't going to get one.

01:01:06.251 --> 01:01:11.191
VIRGINIA: But if we held on to the reservation we had and just came back when the line was shorter, that we could do that.

01:01:11.211 --> 01:01:15.171
VIRGINIA: It just meant that we couldn't make another DAS reservation until we used that one.

01:01:15.191 --> 01:01:20.531
VIRGINIA: So again, it was challenging to use the DAS in a party like ours.

01:01:20.631 --> 01:01:25.711
VIRGINIA: So instead, we ended up kind of splitting up a little bit.

01:01:25.871 --> 01:01:37.371
VIRGINIA: So the littles went over to do the Lightning McQueen Racing Academy, and Alex and Charles and I went and did Alex's favorite Tower of Terror.

01:01:37.671 --> 01:01:38.831
VIRGINIA: Yes, we did.

01:01:38.851 --> 01:01:40.231
ALEX: The Twilight Zone.

01:01:40.691 --> 01:01:41.611
VIRGINIA: From the Twilight Zone.

01:01:43.491 --> 01:01:45.671
VIRGINIA: From there, we got some ice cream.

01:01:46.031 --> 01:01:54.831
VIRGINIA: While people were eating ice cream, I actually snuck away by myself for like 15 minutes and went into the stores on Sunset Boulevard and Hollywood Boulevard.

01:01:55.251 --> 01:01:58.791
VIRGINIA: And then we went back to do Slinky again, and it was it was fine.

01:01:58.871 --> 01:02:00.551
VIRGINIA: It was the normal wait time.

01:02:00.971 --> 01:02:02.231
VIRGINIA: How do you think the kids felt?

01:02:02.291 --> 01:02:03.631
VIRGINIA: You rode with Maddox, right?

01:02:03.911 --> 01:02:04.791
ALEX: They loved it.

01:02:04.811 --> 01:02:05.511
ALEX: They loved it.

01:02:05.591 --> 01:02:07.711
ALEX: They had a good time, except for Oliver, maybe.

01:02:09.651 --> 01:02:10.551
VIRGINIA: Poor Oliver.

01:02:11.031 --> 01:02:14.591
VIRGINIA: He was willing to try it, but it was just it was too much for him.

01:02:15.191 --> 01:02:26.931
VIRGINIA: So after that, we actually had a reservation over at OGA's, which, you know, I had considered canceling just because Jordan and Audrie, neither of them were like huge Star Wars fans.

01:02:27.631 --> 01:02:28.671
VIRGINIA: But we ended up keeping it.

01:02:28.691 --> 01:02:31.771
VIRGINIA: And I was like, we'll just go have like one drink and some snacks or whatever.

01:02:31.771 --> 01:02:33.251
VIRGINIA: So that was good.

01:02:33.271 --> 01:02:42.331
VIRGINIA: It was expensive, though, because going in there with kids and them not having like the alcoholic beverages as options, there just aren't very many options for kids to drink.

01:02:42.351 --> 01:02:42.971
VIRGINIA: There are a couple.

01:02:43.711 --> 01:02:52.191
VIRGINIA: But what they do have is these really wacky light up cup type things that are like, how would you describe that light up cup thing, Alex?

01:02:52.211 --> 01:02:53.591
VIRGINIA: What's it shaped like?

01:02:54.131 --> 01:02:55.711
VIRGINIA: It's like an orb, right?

01:02:55.891 --> 01:02:56.691
VIRGINIA: Like with a straw?

01:02:56.831 --> 01:02:58.171
ALEX: It's like an orb, yeah.

01:02:58.531 --> 01:02:59.911
VIRGINIA: Are you going to ever use it again?

01:03:03.131 --> 01:03:09.091
ALEX: Yes, actually, because I have seen the cup before, maybe sometimes in the movies or the shows or something.

01:03:09.551 --> 01:03:16.911
ALEX: And even like I have this, I have an Oculus, so I have the Star Wars game in the Oculus and that cup is in the game.

01:03:16.931 --> 01:03:19.971
ALEX: And I was like, oh my God, I can actually have the cup in real life now.

01:03:21.431 --> 01:03:23.551
VIRGINIA: Well, I'm going to want to see you using that.

01:03:25.471 --> 01:03:26.251
VIRGINIA: Please, please, please.

01:03:27.411 --> 01:03:34.591
VIRGINIA: From there, we had a DAS reservation for Rise of the Resistance, which we had to do with Writer Swap again.

01:03:35.451 --> 01:03:42.351
VIRGINIA: So what we ended up doing, we had decided, you know, for every time we did Writer Swap, one person can write a second time.

01:03:42.371 --> 01:03:45.051
VIRGINIA: So on this one, we decided Alex would write a second time.

01:03:45.431 --> 01:03:54.371
VIRGINIA: And so we we sent Alex off with Jordan, Audrie and Maddox to do Rise of the Resistance while Charles and I kept the littles entertained.

01:03:54.431 --> 01:03:57.351
VIRGINIA: So they wanted to stare at them a little bit.

01:03:57.391 --> 01:04:01.711
VIRGINIA: So we went and parked right in front of that with the stroller and we just looked at it.

01:04:01.831 --> 01:04:03.911
VIRGINIA: Again, Presley is obsessed with space.

01:04:03.931 --> 01:04:05.151
VIRGINIA: And I'm not even exaggerating.

01:04:05.171 --> 01:04:07.111
VIRGINIA: And am I, Alex, obsessed?

01:04:07.231 --> 01:04:07.731
ALEX: Obsessed.

01:04:07.751 --> 01:04:07.951
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:04:07.951 --> 01:04:08.291
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:04:08.291 --> 01:04:11.131
VIRGINIA: All he wanted to do was look at spaceships and anything space related.

01:04:11.151 --> 01:04:12.131
ALEX: It was very cute, though.

01:04:12.231 --> 01:04:17.711
VIRGINIA: And then, but you can only stare at the Millennium Falcon for so long, especially like when there's absolutely no context.

01:04:17.811 --> 01:04:18.371
VIRGINIA: There are three.

01:04:18.391 --> 01:04:19.591
VIRGINIA: They have no idea what it is.

01:04:19.611 --> 01:04:21.151
VIRGINIA: And there were no characters walking around or anything.

01:04:21.631 --> 01:04:29.791
VIRGINIA: So then I walked them over to the little play area where people can let their droids get out and have some fun.

01:04:29.811 --> 01:04:37.591
VIRGINIA: There's like a little side area where people are able to put their droids down and just kind of let them roll around and interact with each other and stuff.

01:04:37.611 --> 01:04:39.471
VIRGINIA: So we went and stared at that for a while.

01:04:40.711 --> 01:04:43.011
VIRGINIA: And then finally, we kind of wandered back over.

01:04:43.031 --> 01:04:46.091
VIRGINIA: And by the time we got over there, they had finished Rise of the Resistance.

01:04:46.191 --> 01:04:51.111
VIRGINIA: We handed off the littles and then they went back to the resort to go to bed.

01:04:51.331 --> 01:04:55.871
VIRGINIA: And from there, Charles and Alex and I rode Rise of the Resistance together.

01:04:55.891 --> 01:04:58.391
VIRGINIA: And then we went to Magic Kingdom.

01:04:58.571 --> 01:05:00.431
VIRGINIA: So what did we do at Magic Kingdom?

01:05:01.091 --> 01:05:02.631
ALEX: So first, we got to Magic Kingdom.

01:05:02.751 --> 01:05:06.651
ALEX: Then we went to Starbucks for some hot chocolate and some chai.

01:05:07.651 --> 01:05:09.431
ALEX: Then we went to do some shopping.

01:05:09.771 --> 01:05:10.931
ALEX: Then we went to Big Thunder.

01:05:11.091 --> 01:05:12.451
ALEX: And it was it was good.

01:05:12.451 --> 01:05:13.291
ALEX: Big Thunder was good.

01:05:14.131 --> 01:05:21.451
ALEX: And finally, we went to do Buzz Lightyear where I, this is like one of the biggest things that happened on this trip.

01:05:21.611 --> 01:05:30.391
ALEX: So me and my mother, my mother, she had full control of her own car because I have a long history of making your mess up on the road.

01:05:31.451 --> 01:05:35.191
ALEX: So what happened was, as we got on the ride, I was exhausted.

01:05:35.811 --> 01:05:37.951
ALEX: And so I was tired and I couldn't do much.

01:05:38.551 --> 01:05:41.911
ALEX: And, you know, I was like so dead.

01:05:41.971 --> 01:05:44.771
ALEX: I was like wanting to sabotage you so badly.

01:05:45.191 --> 01:05:51.631
ALEX: So I was like, you know, I'm going to stare at you weirdly throughout this thing just to distract you.

01:05:52.391 --> 01:05:59.431
ALEX: And even while doing that, while just trying to distract her, plus like being exhausted and stuff.

01:06:00.251 --> 01:06:01.971
ALEX: I still got the top score.

01:06:01.991 --> 01:06:04.871
ALEX: And she got like 200,000.

01:06:05.451 --> 01:06:07.291
ALEX: She got like 200,000.

01:06:07.311 --> 01:06:10.071
ALEX: I got 999,999.

01:06:10.571 --> 01:06:11.691
ALEX: And I still won.

01:06:11.971 --> 01:06:14.691
ALEX: And I put the sticker on my face to Brad to her.

01:06:15.371 --> 01:06:15.811
VIRGINIA: Mm hmm.

01:06:16.491 --> 01:06:19.271
VIRGINIA: I will say I had a malfunction with mine.

01:06:19.291 --> 01:06:20.471
VIRGINIA: And this is not an excuse.

01:06:20.651 --> 01:06:23.031
VIRGINIA: You know, my goal is always to do my best.

01:06:23.431 --> 01:06:29.771
VIRGINIA: I want to get Galactic Hero, but like for my own personal sense of satisfaction.

01:06:30.351 --> 01:06:34.391
VIRGINIA: And I was shooting and I know it went up to like 500,000 at one point.

01:06:34.491 --> 01:06:40.391
VIRGINIA: And then like something happened and my score went back down to like 250,000.

01:06:41.051 --> 01:06:42.151
VIRGINIA: So something happened with mine.

01:06:42.171 --> 01:06:43.831
VIRGINIA: I still would not have beaten you.

01:06:44.011 --> 01:06:44.931
VIRGINIA: That's not the point.

01:06:45.331 --> 01:06:47.411
VIRGINIA: The point is there was just something wrong with mine.

01:06:47.471 --> 01:06:50.651
VIRGINIA: And we didn't mention that I still want you did.

01:06:50.671 --> 01:06:50.951
VIRGINIA: You did.

01:06:51.491 --> 01:06:56.251
VIRGINIA: And we didn't mention that after we got our Starbucks, dad suddenly got really tired.

01:06:56.271 --> 01:06:58.211
VIRGINIA: And so he ended up going back to the resort.

01:06:58.231 --> 01:07:02.751
VIRGINIA: And so this was just the two of us doing Big Thunder and Buzz Lightyear.

01:07:02.911 --> 01:07:04.971
VIRGINIA: And it was really cold that day.

01:07:04.991 --> 01:07:07.151
VIRGINIA: That's why we went and got Starbucks in the first place.

01:07:07.571 --> 01:07:11.491
VIRGINIA: And I had a great time riding Big Thunder with you, Alex, but I was absolutely freezing.

01:07:11.531 --> 01:07:14.591
VIRGINIA: It was so cold to be whipping through the air that day.

01:07:14.611 --> 01:07:15.111
VIRGINIA: That night.

01:07:15.331 --> 01:07:17.151
VIRGINIA: So we did it anyway.

01:07:17.171 --> 01:07:18.011
VIRGINIA: We had a great time.

01:07:18.311 --> 01:07:21.111
VIRGINIA: And after that, we went back and hit the sack.

01:07:21.631 --> 01:07:22.011
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:07:22.031 --> 01:07:23.311
VIRGINIA: Wednesday, February 21st.

01:07:23.331 --> 01:07:24.951
VIRGINIA: This was our Animal Kingdom Day.

01:07:25.291 --> 01:07:28.011
VIRGINIA: We were aiming to leave the resort by 8 a.m.

01:07:28.131 --> 01:07:35.591
VIRGINIA: And then because of the large group of us and the fact that we have little kids with us, we actually got out the door by 830.

01:07:35.611 --> 01:07:37.571
VIRGINIA: So it could have been worse.

01:07:37.811 --> 01:07:41.851
VIRGINIA: I thought that was actually pretty good considering everything that we were dealing with.

01:07:41.891 --> 01:07:45.791
VIRGINIA: And our very first stop was over Festival of the Lion King.

01:07:46.391 --> 01:07:49.011
VIRGINIA: So how did you like that show?

01:07:49.031 --> 01:07:52.351
VIRGINIA: Because it's been a while since you've seen Festival of the Lion King, Alex.

01:07:52.671 --> 01:07:54.551
ALEX: Yeah, I haven't seen it in forever.

01:07:54.571 --> 01:07:59.791
ALEX: I have like very like small memories of it, but not enough to remember what happened.

01:08:00.151 --> 01:08:01.591
VIRGINIA: Yeah, I thought it was good.

01:08:01.611 --> 01:08:02.631
VIRGINIA: We had a good time.

01:08:03.011 --> 01:08:04.831
VIRGINIA: We had a DAS reservation for it.

01:08:04.871 --> 01:08:10.491
VIRGINIA: So we were able to get in and get our seats and not really have any issue with that.

01:08:11.311 --> 01:08:13.211
VIRGINIA: After that, we needed snacks.

01:08:13.371 --> 01:08:19.271
VIRGINIA: So we got some cinnamon rolls and I had something that was called a guava roll.

01:08:19.291 --> 01:08:20.051
VIRGINIA: It was really good.

01:08:20.491 --> 01:08:22.471
VIRGINIA: It was kind of early, but the bar was open.

01:08:22.491 --> 01:08:26.951
VIRGINIA: So I ended up getting a margarita because, you know, why not?

01:08:27.031 --> 01:08:27.791
VIRGINIA: Went in Disney.

01:08:28.211 --> 01:08:31.771
VIRGINIA: And then from there, we all went on the safari together.

01:08:31.791 --> 01:08:35.291
VIRGINIA: And I think that the kids really seem to like the safari.

01:08:35.411 --> 01:08:39.551
VIRGINIA: Like, they really seem to like looking out for all of the animals.

01:08:40.211 --> 01:08:46.851
VIRGINIA: So then everybody did Everest, except for Jordan, because she was nervous about the drop.

01:08:47.451 --> 01:08:49.591
VIRGINIA: And then the littles, of course, could not do it.

01:08:49.751 --> 01:08:52.111
VIRGINIA: But you rode with Maddox.

01:08:52.691 --> 01:08:54.591
VIRGINIA: How did he how did he respond?

01:08:54.611 --> 01:08:56.951
VIRGINIA: Did he do his typical freeze up thing?

01:08:57.411 --> 01:08:57.931
ALEX: Kind of.

01:09:00.091 --> 01:09:01.691
ALEX: He sort of screamed, but not really.

01:09:02.151 --> 01:09:10.351
VIRGINIA: So on Everest, he was doing his typical Maddox thing where he grips the bar as hard as possible and like basically doesn't move his face.

01:09:10.971 --> 01:09:12.091
VIRGINIA: So I'm going to be interested.

01:09:12.111 --> 01:09:17.691
VIRGINIA: I have not looked at my photo past my memory maker photos yet to see what he looks like in there.

01:09:17.691 --> 01:09:21.671
VIRGINIA: But I'm imagining he looks pretty serious because he just like freezes up.

01:09:22.251 --> 01:09:23.831
VIRGINIA: And he did that actually.

01:09:24.651 --> 01:09:31.571
VIRGINIA: Remember, Alex, when when we did Cosmic Rewind for the first time, you were riding with him on that first time.

01:09:32.551 --> 01:09:34.171
VIRGINIA: And he scared you a little bit, didn't he?

01:09:34.391 --> 01:09:35.211
ALEX: Oh, my God.

01:09:35.251 --> 01:09:36.911
ALEX: He scared me half to death.

01:09:37.791 --> 01:09:42.671
ALEX: So we got on the ride and we sat down and we were going up.

01:09:42.931 --> 01:09:47.191
ALEX: And, you know, he like when it started spinning us, right?

01:09:47.291 --> 01:09:53.791
ALEX: Like when they were like, I think we went back and then it exploded and I was like screaming and everybody was screaming their heads off.

01:09:54.671 --> 01:09:56.251
ALEX: And Maddox wasn't screaming.

01:09:56.411 --> 01:09:58.471
ALEX: I didn't think about it much at first.

01:09:58.491 --> 01:10:01.371
ALEX: I was like, OK, he just might be a little scared.

01:10:01.391 --> 01:10:02.251
ALEX: It's not that bad.

01:10:02.531 --> 01:10:09.731
ALEX: And then later, like while we were riding it midway through the ride, I noticed I was like, oh, my God, he hasn't screamed this entire ride.

01:10:10.471 --> 01:10:15.151
ALEX: And then I see his head bobbing and I'm like, holy a bad word.

01:10:15.451 --> 01:10:17.811
ALEX: I think he is passed out on this ride.

01:10:18.251 --> 01:10:21.791
ALEX: So I was about to like start screaming like, oh, my God, somebody help.

01:10:22.011 --> 01:10:23.751
ALEX: This kid has just passed out on the ride.

01:10:23.771 --> 01:10:29.671
ALEX: He just fainted and I had to keep his head up because his head was still bobbing and I kept his head up.

01:10:30.611 --> 01:10:34.471
ALEX: And like I was like holding his head forward so he wouldn't hit his head on anything.

01:10:34.831 --> 01:10:35.851
ALEX: His head was like down.

01:10:35.871 --> 01:10:37.111
ALEX: It was like it was like down.

01:10:37.451 --> 01:10:38.931
VIRGINIA: It was like floppy kind of.

01:10:39.131 --> 01:10:42.751
ALEX: And yeah, like I got my heart like stopped.

01:10:42.771 --> 01:10:47.631
ALEX: Like my heart skipped a few beats and I was like, oh, my God, he has just passed out.

01:10:48.311 --> 01:10:54.291
ALEX: And I was like, as soon as as soon as like after the ride and I saw, oh, my God, thank God, he hasn't passed out.

01:10:55.031 --> 01:10:58.011
ALEX: I was so mad at him for doing that.

01:10:58.031 --> 01:11:04.491
ALEX: I was like, Maddox, I'm sorry, but you have to make some sort of noise on this ride because I thought you fainted for a second.

01:11:04.511 --> 01:11:07.431
ALEX: That was like I thought you were actually at a medical emergency.

01:11:08.091 --> 01:11:09.631
ALEX: So I got really upset.

01:11:09.651 --> 01:11:16.271
ALEX: And now if I see him on a ride and he doesn't scream, I still get upset at him because it reminds me of that feeling like oh, my God.

01:11:16.591 --> 01:11:19.691
VIRGINIA: You were a little nervous and I understand why you were a little bit nervous.

01:11:19.711 --> 01:11:21.831
VIRGINIA: I mean, at the end of the day, he did not pass out.

01:11:21.851 --> 01:11:24.731
VIRGINIA: He just he's never ridden a ride that big before.

01:11:24.851 --> 01:11:32.571
VIRGINIA: So he he didn't really know how to like hold himself on the ride to prevent like his head from plopping all around.

01:11:32.651 --> 01:11:33.531
ALEX: Yeah, his foot.

01:11:33.631 --> 01:11:34.831
ALEX: I was so scared.

01:11:36.711 --> 01:11:41.291
VIRGINIA: I know like he we were trying to convince him like, oh, it's better if you scream or whatever.

01:11:41.311 --> 01:11:43.291
VIRGINIA: And he was having trouble doing that.

01:11:43.311 --> 01:11:45.731
VIRGINIA: That was just like he would just freeze up every single time.

01:11:46.331 --> 01:11:53.351
VIRGINIA: At one point later in the trip, Audrie was riding with him and Audrie was like telling him curse words to scream.

01:11:53.911 --> 01:12:02.291
VIRGINIA: And that freed him up a little bit to scream, to be allowed to say like it wasn't bad curse words, but it was just basically like, hell yeah.

01:12:02.391 --> 01:12:06.671
VIRGINIA: Like Audrie was like, scream, hell yeah, or something like that.

01:12:06.871 --> 01:12:08.551
VIRGINIA: And it kind of freed him up a little bit.

01:12:08.571 --> 01:12:18.591
VIRGINIA: So anyway, a trip like this, you learn a lot about each of the people and what their tolerance is and what's fun for them, what's not fun for them.

01:12:18.611 --> 01:12:25.331
VIRGINIA: I think he did enjoy the coasters and stuff at the end of the day, but it just took him a little bit of time to get used to it.

01:12:25.351 --> 01:12:40.871
VIRGINIA: So from there, we took the littles over and they did try Ceratops spin, while Alex was champion of the basketball goals at the little outdoor carnival type area.

01:12:40.991 --> 01:12:49.731
VIRGINIA: And he won stuffed animals for Maddox and he won a stuffed animal for Presley and for Oliver and for himself.

01:12:49.751 --> 01:12:52.691
ALEX: Yes, I was like the king of basketball for a second.

01:12:53.791 --> 01:12:54.931
ALEX: I wanted each of us a prize.

01:12:54.951 --> 01:12:56.351
ALEX: I wanted each of us a prize.

01:12:56.991 --> 01:12:59.251
ALEX: I was like king of the court right there.

01:12:59.271 --> 01:13:01.691
ALEX: I could not get better than that.

01:13:01.971 --> 01:13:02.451
VIRGINIA: You were.

01:13:02.651 --> 01:13:07.471
VIRGINIA: After that, the kids again needed to go back and have a nap.

01:13:07.491 --> 01:13:13.291
VIRGINIA: So we sent the littles off with Jordan and Audrie and we again kept Maddox.

01:13:13.451 --> 01:13:17.051
VIRGINIA: So this was another day where we kept him for ourselves.

01:13:17.291 --> 01:13:19.291
VIRGINIA: And where do we go?

01:13:19.391 --> 01:13:20.911
VIRGINIA: Where do you go in the animal kingdom?

01:13:21.011 --> 01:13:22.631
VIRGINIA: You go to Nomad Lounge.

01:13:23.171 --> 01:13:30.411
VIRGINIA: So we headed over to Nomad Lounge and introduced Maddox to the churros and the bread service.

01:13:30.511 --> 01:13:32.151
VIRGINIA: I had a lamb salad.

01:13:32.451 --> 01:13:37.311
VIRGINIA: He had some wings because he really likes wings, but he just had them plain without the sauce.

01:13:37.851 --> 01:13:40.311
VIRGINIA: Dad had a poke bowl of some sort.

01:13:40.311 --> 01:13:41.291
VIRGINIA: You had the sliders.

01:13:41.711 --> 01:13:49.491
VIRGINIA: And then I had my favorite, Jen's tattoo, and Alex and Maddox each got the non-alcoholic version of that.

01:13:49.771 --> 01:13:50.991
VIRGINIA: And it was so tasty.

01:13:51.531 --> 01:14:00.291
VIRGINIA: So after we had our nomad lounge, we then had to grab some night blossoms because Alex, it's his favorite.

01:14:00.311 --> 01:14:03.391
VIRGINIA: And so we got one for Alex.

01:14:03.411 --> 01:14:06.591
VIRGINIA: We got one for me, of course.

01:14:06.851 --> 01:14:09.791
VIRGINIA: And then Maddox got one, but he got one without the boba balls.

01:14:09.871 --> 01:14:13.811
VIRGINIA: And then from there, Charles had a friend to meet up with at Magic Kingdom.

01:14:13.831 --> 01:14:16.051
VIRGINIA: So he went over to meet up with them.

01:14:16.391 --> 01:14:20.371
VIRGINIA: And the rest of us ended up going back to the resort.

01:14:20.931 --> 01:14:22.031
VIRGINIA: They needed to get to bed.

01:14:22.051 --> 01:14:23.291
VIRGINIA: It was kind of late at that point.

01:14:23.311 --> 01:14:26.691
VIRGINIA: So then after Dad said hi to his friend, it was just the three of us.

01:14:26.711 --> 01:14:30.931
VIRGINIA: And we had a little evening, just our three family in Magic Kingdom.

01:14:31.111 --> 01:14:33.491
VIRGINIA: So what did we do in Magic Kingdom?

01:14:33.511 --> 01:14:35.651
VIRGINIA: We had dinner at Pecos Bill.

01:14:35.931 --> 01:14:37.051
ALEX: Yes, that was nice.

01:14:37.131 --> 01:14:38.551
ALEX: The chicken was so good there.

01:14:38.791 --> 01:14:39.651
VIRGINIA: It's really good.

01:14:39.731 --> 01:14:41.991
ALEX: It was nice to hang out as a family though.

01:14:42.031 --> 01:14:43.131
ALEX: Like just us.

01:14:43.451 --> 01:14:45.211
VIRGINIA: It was nice to hang out as a family.

01:14:45.931 --> 01:14:50.191
VIRGINIA: We ate at Pecos Bill and then we just zipped through a couple rides before we went back to the resort.

01:14:50.211 --> 01:14:53.091
VIRGINIA: So which rides did we do?

01:14:53.151 --> 01:14:58.571
ALEX: We did Pirates, Small World, Carousel Progress, and I think that was it.

01:14:58.771 --> 01:15:01.491
VIRGINIA: And then you made us get Drawfries, I think.

01:15:01.691 --> 01:15:02.131
ALEX: I did.

01:15:02.151 --> 01:15:04.131
ALEX: I would like the Mission to S'mores.

01:15:04.691 --> 01:15:06.131
VIRGINIA: Yes, that is your favorite.

01:15:06.151 --> 01:15:07.931
VIRGINIA: You always get that Mission to S'mores.

01:15:08.611 --> 01:15:09.051
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:15:09.071 --> 01:15:11.171
VIRGINIA: So from there, we left the park around 10.

01:15:11.191 --> 01:15:13.991
VIRGINIA: So now we're on Thursday, Thursday, February 22nd.

01:15:14.811 --> 01:15:17.611
VIRGINIA: And this was their first day in Magic Kingdom.

01:15:17.611 --> 01:15:39.331
VIRGINIA: So after these multiple days of having trouble getting out the door and trying to use the DAS Pass with such a large group and with little kids who had different needs at different times, I did talk to Jordan and Audrie the night before on Wednesday night and asked if they would be willing to go for the Genie Plus on Thursday.

01:15:39.571 --> 01:15:40.651
VIRGINIA: So they agreed to that.

01:15:40.671 --> 01:15:42.511
VIRGINIA: So we all got Genie Plus for Thursday.

01:15:43.451 --> 01:15:52.371
VIRGINIA: This day was so much easier to have Genie Plus at the same time as DAS and, you know, getting out the door at a better time.

01:15:52.391 --> 01:15:55.211
VIRGINIA: We were in the park before 9 a.m.

01:15:55.391 --> 01:15:59.951
VIRGINIA: with that Genie Plus in hand and the DAS, and we got so much done today.

01:15:59.971 --> 01:16:06.431
VIRGINIA: So I know we're running short on time, so I'm going to try to zip through what we did, and then you can comment on it if you want.

01:16:07.211 --> 01:16:09.711
VIRGINIA: So we got in by 8.55, I wrote down.

01:16:10.331 --> 01:16:11.411
VIRGINIA: We did People Mover.

01:16:11.811 --> 01:16:15.431
VIRGINIA: We did Astro Orbiter because Presley is obsessed with space.

01:16:15.611 --> 01:16:16.851
VIRGINIA: Oliver, of course, was scared.

01:16:16.871 --> 01:16:18.091
ALEX: That was really cute.

01:16:19.111 --> 01:16:22.671
VIRGINIA: And then we did Seven Dwarfs Mine Train again.

01:16:23.031 --> 01:16:26.551
VIRGINIA: Oliver did it, but he was a little nervous, but he did it, so I was really proud of him.

01:16:27.011 --> 01:16:38.131
ALEX: By the way, real quick, real quick, really quick, there are pictures that my mom, I'm hoping that she will post of the littles different experiences.

01:16:38.431 --> 01:16:39.351
VIRGINIA: On Seven Dwarfs.

01:16:42.211 --> 01:16:46.251
ALEX: Oliver was like, he looks like he has just been like met death himself.

01:16:46.271 --> 01:16:48.231
ALEX: He looks like he is just shaking the hand of death.

01:16:48.531 --> 01:16:51.891
ALEX: While Presley looks like he's like running through a field of flowers.

01:16:52.451 --> 01:16:52.791
ALEX: Yes.

01:16:52.831 --> 01:16:53.391
VIRGINIA: Oh my God.

01:16:54.451 --> 01:17:05.471
VIRGINIA: Every ride photo, Oliver looks like he's scared out of his mind, and Presley, little Presley, also three years old, but with both hands in the air, just like loving life.

01:17:07.071 --> 01:17:08.611
ALEX: His hands are like so small.

01:17:08.631 --> 01:17:10.791
ALEX: So it's like very, it looks very small.

01:17:11.331 --> 01:17:13.431
ALEX: And he's like got his little hands over the ear.

01:17:13.991 --> 01:17:14.511
VIRGINIA: Very cute.

01:17:15.991 --> 01:17:18.671
VIRGINIA: From there, we got a snack at Fryer's Nook.

01:17:18.691 --> 01:17:22.191
VIRGINIA: So we got some tots and donut holes.

01:17:22.371 --> 01:17:23.451
ALEX: Don't eat your tots.

01:17:26.111 --> 01:17:28.631
VIRGINIA: Alex and I are huge fans of Napoleon Dynamite.

01:17:28.651 --> 01:17:30.331
VIRGINIA: So we're constantly...

01:17:30.351 --> 01:17:33.831
VIRGINIA: Yeah, we bring it up anytime tots come into the conversation.

01:17:35.391 --> 01:17:42.011
VIRGINIA: We went over to do the Barnstormer, which again, Presley hands in the air.

01:17:42.031 --> 01:17:47.071
VIRGINIA: Oliver scared out of his mind.

01:17:47.091 --> 01:17:47.451
VIRGINIA: He's like no.

01:17:47.471 --> 01:17:52.651
VIRGINIA: In fact, I don't even know if, I can't even remember if Oliver ended up doing it.

01:17:52.671 --> 01:17:53.211
VIRGINIA: I think...

01:17:53.291 --> 01:17:53.871
ALEX: Oh, he did.

01:17:53.891 --> 01:17:54.651
VIRGINIA: He went on it, yeah.

01:17:54.831 --> 01:18:01.691
VIRGINIA: Okay, because I remember when we were waiting in line for Barnstormer, Audrie was like, you know, if we get up there and you don't want to do it, you don't have to do it.

01:18:02.551 --> 01:18:03.451
ALEX: Oliver didn't go on it.

01:18:04.551 --> 01:18:06.231
VIRGINIA: Yeah, I don't think he did.

01:18:06.291 --> 01:18:11.771
VIRGINIA: So he did wait in line and then he got up there and at the last minute was like no, which is fine.

01:18:11.791 --> 01:18:13.371
VIRGINIA: He should not do it if he's too scared.

01:18:13.751 --> 01:18:15.271
VIRGINIA: From there, we did Winnie the Pooh.

01:18:15.611 --> 01:18:17.491
VIRGINIA: We did Buzz Lightyear.

01:18:17.611 --> 01:18:21.591
VIRGINIA: And once again, Alex got Galactic Hero because...

01:18:21.991 --> 01:18:22.911
ALEX: Let me explain.

01:18:23.351 --> 01:18:33.351
ALEX: This time I got the top score because I was alone in my cart and I told Maddox to ride with dad so he can mess dad up because he usually gets a higher score than all of us.

01:18:33.831 --> 01:18:40.411
ALEX: But this time, this time, mom, I'll send you the photo to please post it somewhere, anywhere.

01:18:41.211 --> 01:18:49.711
ALEX: I got top score on one of the guns and then I just barely missed the top score on the other one.

01:18:50.191 --> 01:18:52.671
ALEX: I did both of them, both of them.

01:18:53.051 --> 01:18:55.591
ALEX: And I got I almost got top score on both.

01:18:56.051 --> 01:19:01.071
ALEX: I got top score on one, but then I missed the other one because somebody blocked my view.

01:19:01.091 --> 01:19:07.271
VIRGINIA: Oh, I'm I'm so sorry for trying to turn the car in a way that I could shoot in the correct direction.

01:19:07.291 --> 01:19:11.491
VIRGINIA: And apparently it made it so that I was in Alex's way in the whole other car.

01:19:11.551 --> 01:19:13.551
VIRGINIA: But yeah, yeah, whatever.

01:19:13.631 --> 01:19:15.211
VIRGINIA: You still did really well.

01:19:15.471 --> 01:19:17.291
VIRGINIA: And you are a galactic hero.

01:19:17.431 --> 01:19:17.911
ALEX: Thank you.

01:19:17.931 --> 01:19:18.851
ALEX: Thank you.

01:19:18.871 --> 01:19:27.411
VIRGINIA: Moving on, moving on from that, we then did Tron, which Audrie absolutely loved.

01:19:27.431 --> 01:19:31.051
VIRGINIA: I think Jordan liked it too, but Audrie was like really into it.

01:19:31.571 --> 01:19:34.391
VIRGINIA: And then we had lunch at Cosmic Rays.

01:19:35.291 --> 01:19:48.651
VIRGINIA: And from there, the those of us who wanted to do more thrilling rides did Space Mountain while Jordan took the littles on Monsters in Glass Floor, which she thought was cute, I think.

01:19:48.771 --> 01:19:52.451
VIRGINIA: But from there, Oliver was dying to ride the train.

01:19:52.631 --> 01:20:00.771
VIRGINIA: So we all hopped on the Magic Kingdom train and we did the entire loop and then came back around to the very front of the park.

01:20:00.791 --> 01:20:09.331
VIRGINIA: So we caught it back there actually by the circus area, rode it a full loop and then ended up getting all the way to the front and getting off.

01:20:09.351 --> 01:20:12.291
VIRGINIA: And Alex was not interested in riding the train.

01:20:12.311 --> 01:20:16.011
VIRGINIA: So he was like, can I just go chill and meet you?

01:20:16.091 --> 01:20:20.391
VIRGINIA: And so I texted when we were nearly to the front.

01:20:20.551 --> 01:20:21.951
VIRGINIA: So I said, we're almost there.

01:20:21.951 --> 01:20:27.191
VIRGINIA: He was there waiting for us, met us waving near the train station.

01:20:27.891 --> 01:20:29.911
VIRGINIA: After that, we went back to the resort.

01:20:29.931 --> 01:20:32.991
VIRGINIA: And this is when you babysat, right?

01:20:33.211 --> 01:20:33.591
ALEX: Yes.

01:20:33.931 --> 01:20:36.191
ALEX: Maddox was dying to go to the pool.

01:20:36.711 --> 01:20:38.151
ALEX: So I was like, yeah, fine.

01:20:38.191 --> 01:20:38.531
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:20:38.711 --> 01:20:39.851
ALEX: And then I got paid for that.

01:20:40.111 --> 01:20:42.011
ALEX: Got paid an extra 20 bucks.

01:20:44.311 --> 01:20:44.691
ALEX: Yeah.

01:20:44.791 --> 01:20:46.591
ALEX: I was like, sure, I'll go to the pool.

01:20:47.091 --> 01:20:48.711
ALEX: So I just chilled there.

01:20:48.771 --> 01:20:52.191
ALEX: And I didn't go swimming because I wasn't feeling like swimming that day.

01:20:53.291 --> 01:20:57.071
ALEX: Was this the first time I took Maddox to the pool or was it the second time?

01:20:57.271 --> 01:20:57.811
VIRGINIA: You know what?

01:20:57.851 --> 01:21:05.631
VIRGINIA: It must have been the second time because I think I came down and was reading my book kind of off on the side as well.

01:21:05.651 --> 01:21:09.751
VIRGINIA: And you made a friend who actually lives in New York City.

01:21:10.271 --> 01:21:12.071
ALEX: Yeah, I was like chilling.

01:21:12.291 --> 01:21:15.031
ALEX: I was sitting on my chair and he came up to me.

01:21:15.091 --> 01:21:17.891
ALEX: I thought he was like eight at first because he looked like eight years old.

01:21:18.431 --> 01:21:22.551
ALEX: And he like offered to have a catch with me with like a squeaky toy he had.

01:21:23.011 --> 01:21:28.291
ALEX: So we just played catch and then I ended up finding out he was actually my age and he lived in Manhattan.

01:21:29.051 --> 01:21:30.591
ALEX: And I was like, oh, cool.

01:21:30.671 --> 01:21:32.411
ALEX: And, you know, we hung out.

01:21:32.431 --> 01:21:33.991
ALEX: We went to go play catch somewhere else.

01:21:34.431 --> 01:21:37.331
ALEX: And then I made s'mores later and then we chilled and talked.

01:21:37.851 --> 01:21:38.611
ALEX: He was very nice.

01:21:39.271 --> 01:21:45.151
VIRGINIA: So after that, their family kind of were going to have a quiet evening.

01:21:45.291 --> 01:21:50.111
VIRGINIA: So they did that and our family decided to go over to Disney Springs.

01:21:50.511 --> 01:21:54.531
VIRGINIA: So at Disney Springs, we looked in World of Disney.

01:21:54.671 --> 01:21:55.411
VIRGINIA: Well, I did.

01:21:55.411 --> 01:21:56.551
VIRGINIA: I looked in World of Disney.

01:21:56.591 --> 01:21:58.711
VIRGINIA: I looked in Marketplace Co-op.

01:21:59.491 --> 01:22:00.911
VIRGINIA: You went to the Lego store.

01:22:01.211 --> 01:22:03.311
ALEX: Yes, but there wasn't anything good there.

01:22:03.331 --> 01:22:06.071
VIRGINIA: I'm trying to remember if I bought anything.

01:22:06.351 --> 01:22:07.691
VIRGINIA: I think I bought one or two things.

01:22:07.711 --> 01:22:08.891
VIRGINIA: I can't even think what they were.

01:22:08.951 --> 01:22:09.731
VIRGINIA: Oh, I know what I bought.

01:22:09.751 --> 01:22:15.631
VIRGINIA: I bought a couple of things because I'm going to be doing a giveaway soon for the one year anniversary of the podcast.

01:22:15.651 --> 01:22:16.991
VIRGINIA: So I got a couple of things for that.

01:22:17.411 --> 01:22:24.251
VIRGINIA: And then we had a late night dinner reservation at Raglan Road, which none of us had ever been to.

01:22:24.271 --> 01:22:25.271
VIRGINIA: And I thought it was nice.

01:22:25.791 --> 01:22:31.171
VIRGINIA: In Raglan Road, they have Irish entertainment going while you are eating.

01:22:31.311 --> 01:22:34.931
VIRGINIA: So there was a fellow playing guitar and a woman singing.

01:22:34.991 --> 01:22:37.411
VIRGINIA: And then they had Irish step dancers that came out.

01:22:37.871 --> 01:22:39.091
VIRGINIA: I thought the food was really good.

01:22:39.111 --> 01:22:41.491
VIRGINIA: I got chicken pot pie and it was really nice.

01:22:41.811 --> 01:22:43.991
VIRGINIA: What did you think about the food and about the entertainment?

01:22:44.671 --> 01:22:46.071
ALEX: I liked the entertainment.

01:22:46.251 --> 01:22:48.171
ALEX: You would just be eating at one point.

01:22:48.191 --> 01:22:53.871
ALEX: And then randomly you'd just see someone get up on stage and do the Irish step dancing.

01:22:53.891 --> 01:22:56.431
ALEX: And you'd be like, wow.

01:22:56.451 --> 01:22:57.851
ALEX: The food was actually pretty good.

01:22:57.871 --> 01:22:59.571
ALEX: I wasn't that hungry though.

01:22:59.591 --> 01:23:01.311
ALEX: So I didn't order anything bizarre.

01:23:02.611 --> 01:23:03.971
ALEX: It was very scrumptious.

01:23:04.411 --> 01:23:08.571
VIRGINIA: We're nearly to the end for everybody who is like, this is a marathon.

01:23:08.671 --> 01:23:09.011
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:23:09.031 --> 01:23:12.891
VIRGINIA: So Friday, February 23rd, this was also a Magic Kingdom Day.

01:23:13.371 --> 01:23:24.151
VIRGINIA: And again, that night I asked Jordan and Audrie, would you consider getting Genie Plus for another Magic Kingdom Day so that we can get most of everything else we didn't get done that day done?

01:23:24.171 --> 01:23:26.831
VIRGINIA: And they ended up agreeing to that.

01:23:26.871 --> 01:23:28.491
VIRGINIA: And so I'm going to go through my day.

01:23:28.511 --> 01:23:32.351
VIRGINIA: But then Charles and Alex were ready to have some away time.

01:23:32.511 --> 01:23:38.951
VIRGINIA: Yeah, it's a lot of a lot of work with little kids, and they really didn't feel like they got enough time at Hollywood Studios.

01:23:38.971 --> 01:23:40.511
VIRGINIA: So they had decided to go over there.

01:23:40.531 --> 01:23:43.631
VIRGINIA: So I'll let you go through your Hollywood Studios time in just a second.

01:23:43.651 --> 01:23:50.531
VIRGINIA: I'm just going to zip through what we got done in Magic Kingdom with me, Jordan, Audrie, Maddox, Presley and Oliver.

01:23:50.611 --> 01:23:52.691
VIRGINIA: So real quick, real quick.

01:23:52.971 --> 01:23:59.791
ALEX: The first time we went to Hollywood Studios, the Littles and me and Maddox got to build lightsabers and it was awesome.

01:23:59.811 --> 01:24:00.211
VIRGINIA: Oh, yes.

01:24:00.671 --> 01:24:01.111
VIRGINIA: Yes.

01:24:01.991 --> 01:24:12.351
VIRGINIA: I don't know how we missed that on my notes, but yes, they built the plastic lightsabers that are outside of the exit to Star Tours, and the kids were super excited to have lightsabers.

01:24:12.991 --> 01:24:14.971
VIRGINIA: So Alex really wanted to go back to that.

01:24:14.971 --> 01:24:24.311
VIRGINIA: So while he and Charles went off to do that, I went in with Jordan and Audrie and their family, and we were in the Magic Kingdom.

01:24:24.331 --> 01:24:26.571
VIRGINIA: We decided to have a little bit later morning.

01:24:26.791 --> 01:24:30.371
VIRGINIA: We did this purposefully just because we had had a busy day the day before.

01:24:30.391 --> 01:24:33.491
VIRGINIA: So we were over at the Magic Kingdom by 10 a.m.

01:24:33.971 --> 01:24:46.151
VIRGINIA: We first did Tron with Rider Swap, then we got ice cream at Anti-Gravity, and I had something they were having special for Black History Month.

01:24:46.211 --> 01:24:48.571
VIRGINIA: It was the Celebrate Soulfully collection.

01:24:48.571 --> 01:24:50.731
VIRGINIA: It was a banana foster milkshake.

01:24:51.391 --> 01:24:54.991
VIRGINIA: It was so good, and I really wish they had it all year long.

01:24:54.991 --> 01:24:56.491
VIRGINIA: It was delicious.

01:24:57.371 --> 01:25:01.491
VIRGINIA: From there, we were really trying to focus on all the things that we had not done the day before.

01:25:01.551 --> 01:25:20.231
VIRGINIA: So we did Small World, we did Haunted Mansion, which I ended up taking Presley and Oliver to skip the stretching room because I thought it would scare them too much, and then I told them to hold on to Maddox, and so I met them on the other side.

01:25:20.691 --> 01:25:22.391
VIRGINIA: We had lunch at Pickle Spill.

01:25:22.471 --> 01:25:28.291
VIRGINIA: I got another Celebrate Soulfully collection item there, which was the Fried Green Tomato BLT.

01:25:28.571 --> 01:25:29.471
VIRGINIA: It was very good.

01:25:29.491 --> 01:25:32.171
VIRGINIA: I would say it was like a 7 out of 10.

01:25:32.231 --> 01:25:32.851
VIRGINIA: It was good.

01:25:33.171 --> 01:25:34.611
VIRGINIA: I would not get it every time.

01:25:35.011 --> 01:25:38.831
VIRGINIA: From there, we did Big Thunder, we did Pirates, we did Jungle Cruise.

01:25:39.651 --> 01:25:45.191
VIRGINIA: I had to grab my Tropical Serenade from Aloha Isle because I love the Tropical Serenade.

01:25:45.351 --> 01:25:50.891
VIRGINIA: The Coconut Dole Whip is the best Dole Whip flavor, and the little Cake Pop you get in is so good.

01:25:51.671 --> 01:26:00.771
VIRGINIA: From there, we went and did The Little Mermaid, and then the last thing we were supposed to do with the Das was Peter Pan because they hadn't done Peter Pan, and unfortunately, it was down.

01:26:01.351 --> 01:26:11.831
VIRGINIA: And so at that point, I said, you know, we could wait for it to come back up, or we could pick something to do in its place, or we could just be done for the day because it had already been a long day, and we all agreed to be done for the day.

01:26:11.851 --> 01:26:24.351
VIRGINIA: So we left Magic Kingdom by 4.30, and from there, I sat on the balcony a bit, tried to read my book, tried to have a glass of wine, got a bug in my wine, so went and poured that out.

01:26:24.371 --> 01:26:41.231
VIRGINIA: Instead, went over to Territory Lounge to get my orchard bounty again and took my book up by the fireplace and just sat there and read my book and enjoyed that until Charles and Alex got back from their Hollywood Studios day.

01:26:42.291 --> 01:26:53.731
VIRGINIA: And once they were back, we had Roaring Fork, I had the meatloaf again, Alex did some takeaway to eat in the room, and then I did some more reading in my book and went to bed.

01:26:54.031 --> 01:27:03.911
VIRGINIA: So, real quick, Alex, can you tell me what your Hollywood Studios time with dad was like on that Friday night, or Friday day, I should say, you were there the whole day, not just the night.

01:27:05.031 --> 01:27:08.911
ALEX: So first we went into our chair, then we went on Toy Story Mania.

01:27:09.431 --> 01:27:13.551
ALEX: However, we were in line and we got to the end of it.

01:27:13.811 --> 01:27:16.471
ALEX: And they were sending people back and people were coming back.

01:27:16.491 --> 01:27:18.071
ALEX: And I was like, Oh, wonder why they're doing that.

01:27:18.871 --> 01:27:22.491
ALEX: And they were like, expect a longer wait time because of technical difficulties.

01:27:23.231 --> 01:27:29.131
ALEX: And as soon as we got to the front and we were like waiting, they were like, Yeah, y'all got to go.

01:27:29.231 --> 01:27:30.691
ALEX: It's a broken down ride.

01:27:31.231 --> 01:27:33.551
ALEX: You got everybody has to go now.

01:27:34.551 --> 01:27:40.731
ALEX: It kind of made me upset though, because they waited until the very end to tell us that it was broken down.

01:27:40.751 --> 01:27:44.571
ALEX: And I was like, Why are you just telling us this now?

01:27:44.591 --> 01:27:46.671
ALEX: Couldn't you have told us in the line?

01:27:46.691 --> 01:27:50.751
ALEX: Anyways, so then we got a free lightning lane for anything we wanted.

01:27:50.931 --> 01:27:55.831
ALEX: So I chose to do Smuggler's Run because we hadn't been on it in a while.

01:27:56.531 --> 01:28:02.131
ALEX: And our group was these nice young men who were like, they were really cool, actually.

01:28:02.151 --> 01:28:03.271
ALEX: They were really nice.

01:28:03.711 --> 01:28:05.351
ALEX: And they were just like, Hey, do you guys know this secret?

01:28:05.411 --> 01:28:07.131
ALEX: This like secret Wookie thing?

01:28:07.151 --> 01:28:08.631
ALEX: And I was like, What are you talking about?

01:28:08.851 --> 01:28:10.531
VIRGINIA: Yeah, the chewy mode.

01:28:11.171 --> 01:28:12.051
ALEX: Yeah, chewy mode.

01:28:12.251 --> 01:28:19.191
ALEX: And then we went on the thing and they asked the guys that we were with, they asked the worker, Hey, could you do chewy mode for us?

01:28:19.211 --> 01:28:20.011
ALEX: And she was like, Sure.

01:28:20.391 --> 01:28:23.451
ALEX: And so she just pressed the buttons for us as we got in there.

01:28:23.471 --> 01:28:25.491
ALEX: And then it was just chewy telling us what to do.

01:28:25.511 --> 01:28:26.251
ALEX: It was awesome.

01:28:26.411 --> 01:28:27.751
VIRGINIA: I've never had that before.

01:28:27.771 --> 01:28:28.411
VIRGINIA: That's so cool.

01:28:28.811 --> 01:28:29.911
ALEX: It was actually super fun.

01:28:29.931 --> 01:28:30.511
ALEX: It was awesome.

01:28:30.851 --> 01:28:35.471
ALEX: So then after that, we went to eat at the Brown Derby, which was super good.

01:28:35.591 --> 01:28:36.271
ALEX: It was awesome.

01:28:37.111 --> 01:28:38.111
VIRGINIA: What did you get at Brown Derby?

01:28:38.131 --> 01:28:39.631
ALEX: I don't remember what I got.

01:28:39.651 --> 01:28:42.151
ALEX: Did you get the Cobb salad?

01:28:42.431 --> 01:28:43.631
ALEX: Yeah, I get the Cobb salad.

01:28:43.651 --> 01:28:44.471
ALEX: Yeah, no, that's what I got.

01:28:44.491 --> 01:28:45.671
VIRGINIA: That's what you usually get.

01:28:45.811 --> 01:28:46.131
ALEX: Yeah.

01:28:46.231 --> 01:28:50.511
ALEX: Then we went on Rise of the Resistance where it was fun.

01:28:50.711 --> 01:28:52.371
ALEX: It was actually fun.

01:28:52.991 --> 01:28:55.451
ALEX: It wasn't exactly as detailed as I remember.

01:28:55.471 --> 01:28:57.791
ALEX: I don't know why, but it was fun.

01:28:58.731 --> 01:29:01.151
ALEX: Then we went to Indiana Jones and watched this.

01:29:01.291 --> 01:29:04.591
ALEX: Indiana Jones was spectacular, which was awesome.

01:29:04.851 --> 01:29:08.351
VIRGINIA: That is a huge Indiana Jones fan.

01:29:08.371 --> 01:29:11.851
ALEX: Then we went to Star Tours since it was a five-minute wait.

01:29:12.531 --> 01:29:15.351
ALEX: That was fun because we had been on it a while.

01:29:15.391 --> 01:29:20.671
ALEX: Finally, we headed over to Mickey and Minnie and ended the day off with Mickey and Minnie, which was nice.

01:29:21.391 --> 01:29:38.591
VIRGINIA: That sounds like an amazing day because you got to do some things that I did not get to do on this trip at all, which I never made it on to Mickey and Minnie on this trip or Star Tours or Indiana Jones or Smuggler's Run or Toys R'r Mania, but you didn't make it on to Toys R'r Mania, either to be fair because of the ride going down.

01:29:39.011 --> 01:29:41.151
VIRGINIA: But mostly, I'm jealous of Brown Derby.

01:29:41.491 --> 01:29:42.951
ALEX: Oh, and I have some news.

01:29:43.011 --> 01:29:46.731
ALEX: I have some news for those who love the Woody's Breakfast Bowl.

01:29:48.511 --> 01:29:49.151
VIRGINIA: Breaking news.

01:29:49.311 --> 01:29:49.791
VIRGINIA: What is it?

01:29:50.391 --> 01:29:51.771
ALEX: Woody's Breakfast Bowl is gone.

01:29:52.451 --> 01:29:52.951
VIRGINIA: No.

01:29:53.671 --> 01:29:54.251
ALEX: It's gone.

01:29:54.271 --> 01:29:55.091
ALEX: It's off the menu.

01:29:55.691 --> 01:29:55.971
VIRGINIA: What?

01:29:56.651 --> 01:29:57.811
ALEX: They stopped serving it.

01:29:58.571 --> 01:29:59.451
VIRGINIA: Are you kidding me?

01:30:00.131 --> 01:30:00.491
VIRGINIA: No.

01:30:01.151 --> 01:30:02.471
ALEX: We went there.

01:30:03.191 --> 01:30:05.791
ALEX: We checked the menu and it was off the menu.

01:30:05.911 --> 01:30:07.471
ALEX: It was replaced with something else.

01:30:08.851 --> 01:30:09.891
ALEX: It wasn't on the menu.

01:30:11.611 --> 01:30:16.891
ALEX: Me and dad, we came up to a worker and we were like, Hey, is Woody's Breakfast Bowl still being served?

01:30:16.911 --> 01:30:19.151
ALEX: And they're just like, No, no, they took it off the menu.

01:30:20.151 --> 01:30:21.171
ALEX: And we were devastated.

01:30:23.511 --> 01:30:25.051
ALEX: He wasn't devastated, but I was.

01:30:26.531 --> 01:30:27.091
ALEX: I was.

01:30:28.071 --> 01:30:29.371
VIRGINIA: That means something.

01:30:29.451 --> 01:30:30.411
ALEX: That's my favorite.

01:30:30.811 --> 01:30:36.311
VIRGINIA: I mean, it's Alex's favorite to the point where the past couple of years, that's what we make on Christmas morning for breakfast.

01:30:36.411 --> 01:30:38.931
VIRGINIA: That's like our Christmas tradition now.

01:30:39.491 --> 01:30:40.551
ALEX: That's how good it is.

01:30:40.971 --> 01:30:43.531
VIRGINIA: Well, so you can look forward to that on Christmas Day.

01:30:43.551 --> 01:30:45.351
VIRGINIA: At least you're going to have it then.

01:30:46.311 --> 01:30:47.651
VIRGINIA: That is breaking news.

01:30:50.231 --> 01:30:51.931
VIRGINIA: Oh, he was shaking his fist at the sky.

01:30:51.931 --> 01:30:54.471
VIRGINIA: I know, listeners, you couldn't see that, but it was really cute.

01:30:54.971 --> 01:30:55.411
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:30:55.431 --> 01:30:57.351
VIRGINIA: So now we are on our departure day.

01:30:57.411 --> 01:30:58.911
VIRGINIA: Saturday, February 24th.

01:30:58.951 --> 01:31:14.191
VIRGINIA: Now, we originally were not going to the park this day, but because we started our park days a day late, we did end up going over to the park, and we asked Jordan and Audrie, what park would you like to go to on the last day?

01:31:14.211 --> 01:31:17.931
VIRGINIA: Because I just wanted to see, like, what do you want to repeat?

01:31:18.031 --> 01:31:19.971
VIRGINIA: What park is of interest?

01:31:20.051 --> 01:31:39.451
VIRGINIA: And they were desperate to get on Guardians of the Galaxy again, so they said they wanted to go to Epcot, which worked out because when we originally were not going to be going into a park on the last day, I had kind of anticipated that at the end of the long week, we might have wanted to, as a family of three, kind of go off and, like, get in some last-minute things with our annual passes.

01:31:39.931 --> 01:31:46.711
VIRGINIA: And so I had already booked our family park reservations for Epcot, so that was already on our agenda.

01:31:46.771 --> 01:31:50.171
VIRGINIA: So I didn't even have to do any scrambling to get that together, which was nice.

01:31:50.191 --> 01:31:54.931
VIRGINIA: So we got the virtual queue for Guardians of the Galaxy and the individual Lightning Lane.

01:31:55.331 --> 01:32:00.671
VIRGINIA: We did a Bell Services pickup for our luggage, and we ended up being over in Epcot by 11 o'clock.

01:32:00.791 --> 01:32:07.291
VIRGINIA: And we needed to be back to the resort for our Mears bus pickup.

01:32:08.091 --> 01:32:12.171
VIRGINIA: Ours was at 340, and their family's Mears pickup was at 440.

01:32:12.191 --> 01:32:13.791
VIRGINIA: So that's sort of the timeframe we were looking at.

01:32:13.811 --> 01:32:16.071
VIRGINIA: So arrived at Epcot by 11.

01:32:16.091 --> 01:32:18.831
VIRGINIA: We did our individual Lightning Lane with Rider Switch.

01:32:19.591 --> 01:32:22.471
VIRGINIA: Both of our groups got Everybody Wants to Rule the World.

01:32:22.831 --> 01:32:26.411
VIRGINIA: So that was exciting, at least for our family.

01:32:27.531 --> 01:32:28.811
VIRGINIA: You wrote it twice that time?

01:32:29.051 --> 01:32:30.571
VIRGINIA: Was that your turn to write?

01:32:30.571 --> 01:32:31.711
ALEX: I wrote it three times.

01:32:31.971 --> 01:32:32.691
VIRGINIA: No, no, twice.

01:32:33.211 --> 01:32:33.711
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:32:33.851 --> 01:32:34.191
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:32:34.211 --> 01:32:35.631
ALEX: Because we were running show at that time.

01:32:36.031 --> 01:32:36.411
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:32:36.431 --> 01:32:39.031
VIRGINIA: So you did the double dip on the Rider Swap for that time.

01:32:39.451 --> 01:32:43.151
VIRGINIA: While we were waiting, Charles was going to wait in line for Joffrey's.

01:32:43.171 --> 01:32:47.811
VIRGINIA: I asked him to get the strawberry mocha thing that I love.

01:32:47.811 --> 01:32:54.131
VIRGINIA: Turns out, at this particular Joffrey's location, near Guardians, they had two different February drinks that involved strawberry.

01:32:54.151 --> 01:32:55.071
VIRGINIA: He got the wrong one.

01:32:55.091 --> 01:32:57.051
VIRGINIA: So it wasn't great.

01:32:57.071 --> 01:32:59.351
VIRGINIA: It was just like strawberry flavored coffee.

01:32:59.591 --> 01:33:02.331
ALEX: Oh, that actually would taste good, not gonna lie.

01:33:02.351 --> 01:33:02.991
VIRGINIA: But you know what?

01:33:03.011 --> 01:33:10.671
VIRGINIA: The one I wanted is like more like a latte and I get it made with almond milk and then it has the strawberry flavor and it has like a drizzle of chocolate and it's got whipped cream.

01:33:10.691 --> 01:33:15.051
VIRGINIA: So he brought it to me and it was like it looked like a normal iced coffee and I was like, where's the whipped cream?

01:33:15.071 --> 01:33:15.731
VIRGINIA: Where's everything?

01:33:16.211 --> 01:33:18.331
VIRGINIA: So that's how I found out there was a second drink there.

01:33:18.351 --> 01:33:20.991
VIRGINIA: So it was disappointing, but never fear.

01:33:21.131 --> 01:33:24.231
VIRGINIA: I got one before we left on the way out of the park.

01:33:25.151 --> 01:33:32.791
VIRGINIA: So then we were supposed to ride Guardians again with Rider Swap after we did lunch at Connections.

01:33:33.511 --> 01:33:34.371
VIRGINIA: A lot of people had pizza.

01:33:34.871 --> 01:33:39.911
VIRGINIA: Alex and I got the liege waffle as a lunchtime treat, which Yeah, that was actually good.

01:33:39.931 --> 01:33:41.211
ALEX: That was better than expected.

01:33:41.611 --> 01:33:42.171
VIRGINIA: So good.

01:33:43.171 --> 01:33:43.731
VIRGINIA: You know what?

01:33:43.771 --> 01:33:49.851
VIRGINIA: I think it's like, it looks kind of just like, okay, it's gonna be like a dessert waffle.

01:33:49.871 --> 01:33:51.171
VIRGINIA: It is so good.

01:33:51.191 --> 01:33:52.171
VIRGINIA: There's something about the flavor.

01:33:52.251 --> 01:33:53.671
VIRGINIA: So highly recommend that.

01:33:54.151 --> 01:33:56.971
VIRGINIA: You got the pizza, which was a huge serving for the price.

01:33:56.991 --> 01:33:59.031
VIRGINIA: So definitely a great value there.

01:33:59.051 --> 01:33:59.831
ALEX: The pizza was good.

01:34:00.391 --> 01:34:02.831
VIRGINIA: I had a chicken sandwich and some fries.

01:34:03.231 --> 01:34:06.711
VIRGINIA: Connections Cafe, I think, a really great quick service option.

01:34:06.731 --> 01:34:07.431
VIRGINIA: So we did that.

01:34:07.811 --> 01:34:13.211
VIRGINIA: Then it was time for our virtual queue to be called for Guardians of the Galaxy again.

01:34:13.771 --> 01:34:15.351
VIRGINIA: And we were gonna try to do Rider Swap.

01:34:15.371 --> 01:34:17.271
VIRGINIA: Rider Swap just takes a long time.

01:34:17.571 --> 01:34:30.471
VIRGINIA: And I started to get nervous about the time because after we did that, they wanted to go into the Guardian Store and utilize my AP discount to get things from the Guardian Store that they had seen that had caught their eye.

01:34:30.971 --> 01:34:34.511
VIRGINIA: And so we ended up kind of deciding who was gonna go on.

01:34:34.551 --> 01:34:36.731
VIRGINIA: Audrie was gonna ride two times this time.

01:34:37.251 --> 01:34:39.071
VIRGINIA: And I was supposed to go in group one.

01:34:39.071 --> 01:34:47.871
VIRGINIA: And then like right when we were about to tap in, I got like a flash of like, I don't think we have time to everybody ride this twice, this go round.

01:34:48.511 --> 01:34:56.631
VIRGINIA: So I quickly, Jordan had already started to walk off with the Littles and I quickly called her and was like, I don't think we have time.

01:34:57.031 --> 01:34:58.611
VIRGINIA: You need to be in this first group.

01:34:58.731 --> 01:35:02.191
VIRGINIA: I will sit out because I don't think we're going to have time for a second group.

01:35:02.191 --> 01:35:05.211
VIRGINIA: And I'm fine skipping it because I've written it so many times.

01:35:05.291 --> 01:35:10.491
VIRGINIA: I mean, of course, I love to write as many times as possible, but I wanted her to have as many times as she wanted to write it.

01:35:10.811 --> 01:35:13.831
VIRGINIA: So I was glad we did that because we would not have had time.

01:35:14.251 --> 01:35:19.491
VIRGINIA: So she went in, like everybody went in except for me, Charles and the Littles.

01:35:19.691 --> 01:35:21.691
VIRGINIA: So we sat down.

01:35:21.791 --> 01:35:24.871
VIRGINIA: That's when I actually ended up getting the correct Joffries.

01:35:25.411 --> 01:35:26.091
VIRGINIA: So good.

01:35:26.411 --> 01:35:27.031
VIRGINIA: So good.

01:35:28.191 --> 01:35:30.211
VIRGINIA: And then we met them at the exit.

01:35:30.231 --> 01:35:32.531
VIRGINIA: We went into the Guardians of the Galaxy store.

01:35:33.011 --> 01:35:34.271
VIRGINIA: They went nuts.

01:35:34.291 --> 01:35:35.311
VIRGINIA: They got shirts.

01:35:35.331 --> 01:35:35.751
VIRGINIA: They loved it.

01:35:35.771 --> 01:35:39.751
VIRGINIA: Like I think Jordan and Audrie, that seems like it was their their favorite ride.

01:35:39.771 --> 01:35:42.651
VIRGINIA: So I'll be interested to hear what Jordan has to say when she joins us.

01:35:42.791 --> 01:35:45.811
VIRGINIA: Hopefully shortly right after Alex and I get done talking.

01:35:46.311 --> 01:35:49.831
VIRGINIA: So by that time it was time to go catch the bus.

01:35:49.951 --> 01:35:58.271
VIRGINIA: And even though their Mears bus was coming an hour after ours, I was like, I really think we should just all go back together because just in case.

01:35:58.591 --> 01:36:04.411
VIRGINIA: And I'm so glad we did that because the bus pickup at Epcot to get back to Wilderness Lodge took forever.

01:36:05.091 --> 01:36:11.091
VIRGINIA: And then once we got on the bus, it announced that it was going to Fort Wilderness first.

01:36:11.191 --> 01:36:12.231
VIRGINIA: So that just took forever.

01:36:12.251 --> 01:36:19.071
VIRGINIA: So we ended up pulling into Wilderness Lodge at 330 and our Mears pickup for our family was at 340.

01:36:20.411 --> 01:36:24.971
VIRGINIA: So we had 10 minutes to get our luggage from Bell Services.

01:36:25.291 --> 01:36:26.511
VIRGINIA: We quickly said goodbye.

01:36:26.891 --> 01:36:28.811
VIRGINIA: I never even said bye to Audrie and Oliver.

01:36:28.831 --> 01:36:30.031
VIRGINIA: They happened to be in the lobby.

01:36:30.391 --> 01:36:32.091
VIRGINIA: We had to go get on the bus.

01:36:32.111 --> 01:36:33.191
VIRGINIA: I was like, tell them I said bye.

01:36:34.031 --> 01:36:40.151
VIRGINIA: We hopped into our bus and then their bus was about an hour later.

01:36:40.311 --> 01:36:44.731
VIRGINIA: And they were also doing the stroller pickup with Kingdom Strollers.

01:36:45.331 --> 01:36:47.191
VIRGINIA: From there, we went to the airport.

01:36:47.191 --> 01:36:48.171
VIRGINIA: What did we do, Alex?

01:36:48.191 --> 01:36:49.531
VIRGINIA: We went to the Disney Store.

01:36:49.551 --> 01:36:52.851
VIRGINIA: We went to the Universal Store because you got to do those things, right?

01:36:53.031 --> 01:36:57.491
VIRGINIA: And then we had dinner at the Macaroni Grill, which you had spaghetti.

01:36:57.731 --> 01:36:58.551
VIRGINIA: I had a salad.

01:36:58.931 --> 01:37:01.091
ALEX: Yeah, it wasn't very special.

01:37:01.531 --> 01:37:02.471
VIRGINIA: It was fine.

01:37:02.491 --> 01:37:03.351
VIRGINIA: It was fine.

01:37:03.371 --> 01:37:06.031
ALEX: The meatballs on mine were kind of weird.

01:37:06.471 --> 01:37:14.571
VIRGINIA: Because we were doing Mirrors, we were at the airport much earlier than we would have gotten to the airport if we were just doing an Uber.

01:37:15.071 --> 01:37:16.091
VIRGINIA: And so we had all this time.

01:37:16.111 --> 01:37:19.411
VIRGINIA: So we were like, let's actually go sit down somewhere and eat instead of going to a fast food.

01:37:19.571 --> 01:37:23.811
VIRGINIA: So we went through security, got to the gate, our flight left on time.

01:37:24.311 --> 01:37:27.451
VIRGINIA: We landed back in Newark by 10.

01:37:27.651 --> 01:37:33.451
VIRGINIA: And then Charles had to go pick up the car from the long term parking and then drive back around and grab us.

01:37:34.251 --> 01:37:36.571
VIRGINIA: And then what time did we get home by?

01:37:36.591 --> 01:37:37.751
VIRGINIA: Do you remember?

01:37:39.971 --> 01:37:41.191
VIRGINIA: OK, yeah, it was pretty late.

01:37:41.731 --> 01:37:43.691
VIRGINIA: So that was that.

01:37:45.211 --> 01:37:46.951
VIRGINIA: That's a lot of a lot of details.

01:37:46.971 --> 01:37:48.891
VIRGINIA: It was it was a exhausting trip.

01:37:49.111 --> 01:37:50.711
VIRGINIA: It was an exhausting trip.

01:37:50.731 --> 01:37:52.811
VIRGINIA: It was it was a different kind of trip.

01:37:53.331 --> 01:37:59.671
VIRGINIA: I think we're going to as as a family of three head back in early June for like a long weekend.

01:37:59.851 --> 01:38:04.331
VIRGINIA: Yeah, have like a little bit more leisurely and like recover.

01:38:04.531 --> 01:38:07.671
ALEX: We got to recover from that because that was like chaos.

01:38:08.151 --> 01:38:12.311
VIRGINIA: Yeah, it was just like it's hard to do a big group.

01:38:12.351 --> 01:38:16.631
VIRGINIA: It's hard to be there with very young kids and to do that in combination.

01:38:16.651 --> 01:38:19.431
VIRGINIA: It was just not something we are used to.

01:38:19.451 --> 01:38:24.591
VIRGINIA: I mean, they're kind of used to it because they're they're still in the thick of like the little kid section of life.

01:38:24.651 --> 01:38:34.311
VIRGINIA: But now that you're a teenager, Alex, it's just like we're like in a little bit more chill phase, he says, as he styles his hair in an emo fashion.

01:38:35.271 --> 01:38:36.331
ALEX: Don't tell them that.

01:38:36.631 --> 01:38:37.751
VIRGINIA: It was a fantastic trip.

01:38:37.771 --> 01:38:41.391
VIRGINIA: And I said at the beginning, my goal was to get them to want to come back.

01:38:42.071 --> 01:38:54.731
VIRGINIA: And what they said to me when I asked them at the end whether they wanted to come back was Jordan and Audrie both said they really wanted to come back when Oliver and Presley were more like Maddox's age.

01:38:54.751 --> 01:38:56.931
VIRGINIA: So they're three now, Maddox is seven.

01:38:56.931 --> 01:38:58.971
VIRGINIA: So they'd like to come back in like four or five years.

01:38:59.491 --> 01:39:07.071
VIRGINIA: But then here's where I really feel like we we won is that Jordan and Audrie said that they really wanted to come back.

01:39:07.091 --> 01:39:12.471
VIRGINIA: Just the two of them because they didn't feel like just the two of us.

01:39:13.131 --> 01:39:16.191
ALEX: They could send the kids on a flight here so that they could chill here.

01:39:17.311 --> 01:39:20.151
VIRGINIA: Do you really think that would be chill if they came and stayed with us?

01:39:20.211 --> 01:39:24.751
VIRGINIA: It would be essentially like being in a two bedroom villa here, just in our home.

01:39:25.471 --> 01:39:31.071
ALEX: Or maybe we could like go to or maybe we can go over to them to babysit.

01:39:31.611 --> 01:39:36.111
VIRGINIA: I consider that a real victory that the two of them want to come back on an adults only trip.

01:39:37.591 --> 01:39:40.711
VIRGINIA: They clearly felt some of the magic.

01:39:40.871 --> 01:39:44.171
VIRGINIA: They saw how cool it was and they want more.

01:39:44.231 --> 01:39:46.331
ALEX: They saw the potential.

01:39:46.791 --> 01:39:47.051
VIRGINIA: Right.

01:39:47.071 --> 01:39:54.931
VIRGINIA: And actually, Jordan at one point said, basically, she said, I get Disney adults now, which, yeah, winner winner chicken dinner.

01:39:55.071 --> 01:39:56.251
VIRGINIA: I felt great about that.

01:39:56.271 --> 01:40:00.491
VIRGINIA: And I will be so excited if they do decide to go back just the two of them.

01:40:01.031 --> 01:40:13.771
VIRGINIA: I cannot wait for them to do that and to kind of give them all the tips before they go so that they can have a fantastic trip together, just the two of them and and really take in all the details and magic and everything.

01:40:13.791 --> 01:40:16.351
VIRGINIA: So anyway, it is super late now.

01:40:16.551 --> 01:40:23.391
VIRGINIA: We've been talking two hours at this point, and I still need to we're going to flash forward to a conversation with Jordan.

01:40:23.791 --> 01:40:29.111
VIRGINIA: Just a quick hot take on her favorite things that she did, what she really loved about the trip.

01:40:29.331 --> 01:40:32.391
VIRGINIA: So we'll just do a quick little little wrap up with her.

01:40:32.751 --> 01:40:38.491
VIRGINIA: But for this part of the interview, thank you, Alex, for joining me on the show again.

01:40:38.511 --> 01:40:46.151
VIRGINIA: I always love talking Disney with you, but I think that you're a pretty pretty darn good podcast co-host as well.

01:40:51.271 --> 01:40:54.111
VIRGINIA: Are you saying I can host the show when I need a break?

01:40:54.131 --> 01:40:57.571
ALEX: You can hand over the show to me when you retire.

01:40:59.231 --> 01:41:00.151
VIRGINIA: When I retire?

01:41:00.171 --> 01:41:01.751
ALEX: And then I'll hand it to my children.

01:41:01.971 --> 01:41:03.031
VIRGINIA: Sure, sure.

01:41:03.051 --> 01:41:05.531
ALEX: Children, this is something very special to your father.

01:41:08.051 --> 01:41:11.251
VIRGINIA: Yes, I will hand you the reins at some point, but that'll work.

01:41:11.671 --> 01:41:12.571
ALEX: That'll work with me.

01:41:12.571 --> 01:41:14.071
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:41:14.211 --> 01:41:15.391
VIRGINIA: Well, I love you.

01:41:16.711 --> 01:41:19.551
VIRGINIA: I would say I'll talk to you again soon, but you're literally here.

01:41:19.571 --> 01:41:20.611
VIRGINIA: We're in the same household.

01:41:20.631 --> 01:41:21.731
VIRGINIA: So go to bed.

01:41:21.751 --> 01:41:22.211
VIRGINIA: It's late.

01:41:22.251 --> 01:41:23.151
ALEX: I'm tired.

01:41:23.411 --> 01:41:24.351
VIRGINIA: You got school tomorrow.

01:41:24.571 --> 01:41:24.911
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:41:24.931 --> 01:41:25.131
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:41:25.871 --> 01:41:26.451
VIRGINIA: Love you.

01:41:30.471 --> 01:41:33.191
VIRGINIA: Listeners, we have a very special bonus for you today.

01:41:33.211 --> 01:41:38.371
VIRGINIA: I am so excited to welcome my sister, my baby sister, Jordan.

01:41:39.211 --> 01:41:40.211
VIRGINIA: Welcome.

01:41:41.911 --> 01:41:43.531
VIRGINIA: And Alex is here as well.

01:41:43.671 --> 01:41:44.371
VIRGINIA: Alex, say hello.

01:41:44.791 --> 01:41:47.371
ALEX: I was second when you when you said who was here.

01:41:48.071 --> 01:41:55.111
VIRGINIA: Well, the listeners will have already just listened to nearly two hours of a post-trip report with you on their Alex.

01:41:55.171 --> 01:41:57.071
ALEX: So don't worry.

01:41:57.131 --> 01:42:00.791
ALEX: I got to go to bed really late that night.

01:42:01.551 --> 01:42:02.911
VIRGINIA: They've had plenty of Alex time.

01:42:02.931 --> 01:42:04.611
VIRGINIA: Yes, that was a late night recording session.

01:42:05.911 --> 01:42:21.591
VIRGINIA: OK, so the reason the reason we've called you here today, Jordan, is to talk to you about this trip as somebody who went to Disney for the first time as somebody who is a mom and was also experiencing it through the eyes of your children.

01:42:22.531 --> 01:42:29.151
VIRGINIA: So I guess the first thing I want to ask is, what surprised you?

01:42:29.671 --> 01:42:33.691
VIRGINIA: What was something you were not expecting going on this trip?

01:42:33.711 --> 01:42:36.431
VIRGINIA: Because we've had several years to anticipate it.

01:42:37.031 --> 01:42:39.291
JORDAN: Yeah, there were a lot of things that were surprising.

01:42:39.611 --> 01:42:46.011
JORDAN: I think the one thing that was a reoccurring theme every day was all the rides, how dark they were.

01:42:46.791 --> 01:42:50.451
JORDAN: I was not prepared for how many rides had all these dark spots.

01:42:50.611 --> 01:42:54.931
JORDAN: And as an adult, it doesn't matter if you sort of get thrown into that.

01:42:54.951 --> 01:42:57.671
JORDAN: But the kids, we didn't know to prepare the kids for that.

01:42:57.691 --> 01:43:04.191
JORDAN: So having some three and a half year olds along that were getting scared of the dark was something that was surprising.

01:43:04.531 --> 01:43:08.811
JORDAN: But it also, as an adult, gave us that element of surprise.

01:43:08.831 --> 01:43:09.571
JORDAN: So that was fun.

01:43:10.831 --> 01:43:24.631
JORDAN: Something that Audrie mentioned was because she has PTSD, she was very nervous going in that she would have some issues with anxiety or hypervigilance around waiting in lines and sort of crowds.

01:43:24.891 --> 01:43:31.131
JORDAN: But she wanted to make sure that she stated that she felt incredibly safe there.

01:43:31.151 --> 01:43:33.131
JORDAN: And she said that was a combination of things.

01:43:33.511 --> 01:43:41.711
JORDAN: She felt that Disney, as a whole, throughout the parks, made her feel safe with their security and the way things were spaced out.

01:43:43.631 --> 01:43:52.731
JORDAN: But also the way you managed the trip for us and you knew sort of how to guide us through in a time efficient way was also a big factor.

01:43:52.751 --> 01:43:57.571
JORDAN: So hard to say how much of that was Disney and how much of that was just having you as a guide.

01:43:57.591 --> 01:44:09.891
JORDAN: But for somebody who has PTSD and anxiety issues, she was super surprised that she didn't have to deal with that at the park at all in seven days, eight days, whatever it was.

01:44:10.471 --> 01:44:10.811
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:44:11.871 --> 01:44:12.251
JORDAN: All right.

01:44:12.271 --> 01:44:14.271
VIRGINIA: Well, let's get into your favorites.

01:44:14.731 --> 01:44:19.951
VIRGINIA: And I'm asking you as Jordan, not taking anybody else's opinion into account.

01:44:20.471 --> 01:44:21.571
VIRGINIA: Did you have a favorite park?

01:44:22.491 --> 01:44:23.611
JORDAN: Hollywood Studios.

01:44:24.131 --> 01:44:24.551
VIRGINIA: Really?

01:44:26.311 --> 01:44:26.731
JORDAN: Yeah.

01:44:27.011 --> 01:44:27.411
JORDAN: Yeah.

01:44:27.531 --> 01:44:30.671
VIRGINIA: Alex is real excited because that's his favorite too.

01:44:31.931 --> 01:44:33.851
VIRGINIA: What did you specifically like about it?

01:44:34.671 --> 01:44:36.631
JORDAN: I was really surprised.

01:44:36.791 --> 01:44:38.371
JORDAN: I liked so many things.

01:44:39.051 --> 01:44:44.291
JORDAN: I liked Toy Story Land, not only because of my kids, but just because I love Toy Story movies.

01:44:44.551 --> 01:44:50.291
JORDAN: So it was kind of fun to go into Andy's backyard and even see the Green Army Drum Corps pass by.

01:44:50.311 --> 01:44:51.331
JORDAN: That was super cool.

01:44:51.351 --> 01:44:52.471
JORDAN: Did not expect that at all.

01:44:53.111 --> 01:44:54.811
ALEX: That was correct, by the way.

01:44:54.891 --> 01:44:56.371
ALEX: All that you said was correct.

01:44:56.671 --> 01:44:57.431
VIRGINIA: Good answer.

01:44:58.471 --> 01:44:59.151
ALEX: Correct answer.

01:44:59.291 --> 01:45:00.111
ALEX: Correct answer.

01:45:01.071 --> 01:45:06.431
JORDAN: And I think what surprised me the most was how much I got into the Star Wars stuff.

01:45:06.791 --> 01:45:08.751
VIRGINIA: I was surprised about that, too.

01:45:09.471 --> 01:45:10.091
JORDAN: Yeah.

01:45:10.191 --> 01:45:22.131
JORDAN: As somebody who has no connection to Star Wars, does not understand it, I truly could not get past, like, when we walked into, what's it called?

01:45:22.211 --> 01:45:22.991
JORDAN: Galaxy's Edge?

01:45:24.511 --> 01:45:25.671
JORDAN: Galaxy's Edge.

01:45:25.851 --> 01:45:29.531
JORDAN: Man, that was, like, truly walking into a different world.

01:45:29.591 --> 01:45:38.271
JORDAN: And next time I walk into that world, I do not want to have kids with me, because I could not, like, stop and appreciate it for what it was, truly.

01:45:38.291 --> 01:45:41.451
JORDAN: And then when we went into the, what was it called?

01:45:41.491 --> 01:45:42.411
VIRGINIA: Olga's Cantina.

01:45:42.891 --> 01:45:44.271
JORDAN: Olga's Cantina.

01:45:44.271 --> 01:45:49.071
ALEX: There was a lot there that I wish we could have gone to that trip.

01:45:49.871 --> 01:45:52.191
JORDAN: Yeah, that was just amazing.

01:45:52.771 --> 01:45:58.351
JORDAN: Audrie and I both agreed we would have spent a lot more time just hanging out there because it was so fantastic.

01:45:58.671 --> 01:46:00.691
JORDAN: And then The Rise of the Resistance.

01:46:01.971 --> 01:46:02.811
JORDAN: So fun.

01:46:03.231 --> 01:46:13.271
JORDAN: And I think some of that, too, was attributed to Alex being with us because he really just sort of helped make the experience sort of hype us up and got us excited about it, too.

01:46:14.151 --> 01:46:28.851
VIRGINIA: I was a little sad because of Rider Swap that we didn't get to do that together because when we went in and rode it the second time after you all took off for the evening because it was late, the entire ride, I was saying to Alex at different points, like, what did they think right here?

01:46:29.011 --> 01:46:33.011
VIRGINIA: Like, I was like trying to experience it second hand through him.

01:46:33.411 --> 01:46:34.391
ALEX: Oh, yeah.

01:46:34.411 --> 01:46:35.811
ALEX: She kept asking me questions.

01:46:36.071 --> 01:46:37.291
JORDAN: Yeah, we didn't talk much.

01:46:37.311 --> 01:46:39.931
JORDAN: We just sort of like stood back and took it all in.

01:46:39.951 --> 01:46:43.311
JORDAN: And we actually got a really good picture of Maddox.

01:46:43.331 --> 01:46:44.651
JORDAN: I don't think we sent that to you yet.

01:46:44.671 --> 01:46:45.511
JORDAN: But anyway.

01:46:45.991 --> 01:46:50.451
ALEX: Yeah, like in line, she was just like, so Alex, what do you think of this part?

01:46:50.471 --> 01:46:56.791
ALEX: Like, even if it was like, like you were inside that little cave in the line, she was like, so what do you think inside of this cave?

01:46:56.811 --> 01:46:58.411
ALEX: I'm like, what else would they think?

01:46:58.431 --> 01:46:58.811
ALEX: It's a cave.

01:47:00.531 --> 01:47:01.791
ALEX: I didn't have much to say.

01:47:01.811 --> 01:47:06.251
VIRGINIA: But yeah, I think that there's so much detail.

01:47:06.271 --> 01:47:13.991
VIRGINIA: And we sort of talked about this at the end of the trip, just how you felt like you had missed out on some of the details because you had to worry about the kids.

01:47:14.611 --> 01:47:25.371
VIRGINIA: And even like hearing you say how much you liked Toy Story land, there is so much detail there that you didn't get to see that I would have wanted to pull you aside.

01:47:25.471 --> 01:47:28.851
VIRGINIA: And I just was distracted by trying to get us where we needed to go.

01:47:29.171 --> 01:47:34.971
VIRGINIA: But if you look at the ground in Toy Story land, there's gigantic footprints that are Andy's footprints.

01:47:35.511 --> 01:47:46.591
VIRGINIA: And if you, you know, the little bit of detail you saw in the line when we were waiting to ride Slinky Dog Dash, that same level of detail is on the other rides within Toy Story land too.

01:47:46.611 --> 01:47:55.191
VIRGINIA: And it's just so much fun to, to look at all the details like, you know, a pencil that's been slightly chewed and, you know, popsicle sticks that are making a fence.

01:47:55.251 --> 01:47:57.451
VIRGINIA: And it's just really cool.

01:47:58.251 --> 01:48:02.171
VIRGINIA: All right, so Favorite Park Hollywood Studios, what was your favorite ride or attraction?

01:48:02.711 --> 01:48:08.951
JORDAN: So my whole crew is really torn between Tron and Guardians of the Galaxy.

01:48:09.031 --> 01:48:11.411
ALEX: Yes, that is the correct answer.

01:48:12.071 --> 01:48:18.931
JORDAN: We cannot come to a consensus on which is better because they are both amazing in different ways.

01:48:19.431 --> 01:48:23.671
JORDAN: I lean a little bit more towards the Guardians of the Galaxy because it was longer.

01:48:25.511 --> 01:48:28.931
JORDAN: And it was shocking, like truly shocking.

01:48:29.751 --> 01:48:32.691
JORDAN: Tron, you kind of know what you're getting into it to a degree.

01:48:32.711 --> 01:48:36.951
JORDAN: But Guardians of the Galaxy, that was crazy.

01:48:38.151 --> 01:48:47.911
ALEX: I think, in my opinion, the inside of the Tron ride, the moment you go outside is one of the best parts of the ride.

01:48:48.391 --> 01:48:56.171
ALEX: But then I feel like people don't really appreciate more the inside of it, because people are just like, oh, yeah, this is awesome.

01:48:56.871 --> 01:48:59.471
ALEX: But I really like the outside part.

01:48:59.971 --> 01:49:04.251
ALEX: And I'm like, wow, the inside, that's bringing you into the story.

01:49:04.271 --> 01:49:06.271
ALEX: It's not just you're in the dark.

01:49:06.291 --> 01:49:07.311
ALEX: It's in an act.

01:49:07.331 --> 01:49:08.351
ALEX: There's lights and stuff.

01:49:08.611 --> 01:49:12.071
ALEX: There's screens, and it shows you the other team losing and stuff.

01:49:12.091 --> 01:49:13.011
ALEX: And it's awesome.

01:49:13.171 --> 01:49:17.111
ALEX: And I feel like it should be up there with Guardians of the Galaxy, as you said.

01:49:18.911 --> 01:49:19.931
VIRGINIA: What about Audrie?

01:49:20.311 --> 01:49:21.291
VIRGINIA: What about the kids?

01:49:21.371 --> 01:49:22.591
VIRGINIA: Favorite parks for them?

01:49:23.871 --> 01:49:26.211
JORDAN: Probably Magic Kingdom for the Littles.

01:49:27.651 --> 01:49:28.031
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:49:28.151 --> 01:49:30.171
JORDAN: The three and a half year olds, especially.

01:49:30.531 --> 01:49:31.851
JORDAN: They like the Monster's Inc.

01:49:31.871 --> 01:49:40.431
JORDAN: Laugh Floor, Buzz Lightyear, Space Ranger, Spin, and Maddox surprisingly liked Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.

01:49:40.631 --> 01:49:42.551
JORDAN: Isn't that the one that you went on, the big drop?

01:49:43.231 --> 01:49:43.611
VIRGINIA: Oh, wait.

01:49:43.631 --> 01:49:45.051
VIRGINIA: Are you talking about Big Thunder Mountain?

01:49:45.071 --> 01:49:47.871
VIRGINIA: Or are you talking about Expedition Everest over in Animal Kingdom?

01:49:48.091 --> 01:49:48.571
JORDAN: I don't know.

01:49:48.591 --> 01:49:53.211
VIRGINIA: Because Big Thunder Mountain doesn't have any big drops, but it is fascinating.

01:49:53.231 --> 01:49:55.711
VIRGINIA: It is the wildest ride in the wilderness, as they say.

01:49:55.731 --> 01:49:55.931
ALEX: Yeah.

01:49:55.951 --> 01:49:58.331
JORDAN: I think he said that's the one that he really liked.

01:49:58.611 --> 01:49:58.951
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

01:49:59.591 --> 01:50:04.011
JORDAN: And Oliver, the only thing that he got into was that mad tea party.

01:50:06.871 --> 01:50:08.071
ALEX: The kid had the time of his life.

01:50:13.371 --> 01:50:13.551
JORDAN: Yeah.

01:50:13.771 --> 01:50:16.611
ALEX: It's mean, but it's also a funny kind of mean.

01:50:16.911 --> 01:50:22.791
ALEX: Because it's so funny how Oliver just scared of these really small rides.

01:50:23.011 --> 01:50:25.951
ALEX: One of the only rides that he actually liked was the tea cups.

01:50:26.671 --> 01:50:33.191
ALEX: And I tried to spin it really fast so it could be more enjoyable.

01:50:34.251 --> 01:50:36.671
ALEX: And I'm pretty sure I did the job.

01:50:36.811 --> 01:50:40.011
ALEX: And Audrie was like stalking us from another cup.

01:50:40.511 --> 01:50:45.831
JORDAN: But I'm pretty sure she would have paid you to take him.

01:50:46.291 --> 01:50:49.091
JORDAN: Stay on that ride every day for five days.

01:50:51.251 --> 01:50:55.151
VIRGINIA: You have to give Oliver credit, though, because he like everything.

01:50:55.171 --> 01:50:56.451
VIRGINIA: He was tall enough to ride.

01:50:56.951 --> 01:50:59.491
VIRGINIA: He was able to be coerced into riding it at least once.

01:50:59.931 --> 01:51:10.851
ALEX: I just got reminded of pictures of Oliver and Presley on Seven Dwarfs, where Presley's like, Yay, this is a great time.

01:51:10.871 --> 01:51:11.951
ALEX: I'm having a good time.

01:51:12.351 --> 01:51:15.031
ALEX: And Oliver's just like, Death is upon us all.

01:51:15.051 --> 01:51:16.711
ALEX: The end is near, my friends.

01:51:16.731 --> 01:51:17.331
ALEX: The end is near.

01:51:17.351 --> 01:51:21.591
JORDAN: He was too scared to even think that far.

01:51:22.391 --> 01:51:25.371
ALEX: And then Presley's got his little hands out and he's like, Yay.

01:51:26.191 --> 01:51:26.791
JORDAN: I know.

01:51:26.871 --> 01:51:36.951
JORDAN: At that point, I was so proud of Presley because I was like, I'm holding on for dear life and my tiny little boy's over there with his hands in the air, laughing hysterically.

01:51:36.971 --> 01:51:40.111
ALEX: And he said he has really small arms.

01:51:40.131 --> 01:51:43.691
ALEX: He put it right in front of his face since his arms were so small.

01:51:44.031 --> 01:51:47.411
ALEX: So it was sort of like him being a T-Rex or something.

01:51:49.051 --> 01:51:53.171
ALEX: He looks like he was having the time of his life though.

01:51:54.831 --> 01:51:55.511
ALEX: It was adorable.

01:51:56.131 --> 01:52:02.211
JORDAN: And on that note, one of the things that surprised me was the ease of the Magic Band.

01:52:02.771 --> 01:52:13.671
JORDAN: It made his experience so much better because every time once he realized this is my ticket into this thing, he would just walk right up, put his arm up, scan, and then be on his way.

01:52:13.691 --> 01:52:16.011
VIRGINIA: He was trying to scan things that weren't even scanners.

01:52:16.331 --> 01:52:21.291
ALEX: I remember we were in the resort and he saw light close to the floor.

01:52:22.991 --> 01:52:25.011
ALEX: And he just put his Magic Band down to that.

01:52:25.031 --> 01:52:27.911
ALEX: I was like, dude, what are you doing?

01:52:28.551 --> 01:52:29.351
JORDAN: It's a magic band.

01:52:29.371 --> 01:52:30.791
ALEX: That's not what you think it is.

01:52:30.811 --> 01:52:32.791
JORDAN: Let's see what else this thing can do for me.

01:52:32.811 --> 01:52:33.671
ALEX: And then he got confused.

01:52:33.711 --> 01:52:34.551
ALEX: He got confused.

01:52:34.571 --> 01:52:36.031
ALEX: And I was like, what are you doing?

01:52:36.391 --> 01:52:37.451
ALEX: He's like, what do you mean?

01:52:37.471 --> 01:52:37.951
ALEX: What am I doing?

01:52:37.971 --> 01:52:39.231
ALEX: I'm scanning my magic band.

01:52:39.651 --> 01:52:40.831
ALEX: I'm trying my best.

01:52:41.871 --> 01:52:44.111
JORDAN: I'm sure a burger is going to pop out of this floor.

01:52:44.431 --> 01:52:46.751
VIRGINIA: I'm going to find the link for you.

01:52:46.791 --> 01:52:56.051
VIRGINIA: But there is like a company, I don't know if it's sold through Etsy or something, that will make the scanner so you can just have one in your home to scan with your band.

01:52:56.531 --> 01:52:57.291
VIRGINIA: And it makes the noise.

01:52:59.331 --> 01:53:00.231
ALEX: Let's do that, mom.

01:53:00.251 --> 01:53:02.631
VIRGINIA: Let's do that.

01:53:03.391 --> 01:53:03.811
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:53:03.831 --> 01:53:06.831
VIRGINIA: Well, we're running out of time.

01:53:06.891 --> 01:53:21.271
VIRGINIA: So now before you go, I just want to hear what your plans are potentially for the future in terms of other trips, either to Disney World, maybe trying Disneyland, Universal.

01:53:21.731 --> 01:53:22.511
VIRGINIA: What are your thoughts?

01:53:23.491 --> 01:53:38.571
JORDAN: I don't have any thoughts beyond Disney World, but Audrie and I definitely want to go back without children so that we can see all the details and stay out later, enjoy all the things, connect more.

01:53:39.111 --> 01:53:43.591
JORDAN: But I think in terms of taking the boys back, we absolutely want to take them back.

01:53:43.631 --> 01:53:49.411
JORDAN: There's so much more we want to do, but we want to make sure that we are past the age of needing naps.

01:53:49.831 --> 01:53:52.171
JORDAN: We are past the age of needing a stroller.

01:53:53.191 --> 01:54:02.011
JORDAN: So that might be a good four years from now would probably to us be like the key time to take them back.

01:54:03.111 --> 01:54:06.031
JORDAN: Until then, adult trip sounds awesome.

01:54:06.371 --> 01:54:13.351
ALEX: Yeah, a little sad to be slightly older to add bigger to experience everything about Disney.

01:54:13.811 --> 01:54:19.851
ALEX: Like like I was I was very sad when we didn't get you were very sad.

01:54:20.391 --> 01:54:25.611
ALEX: I was very sad when we didn't get to spend enough time at Galaxy's Edge.

01:54:26.371 --> 01:54:37.891
ALEX: And I'm hoping mom where I'm going through this whole stage of making a whole business plan to get my mom to get me one of the droids there so I can make a droid.

01:54:38.651 --> 01:54:41.891
ALEX: Yeah, a business plan or a whole new lightsaber.

01:54:41.911 --> 01:54:42.451
ALEX: I don't know.

01:54:43.011 --> 01:54:44.011
ALEX: I didn't suggest it.

01:54:44.251 --> 01:54:46.051
VIRGINIA: I'll be interested to see your perspective.

01:54:46.571 --> 01:54:46.911
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:54:47.831 --> 01:54:48.131
JORDAN: Okay.

01:54:48.451 --> 01:54:49.491
VIRGINIA: Last question.

01:54:49.671 --> 01:54:52.091
VIRGINIA: Now that the trip's over, the kids are home.

01:54:52.391 --> 01:54:54.291
VIRGINIA: Are they still talking about it?

01:54:54.611 --> 01:54:58.691
VIRGINIA: What is that experience been like now that you've been back for a month?

01:54:58.991 --> 01:55:01.291
JORDAN: I haven't had much conversation with Oliver about it.

01:55:01.311 --> 01:55:02.351
JORDAN: So I'm not sure about Oliver.

01:55:02.651 --> 01:55:10.111
JORDAN: But if you bring up certain things like slinky dog, Pressley will understand what you're talking about.

01:55:10.211 --> 01:55:11.611
JORDAN: And he'll say, I want to ride.

01:55:11.851 --> 01:55:24.491
JORDAN: The biggest thing that he keeps remarking on is every time he sees a bus, a city bus now in North Carolina, he thinks it's going to take him to Disney, to the parks.

01:55:24.611 --> 01:55:28.631
JORDAN: So he tells us constantly he wants to get on a blue plane and go on the bus.

01:55:29.331 --> 01:55:32.331
JORDAN: And I know that means I want to go back to the park.

01:55:32.751 --> 01:55:33.491
ALEX: Let me guess.

01:55:33.571 --> 01:55:34.751
ALEX: You guys took JetBlue.

01:55:35.411 --> 01:55:35.751
JORDAN: Yes.

01:55:38.931 --> 01:55:40.171
ALEX: Let's go on the bus now.

01:55:40.731 --> 01:55:42.431
JORDAN: But it's super cute that he thinks.

01:55:42.451 --> 01:55:46.071
JORDAN: And I keep trying to explain that city bus is going to take you around our city.

01:55:46.351 --> 01:55:47.871
JORDAN: That's not nearly as exciting.

01:55:47.891 --> 01:55:50.011
JORDAN: But so he's definitely stuck with him.

01:55:50.071 --> 01:55:59.491
JORDAN: And he's even showed interest in playing with an actual slinky dog, which before he played with all the other characters, but had not so much interest in that.

01:55:59.511 --> 01:56:01.371
JORDAN: So that ride sort of sparked that.

01:56:01.771 --> 01:56:06.911
JORDAN: Maddox, of course, being seven and a half, will talk about it constantly all the time.

01:56:07.271 --> 01:56:10.151
JORDAN: And it's a mix of the rides he did.

01:56:10.171 --> 01:56:14.931
JORDAN: He'll pose questions to me like, Mom, didn't you love the...

01:56:14.951 --> 01:56:19.491
JORDAN: He likes to pick on me, go on the ride that you didn't go on basically.

01:56:21.051 --> 01:56:21.991
ALEX: And that's me.

01:56:22.091 --> 01:56:22.631
ALEX: That's me.

01:56:23.211 --> 01:56:25.411
JORDAN: He liked to talk about his time with Alex.

01:56:25.531 --> 01:56:26.971
JORDAN: That was very special to him.

01:56:27.751 --> 01:56:29.411
JORDAN: And something he's never going to forget.

01:56:29.431 --> 01:56:36.251
JORDAN: He liked to talk about having to always ride with somebody bigger in the rides and how they always smooshed him when they went around curves.

01:56:38.651 --> 01:56:44.271
JORDAN: So one of our lessons learned on this trip is don't wear slick pants that are going to have you sliding across the bench.

01:56:45.931 --> 01:56:50.531
VIRGINIA: Not a lesson I would have thought of, but that tracks.

01:56:50.551 --> 01:56:52.891
ALEX: Do the children still use their lightsabers?

01:56:53.151 --> 01:56:54.851
JORDAN: Yes, all the time.

01:56:55.291 --> 01:56:56.011
ALEX: I did good.

01:56:56.171 --> 01:56:57.011
ALEX: I did good, Mom.

01:56:57.031 --> 01:56:57.551
ALEX: I did good.

01:56:57.871 --> 01:56:58.231
JORDAN: Yes.

01:56:58.491 --> 01:56:58.791
VIRGINIA: Yes.

01:57:00.151 --> 01:57:01.751
ALEX: I still have mine sitting right here.

01:57:02.631 --> 01:57:11.631
JORDAN: And Maddox has his little keychain that he got from the Tinkerbell Tooth Fairy that he carries with him everywhere he goes.

01:57:11.871 --> 01:57:12.311
VIRGINIA: Yes.

01:57:12.331 --> 01:57:15.451
VIRGINIA: Maddox lost a tooth while we were on this trip.

01:57:15.471 --> 01:57:16.791
VIRGINIA: So that was exciting.

01:57:17.071 --> 01:57:17.351
JORDAN: Yeah.

01:57:17.371 --> 01:57:18.291
JORDAN: That's a lesson learned.

01:57:19.491 --> 01:57:23.091
JORDAN: If you lose a tooth at Disney, the Tooth Fairy does not visit.

01:57:23.111 --> 01:57:25.211
JORDAN: It's Tinkerbell, but you never know what you're going to get.

01:57:25.231 --> 01:57:25.991
JORDAN: She's a stinker.

01:57:26.931 --> 01:57:28.131
VIRGINIA: Stinkerbell.

01:57:28.371 --> 01:57:29.571
JORDAN: Stinkerbell.

01:57:30.851 --> 01:57:32.351
ALEX: That lollipop was huge.

01:57:33.771 --> 01:57:34.991
VIRGINIA: I was very surprised.

01:57:35.011 --> 01:57:43.291
VIRGINIA: But then when I learned that it was Tinkerbell and not the Tooth Fairy that brought such a big lollipopper, I wouldn't even call that a lollipop because it's so big.

01:57:43.731 --> 01:57:44.691
ALEX: I know.

01:57:44.711 --> 01:57:46.651
ALEX: How could Tinkerbell carry such a thing?

01:57:47.131 --> 01:57:50.131
ALEX: It's almost as if she was bigger than a small fairy.

01:57:52.071 --> 01:57:53.271
JORDAN: Is that magic dust?

01:57:53.471 --> 01:57:55.291
JORDAN: That thing is still sitting on my counter.

01:57:55.331 --> 01:57:58.391
JORDAN: I don't know how long it has to sit there before I can throw it away.

01:57:58.411 --> 01:57:59.611
ALEX: Oh, that's nasty.

01:57:59.651 --> 01:58:00.931
VIRGINIA: It was probably small.

01:58:00.951 --> 01:58:03.591
VIRGINIA: And then when she got it where it needed to be, she enlarged it.

01:58:03.751 --> 01:58:04.451
VIRGINIA: That's my guess.

01:58:05.111 --> 01:58:05.651
ALEX: Oh, yeah.

01:58:05.671 --> 01:58:06.751
ALEX: No, yeah.

01:58:06.891 --> 01:58:08.731
ALEX: Yeah, that's the most logical answer.

01:58:10.671 --> 01:58:11.151
VIRGINIA: Anyway.

01:58:11.251 --> 01:58:11.651
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:58:11.851 --> 01:58:16.391
VIRGINIA: Before we close out, a couple of recommendations for you because the kids are still talking.

01:58:16.411 --> 01:58:27.371
VIRGINIA: About it is number one, you should, by all means, utilize all the videos that are on YouTube because there are ride throughs, point of view, right throughs of practically every ride.

01:58:27.391 --> 01:58:31.071
VIRGINIA: And so they can relive the magic of riding over and over again.

01:58:31.091 --> 01:58:31.571
ALEX: Yeah, I know.

01:58:31.591 --> 01:58:32.931
ALEX: I know what you can do with the littles.

01:58:33.371 --> 01:58:36.211
ALEX: I don't know if you can do it with Maddox because he might be a bit too big.

01:58:36.611 --> 01:58:47.851
ALEX: But there's like this thing people like parents sometimes do with their with their small children, where they set them in a box and they turn on a TV and play a video of a rollercoaster ride.

01:58:47.851 --> 01:58:49.411
ALEX: Oh, and then they just like shake.

01:58:49.431 --> 01:58:51.291
ALEX: Yeah, they like shake the box and stuff.

01:58:51.731 --> 01:58:52.711
ALEX: Maybe you could try that.

01:58:52.731 --> 01:58:53.471
ALEX: It's super fun.

01:58:53.591 --> 01:58:58.871
VIRGINIA: Yeah, there's also people who just like, oh, you're so deprived.

01:58:58.911 --> 01:58:59.271
JORDAN: Okay.

01:59:01.911 --> 01:59:03.491
JORDAN: What do you call that?

01:59:03.511 --> 01:59:04.811
JORDAN: A challenge in your future?

01:59:04.831 --> 01:59:06.511
JORDAN: Mom and son challenge.

01:59:06.531 --> 01:59:07.851
VIRGINIA: Get in this box, Alex.

01:59:12.291 --> 01:59:13.891
VIRGINIA: Anyway, there's also walkthroughs.

01:59:13.911 --> 01:59:20.331
VIRGINIA: Like there are people who record on YouTube and do like live streams where they don't talk very much.

01:59:20.351 --> 01:59:22.071
VIRGINIA: They're literally just walking around the parks.

01:59:22.091 --> 01:59:24.231
VIRGINIA: And so it just makes you feel like you're walking around.

01:59:24.251 --> 01:59:36.251
VIRGINIA: The other thing I want to recommend is because of the age of the kids and just, you know, how it went in terms of like where we were with energy levels at night, we did not get to watch The Magic Kingdom Fireworks.

01:59:36.271 --> 01:59:44.471
VIRGINIA: Now, this is not going to in any way rival actually getting to see it live, but you can watch a professional recorded production of it on Disney+.

01:59:44.731 --> 01:59:52.011
VIRGINIA: So I would recommend that you all make some popcorn one night and watch Happily Ever After Fireworks show because it's amazing.

01:59:52.191 --> 01:59:54.991
ALEX: Or maybe you could watch Behind the Attraction.

01:59:55.591 --> 01:59:57.671
ALEX: The kids won't get it, but you will.

01:59:58.111 --> 01:59:59.951
VIRGINIA: That's like history of rides and how they were made.

01:59:59.971 --> 02:00:00.991
VIRGINIA: You would probably enjoy it.

02:00:01.011 --> 02:00:01.851
ALEX: That's a good show.

02:00:02.031 --> 02:00:02.651
ALEX: I've watched it.

02:00:03.131 --> 02:00:11.751
VIRGINIA: My third and final recommendation is Alex and I frequently, when we're feeling what we call the Disney blues and just wishing we were there.

02:00:12.351 --> 02:00:14.511
VIRGINIA: We will play Disney Would You Rather.

02:00:14.871 --> 02:00:17.911
VIRGINIA: And so we take turns just making up things.

02:00:17.931 --> 02:00:29.931
VIRGINIA: Like I might say, would you rather ride Big Thunder Mountain five times in a row, or ride Guardians of the Galaxy once, but then not get to do it again for the rest of the trip?

02:00:30.151 --> 02:00:34.111
VIRGINIA: And you just like pick two random things, and then the other person says which one they would rather do.

02:00:34.131 --> 02:00:38.291
ALEX: Well, before we called it the Disney Blues, I called it Disney Depression.

02:00:38.491 --> 02:00:39.791
VIRGINIA: I mean, they both work.

02:00:40.151 --> 02:00:40.931
JORDAN: Oh, wait, hold on.

02:00:41.711 --> 02:00:45.591
JORDAN: I thought of one more thing that I feel like has to go in the podcast.

02:00:46.511 --> 02:00:53.071
JORDAN: The one thing that surprised Maddox about Disney World was that it all wasn't in the castle.

02:00:53.271 --> 02:01:05.751
JORDAN: His entire life, we watch movies on our TV, and at the beginning, you see Walt Disney World and you see the castle with the moat and a train in the background and that's all you see.

02:01:06.051 --> 02:01:09.091
JORDAN: And every time that would come on, I would say, look, it's Disney World.

02:01:09.771 --> 02:01:12.851
JORDAN: Then we get there and he's like, what is this?

02:01:13.391 --> 02:01:19.771
JORDAN: I thought the entire Disney World experience was going to be inside a ginormous castle.

02:01:19.831 --> 02:01:20.631
VIRGINIA: How does that work?

02:01:21.831 --> 02:01:22.611
JORDAN: I don't know.

02:01:22.951 --> 02:01:34.991
VIRGINIA: I also remember him being surprised because of the way the rain affected what we did and when, that he was surprised about the other parks too, because he was like, when are we going to see the castle?

02:01:35.011 --> 02:01:35.871
VIRGINIA: When are we going to see the castle?

02:01:35.891 --> 02:01:39.871
VIRGINIA: And we didn't see it until Thursday of that week, because of the rain.

02:01:40.591 --> 02:01:47.431
VIRGINIA: I will tell you, you'll find this funny since you all, well, he thought that it would all be in the castle.

02:01:47.691 --> 02:02:01.851
VIRGINIA: There are some people out there that literally, like when we talk about the Disney bubble, what we mean is like once you cross the property line and you're within Disney property, you're in the Disney bubble, which means like Disney runs everything, everything's sunshine and rainbows.

02:02:01.991 --> 02:02:08.751
VIRGINIA: But there are some people who think there's literally a Disney bubble and are like, I don't understand why they didn't stop it from raining.

02:02:08.791 --> 02:02:12.191
VIRGINIA: It just ruined our trip and I don't understand why they had to have rain.

02:02:13.111 --> 02:02:18.391
VIRGINIA: She's covering her mouth out of shock, but I have literally heard that before.

02:02:18.931 --> 02:02:20.951
VIRGINIA: Disney cannot control the weather.

02:02:21.371 --> 02:02:28.051
ALEX: That is one of the weirdest and most unsmart things I have ever heard.

02:02:28.571 --> 02:02:31.211
JORDAN: This is when the Southerners say bless their hearts.

02:02:31.231 --> 02:02:32.031
VIRGINIA: Bless their hearts.

02:02:32.051 --> 02:02:32.551
ALEX: What is this?

02:02:32.571 --> 02:02:34.211
ALEX: The Simpsons movie or something?

02:02:35.371 --> 02:02:36.411
ALEX: The Simpsons movie.

02:02:36.431 --> 02:02:37.971
ALEX: They're getting put inside a bubble.

02:02:38.531 --> 02:02:38.831
JORDAN: Yeah.

02:02:38.851 --> 02:02:43.771
JORDAN: Well, I guess that's the liability when you say you're magical.

02:02:43.911 --> 02:02:46.471
JORDAN: They expect you to be able to pull out all the stops.

02:02:46.691 --> 02:03:08.471
VIRGINIA: Another one I heard recently was somebody who got all the way there, and then was shocked that their luggage wasn't there, and they left it sitting on their porch because they thought that, and I think this might have been back in the days of the Magical Express, which was pre-pandemic.

02:03:08.491 --> 02:03:40.971
VIRGINIA: They had a bus service like the Mears bus that we took, but they contracted Mears, and it was called Magical Express, so all the buses had Disney wraps on the outside and they looked cool, and it was a free service, and if you were staying on Disney property, you got to take the Magical Express if you wanted to, and it came with special luggage tags that you would put on your luggage, and then you go to the airport and you check your luggage or whatever, and then when it arrived at the Orlando airport, Disney would take the bags with the special tags and take it to your resort.

02:03:40.991 --> 02:03:42.411
VIRGINIA: You never had to go to baggage claim.

02:03:42.831 --> 02:04:08.191
VIRGINIA: You just went out and got on the Magical Express bus, and then eventually, within a few hours, your bags would magically be placed into your room, and then same thing on the back end, when you were going back to the airport, you could take your bags to Bell Services and get them all tagged and everything, and checked right there, and then they would take it from your resort and take it to the airport and put it where it needs to be, and you didn't have to worry about it on that side of it either.

02:04:08.571 --> 02:04:19.251
VIRGINIA: But this one situation I heard about was a family that literally thought it was magical and did not even take their bags with them to the airport, left them sitting on their front porch.

02:04:19.851 --> 02:04:26.871
JORDAN: They're like, they're expecting the house from up to the balloons coming out of the fireplace.

02:04:28.591 --> 02:04:29.231
ALEX: That is so…

02:04:29.251 --> 02:04:29.471
ALEX: Anyway.

02:04:30.211 --> 02:04:31.091
VIRGINIA: I know, I know.

02:04:31.111 --> 02:04:31.531
ALEX: I can't.

02:04:31.551 --> 02:04:32.991
VIRGINIA: With the stupidity, I just…

02:04:33.931 --> 02:04:35.691
ALEX: I need a moment to myself, please.

02:04:35.711 --> 02:04:39.191
VIRGINIA: Well, on that note, Alex, we're actually done, so you can take more than a moment.

02:04:39.211 --> 02:04:47.231
VIRGINIA: But Jordan, thank you so much for agreeing to come and share a little bit of your trip with us here on the show.

02:04:47.811 --> 02:04:52.071
VIRGINIA: And thank you so much for coming to Disney with us.

02:04:52.391 --> 02:04:53.751
VIRGINIA: And I just…

02:04:53.771 --> 02:04:56.371
VIRGINIA: I was so excited and leading up to this trip.

02:04:56.391 --> 02:04:59.391
VIRGINIA: And I said my one goal is for you to want to go back.

02:04:59.631 --> 02:05:10.711
VIRGINIA: And I feel like I met that because not only have you said that you want to go back as a family, but when I heard you say that you wanted to go back, just the two of you, I was like, now I really won.

02:05:12.011 --> 02:05:14.291
JORDAN: Yes, yes, that was definitely surprising.

02:05:14.311 --> 02:05:15.591
JORDAN: And you were the best tour guide.

02:05:15.611 --> 02:05:19.911
JORDAN: So thank you for not making me pay you for that service.

02:05:19.931 --> 02:05:20.971
JORDAN: But everybody else should.

02:05:23.071 --> 02:05:24.791
VIRGINIA: Disney does not allow third parties.

02:05:24.811 --> 02:05:31.451
VIRGINIA: In fact, they just they just trespassed a bunch of people and took away their annual passes for doing that kind of thing as a third party service.

02:05:31.471 --> 02:05:36.051
VIRGINIA: So Disney, if you're listening to the show, I do not charge for this.

02:05:36.091 --> 02:05:38.711
VIRGINIA: I only do it for the people I love and for free.

02:05:38.891 --> 02:05:41.371
VIRGINIA: So that's all we have time for.

02:05:41.691 --> 02:05:42.531
VIRGINIA: Thank you so much.

02:05:42.731 --> 02:05:43.351
VIRGINIA: Thank you.

02:05:43.371 --> 02:05:44.371
VIRGINIA: Talk to you later.

02:05:45.791 --> 02:05:48.851
VIRGINIA: Thank you again to Alex for your participation on the show.

02:05:48.871 --> 02:05:53.311
VIRGINIA: I know when we recorded it, it ended up going a lot later than we expected.

02:05:53.331 --> 02:05:54.351
VIRGINIA: And you are a trooper.

02:05:54.391 --> 02:05:56.031
VIRGINIA: And I am so proud to be your mom.

02:05:56.611 --> 02:06:00.331
VIRGINIA: Thank you also to my sister Jordan for your appearance on this episode.

02:06:00.651 --> 02:06:03.491
VIRGINIA: I know you are such a busy lady and you have your hands full.

02:06:03.511 --> 02:06:06.311
VIRGINIA: So it means a lot to have you as a special guest.

02:06:07.131 --> 02:06:11.511
VIRGINIA: Alright, with that, this has been a super long show, so I'll say goodbye, listeners.

02:06:11.891 --> 02:06:16.331
VIRGINIA: Whether you're new here or a repeat consumer, I hope that you will all come back.

02:06:16.651 --> 02:06:20.151
VIRGINIA: And until then, keep daydreaming about where you long to be.